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"Great question, Pou. Often it's really obvious. Compare these claims. I saw a dog at the park (ordinary claim). I saw an alien riding a dragon at the park (extraordinary claim). "
"Who gets to decide what is and isn't an extraordinary claim? I'm sure Sagan and the people who quote him have a convenient answer to that one."
"Daz, I like what Carl Sagan said: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". The Sagan Standard seems almost identical to Hume's reasoning."
"LB, the film and TV industry itself created this kind of closed cycle story telling. A reluctance to end without tying everything off neatly. A reluctance to end with a question. So I don't mind Disclosure Day bucking that trend.
If anyone wants to…"
If anyone wants to…"
"I get that theory too, that they would be so superior to us that they would not even be that interested. But I lean towards the real constraints of time and distances."
"It would be a revelation. (no pun intended)"
"Rocky from Hail Mary was carbon-based but not green (hard exoskeleton), and recently in For All Mankind (spoiler alert!) the aliens are methane based I think. Little green men is the cultural archetype. Disclosure Day plays with this archetype…"
"Brinfbacksemi, I've only followed the story you outline through a colleague. He is a believer. Cover up etc. he is otherwise sane so I let him speak his mind about it. He asked me questions which I remind him assume the burden is mine to prove a…"
"Poppa, plenty of scientists proclaim religious conviction. So my atheism or my bet that alien life exists are a) unrelated, really, but b) science alone won't answer such foundational questions. Or, at least, is insufficient. Science does demand…"
"Poupou, angels and demons in religious texts are immaterial, and either a deities messenger or some corrupted spiritual being. Aliens are material.
But let's imagine, say a Christian, wants to respond to aliens rocking up by saying the Bible was…"
But let's imagine, say a Christian, wants to respond to aliens rocking up by saying the Bible was…"
"Mallee is obviously an alien. He/she/they/it is just covering for the impending invasion, lulling us into a false sense of security. You heard it here first "
"What happens if they're literally Eels? They only spare Eels fans. Which other fans do they eat first?"
"Joey, when Frank Drake first proposed the Drake equation to estimate probability of ET, he "calculated" 20 to 50,000,000 civilizations. With that margin, yeah, he was taking wild swings! I think recent estimates based on future data about planets…"
"My humility tells me we're not alone. I don't think aliens have visited. Though an academic colleague of mine is firmly in the conspiracy camp that visits have happened but been covered up. I can't manage to get past distrust of those conspiracy…"
"Yeah just heard people say they think the movie is meh. Though think a lot expected for it to be either an action type like Independence Day with aliens or for it to deliver information about Aliens that nobody has heard. Since it was neither people…"
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Also available here in HD:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qGFjrsfaatY
I challenge you to watch it Daz, I dare you
"Self-righteousness is a terrible thing in a believer".
See, challenge accepted, Brett.
Here is my challenge, in return. When will all the religious bigots hear that message and stop denigrating others?
Who is denigrating who ?
Brett, only religious bigots don't know the answer to that question.
I'm assuming you are referring to me, I haven't denigrated anyone, certainly not based on whatever belief system they choose to believe in, but if you think so, then give me an example.
Just go and put your faith in the lord to keep you safe. Who needs Science, Medicine and Critical thought when you have power of the lord!
Science & Medicine are wonderful gifts from God, but my ultimate faith is in Him. And yes I have faith that He will, but even if He doesn't, I'll still stand in Him.
Serious question, in the ideological realm of Christian belief, where does this pandemic fit in? Sent by Lucifer? A punishment for our sins? All part of gods plan?
If it is in fact a serious question, the answer is that we live in a world corrupted by the sin of humanity. The Bible is clear that the wages of sin is death. The reason the world is in the collective chaos that it is in currently is through our collective disobedience to Him.
It's not God's will that that it is the case, just the opposite, but He's not going to force us to live in obedience to Him.
God doesn't see the world in terms of good vs bad or right vs wrong the way mankind does, he sees it through the prism of life & death. If we live in obedience to Him, it brings us life, if we don't, it brings us death, and by death I mean it in the holistic sense, not just the narrow idea of physical death. It means spiritual death, which ultimately leads to physical death.
Be assured God is not some cosmic wet blanket trying to stop us enjoying life or having fun, but he has put in place boundaries for us to live within, in the same way that as a father I do the same thing with my kids. I don't do it because I'm mean, but because I love them and I want the best for them. Sometimes they disobey me, and when that happens I have to discipline them.
God is no different, except that His Love is pure.
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