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John Keel on Fort and Forteans
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PostPosted: 26-06-2006 10:58    Post subject: Reply with quote

graylien wrote:
In which case maybe we should adopt Beckjord as our new figurehead. He does plenty of field research and he certainly isn't trammelled by the narrow-minded paradigms of conventional science.

Perhaps you should start your own Website in his honour? Wink
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PostPosted: 27-06-2006 20:29    Post subject: Reply with quote

stuneville wrote:
Perhaps Fort wasn't Fortean enough either, then...


I think that if Fort ever had "become" Fortean then he would have done a quick one-hundred and eighty degree turn and embraced scientific heterodoxy; he refused to be established or marked out as being this or that...he said as much to one of his correspondants.
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PostPosted: 27-06-2006 23:21    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know, I was just being facetious. It's amazing how much passion sometimes gets invoked in Fort's name, when the man himself would probably have had none of it.

Inevitable, perhaps, that the messenger and the perceived message part company at a relatively early juncture. Christ and Christianity, Mohammed and Islam, Fort and Forteanism. And all three, in an abstract we'll call the afterlife, sitting around saying "I never said that! When did I say that?"

I hope that what we have here is in his spirit: just because science doesn't accept it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but blind credence is just as unsatisfactory. Each case on it's own merit, and think for yourself.

And refuse to be pigeonholed Very Happy.
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