How can you not believe in alien life?
(And Nancy Pelosi doesn't count.)
I mean, seriously...there are fuckin' billions of stars out there!
I genuinely believe that within my lifetime - hopefully within the next five years - our government will finally acknowledge publicly the existence of life on other worlds. I also believe they'll reveal that countries everywhere have been in contact with ETs for years - both peaceful & hostiles, explorers & experimenters - and have, obviously, chosen to withhold the information to avoid mass panic and the worldwide collapse of belief systems. I don't think that governments want to fess up to alien life...rather, I think they have no choice. Our planet's technology has compounded like national debt, and with this has come unstoppable information. And let's face it: If Dr. Zoiberg crashes in Roswell again, the Tweets will hit the Internet lonnnnnng before anyone has time to grab a weather balloon. "Siri...post the crash on YouTube. Oh, and call Greta VanSustern. As a Scientologist, she's totally been expecting this."
(And Nancy Pelosi doesn't count.)
I mean, seriously...there are fuckin' billions of stars out there!
I genuinely believe that within my lifetime - hopefully within the next five years - our government will finally acknowledge publicly the existence of life on other worlds. I also believe they'll reveal that countries everywhere have been in contact with ETs for years - both peaceful & hostiles, explorers & experimenters - and have, obviously, chosen to withhold the information to avoid mass panic and the worldwide collapse of belief systems. I don't think that governments want to fess up to alien life...rather, I think they have no choice. Our planet's technology has compounded like national debt, and with this has come unstoppable information. And let's face it: If Dr. Zoiberg crashes in Roswell again, the Tweets will hit the Internet lonnnnnng before anyone has time to grab a weather balloon. "Siri...post the crash on YouTube. Oh, and call Greta VanSustern. As a Scientologist, she's totally been expecting this."
UFOs over Washington, 1954 Seriously, though...in this modern day & age, how can anyone not believe in extra terrestrial life ? Science has proven that our sun is just one of billions of stars, and even if just a fraction of those star systems hosts life, there'd be hundreds of thousands of other worlds out there - all with their own civilizations. Some would be primitive, some would be advanced, and most would be as alien to us as the Rationals, Emotional's and Parental's in Asimov's The Gods Themselves. Sure, there are likely a few human-like races out there, but those big haired ladies that Shatner plowed in his trailer will not be the norm. I suspect many aliens would scare the shit out of us if we saw them in true form, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there now...waiting, watching, oozing. And with each passing day, the unstoppable flow of information makes it that much harder to deny their existence...especially as our new quantum computers look surprisingly like crop circles.
Wow...where does one begin? Once again, I'm not going to waste your time be repeating all the pro-UFO arguments that are all just click away. Rather, I'd like to share what shattered my own Earth-centric shell...and that was, surprisingly, Catholicism.
Catholics believe in the Rapture, the moment when all true believers disappear from the Earth in the blink of an eye. The Bible doesn't give us a specific "date," but the a Rapture could literally happen before I finish this blog (or 500 years from today, when we've colonized other worlds). As the Rapture is strictly an Earthbound thing, my immediate question has always been, "What happens to the Catholics who are elsewhere in the galaxy? Do they get raptured too? If Earth is raptured, but they're standing on Saturn, what then? Will their spaceships go careening off the galactic highway because their bumper stickers say, WARNING: In case of Rapture, this saucer will be unmanned! ?"
Every major world religion seems to have it's own concept of heaven. Catholics envision pearly gates. Buddhists strive for enlightenment. Islamists want to be one with Allah, though they'll settle for 70 virgins if Mohammad tells them otherwise. But unless you follow Joseph Smith (or John Travolta), almost all religions stop at the stratosphere - with God looking down from just beyond the clouds. But we all can see the stars beyond those clouds, and with stars come worlds, and with worlds come other races - some races that have likely been visiting us for thousands of years...so, doesn't that mean that rather than finding "God," we're all trying to find a "higher consciousness?" (Or more specifically, a better understanding of our place in the universe?) Once you wrap your head around that concept, doesn't all religion make a little more sense? Like Star Trek's V'Ger, we just want to meet our creator.
