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Was it inability or simply calculation? He made a livelihood out of making up stories about ancient aliens. He was financially motivated to keep telling his sto
by dmortin 9mo ago
Was it inability or simply calculation? He made a livelihood out of making up stories about ancient aliens. He was financially motivated to keep telling his stories.
- eru 9mo agoMight be calculation for him. But inability for many of his believers, who had no financial gain.
- ndsipa_pomu 9mo agoI think a large part of it is wishful thinking. As a scifi fan, I think it'd be great to find out that we were aliens seeeded on Earth by some advanced civilisation. To weigh up the facts and realise that there's all the evolutionary evidence to show that we did just evolve from fish is a bit more boring.
- 453yuh46 9mo agoInterestingly enough, but as a teenager, I classified his stories as sci-fi. And I was absolutely into sci-fi(that was the genre I kept reading right after Fairy tales... yes, Ive read Bible in my early teens as well - nobody asked me to do so) - it made me learn English, as I have read all the ~100 sci-fi books in my language and there was nothing else to read for me.
- the_af 9mo ago> To weigh up the facts and realise that there's all the evolutionary evidence to show that we did just evolve from fish is a bit more boring. Your definition of boring is different than mine. I find the reality of what evidence points at to be awe-inducing! I watch Cosmos (original or 2.0) and I get goosebumps. There's no need to make shit up, the universe is wondrous.
- ndsipa_pomu 9mo agoOkay, maybe "boring" is the wrong word. But just think how cool it'd be if there were bits of alien technology lying around waiting to be found rather than just a non-rusting lamppost, lines in a desert and a few pyramids?
- hermitcrab 9mo agoI've often wondered if he was sincere in his beliefs or just a grifter.
- layer8 9mo agoMaybe he was both, at different points in his life.