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- From: jcs@crash.cts.com (John Schultz)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: Help Needed
- Message-ID: <5153@crash.cts.com>
- Date: 19 Oct 90 19:23:14 GMT
- References: <1973@mountn.dec.com>
- Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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- In article <1973@mountn.dec.com> ithomson@troa09.enet.dec.com (Ian Thomson) writes:
- >Hi,
- > my name is Ian Thomson, I don't know if this is serious or not. I do not
- >believe in 'Alien' life forms invading us. I do believe, from studying some
- >of the ancient books from Tibet, that there are creatures called Gardeners of
- >the Earth, who genetically engineered the human bodies for souls to inhabit
- >and evolve. If you belong to this group, then send me email and tell me what
- >you want me to do. But of course I need some proof.
-
- Supercreatures "genetically engineering" human bodies for soul habitation?
- Consider the logic of the idea. Why would supercreatures need to "engineer"
- anything? If they had the knowledge to allow "soul habitation" (if, indeed
- a "soul" does exist), then they would be able to create in one step,
- as a "god". They would have complete knowledge, thought trains that run
- in parallel. They are immortal, no concept of time, they know everything,
- so what would be their purpose? We as humans, believe in whatever reality
- that makes our minds at peace, good or bad. First hand experience or faith,
- it doesn't matter. We can anthropomorphise reality all day. But that won't
- change the fact that the human brain will never be able to understand
- the universe in ways that other non-human brains are capable of. Human
- experience closes the human mind to many things, and many things try to
- open the human mind.
- Back to the Supercreatures. Here's another popular concept: All-beings,
- so powerful, they are bored. They know everything, and there's no point
- to existance. They create the reality we now exist in. The goal is to
- get back to the All-being state. Skill level is adjusted by nature of
- birth, material wealth, physical handicaps, etc. The harder the human
- existance, the higher the skill level and vice-versa. The game of life.
- Let's say aliens are among us (they may be, it doesn't matter). If the
- fact was brought to common knowledge in the media, would it change anything?
- What difference would it make? Our lives would be more interesting/terrifying,
- and we'd still live our lives and die. Like astrophysics, it's a cool
- topic that we enjoy discussing, but to date cannot prove nor disprove
- (although there is a "science" to astrophysics, with rules we made up,
- and predictions/conclusions that work well enough to give us partial
- peace of mind). Remember, whenever the supernatural meets the buck,
- smell a rat.
-
- Respond with email-telepathy.
-
- --out here
-
- John
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