QUOTE (ambelamba @ Jun 4 2008, 07:25 PM)

First, I'll say my usual mantra. Aliens are flesh and blood beings, not pure spirits. (except for some pure energy beings.)
I've heard about human-like and near human like aliens so many times. Let's not count alleged alien-human hybrids. They are foul abominations that should be exterminated.
If at least half of those reports are true, I can't help asking this question again: Is the galaxy heavily populated by human-like aliens? If that's the case, we can have two radically different assumptions. One, evolution works in only a certain way. The process of evolution is uniform and universal. I don't think this is a good answer. Evolution can't work that way. It's kinda like playing a cosmic dice.
Or, we have the second assumption. There is a creator god who worked his magic at least in this galaxy. He's kinda lazy so he worked on a few working designs and tweaked them with minor variations. To have same kind of design, the environments should be similar, even the spinning cycle (sorry for my poor vocabulary. I am a Korean for Pete's sake) of the planets should be similar. Scientists tell us that our Sun-like stars are common in this galaxy.
Some people told me that this doesn't mean anything. Idiots. If that's true then we have a profound revelation: We are not special anymore. People like us are dime in a dozen in this galaxy. If we get wiped out, there are plenty of folks in this galaxy to replace us.
If there are aliens species that are similar to us, what are they like? Some of them might be definitely more advanced than us. There may be some races who are still in their stone age. What are they like? How is their thinking process? How's their life style? How's their social structure? Do they have democracy or something better or worse? Do they have market economy? (Well, not a single alien encounter tells about how aliens think about economics...) How's their education system? Did they shed off tribalism? Or are they merciless expansionists? How do different alien races communicate each other and solve the conflicts of interests?
Do they raise family like us? Or is our concept of family an ancient concept to them? Do they sleep with everyone like the novel Brave New World? Or are they mostly monogamous like us? How do they raise children? Do they use natural insemination or do they simply churn out full-grown adults from a factory? You know, the questions are endless.
All life in the universe is created by people advanced enough to do so. There is no God who created life and evolution is a myth. The universe is infinite, so there is no beginning. There has been, and always will be, people creation other people.
So, who are our creators? They're the 'gods' of the religious texts, the ones who said 'Let us make man in our image after our likeness'. It's all in there, more or less, in primitive code of course.
If you want to know all about our creators, download (for free!) the book 'Intelligent Design - Message from the Designers' at www.rael.org
The head of these creators contacted a man named Rael in 1973 and gave him all of the information in the book. It details their conversation. It will answer all of your questions, but I'll try to answer yours for you.
The Elohim (this is what they were called by the Jewish people - it means 'those who came from the sky') have said that there are other races out there who are intelligent, but they didn't detail exactly what they look like.
The Elohim are completely human, just like us, except a little different. Look at my avatar - that's one of the Elohim talking to Rael. They are generally around 4 feet tall, have a yellow/green tinge to their skin and almond shaped eyes (they look very Japanese). There were original races on their planet like on ours (blacks, whites, chinese etc), however over thousands of years they have blended into one singular race...which is a mix of all of the races having children etc.
Yahweh, who was known as the 'god' of Israel, is the one who met with Rael to give him a new message for humanity (like they did with Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha and all the other prophets of the religions). He had very long black hair and a small black beard.
Now to answer your questions....
"If there are aliens species that are similar to us, what are they like? Some of them might be definitely more advanced than us."
The Elohim are completely human like us. The Elohim are 25,000 years ahead of us in science and technology.
"There may be some races who are still in their stone age."
Yep most likely there are millions of races out there at various steps in their history. I'm going to talk about the Elohim though.
"What are they like? How is their thinking process?"
They are graceful, gentle and beautiful people who are full of love, peace and humour. They laugh a lot! They play and joke and their thinking process is all about being happy and enjoying life.
"How's their life style?"
They don't work because technology takes care of all of the labourous tasks. They relax, play sport, make music, paint, dance, have 'car' races, other competitions etc. Everyone can express themselves however they want and do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.
"How's their social structure?"
The main population, of about 7 billion live on their original home planet where the lifestyle is exactly as I described to you. But there are a select group who are known as 'The Eternals', who live on another planet away from the population. These eternals have achieved great things in their lives and they have been given the reward of living forever through advanced cloning/memory transfer. Men and women are equal and children are respected and treated fairly and without patronisation.
"Do they have democracy or something better or worse?"
They have Geniocracy - where only the most intelligent of their humanity are able to be the leaders. They have advanced tests that can measure emotional intelligence, love, peace and raw intelligence (logic, thought processes etc). Only those who have IQ's 50% above the norm are allowed to run as a candidate in their elections. Only those who have intelligence 10% above the norm are allowed to vote. It's selective democracy. It's choosing the best person possible by have the most intelligent people voting for them. Wouldn't you want you bus driver to have a license instead of just any idiot being able to drive? Yes, well it's the same with their government. They only allow those people who have the best intentions for humanity to run their planet. It is a one world government too and Yahweh, the one who contacted Rael, is the President of the Council of the Eternals. He is the 'big boss' so to speak!
"Do they have market economy? (
Well, not a single alien encounter tells about how aliens think about economics...)"
No. They have no money because science and technology provides EVERYTHING they need. They never run out of food because they can genetically grow as much as they want. Clothing can be made from a machine at will. Think of anything you want and you'll get it without the slightest effort - that's how good their technology is!
"How's their education system?"
It's called 'Chemical Education' where they 'download' lessons into the brains of people and in a split second they know all that they need to know. You've seen the Matrix and how they do this? It's like that.
"Did they shed off tribalism? Or are they merciless expansionists?"
They are completely peaceful and have no need to invade or take over. Science provides all that they need.
"Do they raise family like us? Or is our concept of family an ancient concept to them?"
They have kids exactly like we do and they reproduce exactly like we do. They do have families and relations, but perhaps not in the same sense as we do. The concept of family is ancient to them, because they see the whole humanity as their family. There is complete trust and no reason to fear another. No one family is better than another because everyone is equal.
"Do they sleep with everyone like the novel Brave New World? Or are they mostly monogamous like us?"
If they so choose they can have many partners or just one life partner if they want. They are mostly in open relationships because they have lost the concept of 'property' and 'jealousy'.
I really recommend downloading Rael's book for free at www.rael.org
It will answer all of your questions and more!
-Josh