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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
 Posted - 08/12/2005 : 16:20:14
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Philip Klass, 85, Dies; Aviation Journalist, UFO Debunker
"While some people gaze at the sky and see flying saucers or bright balls of light," one biographer observed, "Klass sees atmospheric phenomena, celestial bodies and airplanes trailing advertising banners."
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
 Posted - 08/13/2005 : 09:57:02 [Permalink]
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| I mourn for thee Phil, this guy was a great skeptic. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 12:23:43 [Permalink]
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He will indeed.
As the Bad Astronomer said... the world is a little more credulous without him. Oh well. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 12:53:48 [Permalink]
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From Bad Astonomy Blog
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Note added August 11: A friend sent me a follow-up note about Klass. In a UFO newsletter/mailing list called “Saucer Smear”, Klass left this message for UFO believers:
The Last Will and Testament of Philip J. Klass
To UFOlogists who publicly criticize me…or who even think unkind thoughts about me in private, I do hereby leave and bequeath THE UFO CURSE: No matter how long you live, you will never know any more about UFOs than you know today. You will never know any more about what UFOs really are, or where they come from. You will never know any more about what the U.S. Government really knows about UFOs that you know today. As you lie on your own death-bed you will be as mystified about UFOs as you are today. And you will remember this curse.
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