I don't see why alien life would change anything about Christian belief. The early OT is full of odd beings that seem outside of humanity. And we worship the creator of everything. He did not just create earth and us.
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The Biology/A&P/Microbiology technical jargon is legit. Including assays, BSL, etc
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The mod was saying only an admin can shadowban or suspend. So you can rule out a lone hoaxer doing it for credibility unless EBOScientistB is a senior molecular biologist who works at reddit as an admin.
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Which ofc not
I just finished reading, in its entirety, the Reddit thread on Exo-Biospheric-Organisms (EBOs). Like others have mentioned, if this is a larp, it is the greatest larp ever written on Reddit, 4chan, what have you. Just speculating, but whoever posted this could have been part of… pic.twitter.com/TxJxUk9Rqv
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I think there are rabbits in these holes https://t.co/P1FTXAPcoT
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Initially, it all sounds like an average episode of Star Trek Voyager or something George Lucas tossed in the reject pile. Yes, if this is part of the truth, it does seem less than what we might expect, or even hope for.Azariah said:
It's simultaneously depressing and so much more plausible that we wouldn't be dealing with something original that flew here from far away, but instead are dealing with organic machinery based on the data they sent.
Also, it's insane that their religion is basically The Force without all that manipulate-it-to-cast-magic-spells part.
Now, how would one 'know' that a genome (or sequence of genes) from any kind of organism is from this biosphere (planet) or elsewhere?Quote:
What we've learned so far has enabled us to outline some disconcerting perspectives about our place in this universe. Briefly, we've discovered that the EBO genome is a chimera of genomes from our biosphere and from an unknown one. They are artificial, ephemeral and disposable organisms created for a purpose that still partially eludes us. I'll be substantiating my statements after a brief introduction.
However, if these EBO details are true, there doesn't seem to be any simple mechanism for exchanging DNA. They can't eat solid food, or indeed, any liquid that isn't specifically designed for their digestive and excretion systems. Sounds like we would find their diet revolting and possibly dangerous as well. And they have no sexual organs at all, apparently. Encounters to exchange genetic material with these beings could not have been in a context that Biblical era humans would have understood.Redstone said:
This is inherently religious, no matter how uncomfortable that becomes. So many indications, even among the possible highly skilled hoaxers, of the non-material / spiritual.
The above bolded quote, 97, runs parallel to Protestant scholar and close textual analyst Michael Heiser's Unseen Realm. Whatever the actual details of the matter - 2nd Temple writers throughout the Levant really believed that primarily non-material entities, fallen elohims, could and did interact materially with humans, including via what we would understand as DNA, from sharing a meal to sexually.
Exactly! Word!nortex97 said:Now, how would one 'know' that a genome (or sequence of genes) from any kind of organism is from this biosphere (planet) or elsewhere?Quote:
What we've learned so far has enabled us to outline some disconcerting perspectives about our place in this universe. Briefly, we've discovered that the EBO genome is a chimera of genomes from our biosphere and from an unknown one. They are artificial, ephemeral and disposable organisms created for a purpose that still partially eludes us. I'll be substantiating my statements after a brief introduction.
We are at the very early "model T" stages of gene therapy/genetic programming in the body. The advances over the past 5 or 10 years have been huge.
G Martin 87 said:Initially, it all sounds like an average episode of Star Trek Voyager or something George Lucas tossed in the reject pile. Yes, if this is part of the truth, it does seem less than what we might expect, or even hope for.Azariah said:
It's simultaneously depressing and so much more plausible that we wouldn't be dealing with something original that flew here from far away, but instead are dealing with organic machinery based on the data they sent.
Also, it's insane that their religion is basically The Force without all that manipulate-it-to-cast-magic-spells part.
Redstone said:
The author is excellent, either as a LARP or something genuine. Very well done.
Let's assume it's mostly accurate. If so, this is obviously religious, including travel / "research" motivations.
Therefore, "powers of the air" that can materially and / or mentally interact with humanity, fallen elohims, has decent explanatory powers.
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it's much more likely that Christianity (and every other religion) took cues from, or was man's early interpretation of, consciousness as the bedrock/creator, as a fundamental aspect of existence.
I've been through that thread extensively and don't recall seeing anything about how the OP left the project.lunchbox said:
Maybe I missed it in the reddit thread, but did the scientist ever explain why he/she left the project?
I only saw a reference in the replies to it being a dead-end job.
He/she talked about a NDA during the interview/onboarding process, but what about when leaving?
It doesn't add or subtract from the story, but I would like to know...
Right? I didn't even see anyone ask about it....which I thought was odd.G Martin 87 said:I've been through that thread extensively and don't recall seeing anything about how the OP left the project.lunchbox said:
Maybe I missed it in the reddit thread, but did the scientist ever explain why he/she left the project?
I only saw a reference in the replies to it being a dead-end job.
He/she talked about a NDA during the interview/onboarding process, but what about when leaving?
It doesn't add or subtract from the story, but I would like to know...
Makes sense...it sounded like the scientist was fresh out of grad school when starting...and worked for 10 yrs...I doubt they were paid well enough to just retire, so how do you go from aliens to...yeast cells or something?TCTTS said:
It's not addressed in the post, but from what I understand (if any of this is real, mind you), a number of these types are in it for only a few years at a time, a decade max, by design. I think the only career individuals are upper management and the like, not the scientists and engineers. So I imagine his contract was simply up, but who knows.
lunchbox said:Makes sense...it sounded like the scientist was fresh out of grad school when starting...and worked for 10 yrs...I doubt they were paid well enough to just retire, so how do you go from aliens to...yeast cells or something?TCTTS said:
It's not addressed in the post, but from what I understand (if any of this is real, mind you), a number of these types are in it for only a few years at a time, a decade max, by design. I think the only career individuals are upper management and the like, not the scientists and engineers. So I imagine his contract was simply up, but who knows.
It would be like Jimmy Butler saying he had enough of the NBA and would just play in the G-League until he was ready to retire.
Also, in order to get another non-entry level job, they'd have to give him a good back story to what he's been doing for the last 10 yrs. They probably just put them in another non-alien lab that they run so they could keep tabs on them.