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Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on
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For those Shipmates mystified by the goings on on page 6 of this thread and subsequent stuff in the Styx, I'm opening up a demystification thread on the topic.
Here is the root Wiki article on the mythical origins of the Annunaki.
And here is a fanciful modern "extra-terrestrial" take on these ancient Mesopotamian mythical deities.
What interests me is the staying power of the extra-terrestrial myth in its various forms. What is its enduring power?
All views welcome.
[ 24. July 2013, 06:57: Message edited by: Barnabas62 ]
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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Barnabas62:What interests me is the staying power of the extra-terrestrial myth in its various forms. What is its enduring power?
I don't know. I guess that to some people the idea "Everyone believes the same things about humanity's history, but I know the real story" makes them feel special?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Mythical, eh?
It's not mythical.
Google Sumerian records, Zecharia Sitchin,
Google Book of Enoch
Google Jacobian Covenant,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=23182603829576666&ei=_lGNS9yVK4SKqQPl28yNBA#
Google Bible Genesis chapter six
Google Enkispeaks.com ... Sasha Lessin, Ph.d.
Google Rossyln Chapel, the Templars.
http://tinyurl.com/b6h2zfq
We humans have a history going back hundreds of thousands of years, sequestered and hidden by Elites from the rest of the people.
Annunaki have been coming here periodically for nearly half a million years, and every single hierarchy on this planet is based on the Annunaki model.
Labeling this history as "mythology" is merely a convenient politically-correct GAMBIT for the purpose of creating a distracting side-bar, hoaxing what is true.
EEWC
[ 19. May 2013, 22:36: Message edited by: Barnabas62 ]
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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barnabas62, your LEADING CONCLUSIONS are so beneath civil discourse, there's really no way to comment.
History is not subjective; it is objective, physical and factual.
If your method is to chase away all data by your FOREGONE SUBJECTIVE CONCLUSIONS, there is no honest dialogue going on here.
EEWC
Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on
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You can post what you like by way of rebuttal. Show the Shipmates how closed my mind is. Now's your chance.
Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on
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BTW, your first link doesn't work for me and the second has broken the scroll lock. Suggest you retest your links and also practise using the URL button. Meanwhile, I'll try and fix the scroll lock bust (one of the Host duties here).
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on
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Reposted from styx:
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
oH, so we begin with the PRESUMPTION that History is merely subjective in the first place--
that nobody can speak to History from the first person; that was recorded in the past is all there is;
that it's all just a matter of opinion anyway.
...It's the perfect Occult argument ... there is only One Truth, and it is ALL One ...
As above, so below ...
This is not what Jesus taught us ... ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set us free.
My personal recollections count for zero;
Teachings of the Christ count for zero;
Two thousand years of wars to propagate ideology count for zero; and attempts to establish common Laws based on behavior count for zero.
I'm still not feeling "heard" here.
EEWC
If you tell me one thing is historical fact, and Richard Dawkin's tells me something that is incompatibile with your account is historical fact - how do I, as a third party discern which to believe ?
Discerning which truth claim I believe is always going to involve my forming an opinion.
Whether there is actually such a thing as objective truth, depends on what you believe about the nature of truth as a concept really. A postmodernist may not agree there is any way of determining a consensus truth even about the basics such as colour or gravity. A positivist might agree there is objective truth, but disagree with you about what it actually is.
[ 19. May 2013, 22:47: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
Posted by comet (# 10353) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
History is not subjective; it is objective, physical and factual.
here's your chance, kiddo. Prove it. Convince me. Your links don't prove anything to me. You're going to have to do it yourself.
If history is "physical" then I want empirical proof, not giant conclusions from subjective evidence.
[ 19. May 2013, 22:46: Message edited by: comet ]
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Annunaki have been coming here periodically for nearly half a million years, and every single hierarchy on this planet is based on the Annunaki model.
I am unconvinced as to the historical accuracy of your thesis, specifically due to it's incompatibility with recorded history.
tl;dr = bullshit.
