Posted on 10/21/2009 10:36:15 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
It really strikes me odd, yes really odd, when ordinary people of whom most are of fair intelligence scoff at the notion of other intelligent life existing somewhere beyond what we call home and the possibilities that these other life forms have already made numerous visits to our planet. What are the reasons behind such extreme denials? I have commented many times that I feel fear is the culprit to the actions in most instances, but perhaps there are other reasons as well. It is difficult to put an ´exact´ on such practices of denial however we are able to postulate a few reasons for such a practice if we are able to first understand the psyche behind each individuals reasoning.
When it comes to the phenomenon of aliens and UFO´s we usually always end up at a dead end when we try to discuss this area intelligently with others. A ´wall of denial´ has been built around much of the population that acts to shield each and every individual it seems from having to face or discuss the possibilities of other life outside the confines of our living space on planet Earth. I feel that the ordinary person is not responsible alone for the construction of such walls of denial and disbelief, but that other factors have had a huge hand and influence in their construction as well. Still the fact remains however; we have allowed such action to take precedence over our natural way of discerning and evaluation of the world in which we live. This in many ways handicaps humanity as a whole. It lessens our abilities to find answers as well as our ability to understand reasonably what we must face in the future in order to prepare for it with the proper resolve and fortitude.
The governments under which we all live are very much responsible for keeping each and every one of us ´in the dark´ about situations and new discoveries that take place around us. It has happened for years. They tend to shield us from things that they feel are ´unimportant´ or ´harmful´ aspects of life that we do not need to be exposed to. Is this a wise policy? Many times important discoveries are made in the name of science that are never disclosed to us at all, things we should have the right to know. We do have the right to know about the world in which we live, don´t we? The government usually can defend their actions by simply telling us that releasing such data would compromise the situation or information at hand, therefore seriously compromising the strength of the nation as a whole. This surely isn´t the truth in most cases? However, we buy this explanation usually with little fight or inquiry. Not a good practice, I must say. What will change our actions regarding obtaining such information in the future? Not everything compromises a nations stability. In fact the compromise actually is the fact we are being lied to about many situations all over the world. The phenomenon regarding aliens and UFOs is just one in the sea of hidden information. We though, have taken this shallow response from governments so long that it is common practice. It is one of, if not the largest reasons why we are stuck in the dark on the UFO issues facing us today. It is nearly impossible to separate truth from fiction simply because we have had little or no truth relayed to us over the years. People are actually afraid to ´push´ for answers, especially when threats are being made from higher officials to keep quiet. It has happened numerous times regarding inquiries about the origin of UFOs, it will continue to happen because we have let it work in silencing a nation for years. Governments have laid the structure blocks for the misinformation wall regarding UFOs and it is built on daily by other forms of deceit and denial that we all devour like starving animals before we take a good look at the hands who has prepared it.
Religion has many facets. It is a common practice all over the world although there are many different forms and beliefs. Religion is a topic that is hard to keep suppressed when the topic at hand is ´creation´ and ´human origin´. They mix like oil and water. I have spent hours talking to people in the UFO research community about origin of man in relation to cosmic principles. It seems this is the basis for scientific study of the origin of mankind, however the subject takes new direction not long until the topic at hand becomes a religious struggle between many who have different opinions as to where the true origin of man lies. Religion and celestial phenomenon do not mix at a discussion level of inquiry, period. Why? If we look further though it is easy to see why most religious people are truly unaware of the paranormal events taking place around them. These people, no matter what the evidence shows, will not deter from their rigorous religious teachings at any costs. The religious person often feels a sense of betrayal of their life long teachings about God and the existence and beginning of man simply because of a new approach intended to find the answers we need. These new approaches are not intended to discredit spiritual beliefs at all, but rather to place an origin with the evident. One of the main religions in the United States and abroad is Christianity. Christian people I have determined to be fact, are the most closed-minded people walking the face of this planet. They are largely responsible, not all, for the numerous UFO misinformations that are out there today. I have seen many upon many Christian people denounce the alien and UFO hypothesis simply because they say that the Bible does not clearly speak of such, therefore it is not real and if anything is demonic in nature. People, just because the Bible does not point out other living creatures that may or may not be here on Earth or anywhere else in this universe does not mean that they do not exist nor does it automatically place this phenomenon in an ´evil´ category. To me this is a very shallow perception by all who stand by this view and it is due mainly to the ignorance built by common religious practices and a mere lack of an educated review of the preponderance of the evidence.
