A little help from robots

RR

Is everyone off topic?

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I get Google notices of UFO sightings, Ufology, Quantum Physics, et cetera and notes from The Paracast, along with commentary here and commentary at other blogs, such as Kevin Randle’s or Mysterious Universe (Nick Redfern’s offerings), along with comments at a few of my Facebook pages.

And I see that almost everyone is off topic.

That is, the topic under which they comment or the notice of a topic is met with asides that have nothing to do with the topic under consideration or at hand.

I wrote that Ken Arnold’s 1947 sighting was a hoax. Response, from a credible UFO buff and pal? Did Bruce Maccabee provide new documents in his book?

Nothing about my hoax allegation.

Then I see the schedule talk for this week’s Paracast program. It’s about the recent Pentagon release, and ghosts plus other tangential things.

Go to Kevin’s blog and see that he presents forensic materials about a sighting and his followers will, more often than not, try to take him away to other things.

UFO buffs can’t seem to stay on course, about sightings, old or new. Their minds wander.

It’s no wonder that UFOs remain clouded; they are subjected, as a phenomenon, to non-relevant discourse.

I have few UFO pals I respect for their thinking. The bulk are just wanderers passing the night.

Skeptics, like Robert Sheaffer or Tim Printy, and UFO aficionados, such as Kevin, or Nick Redfern, Bruce Maccabee, Micah Hanks, and a few others, hew to the topic they’ve chosen to illuminate, while distracted UFO adherents can’t stay the course, skipping to peripheral things that obscure the points trying to be made.

Me? I often stray, within my own posts, so I shouldn’t be calling the kettle black but it’s irksome when I do it, and the off-topic habit has to be irksome to those trying to make a point to readers who don’t know how to stay within the topic.

This made Richard Hall cranky, especially with UFO Updaters.

And while I can accept off­-topic asides – they sometimes point me in directions that become interesting – they have got to make real thinkers irate.

So stop doing it, you irrational rascals.

RR