[ 19. May 2013, 23:01: Message edited by: Marvin the Martian ]
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
History is not subjective; it is objective, physical and factual.
Possibly so. But you have yet to give us a reason to think that what YOU say is history REALLY IS HISTORY. Just because you assert something is HISTORY doesn't make it so. You have to do better than that. You need to give us evidence that we can smell, eat, taste, feel, touch, or see, and link it with sound reasoning to your conclusions.
Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on
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I think I get it, though. Emily Windsor-Cragg does not trust any of the well publicised sources because they show the effects of successful suppression of the truth by those who wish to suppress the truth. But she does trust other sources which tell different stories, no matter how far-fetched they may seem to us. She pities us because our minds have been poisoned by the received wisdom. Or, possible, she hates us if she believes we are knowing supporters of the great lie. But either way will do. We are duped, or part of the duplicitous process.
This type of "understanding" (perhaps it is better to call it "gnosis") is not uncommon in my experience, but it is pesky difficult to set up any framework of dialogue with anyone who thinks that way.
And in Emily's Windsor-Cragg's "mirror image" world view, she probably feels the same way. How can she get us to see what she knows to be true? She isn't being "heard", you see. That seems to be the basis of the understandable irritation with me and others.
I wanted to discuss the syndrome of the abiding power of the far-fetched explanation in general terms. I would still rather do that. Unfortunately, our new Shipmate is giving us quite specific written evidence of the syndrome at work in someone's mind.
The results to date do not encourage believe that such far-fetched viewpoints produce lucidity of thought and argument. Her two posts so far simply provide incoherence and indignation; no serious evidence of any kind. Nothing even to debate. A broken link, an irrelevant link and a whole load of assertion akin to "shit from China" (i.e. far-fetched). That's about it really.
(Pity she wasn't around for our special "Da Vinci Code" discussion board. That was a fun time with Dan Brown, the Knights Templar, the Priory of Sion, the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail etc. Louise went to town IIRC. Much fun was had by all.)
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Emily--
Welcome to the Ship.
FWIW:
You can't MAKE someone agree with you, see the light, or even listen to you.
What you *can* do is put forth your best reasons, and let other people work through them on their own.
I skimmed some of your websites. ( First link from her profile, , and offshoots from that link.) You're very forceful about being lied to about various things, and you link to info about them. IMHO, that's a negative approach: this isn't true, neither is that. But what is the positive truth? Is there something good that we're missing?
Not everyone has your background, so it might help if you calmly and slowly walk us through the truth--in simple, plain language.
Thanks.
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
History is not subjective; it is objective, physical and factual.
Possibly so. But you have yet to give us a reason to think that what YOU say is history REALLY IS HISTORY. Just because you assert something is HISTORY doesn't make it so. You have to do better than that. You need to give us evidence that we can smell, eat, taste, feel, touch, or see, and link it with sound reasoning to your conclusions.
You've nailed it there mousethief. What is required is evidence and that goes beyond mere information or data. Moreover the sources of evidence must be known. All the evidence must then be considered rationally, on an agreed basis, and a decision made on the balance of the evidence.
Pretty damn boring, but if a satisfactory conclusion is required, that's the way to go.
(nb: evidence presented in caps, bold or comic sans font does not count double)
eta: x-posted with Barnabas62 and Golden Key.
[ 19. May 2013, 23:43: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Emily--
Welcome to the Ship.
FWIW:
You can't MAKE someone agree with you, see the light, or even listen to you.
What you *can* do is put forth your best reasons, and let other people work through them on their own.
I skimmed some of your websites. ( First link from her profile, , and offshoots from that link.) You're very forceful about being lied to about various things, and you link to info about them. IMHO, that's a negative approach: this isn't true, neither is that. But what is the positive truth? Is there something good that we're missing?
Not everyone has your background, so it might help if you calmly and slowly walk us through the truth--in simple, plain language.
Thanks.
Posted by HughWillRidmee (# 15614) on
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Originally posted by mousethief:
quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
History is not subjective; it is objective, physical and factual.
