Do you believe?

[DrummerDeanna]

Hey now..didn't anyone see The Exorcist...Captain Howdy? That alone makes me wanna stay away from Ouija boards

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Hey now..didn't anyone see The Exorcist...Captain Howdy? That alone makes me wanna stay away from Ouija boards

What about Long Time Dead?? Anyone see that?

[markolas]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

and as for religion, lawd, don't even get me started on that.

While I could never be a Christian, I do think religion/spirituality (if it's understood properly) is a wonderful, and even necessary, part of life. I know a lot of people (especially gay people) have issues with it, though.

[ELIUD]

My belief is that God and religioin in general is our way of making everything extraterrestrial more palatable and easier to embrace. While creationism and Darwinism appear as polar opposites, including an intergallactic factor into another theory actually melds them together. If God is extraterrestrial and created man in his own image than he very well could have arrived with the appearance of something we haven't seen? Who knows what God looks like? And if that being is bred with the simian species that was already here and had started to evolve and adapt, couldn't it look something like the missing link that Darwinists still haven't found?

The questions of whether aliens have visited the earth or why they would is almost as moot as to ask why scientists continue to do research that could improve or save life on this planet. And not just for humans but other species. Why do humans try to save endangered animals? Why do they pick them up from their natural habitats put them in controlled environments and help them to thrive and repopluate? Is it out of sheer kindness or is it to maintain a delicate balance among the world's ecosystems that keep us alive and evolving? And could there be a greater balance throughout the galaxies that is just as delicate that requires some maintenance?

Evolution is everywhere, including the infinite galaxies and all the planets past and present. When this planet's time to die has come it's the Christian belief that God will pick up the holy and ascend them to Heaven in a glorious reunion with all their beloved. But I bet that it'll be a much less glorified round-up of people who not just can but are willing to contribute to a future society of a more understanding and peaceful higher intelligence. People who have true faith not in what they are told to believe, but what they are willing to believe. They are accepting of the facts however they may challenge what they already believe. They change their beliefs by understanding those facts and by increasing their faith not by abandoning it. And then they evolve. Because you cannot evolve if you do not learn and you do not learn if you do not understand.

So it is my belief that yes Virginia, there are aliens and the reason they visit is not to call out Tom Cruise in a battle royal but to pick up some fine earthlings and make some sweet alien love. Then take 'em back to their crib for some heavy-duty evolutionatin' like the way God intended.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by ELIUD

My belief is that God and religioin in general is our way of making everything extraterrestrial more palatable and easier to embrace.

Again, I think it's a mistake to reduce religion to creation myths (which as I said, some religions don't even have). They are largely beside the point. I would also argue that faith has nothing to do with accepting a slate of beliefs about anything.

[CelticGypsy]

Never saw a UFO but do keep wondering what all of those planets and galaxies are doing out there? I don't think we are the only ones in this universe.