Aliens coming to Earth.
A friend asked me a question. If the earth
was visited by humanoid aliens who possess the technical ability to come here,
what would they think about us, our politics, economy, and above all religions.
My friend obviously believes that people advanced technologically would not
believe in Gods. The educated intellectuals look down on religious people since
there is no scientific proof of God.
I imagined a story of an alien describing us.
He said: The Earth humans are physically a copy of us, but mentally deficient,
perhaps not yet fully developed. They aren’t cognizant of their powers other
than physical manipulation of material matter. I will elaborate later under
“religion.”
Humans are extremely competitive. They all
but exterminated the other large species on the planet, keeping only those that
they can subdue and raise as food. It seems as if they are trying to do it with
each other. Only in their case, they want the labour, not the flesh of each
other. Many enjoy hurting others. They named the action “sadistic.”
Through military might and later regulated
economy some rose above others, harnessed mass followings, and compete for
complete domination of the planet. They have a serious problem understanding
that they are all components of one big body or machine. In other words, they
don’t see how interconnected they are. For an unknown reason, they are mostly
motivated by selfish individualism, even when it hinders their chances of
survival.
Humans have learned how to harness artificial
power to do some work they need to be done. They are doing it in the most
wasteful ways, completely unaware that in a short time they will run out of the
resources they must have. They depend on future inventions, but have no plan
that will see them safely survive on the only planet available to them. Their
idea of time unrelated to speed, energy, and space is unique amongst beings
similar to us.
They made themselves dependent on exhaustible
food supplies and waste more than what they use. It seems as if some human
groups are wasting all they can while others are fighting for the scraps and
are stressed to the point of extinction for lack of basic needs.
The people, as they call themselves in their
most universal language, do not realize that the most abundant resources on
Earth are finite and take time to regenerate. They show no concern over
depleting the air, water, and soil of their planet. Their machines allowed them
to overly exploit the most important elements that they require for physical
life and they show no sign of concern.
Weapons production on Earth is an enormous
industry. From primitive to nuclear, they produce enough to kill themselves
many times over. All of their weapons are meant for wars amongst themselves,
and none could provide defence from attack originating outside the Earth. I
could conquer their world with the craft I am in if I wished.
Humans are divided by skin pigmentation and
what they call religions, which reflect their views of a supreme being called
God, Spirit, or messengers from such. Some small groups have other variations.
The religions seem to be connected to economic aspects and mixed or used by the
most powerful amongst them.
One God messenger or “Son of God” gave them
directions of how to be more like we are, but they never developed the proper
language to fully explain his teachings. Another “Prophet” managed to unite
some major religions seven hundred years later. Each time the religions became
attached to some groups or races and rejected by others leading to wars.
Their education is severely rudimentary and
available most readily to higher classes or what they assume to be a more
worthy race or tribe. There isn’t a central theory that unites all humans.
They have a reasonably primitive way to pass
knowledge to later generations called writing. As they were discovering their
world, they found other humans who evolved on distant continents. They forcibly
converted those “other tribes” to their ways of thinking and religions.
Improved war technologies helped spread hostile microorganisms and destroyed
cultures with better spiritual ideas that could have propelled humanity towards
using the “spiritual” powers as we do. That knowledge existed in their holy
books for a thousand and a half years, but they do not use it.
The Earth humans have an inkling that they
are related to the central supreme power they call God, but can’t figure out
how. They can’t know him without imagining seeing him. They don’t understand
that human eyes are not the right tool for doing it. They don’t even follow the
commandment not to try to make an image of God. They think in words, and words
are images.
Earth’s humans must find new, more accurate
words to convey the power of “belief” or “faith”. There is a way to communicate
with God without words, pictures, computers, and so on.
As I said in the beginning, this is how I
assume an Alien describing humanity to his brethren using our language. Yes,
the secret is in the language.
Since we are (hopefully) locked up avoiding
contact with others, I see an opportunity to think deeply about philosophical
questions that perhaps we never considered before. Enjoy.
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