From UFOs to AI Jesus: our life beyond belief

Having just watched the 2024 film Under Paris, I went on Google for usual movie-related trivia, like who produced it and how it’s being received.

Among the top suggestions hinting at what viewers are googling, I got the question: “Is the Under Paris movie a real story?”

It’s about a new species of sharks that nest under Paris in the catacombs. So no, it’s not true. Under what rock are you living if you need to consult Google on such a matter?

But what if respectable scientists claimed sightings of a shark under Paris? Would we call them a looney?

Luis Elizondo, a former senior intelligence member at the Pentagon who led America's UFO search program, left the job so he could speak up about what the US government was allegedly hiding.

He says he’s heavily armed and has six German Shepards for personal protection because many people don’t want him to be vocal about the issue. The issue, as he sees it, is that humanity might be facing the “outrageous extinction event of our own making" and that those stopovers from outer space aren’t exactly courtesy visits.

"We are absolutely not alone in the universe," Elizondo says, hinting that some unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) objects are most certainly of extraterrestrial origin.

This week, Pentagon UFO agency director Jon Kosloski testified on Capitol Hill, spilling the beans to lawmakers on whether there is verifiable proof that aliens exist. As one of our followers on Bluesky aptly pointed out, absolutely no beans were spilled.

The hearing could not have been more dull. Kosloski said there was no verifiable proof of alien existence, yet all identified objects are a potential national security threat. The agency he’s leading (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) was minted merely two years ago, so what could you expect?

Also, most of the material obtained by the government that could be evaluated as potential evidence is classified, so we shouldn’t expect to get anything too juicy anyway.

Talking about any extraterrestrial experience is a slippery slope. When self-declared abductees share their stories in public, they put themselves up for ridicule. Many abductees are claiming they had sex with the aliens, and experts call it “extraterrestrial sadomasochist” fantasies.

“Claims of alien starships visiting Earth always fall short,” a professional astronomer Phil Plait writes in the November issue of Scientific American.

Even if it does, can we allow ourselves to completely shut our minds to the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence?

On the other hand, even if a guardian of the galaxy or Thor himself would show up in front of a mass of spectators, we’d try to explain it with mass hallucination or something of that sort.

One of the more popular explanations for everything these days, like a masterpiece pencil portrait that resembles a photograph, is artificial intelligence (AI).

A church in Switzerland has resurrected Jesus in the form of an AI. Believers already reported experiencing spiritual experiences after interacting with Jesus, an AI.

With tech evolving at the pace it does, I hope we’ll see Jesus walking on water in no time, with people recreating biblical scenes for better effect.

You don't need to look to the stars to find anomalies in our world. So many things in life are identified yet anomalous.

Like Elon Musk intercepting (with permission) the president-elect’s phone calls.

Or Google Gemini politely asking a user to die.

What about an AI talent acquisition agent that’s racist?

Office "abductions" have become a norm, too. People are just casually booking meetings with coworkers sitting right under their noses, as if sending an email or approaching them in person was too old-school.