There is this group of
Earthlings who went crazy for a long time and took over most of the
planet. Then after one last blazing fling about 70 years ago, they
mellowed out. They don’t take over anything anymore.
It all started when the
Europeans realized that a group of people who believed something
surprisingly not all that different from what they believed
controlled a city that the Europeans believed was important to what
they believed.. That really pissed them off. So they raised a huge
army and attacked those other people, called Muslims, and took the
city, Jerusalem. Then the Muslims took it back. Then the Europeans
took it again. And the Muslims took it back. This went on for a while
with the Europeans getting decreasingly successful at it.
They gave up.
Then they found out about
all the land there was in the rest of the world and the people in it
who didn’t believe anything like what they believed. And they might
have gold. So the Europeans switched focus to saving all these other
people from their beliefs and their gold.
And this made the lives of
these other people a living hell because they were usually pretty
happy living their lives without ships, swords, Jesus and horses. And
they definitely could have done without the slavery.
But
it all fell apart when the Europeans realized even they didn't all
believe the same thing. Because getting beliefs exactly right is very
important to Earthlings. If you are even slightly off they get very
violent. This is what brought the Europeans down. They spent a lot of
time killing each other over it. (If I told you how many wars have
been fought in the name of the King of Peace, you'd call me a liar.)
In
the end, it seemed like they were fighting just to fight. So
finally they said, “This is crazy. We are done with this.” They
really seem to have learned their lesson and are really trying to get
along.
But
one of their descendants, the Americans, picked up the crazy ball and
are really running with it. And going by the fact that the Europeans
ran with it for hundreds of years and went out with a really big
bang, I don't think the Americans are going to stop any time soon.
They’ve got a full head of steam.
The moral here is if an
Earthling shows up on your shore saying, “I come in the name of [X]
to bring you [Y],” run. As deep into your jungles as you can. And
whatever you do, don't tell them you're not interested. They will
brand you a heretic, or a communist, or whatever the current wrong
thing to be is. (Socialist is big now.) This will make you fair game
for torture, forfeiture of natural resources and enslavement. Come to
think of it, it doesn't matter how you respond. You're still fit for
torture, forfeiture of natural resources and enslavement.
As I said, run.
Observer003
– Earthlings
