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Michael
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Hi, everyone I’m new to this forum so feel free to tell me if I’m out of line here.
I’ve noticed a lot of interesting stories about unusual occurrences. And a lot of them refrain from jumping to any definitive conclusions, which seems really rational. Because it has been my personal experience, from the people that I’ve talked to about the subject, that there seems to be a general assumption that any ‘occurrence’ is an alien from another planet. And I can’t help but wonder if it’s our desire to feel like we’re not alone in the universe that causes people to reach that particular conclusion.
I mean if I were visited/abducted, whatever, I think that my first thought would be that our descendants have somehow figured out how to come back in time and are on some sort of archeological survey (studying their ancestry).
Here’s a quote to illustrate my point:
“The first explorers of Earth had long since come to the limits of flesh and blood; as soon as their machines were better than their bodies, it was time to move. First their brains… they transferred [themselves] into shining new homes of metal… They no longer built spaceships. They were spaceships.”
Arthur C. Clarke – ‘3001 the Final Odyssey’
I’ve noticed a lot of interesting stories about unusual occurrences. And a lot of them refrain from jumping to any definitive conclusions, which seems really rational. Because it has been my personal experience, from the people that I’ve talked to about the subject, that there seems to be a general assumption that any ‘occurrence’ is an alien from another planet. And I can’t help but wonder if it’s our desire to feel like we’re not alone in the universe that causes people to reach that particular conclusion.
I mean if I were visited/abducted, whatever, I think that my first thought would be that our descendants have somehow figured out how to come back in time and are on some sort of archeological survey (studying their ancestry).
Here’s a quote to illustrate my point:
“The first explorers of Earth had long since come to the limits of flesh and blood; as soon as their machines were better than their bodies, it was time to move. First their brains… they transferred [themselves] into shining new homes of metal… They no longer built spaceships. They were spaceships.”
Arthur C. Clarke – ‘3001 the Final Odyssey’
