Over 13 years ago I was introduced to the book titled The 12th Planet, I read it and found it interesting, not because it challenged Biblical foundation, but due to it's intriguing presentation of history millenium of years ago connected with beings from other planets that visited Earth. You might had heard of the mythical planet Nibiru, it is written and made famous in Sitchin's books.

The idea of alien beings coming to Earth to obtain metals such as Gold, which the movie Avatar has a similar concept and became a blockbuster movie, comes from Sitchin's ideas through his research.

I read several of his books, they present a situation whereby historical and religious concepts have hints or clues to aliens from other planets coming to Earth and having off springs with women of Earth.

His books have been translated into several languages, and his web pages indicates increasing popularity. Mr. Sitchin had passed away, but his ideas of alien civilizations is possibly still going to rake in money for the film industry or new authors.

While there is no physical evidence of space ships from milleniums ago, the idea of such a situation provides enthusiasm for space travel and exploration.

It does seem to come across as a cult following of reading Sitchin's books. However when you see how the film media portrays such ideas in movies like Avatar, the masses enjoy this movie theme.

Does this indicate that what was once a Cult following evolves into a main stream common idea and at it provides work and profits?

Do cults transform into Big Business?

For example do concepts of religious ideas over centuries one day becomes what you see as established employment for all sorts of professions?

The secret to success has shown that it started with Cults?

Well what Cults are there if any today, which you would thus say what success is there going to be in the future, what transformation can happen in the future due to a lack of Cults today!

Sitchin's web page is at http://www.sitchin.com/

Cheers.

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Light of Night.

cults, money, whatever,

the interesting bit here is the simplistic and self- absorbed vision of alien life.

Life may very well have come from elsewhere - there is only one 'here' and an awful lot of out 'there' so statistically speaking it is almost overwhelmingly likely to be alien.

But the idea that aliens came here and 'had offspring with the women' sounds like the sexual fantasy of a teenager with no friends. And very limited imagination.

Alien life is incorporated into our DNA in much more interesting ways than that. Cyanobacteria have developed to live inside plants and photosynthesise for them, in a symbiotic relationship.

Humans, like most organisms ( everything except the simplest prokaryotic bacteria) are only alive because of the alien life inside all our cells - mitochondria, which allow cellular respiration, and basically, all life!

these are not part of our DNA- they have their own DNA (mitochondrial DNA, which is not the same as the DNA in the nucleus of all your cells).

So, alien life forms have already merged with human life and live in a symbiotic relationship inside every cell in our body. This guy's cult science fiction may be OK for a formulaic blockbuster movie but a bit of basic biology is infinitely more fantastic and incredible.

Good point Pedro.

To Pedro: Yes, the world of biology is fascinating. One doesn't need an alien to feel wonder struck with the amazement of life here on this planet alone. In my above post, I didn't mean that an already existing lady already existed. I meant that the aliens had the knowledge to extract DNA from a life form such as an animal and experiment with it and their own and created the first man. This first man could have been a type of robot that could think well enough to perform tasks assigned to it, and was biological so it could reproduce without the aliens always having to create new ones.:) Just a thought:) ...Or perhaps they hoped to create a perfect man.

My favorite alien:

A Star in the Morning asked:


A couple of thousand years ago, the primary religions in this bit of the world were multi-theistic (Roman, Egyptian). One group of people, following a charismatic leader, with an authoritarian God ("You shall hold no other god before me"), grew up.
They were considered to be extremist and their beliefs false.
They had sub-groups who lived unconventional life-styles.



Christianity is no longer considered a cult, and yes it is a main stream common idea and at it provides work and profits.

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Though lovers be lost, love shall not, and Death shall have no dominion. - Dylan Thomas

Is Scientology based upon a similar premise or mythos? I've been told the 'religion' and dianetic philosophy has helped many people in their lives.

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Forgiving is Love, Love is For Giving.

L. Ron Hubbard is the founder of dianetics.

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We say something like this here: "each head is a world"

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"There are many good things to do, but not all of them matter most" D.F.U

Summerians - calculating and seasonal.

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Brain-washing starts in the cradle. - Arthur Koestler

Never heard of Nibiru,
but I truly have some affection to a certain Sumerian girl called Ninkasi.

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

South park 0912 Trapped in the Closet


http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e12-trapped-in-the-closet

Thanks Christine! This is all alien to me

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Freedom is a state of mind.

Fascinating hypothesis Thar, and one that I think has merit. I know that Roddenberry's original Star Trek, made great use of this concept.

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It is all speculation in the absence of anything like definitive proof. I keep an open mind:


Bigfoot,
Yeti,
Loch Ness Monster,

may well exist in some form.


Aliens,

almost certainly do exist somewhere in the universe. But, the creator may have purposely isolated Her children using the unshakable bonds of distance and time. Or, some civilizations may have unlocked secrets of physics that have allowed them to conquer the void.

In any event, there is no proof.

So, we are left with speculation and the imagination can take flight. It's entirely possible that the ancients let theirs take flight in writings on clay tablets, drawings on rocks, and on their monuments.

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"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong". (Knight's Oath, Kingdom of Heaven)

An authoritarian God is definitely a theme that Christianity has adopted and accepted and has lasted into these current days. But there are so many ways that seem to speak of secrets. And after myself trying to find answers to etymology and accurate history has been extremely frustrating. What is by far the most frustrating is that every place there is a very definite dead end, or outright false records, it is as if there is a team of talented people, all with the authority to certify anything that any known actual authority can give the stamp of approval.

So if the intention was to do away with a chaotic mess where a person would be hard pressed to know what is more accurate and what is less, I can certainly understand how and why a group of leaders would decide to front a one and only one system.

But as for life in the physical world, and having to do with tangible objects, it also makes sense. To me and my beliefs ( which are anything but traditional with not only religion, but also psychology and fringe science) I believe (because of my understanding of the forces of gravity, which I will freely admit is not that I know of accepted by professional which are currently considered authoritative) I believe that every Celestial Body can orbit only one object at a time.

I know that there was a quick blurb mentioned somewhere that researchers claimed to have found a planet that is in orbit around two stars. I cannot accept their conclusion due to my views on how gravity exerts force on an object.

It is possible, from my point of view, that what turned into an authoritative God saying my way or the highway, could have been very easily a misconstrued assertion that the Sun is the ONLY Celestial Body that our planet is revolving around. If I knew more about linguistics I might even be able to link it's reason to the statement "ONLY BEGOTTEN SON"

But I cannot, and I cannot begin to express my disappointment that there have not been historical records that were rescued from the Libraries of Alexandria revealed by now. For surely in those days the words "taken by surprise" had slightly different meaning, just as all words do according to context.

I say this because it is only lightening that seems to come out of nowhere, and is finished with delivering it's light by the time it is even noticed.

But if an entire library got torched, unless everyone there was in agreement that the records should be destroyed, I would think that somebody was able to save what they thought may be the most important records.

I know of quite a few people who would be comforted if records brought to light that the message was something akin to our planet only revolving around one Celestial Star and only one. So that people like the folks at NASA could understand orbits, gravity, and foundation of such laws rather than a God who would not accept all right answers to a test and not just one right answer.

Although it could be claimed that his Son was the only way to discern any possible right answer, and still be considered true, but only if the person who made such a claim was not trying to "trip up" or otherwise confuse those who are trying to learn.

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Memory without recognizing the familiar member, is not necessarily re-membering (5/19/2012)

dusty - your linguistic prayers were answered 40 years ago....

Star Trek - Total Brotherhood