BenFiasco14 said:
So you don't think people would be in denial if actual "undeniable proof" was presented?
I'm sure some would be, of course. Out of fear or because of their own preexisting belief systems that would require them to not accept it. On a spectrum of possible reactions you'd have some people on every part.
But that doesn't represent the sum total or apex of human knowledge. It's like when people say that "people used to think the earth was flat." Well, who are they talking about? I'm sure many simple people with no way of knowing otherwise would have accepted that because it would seem to be their experience. But anyone who spent time on a ship going back thousands of years certainly knew that the earth was a sphere. In fact, anyone who was intelligent and observant would know. The average person back then observed the planets and stars far more than we do, their lives depended on it. And no matter the day or season or time the shadow of the earth on the moon was always round. And Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the earth incredibly accurately over 2000 years ago. That's all proper science. But does that mean that some farmer in 1256AD in western Russia would know that? Probably not. I mean we humans collectively obviously know how to build cars, but I sure don't.
I have said and will continue to say, I am totally open to any compelling evidence or proof of alien life here. Who wouldn't be? I completely understand the fascination. I share it. But we'll know it when we see it.
And here's the other thing, in the meantime it's not men in black or feds going around saying "nothing to see here" that discredits the alien claims. It's the community itself that is a self-parody. Nothing I could say to minimize the claims could do more damage than the people who go around claiming that they've seen alien spaceships many times in their lives and their brother was abducted and their neighbor is a lizard man and Putin is in an alliance with insect men from Pollux.
There are so many contradictions in these claims that nothing ever holds up and it makes the threshold to be taken seriously even higher. There are countless "stories" from the past century that are up close and personal but now that there are 8 billion cellphones and door cameras and parking lot cameras and security cameras and so on the excuse has become that "none of those take good photos from miles away".
We're told that aliens have been here for thousands of years (and seriously, they have a whole universe to explore and they just hang out here for that long??) but somehow the current US government is the big boogieman that prevents the world from knowing. They miraculously get to every event before anyone else does on the whole planet.
We're told that it's a super secret tiny group of people who know what's going on but simultaneously the claim is that seemingly half the people on the planet are "paid off" or are part of the coverup. Even the major news networks are "paid off" to keep it out of the news. It's all just so ridiculous. And it doesn't help any when the mantra of the whole community is "I want to believe!!"
We're told that aliens are being masterfully hidden from us while at the same time social media claims that people are taking undeniable clear photos and videos of aliens from every car and plane on the planet all day every day. Which is it?
And the obsessive association with nukes is what really makes it hard to take seriously. First, why the hell have they been here for thousands of years if their concern was nukes? But the very idea that aliens are concerned about nuclear weapons cannot be taken seriously. These creatures are supposed to have mastery over time and space and the physical world but they're worried about our 1940s invention????? They're baby pop guns on any scale outside of our own. Does anyone have any idea how much heat and radiation a star makes? And they give away that really all this is about is a power fantasy that some aliens will come take control over us and babysit us like in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Here's the thing, if you want to believe in anything you can find whatever you want to validate that if you choose to. There are just as many photographs and stories and documentaries of ghosts and religious miracles and fairies and Bigfoot monsters as there are of aliens.