It may sound like a horror movie, but“The Door to Hell” it’s actually a natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan.  However, this giant hole of fire in the heart of the Karakum Desert is not a natural phenomenon.

“The Door to Hell” is a crater made by geologists more than 40 years ago, and the flames within have been burning ever since.

In 1971 a group of Soviet petroleum geologists set out to explore the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan. They were actually looking for oil fields.

Instead, they found gas and based on their incorrect measurements and data, the Soviet engineers started drilling operations so that they could successfully assess the gas reserves of the area.

They drilled over a big cavernous pocket of natural gas and it collapsed soon after the operation began. The ground created an enormous sink hole with diameter of 69 m and 30 m deep.

Geologists had to choices back then: to let the dangerous methane vent into the atmosphere, putting the local population and environment at risk, or to set it on fire and prevent the spread of deadly methane gas.

They chose the second one, hoping that the gas will be burnt in couple of weeks. It’s been more than 40 years now and the crater is still burning.

There are no official records of the tragedy.  The Soviets geologists allegedly concealed the extent of the disaster, leaving no paper trail, not even an incident report.

Why the name? The Door to Hell is actually a name given to the crater by the locals.The name was drawn from the fact that the crater not only hosts a fire that burns continuously but hosts boiling mud as well. The orange flame together with the boiling mud give the image of hell as etched into human subconscious mind by religion.

There’s an alternative theory as well.  Since the crater is the only light and heat source at night, animals are naturally attracted to it. It’s believed that camel spiders, seduced by its warmth, will approach and plummet to their deaths.

The crater is a very popular tourist attraction. The gas crater has a total area of 5,350 m2, which is approximately the size of an American football field. Besides the crater, the surrounding area is popular for wild desert camping.

So, if you wish to do something unusual, add visiting The Door to Hell to your bucket list. Tourists who have visited the crater say that it’s pretty amazing to be so close to hell.

‘I must say, it did strike me how blasé we all became to the obvious risks. The edges were nothing but dry mud, and you could see it crumbling under your feet, yet taking that photo just a tad closer remained almost a magnetic enticement.

Falling in would truly be horrendous, a painful death by asphyxiation, slowly cooked by the flames as the sounds of those panicking above are drowned out by its roar.

You’d be helpless. I asked, and apparently no tourist has fallen victim, but there was an urban myth of one local who wasn’t quite so lucky,’ says Elliott Davies, a tourist who recently visited the crater.

According to explorer and storm chaser George Kourounis,  at first sight the crater seems ‘like something out of a science fiction film. You’ve got this vast, sprawling desert with almost nothing there, and then there’s this gaping, burning pit … The heat coming off of it is scorching.

The shimmer from the distortion of it warping the air around it is just amazing to watch, and when you’re downwind, you get this blast of heat that is so intense that you can’t even look straight into the wind.

You have to shield your face with your hand just standing at the crater’s edge. Here I am thinking, Oh-kaaaay, maybe I’ve bitten off a bit more than I can chew.’

Being still relatively unknown, The Door to Hell even caused some embarrassment for Russia’s Channel One. In 2013 the Russian Channel One was tricked by some YouTube user and aired it in the aftermath of Chelyabinsk meteorite’s fall.

Airliners have a rather stringent list of rules and regulations that passengers are required to adhere to from the moment they board the plane to the moment they step off it.

And while most of these regulations are self-explanatory in terms of the purpose they serve, others are not that straightforward and require some additional exploration.

Such is the “airplane mode regulation”. As you probably already know, airliners require all passengers to switch their personal electronic devices on airplane mode for the duration of the flight.

The most popular opinion is that this is done for safety purposes, as people think that active cell phones might interfere with the plane’s navigation equipment and compromise the safety of everyone on board.

However, this notion has never really been proven to have any significant bearing on the plane’s systems and overall performance.

“It’s never been proven that a mobile phone signal has interfered with the navigation performance of the aircraft,” a pilot has told the Business Insider.

“But just because it’s never happened doesn’t mean it will never happen.”

The real reason why airlines make passengers put their phone on “airplane mode” is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent U.S. government regulatory agency responsible for overseeing all interstate and international communications.

FCC’s regulations state that the use of cell phones on planes is banned in order to “protect against radio interference to cell phone networks on the ground.”

In laymen’s terms, this means that when flying at 40,000 feet in the air, active cell phones would be picking up service from multiple cell towers on the ground, potentially crowding the networks on the ground and disrupting the service.

