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| No, I do not make bad comments disappear into the cornfield! |
I do not delete comments; never have, never will. The suggestion that I might be making reader comments disappear into the cornfield (there's a little Twilight Zone reference for you) has been of great concern. As I am the administrator of this blog, it makes sense that I would be able to delete reader comments (while also allowing readers to delete their own comments, of course), but I hadn't deleted anything.
So I finally had a chance to look into it this morning, and guess what? The comments weren't deleted. Blogger put three comments by Dr. Vallee dated January 23, 2018 into my spam box. That's eight days ago. Apparently they have been sitting there in my spam box for eight days, which means I would have had ample time to delete them if I had wanted to, but I didn't, because I don't do that kind of thing.
I have no idea what it could have been about these three comments that would flag them as spam. This has never happened before on High Strangeness to the best of my knowledge, but I think we've all learned something here today...
So... I have "unspammed" Dr. Vallee's comments and they are there for all to see, but if you're too lazy to go looking for them, I will paste them here. Enjoy!
In an email to Mark on 22 December 2017 I reminded him that Allen Hynek (who once honestly thought the character was based on Poher, as he told me himself) had not been aware of many developments that occurred during the filming of Close Encounters and of the way characters evolved. As Mark correctly points out, "Lacombe" was initially an American. Steven Spielberg clarified the issue in person during one of our meetings in Hollywood at a lunch with Marcia Seligson, who reported on it in a 1977 article ("Not Alone" in New West, 7 Nov. 1977) that I submitted to Mark, so I am surprised the misunderstanding continues. I can post that article again if that can help clarify the issue further. Not only did Steven Spielberg tell Marcia and me that the character was based on me, but he added that he had read my book Anatomy of a Phenomenon (1965) when he was a young cinematographer and that he had been intrigued by the character of a Frenchman investigating UFOs in the US, as I did. To now on UFO Secrets in Rubbermaid Bins -- Part II
Hi Tom, Thanks for pointing out that my comment was deleted by some technical glitch. I obviously have a primary right to comment on this issue, so I am posting it again: "In an email to Mark on 22 December 2017 I reminded him that Allen Hynek (who once honestly thought the character was based on Poher, as he told me himself) had not been aware of many developments that occurred during the filming of Close Encounters and of the way characters evolved. "As Mark correctly points out, "Lacombe" was initially an American. Steven Spielberg clarified the issue in person during one of our meetings in Hollywood at a lunch with Marcia Seligson, who reported on it in a 1977 article ("Not Alone" in New West, 7 Nov. 1977) that I submitted to Mark, so I am surprised the misunderstanding continues. I can post that article again if that can help clarify the issue further. "Not only did Steven Spielberg tell Marcia and me that the character was based on me, but he added that he had read my on UFO Secrets in Rubbermaid Bins -- Part II
I don't understand why my prior entries were deleted. I am re-posting this comment to Mark O’Connell: ============== "In an email to Mark on 22 December 2017 I reminded him that Allen Hynek (who once honestly thought the character was based on Poher, as he told me himself) had not been aware of many developments that occurred during the filming of Close Encounters and of the way characters evolved. "As Mark correctly points out, "Lacombe" was initially an American. Steven Spielberg clarified the issue in person during one of our meetings in Hollywood at a lunch with Marcia Seligson, who reported on it in a 1977 article ("Not Alone" in New West, 7 Nov. 1977) that I submitted to Mark, so I am surprised the misunderstanding continues. I can post that article again if that can help clarify the issue further. "Not only did Steven Spielberg tell Marcia and me that the character was based on me, but he added that he had read my book Anatomy of a Phenomenon (1965) when he was a young on UFO Secrets in Rubbermaid Bins -- Part II
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Mark,
Like 'Agent Smith' in The Matrix, there are now A.I. algorithms surreptitiously multiplying and wreaking havoc in people's blogs all over the web.
It's actually an evolving tactic employed by the global elites to suppress any information that might further enrage the proletariat.
Of course, it's highly likely the 'reptilians' are behind it.
Who needs to invade...when you can just make a civilization so stupid it destroys itself?
In your blogger account there should be spam settings and or filters. I would check these first. In most cases the issue will be what ID the comment er used to post the comment(s)etc.
What's fascinating on a sociological level is that there is controversy over a fictional character in a fiction film.
Mark, this isn't directed at you.
Don't people have anything better to do with their lives than argue over what real life person might or might not have been the inspiration for a fictional character in a fiction movie? Why is this important? To whom? I wish someone who continues to disagree with Mark's explanation for the character would explain to all the rest of us why he or she feels compelled to keep hammering away at this, as well as what difference it makes.
Who cares?
It's a Hollywood movie. That means truth was twisted in service of the plot and selling the most tickets. It might have been claimed Close Encounters was "inspired" by real events, but what does that mean really? It means tweaking the narrative, improvising on the facts, and embellishing real events to make an entertaining movie that people will pony up to see.
No need to enrol a civilization, just one megalomaniac and a sensitive button
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