u/UpinteHcloud

(sorry about the "for reddit" thing; copied over from a pages doc)

Lets assume that in the future, ET contacts us.

If there is truth to religions of a cosmic sort, Beings and Kingdoms and Realms etc- what else would those things be?

That is the scientific explanation to religion.

I keep seeing people say that ET wouldn’t be religious because they are too smart and rational for it- as if ET wouldn’t have an even greater understanding of the universe, have theories about things humans can’t even think about, have spiritual experiences, have spiritual longings,  and maybe even have “texts” or artifacts from some older, greater, now apparently gone species.

As far as the cosmic beings in human religions, if the stuff is at all real- what else would it be besides ET?

If humans 1000s of years ago had contact of some sort with Greater Beings, what else would they be besides ET?

If there is truth to religions of a cosmic sort, Beings and Kingdoms and Realms etc- what else would those things be?

That is the scientific explanation to religion.

I keep seeing people say that ET wouldn’t be religious because they are too smart and rational for it- as if ET wouldn’t have an even greater understanding of the universe, have theories about things humans can’t even think about, have spiritual experiences, have spiritual longings,  and maybe even have “texts” or artifacts from some older, greater, now apparently gone species.

As far as the cosmic beings in human religions, if the stuff is at all real- what else would it be besides ET?

This may be mostly about semantics, but it's about perspective and science too.

At least some of the time, a species said to be extinct was never wiped out and never died out.

At least some of the time the gene pool of a species doesn't stop reproducing. It just slowly changes until the genes reach a critical point and the organism is another species- a lot of the time a species that is said to have gone extinct actually continued on, slowly changing into something else.

Sometimes a whole species- and it's long-term offspring- are destroyed, like in a cataclysmic event, but many of the species we say are extinct kept passing their genes down and down, with slight alterations (up until the present sometimes), and eventually the old genes changed enough that a new species is made from an old one.

I understand evolution is messy and that all sorts of genetic lines move in all sorts of and multiple directions, but that's my point. A species that doesn't exist anymore can also, a lot of the time, be said not to have disappeared, but simply changed into something else.

Humans and whatever comes next will be that way too. We won't go extinct. We'll just change over time until either we all spectate into different things while some pockets or variants stop existing, or both humans as we know them now exist along side other offshoots of ourselves.

Regarding religion and ETs, what I mostly hear is that they'd be the angels and all that, which I think is likely.

But it is also entirely possible and possibly certain that ET have religions too, or things that we would call "religion" for a lack of a better word or understanding.

Maybe they are tapped into the same major Beings'Concepts/Realms as Earthly religions, just more tapped in, closer to Vishnu and Yahweh etc (as well as whatever else).

ET could have contact and interaction with things and beings that humans couldn't even conceptualize of at all, much less understand or revere or worship.

Its' thrilling but scary too. I wonder about evil, and if there has to be a balance in the universe. I wonder about morality, like we say "it is bad to kill an innocent child." But there might be a morality in which that isn't true.

Maybe the pain that humans can feel is so minuscule compared to what can be experienced by Greater Beings that it is considered insignificant.

Anyway, if humans have spirituality, I'd imagine that They would too, and that it'd be "advanced" compared to us, just like their technology.

A species, such as homo sapiens, will be altered or relegated by things like these data centers.

Humans are not the same thing they were 50 years ago. And soon they won't be what they are now. They won't mean what they mean now, they won't have the same position in the universe they have now, they will be less than their own creation.

THERE IS NO WAY THAT HUMANITY, AS WE KNOW IT, WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST.

Hopefully, humans will be OK in the coming regime.

Be good ya'll..

Regarding religion and ETs, what I mostly hear is that they'd be the angels and all that, which I think is likely.

But it is also entirely possible and possibly certain that ET have religions too, or things that we would call "religion" for a lack of a better word or understanding.

Maybe they are tapped into the same major Beings'Concepts/Realms as Earthly religions, just more tapped in, closer to Vishnu and Yahweh etc (as well as whatever else).

ET could have contact and interaction with things and beings that humans couldn't even conceptualize of at all, much less understand or revere or worship.

Its' thrilling but scary too. I wonder about evil, and if there has to be a balance in the universe. I wonder about morality, like we say "it is bad to kill an innocent child." But there might be a morality in which that isn't true.

Maybe the pain that humans can feel is so minuscule compared to what can be experienced by Greater Beings that it is considered insignificant.

Regarding religion and ETs, what I mostly hear is that they'd be the angels and all that, which I think is likely.

But it is also entirely possible and possibly certain that ET have religions too, or things that we would call "religion" for a lack of a better word or understanding.

Maybe they are tapped into the same major Beings'Concepts/Realms as Earthly religions, just more tapped in, closer to Vishnu and Yahweh etc (as well as whatever else).

ET could have contact and interaction with things and beings that humans couldn't even conceptualize of at all, much less understand or revere or worship.

Its' thrilling but scary too. I wonder about evil, and if there has to be a balance in the universe. I wonder about morality, like we say "it is bad to kill an innocent child." But there might be a morality in which that isn't true.

Maybe the pain that humans can feel is so minuscule compared to what can be experienced by Greater Beings that it is considered insignificant.