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by lpetrich
Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:34 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: ET's -- or Angels?
Replies: 27
Views: 76543

Re: ET's -- or Angels?

SF in pseudoscience The term "science fiction" was invented to describe a certain genre of literature popularized in the 1920s, when pulp magazines specializing in this type of fiction first appeared. But as a category of popular literature, under no particular name, science fiction is to...
by lpetrich
Fri Dec 18, 2015 10:01 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: ET's -- or Angels?
Replies: 27
Views: 76543

Re: ET's -- or Angels?

ET's as latter-day angels brings to mind certain trends in Speculative fiction over the last few centuries. The term speculative fiction refers to any fiction story that includes elements, settings and characters whose features are created out of human imagination and speculation rather than based o...
by lpetrich
Fri Dec 18, 2015 2:28 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: ET's -- or Angels?
Replies: 27
Views: 76543

Re: ET's -- or Angels?

I still have no success in finding Democritus fragments in the original Greek. I once found them for Xenophanes, but I forget where I found them. Fragments of Xenophanes - Wikisource, the free online library has some translations, but no originals. Xenophanes was the one who noted that people tend t...
by lpetrich
Fri Dec 18, 2015 2:06 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Genesis 1 & 2
Replies: 126
Views: 131074

Re: Genesis 1 & 2

Here's how one gets the days of the week from astrology. Arrange the (geocentric) planets in order from slowest to fastest: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon: Sa Ju Ma Su Ve Me Mo The first hour of the first day gets Saturn, the next hour gets Jupiter, the next one gets Mars, and when...
by lpetrich
Fri Dec 18, 2015 1:47 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Genesis 1 & 2
Replies: 126
Views: 131074

Re: Genesis 1 & 2

The medieval alchemists really went to town on lining up the 7 planets (= wanderers) with the 7 days of the week, the 7 heraldic tinctures, 7 different metals, 7 different gemstones, and so forth. You can still see the correspondences in some of the names of the days of the week, especially in Span...
by lpetrich
Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:28 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: ET's -- or Angels?
Replies: 27
Views: 76543

Re: ET's -- or Angels?

From Democritus I find a complete version of the above fragment: There is an infinite number of worlds of different sizes: some are larger than ours, some have no sun or moon, others have suns or moons that are bigger than ours. Some have many suns and moons. Worlds are spaced at differing distances...
by lpetrich
Sun Dec 13, 2015 11:34 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: ET's -- or Angels?
Replies: 27
Views: 76543

Re: ET's -- or Angels?

Besides physical contact, another form of contact is telepathic. This also has an old history. People have been claiming to receive messages from supernatural entities for centuries, and likely for as long as humanity has existed. Messages from gods and angels and ghosts and saints and the like. The...
by lpetrich
Sat Dec 12, 2015 5:33 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: ET's -- or Angels?
Replies: 27
Views: 76543

Re: ET's -- or Angels?

I've found something very weird. Someone who claims to be an extraterrestrial visitor. She is Omnec Onec, originally Sheila Gibson. She claims that she was born and raised in Venus's etheric plane and that George Adamski's Venusian BFF Orthon is one of her uncles. But one day, the leaders of her com...
by lpetrich
Sat Dec 12, 2015 4:51 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: ET's -- or Angels?
Replies: 27
Views: 76543

Re: ET's -- or Angels?

1950's UFO contactees often thought that all of the Solar System's planets were habitable, even though evidence was accumulating even then that they aren't. In 1955, Desmond Leslie wrote for George Adamski's Inside the Spaceships : The latest book to appear concerning the planet Mars has been writte...
by lpetrich
Sat Dec 12, 2015 7:03 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Retcons - continuity by reinterpretation
Replies: 9
Views: 26902

Re: Retcons - continuity by reinterpretation

I appreciate that. :) It seems to me that that both theologians and serial-fiction fans have the same problem. Trying to reconcile a disparate collection of texts, a collection that often had different authors at different times with different styles and opinions and agendas. So it's not surprising ...