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originally posted by: SystemResistor
a reply to: Develo
The story goes that the older members could not see the ships, some of the children were able to see them and had to describe them to the others until they were able to see them as well.
If they had an issue with perceiving wooden boats, then seeing a spacecraft in the sky, out of reach, might only happen sporadically. If the visitors are from other "dimensions" or outside of our reality, then to see them would be a challenge, however, perhaps, certain items could have been seen, certain "glimpses" that left an indelible impression on our ancestors.
originally posted by: SystemResistor
Thus, if we want to know why the human being creates the concept of "Gods", it could be because he has interacted with or witnesses beings that possess "unknown" qualities, worship and imitation being natural reactions.
Such beings could be of alien origin.
Tiamat is a chaos monster, a primordial goddess of the ocean.
Abzu was the name for fresh water from underground aquifers that was given a religious fertilizing quality in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology.
Ishtar is the East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex.
Marduk was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon.
originally posted by: Peeple
metaphors the key is always metaphors.
originally posted by: Peeple
I know your type, I was married to someone like you, there is more in life than just 0/1, dead/alive, good/bad.
originally posted by: Peeple
It is not an interpretation it is a destillation down to the core meaning and on all layers: historical, social and spiritual, they have different truths, but are complementing, not negating eachother.
Change the word religion, to Institution.
When one creates a question they search for an answer through the application of their own intellect, however, when a native race is given their answers (knowledge) by a foreign race, the natives are affected because they are not required to think for themselves anymore, and this is especially the case when knowledge becomes religion and such knowledge becomes regimented.
originally posted by: SystemResistor
I don't think that the human imagination can come up with such stories by their own
There will always be a burden of proof, however, what really prevents such information from being taken seriously is the fact that when anyone starts to talk about aliens and the paranormal, they are instantly shelved as, for lack of better words, fruit loops. Why is this? Because, that is the way we are being conditioned by this society. The very fact that we still have not really taken the concept seriously reflects the attitude of the public at large, and you have to wonder why the average person is reluctant to explore such topics.
The main hurdle when it comes to the validity of the existence of interstellar extraterrestrial races is that we cannot yet conceive of the technology that would facilitate such travel, if we were to accept that the technology could exist, then given the chances of intelligent life in this universe, it becomes apparent that we have likely been visited or at least have been observed by them.
Read Vallée, he makes an excellent point stating the number of claimed extraterrestrial encounters makes no sense if they were interstellar travellers. There simply too many of them. The only logical conclusion is that they are something much closer to us than aliens.
In the Book of Job (38:31) there is a curious verse which reads: "Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?" How did Job get hold of this piece of 20th century inter-stellar astronomical information - that the Pleiades is gravitationally bound, and Orion is gravitationally loose?