| I wonder, with our own technological progress in the | | | | A lot of the evidence suggests it may be point number |
| field of robotics, if extraterrestrials also share the | | | | two and I have to agree. One quick look at our planet |
| same fears about their creation. Take a look at | | | | and an alien civilization would quickly see how barbaric |
| Hollywood movies about robots and Artificial | | | | and violent we are as a species. We kill, rape and |
| Intelligence and it's mostly about them becoming better | | | | torture members of our own species, even our own |
| than we are and then eventually wiping us out. Could it | | | | family. Imagine the horrors we would inflict on other |
| be possible E.T also shares the same fears about us? | | | | intelligent species in the universe if we had the |
| The story of the Tower of Babel in the Old | | | | technology, particularly if we felt threatened by them. It |
| Testament could be a clue to this possibility; | | | | was after the detonation of the first Atomic Bomb |
| "And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and | | | | that they realised we needed to be contained, maybe |
| they have all one language; and this they begin to do: | | | | even controlled. It was like the kids getting hold of |
| and now nothing will be restrained from them, which | | | | daddy's shotgun, but it also demonstrated our great |
| they have imagined to do." Genesis 11:19. | | | | potential as a species and could be why we weren't |
| Notice the part I have made bold. There seems to be | | | | just wiped out there and then. |
| an element of fear in this statement, even of panic. | | | | People who have reported being abducted by aliens |
| The 'Gods' then go on to spread mankind across the | | | | claim the beings seems cold, uncaring and |
| planet, confusing our languages, essentially sending us | | | | unsympathetic to their poor human captive. Everything |
| back to the stone age after we had made impressive | | | | about the alien abduction phenomena seems steeped |
| technological progress. | | | | in fear, not us fearing them, but them fearing US. They |
| Getting back to our own time, there are many of us | | | | paralyse their victims (presumably they fear our |
| who read and study the subject of extraterrestrials | | | | physical strength) and wipe their memories. There |
| and U.F.O's who believe our species was warned off | | | | doesn't really seem to be any arrogance on the part |
| from anymore space travel to the Moon. It's also | | | | of the extraterrestrials, either because they don't have |
| possible this warning was not only limited to the Moon | | | | such feelings or because they don't feel superior to us. |
| but may have extended to anywhere outside of | | | | There seems to be a lot of caution on their part, the |
| low-Earth orbit. Those who created us have given us | | | | kind we have when we're tagging a wild lion or tiger. |
| 'Controlled Access' to space. There are two possible | | | | Our species has achieved so much over the past few |
| reasons for this; | | | | centuries. Those who created us know our potential |
| 1. They don't want us to discover what they are doing, | | | | and are quite aware that if left to our own devices, |
| or to discover any bases they may have out there. If | | | | we'll be orbiting their homeworld in a few centuries |
| we are part of some sort of scientific study, then I | | | | time. They have many reasons to fear us, but are |
| guess humans flying around space tinkering with their | | | | safe while they maintain their technological superiority. |
| work might be somewhat of an annoyance. Also, if | | | | They also know this won't last forever, eventually we'll |
| their intentions are malevolent, they might not want us | | | | be on par with them and one day we might even |
| to see their plans. | | | | surpass them. Ultimately, it's not our worst qualities |
| 2. They are afraid of us, they want to severely limit | | | | they're afraid of, but our best. |
| our exploration of space. It could be that the best way | | | | Lee Irwin Pringle. 2010. |
| for them to protect themselves is to keep us here on | | | | Please read Aliens Part 1: Why we should fear them |
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