Extraterrestrials

I believe that extraterrestrial "aliens" exist. I believe they have visited us and that they have abducted members of our own species. I also believe that the government communicates with them secretly and regularly. I believe many UFO's have been seen and I believe that many people have obtained materials from such aircraft that have fallen into Earth and been rendered unusable. I believe the government is covering up our knowledge of such craft and of everything I stated above.

The thing I don't believe in surrounding this subject is the origin of aliens. So many people assume they came from other solar systems and galaxies. When people argue against other planets being survivable or being the birthplace of life, the believers tell them they can believe whatever they want.

Evolution is something I have taken a long time to think on before believing. I just recently gave up my faith in Christianity. No, don't worry, I won't become an atheist. I strongly believe in God, but I believe the Bible and all major, organized religions are false.

So now that I'm open to the theory of evolution, I can express the following idea.

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We humans have just gotten to the point of organized societies and large community efforts to better our living conditions. It's been about 10,000 years or less since the first groups of humans started acting this way. For about 2 million years, humans have been given the ability to control their environment with very large cranial capacity. About 4 million years ago, we diverged from the other Great Apes in terms of behavior and mental capacity. Before this, apes all acted similarly and monkeys as well. In the history of evolution, oftentimes species are left intact as small populations move on and evolve. It is as though God saw something good about them and sought to keep them around for a while.

What I think happened a few million years ago is that a Great Ape stemmed off of the evolutionary tree of the primates and went on an evolutionary rampage, plowing through to a brighter future in record time. This ape stood upright and lost its hair as the jungles gave way to grasslands and the hiding place of choice changed from trees to water. The development at each stage slowed as other populations continued to evolve. The most evolved population continued to advance as the other populations stagnated and went on with their primitive lives. Soon, the most advanced lifeforms on the planet were similar to us modern humans in terms of mental capacity and cultural advancement. The thing about them was their oneness with nature. They were similar to Native Americans in their knowledge of the Earth as a system that should be revered, not commanded. They had the knowledge to build technologies as advanced or moreso than we had in the Industrial Age, but they chose not to. They built structures and used the land, of course, but they did not abuse it or damage it with wasteful technologies.

Somewhere along the line, they needed to get off of the planet. Whether they saw an upcoming apocalypse or a just had the desire to leave, they used their brains to build ways of entering space. Of course, many of them stayed, but plenty left to visit other objects in space, such as the Moon, Mars, satellites of the gas giants and even other solar systems. Their technology continued to grow with their brains and they adapted to their material lifestyle. They grew weaker, yet more sensitive to their senses and were better able to use their ever advancing equipment.

The remaining portion who stayed on Earth died out due to disease, the rise of violence, or any other theory you can think up on your own. The last refuge of the species was Atlantis, which was dismantled upon the discovery of the emergence of society in humans, another species of intelligent ape. They continued to visit our ancestors, though, since we are, in fact, related evolutionarily. For the past million years, our more intelligent cousins have witnessed the emergence of a rival. We are more violent and apt to make irrational decisions than they were at the same phase, though. They also evolved more quickly due to a desire for intelligence, whereas humans have been content with stupidity for far too long. They have communicated with us indirectly and tried to steer us in the right direction, but we are too ignorant and stubborn in our ways. We, even now, do not believe in their existence, being too arrogant to see that there may be things better than us out there; beings with more intelligence and virtue than any human could possibly have.

To be honest, the aliens must be a group of deities to put up with the shit we deal them with such patience and understanding. I think that, if anything, is what has stopped us from believing in them. They don't think the way we do.

Long time, no OGrilla

It's been a while, crowd.

I just have to make a post announcing my graduation this Friday. ^_^

Well, I might as well go on about other things, too.

I have a job now. It is not as bad as everyone thinks, but I do miss my free time. Oh well, money's always good to have and if I have to sacrifice some of my immensely carefree life, then so be it. This is good for two reasons. Now I can buy anything I want(mostly just gas money, though). It means I can buy things for my computer! Devices and software that will allow me to use my abilities in new ways!

Now it's summer and I've been animating for over a year. I can spend more time on my hobby and get much better at it than before. This is exciting to me because I would love to go into college with several talents already, before learning a few new ones or actually working on my real skills.

I hope to be writing(typing) more stories now, as well. I do go to a role-playing forum, though, so much of my writing skills are being employed there. I hope that the experiences I've had there will help me more with my writing of essays and short stories.

Any other news? Not at the moment, no.

I know it's been a long time since I've used my blog for anything, much less for the purpose that most everyone else on the internet uses it; logging their life for others to see.

~OGrilla out

Backstory #1

The Global Cheaters

"Asteroids may be collected using very strong rockets and highly sophistocated navigating software. When enough matter is gathered, a small planet-like body of rocks can be formed, using the proper tools and techniques. Tools used in this process include superpolymers, motors, hydraulics, gravity wells, nanobotical root systems, and even genuine lifeforms. The last tool can also be used to create bodies used for mostly entertainment purposes.

