QotD: Extraterrestrial

Do you believe there is intelligent life on other planets?

ha.  i totally don't have time to be screwing around at work and answering this... but it made me laugh... here's why:

i dated this guy years ago that proposed to me over the phone after only one month of dating long distance.  i said yes.  that was the dumbest thing EVAR.  EVAR!!!  anyhoo, turns out, he's bi-polar.  no, literally, bi-polar.  diagnosed.  he has a family history of schizophrenia.  oh lord.  that was nuts.  anyways, we were talking one day on a long drive and he stops me in the middle of our conversation and says "okay, i need to ask you a really serious question."  i say, "uh, okay, sure."  he says "if this is going to work out between us, i need to know that when aliens come to earth and ask us if we will come back to their planet with them that you will agree to go."  this was before i fully understood that he was crazy.  at that point, i thought to myself "uh, wow, uh, ohmygod, he can't be serious."  but he was.  seriously.  i so don't believe in aliens i truly was speechless.  that was just one of many clues that i should have seen and acknowledged about where our relationship was going...

so, the answer to the question is NO.  i don't believe in aliens.  i do believe that somewhere outside of our known universe there's gotta be some other life forms elsewhere.  but there is no way i believe that any aliens will ever come to earth anytime in my lifetime and ask if i want to join them on their planet. 

btw, the relationship with psycho crazy asshole ended with a really awful painful 1.5 week roadtrip from philly to san francisco where i was emotionally abused and made to feel like i was the most awful person on earth (and probably in his imaginary universe.)  we got back to sf and i had no job, no car, no stuff, and STILL walked away knowing anything was better than being with him.  emotional abuse is a crazy, crazy thing.

freakiest jerry springer moment (okay, 4 months) of my life.  i can't articulate exactly what i learned from the experience--but needless to say i'd like to think i'm now a better judge of character.