Was This A Message From Extraterrestrials??, page 8

Thanks for that...

Here's another wrinkle: considering the enormous number of galaxies, many of them containing thousands of possible star systems that might have planets capable of supporting life, I always wondered how any alien civilization, perhaps vast distances away, would happen upon this little place. It led me to thinking that the odds would be vastly reduced if "they" were led in our direction somehow, and a pretty powerful signal (such as the one mentioned in your earlier posts) would be just the ticket...

Just a note: the following relates to the influences of just a single alien race. I don't assume that there is only one; it's just easier to lay out the scenario this way. There could well be a huge number of other races that exist, and several that may have visited us or are doing so now.

Back to the main theme (lol!!)...Now, time travel being the paradoxical concept that it is, it would make a modicum of sense that having picked up this signal from us and then worked out where we are, they could "travel" in time to us and start the process of establishing contact without freaking us all out too much. But then, deciding that it would be helpful to their cause to move things in the right direction, they might then go further back in time for other visits... Okay, so while those earlier visits (which in some cases appear to have occurred thousands of years ago as in the Ezekiel-documented cases) indicate to us that they first established contact/visited/knew of us that long ago, from their perspective these visits could have come later within their own "natural" time-line -- if they even perceive time in the way that we do, I mean...

Okay, so this scenario makes it seem like we ourselves created the conditions that led to their "earlier" visits, while also suggesting that the commonly-held belief in many older human societies of "visitors from the stars" has been part of the driving force behind us wanting to make contact with "them", to the extent that we eventually used our technology to attempt inter-stellar communication...

In spite of the paradoxes I see a rather neat kind of balance of energies in such a scenario... True, it neither proves or disproves the non-human origins of some of the more advanced "crop circles" but it helps (me at least) to look upon all this with a less "linear" perspective. The whole assumption of cause-and-effect following a single, "forward" time continuum viewed from a fixed frame of reference may simply not apply, and even though my knowledge of time-defined physics is limited, I'm thinking that it might be worthwhile to re-evaluate the historical records (both ancient and modern) based upon the possibilities inherent in this scenario. For example, if these (possible) visitors are capable of time travel, they will "already" know what our ultimate reaction will be to them once they unequivocally reveal themselves to us. (ie The "saucer on the White House lawn", for example.) There are various threads here on ATS that suggest we are being prepared for such a revelation...

Actually, even those threads -- just like yours -- are part of the process, I guess!

Note for Mods: While it might seem that discussions about time travel are a bit off topic, I'd argue that because the crop circle under question is linked to an "image" that was sent to a target region 21,000 light years hence (from us), and there has been a lot of discussion about whether it could have been already intercepted or not, then consideration of the "time" angle is relevant. (In other words I hope you don't delete my post! Thanks!)

[edit on 12-3-2008 by JustMike]