suffer said:
Oh christ... So aliens live upon us now. Hahahahahahahaha. I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh, but this is hilarious.
Hello Suffer,
A good sense of humor is an asset.
Evidently you’re here because of an interest, at least at some level, in these extraordinary phenomena. Given the choice, I think skepticism is much preferred over swallowing whatever anybody tries to feed us – whether or not his or her intentions are sound. But that having been said, it may be that rather than right or wrong, true or false, good or bad and black and white, we may have countless other options open, or available to us.
We may even have more options (more degrees of latitude if you will) within the scope of remaining neutral, as well.
I remember seeing a headline awhile back in US News and World Report that read; “China - Friend or Foe?” They were trying to classify a world power with billions of people, with whom we have had a long-standing trade relationship for centuries, and who’s culture has effected our own in countless ways, into an either or scenario (in the process, trying to stuff only two choices down our throats). Pick one or the other folks, that’s all you’ll get to choose from – how totally absurd that is.
Well, what about neither. Maybe more friend than foe, or maybe more foe than friend, or what about a classification ‘in-between’ those two extremes depending upon what china and the US see as their best interest at any given point in their relationship – dependant upon what topic might be at hand. And even then, how can it be classified or ‘pigeonholed’ into only one of two possible categories? That’s ridiculous, and yet we all buy into that mentality day-in, and day-out as we go about our lives, trying to classify all that we encounter into an ‘either or’ - 'good or bad' category.
Why do we need to think only in ‘either or’ possibilities. There must be countless degrees of separation across the entire scale of possibilities for us to consider, regardless of what we might be considering at any given point in time.
No need to quickly pick one or the other, is there?
There is more to these phenomena than what we may be aware – these phenomena, being presented to us as they are, are forcing us to examine our thought processes in ways that were never before imagined, as well as simply being a precursor to us (the general populace that is) becoming more indoctrinated with the concept that (conceptually) others exist within this universe as well. Whether or not we choose to believe that possibility, the concept, or idea of it, has been ‘planted’ (implanted - brought into our conscious minds) nevertheless.
And from there the concept grows, year-by-year, over time. These phenomena taking place always in the periphery of the collective consciousness of the world, until that point in which it becomes a normal, natural, and accepted part of the world’s mainstream culture - at some point in the future.
It seems a rather civilized process, I’d say.
Cheers
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