User:Kokonut22/Sandbox

Okay, maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right - but I personally think that the existence of life on other worlds is indeed possible. But here's something to ponder - we may fear aliens, but is it truly "evil" that we believe we fear, or the unknown? I think it is only the unknown that frightens us when we look upon death and darkness, and thus it is foolish to fear it.

I read accounts of alleged alien encounters, and while they were a little unnerving at first, some of the actions on the human side have been, bluntly, very harsh and violent as well. At the very least, no death has resulted from any of these alien abductions. But in one story, when a few rural farmfolk saw these creatures near their house, they just took out the guns and started shooting, apparently later alleging that they saw one get killed; in another story, a man brutally stabbed at an "alien" with a knife when he saw it. But do you really think that even the alien abductions, while they may indeed do so, were truly MEANT to traumatize us? Many in fact detail how they warn us of the dangers of nuclear weapons and environmental abuse; one even detailed how these "aliens" gave a man some food...

Is it truly the aliens that are the savages...or is it us? Are we just less evolved, less enlightened than they are, and revert to our animalistic instincts in the face of fear alone? If we could have someone like Adolf Hitler born on this planet, how can we have the right to judge others? I am not saying that aliens are all good or perfect beings, but I am a devout Christian, and I believe that we should judge a person, if at all - any person, terrestial or alien, not by their flesh or appearances, but by their soul. Maybe we should all start doing that for a change.

And look at our popular culture and media - they make thousands upon thousands of novels and films and comics about alien invasions and conquests (and a few about how the good Earthlings manage to slaughter the aliens triumphantly). And even the movies we make without aliens are half the time filled with blood and killing and gore. What real reason have they given us to fear them? If you were the aliens and you saw this kind of stuff representing humans, what would you think?

For if God created the cosmos, and the aliens that we dwell within it as well, I think, in a way, they are His children as much as we are. We should never allow fear or blind hate or rage rule us - let the love that the One stands for reign supreme instead.

Of course, of course, caution is natural - but excessive caution is just narrow-minded. Try, then to think of this in our own terms - think about the white Europeans when they first reached Africa - they did, indeed, exercise sufficient "caution" then against the blacks there on basis of appearance... 2 hours ago

Well, maybe humans would conquer...look at how many wars we've had. But maybe if at least some aliens are more evolved than we are, it may not only be physically - but also mentally and spiritually. And it's true that not all civilizations if they exist may be so above us, yes, and perhaps some are capable of evil themselves...but UFOs have been sighted for as long as five thousand years, and we're still here...all I'm saying is, like the Bible says, to not judge anyone else... 2 hours ago

Because we shouldn't "commit crimes against our own species" in the first place, much less against another...just because we do so doesn't make it right at all. It is true that many Christians do not believe in aliens, it is. And I am no priest or preacher at all. It's more important by far to show kindness than to speculate about mysteries - this is in fact the first question I've even asked pertaining to this - but I look at the world around us today, how we're destroying ourselves, and I really don't know...