--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the article Nab, I enjoyed it. For a guy like me > such a belief gumbo is very entertaining. I guess once you've > bought the Masters of our Spiritual Hierarchy, crop circles are > a slam dunk. The distinctions between Martin and Venusian space > crafts, and the ones from Venus that were really made on Mars was > a great touch.
It's all a way of saying, "Aren't we cool because we have all the answers?" > Seems to me that if they can construct space ships on uninhabitable > planets to make crop circles on earth out of pure thought, they > should be able to just do the crop circles the same way. Why the > middle step of making a spaceship? That's always been my problem with the belief in UFOs, period. Spaceships are just so *low-tech*, man. Since it is (as reported by numerous seers over the ages, at least) theoretically possible to "see" anywhere in the universe instantaneously with no nagging have-to-travel-1000-years-to-get- there problems, *why bother to do it mechanically*? It seems to me that any species limited to travel- ing via low-tech spaceships couldn't possibly be terribly evolved in the first place. And *then* you throw into the mix that they're interested in Planet Earth. Guys!...have you looked *around* lately? This is a DOS planet, so unevolved on the whole that any space tourist coming here to check things out would be the alien counterpart of people who book an intensive, hands-on tour of the slums of Calcutta. Ok, so everybody's got the right to believe in what- ever inspires them...that's a given. But I really think there is an undercurrent of *self importance* underlying a lot of these beliefs. "I'm so impor- tant that the earth is going to go through mighty physical changes during *my* lifetime." "We're so important that space aliens from galaxies far, far away want to come here and watch us, and do homage to us by painting pictures in corn fields." > At least they should be able to come up with > something so strange that there would be no doubt? That's another part of it. It's been a dictum of science fiction for years -- if you *really* tried to paint a picture of what the future is likely to be, you won't have any *readers*, because they won't be able to *identify* with how different it will be. So you fake it, and paint a picture of something that is a little bit different in small ways, and the readers suspend disbelief and think they're catching a glimpse of a real possible future. These crop circles are the things that we'd see kids doodling in their notebooks in class instead of pay- ing attention to the teachers. > But what do I know. In any case if you get a hold of one of these > space guys will you please ask them to cure cancer or shrink the > size of the avocado pit. Either one will be much appreciated! Watch yo mouf, dude. The size of the avocado pit is determined by Natural Law, and thus is an expression of God's will. You don't wanna mess wit dat. On the other hand, if you could get these apace aliens to draw pretty pictures of circles *on* an avocado pit, while it's still inside the avocado, now *that* is a mystery I could get into...