Catholics believe in the Rapture, the moment when all true believers disappear from the Earth in the blink of an eye. The Bible doesn't give us a specific "date," but the a Rapture could literally happen before I finish this blog (or 500 years from today, when we've colonized other worlds). As the Rapture is strictly an Earthbound thing, my immediate question has always been, "What happens to the Catholics who are elsewhere in the galaxy? Do they get raptured too? If Earth is raptured, but they're standing on Saturn, what then? Will their spaceships go careening off the galactic highway because their bumper stickers say, WARNING: In case of Rapture, this saucer will be unmanned! ?"
Every major world religion seems to have it's own concept of heaven. Catholics envision pearly gates. Buddhists strive for enlightenment. Islamists want to be one with Allah, though they'll settle for 70 virgins if Mohammad tells them otherwise. But unless you follow Joseph Smith (or John Travolta), almost all religions stop at the stratosphere - with God looking down from just beyond the clouds. But we all can see the stars beyond those clouds, and with stars come worlds, and with worlds come other races - some races that have likely been visiting us for thousands of years...so, doesn't that mean that rather than finding "God," we're all trying to find a "higher consciousness?" (Or more specifically, a better understanding of our place in the universe?) Once you wrap your head around that concept, doesn't all religion make a little more sense? Like Star Trek's V'Ger, we just want to meet our creator.
The Baptism of Christ On a similar topic, I believe that the church is the key to understanding just how long ET's have been visiting the Earth. And it's for a pretty simple reason: the Roman Catholic Church is one of the the oldest governing bodies in the world - which means it has some of the oldest historical records. There are documents within the Vatican's archives that coincide with the beginnings of recorded history, from the time of ancient astronaut theories. Depictions of extra terrestrials can be found in Mayan sculpture to European paintings done hundreds of years later. If "The Baptism of Christ" (a 1710 picture by Aert De Gelder) clearly shows a flying saucer above Jesus Christ, then you know damn well that the church has official records that cover alien visitation without neoclassical interpretation. I want to see those records. I want Dan Brown to write a book about them. And I want American Dad to send Roger to Vatican City (disguised as a nun) to retrieve those records for a Fox sweeps special.
Every time I look at the stars, I imagine how many races must be out there. Full disclosure: I have loved science fiction from the time I could poop. I grew up in the late 70s/early 80s, in the heyday of Star Wars & OMNI magazine. I watched Star Wars in a drive in. I read Timothy Good's Above Top Secret. I'm primed to believe in extra terrestrials. Like Mulder, I want to believe in life outside of Earth. But I'm also respectful of traditional thought, and I know that once ETs are revealed, every country in the world will experience a philosophical earthquake.
It's going to be a mess for awhile, with civil & social unrest. We'll experience fear, panic, and violence in certain places - and I'll finally get to cook my Patriot Pantry purchase. But humanity will get through it because, ultimately, we already know it's true. And once the smoke clears - and history is reevaluated - we'll accept that ET influence has been a part of our lives from the very, very beginning. Our view will go from "global" to "galactic"... and petty terrestrial fighting will simply become impractical. If Putin wants Crimea and China wants Taiwan, big deal. Look up at the stars. There's plenty of real estate to go around.
Now, as for Earth's ambassador to ETs, may I make a suggestion?
I mean, she's funny, she can handle a crowd, and she already looks like a grey...
It's going to be a mess for awhile, with civil & social unrest. We'll experience fear, panic, and violence in certain places - and I'll finally get to cook my Patriot Pantry purchase. But humanity will get through it because, ultimately, we already know it's true. And once the smoke clears - and history is reevaluated - we'll accept that ET influence has been a part of our lives from the very, very beginning. Our view will go from "global" to "galactic"... and petty terrestrial fighting will simply become impractical. If Putin wants Crimea and China wants Taiwan, big deal. Look up at the stars. There's plenty of real estate to go around.
Now, as for Earth's ambassador to ETs, may I make a suggestion?
I mean, she's funny, she can handle a crowd, and she already looks like a grey...
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