You're right, the dates don't matter. It's just being given for our own reference point, as that's all we can use. Time is an illusion, but as all
illusions is still somehow there... like a mirage on a hot summer road that looks like a puddle.. sure you KNOW it's only a mirage, but you STILL SEE
IT. And yes the date does not matter, but humans need a reference point to grab onto; it's hard to just see everything as an infinite now where
beginning = end and vice versa, and everything is one. Time is easily explained away when you understand that the age of the universe (by universe I
just mean everything that exists) is infinite. Why? Because if there was ever nothing, there'd always be nothing since you cannot get ANYTHING or
SOMETHING out of nothing. So, since all this stuff (in one form of energy or another) has been around for infinity of "time", you can never single
out a moment in infinity and place humans smack dab in that "time" period. You'd first have to get through infinity of time to get to that moment.
Anywhere in the "middle" of infinity is still infinity behind it and in front of it. Infinity/2 = infinity. Therefore, if time exists and is
apparently linear (we dunno how to jump forward and backward yet or skip parts), we'd never exist as we cannot first spend infinity of time doing
nothing and then suddenly incarnate after "infinity" of doing nothing (you never reach infinity and surpass it, it only exists in theory), that's
impossible. So time cannot exist, but how come we think it does? Because each human is taken out of context of the "WHOLE", so we only SEE bits and
pieces with our limited awareness, and things appear to have beginning/end because of our limited perception.. animals have even less limited
perception.. they don't even know/care that there is time etc. If a dog is in your room and then runs to the kitchen with you being left in the room,
and suddenly sees you also there in the kitchen cooking dinner, he won't even consider that that's impossible. Our 3rd density awareness is way
beyond 2nd density animals/plants/single celled organisms etc.. but the same great leap (if not bigger) is done when going to 4th density, where you
actually DO see that time is non existant and many many other things (like distance, once you master space/time everything is exactly as close as you
want it to be, you get ANYWHERE at ANYTIME). The intentions/plans of our alien "buddies" aren't easily explainable (if at all) to us, just like you
cannot explain calculus to a monkey or why humans burn down forests to a squirrel.. well maybe YOU can

. 4th densities can put it into our words to
comply with our limited understanding and ability to process info, but it'll be scarred and limited. If you can figure out how to explain some basic
human concepts to an animal, you'd then be well on your way to see how hard it'd be for "them" to explain their concepts and reality to us, yet
they try anyway. I hope all that made sense even if a little