Suppose there are alien civilizations millions times older than earth

[keep_it_real]

That know know to transverse space and visited earth in the distant past and mated with earthlings to cause earthlings to advance? Would these aliens be considered gods to earth people.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Actually, that happened.

Cats are known to be the descendants of highly sophisticated aliens.

[donco6]

13. Pfft. Cats are but the grossly deformed offspring of the great Caninus

Evil deformed offspring, I might add.

:)

[petronius]

20. Please. Dogs are the devolved descendants of the vermin that infested the

garbage holds of the space craft used by the proto-felines. That's why dogs still have the instinctive need to eat cat poop...

:P

[donco6]

23. Well, there is that.

I don't know what it is about cat poop that is so fucking irresistable.

[Sinti]

39. it's buried treasure

Dogs bury stuff they want to save (treasures). Cats bury other things. Dogs think they've hit the jackpot of err Blackbeard's treasure.

My dogs stopped doing that, but my grandma's dogs that I occasionally watch haven't gotten a clue yet....yick...ugh.

[donco6]

41. Mine eat deer poop in the mountains.

God, it's like a bowl full of kibble. Ugh!

[Oregone]

2. Suppose this type of a question was recently posed, and no one cared

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6854404&mesg_id=6854404

:)

[MrScorpio]

3. These would have been civilizations who would have learned how to cross the light barrier

However, human beings are as much a part of the biosphere as the other plants and animals that exist here.

It's taken 4.6 billion years to get to where we are today.

That sounds just about right without the help of space alien gods.

[imdjh]

18. I disagree. Clearly we don't belong here.

And how do you know that the other species aren't degenerate?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Suppose dividing a three dollar bill by zero.

[walldude]

5. THe "God" that spoke to Moses in the bible never said he was "God"

he said he was "the god of your fathers, the god of Abraham. "

Never said he was the "GOD". While I'm not into Scientology, or alien abductions or UFO's I do believe there is a good possibility that aliens have been here before. It's entirely possible that Moses was visited by aliens who helped him fight Pharaoh and free the Jews from slavery. Then again it's just as possible that it was "God" or possible that it was Moses' own conscience. It's also possible that this new Pharmy pot I got is kicking my ass...

[Poll_Blind]

8. I read some interesting stuff about the "mana" generator. You can...

...probably Google it- basically the gist was that it might have been alien technology. In both ancient Judaism/Christianity/Islam and especially ancient Vedic (?) writing, there's all kinds of strange things mentioned/described which actually seem like descriptions of technology than fancy God-wish-creations.

[walldude]

12. I'll check it out...

Anyone who flat out denies that alien visitation thousands of years ago is a possibility needs to open their minds a bit more. While I wouldn't run around ranting this shit like L.Ron I do believe that until the evidence is there, anything is possible. And that thing with god and moses has always bugged me. If it were god then why did he beat around the bush (no pun intended hehe) instead of just doing the whole Monty Python version of god:

GOD: Arthur! Arthur, King of the Britons! Oh, don't grovel! If
there's one thing I can't stand, it's people groveling.
ARTHUR: Sorry--
GOD: And don't apologize. Every time I try to talk to someone it's
"sorry this" and "forgive me that" and "I'm not worthy". What are you
doing now!?
ARTHUR: I'm averting my eyes, oh Lord.
GOD: Well, don't. It's like those miserable Psalms-- they're so
depressing. Now knock it off!

[baldguy]

6. Two things: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

And: Man created god in his own image.

[Poll_Blind]

7. Well, the Earth is probably about 1/4 to 1/5 as old as the Universe so....

...I don't think you're going to come across any races of beings which are as old as you describe. Of course, they don't need to be that old: If they can cooperate with one-another, there's not a lot that can't be accomplished in a very short amount of time.

As much as I'd like to believe that the Earth cross-mated with alien species, if you look at the history of humankind we spent a great deal of time (up until recently) not doing a whole hell of a lot. The pyramids are nice, though. But they're no steam-engine. You might want to watch David Burke's Connections series- it explains a great deal how our modern world was created- inventions being modified to create other inventions and so on.

Would they be considered gods? There might be some problems with that. First, human-kind is extremely xenophobic so it's likely that if humans were visited in any modern period by these aliens they'd either likely be correctly identified as a more-advanced but still not divine race of beings or viewed as devils or corruptions of some sort by many of the religious fanatics that populate this rock.

It's nice to think that aliens would want to have something to do with us- but look how we treat other animals on this planet: We enslave, kill and exploit them only limited by our imaginations.

