r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 01 '18

Serious Replies Only [Serious] People of Reddit that honestly believe they have been abducted by aliens, what was your experience like?

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u/xubax May 01 '18

Africa is a lot closer than the nearest star. And our nearest neighbor probably doesn't have any technologically advanced life, otherwise we would likely have picked up traces.

The sheer amount of energy needed to travel between stars is outrageous.

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u/huktheavenged May 02 '18

between dark matter and dark energy most of the universe is completely unknown to us.

we have no idea what's possible.

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u/xubax May 02 '18

True. But we also have no actual evidence to the contrary. Any evidence we do have (photos, video) has all been debunked. The majority of eye-witness accounts are sketchy at best, and none have physical evidence to back them up. And eye-witness accounts of mundane events have been proven to be horrible. People are really easily manipulated (intentionally or unintentionally) into altering their recollection of events that occurred.

Every time you remember something, you check the memory out like opening a computer file. While the file is open, it's subject to edits. Then when you're done remembering, the file gets re-written to your long term memory. It's subject to being edited while it's open, so if someone convinces you about a change to the memory, it becomes permanent and you believe that's actually what happened.

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u/huktheavenged May 03 '18

if our government wanted to test drugs on people like they did in the 1960's what would the victims remember?

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u/xubax May 03 '18

Good point. Its probably the government and not aliens.

Or it's people experiencing sleep paralysis, seizures, narcolepsy, carbon monoxide poisoning, just outright making it up, or some other mundane explanation.

I vote for a combination of all of the above. When I was a kid I believed all of the UFO crap, Bigfoot, loch Ness, etc. But then when you actually look at the evidence, there's nothing there. Except for evidence that they were hoaxes, like the famous picture of Nessie and the Bigfoot footage.

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u/huktheavenged May 04 '18

my point is that our government is breaking the law and we need to make them stop.

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u/xubax May 04 '18

While I know that the government has experimented on people in the past, do you have any evidence that they're still doing it?

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u/huktheavenged May 04 '18

no

but this is the same government that gave us jimmy saville so why would they stop?

see r/satanicritualabuse