I follow science articles about exoplanets, etc., and it's interesting how
life could be out there. I guess it's arbitrarilly possible aliens even vis-
ited us before but it's not compelling. The basic God concept is possible, you
may hope for it or not, but ethics tell me to rule out arbitrary harm.
The point for me here which makes it relevant to this forum is that Erich von
Daniken uses research material like JWs leaders in affecting exclusiveness
about their dozen or so exclusive rules to sell literature. Research material
is used dishonestly to affect exclusiveness to sell literature.
I likewise don't think Peter Popoff really thought he was getting messages
from God through the radio receiver in his ear, that Uri Geller thinks he has
telekinetic powers, or that a group would put a guy on the other end of the
block from a guy to shoot a rifle on the ground where most of the crowd, many
with cameras, would be looking once the car passed to make the first guy "look"
guilty then get dozens of people to lie and forge anything that could be forged
to keep trouble from coming back to them. I think they're like L. Farrakhan--
cynical businessmen, in his case pandering to bigotry about European Americans,
homosexuals, and Jews, etc., to sell literature and tickets.