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Sociology, Theology, Anti-Religion and Exploration: Forcing Humanity Forwards
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The Food Chain: Esoteric Lessons From the Energy of the Sun
New page: "The Food Chain: Esoteric Lessons From the Energy of the Sun" by Vexen Crabtree (2007), conclusion reads:

"What appears at first to be a purely technical matter; studying the rise of energy from basic single-cell life forms through the trophic levels to the predators that gather food over massive areas, can lead us to some serious exobiological, philosophical and even theological debates. Firstly, advanced alien life is likely to find it hard to gain enough energy to survive from digesting us alone, so probably won't be inclined to try. But alien life may well use different metabolic pathways and different biological chemicals so we may find each other utterly inedible and potentially very poisonous. If life in the universe is generally carbon-based, then, it is possible aliens could digest at least parts of us. But they probably won't, as space-faring advanced species have probably out-grown genuine carnivorous diets, as perhaps we are doing by relying on increasingly processed food (eventually grown in vats) coupled with increasing care for animal rights. Now, dietary exobiology aside, the very fact that life evolved from its unconscious, automatic beginnings, to rely on a cycle of life and death (where life survives by killing other life) indicates that if the cycle of life has a 'designer', such a God is an evil one. Only an evil God would design life so that to stay alive, animals have to kill other animals. This 'victory of death' is the exact opposite of what a good god would have designed, where all animals and plants survive on mystical energy from heaven without need for killing or competing for food ('victory of life')."

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Listening To: "Recoil" by Flesh Field

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Human Life, Consciousness, Alien Life...
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What do Martians Look like?

Apparently a really good book on the potential biology of alien life including gas-life, etc, that normal people wouldn't often be able to imagine and that we would find very difficult to recognize as life. (I.e., self-replicating living electromagnetic life). No doubt will include Gaia Hypothesis material.

Will link this from old, old page "Life on other planets".

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Dream: Peaceful aliens

Dream: Peaceful Aliens

This dream involved no guns, war, chasing, combat, violence or fear! In it, I am a normal person who works in a small city in a shoe/trainer shop.

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Aliens and Dreadnoughts

Aliens and Dreadnoughts

Read dream on web page

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Listening To: Justin Bourne & Dynamic Intervention - "Kick up the volume"

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Discovering Intelligent Alien Life: The Politics of War and Fear
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The Nature of Alien Life on Other Planets