Possibly so. But you have yet to give us a reason to think that what YOU say is history REALLY IS HISTORY. Just because you assert something is HISTORY doesn't make it so. You have to do better than that. You need to give us evidence that we can smell, eat, taste, feel, touch, or see, and link it with sound reasoning to your conclusions.
That requirement, if applied consistently, must inevitably lead to atheism must it not?
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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A couple of years ago, I was posting on a Dutch forum that in the end was overrun by people who argued like Emily. What I always found interesting was their double-edged fascination with Science.
On the one hand, Science is dismissed by them as 'foregone objective conclusions'. On the other hand, they almost crave to be recognised as scientific ('objective, physical, actual data').
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Originally posted by HughWillRidmee:
quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
History is not subjective; it is objective, physical and factual.
Possibly so. But you have yet to give us a reason to think that what YOU say is history REALLY IS HISTORY. Just because you assert something is HISTORY doesn't make it so. You have to do better than that. You need to give us evidence that we can smell, eat, taste, feel, touch, or see, and link it with sound reasoning to your conclusions.
That requirement, if applied consistently, must inevitably lead to atheism must it not?
I guess if you're basing your theism on objective history. Sounds like a reductionistic understanding of theism to me.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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I wore out so I had to take a nap. :yawn:
So, all that counts here is the ~usual~ conventional documentation, eh?
It's like, "inspired of God" never existed?
It's like, "Secrets of the Elites" are never to be revealed, eh?
It's like, Wikipedia knew anything for real?
Oh. Well, then if Wikipedia SAYS it's a myth, then it's gotta be a myth, right?
Never mind, what I posted as documentation, as content to consider and give regard to.
Whatever. This may be a so-called religious forum, but we operate the same as the secular materialist foruma everywhere.
No tickee, no washee.
I get it.
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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HughWillRidmee: That requirement, if applied consistently, must inevitably lead to atheism must it not?
To be honest, I think the requirement is too strong. Scientific evidence might be sufficient to make people believe something, but it isn't necessary. There are plenty of things I believe in life without scientific evidence ("Don't drink that coffee yet, it's hot!" "Ok, I'll take your word for it.")
Emily hasn't given scientific evidence for her claims. This leaves us with a choice: either we believe her, or we don't (I suspect most Shipmates will choose the latter option.)
In the same way, I don't have scientific evidence for Christianity. This leaves me with a choice: either I believe it, or I don't. I chose the former.
On what do I base my choice whether to believe something or not, when I'm confronted with something without scientific evidence? My free will. (Or the firing of neurons in my brain, if you prefer.)
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on
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Emily, not all of your links work.
And is there anything in the Bible you would consider to be evidence for Babylonians being aliens and not an ancient human civilization?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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And to get on with conventional belief structures,
you also believe--
the earth is flat and you'll drop off the edge;
the sun is 93 million miles away;
the moon is 2100 miles in diameter;
the earth has a molten iron core;
civilization began just 6000 years ago;
before that people lived in caves;
there's a Law that mandates the IRS income tax;
Edward Duke of Windsor abdicated for the love of Wallis Simpson;
Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy;
Building Seven came down of its own accord;
and
the Supreme Court rules on Common Law in the nation called the United States of America.
Right? You believe all that too, right?
These beliefs are common mythological currency in this country, where Annunaki culture is considered a myth and secret societies remain secret.
This is the stuff we are expected to swallow.
I don't swallow it; but you guess that already.
To me, what is actually true is up for study.
EEWC
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
On what do I base my choice whether to believe something or not, when I'm confronted with something without scientific evidence? My free will.
Personal experience. Making choices based only on your free will isn't Christianity, it's Sartrian existentialism.
[ 20. May 2013, 00:22: Message edited by: mousethief ]
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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Emily Windsor-Cragg:
you also believe--
the earth is flat and you'll drop off the edge;
No
the sun is 93 million miles away;
Yes
the moon is 2100 miles in diameter;
Yes
the earth has a molten iron core;
Yes
civilization began just 6000 years ago;
Give or take a thousand years. It depends a bit on how you define 'civilization'
before that people lived in caves;
Yes. Some of them continued to do so for some time afterwards.
there's a Law that mandates the IRS income tax;
I'm not from the US, I don't know.
