Comment on Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA

• TheActualDevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, I’m pretty sure I fully understand you. I’m just pretty sure that people are either making it up or ascribing normal, terrestrial things that they don’t understand as fantastical things. There aren’t ghosts, spirits, dragons or aliens that have secretly visited earth but choses not to make actual contact. My point is that all of those things are equally unlikely. I assumed my over-the-top absurdity made that clear.

  And I feel like you might be underestimating literally all of the world if you think these things are actually aliens. You’re implying that they would assume something they don’t understand is some mystical nonsense. That “almost everywhere that isn’t the US, even today” is superstitious and wouldn’t know what aliens are.

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  • Wollff@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m just pretty sure that people are either making it up or ascribing normal, terrestrial things that they don’t understand as fantastical things.

    Yes.

    As I said: If there were aliens, those fantastical things, are the descriptions I would expect through most of human history. And in most non US places. After all, aliens are a modern US legend, invented from Americans, for Americans.

    I didn’t say that there were any aliens anywhere. Or that there were any other fantastical things anywhere.

    That “almost everywhere that isn’t the US, even today” is superstitious and wouldn’t know what aliens are

    Didn’t we just establish that aliens are superstition? I think you are overestimating how many people share “aliens” as the most popular superstition which comes to mind first.

    Most of the US shares that. A lot of other places probably don’t. Don’t underestimate how many strange stories about strange things in the night are out there :D

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    • TheActualDevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ya know what? I misread this interaction. My bad. I didn’t realize we were arguing the same point. The last week has shown a lot of people on this site arguing fervently for the case of aliens visiting earth, and I made assumptions. I’m sorry buddy.

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      • Wollff@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No worries! I hope I was not too much of a dick in my response, and I totally understand why and how you would read things the way you did. I’ll just try to express myself more clearly in the future. You know, this communication thing? It’s a never ending struggle! :D

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