--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: <snip> > Here's my take on the subject, my opinions having been formed > by reading many books, seeing videos, gut feelings, private > conversations with LB Shriver (just kidding!), etc.: > > Infinite intelligence is omnipresent and omnipotent. It's > "potency" is its impulse to express itself as fully as it > can in every circumstance. Therefore, the universe is > teeming with life at all stages of development. There are > countless highly evolved civilizations in every galaxy. > The Earth has been visited throughout history by > representatives of many of these civilizations and is > still being visited.
I can at least tentatively sign on to the last part of this, that we have been and are still being visited-- although what "visited" means in this context is unclear, and I even question whether beings from planets elsewhere in the galaxy (or other galaxies) are involved. Maybe I should put it this way: I think many of the phenomena reported are real, in the sense that they aren't just pure fantasies on the part of those who report them. *Something* is actually going on. I can't go along with any of the rest of what Rick says. I don't think we have any good basis for understanding what these phenomena represent. I suspect folks may be creating fantasies *around* the phenomena, especially in terms of the intentions of these purported beings. I'm dubious about any attempt to nail down what's behind the phenomena because my impression has been that their primary characteristic is that *they don't make any sense*. To make sense out of them, you have to be very selective about what you take into account. Any sensible frame must ignore chunks of what has been reported. FWIW, I've had two good UFO sightings, both several decades ago, both over New York City, seen from my apartment. One was of two glowing orange-red cigar-shaped objects that appeared near dusk moving through a cloudless sky for about 5-10 seconds and then disappeared; my sister was with me at the time, and she saw them too. The setting sun was at the wrong angle to have been illuminating them. The other was at night, by myself. I watched for a good five minutes as a set of lights moved very slowly from the northeastern horizon straight toward me and right over my apartment building. To start with, they appeared as a single very bright light and resolved as they got closer into the standard boomerang-shape that's been reported many times in many different places (although I didn't find this out until later), five or seven (can't remember now) bright lights in a huge, rock-solid V-formation, moving much more slowly than any airplane, and in total silence. In both cases, local news had no reports of anyone else having seen these things. Especially with regard to the boomerang object, that makes no sense. I lived smack in the middle of Manhattan, and it was moving over a very densely populated area around nine or ten at night. The lights were bright enough and moving slowly enough, and looked strange enough, that hundreds of people should have seen them and realized how weird they were. There should have been a major flap, as there was with similar formations over Phoenix some years back. The damn thing was moving straight downtown, right along Manhattan's lengthwise axis! I have no explanation. I wasn't hallucinating. I had no particular interest in UFOs at the time, wasn't even aware that the boomerang formation had been frequently reported. Could this have been a special "showing" just for me? *Why*? It didn't affect my life, didn't turn me into a UFO nut. It did increase my interest in UFO reports, but not to the point of preoccupation; UFOs are just one of many different things I'm interested in, most of which are perfectly "normal." And as I said, I'm highly skeptical of any attempt to interpret the phenomena. Maybe there's some Grand Design that humans simply don't have the cognitive ability to recognize. But if that's the case, why do "they" bother? What could "they" hope to gain? Just doesn't make any sense.
