Hi Brad,
Since I am not a religionist, I find your continued references
to God rather off the wall and hard to understand. Still your
comments suggest that you maybe either aren't a believer or are
rather critical of conventional beliefs. Can you help out here?
I don't know what the believers will say when the ETs pay us a
visit. How will they relate to beings much more advanced than
"the son of god?"
On the other hand, our technology is advancing so rapidly that
it is not beyond belief that humans could be visiting other
planets in a hundred years or so. Just think of the scientific
advances that have been made in the last century.
I don't think that human behavoir will change much in such a short
time, so if we are barbarians now we will still be barbarians
in 2102. Why do we think that the ETs will necessarily be
philosophically more advanced than us?
In years past sailors used to let goats and pigs off on
uninhabited islands, so they would have fresh meat available when
next they happened by. They also kept track of locations where
native game could be easily obtained. Maybe this is our lot, to
be spread around the universe as a storehouse of fresh meat.
Dennis Paull
At 02:29 PM 4/16/2002 Tuesday , Brad wrote:
>Dennis Paull wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> At 06:50 PM 4/15/2002 Monday , Pete wrote:
>> >
>> >On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >>What difference does it make whether there are any other
>> >>species "out there", be they ETs or cherubims, seraphims,
>> >>principalities (and, oh, yes, the Pope himself!)?
>> >
>> >[snip]
>>
>> >The difference would be that at a minimum, they would have a sufficiently
>> >superior knowledge of technology to contact us. Considering the
>> >time depth of the store of human knowledge vs the age the of the
>> >universe, the odds are almost certain that their society would
>> >be orders of magnitude older than ours, and their knowledge further
>> >beyond ours than we could begin to imagine. However, like I said
>> >in the other post, I don't expect to hear from them, they would
>> >be far too wise to be so rash. -PV
>> >
>>
>> They may want to keep us as pets. We might be highly amusing to them.
>> Our communications might be for them like dog barks or bird calls
>> are to us.
>>
>[snip]
>
>But aren't we that already to the Judeo-Christian G-d, at
>least when said Deity is in certain moods? And our Theologists
>explain to us that we are like dogs, in that just as dogs
>can understand our speech hardly at all, so too we
>cannot understand G-d's speech. But maybe we *are* like
>dogs, since dogs still love their masters even if
>their masters physically grossly abuse them....
>
>Of course, if "Our communications might be for them like dog barks",
>then they may be more evolved than our Deity, too, since He
>showed what he thought of our communication by becoming
>paranoid and attacking us.
>
>I have little doubt that if there are ETs out there
>with the ability to visit our planet, that they also
>have the technical means to hurt us a lot, while
>they may also have personality characteristics which
>would lead them to exercise their capabilities -- perhaps,
>just like G-d, to see how we will respond (ref.: Job).
>
>\brad mccormick
>
