The comical elusiveness of the alleged ETs has made the UFO community the
laughingstock of the world. If the ETs goal is to lie low and not interfere,
then they blew it! If the ETs goal is to become involved in human affairs, then
they blew that already too! No, either the ETs are juvenile delinquents who are
wasting theirs and our time and resources or the ETs have a teenage crush on us
but they are too shy to ever do anything openly about it.

Or maybe, as Bufo Calvin would say, "The aliens must be idiots". I too have
heard all about the ETs and the stories of broken-down spaceships, of abductees
being put back into bed with their clothes on backwards or in the wrong
vehicles, or of aliens using a wheat field as a method of communication, so yes!
Maybe the aliens must be idiots! Think about it: would you be willing to buy
into the story that an intellectually superior race that could travel
interstellar distances, would go through all the trouble to come to our planet
just to put on a second-rate airshow for our viewing pleasure? And the highlight
of this show is to create silly patterns in wheat fields and mutilate cattle? As
we have seen so far in this FAQ, the only ones putting on a show for us here are
the UFO believers who will stop at nothing to descend the deepest depths of
gullibility in order to justify their make believe religion.

As I've asked before, why do people take so much UFO/ET media propaganda, so
seriously and without question? Is it any wonder that the UFO community has such
a poor reputation for being realistic and objective, when the UFO media appears
to report ANYTHING anyone wants to tell them, without regard to reasonable
questioning of the alleged facts of the matter? Reports like the Red UFO in
Gilbert only seem to further damage what I view as the UFO community's already
poor reputation, but I am starting to wonder if the UFO community even gives a
damn about reality or their reputation?

Besides, if there really are aliens visiting us out there, why won't they visit
me? I'm willing and available and unlike many of the people they've been
abducting so far, I'm not a complete idiot because I can actually think for
myself. I'm not afraid to relate with alien sentient beings, no matter what they
look like. Not only that, I'm smart enough to take the time to stop and ask for
some evidence of my abduction. Say like asking for samples of their native food
(something that won't spoil right away) or some harmless technical artifact. The
problem right now is that if the aliens really are abducting all these people
I've been seeing relating their stories in magazines, books, TV, and the
internet, the problem is that the poor aliens are going to get the wrong idea of
what humans are really like or what they can be like. With the likes of much of
what they've been abducting, they are going to think humans are a bunch of Homer
Simpsons and I don't want the aliens to think that I'm anything at all like the
people they've been abducting so far.

   >Ironically, there is another normal science argument that turns Drake and 
   >Sagan on their collective heads: The Fermi Paradox. Enrico Fermi is credited
   >with asking, "Where are the aliens?". He and others, including Frank Tipler,
   >have reasoned that if there have been hi-tech ETs in the galaxy, they should
   >have been able to colonize it all in short leaps by now. Therefore, since 
   >they are obviously not here, there is something wrong, they must not have 
   >existed in the first place. "It should be, but it isn't, therefore it never 
   >was". Both the Drake-Sagan and Fermi-Tipler arguments assume that the 
   >ufological evidence is invalid, but they use this assumption in 
   >contradictory ways.

The problem with the Fermi Paradox is that it is based on false assumptions.
They act as though a far more intelligent race would act just as stupid as we
do...

   "I would like to share a revelation that I've had, during my time here. It 
   came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're 
   not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet, instinctively develops an 
   equilibrium with it's surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You 
   move to an area and you multiply and multiply, until every natural resource 
   is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There
   is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know
   what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet; you
   are a plague and we are the cure" (Agent Smith, THE MATRIX, Warner Brothers, 
   1999)

Obviously, a species intelligent enough to traverse light years of space would
be a species that learned to not destroy itself and it's environment; a species
that would not want to spread to another part of the galaxy like a plague --
those are things WE humans would do if we could travel through space, but that
doesn't imply everyone else in the universe thinks like we do.

   >I think a humanity spreading throughout the galaxy would be at least a small
   >measure more of a good thing than a bad thing.

I disagree since I wouldn't want tourists ruining the solar system with their
graffiti or trash or having to put up with a 7-11 on every corner of the galaxy.
I want the solar system to be pure and untouched and pristine, the same as the
day when I first saw it.

The Sage

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