Thread by @TomMontalk

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats Yes, these aren't necessarily mutually exclusive:

ETs = demons
ETs = underground critters
ETs = from another planet
ETs = from the future
ETs = from another dimension.

Anything that appears humanoid and advanced we tend to label "alien" without knowing the true nature...

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats If some Air Force pilot gets in an alien reproduction vehicle and lands on a farm in Iowa, Mr Farmer will report it as an alien encounter. If a demon knows someone loves sci-fi and telepathically masks itself as a gray alien, the person will claim to be an alien contactee.

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats So "extraterrestrial" is the catch-all phrase for today's secular culture. As you know, before modern times the catch-all phrases were jinn, angels, devils, devas, asuras, fairies, etc. depending on culture.

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats And one could easily look at all these contradictions as chaotic noise and conclude "aliens" are merely another guise for some mysterious interdimensional intelligence we cannot fathom (the Vallee hypothesis) that's doing something to us we cannot comprehend.

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats Which sounds romantically agnostic, but it's an oversimplification IMO because you can definitely drill down into the data and figure out patterns and nuances that distinguish similar but different phenomena.

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats For instance, "contactees" who experience a hallucinogenic puppet show put on by demons don't get surgical scars, camera malfunctions, phantom pregnancies, missing time, multiple eyewitness ship sightings, military re-abductions, or other signs of tangibility.

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats On the other hand, accounts of demons and reptilians overlap significantly in behavior and apparent motives (sadism, violence, rape of mind/body/soul, energy harvesting, spiritual warfare, degradation of the will). IMO at least some of these reps are biological hosts for demons.

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats Which isn't surprising considering humans are not much different. There are demons "in" human bodies among us, sometimes even in our own families, but especially in positions of power whether local, state, or national. We think they're just sociopaths but could be more to it.

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats So, whether all ETs are just demons (or fallen angels) making themselves presentable depends on whether alternatives are feasible: is time travel possible? Is space travel possible? Could an offshoot race of humans exist? What of Nazis in Antarctica? Atlantean survivors? etc.

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats That's why I like to keep things open until ruled out and accommodate multiple possibilities.

And as to why aliens look like us, IMO it's for same reason Europeans resemble Native Americans: common origins/design despite the "ocean" of water/space/time/dimension between.

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats Here's the problem. If the Simulation Hypothesis (in some form) is true and reality is more like a matrix, collective dream, virtual machine, temporary timeline, etc. then these ET possibilities are just "side quests" within that virtual "role playing game"...

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats You can try getting into the physics of time travel, cosmic travel, synchronicities, aura, aether -- but in the end, that would all be happening within the fiction of the simulation (or within the mind of the cosmic Dreamer).

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats So the question arises: what here actually matters to the greater reality outside that bubble? What here has permanence beyond the ending of this illusion? Wouldn't that be the ultimate thing to invest in?

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats My answer is: consciousness, spirit, soul and the lessons, experiences, memories, friendships, deeds well done, and growth it accumulates -- valued in relation to whatever value system exists outside the illusion in the higher, truer, more permanent Reality.

@MagneticNightm1 @DoormanForCats But if the fiction serves a purpose (as a fable does for kids, climbing a mountain for the challenge) then it's okay to follow the storyline to the end, choose-your-own-adventure style. Just have to prioritize what matters most in the end.