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Originally Posted by Gaia
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And there it is! The thought of some invisible being watching me, all the time, day and night. Can you say P a r a n o i a? I am very sensitive and have a lively imagination, and being told such things when I was still too young to know better, did alot of damage to my psyche and peace of mind. Took most of my adult life to get my head right again. Well.. as best as possible, some of those "teachings" never leave your mind. No wonder people are snapping left and right.
You are a writer, so you're openminded. So I can run this by you and you won't think I'm nuts.
I think God was a Space Man, and the Angels were his Crew. His second in Command (lucifer/devil, etc) had a problem with the way God was doing things, and they had a falling out, Lucifer (for lack of a better name) stayed behind, either voluntarily, or they left him here on purpose, when God and the rest of the Angels departed, to go to wherever it was they came from.
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I don't recall the author's name, but look up
Demons At Rainbow Bridge. Excellent science fiction hinting at the divine.
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What were they doing here to begin with? Perhaps some sort of Genesis Project. The Garden of Eden Story smacks of genetic engineering/cloning.
All these Stories about People coming from the Sky. Appearing out of nowhere and then disappearing in a likely fashion. They could fly. They had "wings". Allover the world, in all cultures, such stories are told. There is a seed of truth in all tales, no matter how farfetched they seem.
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Flying around with wings is just as easily a metaphore for travelling the realm of spirit. Creation myths likewise capture the birth of human thought and inquiry into their own origins.
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They came here when Humans began to stop being nomadic and transitioning to staying put, domesticating animals and farming the land. Of course such people would think these beings, able to fly and materializing out of nowhere, were Gods. What else would they think? They were afraid, because Fear comes from not understanding. So they sought to placate these Beings by worshipping them. And some of them liked being worshipped, and went on a power trip.
That's what I think might have happened.
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Alien Versus Predator has it that the hunter aliens use religion to get humans to build for them huge pyramids for the purpose of the hunter alien's rite of passage in killing the parasitic aliens with willing human sacrafices to provide hosts... all in Antarctica of all places.
But in reading Jared Diamond's works the shifts in human living methods makes more sense as what worked best under a give set of conditions. Some saw sedintary as situationally better than nomadic lives or farming and pastoralization as better than hunting and other times giving those up to return to hunting and gathering because that worked best under new or different conditions. The Polynesian exploration of the Pacific Islands is a perfect microcosm of cultural/technological adaptation to varying conditions along with climatic changes, with the simpler and "more primative" ways working better than others.