Absolutely. I have said numerous times that the person(s) who have the best/most understanding of God is a millimeter closer to the reality of God than the person who has the least understanding of God.
What is the difference in the level of proof between the existence of gods and aliens?
What if that other person's god is not your god?
No. I teach students from many different cultures. I give them all the exact same writing assignment and what I receive in return are lovely perspectives from each student. Even those of the same culture.
I see it as one God meeting everyone exactly where they are and working from there. Perhaps the Hindus see it as me meeting one of their Gods, but that God will introduce me to all the others.
The main difference is that I understand space aliens have physical bodies, where as God is pure spirit. When we are working with matter, we are often able to collect and examine physical material.
God--or God(s) if you prefer--are spirit. "Proof" requires physical matter. If you are looking for proof (physical matter) you will never find God. You are looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.
Gee, what if that other person's mom is not my mom? For that matter, what if my own mom related to my younger sisters in the same way she related to me?
There are those who believe that aliens can be noncorporeal so does that equate to "spirit"?
So we have to accept that there is some spirit world that we cannot detect and that there are beings in that world that we can never see or interact with but those beings can somehow change us and our physical world at their whim?
I thought you couldn't equate the spirit with the physical.
Sure. If there is no matter, there can be no proof. Same is true of ghosts. I have a friend who holds no belief in the afterlife, but she had lived in a haunted house and had experienced ghosts many times. She knows I have a background in science and asked if I could explain those ghosts without bringing in the after life.
That's really inconsistent. Your not having done research on space aliens doesn't negate the experiences of others. Their experiences with space aliens should render those experiences as truth as you identified earlier where you wrote, ''Try to accept the truth as I describe it.''.
No, that would be projection. His spirit remains with him.
I do not know a lot about dark matter, but from what I understand it is a force (like gravity). Gravity does not have free will, and it does not appear dark matter does either. Neither appear to have intelligence. I would say dark matter has more in common with gravity (a force) than it has with spirit (intelligence).
You see problems. I do not. I work more with realities and live in reality. Philosophy is how I determine the way I will meet, address, handle reality. I try for the ideal way, meaning often I do not reach the ideal. That's the reality.
I have never heard or seen where a spiritual being can change anything physical at their whim. Take stories of possession, for example. Whether those who study that believe in outside possession or not, one common note from those who believe they were possessed, is that it was with their consent.
What does it matter?
Precisely. In other words, due to my lack of research or being in any way familiar with these stories, I am ignorant of space aliens. I have not had such an experience, so I am ignorant of what goes on during an experience with a space alien.
If any of my Hindu or Muslim friends describe an experience they had with Vishnu or Allah, I would accept the truth as they described it. I would have no reason to dismiss them or their experience.
