For the most part I think people consider them some sort of savior while hollywood persists in seeing them as a danger to humanity. Science feels it would be the death blow to any remaining religious belief. Math poses a problem to Drakes law, zero times zero is still zero. No news is bad news on the search of radio signals. I think many follow the Mulder theorem "I want to believe".
On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:09:34 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > Apparently, atheists and Muslims are most likely to believe in aliens. I > suppose religionists are more likely to be prone to 'visions' and guess > atheists (I've never quite met one) know about Drake's Law (in a universe > so big there not being other life is unlikely). Various chimera exist in > our literature from times when more than a few days' walk was to enter > 'alien territory'. My alien experiences as a child were of the face at the > widow kind and being terrified by dreams of golden-clawed lobsters coming > out from under the bed. Later, post-op morphine was pretty good, as was > post-exhaustion on army exercises (where I asked a werewolf for > directions). > > Much alien stuff is pretty religious - good guys might come offering > salvation like a couple of fusion reactors and bad guys might unite us in a > battle against their evil. Joining the EU was once about salvation, just > as leaving is now. Human beings often seem pretty alien to me (touch of > autism). MumboJumbo was some kind of Congo jungle spirit used to prevent > women wandering off - all rather religious. The fantastic power of aliens > in travelling space-time (Facil's sculpture is brilliantly fantastic as its > constituents would melt, yet is also a symbol of escape to salvation - > maybe like the Mayflower and current rickety refugee boats). > > The alien in religion, especially control fraud religion like economics, > can be salvation or hideous control (the sky will fall, MumboJumbo will get > you, Judgement Day) - and perhaps even makes the believer alien-chosen as > in Rapture. Under dire religious control of ridiculous status quo blood > debts (Lele) or banks, maybe the spirit flies to the alien - 'my invisible > big brother will get you' with plagues of frogs. Anything other than the > practical, like replacing banks with block chain technologies and plastic > crap economies with serious development of clean energy and space-craft > that can survive space weather. > > Good question Tony - I suspect I'd have to experience religion first to > give an answer. The contest between golden salamanders in hats is not my > bag. My aliens, currently diverted into tapping vacuum energy near the > centre of our galaxy (this is why our super-massive blackhole is grey) > 100,000 light-years away, are coming to tell us to get on with peace or > they'll bomb us to kingdom come - sadly highly derivative of US (Western) > foreign policy as spoken to us. Our galaxy, they will explain, has been > infected by the spider-ant slavers from Andromeda, another religious-type > ploy. How will we know they are not the spider-ants? All we need for > salvation is a small implant that will allow us to live on a higher plane. > > On Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:52:39 UTC+1, facilitator wrote: >> >> Throughout the discussions occasionally the topic of "Aliens", Alien >> life, has come up. My view: I don't think so. (And this from someone who >> has witnessed two UFO's). What is (are) your argument(s) for believing >> (religious connotation) in Alien life? >> >> >> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-IPzU_WF-w6c/VD_3oKZqFJI/AAAAAAAAAD8/2D33Pkxxfjk/s1600/Murray_Ganymede_EntryA.jpg> >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