In order to get around this limitation, some international airlines have cell phone receivers installed on selected planes so passengers can call or text in the air.

Many US airlines also allow passengers to connect to Wi-Fi so they can surf the web and send messages.
However, most airlines, including American Airlines, Virgin America and United Airlines, still restrict passengers from making calls over in-flight Wi-Fi.

“Cell phone and Voice-over Internet Protocol (VOIP) services are not available with in-flight Wi-Fi,” state the airline’s regulations.

“For the safety and comfort of our guests, VoIP and Video Chat are also prohibited,” says Virgin America.
“Voice and video calls are not permitted,” reads United Airlines’ rule book.

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Are you one of those people who hate mornings? Mornings can be rough, but a Harvard psychologist has devised a method for making your mornings better.

Amy Cuddy (American social psychologist) says that the first thing you should do when you wake up is to stretch out! It’s as simple as that! You should stretch your body as wide as possible before you even put one foot on the floor.The theory behind that is called “power posing”. Try to stretch out as much as you can and make yourself as big as possible. This pose mimics that of a confident person and helps you to make your mind and body believe you are more confident.Amy Cuddy is the author of “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges.” It’s a book on the subtle yet powerful ways our posture can influence our thoughts and emotions.

Cuddy’s TED talk on power-posing, on how standing like Wonder Woman can build confidence, is the second-most-viewed of all-time.

People think that their behavior follows their own emotions.  Cuddy’s research suggests the opposite is also true, meaning that we can become more confident simply by striking a power pose.

Body Language is a very significant aspect of modern communications and relationships. Other people’s body language helps you to see their feelings and meanings to you and your own body language reveals your feelings and meanings to others.

Cuddy explained how that wisdom can carry over to your daily routine at a recent talk at New York’s 92Y. ‘It’s obviously bi-directional, but the people who wake up like this are super happy, like annoyingly happy.’

‘And what are nonverbal expressions of power and dominance? Well, this is what they are. So in the animal kingdom, they are about expanding. So you make yourself big, you stretch out, you take up space, you’re basically opening up.

It’s about opening up. And this is true across the animal kingdom. It’s not just limited to primates. And humans do the same thing. (Laughter) So they do this both when they have power sort of chronically, and also when they’re feeling powerful in the moment. And this one is especially interesting because it really shows us how universal and old these expressions of power are.’

On the other hand, you could be doing your emotions a disservice if you wake up curled like a cat.

‘If you sleep in a fetal ball, we have some preliminary evidence that people who wake up like that wake up much more stressed out,’ Cuddy says.

She says that aproximately 40% of people sleep in the fetal position, and this position could be making them less confident throughout their day. If you multiply those individual mornings across entire weeks, months, years, one annoying morning turns into a lot of unnecessary misery.

Experts have revealed that sleeping naked is the key for getting a good night sleep.  There are numerous benefits of sleeping without your pyjamas, the first being that you help your body to breathe and get fresh air. Taking your pyjamas off can also keep your cortisol in check (the biochemical in our bodies which affects out levels of anxiety and stress).

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We have all heard of Johnny Depp’s lavishing and extravagant lifestyle, but the details reveal a bit more than you may have bargained for. Talk about heavy spending! Depp reportedly spends $2 million a month.

According to The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Mail, Johnny Depp hit his previous business managers with a heavy $25 million lawsuit. 

He claimed that The Mandel Company (TMG) grossly mismanaged his affairs, failing to accurately pay his taxes on his behalf, even made unauthorized loans, and overpaid for many services, which according to him, cost him “tens of millions of dollars”.

This eventually lead to financial trouble. Depp states having become aware of this in March of last year.

The lawsuit itself stated that Depp is living an extravagant $2 million a month lifestyle, which includes a total of $30,000 spending only on wine brought from all over the world,  14 houses and several real estate, and collectible 70 guitars.

Filed this week, the lawsuit claimed that TMG “did everything within its power over the last 17 years to protect Depp from himself and to keep Depp financially solvent” but that TMG “did not have the power or ability to control Depp’s spending or his numerous other vices, or to force Depp to make wiser financial decisions.”

“Depp lived an ultra-extravagant lifestyle that often knowingly cost Depp in excess of $2 million per month to maintain, which he simply could not afford,” writes attorney Michael Kump in the cross-complaint.

