@mimidamnit,
mimidamnit;67373 wrote:very true.. when i think of humans creating gods.. i want to know for what purpose? what did they think they needed them for?
To answer their questions. How did we get here? How does the world work? What is our purpose? Are we alone? What is the source of life?
These were and still are important questions. Without science, where are they supposed to get their answers? They created stories based on little more than inductions. These stories started out simple, but soon quickly took root and began to become complex.
Quote: and how did they get entire generations to believe.
Because it's all they had.
Quote:.if there was no proof?.. i mean that goes for all religions.. which require a good dose of faith just to swallow it without question..
Maybe for thinking people. But to primitive people without science or alternative explainations, and when their entire society teaches it, what reason have they to deny it?
Quote:and then back to topic.. aliens.. not religion.. (im trying to stay off that subject.. its difficult)..
i spent some time reading extensively into the anunnaki.. those from the sumerian text.. and i was damn near convinced that aliens are the masters behind the scenes.. that the secret societies are formed around knowledge of aliens.. rather than satan.. and that religion was created to keep mere humans from asking too many questions.
If aliens had visited our planet to convince us that they were gods, I think it would be obvious.
Quote:i almost believed that that nephilim in the bible.. were actually the results of aliens tampering with or breeding with humans.. humanoids.. hybrids.. etc.
If the nephilim are based on anything at all, I would guess they where based on Neanderthal bones that the ancients may have discovered. Modern humans and neandethals did live together at one time, long before recorded history.
Quote:i felt that many of the stories in the bible.. involved aliens .. the pilar of fire.. rather than god.. it could have been a space craft.. the chariots of fire.. a space craft.. the parting of the red sea.. created by the space craft as it whizzed by lol.. enoch and the nephilim = enoch and the aliens. and many of the descriptions in revelations.. concerning the end of times.. the beasts in question.. aliens lol..
You could inject any powerful being as an explanation to any of numerous stories.
Quote:i was so seriously about to believe this ****.. when it hit me.. because of my christian roots.. it occured to me that all this alien bull honkey could very well be satan.. performing his greatest feat.. to convince us that he doesnt exist. .that it's all aliens.
It is pure genius. If you were writing a text or book that you knew others would be skeptical it's a brilliant idea to convince the reader that evil forces want them to disbelieve....pure genius.
Convince them to believe...out of fear.
Quote:so now im torn.. i want to believe in aliens because i dont want to believe in god anymore.. i know that it very well could be both.. there are aliens.. and there is a god.. but im shootin for aliens lol
I'm confident there are neither, at least not aliens as you describe them.
My version of aliens are just algae on another planet.