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From: Roger Evans <moviestuff@cyberjunkie.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 13:33:58 +0000 Fwd Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 15:28:15 -0500 Subject: Re: Cough, Korf, Ahem! >From: Sean Jones <tedric@tedric.demon.co.uk> >Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 07:21:21 +0000 >Fwd Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 12:17:31 -0500 >Subject: Re: Cough, Korf, Ahem! >>From: Roger Evans <moviestuff@cyberjunkie.com> >>Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 14:02:14 +0000 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net> >>Subject: Cough, Korf, Ahem! Previously, I had offered this in response to Sean's opinion that all that mattered in ufology was hard work: >>The only thing that matters is results. >>When I was a kid, I wanted to play baseball. I sucked at it. >>Therefore, I had to try twice as hard to make the team and put >>out a great deal more effort than other kids better than me. >>Needless to say I did not make the team. But, if "hard work" was >>the measure for success, then I damn well should have been team >>captain. Sean's reply: >I think you are wrong here Roger. >To use your analogy >1) Life's a bitch! >2) How do you know the others didn't try harder, work longer and >etc etc? Besides which something like this "talent" comes into >it as well. Actually, Sean, I believe I made that very point. I said that I sucked at it and that the other kids were better than me. Obviously, despite my efforts, my end results didn't measure up. I don't see the difference in our two views. >If you are saying results is all that counts then you are >demeaning an awful lot of peoples hard work. For example, Kevin >Randles' investigation of the Roswell incident(s), Stanton >Friedman's uncovering of the FOIA documents, Chris Rutkowski's >annual Canadian UFO Reports to name but a few. No I'm sorry >your "results only" argument doesn't hold water in my opinion. Are you saying that these people's hard work hasn't produced any results, Sean? My, how flattering. Do me a favor; in the future if someone is dissing me, don't step up to my defense, okay? Just kidding. I'm sure you didn't mean it the way you wrote it. I have great respect for all these people. My point is that "field work" is equal to "armchair work" if the results are the same: Only an opinion. But your intended point is well taken. Perhaps your comment that "only hard work matters" should be combined with my comment "only results matter" to read: "Hard work only matters if it produces usable results". I can't think of anything more fair than that. Take care, Roger Evans
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