“Depp, and Depp alone, is fully responsible for any financial turmoil he finds himself in today.”

Once the details of the lawsuit from TMG, juicy information was discovered on the frivolous things Depp spent money on, some of which may blow your mind. 

Among many other things, Depp allegedly spent $75 million on buying and fixing up luxurious real estate.

This does not only include the 45-acre chateau in the south of France, which has face valued of $13.5 million. It also covers a chain of islands in the Bahamas, several houses in Hollywood and penthouse lofts in downtown Los Angeles.

He even owns a horse farm in Kentucky. As if this weren’t enough, Depp has a full set of employees at each house.

Depp owns a total of 45 luxury cars, which, as you can imagine, cost a fortune.

Cars are not his only obession. Apparently, he spent $18 million on a 150-foot luxury yacht, which he was later believed to have sold to J. K. Rowling.

According to TMG, the only way he flew was by a private plane, and not any private plane, but the Gulfstream GV, which cost him a total of $200,000 every month.

Not to mention the 70 collectible guitars Depp owns.

Oh, and did we forget to mention his marvelous taste for fine wine? Depp has an enormus appetite for wines and has them shipped from all over the world for his liking.

This allegedly costs him $30,000 a month for wine. Out of all the frivolous things he spends on, wine has to be one of the most outrageous choices.

Moving from vehicles and wine to outlandish jewelry items Depp owns. This is just part of his collection.

Known for his eerie taste, TMG claimed that the actor has spent ‘many millions on rare and expensive Hollywood collectables’ from Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando.

He was also believed to have spend ‘millions’ to purchase and keep an expensive art collection, made up of more than 200 collectable pieces from famous artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.

He also spent $300,000 a month for 40 employees, including his own security team for him and his family. This was provided for him every hour of every day.

Other interesting information provided by TMG was that Over the years he has spent around $10 million to support his ‘friends, family, and certain employees,’ stated TMG.

This does not leave out living expenses for his sisters and late mother. Not only that, but he also purchased a multi-million dollar home in Hollywood for his mother, along with a $35,000 a month residence for her when she was not well.

When speaking of the most atypical expense, is the $3 million he spent to fulfil friend Hunter Thompson’s dream of having his ashes “blast from a specially-made cannon” over Aspen, Colorado after his death in 2005.

Moreover, finally yet importantly, if all of this was not enough, he still owns a total sum of $55,000 on his Visa Credit Card.

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It is not every day you hear about a boy genius who has been accepted into two universities at the tender age of 12. Tanishq Abraham of Sacramento , who already holds three degrees, was acknowledged and received acceptances to the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of California, Davis. Abraham plans on majoring in bio-engineering.

His parents spotted his unique intelligence at the early age of four, when he joined the IQ society of Mensa. Mensa is the oldest and leading high IQ society in the world, which is open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ intelligence test.

Being accepted into Mensa at age four is an accomplishment in itself. Not only did Mensa acknowledge him, but he has also received a recognition letter from the one and only Barack Obama.

By the time he was seven, Abraham had already been attending community college in Sacramento. When he turned 10, he graduated from high school and had already earned three degrees.

Not only a boy genius, but Abraham was also believed to be the youngest graduate at American River College, which is a community college in Sacramento.In an interview with NBC News, his father stated, “We tested him and discovered that he was pretty smart. we were surprised when we started giving him advanced stuff and he was picking it up really fast.”

“I think if he puts his mind to it, he can achieve whatever he wants. We’re supportive of whatever he wants to do,” added Abraham, a software engineer.

Abraham also told NBC that Tanishq hopes to become a doctor, a medical researcher, and even the president of the United States.

According to The California Aggie, he began taking courses at numerous colleges, which include Stanford University, UC Berkeley and American River College in Sacramento.

At Stanford, he took math courses extended by their Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) and completed five grades in the short span of six months. As for UC Berkley, he finished an online chemistry course and graduated with straight A’s.

Apart from his academic achievements, Abraham has spoken at public events, making him the youngest person to attend NASA Ames, a major NASA research center based in the Silicon Valley, and speak and bestow a poster at NASA’s conference in July of 2012.

Not only that, but he has also been invited to speak at a TEDx council that was organized in Sacramento in the year of 2013.

However, despite all of his current accomplishments, his mother told The California Aggie:

 “In terms of social and emotional issues, he is a very social (and) mature child, he is like any other child,” said Abraham’s mother. “For his educational needs, it has been a bit difficult having to choose between something like two great schools. The most challenging we have had to work with is the educational system. But we face the challenges you know, for Tanishq and his want to learn.”

