I read this book when I was in my teens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spaceships_of_Ezekiel
Spirits, ghosts, and that kind of stuff
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I have a very worn and tattered copy of comic book called 'UFO Encounters' from a publisher called 'Golden Press'.
It consists of a collection of stories about two-three pages in length illustrating various UFO encounters over the centuries, including Biblical encounters, like the one described by Ezekiel.
There are no author or illustrator credits and the copyrights for the stories stretch from 1968-1978.
The only thing I can say is that the style of art is reminiscent of the Gold Key comics at the time and the English text appears to have been translated from another language.
I must have convinced my parents to buy it after seeing it on a magazine rack at a grocery or drug store.
It consists of a collection of stories about two-three pages in length illustrating various UFO encounters over the centuries, including Biblical encounters, like the one described by Ezekiel.
There are no author or illustrator credits and the copyrights for the stories stretch from 1968-1978.
The only thing I can say is that the style of art is reminiscent of the Gold Key comics at the time and the English text appears to have been translated from another language.
I must have convinced my parents to buy it after seeing it on a magazine rack at a grocery or drug store.
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(holds up finger)
"Excuse me. I'd like to ask a question. What does God need with a U.F.O.?"
It'd be hilarious if when we go to heaven we find aliens. It will confuse a lot of people.
Heh helh Jesus was a space alien.
Heh helh Jesus was a space alien.
Yes! I think that's the one!
I remember looking at that a couple of times but not buying it.
Because Golden Press and Gold Key were the same company. The four Enterprise Logs books reprinting early Gold Key Star Trek comics were published as by Golden Press.
It occurred to me that before Stevie Nicks and her song about a Welsh witch "Rhiannon", previous Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch wrote a trio of songs dealing with the unexplained.
The Ghost - from 'Bare Trees'
Hypnotized - from 'Mystery To Me'
Bermuda Triangle - from 'Heroes Are Hard To Find'.
as well as a solo song The Ghost of Flight 401 - from 'Three Hearts'
The Ghost - from 'Bare Trees'
Hypnotized - from 'Mystery To Me'
Bermuda Triangle - from 'Heroes Are Hard To Find'.
as well as a solo song The Ghost of Flight 401 - from 'Three Hearts'
It is a little strange if how many ancient drawings and paintings there are of things that look like rockets and airplanes and things like that.
But to go back to UAPs/UFOs stuff, the things that I find the most interesting is the stuff coming from the military, like Tic-Tac video from a couple years, and now last week a video came out of a second similar thing. And was also an incident at a base recently where some kind of strange unidentified aircraft was spotted nearby with multiple witnesses and even official reports. I'm not even necessarily saying they're aliens, but there does seem to be something going on, even it's just people with some kind of drones or something.
I loved the art in those.Yes! I think that's the one!
Any SF about the universe being pliable enough that—if you believed in a god whose bones made the world—were you to go back in time, you’d see exactly that?
Not exactly, but it sounds similar to Larry Niven's Svetz short stories. They're comedy stories set in an environmentally devastated future where Svetz is sent back in time to retrieve extinct animals to repopulate Earth, using fragmentary records of the forgotten past as references, but the joke is that since time travel is fantasy, Svetz ends up unknowingly traveling to fantasy versions of the past (or parallel universes that resemble them) and bringing back unicorns and dragons and whatnot, without realizing they aren't the more normal animals he was sent back for.
Seems to me that if Heaven exists — which I don’t believe — then it should be filled with aliens (assuming they exist), with humans an infinitesimal minority.
Exactly.
If god created the entire universe would that also include other universes too?
Would that include all the other stars and planets in the sky and would god have put life on those worlds too?
That would mean salvation could happen across our whole universe
One proposal is that our universe could've been created by an intelligent species in another universe, and that universe may have been created by beings in yet another universe, and so on.
Although I think the idea that a god created the universe might be backward. The trend of the universe's evolution is toward greater emergent complexity -- atoms form stars and planets, stars form galaxies, self-replicating molecules produce life, life leads to intelligence, intelligence organizes into civilizations and information networks, etc. So it's conceivable that the process might lead to a universe evolving a collective intelligence emerging from the interaction of individual intelligences or information networks. Rather than an immanent consciousness creating the universe, the universe would create the immanent consciousness. As Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the universe to know itself."
I could see either idea working (or neither), though in a funny way the latter strikes me as an extreme, perhaps-naturally-occurring version of the Borg. Whereas as to the first idea, while I’d never believe in a God that just happened to match a particular religion’s description, I could certainly buy that were running on somebody’s shelf, were it to be demonstrated.
(Or as a variation of the we’re-in-black-hole theory, where Big Bangs are what happens to everything that falls into the singularity, I could buy some ridiculously superadvanced civilization on the outside learning to control the process and shape what gets formed on the inside.)
There was no way I was gonna remember the title and publisher, but when I looked it up I instantly recognized some of the comic images, such as the part with Tunguska and the grooved discs.
Gonna be awful crowded! Like Gideon crowded.
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