Now, why in the world haven't I ever thought of saying that? It is just bewildering that so many people feel compelled to attach god-like qualities to ETs. All that had to happen is for them to have avoided a Dark Ages like ours; for, that would already place them almost 2,000 years ahead of us in technology. We're only about 150 years into "high technology".
Never once have I considered treating possible ETs as gods or demons. To my way of thinking, they just mastered what we have yet to discover.
The pattern on these threads is that the “hoax” posters create straw men and then proudly knock them down....
The literature and now videos and podcasts on this topic has so much detail—but as with anything else if you don’t do the work then you have no clue.
I run into this in another one of my hobbies—Cuban cigars.
The average person (including cigar shop owners and employees) has a series of myths they have been taught over the years.
Almost all of them are wrong.
The number of folks who understand Cuban cigars in depth is very small as a percentage of the population—but they are still a large number spread around the world.