Tanishq says child geniuses are often seen as odd. “When you think of a genius, you think of a mad scientist kind of thing,” he said.

But he stated that he is just a normal kid who enjoys learning and microscopes, while also playing video games. “I just think learning is fun,” Tanishq said.

Abraham aspires to be a doctor by age 18 and the president of the United States. For a boy his age, it seems the only logical course to take. If we believe in ourselves, in our intelligence and work hard to achieve success, anything is possible.

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The term Body modification, which is also known as body alternation, has odd and frightening implications for people who have no personal interest or experience in the subject, and it may be way too easy to judge as well as malign all those who are participants and practitioners.

As a matter of fact, when one is willfully modifying one’s own body, it means to take part in a culture or tradition which spans class, race and human history. 

Body modification, in reality, means deliberate altering of the human anatomy or the human physical appearance.

This term covers all types of body modding such as piercing and tattoos all the way to surgical augmentations such as implants and injections. Photographer Roger Kisby has recently captured a couple of many women who eagerly sport their dauntless and downright outstanding body modifications.

Kisby has simply happened to be walking down Las Vegas streets on June 7 when he tripped upon the Association of Professional Pierces Conference and Exposition.

As Kisby told HuffPost, he just roved around the convention to ask people if he could take their photographs.

He also added that people had been very open to getting their pictures taken and that many of them who Kisby spoke to have worked in their body modification field at different tattoo and piercing parlors.

Kisby always liked when people were not afraid to be who they were, he said. He added that he found nice and heartwarming to be able to see how people gathered to celebrate themselves together, especially when all of them individually had to deal with prejudices in the real world.

What Kisby tried to do was to highlight an all embracing range of people who have piercing, tattoos and other types of body modification in order to point out that there was no one type or style of a person at the conference.

He said that he wanted to make certain that he could have shown each and every person in their own genuine way.

The following images of the women show their lovely, vivid and creative types of body modification:

Stephanie Von Hutter Thomas,  adorned with tattoos all over her hands and head, is part from the International Suspension Alliance (ISA)

April Thomas, Born This Way Body Arts
(April Thomas represents Elegance and Beauty; Born This Way Body Arts)

Frances – Hellmouth Apparel

Alicia Cardenas – Soltribe

Aubrey Deibler – Chronic Tattoo and Body Piercing

Jocelyn-Elemental Body Adornment

Elayne Angel – The Piercing Bible

Noel Spring – Bicycle Tattoo and Piercing

Aneta Von Cyborg – Von Cyborg Body Art

Lysa Taylor – Maya Jewelry

Ana Paula – Quetzalli Jewelry

Jessica – Evolve Body Jewelry

Rita Haxx – Bishop Organics

Fukin Kate – Safe Products

Miss Cale – Leroi, Inc

Brooke – Delicious Ink Tattoo

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Every little girl’s dream is to wear a white wedding dress and marry her price charming when she grows up. But for Thea, a 12 year old girl from Norway, that is happening a little too soon.                   

On Saturday, she’s going to marry her thirty-seven year old fiancé, Geir. Thea is sharing her thoughts and plans about this special occasion on her blog. She is talking about the dress, the food, her hair and everything else connected with the wedding.

 “My dream has always been that I want to be a vet because then I can work with horses and stuff like that all the time. But when I talked about it today so Mom said that I do not really need and work on some things or going to school now that I’m marrying Geir,” blogged Thea yesterday.

You must admit that the first thing that came to your mind when you read this was: “There is no way this is real.” 

And guess what, you are right.

This particular marriage won’t happen. However, the alarming number of 39,000 girls that are getting married before they turn eighteen is real. This is the case in countries like Niger, Chad and the Central African Republic, where more than two out of three girls are getting married before they turn eighteen.

This topic is becoming a global problem, and some predict that in this decade 142 million girls will have been married before they turn eighteen.

This blog was an idea of the campaign by Plan Norway. The aim of Thea’s blog is to present the global problem of child marriage. Their plan is working. More than 660,000 unique visitors have visited Thea’s blog. That is roughly 12 % of the country’s population.

A lot of people were tricked by the blog’s posts. And that’s no surprise at all, since the blog is honestly and openly describing all the details around the wedding. Cakes, make-up, hair styling are just some among Thea’s descriptions connected with the wedding. Thea also talks about the challenges of being a child bride and how that will affect her life.