It is hard to believe that aliens would be all that much different than us on this point. If they were that advanced it's likely that they already have an entire taxonomic spectrum of genetically-engineered organisms which are more suited to terraforming/inhabiting any usable worlds they come across and also are probably more pleasing to their eyes, aesthetically, than we are.

All of this can be summed up in the Porno for Pyros song, Pets. Here

[Curtland1015]

9. Mr. Hubbard, is that you?

:P

[Cant trust em]

10. Isn't this what scientology is based on?

I think this is what you learn after you've plunked down a few million dollars.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Xenu!

[imdjh]

19. Scientology is based on body satans and making fun of people with lisps.

[DireStrike]

35. HAHAHAH

well done.

[keep_it_real]

32. To put it midly, I don't care for scientology; I'd take astrology over

scientology, any day; just my opinion, which doesn't count for much.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

37. Meh.

It's all the same crap.

[Zomby Woof]

11. You have already asked this in 3 or 4 different threads

DU insanity: Posting the same thread over and over expecting a different response.

[keep_it_real]

34. Sue me

[Zomby Woof]

42. I don't want to deprive you of your SSDI

[REP]

14. Hey, I read "The Man Who Fell to Earth," too!

I have a first edition, even!

Hey, did you know that science fiction is rarely about what it seems to be about on the surface? Betcha didn't!

[leanderj]

16. Was it a one-night stand

or what?

[REP]

17. The lord is a monkey

Thanksgiving's coming on the Fourth of July
In the form of a girl with a needle in her eye
Well she come from out west on a nickel worth of gas
Got her mind on her money and a dope up her ass
Outside of Phenix she was kinda broke down
Burned a cracker-boy rig and she was out of that town.
Ha Ha Ha!

Ahhhhh...
Well she was a Hare Krishner in the Ashram Bed
She was sellin' 'get sky' had a funky-ass head
Well she played with my mouth and she threw me on the bed
And she cut off my balls and she sewed them to my head
Well she's heading back East in a 67 Caddy
Got her mind on her money and a dope for her daddy
Well I met her on the street where she beat me like a fool
Then she got me accepted to an ivy league school
Well I really did good but it's kickin' my ass
I lost 38 pounds and my eye turned to glass
Well she's looking pretty good first week in July
She's got a dope up her ass and a needle in her eye

Ahhhhh...
Thanksgivings coming on the Fourth of July
In the form of a girl with a needle in her eye
Well she come from out west on a nickel worth of gas
with her eye on the money and her dope up her ass

[FarCenter]

21. An alien civilization that is capable of interstellar travel is unlikely to be interested in humans

Would you be interested in advancing the progress of any random ant hill that you came across?

[Obamanaut]

22. The answer is here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6854521

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6854404

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6854473

edited to add: unrec

[Harry Monroe]

24. Suppose there are alien civilizations?

Would they travel all that way just to anally probe us??

[Uben]

25. Hmmmmm?

Could they be ancient republicans? They go to extraordinary means to anally probe us. Wow! You might be on to sumpin there!

[DireStrike]

36. Republicans would never survive that long.

Nor would they develop science.

[Kansas Wyatt]

26. That's not on the History Channel tonight.

You record it, and are just now watching it?

[anigbrowl]

27. Suppose you go read more science fiction instead of starting multiple boring threads

I mean, suppose there were, yeah, that might be interesting. Is there any evidence that it's actually happened? Not that I know about it, but some few disagree. If so, where are they? With God-like alien powers, why don't they just openly rule the world? Frankly, that would be more interesting than reality actually is, but hey, you can't win them all.

[keep_it_real]

33. How about, "who" put the digital data in human DNA?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

38. Aliens, obviously.

They totally got freaky with our ape-like ancestors.

Freaky ass aliens.

[TankLV]

28. Then I shouldn't feel so tired by comparison, then, I guess, right?!!!

[Mrs. Overall]

29. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

It's on right now--one of my favorite episodes.

Sort of but not really connected to this thread...

[TexasObserver]

30. "Shaka, when the walls fell."

[imdjh]

40. Oh my. You have managed to surprise me.

[alittlelark]

31. How many of these threads have you posted today?

I guess a good 'shroom trip can be fun - but go outside and smell the grass, feel the trees, stare at the sky.....

Posting on the internet is a waste of good 'shrooms.

[old mark]

43. Suppose there are NOT such, and all our problems and strife are

of our own making? Humans love their delusions, like god and super aliens and stuff, to put the blame elsewhere.

mark