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Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials

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Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 10:33 pm
For whatever it's worth, I promise this is the first and only account I've had on here. Wish I could prove it
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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 10:34 pm
(July 12, 2023 at 10:27 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Didn't we just evict another of this guy's socks just a few weeks ago?

Need a little more evidence.  

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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 10:35 pm
(July 12, 2023 at 10:27 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(July 12, 2023 at 10:18 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote: I don't think it's a lucky coincidence
You should.

Explain to me like I'm 5 years old why I should think it's a lucky coincidence. I genuinely don't get it
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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 10:38 pm (This post was last modified: July 12, 2023 at 10:42 pm by Sicnoo0.)
The flying machines that Hindu deities were said to have had are what really gets me. Sounds just like the UAPs we're seeing in recent years. The machines were described as being able to move in any direction while still facing in the same direction, like a helicopter. This is exactly like the UAPs that get described nowadays
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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 10:40 pm
It's almost as if we've always been seeing shit that wasn't there.
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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 10:40 pm
(July 12, 2023 at 10:35 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote:
(July 12, 2023 at 10:27 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: You should.

Explain to me like I'm 5 years old why I should think it's a lucky coincidence. I genuinely don't get it
You find it more plausible that some mystic force provided a random jot of information to an ancient people who had not one fucking thing to use that information on?
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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 10:46 pm (This post was last modified: July 12, 2023 at 10:46 pm by Sicnoo0.)
(July 12, 2023 at 10:40 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(July 12, 2023 at 10:35 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote: Explain to me like I'm 5 years old why I should think it's a lucky coincidence. I genuinely don't get it
You find it more plausible that some mystic force provided a random jot of information to an ancient people who had not one fucking thing to use that information on?

What about the vanishingly small probability of getting those measurements correct to such a fine level of precision by merely guessing?

Also, who prompted them to even make such guesses? 

Why were ancient people even talking about their home as a planet and talking about how old the planet is?
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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 10:48 pm (This post was last modified: July 12, 2023 at 10:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Who prompted people to guess about shit? I'm going with no one, that's just what we do...for 500.

How many men did your mom sleep with before she met your dad, best guess?

Pop quiz! That the first time you thought about your mom fucking?
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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 10:56 pm
Ok I'm ready to come away from this with the following summary:
Aliens have never been here on Earth.
Any correct statement made in a religious text is due to the genius of ancient humans.

Am I still in the wrong or do I appear to have learned my lesson?
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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 10:56 pm
I have an alternate explanation: In the last 4500 years or so, humanity has been able to figure out a lot of things. Perhaps the recent past isn't the first time around for humans - it's possible (although not yet demonstrated archaeologically) that an earlier iteration of Homo sapiens had accumulated a similar body of knowledge, and some of it made it into scriptures.
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