Flying Saucer Pilgrimage by Bryant Reeve

Author:Bryant Reeve [Reeve, Bryant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781716788321
Amazon: 1716788323
Barnesnoble: 1716788323
Goodreads: 75271489
Published: 2017-07-14T23:55:59+00:00

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CHAPTER XXI

SAUCERS AND SEMANTICS

e have listened to many a saucer discussion or lecture. Too often we have watched the discussion degenerate into an argument, and soon there was too much heat and not enough light! As we sat back and listened to such performances, we honestly felt that if everybody had the same meaning for the same words, about seventy-five percent of the arguments would turn out to be agreements, and - to borrow a phrase from the Immortal Bard - a ”deal of stinking breath” could be avoided.

Thus we ran headlong ir1to semantics, and the problem of the meaning of words as applied to saucers and space phenomena.

But this was not all. We found that the advent of saucers in our modern world has been such an overwhelming thing that we actually lack new words with which to ex·

plain them. The saucer phenomena represent something so far out-in-front of all branches of human knowledge that they leave many of us gasping for breath and pawing around for new words to describe them. We are dealing with things so extremely different from what we are used to - the outerspace ”norm” is so different from our physical ”norm” -

that we actually run into this lack of suitable words.

We also discovered another interesting point. Certain words we tried to use in connection with saucers, which seemed to us to have fairly usable dictionary definitions, produced such an unexpected and horrible effect on our listeners that we actually had to stop using them. We had to avoid them like hot pokers. It seems that certain words actually engender a feeling of distrust or fear in the minds of some listeners. We presume tqis is a phase of man’s fear of the unknown - his distrust of what he does not understand. These words seemed to close some people’s minds to the subject in a sort of self-protection or an automatic

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