Mind's Eye Re: The Others

My guess is that intelligent life isn't like the human enterprise at
all. I often think we are waiting to receive communication that would
let us change.

On 21 Oct, 23:03, William L Houts <luka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, Illuminated Friends,
>
> I'm thinking I may have already asked this question in essence, but I'm
> rolling it out again.  It seems that I'm the high woo woo guy in this
> crowd, though I freely admit that everyone entertains my high woo woo
> ideas with all seriousness and courtesy.
>
> So this is the thing:  does the final game boil down to just humans and
> God  --whatever who / that is-- or do you suppose that we share this
> huge universe --a universe positively dripping with poisonous gamma
> rays--  with alien others?  For my own part, I'm thinking that the
> cosmos has cooked up numerous quasi-crustacean species on at least
> hundreds of thousands of worlds in our galaxy alone, with an additional
> several hundred sentient species for good measure. Most human beings, it
> seems to me, are basically good as long as they're getting their basic
> animal requirements met, so I also think that a few intelligent
> anthropoids have survived long enough to have become space-faring
> peoples. It is beyond me, though, why any such people would find us very
> interesting at this point in our history. Another thousand years, should
> we make it that long, though, and I think that the "Alien Love Fest"
> sequence from the end of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" will have
> become reality.
>
> --Mad William
>
> --
> "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead
>   and boy are my arms tired."

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