by Digger Barr
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How to meet an alien
What is the proper etiquette when meeting an alien?
I am referring to Extraterrestrials, off world beings, physical in form and in the same physical face to face proximity.
As Hollywood would have it we might start screaming, especially if they are wearing a wig and sitting in a closet.
We humans have certain customs when greeting someone for the first time.
We extend our hand and shake. That is actually a very aggressive behavior and some cultures don’t share that custom.
A typical American uses that first action as to make judgment upon the man they have just met.
Is his hand rough from working? This means he is a man of the earth, tough, hard working, and honorable.
Or are they smooth indicating desk work such as a white collar position. We adjust our approach accordingly.
After covid, this ritual took an adjustment and fist bumping became acceptable.
Would one shake an alien’s hand or would they get the nuance of fist bumping?
‘Hey dude, cool to meet you’. Fist bump.
And if you did shake an alien hand, and it was rough, would you consider them a hard working alien worthy of their titanium?
In the animal world eye contact has many meanings.
In dog language how you hold your eyes conveys many messages.
A quick look, means follow my viewing direction. Direct eye contact and welcoming body language can convey its playtime and we are here to chase things.
And a direct stare can be unnerving with aggressive overtones.
For dogs, ‘getting to know each other’ greetings have nothing to do with the eyes at all.
We humans use eye contact to convey many messages as well, but how would one interpret the silent communication from an ET’s eyes?
We can do this with our pets, so would this be the same with the ultimate foreigner ?
Would we just stare, slack jawed and frozen?
Once we get past the first introduction, Hi this is Bob, Then what?
No matter the culture on planet earth there is the shared etiquette of breaking bread.
Sharing a meal is our universal custom. It demonstrates caring for each other’s health and well being as well as an act of trust, peace and good will.
How would we know if they would sit and dine with us?
What if our guests are allergic to pasta?
What foods are acceptable and what would be considered barbarian?
Should we just assume they are all vegan and get on with it.
Visions of Indiana Jones getting served a banquet at a certain palace led to an unappetizing scenario.
We wouldn’t want to have that as a lasting impression.
I mean Welcome to planet Earth, we eat meat. You all come back now ya hear?
Let’s assume the ones we are meeting aren’t those others, if y’all know what I mean.
Let’s keep this in the light.
So speaking of the light, I think that is where we can find common ground.
At some point we are going to search for and try to find something we have in common.
It’s as natural as the 10 degrees of separation that we all look for in a conversation.
“Oh, you stayed over on Jupiter last week? That’s funny, Jupiter is in the fifth house of my chart. What a coincidence!”
Or maybe it turns out like this:
You meet Jesus? You brought him with you?
On ship you say?
How would you even question that?
Seriously, an approach to a benevolent maybe just a tad overwhelming in that they must know so much more than us.
I feel that way about my cat.
I kind of want to interrogate her. Sit down and tell me everything.
What do you know and how long have you known that?
Did your mom teach you? Or you just know?
How do you do that?
Teach me.
Would it be improper to ask all of your Questions for God list?
Would it be improper to spill all of our angst, airing all of Earth’s dirty laundry?
Would it be in bad taste to just start throwing our governments under the bus?
And then ask for a ride?
It may be time for us to start offering classes on how to be a proper Earth ambassador.
Leaving first contact up to rural residents, weellll, we might just create some diplomatic issues.
Then again, we are the salt of the Earth folks.
Maybe we are the ones that are exceptionally special.
If we can just be ourselves we probably will do well.
I will leave it to the visitor to explore the local customs and glean what they may.
However disclosure plays out, the truth is we went galactic a very long time ago.
And kid, maybe we, they, ain’t so different.
Digger26