Some of the visitors of Thea’s blog think that her marriage is real. Therefore they are provoked to post heartfelt and sincere advice to Thea. Plan Norway is counting on shock and outrage about the idea of a child bride in Norway, and is hoping that the word will spread around the world.

 “Actually I’m not very happy today just because I and my mom just arguing. I asked her if I could ask Sara and Annikenin wedding because I do so want them to come so they can know that we can remain friends even though I’m getting married and not see at school every day,” writes Thea in a translated post.

“To open the eyes of Norwegians to these tragic facts, we needed to adopt strong measures. Therefore we decided to put the brutal reality in a Norwegian context, so that the whole population takes an active position and helps in the fight against child marriage. This has shown to be a very effective way of telling the stories,” said Annika Diseth Yri, a Plan Norway communications staffer, via email.

Those who will visit Thea’s blog will be directed to Plan International’s “Because I am a Girl” champagne. The top of the blog says “Stopp Bryllupet” which means stop the wedding.

Then visitors will be provided with links to the campaign, Plan’s work and how to sponsor a girl. Everyone is encouraged to join the champagne against child marriage. They can spread the word around via social media with the #stoppbryllupet tag.

Yri said that the campaign “Because I am a girl” has reached more than 10 million people. According to her, the wedding this weekend will be covered by global media, including television outlets from Germany and Russia. 

Plan Norway has achieved their goal. More and more people are getting involved in the campaign to stop child marriage around the world.

 “We believe this massive response is due to the fact that we chose to bring the issue of child marriage home to a Norwegian context,” said Yri.

“We have seen that this has been effective method to get people engaged in the issue. We as Plan Norway are both impressed and grateful of the response of the Norwegian people.

People who normally don’t engage in development issues, are now campaigning to stop child marriage and sharing our message.”

The first story about this wedding was covered by Buzzfeed and the Independent.

Back in time when schools were way stricter and discipline was on a much higher level, parents were fully confident that their child will not only receive a proper education, but also some valuable manners which will serve children well in life and further on in their development as individuals.

However, a school poster that went viral got us thinking. How much are teachers responsible for the manners and personality of the child and when should the parents step out and take things into their own hands?

It’s true that in the past teachers were using physical contact to establish their authority in the classroom and nobody found that weird or illegal, however times have changed and so did people.

Different generations require a different approach and physical contact or disciplining a child with a stick or pulling the hair is out of the question and even banned by the law.

Nowadays schools and teacher in particular have to find a creative way to stimulate children to love school and they also have to find alternative ways to create a positive atmosphere in the classroom and a healthy working environment.

It seems that teachers can’t do wonders in the classroom, especially not if the child has different manners or is thought differently at home. In those cases, teacher rely on the parents’ consciousness and assistance.

School poster is all over the Internet

So, the question still remains, when do teachers’ responsibilities end and when do parents take over? In order to clarify things up and draw a specific line between school and home, a Portuguese school decided to set some ground rules by printing the parents’ responsibilities and sticking them all over the school so everyone can see and read them.

The action taken by this school draw a lot of attention and now it’s all over the Internet. As soon as the school decided to share and post this poster on their Facebook page, they immediately triggered viral attention and reactions from people and other schools from all over the world.

According to the poster, the school clearly states when parents should take full responsibility for their children’s manners and discipline and through all the five points, the school separates itself from these responsibilities.

Here is a full look of the school’s poster and their five points for parents’ responsibilities:

Points in depth

Reading this school poster, there are different views and reactions from parents and schools from all over the world.

However, if we take into consideration that schools, teachers and parents in general want only the best for the children, then we may as well agree that sharing or separating responsibilities is only a fair share.

Point 1

It’s true that the child’s first words should be words or kindness and curtsy, which later at school are only emphasizes.

Rude children often get in quarrels with their mates and their teachers and they end up missing out on the important part of school education.

Without the help of parents, the words please, I’m sorry or thank you will be just another learnt lesson, without truly sending the right message or acquiring the true notion behind these words.

Point 2

If children don’t respect their parents’ authority or word, how do we expect from them to show sympathy towards other children or show respect towards teachers and elderly people?

This behavior should be expected both at school and home, without schools having to change the child from scratch and teach him/her of simple, basic manners.

