No One Else on Earth

Aliens vs. Gods



A conversation we had in class after a fast write sparked an interest in me about the similarities and differences between aliens and gods and how the Taker and Leavers culture views these beings entirely different.


First, to establish similiarities I can't help but notice that both beings are viewed as all powerful and all knowing. The gods have always been a symbol for complete power and influence over all human life in one way or another. Aliens too are most commonly viewed as a higher being with tecnhologies much farther advanced than our own. Both beings have the capacity to control human life, whether through religion or destruction.


Before I go on I have to shoot down one doubt that may be crossing your mind. This doubt it "This all may be true, but ALIENS dont exist" my answer to your doubt is we have no more proof that gods exist than we do aliens.


What really interests me is the views human society has on each of these beings. Leaver cultures used to fear the gods in very much the same way the Taker culture today fears aliens. Takers view the gods as "teachers" in the sense that we look to them for answers and quidance, where as we fear the power aliens would have over us, the same power we allow the gods to hold.


We have asked the gods for quidance for thousands of years and the advancement they have given us has only led to our destruction. The gods couldn't show us the right way to live yet we still continue to ask them to quide us.


Ishmael says that we need to invent our way out of our problems. We pride ourselves on our technologies but also fear the tecnhologies greater than ours. If aliens are out there and they are more advanced than us. Whose to say they dont hold the answer for how we can save our world? Why is it that human instinct is to fear the very advancement that we need inorder to survive?