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In reply to the discussion: UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)galaxy to our own. Not that I believe in biblical writings, I don't, I believe that bible stories were just tools of the time used to control people.
On the questions that you posed. You know fully well that I can't answer any of those with anything but supposition, but neither can you.
Do I believe aliens have and will visit us. Yes, because my thought patterns and how I apply what I know lead me to that possibility. Are the same aliens visiting us over and over? Statistically, that would be improbable.
Both of us can only project forward on what we don't know and that projection is colored by what we believe. What history has shown is that as people become better educated, they largely become more peaceful. So projecting, an alien being that is 1 billion times smarter than we are likely would have no interest in harming us because harming us would have no meaning to that being. But they certainly would observe us, if only as something that they want to learn more about.
Back to optics. If I shined a flashlight on you and you were behind a filter that filtered out all except the very shortest wavelengths of light, what would I see of you? Can you say that beings have not visited us with them having the capacity to change what we see and as a result perceive?