To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (31584 ) 12/9/2012 6:59:19 PM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300 What you are doing with the "UFO" bizness is just demonstrating the exact way minor & major cults get their startings , how their lores & legends try to take root & survive persisiting in the cultural milieu of human history & experience . This latest minor UFO meme rises up as naturally in the post modern apocolyptic industrial revolution followed on by a rapid century of science expansion with its resulting science fictions, as religions of old did in their times . In exactly similar ways this new cult phenomenon originates & persists , directly correlates to earlier religious /cult beginnings that try to attach themselves to the conscious framework of social folklores born of times of intense upheaval & fear . Just the strong innate natural human desire to desperately want to imagine itself as being "watched over" by superior forces in the midst of its own helpless hapless morass of self generated chaos. When in doubt & fear invent "supermans" , , "godman" , "batmans" or "last prophets", what ever will appeal to a potential public, locking itself onto the latest narrative stories & myths of the times. It only amazes the similarity of belief in crop circles & "Alien mysterios" supposedly creating them or the revivalist Christianity in upstate New York when Joseph Smith & other charmed spiritualist quarks professed their sincere sightings of angels, demons & spirits. And of course these mysterious superior " Aliens" or "Gods" , Angles , Jinns & Spirits are always hiding behind clouds or up mountains , or behind trees and only appear to certain specially endowed individuals usually @ night or in secret sacred places. The parallel between how older pattern religious myths & stories taking hold with the post modern UFO myths is so closely tied together. They couldn't imagine a flying machine in Mohammed's time so they put wings on a horse & that became flying conveyance to heaven . And similar special mosaic patternistic design symbols to infer some higher intelligence become the accepted motifs used in decorating the architectures & walls of the holy shrine of this imagined divine. (nor a bad thing here, one place of human enrichment thru the imagination in architecture )