/x/ - Paranormal

>>28772

The curious part of me hopes they are doing something misterious and trascendental.

The pessimistic/sadist part of me believes if they exist then they may be doing the abstract equivalent of shitposting

>>28772

I think it's impossible to conceive of what they're doing because we're always going to be perceiving them from the perspective of a human being. You would have to be non-human to truly understand the motivations of a non-human.

>>29065

I'm not so sure. The human mind is capable of processing logic and emotions. We can assume that logic is the same for everyone, regardless of what planet they come from or what species they are. Emotions are more complicated, but if we can understand reptiles and insects, I don't see why we shouldn't be able to understand the motivations of an alien mind too.

Of course this wouldn't apply to super-intelligent aliens or 4-dimensional beings. Their way of thinking might be impossible to decipher for us.

>>29067

> We can assume that logic is the same for everyone

This may be true, but I'm not willing to assume it. I think we can safely say that there are different types of knowledge, so if two groups of beings have no overlap in their forms of knowledge type, they may have different systems of logic incomprehensible to each other.

>Emotions are more complicated, but if we can understand reptiles and insects, I don't see why we shouldn't be able to understand the motivations of an alien mind too.

I agree that emotions are more complicated, but we are still able to understand other forms of earth life. However, there is a similarly between forms of life on earth that might not be seen on alien words. Their biology and emotional responses may be completely different from our own.

>Of course this wouldn't apply to super-intelligent aliens or 4-dimensional beings. Their way of thinking might be impossible to decipher for us.

This is what I was thinking of. Ultimately this has been my problem with most human conceptions of god. We apply very human things, like emotion and gender, to a being necessarily outside of the bounds of humanity.

I used to think about that a lot. Then I came across the alien abduction stories, and realized I don't have to "think". They've already shown us.

Read David Jacobs or Karla Turner.

>>29085

How many of those stories were obtained under hypnosis?

>>29086

All of them. The reason hypnosis is used is that the aliens have memory-removing technology, but apparently it doesn't work perfectly. But there is often evidence in terms of implants, scars, or the person being missing at the time of their abduction (confirmed by other people), so we don't have to rely on hypnosis.

>>29087

According to Karla Turner, we don't know anything about the aliens. She admits that she calls her aliens but they could be anything. She says that they can completely control a human's perception of his surroundings, making him see and hear things that are not there. Is this is true, how can anything that the abductees say be trusted? The aliens themselves might be an illusion.

>>29065

their environments, adaptations, and cultural memes might be different and fascinating, but I doubt their core imperatives are "undecipherable" to humans or whatnot. since they occupy the same shitty entropic universe we do, i imagine they compete for resources and sex. same as any life on earth.

>>29088

One theory I heard is that aliens are actually demons. They feed of humans feeling fear and desperation. That is why they anal probe men, to make them feel inmasculine.