NASA Is Hiring Religious Leaders To Prepare For Encounter With Aliens ?

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Seems to me our best chance of meeting aliens is to smoke DMT.

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Dan74,

https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.p ... t=#p608493

That guy’s story is pretty interesting, especially if he’s not making up what his friend told him.
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Sādhaka wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 4:31 pm Dan74,

https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.p ... t=#p608493

That guy’s story is pretty interesting, especially if he’s not making up what his friend told him.
Cool story and animation, but forgive me for being skeptical of what people who make content for the web tell. Might be true, but may as well be a nice story.
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I’m surprised this isn’t making more people question if NASA and the whole space agencies are propaganda arms.
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What if aliens were just the friends we made along the way? :D
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Nadereme wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:03 pm I’m surprised this isn’t making more people question if NASA and the whole space agencies are propaganda arms.
Aren't we far enough into :rolleye: and :alien: territory already?

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No one's yet made the connection between religious leaders, religious proscriptions against sodomy, and anal probing.

Obviously there's a disco ball in the flying saucer. Good religieux have to dispossess them of their Greek ways.
Then, the monks uttered this gāthā:

These bodies are like foam.
Them being frail, who can rejoice in them?
The Buddha attained the vajra-body.
Still, it becomes inconstant and ruined.
The many Buddhas are vajra-entities.
All are also subject to inconstancy.
Quickly ended, like melting snow --
how could things be different?

The Buddha passed into parinirvāṇa afterward.
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Caoimhghín wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 10:25 pm No one's yet made the connection between religious leaders, religious proscriptions against sodomy, and anal probing.

Obviously there's a disco ball in the flying saucer. Good religieux have to dispossess them of their Greek ways.
What if the Greeks are all aliens secretly masquerading themselves with gyros, tzatziki sauce, and beards with the intention to promote hedonism and "probing?" Or better yet, what if everyone we consider a "friend" is an alien and those that we consider enemies were once our friends who too are aliens?
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What if Māra's the Buddha and the Buddha's Māra?

:jawdrop:

We're blowing this wide open.
Then, the monks uttered this gāthā:

These bodies are like foam.
Them being frail, who can rejoice in them?
The Buddha attained the vajra-body.
Still, it becomes inconstant and ruined.
The many Buddhas are vajra-entities.
All are also subject to inconstancy.
Quickly ended, like melting snow --
how could things be different?

The Buddha passed into parinirvāṇa afterward.
(T1.27b10 Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra DĀ 2)
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Caoimhghín wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 11:32 pm What if Māra's the Buddha and the Buddha's Māra?

:jawdrop:

We're blowing this wide open.
Yep,

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Caoimhghín wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 11:32 pm What if Māra's the Buddha and the Buddha's Māra?

:jawdrop:

We're blowing this wide open.
There’s a huge global conspiracy suppressing this.
Big Dharma doesn’t want us to know the truth.
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PeterC wrote: Sat Jan 01, 2022 4:51 am
Caoimhghín wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 11:32 pm What if Māra's the Buddha and the Buddha's Māra?

:jawdrop:

We're blowing this wide open.
There’s a huge global conspiracy suppressing this.
Big Dharma doesn’t want us to know the truth.
Isn't there a teaching that also states that neither exist yet exist and that they're the same thing?
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Caoimhghín wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 10:25 pm No one's yet made the connection between religious leaders, religious proscriptions against sodomy, and anal probing.

Obviously there's a disco ball in the flying saucer. Good religieux have to dispossess them of their Greek ways.
But it all goes *way* further than that. The aliens have amazingly similar difficulties with knowing what is really going on ...

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Vatican Space Observatory home page http://www.vaticanobservatory.va/conten ... na/en.html

"The 1.8 meter Alice P. Lennon Telescope and its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), is a Gregorian telescope observing in the optical and infrared situated on Mount Graham in southeast Arizona, United States. It achieved its first light in 1993.
VATT is part of the Mount Graham International Observatory and is operated by the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, in partnership with The University of Arizona."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_A ... _Telescope
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Aemilius wrote: Sat Jan 01, 2022 12:30 pm Vatican Space Observatory home page http://www.vaticanobservatory.va/conten ... na/en.html

"The 1.8 meter Alice P. Lennon Telescope and its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), is a Gregorian telescope observing in the optical and infrared situated on Mount Graham in southeast Arizona, United States. It achieved its first light in 1993.
VATT is part of the Mount Graham International Observatory and is operated by the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, in partnership with The University of Arizona."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_A ... _Telescope
Does that have anything at all to do with your topic, Aemilius?

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Kim O'Hara wrote: Sat Jan 01, 2022 10:04 pm
Aemilius wrote: Sat Jan 01, 2022 12:30 pm Vatican Space Observatory home page http://www.vaticanobservatory.va/conten ... na/en.html

"The 1.8 meter Alice P. Lennon Telescope and its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), is a Gregorian telescope observing in the optical and infrared situated on Mount Graham in southeast Arizona, United States. It achieved its first light in 1993.
VATT is part of the Mount Graham International Observatory and is operated by the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, in partnership with The University of Arizona."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_A ... _Telescope
Does that have anything at all to do with your topic, Aemilius?

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Yes it is connected to it. You could, for example, think that Vatican doesn't trust the scientists, how they are using their telescopes, and they want to find out what they themselves are able to see with it. Or perhaps they think that scientists are not telling everything that they have found. Which is quite possible, because scientists have families and loans and they want to keep their jobs and therefore they are not going to broadcast anything that will cause them to lose their positions as respectable scientific persons along with their salaries and sponsors.

Also, as has been told before, there is a prophecy in the New Testament, that has something to do with stars and their courses in the sky and even their inhabitants. This is understandably a rather secret and esoteric topic. If you are really interested, -which doesn't seem likely-, you can try to find it out yourself.
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My Dad told me years ago, "Don't believe anything you hear and only believe half of what you see."
I wasn't sure he was right back then (what do Dads know, anyway?) but I now think his advice was pretty solid.
I encourage you to take it on board.

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Aemilius wrote: Sun Jan 02, 2022 8:45 amYou could, for example, think that Vatican doesn't trust the scientists, how they are using their telescopes, and they want to find out what they themselves are able to see with it.
This is very unlikely. There is a Vatican observatory that is owned and operated by them. They can look through the telescope themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Observatory
Then, the monks uttered this gāthā:

These bodies are like foam.
Them being frail, who can rejoice in them?
The Buddha attained the vajra-body.
Still, it becomes inconstant and ruined.
The many Buddhas are vajra-entities.
All are also subject to inconstancy.
Quickly ended, like melting snow --
how could things be different?

The Buddha passed into parinirvāṇa afterward.
(T1.27b10 Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra DĀ 2)
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Caoimhghín wrote: Sun Jan 02, 2022 3:08 pm
Aemilius wrote: Sun Jan 02, 2022 8:45 amYou could, for example, think that Vatican doesn't trust the scientists, how they are using their telescopes, and they want to find out what they themselves are able to see with it.
This is very unlikely. There is a Vatican observatory that is owned and operated by them. They can look through the telescope themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Observatory
Sure they can! I meant the the hundreds of other observatories around the world, that are not owned by them.
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They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1. (in english and sanskrit)
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The nice thing about astronomy is you can easily get your own telescope and do your own research if you're not satisfied with pics and research published by others. There is way more out there to look at than planets & moons even using relatively inexpensive equipment.
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