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Originally Posted by sirius_dog
That's an excellent point. There is more evidence available to prove their existance than there is to prove there is a god. People all over the world have taken photographs, video, or given statements to eyewitness accounts. Yet for some reason many people remain skeptical of ET's and continue to pray to god.
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I know we are not suggesting prayer to ET's.
Christians are taught that there are 'many mansions'.
Physics is speculating on alternate or parallel universes.
We are living in a time in which the commonly shared reality which we operate in so comfortably may show itself to be all too restrictive, and but a tiny segment of all that is.
It is possible that the God we pray to differs from the image captured by some of our religions.
Eventually, if the planet and we survive long enough, our understanding will grow and we may look back at these times as those in which humanity operated through a delusion, seeing 'through the glass darkly'.
Yes, we should definitely base our opinions on common sense and logic, but not to the extent that we close ourselves to change and new ideas. There was a time when it was thought that the human body could not survive traveling in autos (I forget the speed) at 30 or 50 mph. There was a time in which air flight was thought to be a ridiculous concept.
There are times, in these days, in which both elements of science and religion tackle phenomenon with a cargo-cult mentality.
It is often best just to keep an open-ended speculation regarding the observation of unusual phenomina. People who change the world are often not the ones who laugh at new ideas.
Granted, most of our religious writings are given to us by earlier tribal peoples and their explanations of their experiences and observations may not be ours, given the same phenomena. So, we get bogged down in their dogma which is sometimes not a healthy thing for progress. Yet, things do occur which are 'religious' in nature and which, the same as with UFO's, may defy our present logic.
Although I would appreciate an explanation for every strange occurrence, I don't always expect one. I would rather keep my mind free and leave the problem as open-ended than cloud the issue by projecting some of our current restrictive and unsatisfactory explanations as 'solutions'.
Sometimes we are like the cargo-cults, and perhaps it would have been better for them to think there was somewhere a logical explanation for airplanes and white people bringing gifts instead of constructing dogma and ritual around these things.
To me, saying the near death experience is the mere firing off of neurons in the brain as it dies is doing the same as the cargo cult, which used its current state-of-the-art explanation to describe the 'miraculous'. Best to leave some things as unexplained so that in the future, when we know more, perhaps we can better arrive at an adequate explanation without having to fight through the dogma that our faulty current explanations are creating today.
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