Ancient Aliens 2010 on the History Channel

ChrisCV · Post by **ChrisCV** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:44 pm

well... the seven wonders of the world were built for various reasons... mainly either tombs for their leaders (pyramids, mauseleom) or built for worship (statue of zeus, colossous of rhodes, Temple of Artemis) whilst the other two, hanging gardens and lighthouse of Alexandria, the former was for a king's homesick wife and the latter was a lighthouse to stop ships crashing into the coast...

anyways apart from the last two the temples and worship things were built in a grandiose manner because they were built for religious belief.... religion was and still is a pretty powerful tool for making people do stuff... the fear of satisfying the gods or be struck down was more than enough for ancient peoples to break their backs in building the biggest and best thing they could...

if it was for aliens, why isn't zeus depicted as an alien... instead he's always sculpted by the ancient greeks to be a bit of a stud with a beard.

i'm believe the above as there's a fair amount of documentation on this stuff, as historians from back then were already writing about it, when the knowledge was a bit fresher (obv except for the pyramids)...

::BLM:: · Post by **::BLM::** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:52 pm

john clees wrote: what is so far fetched that thinking out of 100's of galaxies that are out there... that we are not the most advance species?

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It's a far fetched statement to suggest they played a part in building the pyramids. I agree that there must be something out there, I think it would be quite naive to think differently.

Post by **John Clees** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:59 pm

ChrisCV wrote:
religion was and still is a pretty powerful tool for making people do stuff...

agreed. what is the common denominator it just about all religion's? : their is a higher power other than yourself..

ChrisCV · Post by **ChrisCV** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:05 pm

john clees wrote:people thought the earth was flat before their was proof..

exactly they were jumping to conclusions on stuff that they didn't know what they were talking about... going on the blinkered view of a small set of people... it wasn't until they got some real evidence to support a spherical earth hypothesis.

john clees wrote:sure logically one could say that. I guess Im taking the mathematical approach in saying...

no you've taken two ideas and mashed them together.. you've jumped from one thing (pyramids, some unexplained artefacts) and mashed it together with the possibility of life from other planets despite the evidence that supports the egyptians built it for themselves. and its this that bugs me... for all the evidence that's been found over the years, all the practical experiments, etc etc... you chose to ignore it all for a few unknown things and rush straight to the alien explanation...

john clees wrote:what is so far fetched that thinking out of 100's of galaxies that are out there... that we are not the most advance species?

its not that far fetched... its a big place.. a lot of variables... the probability is very small... but there is the slimmest of chances... and we've seen from our own observations that coincidence happens all the time... there probably is some life out there be it single cell organisms, another human race, or light year travelling super species...

i just find it far fetched that the aliens built the pyramids considering the evidence in favour of the egyptians building them and the distinct lack of solid evidence of advanced aliens... the videos you pointed out didn't really answer any questions.. they just did a lot of jumping to conclusions..

. · Post by . » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:12 pm

About this topic, I'll just remain skeptic. Time will say.

ChrisCV · Post by **ChrisCV** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:15 pm

john clees wrote:
ChrisCV wrote:
religion was and still is a pretty powerful tool for making people do stuff...
agreed. what is the common denominator it just about all religion's? : their is a higher power other than yourself..

no there isn't a higher power... we're just the result of a phenomenally random string of coincidences...

religion was a comfort blanket to people that couldn't explain most of the sh!t that was going on out there... and back in the day that meant a lot because there would have been loads of stuff that was going to kill you...

it was also a good way of organising people and creating a structured society... without religion civilisations probably wouldn't have developed...

the common denominator of a god/higher power isn't an abstraction of aliens, just a logical step in the thought process for the unexplained.. it gives you a common enemy or singular reference...

also don't the greeks, hindus, romans? beleive in multiple gods.. where as christians, jews islam only believe in one all seeing god?

Post by **John Clees** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:28 pm

ChrisCV wrote: no there isn't a higher power... we're just the result of a phenomenally random string of coincidences...

to each their own : to think things : (everything that life has to offer) is just a random "string" of coincidences.. is funny to me...

it's like the woman who picked up a car when a child was trapped underneath. something like that is not logically possible but...

fck logical and our simple minds.

ChrisCV · Post by **ChrisCV** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:48 pm

you're right it is a pretty funny and strange thing that ultimately life as we know it today is the result of chance and coincidence....

but again... everything science wise seems to point that way...

like that guy who created synthetic life... he just swilled some chemicals around in a beaker... then injected it into an empty cell.. then voila.. he'd created life from scratch... simply by stringing together a few basic chemicals...