[Vermont Lt]

How am I sticking my head in the sand. Why would an alien culture be interested in us! That kind of thinking is delusional.

[RoosterRedux]

Perhaps these are not extraterrestrials at all. But an enemy of Biblical origins and proportions.

As I recall, you are a military man.

Your input is needed here.

Wise enemies will always try to appear as something they are not (Sun Tzu)...perhaps this enemy is not at all what it appears to be.

The question is "is the Bible an accurate purveyor of the Truth?"

If the answer to that question is "yes"...then consider this enemy against a Biblical backdrop and in a Biblical framework.

From that POV, everything happening makes perfect sense.

Here is what Whitley Strieber had to say about his encounter with them...

"I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I couldn't move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still as death, suffering inner agonies. Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were demons. They had to be. And they were here and I couldn't get away."

I don't know if these things are demons, but perhaps they are fighting on the side of demons.

Either way, we are wise to correctly define our enemy.

That way, we can win...otherwise we lose.

[GingisK]

We have the atomic bomb. Eventually we will learn how to travel great distances like they obviously can. That might get somebody's attention.

Now suppose that those out there are part of a Greater Creation, and are not really that much different than ourselves. We just might be offered an opportunity we can't refuse: play by nice rules or start back in the stones ages. Again.

[GingisK]

...That kind of thinking is delusional...

We categorize plants, but try to talk to them?

Maybe they aren't so far ahead of us. They might not even be that much smarter than us, just more advanced in the state of the art. Suppose they are a mere 100 years ahead of us? Keep in mind that we are only about 150 years into our technology. If they didn't suffer a Dark Ages, they could be almost 2000 years ahead of us without having a higher IQ.

[JockoManning]

Christ dying on a cruel tree on our orb is the supreme stamp on reality about how God prioritizes us. Other critters in creation failing to notice God’s priority in such matters would be idiots.