RE: Strangers In The Sky - The Fermi Paradox, Space Travel, & The Future Of Mankind [ IFC S2R1 ]
The way we are now we would be a danger to other forms of life, and it seems like we need to mature a lot spiritually before we go around the universe.
Totally agree with you on that one. If all that we're busy doing is war and dirty politics, we would have no time and capital to finance these important research and studies that are ultimately our only hope of survival in the long run. But we humans are greedy and emotional beings. We like to act based on our feelings and not on rational thinking and that's why I think it's gonna take a long time before we come to a global understanding and decide that it's time to focus on what really matters.
Also, I want you to watch this video and share your thoughts on it so we can discuss some things further.
I sort of agree, though I wouldn't say that collectively. Some aren't so bad and I personally think that it's optimal to try to balance our feelings with our rational thinking.
A lot of peoples feelings and rational thinking are both misguided and of "selfish" nature, but if we were to truly care about ourselves and others in consistent logical manner I think that would be ideal.
Also I watched your video last night and while I agreed with the majority of it I feel like it was sort of going off of the most current accepted scientific though and didn't really go into unknown territory itself in regards to much knowledge contained in the conspiracy theory realm.
I do think there is a lot of evidence for visitation and beings elsewhere in the universe whereas the video claimed there was none, it also suggested something to the effect that because of such lack of evidence we are sort of the one the responsibility falls on, though I think it's entirely possible that there are benevolent beings out there waiting for us to get our "shit" together so to speak and that they are letting us evolve for ourselves without intervening directly and that if we try to go too far out into space with our warlike attitude then they will intervene to stop us from destroying other innocent and still developing cultures and beings elsewhere.
I think it's probably that we are laggards and that there are civilizations much more advanced, and that our own governments know this and keep it from us because they are so paranoid and warlike they want to make it seem to their people that they are in control when they are not.
All speculation of course, I can't prove it. Though that's a theory I like to entertain and I also think it's possible that the reality might be something that none of my theories or the ones in the video applies to and the real truth might be entirely different from all of that and something most if not all humans haven't even thought of or conceived yet.
I think that's one problem a lot of researchers into this subject come across is they tend to anthropomorphize the aliens and expect them to be sort of like us, when in reality they might defy every conception we would have of what they should be like.
I remember I wrote a post about the same a couple of months ago explaining how it's quite natural for humans to be "selfish" as it may have been used as a survival strategy in the early stages of evolution which we adapted to and still live by. You can read it 'here' if you want. It'd be cool to know your thoughts on it.
Indeed. Like I said earlier, they might be waiting for us to become "worthy enough", but we're rather slow (because again, we like to waste time on meaningless wars and politics) and that's why, like you said, they might have came to visit us numerous times before, and aid us to boost our technological progress without intervening too much, or to you know.. tear us in half and study our insides.
Though it sounds really cinematic, I'm gonna have to disagree. I don't think the government would hide such a thing because:
But I do get your point though. If they reveal such a thing, it would cause massive panic and people would become uncontrollable and harder to manage because of their fear.
True. We always tend to think of "intelligence" as a human quality, when in reality it could be something totally different for a different species. For example, an ant is pretty dumb, but a whole ant colony is super intelligent and organized. What counts as "intelligent" for one species, might look like total mediocrity for the other.