[Lawtan]

Ahh...yeah. Biggest thing I'd say in the negative about aliens would be the belief that they'd have found/been involved with Earth. Outside of the possibility that the basic form of life may have arrived on Earth from space...making us all aliens...the sheer difficulty of us simply colonizing the solar system (not to mention that though there are several planets with predicted Earth-like conditions, we lack the technology to both reasonably reach them or determine if there is life there...) sort of goes both ways. (Not to mention other issues - we are lucky...or cursed...humanity has survived as long as we have.)

Oh, am a bit interested in Shinto (well, most mythology...comes with the whole "Religion is a form of art" idea and general like of culture studies...)

(Internet has been on the fritz for a week -_-)