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No. Disclosure would mean sharing only as much as would not be considered a detriment to national security. If you want your perspective to be considered seriously, you ought to explain why the simple acknowledgement of alien intelligent life represents a threat.
Again, if the government has no ties, then seeing the alien "force" as a threat would be a mild understatement. In this case, one would think that our military would be open to any help or direction they could get, even if it's from the people, no?
If not, then explain.
I sense that you allude to the "altruistic" nature of scientific study. What, then, would be the reason for doing something so irresponsible as corrupting "natural" Ape DNA to create a species that could very well destroy the planet, including the Ape, when left to its own devices?
When did you suggest they were just doing it for fun? maybe the second paragraph of your last post, when you said "...it's the joy of science."
Well, you better start with some conclusion...ANY. Otherwise, you are wasting everyone's time.
If you're asking what the 2012 objective might be, I don't have a friggin clue. I guess we'd find out soon enough. Any guesses? Yes, their complex goal may be difficult to figure out, but not necessarily impossible with the information available.
If you think we should leave ourselves open to all the options, then you will have accomplished nothing except establishing that you could not formulate a simple conclusion, and support it?
Okay, well that's actually four possibilities, along with excess verbage...
1. If they did not want to interfere with us in any way, then you mean a blind experiment, right? Why the occasional appearances then? Either take a position, or assume the position.
2. If they were told to remain hidden, then we have a real problem here don't we, in one way or another? Let's talk about that possibility.
3. If they could not create their own safe havens, then don't you think introducing themselves would be a viable approach, in the pragmatic sense?
4. They don't care...well that appears to be a very likely case, believe it or not. Now, what would that say about them?
If they don't exist, fine.
If they do exist, and there is nothing we can do to affect their will, or protect ourselves from their decisions, then fine.
But, if there is something that we can do as people, to affect our own well-being, in the face of the threat that they may impose, then what would that be? How can you convince people that we should be looking out for a way to defeat this alien threat, in the worst case scenario?
I also would think that for the sake of reasoning we might not be the first intelligent life that they have visited. Considering the vastness of space. Would they be alone. How many species could there really exist? Billions on this planet alone. If other planets support life, where does it stop? Anyways, My point is, if your to acknowledge Et's, there is no reason to not think there could be multiple species visiting earth. The universe is just to large to only agree that one race of Ets exist. It doesn't make it true though.
So thats my first hump. Would we be visited by a single race of Extraterrestrials or several?
Well, if you read the OP, I was actually hoping people would submit some of there own ideas, which hasn't really happened yet, but I'm fine with refining my theory in conversation with Pusyphus. It would help if others would submit some of there theories, but hey, I probaly will let this thread die off soon, it isn't getting any where fast...
Yeah, I know exactly what your saying, but I was hoping there were were more people that believed in Aliens, used these forums, or that poeple would just try to "pretend" for a moment that these beings exist and visit Earth. Their theory doesn't have be anything like mine, it just requires that people believe, or pretend for the sake of conversation. I really feel that these beings do exist, the amount of evidence in my opinion, is just totally overwhelming, and fully conclusive. I could only conclude that these beings motives and intents, were highly philosophical, metaphysical, and spiritual, so I though I might bring it to philosophy forum, I am not asking people to blindly accept my claims, they are just my theories, most of philosophy, consists of theories, I am merely asking that we be able to philosophize on the subject.
Well, I have tried others ways of going about it, that allows for a open community of minds to give input, but that input is almost always skepticism, or totally off topic in some way. It just doesn't work, and I am currently starting threads in other forums, where hopefully, there will be some more, like minded people to give costructive input, but I didn't really expect so much resistance from a philosophy forum.
BBC quoted Mack as saying, "I would never say, yes, there are aliens taking people. [But] I would say there is a compelling powerful phenomenon here that I can't account for in any other way, that's mysterious. Yet I can't know what it is but it seems to me that it invites a deeper, further inquiry."
Mack's interest in the spiritual or transformational aspects of people's alien encounters, and his suggestion that the experience of alien contact itself may be more spiritual than physical in nature -- yet nonetheless real -- set him apart from many of his contemporaries such as Budd Hopkins, who advocated the physical reality of aliens.
Mack's explorations later broadened into the general consideration of the merits of an expanded notion of reality, one which allows for experiences that may not fit the Western materialist paradigm, yet deeply affect people's lives. His second (and final) book on the alien encounter experience, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters (1999), was as much a philosophical treatise connecting the themes of spirituality and modern worldviews as it was the culmination of his work with the "experiencers" of alien encounters (to whom the book is dedicated).
This is the exact way i hoped it would go... thanks ghost..
Yeah, I know exactly what your saying, but I was hoping there were more people that believed in Aliens, who used these forums, or that poeple would just try to "pretend" for a moment that these beings exist and visit Earth.
Their theory doesn't have be anything like mine, it just requires that people believe, or pretend for the sake of conversation, philosophy relies on a mind that can make assumptions, from given evidence, that can later be concluded, but they don't instantly need to be proven in order to philosophize further on the subject.
I really feel that these beings do exist, the amount of evidence in my opinion, is just totally overwhelming, and fully conclusive. I could only conclude that these beings motives and intents, were highly philosophical, metaphysical, and spiritual, so I though I might bring it to philosophy forum, I am not asking people to blindly accept my claims, they are just my theories, most of philosophy, consists of theories, I am merely asking that we be able to philosophize on the subject.
My question: "what is the purpose and goals of Aliens visiting Earth?", is like the question: "what is the purpose of souls, in the physical body?".
The existence of Aliens cannot be proven, nor can the existence of a soul, and I'm quiet sure if the person asked, for the sake of philosophical conversation, to just assume the existance of a soul, things would go a lot better for their thread than they have for mine. I hope you can understand the conundrum I am facing, and I truly feel, nothing but philosophical discussion is useful in relation to the question I am posing, just as philosophical discussion is essential in discussing the purpose of the soul.
If you discontinue the thread, then we would all expect you to do the same with every thread having to do with a god. That is, if you wanted to be regarded as a fair individual.
You are already crossing the line by saying your piece and then using your authority to threaten retribution to anyone who doesn't agree with your opinion. I'm sure no one wants to be forced to engage in discussion according to the terms of your liking. Who are you?