The Humans Who Are Taken...

You live your whole entire life, nothing at all really 'unusual' happening there. No spaceships, no 'visitations' (don't forget, Christmas is coming and the actual English definition of the word 'visitation' is what happens to Scrooge when the ghosts visit him).

Interestingly, what happens to Scrooge also includes strange 'missing time' - time being played around with: first he goes back to his childhood, then he sees a parallel time in which 'things might have been,' he goes forward to a potential future of great personal misery; and then he returns to the present but it is nonetheless a present that seemed to have skipped back a day so that he has 'gained a day' and not lost any time in his life.

Nobody commonly suggests that A Christmas Carol is science fiction. Or that it is even necessarily science fantasy same as they do not equate The Nutcracker Suite's writer E.T.A. Hoffmann with science fantasy or fiction - and yet that is what is occurring in many of the works of Hoffmann and in this particular work by Dickens.

And yet we have all of the elements of the modern-day 'abduction phenomenon' fairy tale: Scrooge gets abducted, he seems to be able to float around and see things, albeit accompanied with specific direction and intent by one of the spirits (so he's not merely having any old out-of-body experience, and explicitly Dickens goes through the whole question of whether Scrooge is simply having 'a bad dream'), and then he comes back with a totally new moral direction in his life. And - he has moved around in linear time.

Disadvantaged by such an enormous deficit of knowledge of practical science compared to extremely advanced civilizations, the human's only admirable aspect is that they are literally dripping with feelings of need and also want.

Rising up from what would be bathos, some humans try to fly all on their own even if it is for just a short duration above the ground.

The way they do that is to have an optimism that is not completely rational.

Voltaire described that in his novel Candide.  

Some critics hold that Voltaire was openly making a mockery of optimism.

In the professional sophistry of Athens, 'pathos, ethos, and logos' were the three critical ways to influence people: pathos being when you sought to influence them by appealing to the emotions, ethos when you appealed to status or authority, and only logos when you were appealing to reason alone and building up logical arguments.

When women go to high tea, right - they
don't get that it is a big sarcastic
joke being in a Queen's
chair like this. 
They mean to say - 'well, yes, this is
where I am supposed to sit.'
I don't think they even care less
about the finger-food and
the actual tea!
That's Alisha in Kent.

Except logical arguments sway no one on this planet.

And that's really what's quite cute with humans. The human society itself is not in any way constructed along the requirements of logic, but only of mechanistic necessity when that is seen as valuable!

Mechanistic necessity is only a minor part of the realm of logic.

Sentiment arising from what is truly good - is also logical. And some people have that kind of sentimentality in them.

So those are the ones most likely to be 'picked up.'

Not all people, of course, whose emotions and sentimentality are uppermost, are actually attractive to the extremely intelligent, and advanced.

But Scrooge was a good man at heart. And that made all the difference.

Some people are not good.

I am hoping and trusting to some extent, that some of you here have been carefully reading those old ancient books I once talked about with specific reference to the actual 'ET Alien' question - and I do not mean books by Homer. Because if, if you have been doing that, you may be picking up on tiny little hints every now and again, about the devastating nature of those capable of being devastating.

The verses in Isaiah have been widely mistranslated, which seem to say that God is the creator of 'evil.' The word actually is 'devastation.'

I am hoping that at least some of you will know that the Mahabharata (the book by Vyasa), ends with God announcing to Arjuna that he should take the field 'alone, and unarmed....'

The logic of this is that 'you' are being overcome by an equal though qualitatively better 'being.' Thus the events are not based on 'authority,' and nor are they based on the requirement to provoke fear as though fear is something relevant in absolute terms. They are based solely on existential fact. And also on moral fact as an existential piece of logic and reality, although not obviously seen by the eyes of ignorant people - who 'rush headlong into the jaws of death, unsuspecting of their devastation.' We just don't normally witness actual divine retribution.

You have to live with the color, you know...

But it is also existential fact that humans can have completely valid emotions too based around facts in their lives. The idea that an advanced civilized species will not support valid human emotions - is misconceived.

From all of the wider understandings of human society, there is no presence here, and nor has there ever been, any actual beings, call them what you will, who have any kind of 'extra-worldly' power or origin. There are myths and legends of course, and there are religious stories of the past - but none of these are taken as unequivocal historical reality by anyone. There is not understood even by religious people, to be any presence here, for example, right now of those types of beings who once a long time ago annihilated Sodom and Gomorrah and the rest of the five 'cities of the plain.'

And there isn't any, is there? At least, you have never seen them, right? They are completely unnoticeable. Sorry sorry, I mean they don't exist. Right.

Yet... ...This is also the requirement of logic, that they are not seen.

Human sentiment, when it is completely valid, is supportable - you will be okay; things may look and they may be terrible, for now, and they will indeed get a lot worse too, but you will be fine: