What's with humans and what they don't understand?

War of the worlds showed aliens coming from the sky, blowing us to smoke, drinking our blood, eating us, and ultimately, dying because of us (BWAHAHA)

But really, why can't the aliens have came from the sky, and happily enjoyed a conversation with us humans under the palm trees in Hawaii? Why must aliens be things that blast us with some kind of super machine, with us tiny humans running around, screaming in fear and stuff?

Really, this is like ghosts. People have this werid concept that ghosts are things that will crush us, eat our soul, and so on. Really, they could be some cool dudes who don't mind sharing a beer with us or something.

So, why is humans afraid of ghosts, aliens, Loch Ness, Big Foot....

Well, I don't know. But I have a....hypothesis.

We don't understand them.

And we fear what we don't understand.

Animals, technology...these are things we understand, and hence things we don't fear.

But Aliens?

No. We don't understand them, and hence, as what all animals will do, we approach the topic with caution. We don't know whether it's a friend or foe, whether it could benefit us, harm us, or could sit there rotting away for all we care.

Sooner or later, this "feeling" will change into something else.

Like hate.

So, it starts off as some children bed time story designed to scare children to sleep. You know, the usual "If you don't brush your teeth, Uncle ET will take you to planet X", and that type of story.

And somehow, it becomes a fear sooner or later.

Probably thanks to the movies.

Now a days, just mention ghost, and everyone will think it's some scary face staring at you, bloodshot eyes and that stuff. Trying aliens gives you an image that it's some dude with a wierd head, huge black eyes, funny shrunk body....

The usual.

The movie, and hence, the media is that powerful giving people funny ideas. This, on top of some of those TV shows such as X-Files, and with some childhood horrors tossed in, gives people a brand new scare.

A good marketing scare. LoL.

But really, as I've said, are they really to be feared? It's like going to a new place for the first time, meeting new people. Your initial reaction will be fear. Reason? Because you don't know them. However, once you get used to them, who knows? They could be all really nice and cool dudes. Like Hell and heaven, you know. Hell is always one hell pit of fire, but Heaven is some cool paradise on top of the sky.

Could be the other way round. Who knows?

But funny thing is, why isn't heaven feared? Angels are said to be our saviors and stuff, and are hence not feared. Demons and hell, on the other hand, is said to be a monster, super evil, and you will burn forever, or in other words, burn to hell and back.

Funny, the way humans think.

Personally, for me, I'm not really scared of ghosts and Aliens, because I always believe that the movies Exaggerate about them. Heck, look at Scary Movie 3, they showed the aliens as pretty decent dudes, friendly and stuff.

But hey, maybe if the truth is known, the ghost industry will go bust. LoL
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Are we humans ready to time travel?

People have always talked about how if you travel faster than light, you will travel back in time, and all that. Of course, no machine can travel faster than light yet. However, suppose one is invented tomorrow, and is leaked out to the world (because the governments will hide it...."for our safety"), are we ready to go back, and uncover some truths?

Like whether there was Adam and Eve? Or whether Jesus has a wife and so on. Are we ready?

I doubt it.

Really, the fact that there's Adam and Eve is what the whole of christian stands on. Take away the chapter of Genesis, and there won't be much left to begin christianity. Not just that, many things hangs and is still around because it's passed down by word of mouth, or by writing.

However, if we can go back, and see. Things will be more interesting.

And I'm not talking about all those back in 1400s, where the Americans were obtaining their independance or something (Note, year very likely to be wrong. I don't take history. Sue me.). We are talking about whether Dinosaurs were around. How the world came about. Heck, we can even see if the Big Bang happened, or whether God created Humans, or whether those people who supposedly got enlightenment really meditated for 1000 years.

But really, are we ready to accept the truth when it's out? Imagine, billions of followers, suddenly realising their religion is fake, what that has been around for centuries, used to rule people, are all fake.

But that's not the only thing. Imagine, if we are able to go back in time. And do all those stuff which should have been done, but was not done, or vice versa. Like the bomb which should have killed Hitler, but didn't because he left early. Or maybe if Eve didn't take the fruit, but threw it at the snake instead.

All the consequences, are we ready for it? No world wars, heck, we all could be living in a nice garden right now, if Christian is true.

Doubt the humans are ready though.

First of all, if we change something, that timeline is cut, and a new one is spawned. Imagine what could have happened if the world war did not happen. Your grandparents or whatever, did not meet each other because they were not in the same bomb shelter, because there isn't air raids. So, you are not born, and what you've done, all the morons you kicked, the noobs you killed in DOTA. They will all be...nothing.

And something new is spawned instead. Perhaps that noob that would have given up DOTA because you owned him so badly, didn't get owned that badly, and hence continued to play DOTA instead. He goes on to become some kind of DOTA god, and forgotten when WC4 appears (lol..DOTA is over-rated, BTW).

But what's really is the faith which all of us hold. How humans came about, why Ah Seng was murdered. Everything will be solved. But I still don't think humans are ready to accept it. This is especially for Faith, because that's one thing wich people seek comfort and solace from, as well as guidance. One day it's there, the next, it isn't.

Scary. I think there will be mass suicides or something. LoL

Perhaps...
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Song of (whatever) changed to Don't Look Back Again, by WAG, from Saiyuki Reload Gunlock's opening theme. I didn't realise that my usual sources released it...

Oh well. It's decent enough, but I think the older ones are a little nicer.