The foundations of most of the religions are not that far apart.. it is the interpretation of them that gets the idea screwed up.. It seems though that the creator places people that have a better link and can help straighten the cultures so there is hope as to maintain the same ideas. so I think that there us a very real possibility that common ground is available.
poking a nd prodding out of curiosity is to be expected it is called curiosity.
Allan
Matrix ** th3 beginning light
On Oct 26, 2012 3:18 PM, "Lee Douglas" <leerevdouglas@gmail.com> wrote:
-- Ohhh I don't know Andrew.As I have said we can of course speculate on all sorts of things about alien life, but seeing as we can only ever think about from our particular species POV, I question how useful such speculation would be. I think the most logical deduction we could make is to say 'Well I really don't know', and that is indeed my line.Heh of course having said that and in the spirit of pure speculation, given that our current understanding of universal principles, and laws of physics etc.. seem to encompass the totality of the universe, I do not think it incorrect to draw some speculative conclusions.Would alien lifeforms be carbon based as on our planet? I suspect probably yes, but there are reasons enough to suppose otherwise also.Would then non carbon life forms form different morality than carbon based life forms? Umm well I'm going with 'I don't know' for this one, as I lack an in depth understanding of neurology.As a theist who believes in a single creator God though I would have to agree with Allan.A large part of my struggle is with the message of God. Trying to recompense different religions with this single message is hard. I try to imagine that all religions are valid and look for the similarities, I rather suspect as I grow I will have to claim that some are wholly false and man made whilst others are the direct message from God albeit fucked with by mankind for his own nefarious ends(Christianity for example). So then the job becomes separating the wheat from the chaff, as it were.How would intelligent alien life cope with God's message I wonder, and would they be in the boat as we? Perhaps they have no idea of a God at all? Or perhaps they may be the only beings who hold to the truth? Ahhh once again, I'm forced to say I don't know.Let us endeavour to understand the other sentient creatures we share this planet with first, then just maybe we can make better educated guesses.Heh yes you can assume from that I am in favour of granting personhood upon those 'higher order' animals, enshrouded in law.--
On Friday, 26 October 2012 10:22:52 UTC+1, andrew vecsey wrote:I agree. Extra terrestrial visitors to earth would not be comparable to us. They would have different values and morals. They would find all life sacred and would respect it, no matter how depraved or primitive. Perhaps they were the ones who seeded earth in the first place. They would probably recognize our weaknesses and would let us either survive to our next stage or let us destroy ourselves.
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:19:42 PM UTC+2, William L. Houts William L. Houts Lukaeon William L. Houts wrote:
All right, I just wanted to run this by you guys. I know it seems I'm
always rattlling on about aliens, but they're really a stand in for,
well, for a lot of things. Anyway, I've been on Facebook and recently
made a status report commenting on the conversation we had going on here
about hypothetical aliens and what they might or might not want from
us. And I was making the point that I made here: that said aliens will
turn out to be just as befuddled by it all as we are, and are probably
in no position to give us the goods on life's mysteries, or even make a
good cocktail.
Now, my friend Matt, who is very smart but also very bitchy, put forth
Professor Hawking's notion: that we'd better keep our heads down low,
because history tells us that when a more technologically advanced
species meets a less developed one, the results are usually horrible for
the latter. I replied that yes, this does seem to be the pattern in
Earth history. But, I went on, races which manage to break the
lightspeed barrier are going to have better things to do than enslave 7
billion people, or even mistreat them very much. Their energy problems,
I said more or less, will have been solved to such an extent that they
won't have to vampirize us. Matt made it clear that he thought I was
being terrifically naive.
Now, Mat is quickly becoming a sour old queen, but I want to know: with
whom would you agree? Or is there a third answer which I haven't
proposed here?
--Bill
--
"I just flew in from the Land of the Dead
and boy are my arms tired."
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