First, i DON´T know anything and i dont pretend i know it, id be very stupid if i thought that way. I simply expressed my opinion about the issue of alien abductions and greys after stating that the person who opened this board of disvussion is being victim of a specific type of irrational fear that maybe is bringing her a bad time. If she cant sleep well at night because shes afraid of being abducted and feels terrified when she sees a picture of a grey creature, its clear that shes not ok, not in the sense of being insane, but in the way that she should live her life peacefully and joyfully and not be captive of dark terrors. It´s a question of getting some seroius information about the issue, hear and read BOTH SIDES (pros and cons) of the alien abduction theory and make up her own mind about it. Thats what i did and i came to a conclusion. Everyone who´s interested in the alien phenomenon should do the same research but its always important to analyze more than just one current of thinking. If that doesnt help her overcoming that fear, she should just stop thinking about aliens, pure and simple.
Now, that was just my personal advice to her. Taking this issue to a broader context, therefore, the unknown and our reaction to it. We all have almost the same reaction to the unknown: Unease and uncertainty. Its typical, when we cant find clear answers, were back to our primordial cave, to our darkness, just like ive said previously, and we try to secure ourselves and find somekind of comfort by inventing and giving it all kind of meanings. But there are plausible meanings and there are prespousperous meanings. I believe in meanings that contain somekind of a fundament, theories that went under serious investigation and were not based in semi-fantasy. Id be very disappointed if we were alone in the universe and, in the vastness of it all, its hard to believe that there arent other lifeforms. Now, if thats true, should i be terrified? No, im not terrfied of the unknown, the issues concerning the existence of God, the after-death, our supposed sole existence in the whole universe they make me very curious, but its hard to tell how I´ll feel later about the question of death, maybe i´ll be scared, who knows. They are those big question marks that we cant avoid. And im no different. But believing in alien abductions, i personally dont. Think about it, has any abduction case leaked into the public eye in a seroius way? Tell me any case that made the news on an extensive period and dont tell me about major world governments cover ups. Think for example the roswell alien autopsy tape some years ago, has anyone taken it seriously? It aired on programs but that was it, even ufologists and alien aficionados were fairly quiet about it, especially when a rogue company called morgana productions unveiled it as a hoax with photos of the dummies. By the way, those dummies were terrifying, no wonder people get scared. That leads to another question, what are the odds that lifeforms from distant galaxies develop similar features like us humans, like 2 eyes, 2 ears, a mouth, 2legs, 2 arms and torso? Doesnt it ring you? What are the odds that the primitive lifecells on that planet were the same as in Earth, plus given the different conditions of the distant planet, which as you know, the environment conditions play a decisive role on the constitution and evolution of the lifeforms? Hmmmmm very unlikely, at least we should assume that aliens should have a different, even completely new to us, form of life. Now, skinny little ones with huge black eyeballs and with a creepy smirk is plain stupid. Think about REM sleeping, when wile sleeping, we suddenly awake and our brain is completely dormant, our body is completely paralyzed, we cant move and we cant speak, because the brain is not functioning thus not commanding the body. We feel a sense of sheer panic. It happened to me more than once in my teens and i always managed to fall asleep again. Next morning there was no probe up my ass. Go figure.
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Kismet-13
19 years ago
As I have previously stated, I mostly agree with you on this subject. I actually believe that the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects is worth studying, not because they might be interstellar vehicles, but a yet unknown natural occurrence. Similarly, abductions are pretty interesting when viewed from sociological and psychological point of view.
On the subject of life evolving on other planets, you have a point in that alien beings would probably differ from Homo sapiens greatly, but there is a limit to that difference:
A highly intelligent being, for instance, cannot have too many limbs, as its brain power would be wasted on operating those limbs. If there is intelligent life out there, it probably doesn't have twenty-plus tentacles sticking out of its body. 2-4 limbs are enough to move the creature around swiftly enough to avoid danger and to make the most of its surroundings.
The being cannot be too small in size, because then it would be too frail to achieve anything meaningful in its environment. True, it could benefit from living in massive groups and using the powers of a collective mind, but as an individual, it would still be rather frail and helpless.
On the other hand, if the creature is too big, then its time (and brain capacity) would be wasted in finding and consuming enough food to create the energy needed to move its mass around.
The number of eyes is also an important factor. As we know, some insects can have a hundreds of eyes with which they can perceive their environment. But they live in a constant state of awareness of their surroundings. They eat, mate and avoid being eaten by predators (or squashed by us). Absorping information through hundreds of channels (not just eyes, but other senses as well) puts an enormous strain on a creature's brain. No time is left to the thinking process. Again, as in the case of limbs, less is more.
While the form of Homo sapiens is pretty good for an intelligent creature, we too, have limitations. Physically, we cannot leave very far form our basic element, the solid ground of planet earth. We can fly, but we need planes and helicopters; we can dive, but we need heavy breathing apparatus, or submarines to help us reach the bottom of the sea. And we still have conquered only a tiny fraction of the ocean floor.
We can travel in space, but only for relatively short periods: the weightless environment reduces the mass of our muscles and bones. Astronauts who spend long periods in space are ather weak when they are re-introduced to gravitational forces.
It is true that the circumstances in other planets may yield forms of life we cannot even imagine, but intelligent life does have its limitations. A grey is not that bad of a guess as to what intelligent life on some habitable planet might evolve into. Given the way human beings evolve, we ourselves might end up looking like that after a few hundred million years...
"Isn't killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?"
-Arthur C. Clarke
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dfeatthedarkness-1
19 years ago
I personally think the problem is that too many crazy people have cried wolf on the matter, making up alien abduction stories and making us think that they all must be cry wolf.
making it very very frustrating for those who ARE encountering something
i simply don't believe that the encounters are as common as some people think. Like Strieber said in one of his books that visitors enter the lives of millions of people - - - i doubt that because then it would be harder to cover up or to claim false.
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