(May 10, 2011 at 10:14 am)Whirling Moat Wrote: Peace...
Professor Neihl Jackson, a man of impeccable character, and good standing within the academic community, under oath and during a polygraph examination declared that a meeting occured between himself and Ookla the Mok, (which was also attended briefly by Thundar the Barbarian), wherein he received strict instructions via Ookla from Princess Ariel which warned of an approaching doom for all Earthlings who refused to remove their eyebrows and replace them with stitched on denim infused with aluminum foil. For this meeting he was transported to the future and spent 30 days in the world of Thundar and Ookla..he was even bitten by a strange Rat-lizard hybrid animal which left a very distinctive scar on his shoulder which remained after his return to his own time...
After a thorough medical examination it was determined that Dr. jackson was perfectly fit, and seemed to be in his right mind. The memory was real for him..of course his eyebrows were shave and he had the unusual denim/aluminum foil thing going on..
Would it be rational for him to believe? Would it be rational for others who knew of his impeccable character and good mind to become believers? Would it be rational for others who expereinced the same thing?
The answer to all three questions is no. In fact I would discount all of Professor Jackson's impeccable character and academic prowess if I learned that he himself was not questioning his OWN rationality.
One could argue that a truly logical and rational mind could never accept what he himself perceives to be real when he knows that any other rational mind would find such magical occurences impossible.