@maija oh ok, yeah that makes sense. apparently medieval thinkers thought that aliens were beings that were intermediates between mortality and immortality, which they thought was impossible. i kinda wonder what it would be like to have a spiritual experience as someone who's naturally already half-way there, or if it's even right to think of them as being half-way between mortal and divine at all.
anyway i know a couple people like that. they're pretty annoying, but i hope they'll have real spiritual experiences soon. it's usually a cope for something so maybe they can get past it