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| Personal background |
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My name is Peter, I am 44 years old and I live in the Netherlands, where I was born. From early age on, let's say from about the age of 14, I have this thing with philosophy and philosophical questions. Now for those of you who may think this is an interesting thing to have, well, it is not! For once you are born with it, it sticks to you like a virus, and you'll have to cope with it. For one thing it sets you aside from the mainstream of people, for the things YOU are bothered with, THEY don't give a shit! To put it in different words: While other teens grew up with Pluto, I grew up with Plato... and never the twain shall meet...
Later the virus I had in me drove me to the university, where I studied Theology, and later on mastered in it. Oh sure, I had done some educational and occupational sightseeing in a daring attempt to ignore the virus, but being the tenacious little virus it was, it just had to drive me to theology, eager to flourish as never before after so many years of heroic denial on my part.
Now, ironic as life really is, theology turned out to be a bad host for the virus, for slowly but surely it felt withered, as felt yours truly. It could NOT be kept within the steep theological fences, for it overlooked horizons, where theology could not go... So it broke out, and in full freedom it went on a search for answers on so many, so many questions... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think it would be very closedminded to assume that we are alone in the vast universe. The assumption that this tiny little planet would be the sole lifebearing dot amidst the incomprehensible void among us would be of an unbearable self-indulgence. The possibility of a 'first-contact' however would to ME appear to be something surrealistic. For we cannot imagine how or when this will be, for we cannot think the unknown! But when it happens, we will know...
As for benefits and dangers, well, look at how we treat the earth, how we treat eachother, how countries, races, religions treat eachother, and let's reverse the question; what would be the benefits and the dangers for THEM? For what wisdom do WE have to offer? We keep the river of blood flowing on this planet on a daily basis, so what could THEY gain from US?
Oh yes, we should transmit a beacon for others to find, for the quest for knowledge must go on, but whoever finds it, let's hope they have a sense of humour, a sense of 'relativity', for IF they have the ability to FIND the beacon, to UNDERSTAND it, to COME here, they SURELY recognize us for the moral Neanderthals we still are, and perhaps... leave us be???? |
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