Aliens???

Some people cannot handle the truth. They need some higher authority to think for them:

To decide for them : "Can you handle the truth??"

Sometimes the truth can be painful or distressful. This is true in many areas of life.

And even just the thought of aliens confuse some.

And if aliens landed in a very very public way, many would have no idea as to how to react.

Others would simply have their 'way of thinking' or 'beliefs' validated and reinforced.

''...this planet would be an abandaned outpost, an experiment or a zoo.''

-----seems like it sometimes , doesn't it?

I dont know Rob,but after listening to Brian Cox on his recent series im even more staggered at the size and scope of creation and its creator.

When Cox talks about time,size and distance he doesnt talk in millions, its billions and trillions.The numbers just supercede what i can get my head around.

When he talked about the event horizon he just plain said that all scientific rules ,laws and theories just stop dead. What happens there could defy the imagination and the whole scope of scientifc knowledge.

When we add to that the possibility of different dimension within or without of this universe then the mind just boggles.

I really cant imagine there not being other life.It may not be life as we know it (startrek) it may be multi dimensional ,it may be entirely non physical.

Im glad i dont know,ive got an eternity to find out.

Monty

When someone accepts a new truth into their belief system they know they will have to restructure their whole way of thinking and they don't want to do that. People who thought the Earth was flat resisted the fact that the Earth is round.

Here's another short story of a grandmother who lifted a car to get her grandson out from under it. When the grandmother was interviewed about the actual lifting of the car she resisted. She knew that she lifted the car, but she still didn't want to allow the "event" into her knowing, because that would mean she would have to change everything she knows about life. Love is what lifted the car, and fear is what keeps things limited. This is the paradigm.

Love and Light

There are two major sources of influence for this kind of thinking I guess.

• The three great mono (!)-theistic religions of the west still may favor this point of view as they tend to take much of what is in their holy books as literal history. And God seems to have chosen this planet for whatever reason.

• Some scientists compare the probability of the emergence of life with the probability of an exploding print shop producing an unabridged dictionary. This would mean that still in a vast universe life would be pretty unique. That's on old quote I guess but many aspects of life are still a mystery for today's science.

However, even if life is that rare, still it could have originated from someplace else and spread onto this planet, either

• in a low-level form as micro-organisms travelling between the planets on meteors and comets as described by the Panspermia theory and nicely poetically visualised in this Pantera video,

• or through an alien race that advanced enough to develop interstellar travel and spread quickly (exponential) through the cosmos, and this planet would be an abandaned outpost, an experiment or a zoo.

not unlike the very young child whose as yet undeveloped capacities
limit his ability to perceive reality,
and as he grows does he go along with tradition or
begin to think for himself;
a combination of limited capabilities, ignorance and indifference to truth