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Originally Posted by Thom Yorke
Of course they were basically identical; Roman gods were derived from Greek gods. This isn't a coincidence if that's what you're implying. Religion is not the only thing the Greeks influenced the Romans on.
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I guess I worded it oddly, my apology. While many of the Roman Gods were directly borrowed from the Greeks, the Greeks based their Gods more on personality traits that they saw in humans (love, hate, dignity, etc) while the Romans based their Gods more on objects and ideas (or vice-versa, sometimes I do get them mixed up). This is really not the main part of the conversation that I was meaning to hit upon, so I don't have much argument here. I guess I was trying to convey that many cultures had/have similar Gods and deities that could very well have been the same entity (or different incarnations of the same entity).
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I am still failing to see any connection to aliens from this. I've already mentioned that they formulated their gods based on nature and astrology.
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Agreed, but I was referring to the physical embodiment of their Gods. The Gods in Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology were physical beings, not just ideas. As are the Gods/Deities/Prophets of most religions. I personally believe that these beings were all (or mostly) ET's or somehow more advanced (physically, mentally, spiritually) than their followers.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying they observed these gods/aliens in some way?
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Yes, I am (assuming we're using the same definition of "observed"). These Gods were literal, they were not just figments of imagination or ideas that were meant to keep society in check.
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Originally Posted by Thom Yorke
Because that couldn't be further from the truth. There was extensive literature debating whether or not the gods existed, or how one could be inclined to believe they existed.
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The existence of Gods has been in question for most of modern history. But in ancient times, it was the exact opposite. God's supposedly showed themselves to humans all the time. Most religious holy books are filled with encounters between humans and Gods. What I'm getting at is that these "Gods" were actually ET's.
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Many didn't even adhere to the pagan tradition, not to mention Christianity was a threat from the start of the Roman Empire, and became the state religion in the 4th century. There was a clash of philosophies, whether it be scientific, metaphysical, ethical or anything else you want to point to.
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The time periods that each of us are referring to are thousands of years apart, so comparing them is a waste of time. From the beginning of time, civilization has always believed in Gods. From ancient Sumeria to Egypyt to Greece to Rome to America, as time progresses, it seems that society has moved more towards an IDEA of Gods, rather than a physical embodiment of them.
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Everything points to the fact that there never was any sort of intervention by some sort of ET, and that their pantheon was just a human concoction to deal with the unknown, like all religion is.
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I disagree. There are many anomolies on Earth that cannot be explained and point to an ET intervention. The pyramids for example (Egyptian, Aztec, Mesopotamia, Chile, Spain, China, Greece, Nigeria, Sudan, India). Many of them are constructed of stones that could not possibly have been moved, carved, or constructed by humans at their respective stages in history. Also, the Nazca Lines (which can only be seen from above), and the numerous mountaintops in Peru that were somehow leveled to make flat landing strips, with no remnants of the rubble left behind or the tools and machinery used to do so. The pyramids of Giza are in allignment with the 3 stars on Orion's belt, how could they have done that? Stonehenge has slits that let rays of light shine through only on the summer and winter solstices.
And besides the HOW, there's also the WHY? Why build a pyramid with specific dimensions and astrological assignments just to house a dead body?