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Originally posted by ThePeaceMaker
Just a quick one as I'm meant to be working haha but reguarding the member who says we don't have a right to know and saying we won't cope with it. First off we DO have a right to know we are all human living on the same planet, as for government officials and military personnel who let's say know about ETs etc if you removed their ranks and titles (prime minister president etc) they are just the same human beings as us. Of course we have a right to know. As for not being ready ok maybe some people arnt I know for a fact I'm ready ... Given the chance I'd be off this rock at the word go. Even if I end up getting anally probed, after all our world governments **** us up the backside every day
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
Originally posted by ThePeaceMaker
Just a quick one as I'm meant to be working haha but reguarding the member who says we don't have a right to know and saying we won't cope with it. First off we DO have a right to know we are all human living on the same planet, as for government officials and military personnel who let's say know about ETs etc if you removed their ranks and titles (prime minister president etc) they are just the same human beings as us. Of course we have a right to know. As for not being ready ok maybe some people arnt I know for a fact I'm ready ... Given the chance I'd be off this rock at the word go. Even if I end up getting anally probed, after all our world governments **** us up the backside every day
YOU....maybe ready....some members here may THINK they are ready....but believe me...most are NOT! HELL...I THOUGHT I was ready. I wish I did not know what I now know.
No matter how ready or capapble for knowing or understanding what the reality is on this subject a person may think they are....THEY ARE NOT! And I am refering to just the people here never mind all the different types of people in the world.
No one in their right mind would be happy or satisfied or put at peace...after learning even a SMALL percentage of the reality of what is going on. We are not talking about learning who will win the Super Bowl or World Series in advance....this is more akin to a person finding out the future date of their DEATH....and please don't connect that statement with some concept of the planet facing some immenent DOOM. It was just an example of the type of emotional state disclosure brings to a persons mind and conceptions of our place in the Universe.
Ignorance is BLISS! Split Infinity
No one in their right mind would be happy or satisfied or put at peace...after learning even a SMALL percentage of the reality of what is going on.
Originally posted by Gazrok
I for one hope that disclosure never comes. Hardly anyone would be able to deal with it and frankly you have no right to know.
You don't think we have a right to know that interstellar travel could be a reality, and that we're not alone in the Universe?
We're talking about the key to solving many of our problems here, such as population growth (finding other earth-like planets to settle), resource consumption (ability to harvest from planets, asteroids, etc.), hunger (could have entire food worlds), war (what difference would countries be with a whole Universe to explore), etc. You think we have no right to know?