Religion has taught many from an early age of basically what to ´expect´ in life and how also to deal with life´s misfortunes and hidden events. What happens when something takes place totally out of the scope of what we have been taught? Time has shown when these events happen; many people do not have a concise and intelligent grasp on the real world before them. Undeniable, yet unidentifiable phenomenon is nearly always instantly written off and discarded in order to prevent our common beliefs from becoming entangled in a web of uncertainty and confusion. I have found from many interactions that especially Christians are quick to throw out any deviation from a ´religious´ teaching as evil as well as unimportant. Why? Simply unknown or unidentifiable information is certainly not evil, but this is the way that most Christians as well as other religious groups treat it. These people simply cannot explain it nor does the Bible or other religious writings teach it, so it has to be bad. This is an irresponsible, harsh and wreckless way to deal with things we know little about. It is simply ridiculous. People use religion as an excuse so to speak, so they do not have to deal with the common occurrences of the world in which they live. Religion is used too often as a place that keeps us from earthly reality; it is also a place that handicaps ones mind from venturing out to understand the universe in which we live. God gives us the intellect to inquire and research the world in which we live and the intellect to know that there is more to it than what we perceive, no matter what excuses or tools we choose to use as shelter.
You can certainly see how government misinformation and religious influence can misguide a persons belief system of things that truly exist around us. They both have a way of altering our mind set of life and also of what life could have in store for us in the future. There is no mistake about it. In a way I guess all of this goes back to fear. Fear of the unknown is possibly the worst fear there is. Wouldn´t it make it better to find the origins of an unknown so that we could deal with it more appropriately? That is what we need to do regarding the UFO phenomenon, instead of ´hiding´ our faces in denial. How do we go about this? How do we begin to understand the unexplainable? These are good questions and I hope to shed a little light on the answers so that we all can come together as one and study this topic with equal intelligence, to have the ability to by-pass other avenues of misguided information that have been created by mere uncertainty and personal attempts of deceit.
I want to be understood here before we continue. I am not rocking the religious boat or am I casting stones at particular people or beliefs. Each and every person certainly has a right to what they choose to believe and follow. I am a Christian. I was brought up through the years in church and I have strong roots with all Christian beliefs. I believe in God. I do not however, consider myself ´religious´. I want all of you to understand that religion is a mere ´act´ in believing, a set of carnal rules, and a sort of physical participation or interaction. Religion does not prove or disprove your true inner or ´spiritual beliefs´ in God, or does it prove you to be a Christian or set in stone your actual belief in a higher intelligence. Too many people have allowed ´religion´ and ´spirituality´ to become intertwined. Religion is an ´act´, a ´going through the motions´ type of interaction where ´spirituality´ is what you actually know to be true within your own soul and a life long relationship with God through a spiritual relationship.
Many, upon many, barriers lay claim to our ignorance of the UFO and alien phenomenon, we allow it, its not just government deceit or religious practices alone. However, no matter how evolved or self sufficient we think we are, humans tend to cling to the promises spoken by other humans rather than using their own individual reasoning regarding things that effect us personally. It seems we are more able to cope with what reality is through the eyes of others. Perhaps this removes us to some extent from the actual situation at hand, therefore releasing much of our responsibilities and involvement thus mentally reducing the anxiety and fear it harbors. If we are able to overlook an uncomfortable situation it, for the moment, allows us to stay in the comfort zone we desire.
Human beings have been overlooking the alien and UFO facts for years by our own choice. Yes, like I said earlier we have had other factors in play regarding the dismissal of these facts, which has greatly strengthened our abilities to move forward in our lives without seeing the whole picture of the world before us. I truly believe we are one day going to come to a ´awakening´ of the situations we have left far behind in our minds. I also feel that the consequences of the former will wreak catastrophic mayhem in the hearts of the general populace, especially the ones who have continuously tried to bury its true reality.
How will the UFO and alien presence be brought into the open to the public where there can be no denying its true existence? To this question I must say it is still hard to speculate. To me however, I do not believe that the general public as a whole would even believe it if the government of our countries laid it all out for us in black and white. There would be I think, still thousands that would scoff at this type of disclosure! I base this solely again, on what people do not want to believe, they will not believe especially if it tends to bend and warp what they have been taught to be the truth for so long. How could this be? It holds true. How? Many people today still refuse to believe that man walked on the moon in 1969! Yes, you heard right! I don´t think that I speak about the general populace, but indeed many hold to this notion. No matter the facts they have that prove that man walked on the surface of the moon, no matter if they sat in their living rooms the day it took place and watched it on live television, they still do not even conceive it was an actuality. Personally I knew a man, Ill call him Jason, that thought the notion that man had walked on the moon was pure insanity! His explanation was that the ´moonwalk´ was orchestrated by Hollywood using sophisticated props and camera views. Nothing would change his mind, nothing, and he passed away with this same ignorant belief. I am not sure why Jason was so unwilling to believe that man had gone to the moon, but he did. Perhaps it directly conflicted something he had learned or been taught from an early age and therefore he wrote it off as a lie or prank. I feel that many would use this type of psychological block, and unwillingness to believe, perhaps on a much grander scale, against proof of an alien presence on Earth, there is no doubt.
