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Originally posted by SevenZeroOne
So tell me, why is it that some of you are so enlightened as to the will of these "Aliens", and everyone else is living in ignorance. You are no different than anyone else. Did these Aliens just randomly pick you for this knowledge so you could spread it around internet forums? Perhaps they reveal more after a few hard drinks?
I must say, I'm a little disappointed in these Aliens. I mean, the best they can do is distribute contrived, stereotypical stories to a few people on a internet forum that thrives on paranoia and curiosity into the unexplained?
Jeez...what is this universe coming to?
Oh yeah, you can tell them I'm saying all this too. I'm just another uppity, ignorant human who has yet to receive this enlightenment.
That reminds me....I'm out of beer.
Originally posted by SevenZeroOne
Wisdom, quotations, and references to popular science fiction films are about as bad as I was expecting. It appears to me, and the casual open-minded observer, that your life and mind are more controlled by science fiction novels, movies, and culture, rather than alien life forms. I half expected a quote from Obi-Wan Kenobi or Captain Kirk thrown in. I seriously wonder about some here...what their philosophies and life would be like if the X-Files and Matrix had never been made, or become the staples of pop-culture that they are.
I'm not trying to be offensive or combative. We ALL want to believe in something. People as a species are drawn to and awed by the unknown, especially the members of this forum. I'm no different.
But it gets to a point where it becomes your life, and you cling so desperately to it that reason and science are thrown out the window because they don't offer anything to you. Aliens are more fun than tax returns, and spaceships more attainable then women. Government cover-ups become more enjoyable then working We've opened our minds SO much our brains have fallen out. Questioning authority and the established way of thinking does NOT mean blindly following the bizarre and groundless. Let's come back to earth now, people. (pun intended)
Could the real soul be considered 'God' ?
Not only that, the visible universe is said to make up only 4% of the light and planetary masses calculated and so some sort of dark matter and dark energy is thought to make up 96% of the rest of the universe.