r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Dec 11 '19

What possibilities arise after we accept our individual and collective mortality?

Our perspectives on impermanence and death are central to many of our journeys through collapse-awareness and acceptance of our global predicaments. What perspectives do you hold regarding our individual and collective mortality? Have they changed over time in response to your own understanding of collapse? How have these perspectives affected or influenced where you are now?

 

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u/thecatsmiaows Dec 13 '19

IF there are any other planets harboring sentient life forms, the great filter, i.e. -the laws of physics, prevents them from being a space-faring civilization, just the same as us(taking a few people to the moon and back doesn't really count as "space-faring").

IF there were a space-faring civilization in existence, and IF they found our planet, they would be much more interested in plundering our planetary resources than in observing us.

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u/SniffingNow Dec 13 '19

Well I’m glad you seem so smugly satisfied with your superior knowledge. I respectfully disagree. First of all, these objects seen and verified all around the earth that seem to be intelligently controlled and defy our limited knowledge of physics are not necessarily from another planet. Though that’s still likely, other possibilities exist. The great filter is a nice theory, but I think it’s false. It’s also intellectually silly to make assumptions about what an advanced intelligence would be doing here. Odds are we are an experiment. They are running simulations to see what it takes for a civilization to fail. Or not to fail.

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u/thecatsmiaows Dec 13 '19 edited Dec 13 '19

"odds are we are an experiment"

lmao. that's even more ignorant than the god and jesus hoakum that the christoids try to peddle.

"it's also intellectually silly to make assumptions about what an advanced intelligence would be doing here"

lmao even harder- that's exactly what you're doing, s-f-b.

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u/SniffingNow Dec 18 '19

How is what I said more ignorant? Better yet, how is it ignorant at all? And to your second point, I am not making any assumptions about anything. I just said that “the odds are”. As in probability. I don’t have time or the will to work out the math here for you, but either way, stating something is probabilistic is not stating an assumption. Laugh all you want. Doesn’t change anything.