Are many alien fantasies just atheistic/agnostic substitutes for religious deities?
More often than not the concept of intelligent alien life comes in a guise of a creature that bares a degree of resemblance with humans, other mammals or other creatures known to humans.
Furthermore the behaviour displayed by these aliens also seems to be aligned with similar patterns detectable on Earth.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.As humans we tend to make Gods and Aliens act and look like us. It is in our nature.
DavidLaDeau
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June 20, 2018
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I guess that our imagination is limited by what we can identify. So we can only dream up combinations of the known.
Somehow it is rather dissatisfying to imagine that some alien rocks up and then turns out to be rather pedestrian.
@PontifexMarximus We like to say and hink that our imaginations are limitless and they can or could be, but actually in most instances we are quite narrow minded. Just a very unflattering observation.
@DavidLaDeau We think to highly of ourselves
Yes.No. Maybe ?
VAL3941
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June 20, 2018
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Is that a definite maybe?
@PontifexMarximus No, Yes, Maybe !
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