Let's Talk About Spooky Stuff
It's not just UFOs. There are other strange things in the world that we have no means to make sense of.
Ours is a strange existence.
We’re material beings living in a material world, full of physical laws and scientific constants. Experience teaches us that it is better to be an empiricist than not — at least if we want to understand things. “Trust but verify” is a maxim that is universally applicable.
We have bodies that do things that bodies do. We eat, we drink, we sleep, we move. For a fulfilling life, we require somewhat more abstract things like socialization, love, art, music, and beauty. Parts of us, too, are abstract. We have conscious, sentient minds. We have souls. We have being and awareness at a level unknown to any other creature in the physical universe, and we do not truly know where these deeper, higher-level aspects of our being reside.
We are also, as a species, overwhelmingly inclined to a numinous impulse. We have always, as a people, sought out the divine. Primitive cultures are never atheistic — only modern man exercising his technical dominance of the world has a…
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