Faith and Rationality

Some of my acquaintances make fun of my beliefs concerning UFO's and other paranormal oddities. How do you defend yourself when attacked by well-meaning but obnoxious friends? I've often wondered how. There really isn't a satisfying way. Just grin and bear it. Hope for the best.

Or you can throw this is their faces....

"The man who does not dare to jump in the water will never learn what it means to swim and... the man who does not dare to jump into the truth will never attain the certainty that truth in fact exists....This first act of faith, of self-abandoning confidence, far from being irrational, is simply the prior condition of any certainty about the existence of the rational in the first place." -- Hans Urs von Balthasar

Of course, he was speaking of faith and rationality in regards to his church's teachings. But he could have been speaking of UFO's.