Point 3

It’s also clear that children don’t have their first meal at school or they also don’t learn how to clean after themselves.

Here it’s not mentioned that children are expected to clean the canteen or cook their own meals, on the contrary they are expected to have respect for the food and the environment that they are living in.

Point 4

If children don’t take care of their toys or they break everything it comes to their hand, then why not doing the same thing at school.

Only children may have some problems sharing toys or belongings, however it should never be at the point where they grab other children’s belongings or destroy the schools inventory.

Point 5

The last point strongly emphasizes the real purpose of school, or education. In order to draw a clear line between home and school, parents are notified that school is just a reinforcement and broadening of the knowledge that children acquire first at home and later on at school.

However, schools can only wish good for their children and parents should only support their ideas and participate fully in the development and the building of personality of their children.

Even though some parents and schools agree or disagree with such posters hanging out in the hallways, it’s up to us to decide whether we’ll participate in such action or we’ll be aware enough to figure this out on our own.

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Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange published a claim back in October that unveiled emails associated with the Hilary Campaign. Ergo, to make things more interesting, the account that was hacked was none other than John Podesta’s, the former chairman of the Hilary Clinton presidential campaign.

Podesta also served as chief of staff to President Obama as well. The emails presented came from Dr. Egdar Mitchell, the astronaut from Apollo 14, who was also the sixth person to walk on the moon.

Experts investigated the leak and initially claimed that it came from Russian hackers, trying to mingle with the Clinton campaign.

The leaked emails uncovered scheduled meetings between many participants to discuss Disclosure and Zero Point Energy.

Fun fact: zero point energy is something that is being studied in quantum physics and can be defined as a vacuum energy, exploiting an energy that exists in molecules even at near zero temperature. 

One of the planned participants at the anticipated meeting was Terri Mansfield, whose intention was to inform them on the Vatican’s awareness of Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

One of the emails that mentions the Vatican in the association with ET is:

“Dear John, As 2015 unfolds, I understand you are leaving the Administration in February. It is urgent that we agree on a date and time to meet to discuss Disclosure and Zero Point Energy, at your earliest available after your departure. 

My Catholic colleague Terri Mansfield will be there too, to bring us up to date on the Vatican’s awareness of ETI. Another colleague is working on a new Space Treaty, citing involvement with Russia and China.

However with Russia’s extreme interference in Ukraine, I believe we must pursue another route for peace in space and ZPE on Earth. I met with President Obama’s Honolulu childhood friend, US Ambassador Pamela Hamamoto on July 4 at the US Mission in Geneva, when I was able to tell her briefly about Zero Point Energy.

I believe we can enlist her as a confidante and resource in our presentation for President Obama. I appreciate Eryn’s assistance in working with Terri to set up our meeting.”

When it comes to the Vatican, one cannot avoid the obvious connection with religious interpretations. The instance with the connection of the Vatican and ET is no exception.

Before jumping into the entire story at hand, we must first realize that ET and the Vatican are intertwined and that religion does not challenge the belief of Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

In fact, the Vatican is no stranger to this subject, thus having participated in the discussion of extraterrestrials. Roman Catholic and friend of the pope, Monsignor Corrado Balducci, has stated that we have already initiated contact with extraterrestrials.

“The existence of these beings is real. We can’t have doubts.” – Monsignor Corrado Balducci

 The fact that such religious men discuss the topic of extraterrestrials so openly is quite intriguing. Pope Francis stated that he would even baptize them in order to make them feel welcome.

“He created beings and allowed them to develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one, so that they were able to develop and to arrive at their fullness of being.

He gave autonomy to the beings of the universe at the same time at which he assured them of his continuous presence, giving being to every reality.

And so creation continued for centuries and centuries, millennia and millennia, until it became which we know today, precisely because God is not a demiurge or a magician, but the creator who gives being to all things.” – Pope Francis

When researched thoroughly, we can find that religion essentially does sanction the presence of extraterrestrial life.

Taking into regard the religion of Sikhism, for instance, God did not limit life to our planet. In contract, He established it throughout the cosmos. In Christianity, there exist numerous understandings of extraterrestrial life.

This goes to show that most religions do accept the existence of life beyond our planet and even encourage it. Whether or not the Vatican will use this to their advantage for the good of the people and the planet, or a way to gain power, we will have to wait and see.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.express.co.uk/
https://www.indy100.com/
https://www.rt.com/
https://www.wikileaks.com/