DCrAzJMaStErDeNReMiX -inspired by Melodysheep- i think a key to what’s behind the belief in flying saucers it is most easily obtained if you look at the contact myths there are several hundred people in the United States who claim to have personal contact with the inhabitants of flying saucers who have landed and if you examine these myths you’ll find that there are some peculiar regularities the ah, inhabitants of saucers are benevolent they are really concerned for our well-being they are omnipotent, extremely powerful omniscient, extremely knowledgeable and they often wear long white robes now this combination is something ive heard in another context this isnt science, this is religion what i suspect is happening is this we live in a very unsettled times it used to be possible to believe in a personal, benevolent, powerful, all-knowing god who cared on invididuals, who you could pray to but now, there is very few people who really believe that., i think science, for good or for ill, has destroyed a lot of the traditional theologies. and yet people have the same means to believe that they always did perhaps more so, because of the times we live in. flying saucer myths, are a really clever compromise, its a way of having beings that come from the sky that are worried about us, that are powerful that are gonna step in and prevent us from destroying ourselves as we very well might and yet have it in the cloak of science but no one can say nonsense, that doesnt match …
