01-15-2008, 01:24 AM | #1 |
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"I want to believe"
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/14/ufo....ap/index.html
Interestingly, 14% of Americans claim that they have seen a UFO. It's interesting also who definitive the federal officials are in blowing off the reports. As if what is described by these people could possibly be the sun bouncing off a commercial passenger jet. So, all you Mormons, are you able to incorporate the possibility of UFOs and extraterrestrials into your religious cosmology? Not magic-y and priesthood-y enough for you? |
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WHat are you asking? Are you asking if UFOs (unidentified flying obkects) are part of our religious cosmology? What is that supposed to mean? I assume that when you say UFO here you really mean EUFO (extraterrestrial unidentified flying objects)? Clarifying your terms and your question might help get a better response. Is this different than the ET question you asked and we talked about before? My religious cosmology has no problem incorporating the belief that a bunch of rural texans can't identify somethign they see in the sky. Yup, that goes down pretty easily.
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You know, if there was some level of Mormonism, where you found out that God was very science fiction-y, sort of like Scientology, and you had people freaking out (like Tom Cruise did, according to the recent bio), I wonder if there would be a few like me who would say "I KNEW IT! COOL BEANS!!"
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This fact would not surprise me at all. It would surprise me if He was using technology that we know and understand now, however, and it would surprise me if He was tooling around in a mile long spaceship freaking out a bunch of dirt farmers in Salt Lick, Texas, just for fun, but I am willing to keep an open mind.
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Phil Plait, a guy who debunks things like UFOs for a living, tells a story about how he once saw lights in the night sky hovering ominously and doing things that no man-made craft could do. He found out a couple minutes later that it was a flock of geese, and that the bright lights from the space shuttle launch site (where he was at the time) was reflecting off the birds.
Light does weird things sometimes, and if even professional astronomers/skeptics can be deceived, albeit momentarily, I'm not going to believe the testimony of Cletus Huckabee from Buttfuck, Texas. |
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Sorry, Woot, I'm not taking your bait. Go back to your lair.
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If you've got eternity, an eon is menaingless, so I'd do it too, if I were them. He should also keep a closer watch on the keys to the saucer.
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