Techniques available are grouped into several categories, according to complexity. The simplest of these methods is "tying". Tying is the process of using superpolymers to glue, or "tie" the asteroids and other rocks together. The next level is "pushing". "Pushing" includes using motors and hydraulics to force the bodies togetherp; whether it is actually pushing or pulling doesn't make a difference. The last is "growing". The use of nanobots that replicate and form strands, weaving through the bodies of rock, and the process of planting lifeforms on the surfaces so as to grow the roots through every knook and cranny are the two ways of "growing" a globe.

The act of "growing" is useful for entertainment because it already requires the use of a small and simple ecosystem for the organisms to continue to live. Adding more organisms and atmosphere to the globe creates a more complex ecosystem to be studied or enjoyed, which consequently generates profit. This profit, when used well, can be invested into research which may further enhance the entertainment value of the life onboard the drifting body.

Uses of the research performed by the scientists on the staff of the globe contractors extend beyond entertainment value alone. They may be used to create more varieties of available food sources or recreational wildlife reserves. While it is far more dangerous to hold wild animals on the surface of an inhabited planet, some may derive pleasure from directly interacting with simpler lifeforms. This practice is looked down upon by the globe corporations, simply because they feel that their viewership will be decreased if more individuals partake in the raising of organisms for the unfinancial purposes of recreation and companionship.

While the development of techologies to create more environments suitable for life off of the planets is remarkable and beneficial, the forces behind the construction and running of these satellites are somewhat corrupt in their search for power and money. It may not be long before they have all less-than-sentient lifeforms banned from planets and solely contained on these small, fragile balls of rock."

- Huroesk Eph Tiulegh,
Chief Editor of "The Life and Times of Our System"
Friday, July 27, 67393 AD

(© OGrilla 2007)

Nothing and Everything Else

This is a post I made at a forum about the paranormal.

link here: http://www.psistudies.net/forums/index.php

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Nothing exists in this universe as far as mathematics is concerned. We are all made up of nothing. Empty space. The particles that make up our bodies take up trillionths of the volume we represent. When compared to the size of the universe, all of the matter within equals zero by all mathematical measurements. We are basically sealed containers of energy and even that is literally non-existant. As far as I'm concerned, we aren't even here. "We", or our souls/spirits, are bound to a web of consciousness that pervades all of God's creation and our spirits are further bound to the tiny little sub-atomic particles that make up our physical bodies. You could practically say that what we see as reality is a hallucination to our spiritual self. If we could figure out a way to escape the hold this mirage has on our souls (as some of us claim to have done, even if the significance is infinitesimally miniscule), we could become the masters of our world. Fortunately, God has made our view so closed-minded (yes, you "open-minded" people are just as blind and ignorant as the skeptics you so ridicule) that this is, for all intensive purposes, impossible. I have no doubt that the ability to control things outside our representative avatar is possible, but to the extent that we are truly capable of? No.

Sorry to rain on all you cheery folks parades, but we truly are nothing. There is no reason to live other than to seek the most desirable spot next to our God upon release from these bonds. Our spirit will be free to live amongst other souls in the web and commune with the Lord. I believe my Saviour was the person most capable of breaking the bonds of his containment. This was due to his real connection with God from birth and the continual guidance from the vast web of knowledge that only he could see. I have no doubt in my mind that the Old Testament prophets and Jesus' disciples were at least partially free and thus were able to influence matter outside their bodies. To end on a high note, I think that everyone has the ability to preform telekinesis and telepathy and other paranormal acts. It's just a matter of breaking loose from these chains and opening up to the wider web, realizing that what we see is all an illusion and that everything is really nothing.

Geniuses and Saviours

One of the most annoying arguments I hear for the banning of abortion is the commonly used "What if he or she were to grow up and become the next Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., or Mahatma Ghandi?" Of course those aren't the only ones used. Just about any positive historical figure can be an acceptable replacement.

What really bugs me about this is that there have most likely been thousands or maybe even tens or hundreds of thousands of geniuses or people with the ability to change the world, who have been struck down by disease, war, domestic abuse, famine, or any other sort of disaster. They may have had an influence so great that our world would be nothing like it is today, for better or for worse. The thing is, most of them lived in a time when not many intelligent people were alive, so there impact would have been immense.

Today, there are six billion humans and counting. It should be obvious that a number that great would make the possibility of a genius being born highly likely. And it is. And with all the healthcare and medications and cures and what-have-you that enable us to live healthier, longer lives, these people would be able to help out society for a much longer time, therefore making the need for another genius less important. With the odds so high in modern times, what would it matter if a potential Einstein were aborted? We have several alive already, and all are helping as best they can. Plus, with the global population becoming more educated and intelligent, the need for someone with such extreme cognitive abilities is starting to lessen. I know it would be great to have another Shakespeare, Newton, or Benjamin Franklin, but humankind doesn't really need them right now. We could use another Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar, though.

If none of the above makes sense or you don't agree with it, think of this.
Isn't it kind of selfish of us to think only about how an aborted fetus could potentially help the world? Why can't we just think of the fetus as a potential human life instead of some sort of hope for world peace?

One last thing. While I may have given the impression that I am Pro-Choice, I am actually very opposed to abortion. I agree with certain cases such as rape and teen sex, but for the most part, I disagree with the practice.

I would like to end with a late "Happy New Year!" May this year be as good to you as any other.