Let's talk about Halloween, filters, and Fermi....

By Beau of the Fifth Column.

My comments:

Those who traffic in near death experiences and channeling say that there is a vibrant galactic civilization with one rule - don't contact more primitive cultures. That would be us. According to sources, many are wondering if we will make it or not.

The operative metric for joining the civilization is not developing faster than life travel. It is developing a culture that goes beyond blame (aka original sin). Truly civilized societies have a more direct contact with the Divine than we do, which is why they know each other and the rules. They have gone beyond what we call "free will" which is essentially the right to call other people evil to justify bad behavior. Especially where it comes to religion.

Until we accept the absolute humility of God (rather than creating a vision of divine retribution) that we serve others with, rather than serve, we will be considered a backwater who people are wondering about filtering out. Putting the test in this way means that we might actually pass it. We seem to be at a turning point at the moment.