A few thoughts...
Okay...this just spritzed out of a corner in my mind when I read this entry by deadspook
I'm somewhat of a sci-fi buff myself. And quite the Gary Numan sort of a weird thinker anyway, as I think it's ridiculously narrowminded to assume that this whole endlessly expanding universe should be here only for us to explore. Be it the big bang or creation, why on earth would've mother nature or God, whichever, decided to create only one planetful of dorks. I mean, we haven't even now created the sufficient technology in order to explore the distant corners of this versum, not to mention how much it would've expanded once we get to that point. And how fast it keeps on expanding - infinitely (as we know, anyhow).
Also, I don't believe that we "have" a soul. I think that the human body and life force in itself is the soul, so anything alive and breathing basically would be one "soul entity". I mean, S.O.S - Save Our Souls - probably wasn't intended "help us, we're sinking, come and snap our souls when they fly out of our bodies". O_O
But then again that point is arguable since some theories go that it actually means "Save our ship". But isn't the main idea when calling another ship to save the passengers and not the ship? I mean, once it's going down, there's not much you can do to it but to save the people, right? But, enough with that. I could argue myself to utter frustration on anything.
Also, the matter between God and possible Aliens...what if they're the same thing? People who claim to have seen divine visions, or aliens could be speaking of the same thing (be it because of some frontal lobe dysfunction or because they've actually seen something, that these things really do excist)? What actually made me think about this was when I was reading Whitley Strieber's "Communion Letters" where a woman explained her experience. She asked if they (the Aliens) worked for God, and they said that they do not believe in Jehovah.
Now. Let's just agree for a moment and say that this was an actual event and not just an experience of hers. It was interesting that they would mention "Jehovah" (my experience with Jehovah's Witnesses, having been brought up in a JW-family et al, has me considering their views and principes the most sensible comparing to Catholicism and all these other "christian" movements)...
Well, considering that "believing in smth" does not necessarily mean denying the existence of something, but merely not agreeing with the views of the idea in question...it popped into my mind, that what if these "aliens" were the Devil's demons that the bible so speaks of, and that they appear as so called aliens in order to confuse human beings...that would after all support what the bible says about them. Them "not believing" merely meant that they're not on the same side.
Or. What if these "angels" and "ghosts" are actually aliens, other "races" considerably more developed than us, "divine" from our perspective, and misconcieved by simple humans as something abstract, as a spirit being, a God, an allmighty father, creator of all things living and excisting, rather than the other way around ("demons" disguised as inhabitants of another planet).
Also, who the hell ever said that others, "aliens" even need to be organic like us? Can't they excist on another plane, another dimension so to speak?
Also, what if there is a "god" in the sense that perhaps we were planted here by some others (not a very original thought, I know, but I am not speaking in the sci-fi -enthusiastic sense). Maybe the conflict between these divine creatures pictured as "God and Satan" is actually the conflict between two or more alien races? What if everybody got it completely wrong?
Basically my opinion is that stuff like this will never be gotten right by our limited mind anyway.
Phew. I got this out. I came up with these thoughts and theorizations when I read that one simple sentence in that one tiny letter in the book , when I was 17. And these whole, almost 4 years since I haven't spoke about this to anyone, since I haven't been able to express it, form my thoughts concisely, or gather the energy to focus on writing this all down. But all it took was a little nudge from someone to inspire me to write it down
thank you :D
I'm somewhat of a sci-fi buff myself. And quite the Gary Numan sort of a weird thinker anyway, as I think it's ridiculously narrowminded to assume that this whole endlessly expanding universe should be here only for us to explore. Be it the big bang or creation, why on earth would've mother nature or God, whichever, decided to create only one planetful of dorks. I mean, we haven't even now created the sufficient technology in order to explore the distant corners of this versum, not to mention how much it would've expanded once we get to that point. And how fast it keeps on expanding - infinitely (as we know, anyhow).
Also, I don't believe that we "have" a soul. I think that the human body and life force in itself is the soul, so anything alive and breathing basically would be one "soul entity". I mean, S.O.S - Save Our Souls - probably wasn't intended "help us, we're sinking, come and snap our souls when they fly out of our bodies". O_O
But then again that point is arguable since some theories go that it actually means "Save our ship". But isn't the main idea when calling another ship to save the passengers and not the ship? I mean, once it's going down, there's not much you can do to it but to save the people, right? But, enough with that. I could argue myself to utter frustration on anything.
Also, the matter between God and possible Aliens...what if they're the same thing? People who claim to have seen divine visions, or aliens could be speaking of the same thing (be it because of some frontal lobe dysfunction or because they've actually seen something, that these things really do excist)? What actually made me think about this was when I was reading Whitley Strieber's "Communion Letters" where a woman explained her experience. She asked if they (the Aliens) worked for God, and they said that they do not believe in Jehovah.
Now. Let's just agree for a moment and say that this was an actual event and not just an experience of hers. It was interesting that they would mention "Jehovah" (my experience with Jehovah's Witnesses, having been brought up in a JW-family et al, has me considering their views and principes the most sensible comparing to Catholicism and all these other "christian" movements)...
Well, considering that "believing in smth" does not necessarily mean denying the existence of something, but merely not agreeing with the views of the idea in question...it popped into my mind, that what if these "aliens" were the Devil's demons that the bible so speaks of, and that they appear as so called aliens in order to confuse human beings...that would after all support what the bible says about them. Them "not believing" merely meant that they're not on the same side.
Or. What if these "angels" and "ghosts" are actually aliens, other "races" considerably more developed than us, "divine" from our perspective, and misconcieved by simple humans as something abstract, as a spirit being, a God, an allmighty father, creator of all things living and excisting, rather than the other way around ("demons" disguised as inhabitants of another planet).
Also, who the hell ever said that others, "aliens" even need to be organic like us? Can't they excist on another plane, another dimension so to speak?
Also, what if there is a "god" in the sense that perhaps we were planted here by some others (not a very original thought, I know, but I am not speaking in the sci-fi -enthusiastic sense). Maybe the conflict between these divine creatures pictured as "God and Satan" is actually the conflict between two or more alien races? What if everybody got it completely wrong?
Basically my opinion is that stuff like this will never be gotten right by our limited mind anyway.
Phew. I got this out. I came up with these thoughts and theorizations when I read that one simple sentence in that one tiny letter in the book , when I was 17. And these whole, almost 4 years since I haven't spoke about this to anyone, since I haven't been able to express it, form my thoughts concisely, or gather the energy to focus on writing this all down. But all it took was a little nudge from someone to inspire me to write it down
thank you :D