gattino
Justified & Ancient
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I've recently been watching several UFO documentaries. It's not a subject I've given much attention to for years.
I'm aware that any book or documentary on a given subject is by its nature selecting evidence solely in line with its own argument. But that awareness aside my recent viewing is enough to once again make me believe that there may indeed be intelligently operated craft beyond current human capabilities floating around with impunity. Some of it - seemingly - may be immense in size. And that thought suddenly scared me.
Other people express a longing or excitement to believe in little green men. But if it stopped being a subject of argument and conjecture and either by government disclosure or one of these things exposing itself to the full glare of the world's media, we woke up tomorrow to know for a fact that non human intelligent beings vastly more advanced than us were real and were here how would we feel? I think it would scare the bejesus out of me. Not for fear of what they would do - for 70 years they don't seem to have bothered doing much of anything - but rather fear of a deep, gut, existential kind about what their presence might mean about reality and our human concepts of consciousness and god and life after death and other imponderables. It's hard to imagine they would share our comforting notions or not know more than us.
Our relative powerlessness would instill awe in the true sense. A giant spaceship may as well be a god descending.
So..imagining the reality of "alien" spacecraft were fully confirmed tomorrow..how do you imagine you'd feel?
I'm aware that any book or documentary on a given subject is by its nature selecting evidence solely in line with its own argument. But that awareness aside my recent viewing is enough to once again make me believe that there may indeed be intelligently operated craft beyond current human capabilities floating around with impunity. Some of it - seemingly - may be immense in size. And that thought suddenly scared me.
Other people express a longing or excitement to believe in little green men. But if it stopped being a subject of argument and conjecture and either by government disclosure or one of these things exposing itself to the full glare of the world's media, we woke up tomorrow to know for a fact that non human intelligent beings vastly more advanced than us were real and were here how would we feel? I think it would scare the bejesus out of me. Not for fear of what they would do - for 70 years they don't seem to have bothered doing much of anything - but rather fear of a deep, gut, existential kind about what their presence might mean about reality and our human concepts of consciousness and god and life after death and other imponderables. It's hard to imagine they would share our comforting notions or not know more than us.
Our relative powerlessness would instill awe in the true sense. A giant spaceship may as well be a god descending.
So..imagining the reality of "alien" spacecraft were fully confirmed tomorrow..how do you imagine you'd feel?
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