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UFOs – Unidentified Flying Objects
Ufology – is a neologism coined to describe the collective
efforts of those who study reports and associated evidence of
unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
Ufologist – A ufo investigator is called a ufologist
Ufo Sightings- Some eye witnesses to the UFOs
Roswell Incident- called the Roswell UFO crash
1947
UFO Conspiracy – Worldwide UFO cover Ups and
related theories
Alien- An extra-terrestrial being is called an alien
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Extracts from THE JUNIOR PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Some of my thoughts before I started the meetings.
SANTA CLAUS
Grown-ups often say things that aren’t true. Look at that story
they used to tell me about Father Christmas bringing all my
presents. I never could see why I had to thank my parents and
all my relatives for presents, if he brought them. When they
explained that Santa Claus (or sometimes they called him
Father Christmas), only delivered everything, I used to think
he had enough work just bringing all the toys without having
to go around collecting them from all the different relatives
in the first place. Especially the presents I got from my own
parents. Why couldn’t they deliver them?
Well, I soon found out he wasn’t a real person at all ... just
somebody made up. Grown-ups are really strange about these
pretending kind of things. I suppose it makes them happy, to
see little children believing in funny things like that.
RELIGION
The teacher often used to say that God made man in his image,
even though we all look different. When I asked her once if
woman was made in His image too, she got a bit confused.
She was a big lady and I think she could tell what parts of her
I was looking at when I asked. I talked about it to my friend
Alf. We decided that God must have lots of different images,
because it was clear to us that people are all different, in all
the different parts of the world, and especially girls.
I suppose Heaven must be a place where it’s impossible to have
any accidents, or pain, or lose things. So they don’t need
medicine or doctors or any hospitals there. I’ve never heard
anyone say they have cars in Heaven either, so you couldn’t
get run over. I wonder if they have any animals there? Like
pet dogs or cats.
THE NEW SOCIETY
I’ve decided now to start a new Club and hold the meetings at
home, here upstairs in My Room. My parents say I can, as
long as we’re not more than five or six members and never
noisy, or break anything. And I’ve promised to make sure we
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all wipe our shoes properly, on the front doormat when we
come in. All my best, most important, friends think it’s a
really good idea. So I’m going to be the Secretary and put
the notes I make, at our meetings, on to my computer.
THE FIRST MEETING
We talked about the all subjects which interest us and agreed on
these, to have first: -
EVOLUTION including dinosaurs.
TIME TRAVEL to the past and future.
RELIGION including Heaven and Hell, and anything else to do
with it like Angels and Cherubs.
THE UNIVERSE and how it started.
SPACE TRAVEL.
THE SUPERNATURAL
ALIENS and UFOs.
COMPUTERS including Robots.
THE FUTURE, right up to the end of it, whenever that is.
POLITICS ...?
Some things from some of the meetings:
ALIENS & UFOs
Sylvie said she though that Alien have never been here yet, but
perhaps they will one day.
I said, No, I’m not sure. Perhaps they never will. Perhaps aliens
are something like us and get ill and have pollution and
global warming and bad things like that. So that they die out
or kill each other before they get really started on space
travel to other stars and galaxies.
Fred said, How about if they didn’t have those problems, but
their star was going to explode or something? That could
happen, then they would want to build spaceships to rescue
everyone.
I said, Perhaps we’ll have to do that one day? I read that a giant
asteroid or comet could hit us and make life on this planet
impossible for us, like they say it happened to the dinosaurs.
I read one is going to come very close in the year 2028!
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Mike wanted to know how many people could you get in a
spaceship. Everybody in the world certainly couldn’t go.
I tried working it out on my computer. I said, if it was a really
big one, about a mile long, you could easily make it like a
city with about 100,000 people in it. So you’d need 10 giant
spaceships for every million people. That would be a lot to
save the whole world!
HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Sylvie said, It' against the law to marry more than one person.
But my cousin Jenny has lived with about three different men
since she was eighteen. She’s twenty-five now. She’s all by
herself at the moment, but is already thinking about the next
one, she told me last week. She only lives with one at a time,
but I don’t think there’s a law against more than one at a time,
is there?
None of us had heard of one.
Fred said, I suppose it must be the same if a man lives with
more than one girl at the same time. That’s interesting, I bet
some men are already doing it. Perhaps even in the same
house?
So it’s against the law if you’re married, but OK if you’re not,
said Mike.
Mike suddenly said, I’ve remembered something I wanted to
discuss. I was reading that to kill bacteria in hospitals, all the
bedclothes and things have to be steamed at 150 degrees C.
Yet my mother washes our clothes and things at only 60
degrees and sometimes only 30 degrees. That must mean the
bacteria in them doesn’t get killed. Perhaps it’s why more
and more children and grownups seem to get ill nowadays.
My mother has bad asthma, but her mother never had it. This
was something new to the rest of us and it seemed Mike must
be right. We agreed it was the kind of thing that would make
our parents angry if we tried to tell them about it.
POLITICS
Alf said, The kind of event that really worries the government is
when one of their members dies or does something wrong
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and has a scandal, so he has to resign. I think this often
happens, going by the newspapers. That’s what really worries
them, especially when it’s time to have the next big election.
Joe wanted to know what a scandal was.
I said, It’s like when the newspapers find out one of them has a
secret girl friend somewhere, that his wife doesn’t know
about. Or even if she does.All the newspapers make a terrible
fuss about it, because politicians are supposed to be good and
honest and not make mistakes, so that the newspapers find
out about them and then make a big fuss.
RELIGION
Alf said, I think it’s all about human behaviour too. It makes a
lot of sense to always be good to other people, and never hurt
them, so that they’re always good to you back.
I said, From everything I’ve heard and read about, most of the
different religions believe that. They say you should love
your neighbours, and forgive them for whatever they do to
you, no matter how bad it is.
Yes, but perhaps it means only to other people with the same
religion as you, Mike said.
COMMENTS
We agreed not to tell our parents about what we talk about at
our meetings so we don’t get them embarrassed or anything.
We believe they think we just play games on my computer.
We decided we would talk about time travel next time.
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