July 16, 2000    
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Where do you stand on aliens?

I don't stand on aliens! I wouldn't hurt their feelings in any way, let alone their physical manifestations. Of course, I stand adamantly against Rosewell and other focal points for damn fools. As has been pointed out many times, alien abductions are the 20th/21st century equivalent of spending a night/week/month/year/sevenyears/lifetimes in a fairy mound. I have sympathy for the abductees, but mine is a very abstract sympathy. I don't want to talk to them and I'd really rather not listen to them.  Of course, I've been an avid science fiction reader for 50 years and I'm in favor of greeting interstellar visitors with courtesy, curiosity and

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg
, PA

I don't know and I don't really care all that much either.

Firelady, 22
Dallas
, TX

I have to say that honestly I don't know. I think if they're there -- great I don't care if they're bad or good or anything like that. It would be nice to know that we aren't the only ones out there. But until I see some hardcore evidence with my own eyes, then I can't really have an opinion on

Kate, 19
Bellingham
, WA

Well, I'm hoping they don't exist, even thought I know they probably do. And I really hope they don't abduct people. Cancel that -- correction: I hope they don't abduct ME!

Jaden, 21
Brampton, Ontario CANADA

There's something/someone out there, but exactly what I don't know...we may never know!

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ

I don't know. There's probably some kind of life form somewhere. I don't believe people who swear they've seen a UFO. I think they're all on drugs!

Susan, 31
Chicago,
IL

. . . uh. . like the kind from outer space? I don't believe in em. . not even a little. .

mothmc, 35
Los Angeles
, LA

Mankind is so vain to consider we are the only life form with "intellegence" in the universe. I also think we are vain to assume all life forms are carbon based, or need water or light to exist. I think mankind is arrogant to propose aliens have two eyes a nose and a mouth or have four extremities, reproduce or have male or only female parts. I also think mankind is vain to assume we understand all emotions or comprehend all possibilities, limits, colors, thoughts or dimesions. Mankind is not alone, just to vain to

Jami, 27
Lowell
, MA

For them, if they are friendly, but against aggressors.

Jane, 60
West Linn
, OR

I had a roommate once who was a "child of the golden light". She believed that the world would end in 1995 and California would be the first to go. She was very distraught that when the aliens picked her up she could only bring along two suitcases. She made sure that it was understood which ship we should look for and to be aware of the bad aliens. Aparently, according to her doctrine, we all understood the world would end in our lifetime and had agreed to live with the aliens before we were even born. Another friend's father was levitated in his own back yard in his underwear.  Yet another, frozen, pulled from the inside out, in the middle of a taco bell, having ordered his food from a nonexistant employee...I believe that it is arrogant to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe. I like to believe that there is something larger out there, something I can't necessarily understand.

Tina, 31
Medford
, MA

Well, I've never seen one, but I bet you would stand on an alien on Mars. But why would you want to stand on top of an alien?

Melodi, 19
Hlliard
, OH

On thier neck. I tell you, theres no better way of getting an alien to give you information about the coming invasion and planned annihilation of our species. Damn aliens.

Socrates One
Lowell, MA

I wonder how many people will respond with "between the ribs and knees." I have no reason to believe in them yet or that the possibility of their existence is in anyway relevant to my life.

Alias Irrelevante

Not to answer in a flip manner. I entertain the possibility that they exist despite the fact that there is not proof that they do.

Felicia, 34
Somerville
, MA

It all depends on how tall the people in front of you are.

Shayna, 28
Somerville
, MA

On their heads.  Failing that, I jump up and down on their tummies.

Amy, 23
New Orleans
, LA

I stand on their heads.

Anthony, 25
Baton Rouge
, LA

I don't believe in the aliens with large black eyes, nor do I believe in the abduction stories that are so popular these days. But I believe it's the height of ignorance to think that we are the only intelligent lifeforms in the Universe.

Shanna, 15
Cardiff ENGLAND

My philosophy on aliens can best be summed up by Mulder on the X-files: I want to believe.

Ernest, 29
Washington
, DC

Nowhere, unless they're mean to me. If they're mean to me I stand on their heads.

Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames
, IA

They HAVE to be out there. There is too much space for us to be the only ones. But, visits and flybys, they probably happen but not as often as claimed

Kathy, 26
Garden City
, MI

Definitely on their necks, until they snap. Do not stand on their eyeballs, because they could shoot laser beams through your feet. No, really, if I got to live in an age where our race made contact with other-worlders, I would feel amazed and truly blessed.

Jesse, 24
Bowie
, MD

Totally believe that there is other life in the universe.

Kevin, 33
Sugar Hill
, GA

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