May 20, 2013
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green men and strawberry ice cream
throughout my life i have constantly been into ufo. it was a natural path actually for a person like myself, who was conditioned to think and imagine worlds that were both exotic and alien to our being. after all, a walk through the Jurassic park is anything but ordinary. the giddy feeling of wanderlust just hit me now, as i am writing this. such is the way of a student of ancient earth. the first thing you learn is, anything is possible, it just falls under conditions. simple math, if a and b are met then you can bet c is certainly probable and given life’s avid fondness for opportunity most likely already active or most certainly was at one time. life as a universal force leaves no loose ends. it is as fascinated with the universe as i or any human with intellectual curiosity. never satisfied and always craving more.i think this tendency of myself came from living near the ocean. the vastness of discovery is treasure that remains unspoiled even to this day in my spirit. so strong is it, that i don’t even need to return to the spots to relive the fascination and in my adulthood, i choose not too. it is one part of myself i don’t want to grow up.
but as i said, long have i contemplated the idea of alien life. it goes as stages. this is something i recognize in my fellow humans. we tend to go through these stages. first is the omnipotent wish fulfillment. we want an omniscient being that rights every wrong and as most myths go, be in battle with it’s nemesis the being that wrongs every right. the black and white, with us in the gray, such is the way we envision. this by the way is prevalent throughout history both in religion and just general human consciousness. i think we can all safely say that we would emotionally regret having to kill a beautiful animal. the ability to feel compassion and adore the grace of life is both strong and a powerful force in our minds. so you have that imbalance within, which is unnameable in prehistory only that it must be done.the gray. i have actually watched nature films, those that feel the perverse need to show the ravenous feeding of animals on each other. to see if there is any emotive empathy. to date, i cant say i have recognized anything that would qualify as mercy, only the treatment of another prey animal as a toy object, then the releasing due to distraction or boredom. i have witness this behavior in a killer whale with a seal. flipping it all around and i remember thinking how incredible the fact that the seal’s spinal chord wasn’t fractured and it wasn’t rendered paralyzed. the seal was released after the play time was over. the only benefit was the whale had already fed. humans, we do not have this.i don’t think we are actually capable of it.even the similar practice of it would be largely due to some perverse mental condition.some aspect of psyche that is in some way deranged. it is not within us to be this sick to any life.
however fear of contradiction ensues, shark-finning is not a healthy past time. but i remark, we live in the gray. the people that do it on a grand scale both respond and endeavor to an unrealistic force. one that is a perversion of nature. they fish in this horrid way , because it is the optimal foraging strategy they have grown to elect as their main way of getting money .which is not an object but a principle of merit that enables them to get anything they want from other people that have ventured into alternate foraging strategies. for example: one guy makes furniture, because he gets money , the fishing people catch fish to get money. the money enables the furniture maker to obtain the food and sundries required to live, the money buys the furniture to provide sundry and luxury to the fisherman. such is the way we live in modern times. immediately removed from what we would naturally have to do on a constant basis. imagine that you would have to gut, skin and prepare rabbits or any animal, that you would have to know how to thread and create your clothes, that you would have to know how to start a basic fire, that you would have to know how to forecast reliably the weather in order to be able to traverse over a far range. imagine that you would have to know how to make your own tools and you would have to have some sort of knowledge of the animal life and plant life to stay alive. we are removed greatly from this, but we live in the grey. this is not a recent fashion either, people began to recognize the gray long ago. so, we began to imagine omniscient life, life that lives outside this strangely inescapable circle of conditional existence. we began to imagine it demanding a way that is both humble and modest. we wanted a father and mother figure to provide guidance for sciences and psychology that we did not know the name of yet. so we gave imagination names and we applied our vision of moral right and wrong to it.
in this aspect, one can say that we have had contact with an alien intelligence since before we could write words. for this recital, this inception of ideas and mores as they were pushed onto the mind and therefore true interaction of the universe by even the stone age people , is nothing more then an alien intelligence and the effect it would have on us. after all, as we perfected the vision and the sincerity of the moral concepts, so too did the intelligence evolve into something seemingly alien. this was so powerful a force, so magnificent a concept, whose success was largely due to our social behavior and the need to look good to the alpha male. be it father or hero figure, that when we reached the advancement of the age enlightenment. the time when humans realized the earth was decipherable according to provisions that if followed could place any mysterious thing into a manageable concept, the fore bearer, emmanual kant himself had a paradox that cant be reliably answered. which is that if someone has done something socially bad or morally, having done penance for it and now is among the normal population, having acquire a possible way to be in a position that may repeat the action (if the person is still of that moral thought) do we inform the employers of the person’s past or do we remain out of the issue. this, is an example of how far the alien intelligence that humans created has gone. such a complex and versatile intellect. we do tend to outdo ourselves don’t we?
anyways, that is the usual first , albeit highly generalized of course, mode of consideration. as a kid, a person would envision an alien like superman or any multitude of personages that would avenge the evil of the wayward human or alien mind. we apparently desire an avenging god. which feels somewhat contradictory. my main plaint against religion is if the so called god loves unconditionally why then all that destruction, which is authoritatively reported to be its own doing and action? allowing all the male children in kingdom born on a date to be killed, in order to have its miraculous one of virgin birth. doesn’t seem to be all that unconditional. so, yea, we want an avenging god or alien. it is the juvenile aspect i suppose.
we have matured thankfully to some degree thanks to the way science and then technology have demonstrated the plausibility of some beliefs, but also ironically from some doctrines as well. the idea of passive /aggressive demonstration and other forms of public deference to imposition being none violent is relatively new. still on the drawing board. somewhat ironic isn’t it? i mean here we have the proof of psychological mindset, being so strong and having the influence to literally meld and change whole civilizations. so we know that the simplicity if mindset in a population alone is potentially enough. but apparently in a very large sense, the same action, when done toward a social more or some aspect of human existence is acted out. the lack of violence means it is not as serious. not taken as equally deterministic. it appears that we are losing faith in the alien intelligence we created.
or maybe, for the record, the climate and ecology has shifted for it to survive. anyways, we then turn to the very real possibility that the aliens are just like us, with better toys. which is probably very true. this is where i am in my adult hood. constantly trying to understand how alien culture works. trying to understand how a nomadic group of neandratal worked out social hierarchy and if it was based on relativistic principle or lore , maternal or paternal bound castes. you name it. this is the vast methodology that incorporates the majority of my mind. when i get bored, i apply it to animals, extinct and surviving and when i wanna fantasize, to space. such is the way of being a student in paleontology and having wanderlust that exceeds the existence of his own time.
there is one thing, that i can truly state. we have been aware of alternate life , like our own, for millions of years. we knew about it’s possibility as far back as homo erectus. as is demonstrated through artifact and more definitive through behavior of neandratal as is demonstrated by areas of domicile. cro-magnon with it’s intricate weaving of art and tool mastery. we have consciously not only knew, but in some ways, prepared or reacted in ways that would mean plainly, we know we are not alone.
any archaeology student and any one who looks into this objectively will come to this point. strange things have happened. the question remains, what and when and more importantly is it happening even now?
i remember the ocean was this incredibly massive foreboding living entity. it is dark blue, so beautiful, roiling and crashing against my security of land. i knew it was winning, that piece by piece land was being stripped from me. i would be inevitably engulfed with the rest of the biomass the ocean calls its own. i knew that this was a matter of time. like the ocean, space is just a huge engulfing recycling mystery of forces beyond my conception. within that other life lives, beyond a doubt. it really all comes down to a matter of time.
it is just a matter of time.
