Hey, Illuminated Friends,
I'm thinking I may have already asked this question in essence, but I'm
rolling it out again. It seems that I'm the high woo woo guy in this
crowd, though I freely admit that everyone entertains my high woo woo
ideas with all seriousness and courtesy.
So this is the thing: does the final game boil down to just humans and
God --whatever who / that is-- or do you suppose that we share this
huge universe --a universe positively dripping with poisonous gamma
rays-- with alien others? For my own part, I'm thinking that the
cosmos has cooked up numerous quasi-crustacean species on at least
hundreds of thousands of worlds in our galaxy alone, with an additional
several hundred sentient species for good measure. Most human beings, it
seems to me, are basically good as long as they're getting their basic
animal requirements met, so I also think that a few intelligent
anthropoids have survived long enough to have become space-faring
peoples. It is beyond me, though, why any such people would find us very
interesting at this point in our history. Another thousand years, should
we make it that long, though, and I think that the "Alien Love Fest"
sequence from the end of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" will have
become reality.
--Mad William
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"I just flew in from the Land of the Dead
and boy are my arms tired."
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