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	Archive through Mar 26, 2004 Last Post: Apr 04, 2004, 01:08 am		20

Posted By: iamume Mar 26, 2004 - 06:36 pm

I find it absurd that peaple fight over their perceptions of God. How dare anyone attemt to dictate how or what God is. However we may try to define this concept we can be sure that God will surpass it.

This question of "are we alone" appropriately has turned to God. If there is a God then no one is ever alone. Could the very notion of solitude be a form of arrogance? This turns me toward the practice of isolating something in order to understand it better.Is not something best understood in how it interacts with its setting or peers? Out of context a subject can not tell its full story.

While an isolated subject is simpler and easier to comprehend without being a component of something else this very isolation can produce a misleading understanding.

This subject sounds lonely.

Like a medicine which has been extracted from an herb,seperated from the other constituents of this herb whith which its interaction is vital for a ballanced effect.

I'm sure exeptions can be found to this,but that is the way things are,full of exeptions.

Peaple ask for proof that we are not alone.

Can these peaple proove that we are not?

While we cannot insist that one believe something without proof,can we also deny something without proof?

If existence continues after death, then wouldn't the world or universe also continue after it "ends"?.

I feel that the government should get over its fear that releasing information regarding extraterestrials will result in panic or chaos.
Even if it does it would be important for us to get through.

Posted By: Robz Mar 30, 2004 - 12:34 am

no we r not alone b scared b very scared! i believe in aliens or life on another planet.

Posted By: gypsychic Mar 30, 2004 - 07:16 am

"Could the very notion of solitude be a form of arrogance?"

Very good point. I agree with you, that's exactly what it is.

Posted By: Aldan Mar 30, 2004 - 01:13 pm

Could the notion that any alien race would want anything at all to do with us be arrogance as well?

Posted By: Axzazz De`Nyde Apr 04, 2004 - 01:08 am

Aldan:

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only those who become truly frustrated or live in a manner they enjoy which will, in their mind, mean they are not going to be able to make it to heaven end up saying "there is no life after this". People who have no faith in this tend to be angry/bitter for the most part, for some reason.

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Posted By: Queen Ehlana Apr 25, 2004 - 01:12 pm

I feel 100% certain that there is other intelligent life out there... Just because we're not all that special, and my IPC teacher says we are going through the Seventh Great Extinction of mammals. **chuckle** So we don't even know how soon all traces of us could be obliterated. And anyway, there are other intelligent species on Earth besides our cousins. I only find it hard to believe that any other species could naturally develop on Earth to even nearly our point of intelligence because humans would interfere with them far before that could happen.

To put it theoretically, you'd have to say you're only 99.9999% sure that there is other intelligent life out there, but you just have to look at the odds. I mean, most people would be 100% sure that there has never been and never will be an exact, coincidental duplicate of themselves anywhere in the universe as we know it.

Posted By: Aldan Apr 25, 2004 - 02:48 pm

And that would be true IF there isn't any all-powerful creator out there CREATING human beings on many worlds...

Posted By: Queen Ehlana Apr 26, 2004 - 01:08 pm

Yeah, that's possible, but then I'd say that this creator is probably an idiot bored out of his/her/its mind.

Posted By: Aldan Apr 27, 2004 - 09:50 am

"is... an idiot bored out of his/her/its mind."
Perhaps. And perhaps that's why he/she/it created us, as entertainment. I mean, look at what entertains US HUMANS!

Posted By: Queen Ehlana Apr 27, 2004 - 12:35 pm

Don't get me started.

Posted By: KTs On Fire May 17, 2004 - 11:08 am

haha! im imagining what amuses me ::makes up a list 100 miles long::
anyway
well, i dont believe that the fact that Earth and only Earth was able to promote life. there must be another planet out there somewher ethat can host some form of life, perhaps not as complex as humans and cats and birds...etc

Posted By: Aldan May 17, 2004 - 12:24 pm

...and lions and tigers and bears (oh my!)...

Posted By: Bimillennium Man Jul 31, 2004 - 02:38 am

Yes. We are human in the flesh, the only ones in the universe. Humans living as spiritual beings live in heaven - a place somewhere beyond the universe I believe.

Posted By: iamume Jul 31, 2004 - 02:19 pm

Do you know that humans have not been "planted" on other planets? There could be many planets out there populated with humans placed there by the same agency which placed us here.

What if we were to encounter a planet populated by humans who denied that there was life on any other planet.Might these peaple try to claim that we are other than human due to adaptive differences,and might we even deny their claims at humanity for the same reason? Here, difference in faith is enough to dehumanize a brother.

Posted By: Queen Ehlana Jul 31, 2004 - 11:40 pm

No, if we are sexually compatible, then we are all human. Unless those other humans were behind us in progress, then they would see us as humans. But nah, I don't believe a Creator would do that because there must be far more interesting possibilities than humans.

Posted By: *_* fiery red *_* Aug 01, 2004 - 12:15 pm

if were the only living forms of intelligence in the universe, then i fear for the universe. i HOPE theres someone else out there. (they probably liked the rock and roll music we sent on that one space thingy! )

Posted By: Neurolanis Aug 01, 2004 - 05:53 pm

We're killing our own world, bombing eachother...no wonder those aliens are examining us and drilling holes in our heads. They're trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with us!

Posted By: Spiels Aug 12, 2004 - 05:00 pm

You're all making the assumption that alien life is somehow peaceful and beyond us saying that you hope there's someone else out there because you fear for the universe. You all believe too many cliche science fiction movies that portray humanlife as the equivilance of barbarianism, instead of focusing on the things we've achieved. We're brought up believing that we started out as a one-celled organism. I'd say we've made some process. Let's not be so quick to drop ourselves and assume everything else is better.

Posted By: Ariel Mar 25, 2005 - 07:44 am

Everyone has their own belief system.I try to be respectful of that,but I personally,I don't follow any one particular religion or path preffering to follow the goodness and light wherever that may lead,without being chained and stifled and misled by organized religion.Bottom line is:It's more important to be loving ,compassionate,moral individuals.It is more important to live by example,not by label.

Posted By: Ariel Mar 25, 2005 - 07:51 am

OOPS<posted in the wrong place!!SORRY!Oh ,are we alone in the universe?With the vastness of space,the profoundness of life,I would have to say absolutely not!!

Posted By: Magus Mar 25, 2005 - 08:35 am

I'd agree with that, the one posted at 7:51.