(October 3, 2016 at 12:52 am)Kosh Wrote: I was a true believer in my youth. Now that I'm pushing 50, not so much.
You know that's the same thing John Carpenter said on "The Thing" DVD commentary. Kurt Russel asked him if he believed in alien visitation and he said "No. It's something you believe as a young guy."
But I must admit that I was also moved by saucer stories and some of them are indeed moving peaces of fiction presented as "real thing" - I mean so what? Some horrors do it too, like that fucking "Exorcist" I mean there are so many people that think that movie is a documentary.
I remember my first encounter with Ufology when I saw that movie "Roswell" on TV in the 90s. I remember it started "this was based on real events". I didn't know anything about Roswell and I remember being freaked out "What this was real? No way! Arghhh!" but then as movie progresses it becomes more ridiculous, especially with rubber aliens at the end which are now kept at the Roswell alien museum, just like Mel Gibson treasures Jim Caviezel's rubber crown of thorns from "Passion" in his private church. You know I guess the only reason people have private churches is that they can have sex with the statues.
Other story that really moved me was back in early 2001. I was watching some Russian movie on TV late at night and after it finished there was some "documentary" on aliens. They told a story how few decades ago alien saucer crashed somewhere in US (I don't remember where) and one alien survived so army locked him into the buker and called him IO (binary numbers). They said how alien was very passive and didn't pay any attention to them and just stared at his crystal all day long. Then one day he became friendly and showed them his crystal and they could see it was a communication device as well as a device you can see the past and the future. He also told them how they live 800 years, have very intelligent AI so they don't have to work anymore or go to wars, but that they also lost their feelings because there was nothing to be ambitios for, so that's why they come to Earth to collect human DNA. OK that last part was really stupid but they presented it with drawings and I remember that that night I even dreamed that alien and how I was looking at the crystal and saw how in the year 2055 people will find parts of a large spaceship in Jupiter's spot.
So it was like watching some horror movies but I can't stand those docs anymore, just like documentaries on Noah's ark.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
