There was a question on my message board about what strange things we do/do not beleive in. Because what i think is all so very intersting to the rest of you
I thought i'd blog about it.
Cryptozoology-the study of extinct/unclassified creatures. This means things like Bigfoot, yeti, Nessie, chupacabra, and things like the Tasmanian tiger which some people believe are not extinct.
I believe that its a big world out there and as much as we would like to believe that we know everything there is to know on this planet, its just not true.
So while i doubt that there is a Nessie or a Bigfoot, i can't honestly say that there i no way for them to be true. The Tasmanian tiger is supposed to have gone extinct in the early 1900s but there have been sightings of creatures that look exactly like them a lot more recently. I think they could exist, its probably just wishful thinking. It hurts my heart to think of all the animals that we have killed off forever. Chupacabra (I'm going to get berated for this one) i think its likely to exist. There have been enough sighting and enough physical evidence to very nearly prove its existence. I doubt it flies, LOL. Its probably some subspecies of coyote or something, nothing really magical.
Dragons, i'm pretty sure they existed once, during a time when man was around. They could have been old dinosaur like things, or something completely different but there are just too many stories from too many different cultures (Europeans, Asians, south Americans, native Americans, etc.) for it to all be made up. As for them breathing fire, who knows. Perhaps they were seen on a cold winter day and their hot breath looked like steam. Then again there is
a certain beetle that shoots fire out of its butt, so who's to say that the "dragons" didn't do something simular.
UFOs--i beleive it when people say that they've seen an unidentified flying object. Whether or not those are from earth or not is the question. I believe the government does have technology that we (as your normal everyday person) knows very little/nothing about. And yes, they do need to test our their experiments somewhere. I think that if AREA 51 did exist as one of their testing facilities, it is no longer the case. Its way too high profile for them to successfully keep secrets there. I don't think the government has one big nefarious plot to keep the masses ignorant and complacent, but i do think they have their secrets.
I don't believe that people get abducted by/see aliens. Its not that i don't believe THEY can exist. Like the cryptozoology thing, i think its incredibly arrogant to believe that we know EVERYTHING about the universe. I just don't think that earth is the magnet of the universe for alien sexual predators. I seriously doubt that the aliens would come here just to peek in our windows and touch our naughty parts.
(And now it gets into the religious stuff, you can plug your ears and run away if you'd like.)
I don't believe that this entire universe was put here just for us. The bible says that the stars were created to declare the glory of God
Psalm 19:1 He crated the stars so that no matter how smart we are and how advanced our technology is, that we are aware of how small we are and how little we really do know.
At the risk of sounding like a religious nut who sees the devil in everything, i believe they are demonic (wait, don't run away) just hear me out. People who claim to have seen aliens up close almost always turn away from God. Now this is totally a work of fiction but have you ever read Dean
Koontz's The Taking. its a really creepy story but a good illustration.
In the end it quotes (some famous person) of saying that if someone
goes into a uncivilized society (say an amazonian tribe who has lost
contact with the outside world) and showed them our technology they
would see it as a miracle-an act of God. It said that if you show an
unbelieving world a great miracle of God (an angel, etc.) they will see
it as alien. Except, of coarse, he said it much better. So what I'm trying to say is that if somebody who does not believe sees something otherworldly they're gong to think its an alien.
and look at the facts, these things always happen when people are isolated, alone. It is never a good experience. Never. It causes fear and confusion and just sets people apart from all those around them. These things rarely do anything to affect the physical environment, just what is going on in a person's head. And usually, once a person is attacked, it is done repeatedly. When people speak of it they get mocked so many people would suffer through it in silence rather than be called crazy. It screams of demonic influence.
Ghosts--I don't believe in ghosts are the classic term implies. I don't think its dead people hanging around. I don't believe that sentient spirits linger. Ever see ghost hunters? A lot of the creepy things CAN be explained by science. Also, i beleive that there can be "afterimages" of an event. These spiritual energies can (sort of) be explained by science.
As for the sentient ghosts, once again i believe them to be demonic. I don't think that there is any sentient spirit outside of God's creation. If it is not an angel (and it should be pretty obvious if it is) then it is a demonic spirit.
I believe that demons are drawn to places of high emotion (fear, anger,
depression, etc. have you ever been somewhere where the atmosphere just
feels ugly) and that's why they are seen in places where people have
died.
I know there are a lot of spirits out there that are not considered malicious, but i believe that is just a subtle way for them to be accepted. If they showed up as "evil" spirits right away, people would cast them out. But if they showed up acting like a "mischievous child" or a "lonely woman" or "my dead grandmother" one would be less likely to cast them out because they think they're "safe" spirits despite the fact that they are scaring the people in the home.
I actually knew someone who started praying to their "grandmother" who haunted their house whenever it would scare her. Talking about feeding the energy. *shiver*