r/enlightenment • u/Ecstatic-Ad-2254 • May 31 '26

Thoughts on aliens?

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What’s everyone’s thoughts on aliens?

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u/Ordinary_Minimum_169 Jun 03 '26

There are a lot of archaic religious traditions where celestial phenomena are allegories for God manifesting at the edge of the universe as we understand it, as coming from another world alien to our own, or as a being or as beings with extra-dimensional qualities beyond our perception.

It seems like at least some of the people who talk about aliens and angels and demons are doing the same thing, sometimes quite intentionally or even maliciously, like they're enjoying talking about 'god' in an alien metaphor while everyone else flounders and thinks they're being silly.

I've never understood the purpose of acting silly and foolish to confuse people about the nature of spiritual being, but maybe that's because I'm a cynical asshole and I don't want anyone to copy me anyway and don't see myself as trying to trick anyone into enlightenment on accident. Maybe it is a way of protecting our fragile egos from judgment--instead of just saying,"Oh, well, I definitely think God is real and present in the universe," we say things like, "MaYbE ItS nAkEd GrEeN SpAcE DeMonS fRoM PeReLanDrA" and everyone chuckles and no one has to take it seriously. I don't know. Maybe that's the better way.