Any opinions on Ancient Aliens?

[Teyrn]

More fringe horse shit you'll find on on History Channel specials (yeah alien hairdo guy is pretty cool ).

[1810-2010]

[that might explain why
i enjoyed his books

as much as those by [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] h.p. lovecraft,
e.e. smith and larry niven.

I'm an unconditionnal admirer of Lovecraft's work =)

I'm sure if i tried hard enough I would even be able to find "evidences" of Lovecraftian litterature in the Bible and even find hidden the names of Cthulhu, Yog-Sottoth and Nyarlathotep in the bible i nthe same way than some "experts" "found" of the so-called Bible code hidden prophecies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Columbia Shuttle tragedy or the 9/11 terrorist attacks

[1810-2010]

I've seen him on TV too he said that the only way to prove he is wrong is that Aliens come now and tell us "We've never ever been on Earth"... but even if this came to happen he would say "it is because the ancient aliens came from another galaxy system completely unknown to these aliens "

[Bobcat Fraser]

And his rival Satan, too

Some fundamentalist Protestants claim that all EBEs are demonic entities. It's one of my pet peeves. They see *all* aspects of the paranormal in black and white. There are no shades of gray with them.

[1810-2010]

Some fundamentalist Protestants claim that all EBEs are demonic entities. It's one of my pet peeves. They see *all* aspects of the paranormal in black and white. There are no shades of gray with them.

True.
They get even Mad at the very idea that there could be any form of life in another planet, even in their simplest form.

[Osprey]

I've read that a well, it is interesting but it is just a likely that the stories we found are what we refer to now as fiction. For some reason researchers take everything literally, when there isn't any evidence to suggest it is literal in the first place, ancient peoples were just as likely to write stories and myths for entertainment as they were to record events.

Ancient People could not have constructed such vast, complex stories by themselves.
The Human Mind is inhenently unimaginative.
It is manipulative.
You need to have the data to create events.
And it was not in a stage to visualize entire books just by seeing some locations.
Hence , the ancient texts are not merely stories written by jesters.

[Osprey]

Chariot of the Gods is an interesting historical document... of the delusions of the 1970s. People back then (thousands of years ago, not the 1970s) were at least as smart as us, and convicted fraudster Erick von Daniken could not give any credit to the ingenuity of our ancestors.

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[1810-2010]

Ancient People could not have constructed such vast, complex stories by themselves.
The Human Mind is inhenently unimaginative.
It is manipulative.
You need to have the data to create events.
And it was not in a stage to visualize entire books just by seeing some locations.
Hence , the ancient texts are not merely stories written by jesters.

People in general might be unimaginative but among all that lot there would have been a few that would be very imaginative just as it happens today, and might be these fews who wrote the story.
moreover some ancient texts might not be as ancient as one thinks and by the time they were written the oral traditions on which they were funded would have been enriched in details by each generation of this imaginative minority who kept the knwoledge.
I do not remain completely closed to Ancient Aliens theroy but I personaly would need further evidence instead of a couple of odd carvins here and there and interpretations of ancient texts that should be subject to caution. If Aliens woudl have visit mankind in the apst and eventually participated in funding of civilisations they would have left further evidences than those I already cited (odd carvings & drawings);


Please mark my words I do nto knwo if you give credit to the theory according to which they participated in the building
of Pyramids in Egypt and Meso America, the Nazca lines, Stonehenge and the Pascua Island colosus; but just in case you would (I say clearly just in case) consider this;

-Why then in none of this complexes scatered all over the world didn't we find any eveidence of more advanced building materials; instead of that, all of them are Only built with materials that people of these times and places were able to manipulate and work

-Egypt's great Pyramids are dated to 2500 or 2400 BC / The msot advanced phases of Stonehenge (from Stonehenge 3 I) begin from around 2600 BC and Stonehenge 3 IV (2280 BC) -can say hence almost simultaneoulsy to Great Egypt Pyramids) and completed by 1600 BC. The question is : why would they build on a side of the planet so very advanced buildings such as great pyramid and on the other side of the planet they would content themselves build or help to build rougher structures that would complete only a milenia later.

-the Nazca lines are dated to the 4th and 7th century AD BC ; the oldest American pyramids are estimated at 1000 BC -Similar question as above; why there is such a discontinuity in alien achievements? why they begin building great pyramids and fifteen centurys later they content themselves to trace big dcarvings in a desert.

-So if aliens are supposed to have helped humans with civilisation from the begining of Sumerian civilisatiosn at around 4000 or 3500 BC to at least the tehotihuacan times which started at 550BC and ended by AD500; if they have been with us in a such large range time of 45 centuries there should be at least a technoligical continuity. Instead of that we have all the contrary, civilisations arising, declining and dissapearing here, civilisations arising everywhere with enormous geographical and chronological gaps; great civilisations dissapering here and then other great civilisation appearign elsewhere but never reaching as a high grade of advanced than civilisations collapsed logn before, often in the same gepgraphical area; where is the continuity in achievement and progress that an advanced alien civilisation should have brougth us? moreover why during all that time human life expectancy was aroung 30-40 years? would advanced alean technology have eradicated most of human illnesses and improve life expectancy?

-If Aliens have something to do aboutbegining of civilisation, it should ahve arouse simultaneously everywhere -Sumer, Egypt, Western Europe, Americas- instead of that they appeared with milenia of difference: Sumer is 1000 years older than Egypt - Megalithics cultures are older than both but their progress is dsicontious and with lot of periods in which their culture draws back to a less advanced status then bounces up again ... and the Amerecias civilisation not arousing untill the beginign of the 2nd milenium BC ...