Aside from scientific principles and information that can be verified independently, on what grounds do we trust anything they say about human history, spirituality or any metaphysical questions? Aren't many of us going to be motivated by our bias and worldview to accept and reject whatever they say on these topics anyway. And why wouldn't we? We have no real means to understand or get at what their actual agenda is or to assess their honesty and integrity. Their technology or some other means could probably fool us into believing anything. Whenever (and if ever) actual disclosure happens, I think the prudent thing to do would be to hold on to whatever beliefs you have regarding history, religion, atheism, etc. Why trade them for a whole new ontological paradigm when you have no way to access the validity of some new alien one? It should take years if not decades of interactions before some kind of basis of trust can be established. submitted by /u/Bjarki56 [link] [comments]