Ray A wrote:Darth J wrote:Oh, so this is going to turn out to better than the fast and testimony meeting that you previously assigned to me as homework?
Your objectivity in these matters shines, Dark J.
It's amazing you didn't become an unbeliever when you were five.
Now, Ray. When you say things like that, it invites comments about your gullibility that would be inappropriate for the Celestial Forum.
You are also burying the needle on the irony meter when you presuppose that I have never looked at purported UFO evidences, then insist that I already had my mind made up when my conclusion is that your previous video was a UFO fast and testimony meeting
after I watched it.Oh, by the way, your documentary is not quite accurate in the statement it attributes to Douglas MacArthur at about 5:07. Neither in his talking with the mayor of Naples, Italy, nor in addressing cadets at West Point did General MacArthur actually make an affirmative statement, as characterized in the video, that "the next war will be an interplanetary war." (Never mind that he would have been wrong, anyway, as there have been numerous wars since MacArthur's lifetime, and the only ones against alien invaders have been in movie theaters or on television.)
Nor did MacArthur give a speech at West Point in 1955 (the date indicated in your documentary).
In talking with Achille Lauro, the mayor of Naples, MacArthur speculated that someday, perhaps a thousand years from now, science and technology would develop to the point that our wars would be interplanetary.
And his speech at West Point, taken in context, makes it clear that he was talking about the potential of mankind, not some imminent alien threat (the knowledge of which we are meant to infer he had because he was a general in the U.S. army). This is what he really said:
We deal now, not with things of this world alone, but with the illimitable distances and as yet unfathomed mysteries of the universe. We are reaching out for a new and boundless frontier. We speak in strange terms of harnessing the cosmic energy, of making winds and tides work for us, of creating unheard of synthetic materials to supplement or even replace our old standard basics; to purify sea water for our drink; of mining ocean floors for new fields of wealth and food; of disease preventatives to expand life into the hundred of years; of controlling the weather for a more equitable distribution of heat and cold, of rain and shine; of spaceships to the moon; of the primary target in war, no longer limited to the armed forces of an enemy, but instead to include his civil populations; of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies as to make life the most exciting of all times.Sauce.