If aliens land on the White House lawn to greet us..

LikeAnOcean
LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
edited August 2007 in A Moving Train
How does this change the world and how does religion explain it?


Discuss..

:p


EDIT: Space aliens!.. Not Mexicans.
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  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    i think there would be a barrage of firepower so powerful against the approaching craft they wouldn't get the chance to land and either the world would be less one family of aliens and their vehicle or washington d.c. is incinerated. as for religion i'm stumped?
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  • ClimberInOz
    ClimberInOz Posts: 216
    Maybe Aliens are a little unlikely- but what if SETI (Search for extra terrestrial Intelligence) were to recieve that long awaited signal?

    I would like to think that it would be such a profound experience that it would forever change humanity for the better. I doubt it though...

    As for religion- I guess those who take their respective texts as literal would have the hardest time accepting and adjusting.

    Personally, I find the probability so overwhelming that I kind of take it as a given that intelligent life is abundant throughout the universe. I doubt we will ever come into contact with it though, but I would like to think we will keep trying.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    How does this change the world and how does religion explain it?

    Discuss..

    :p

    EDIT: Space aliens!.. Not Mexicans.

    we'd have to elect a new president when they take back their village idiot.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Aliens landing might be the only thing that could compell the people of the world to pull together as one species. :D

    I don't think I want to wait around to see if my theory is right though. :p:)
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  • Kann
    Kann Posts: 1,146
    If aliens actually land, I hope they don't choose the white house, it'd be a shame to have our first aliens die and then retaliate because of anti-terrorist measures.
    I also think that if they do come we would have plenty of "it's the end of times woohoo" talk and religions would definitely go through a period of high popularity. On the other hand if we make contact with them questions will arise and organised religions will have some tough explanations to give.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Kann wrote:
    If aliens actually land, I hope they don't choose the white house, it'd be a shame to have our first aliens die and then retaliate because of anti-terrorist measures.
    I also think that if they do come we would have plenty of "it's the end of times woohoo" talk and religions would definitely go through a period of high popularity. On the other hand if we make contact with them questions will arise and organised religions will have some tough explanations to give.
    If we scientifically learn of inteligent alien life.. people are taking my question too literal.
  • Kann
    Kann Posts: 1,146
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    If we scientifically learn of inteligent alien life.. people are taking my question too literal.

    Sorry, that was a poor attempt at a joke. If we learn about aliens, religions (the 3 major ones at least) will definitely have some explaining to do. And, like the discovery that the earth is not the center of the universe, they will loose that many more customers.
  • sonicreducer
    sonicreducer Posts: 713
    religion would probably say that God sent aliens to Earth to 'test our faith'
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    sonicreducer wrote:
    religion would probably say that God sent aliens to Earth to 'test our faith'

    like science, evolution, gravity, solar system, and any number of other things they have managed to dance around for centuries.
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    It's already happened...
    http://www.presidentialufo.com/president%20UFO.jpg
    ...
    Need more proof?
    http://www.screwballsquirrel.net/stuff/space-alien-backs-bush-for-president.jpg
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