I watched the middle part of the show, and I liked the part about humans imagining they'd be converting the aliens a million years ahead of us. I think people generally imagine the aliens being pantheists of some kind, which is interesting, because it opens a possible theological shift for Mormonism should it want to reform into the first bona fide alien religion.
I would love to see Mormonism shift to being the first bona fide alien religion. That would be awesome. It may be a way of moving away from Bronze Age mythology and toward a more complete universalism.
There's some interest stuff for sure, and I think it was you, Philo, who directed me to David Fravor, and I commend the work you're doing here. I say keep at it. I need to tune in to your show more often to keep up on the state of the topic. You've definitely got your finger on the pulse of what's going on out there. I'm definitely there if the proof comes. And if I see a orb or a triangle, I'll have no problem promoting it. I want the skeptics to be wrong and for UFOs to be real. I'm as much as a religious dupe on the topic as anyone. At the same time, I won't really believe it unless I'm really convinced.
Aliens could come and announce themselves and circumvent the government altogether. If these things are crashing all the time, then with a world armed with i-phones, somebody should get some great closeup footage at some point. The government isn't omniscient. No reason to believe they'd be there first every time and can shut it down before uploading to cloud. However, if close encounters are extremely rare, it would be easy to say the government is hiding everything and that's why we don't know more.
I watched the middle part of the show, and I liked the part about humans imagining they'd be converting the aliens a million years ahead of us. I think people generally imagine the aliens being pantheists of some kind, which is interesting, because it opens a possible theological shift for Mormonism should it want to reform into the first bona fide alien religion.
Can you imagine if the aliens are the equivalent of pro-Trump Christians? How scary would that be if they come down and inform us that they are created in God's image and have a sacred book that proves their God is the only God, and all other beliefs are an abominations; they are here to make the galaxy great again and earth is but a floating trash heap and they're beside themselves on what to do with it. They have banners all over the inside of their ships and merch based on their leader.
OMG. That would be the ultimate terrorism...... pro-Trump aliens? Lets make the Galaxy Great Again! Lets not give them any ideas......