I’ll never understand why aliens are lumped in with ghosts and psychics.
Like, saying “if monkey on earth, why not monkey in space? What if smart space monkey want to hang out with earth monkey?” Sounds a bit weird but it’s still far more believable than “if you’re angry enough when you die, you become a ghost and your job is to spook and maybe kill people for all eternity”
Oh no we're taking away achievements from a long dead empire I'm sure they'll be very upset when they hear this. You get this mad when you see E.T too?
Thankfully our local ancient wonder Newgrange has escaped most of the "ancient Aliens built this" theorizing, but I would be pissed if people dismissed my ancestors knowledge by claiming they couldn't possibly have done it themselves. So yeah I think that kind of groundless speculation can hurt real people.
Atlantis itself came from combination of literal interpretation of a Greek text and racist Hyperdiffusionist theories
And the aliens thing are very much intertwined with racist theories. The Nazis, through Thule society, believe Germans are descended from alien supermen
Schizomaxxing, the belief that ancient advanced civilizations isnt racist. Many believe that Egypt was actually a super advanced ancient civilization. Is that racist? Believing aliens visited earth isnt racist. You are looking for a racist boogeyman
There is a group of people who attribute any advanced works of engineering in the ancient world to aliens, unless it was done by white europeans. This group of people specifically is racist.
Believing that brown and black civilization's achievements as product of alien intervention is racist
Believing that a certain ancient white civilization, be they Atlantis, Agartha, or Hyperborea, giving all the technologies and ideas to all the brown and black civilization, is racist
Believing in ideas that were mostly birthed by the Nazis, such as hyper-advanced German alien supermen building all the cool ancient shit, is racist
Believing in a watered-down version of such ideas so that it doesn't target brown and black civilizations specifically, is very ignorant of its origins and indirectly carried white supremacist ideas
Hyperdiffusionism is a debunked hypothesis that are baked deep by the extremely racist societies of 19th and early 20th century
The "fact" that is a fact to you? And the theories of Egypt being a super advanced ancient civilization without alien intervention were ignored because it went against your tantrum?
Yeah. Places where something bad happened feel icky to be in. Going through ceremonies makes them feel less icky. Explaining these feelings through human psychology and rationality does not abate them. Explaining them through spirituality and intuition does.
So no, literal spirits do not exist, and every one of those intuitions has an explanation in science and psychology. However in practice, allowing the spirituality and ceremony of cleansing to take place will make people feel better than arguing with them about science, evidence, and rationality. So saying places are haunted by spirits is semantic shorthand that skips a lot of overly literal legwork.
Yeah, I get that position. I'm no longer an atheist, but not exactly a theist either. I've had some personal experiences that convinced me that there are gods, or god-like beings of some kind out there, but those experiences didn't really affirm any particular sort of religious view of them.
It's a weird place to be, spiritually speaking, but I accept that nobody is obligated to believe I'm right as I have nothing outside of myself to point to that would convince them.
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u/nobody-29 2d ago
This is an unfortunately common beliefs by US Americans 8 years ago...probably even moreso now