RoxyRollah

Not at all, made me rethink my opinions, and views on all of those things. I believe when I stopped tripping the first words out of my mouth were "Time travel is completely possible." I also have never been able to listen to Oliva Tremor Control's Black Foliage record ever again.

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RoxyRollah

Kinda, yeah. But the meaning of the statement is passing out under the weight of the Lord's presence.

Edit: It's also a sign of humility in the presence of God, you can purposely get on your face.

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The Batlord

Definitely intriguing, but that still sounds like hopeful conjecture meant to drum up interest in a field that the public at large is pretty much indifferent to.

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RoxyRollah

I just don't get the idea, that people don't believe in aliens....
I mean you can see another galaxy from earth with the naked eye. Are you that simple to think that we are truly the only species like this?

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The Batlord

Hence why I never really ask you or other theists about that kind of thing. I don't really care and I'm not going to be swayed by the same things I've heard over and over again, so it's just a waste of both of our times, and probably more than a little condescending on my part since I would be trying to figure out why their claims were bull**** the entire time they were talking.

Considering just how susceptible the human brain is -- even perfectly normal human brains -- to delusions of all kinds, even if you were to have such an intense experience, I think the logical approach would be to first assume that your brain was malfunctioning until you found evidence to the contrary.

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Chula Vista

Yes.

Nah. Read up on Europa. Where there's water you usually find life. Even if it's only microscopic it would still blow the roof off of this place we call Earth.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Cuthbert

c/s Chula. I didn't see that link you posted, but I was gonna say I reckon we'll find life away from Earth within the next decade or so. Even if it's yeast or something. Pretty sure they've found evidence of water on Mars now, or water under the surface, so it's only a matter of time.

Chula Vista

They've found evidence that there once was water on Mars. They are 99.99% certain that there's water under the ice surface of Europa.

Searching For Life On Europa Now A NASA Priority - Forbes

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Cuthbert

That's the one, knew it was something like that. Do you have an interest in this at all mate? I know not a lot but I remember reading about it for my course briefly (was about water).

Neapolitan

What I don't get is how some people mock other people because they believe in a God, and blast them for using inductive reasoning to explain how they came to believe in a God, then turn around and say "aliens, oh yeah totally possible, just use inductive reasoning."

I want actual undeniable certifiable physical proof that aliens exist before I concur that there are physical extraterritorial sentient intelligent beings in the universe.

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