Good point

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Good point

TB — 6/3/2009 8:28:26 PM (archived)

It's fairly obvious that most SF, particularly on TV and in the movies, uses aliens as allegories for humans and their conditions. "Star Trek" wasn't even subtle about it.

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Just pondering.... - Jody - 6/3/2009 2:40:15 PM
- re: Just pondering.... - Johannes - 6/4/2009 6:03:02 PM
  - Thank you J ... - Jody - 6/5/2009 2:47:27 AM
  - re: re:Reason is missing :-) - Johannes - 6/4/2009 7:19:45 PM
- We are "stretched to perceive things that were UNTHOUGHT of before" - Lindy - 6/4/2009 5:58:46 PM
  - Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder - Lindy - 6/5/2009 1:50:56 PM
    - re: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder - Jody - 6/5/2009 4:14:05 PM
- Short reply - S - 6/4/2009 12:23:04 AM
  - "It's possible" - Jody - 6/4/2009 11:55:08 PM
    - Oh...and... - Jody - 6/5/2009 12:19:59 AM
      - Thank you - S - 6/5/2009 12:42:14 AM
- re: Just pondering.... - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/3/2009 8:54:18 PM
  - Heh... - Jody - 6/5/2009 12:00:48 AM
    - hyper drive... - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/5/2009 12:10:28 AM
      - Normal... - Jody - 6/5/2009 12:36:26 AM
        
        See... - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/5/2009 12:56:55 AM
  - OK Tech1 - Lindy - 6/4/2009 6:31:39 PM
    - Good question! - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/4/2009 10:46:42 PM
      - A couple of points - Eri - 6/6/2009 6:22:12 AM
        
        re: A couple of points - Lindy - 6/6/2009 12:58:56 PM
      - SDAI...SDAI... - Jody - 6/5/2009 12:08:05 AM
  - Not a dream to me. - Eri - 6/4/2009 3:50:49 AM
    - Timothy Leary's dead - azstrummer - 6/4/2009 4:46:33 AM
      - Nope, no freaky stuff. - Eri - 6/5/2009 3:54:14 AM
      - Creepy smiles - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/4/2009 6:45:23 AM
        
        I knew it..... (n/t) - azstrummer - 6/4/2009 1:47:38 PM
        
        re: I knew it..... - Lindy - 6/4/2009 6:04:43 PM
- Doubt and openness - Raoul - 6/3/2009 5:02:38 PM
  - re: Doubt and openness - Jody - 6/3/2009 5:23:17 PM
- re: Just pondering.... - azstrummer - 6/3/2009 4:16:21 PM
  - Something all zealots have in common. - ER - 6/3/2009 11:46:33 PM
    - I don't feel I am a zealot... - Jody - 6/5/2009 2:41:29 AM
      - "I will get past this need to express..." - Lindy - 6/5/2009 3:40:30 AM
      - You are definitely not a zealot. - ER - 6/5/2009 2:56:09 AM
        
        "we certainly don't know whether or not there's a prize if you win. " - Lindy - 6/5/2009 3:42:23 AM
    - " But some of us cannot afford to be wrong about anything. " - Lindy - 6/4/2009 6:09:32 PM
      - Not even close. - ER - 6/5/2009 12:43:42 AM
  - My own opinion... - ER - 6/3/2009 10:09:12 PM
    - The real selling point about Christianity in its early days - Socrates II - 6/4/2009 7:21:53 PM
      - You're absolutely right. - ER - 6/5/2009 12:50:16 AM
  - Everybody has their own fantasies - TB - 6/3/2009 8:26:48 PM
    - NO kidding TB!! - Jody - 6/5/2009 12:39:06 AM
  - Jesus... - Jody - 6/3/2009 5:15:35 PM
    - Jesus never asked to be worshiped - Eri - 6/4/2009 3:56:03 AM
      - I know Eri... it seems that - Jody - 6/5/2009 12:06:58 AM
        
        That's true, they "needed" to worship him - Eri - 6/5/2009 4:02:00 AM
- re: Just pondering.... - ER - 6/3/2009 3:41:20 PM
  - Not valid questions.. - Jody - 6/3/2009 5:21:49 PM
- Ponder this. - Bowser - 6/3/2009 3:03:26 PM
  - We have met the alien and he is us. - Jody - 6/3/2009 5:19:47 PM
    - As Polish SF author Stanislaw Lem once said... - Socrates II - 6/3/2009 6:35:06 PM
      - Another beauty - Lindy - 6/4/2009 6:43:30 PM
        
        Jellyfish from the air - Lindy - 6/5/2009 7:33:55 PM
        
        re: Another beauty - Lindy - 6/4/2009 6:45:53 PM
        
        re: Another beauty - Lindy - 6/4/2009 6:48:09 PM
        
        re: Another beauty - Lindy - 6/4/2009 6:49:42 PM
      - Many incentives - S - 6/4/2009 12:38:10 AM
        
        re: Many incentives - Lindy - 6/4/2009 6:17:21 PM
        
        Yes - S - 6/5/2009 12:47:36 AM
        
        re: Yes and yes - Lindy - 6/5/2009 3:47:10 AM
        
        To clarify - Socrates II - 6/4/2009 1:53:09 PM
        
        And more - S - 6/4/2009 11:58:40 PM
        
        re: And more 2 - Socrates II - 6/5/2009 3:03:56 PM
        
        And I too - S - 6/4/2009 10:43:02 PM
        
        Assuming aliens would want to do those things - Socrates II - 6/5/2009 2:34:18 PM
        
        Assuming Aliens - S - 6/5/2009 11:33:47 PM
        
        I am not dismissing all UFO reports - Socrates II - 6/6/2009 3:09:29 AM
        
        Nicely put (n/t) - Lindy - 6/6/2009 1:43:55 AM
      - Good point - TB - 6/3/2009 8:28:26 PM
      - You and I SocratesII... - Jody - 6/3/2009 7:31:07 PM
        
        You're welcome and... - Socrates II - 6/4/2009 3:04:29 PM

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