In my mind I think it will take an incident far greater than verbal news or a casual glance at a television to make hard-core unbelievers change their minds regarding UFOs and aliens from another place within our universe. I think the type of incident it will require would be of a magnitude that would send millions of people into the streets at once into a blind panic fueled by fear and total disbelief. The exact ramifications of such is hard to determine, but I would say that many people would no longer be able to hide behind false pretenses from the truth in front of them. Of these people some would and could come to accept it, while others who could not, would make instantaneous and critical decisions out of terror that surely would lead to mass and hysterical ends. All boundaries of humankind would be shaken and tried in a blink of an eye, and all religious values that each individual has so deeply ingrained within would be questioned instantly. It would change all life and all aspects of our lives in an instant and would forever change the way we have chosen to disregard reality in the future, if in fact there would be a future upon the distant horizon after alien contact is made public to all who inhabit the Earth. The time of a new awakening is coming, no matter how much we deny it, no matter what religion we support, no matter where we live, and no matter how much it conflicts with our carnal beliefs. Be ready to confront things on a scale of extraordinary proportions, be ready for what you now call fiction to become a reality. You can accept it as a time of great change and education for all humanity, or you can continue to deny the facts around you today setting you up for what could turn out to be your own undoing in the process. The truth will always come to pass, no matter the consequence of ignorance.
The attack comes from all angles these days. I suppose the author thinks he’s open-minded.
Yeah, same thing for close-mindedness toward Astrology.
Interestingly enough, the man who is most noted for investigating the UFO phenomenon, Harvard professor John Mack, came to the conclusion that ET was inter-dimensional, not a good thing, much like an insect, and yes, demonic. Then someone ran him down with an automobile in London.
And so do you agree with this loon?
The writer has NO ability to provide proof of his theories so he does what any good follower would do -— develop a conspiracy theory as to why there is no proof.
Common man, certainly you require more intellectual honesty than that
Tell me that this is really just a long-winded commercial for the newly relaunched V. At least that would be somewhat amusing and not just outright sad.
Ping.
you have to take these people seriously. otherwise it’s not funny. :)
Blame it on the Christians, as though Christians have the power to conceal the truth (whatever that is) about UFOs. How many churches are there, denominations, variances in theology, and someone believes Christians could get together on a cover up of UFOs, or even on opinions of what UFOs may or may not be? Which Christians are we talking about? I subscribe to the Genesis gap theory, creation, re-creation, and a lot of fundamentalist minded Christians believe the same way. It opens up a lot of possibilities regarding creation and life, although most of us, me included, reject evolution. Other Christians, Young Earth Creationists, and whatever else is out there, also vary in their opinions of other life in the universe and time. Most of us come down to this, God created the universe and all the life in it. Most of us also come down to this: Christians should concern themselves with following and obeying Christ and his teachings, and that doesn’t mean that we have to have specific explanations for all of the unexplainable phenomena that comes along. Maybe UFOs (whatever they are) are responsible for their own cover up. Let’s face it. If they (whoever they are) didn’t want their existence concealed, this conversation wouldn’t be necessary. Blame them.
Wow seems to me it’s the author of this article who is the close minded bigot. I’m not into the ufo stuff. But if there were anything out there it wouldn’t threaten Christianity in the least. Because God created all those planets and stars and anything out there would be His creation. That said every ufo report I’ve ever heard of has turned out to be an easily explained mistake or a hoax for money and or attention.
PS: If you can beam Obama and Pelosi back on the mothership and send them back to their home planet I would appreciate it.
One of my crazy ex-boyfriends always believed that God is a space alien, but I think that is just an astronomical leap to make, even for a crazy person ; )
Govts do not control every square meter of land and ocean on this planet. If these things have arrived it's ludicrous to think that only govts would have discovered these craft' existence. And any civilization capable of interstellar travel, contrary to the cinema, would find Earth easy pickings for conquest of destruction. And if that is not their purpose, they certainly wouldn't be likely to follow the directions of Earthly politicians and religious leaders to remain hidden.
I can’t wait for the new “V”. November 4th I believe. I loved the miniseries from the 80s. Even the full fledged sereis it inspired wasn’t too bad (in the beginning).
THANKS.
will get to it later.
They ought to reread the first few chapters of Ezekiel. For someone who had probably never seen anything more complicated that a chariot, he gave one of the best descriptions of mechanical devices by a technological illiterate that I have ever read.
For grins, read it with the idea that he has seen four humanoids, each with helicopter backpack, exit some kind of aerial vehicle that has just landed. The "wings" are the blades; the blades idle/windmill when the "men" walk; the "wings" are replaced by "wheels" which either, in his words, pull or push the men into the air and are under their direction; the "wheel within a wheel" is the same phenomena we see in rotatating chopper blades or in the old western movies as the stagecoach rumbles by, etc. IMO, he saw something that does nor belong, according to our history, in that age.
But Ezekiel himself understands and tells us the true nature of what he has seen, and that it was a vision, not a physical manifestation.
2 Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the appearance of fire--from the appearance of His waist and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber. 3 He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy. 4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain. (Ezekiel 8)The “vision in the plain” was the vision he experienced in the opening chapters. Cf. Eze. 3:22,23 and 1:1.
Besides, if you read chapter 2 you will find a what amounts to a very strange message coming from anything other than God Almighty.
Public education. No wonder America seems to be more screwed up by the day.
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