That’s a REALLY polemic issue so if you are faint at heart please stop reading it. I had lunch with a good friend and we were talking about gadgets and tech when after years i learned he was one of them. The believers. I’m really not either one thing or the other but still i can’t pretend i don’t get amazed by the power of imagination. For some reason i realized the topic never came up because when it did my friend came out of the closet: He is an active believer. In case some of you don’t know what i’m talking about there’s a huge amount of people who not just believe that extra terrestrial life is a possibility (that i too believe) but they are sure it’s happening right here and right now for as long as life on earth existed. They claim aliens lives among us in disguise performing important things for the benefit of mankind. Surely those workers in the japanese nuclear plant were aliens who were kind enough to take the heat for human beings. My friend was trying to explain to me why he was sure Einstein was an alien and also Jesus Christ. For what i understood from that conversation many of you probably believe in things like that as well. There are other factions as the ones who believe they are here collecting data and someday they’ll end our world. There’s one really radical that i can relate with. They say we are the aliens dropped on earth millions of years ago. That could be possible in my point of view. The fact is the aliens are here in the mind of a great amount of people and it’s interesting to wonder why does that happen. Maybe in this plural world we live just to have a god is not enough anymore. We need heroes and aliens and celebrities and thinkers to show us the way and tell us what to do. Maybe we are getting really worried about what a dump is our planet becoming and we are trying to find an easy way out. E.T. phone home.
… no easy way out – because we are not aliens. Bad for the workers in Fukushima. But I fear your friend needs psychiatric health care too …
I don’t doubt you but i’ll prefer to leave no opinion on the matter. Maybe there are no aliens but…. the believer…there are many among us!!! lol…
Good subject.
With the advances in technology and the information we are now able to gather across the universe, its obvious to me that there must be something out there somewhere. We now know there are signs of other planets like our own that could sustain life. There are huge amounts of galaxies that we are, as yet, unable to explore.
But amongst us, right here and now? Maybe someone has been watching Men in Black too many times?
I think so!!! lol…
I’m much more likely to believe in aliens existing than any gods existing. I have absolutely no problem with the probability of life existing elsewhere in the universe and probably not “life as we know it”.
As to are they here walking among us? I don’t think so yet. Although there are those who believe we are in fact aliens, or descended from aliens, as you stated. We could be the result of an intergalatic shipwreck for all we know.
I find the concepts extremely interesting.
The fun part of it is that all we can do is wonder…As with religion each person has it’s own beliefs. I believe in most things in general but in theory. I other words i do believe in extra terrestrial life. I’m in fact certain of it. But one thing is to believe there is a bacteria in a really similar planet as earth and other thing is to believe actual people from other planet lives among us. that i don’t buy. But until a great deal of proof we will keep wondering… : )
Tut, tut! You are showing the standard human desire for us to be the only sentient beings in the universe! 😉
Life somewhere else may not be bacteria, it may be lightyears ahead of us intellectually, socially, etc!
There’s a really neat thing about the unseen. We don’t know. We can speculate in hope of something better or fear of something worse. We don’t want to believe that we’re alone, that we’re all there is. Personally, I don’t know. I’m a Christian, so I don’t believe in the “Jesus was an alien” line, well not in the space alien context anyway. Leaving Heaven to live on Earth for a time does have a certain “alien” connotation, just not flying saucers and such. Beyond that, there’s nothing in The Bible that really eliminates the possibility of ET life. It’s either silent or has some passages that even raise the possibility. The question is, if we encounter ET life, how do we respond?
That depends a lot in what kind of alien… Scientists claims they discovered an alien bacteria last year. (http://www.examiner.com/technology-in-national/scientist-believes-he-has-found-alien-bacteria-ancient-meteorites)… If the same scientist met an alien that looks like Nicole Kidman maybe we wouldn’t know about her or him!!! lol…
Now THAT is a damn good point! LOL
I think there are a few movies about aliens who look like Nicole Kidman and they tend to fall in the “comedy directed at male teenagers” category. 🙂
used to love those!!! lol…. “The attack of the 50 feet woman”
Now, a bacterium that looks like Kidman…that would be amusing…and a bit strange.
I totally agree…But strange in a good way… After all these small creatures are really ugly!!! lol
How about… just… Boo!
Great idea!!! Moving on…Next subject!!! : )
I like the comparison of religion to belief in aliens.
“They say we are the aliens dropped on earth millions of years ago. That could be possible in my point of view. ”
It is not maybe possible, it IS. Life on earth would never have ignited without the influence of “alien” matter. A fantastic physicist said recently “every atom of carbon in my body was forged in the heart of a dying star.” These are true words. Our beginnings are extra terrestrial, but our evolution is uniquely ours.
I guess we didn’t do a great job with that right??? : )
I don’t know. Even with all of our flaws, we are still quite amazing.