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With all due respect sir, who gives you the authority to tell 12 million listeners with diverse backgrounds to live our lives a certain way and insist that disclosure will never happen. I am really surprised that you would put yourself on a limb like that, when the reality is that things can change course in due time.
To me this translates into saying that the few people in this world who are privlidged in having direct/indirect contact with these beings are making the decisions for the BILLIONS of this worlds population in how we live our lives? All the while keeping us sheltered from technology that can essentially stop mankind from rapeing the Earths resources? I humbly disagree with your stance about disclosure never happening. But then again my opinion is one out of a several BILLION.
Why would finding out about life elsewhere in the universe mitigate belief in god, or a god?
Surely if according to your belief's he made earth and all the life on it, would'nt it follow that the entire universe is his creation as well?
I think it'd be an easy step to make if the church's followed similar reasoning, and is'nt that what the Vatican has said to that affect (Im not 100% sure..!) I dont want to get off topic on this.
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Hello wildone106. I think 'mitigate' is an interesting use of the word in the phrase "mitigate belief in god or a god."
What I said was 'disrupt' the belief in God. You assume that people would believe a government statement, (...'finding out'...) that aliens exist. Your capacity to overestimate peoples belief in government is overwhelming.
Surely if according to your belief's he made earth and all the life on it, would'nt it follow that the entire universe is his creation as well?
I don't know what hat you pulled this conconction out of but your statement is not my belief.
I think it'd be an easy step to make if the church's followed similar reasoning, and is'nt that what the Vatican has said to that affect (Im not 100% sure..!) I dont want to get off topic on this.
Many people feel as you do. Thanks for the post.
Originally posted by jamestkirk
i have 3 of the john lear interviews on C2C.
happy to share...
jimbo
Originally posted by johnlear
Originally posted by solarstorm
And the reason for this is that the ‘disclosure’ that our government has been in contact with aliens from outer space for many years is not something that would be beneficial for society. It would disrupt the belief in a ‘god’ which is the main source of comfort and solace for billions of people on earth. They have no need for this information at this point in society’s present state of development.
And the crux of that argument is that clearly, the majority of people believe in some kind of ‘god’ as their mainstay of life; their comfort, their peace of mind. When things go wrong it is , “God’s will’ or “The Lord works in strange ways’. By informing them that ‘aliens exist and our government has been doing business with them for many years’ you introduce the problem of, “Well why haven’t the aliens done something about this mess? That is: done something about the war, done some about corruption, done something about genocide, done something about starvation?
John...Mr. Lear
as much as i respect you and ahem..admire you i'm going to have to dsagree with you on the disclosure. I think you underestimate the strength in the faith of most religious believers. they IMHO they would not think ' Ho no aliens exist! this means there is no God"
i think the reaction would be more like "Oh wow aliens exist! and the government lied about them! man is God gonna be ticked off!"
it bothers me and i find it insulting that you believe all people of faith are brainwashed, backwater hicks. just because people believe in God doesn't make them gullible children that the government has to "protect their feeble little minds from the truth or they'll be crushed"
believe it or not some of us believers in God are also believrs in alien life..and guess what...my little brain can deal with it.
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it bothers me and i find it insulting that you believe all people of faith are brainwashed, backwater hicks. just because people believe in God doesn't make them gullible children that the government has to "protect their feeble little minds from the truth or they'll be crushed"
believe it or not some of us believers in God are also believrs in alien life..and guess what...my little brain can deal with it.
Originally posted by johnlear
Originally posted by darkheartrising
Darkheartrising, please accept my apologies if you thought I was implying that all persons of faith are backwater hicks. Some are very intelligent.
For you and those of you who are attempting to force 'disclosure' based on what you think the effects of Disclosure will be I have only this to say: with all due respect, you don't have the faintest idea what you are talking about.
Originally posted by johnlear
Originally posted by darkheartrising
it bothers me and i find it insulting that you believe all people of faith are brainwashed, backwater hicks. just because people believe in God doesn't make them gullible children that the government has to "protect their feeble little minds from the truth or they'll be crushed"
believe it or not some of us believers in God are also believrs in alien life..and guess what...my little brain can deal with it.
Darkheartrising, please accept my apologies if you thought I was implying that all persons of faith are backwater hicks. Some are very intelligent.
For you and those of you who are attempting to force 'disclosure' based on what you think the effects of Disclosure will be I have only this to say: with all due respect, you don't have the faintest idea what you are talking about.