12-10-2024, 03:54 AM
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cool thread 
Belief, what is belief? A conviction, acceptance without proof. My belief in that I can fly isn't going to change what happens if I jump off a cliff.
Our "Belief in Non-Terrestrial Lifeforms" or lack thereof doesn't matter.
To me this speaks more about the hierarchy of things and where you considered yourself in the food chain. If you place yourself at the top only gods and angles and demons and other mystical things can exist above you.
In reality you got to the top through competition and that is how it works and we will have to again or you are lunch. This is the natural way, thinking non-terrestrial lifeforms won't follow this basic rule if they are flesh and blood is folly.
Using "simulation" metaphorically, but maybe also not. If we stick to flesh and bones within the simulation it sounds absurd to me also. Higher entities must exist on a different plane, like we are a hologram and they run the simulation. It's not so much spatial dimensions as completely sperate and what we see, where we are is not "reality".
Belief, what is belief? A conviction, acceptance without proof. My belief in that I can fly isn't going to change what happens if I jump off a cliff.
Our "Belief in Non-Terrestrial Lifeforms" or lack thereof doesn't matter.
(12-10-2024, 02:22 AM)CCoburn Wrote: The ambiguity like what's the difference between angels and aliens? The wings could just be metaphor for ability to take flight, not literally, or maybe other-dimensional entities of pure consciousness that don't require the spatial for their existence but only the dimension of time, although perhaps they can manifest/project their existence spatially for whatever reason.
To me this speaks more about the hierarchy of things and where you considered yourself in the food chain. If you place yourself at the top only gods and angles and demons and other mystical things can exist above you.
In reality you got to the top through competition and that is how it works and we will have to again or you are lunch. This is the natural way, thinking non-terrestrial lifeforms won't follow this basic rule if they are flesh and blood is folly.
(12-10-2024, 02:32 AM)CCoburn Wrote: I'm thinking more like existing in an alternate configuration of dimensions as in less. I'm not really sure I believe in extra dimensions beyond the common four.
Using "simulation" metaphorically, but maybe also not. If we stick to flesh and bones within the simulation it sounds absurd to me also. Higher entities must exist on a different plane, like we are a hologram and they run the simulation. It's not so much spatial dimensions as completely sperate and what we see, where we are is not "reality".
compassion, even when hope is lost