Edward Duke of Windsor abdicated for the love of Wallis Simpson;
I'm not from the UK, I don't know.
Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy;
Yes, until confronted with compelling other evidence.
Building Seven came down of its own accord;
Yes, it came down because of the 9/11 attacks (until confronted with compelling other evidence).
the Supreme Court rules on Common Law in the nation called the United States of America.
I'm not from the US, I don't know.
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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mousethief: Personal experience. Making choices based only on your free will isn't Christianity, it's Sartrian existentialism.
I don't know much about Sartrian existentialism. I'll make it a mix between free will and personal experience, would that be ok?
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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mousethief: Personal experience. Making choices based only on your free will isn't Christianity, it's Sartrian existentialism.
I don't know much about Sartrian existentialism. I'll make it a mix between free will and personal experience, would that be ok?
OK with me. We'll have to ask Emily how it sits with her.
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
And to get on with conventional belief structures,
you also believe--
the earth is flat and you'll drop off the edge;
the sun is 93 million miles away;
the moon is 2100 miles in diameter;
the earth has a molten iron core;
civilization began just 6000 years ago;
before that people lived in caves;
there's a Law that mandates the IRS income tax;
Edward Duke of Windsor abdicated for the love of Wallis Simpson;
Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy;
Building Seven came down of its own accord;
and
the Supreme Court rules on Common Law in the nation called the United States of America.
Right? You believe all that too, right?
These beliefs are common mythological currency in this country, where Annunaki culture is considered a myth and secret societies remain secret.
This is the stuff we are expected to swallow.
I don't swallow it; but you guess that already.
To me, what is actually true is up for study.
EEWC
Since when was a flat Earth a common view? It hasn't been a common view....ever. The Ancient Greeks, Persians and Arabians all believed in a spherical Earth. As for things to do with the sun, moon and Earth, those are worked out mathematically. Do you doubt mathematics?
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
Do you doubt mathematics?
Mathematics is one of the most insidious inventions of the Annunaki. With it they lull millions of people every year, people who otherwise might have learned the truth about those insidious space bastards.
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on
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Originally posted by mousethief:
quote:
Originally posted by Jade Constable:
Do you doubt mathematics?
Mathematics is one of the most insidious inventions of the Annunaki. With it they lull millions of people every year, people who otherwise might have learned the truth about those insidious space bastards.
I thought there was something strange about my maths teachers
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Here's one of my public Facebook pages.
https://www.facebook.com/AnnunakiFromOrion#
Maybe you can get to it. I'm working in there today, to resort images into albums.
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Jade Constable:
quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
quote:
Originally posted by Jade Constable:
Do you doubt mathematics?
Mathematics is one of the most insidious inventions of the Annunaki. With it they lull millions of people every year, people who otherwise might have learned the truth about those insidious space bastards.
I thought there was something strange about my maths teachers
Proof? You want PROOF? All right, segment AB is parallel to segment CD due to the interior angles theorem. And angle E is congruent to angle E by the reflexive property. From this it follows that triangle ABE is similar to triangle CDE ... wait, why are you running away?
Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on
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Originally posted by Barnabas62:
This type of "understanding" (perhaps it is better to call it "gnosis") is not uncommon in my experience, but it is pesky difficult to set up any framework of dialogue with anyone who thinks that way.
Interesting. "Gnosis" seems to me an apt word to describe this. It also seems to me far more common in health-related topics than in religious ones, even including Dan Brown's fans.
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Here's one of my public Facebook pages.
https://www.facebook.com/AnnunakiFromOrion#
Maybe you can get to it. I'm working in there today, to resort images into albums.
Orion as a constellation involving a series of stars. Can you please tell us which of the stars the ancient astronauts are suggested to have come from?
Note that although from the earth we might have a perception that the stars in the constellation are all the same distance from the earth, some of them are closer and some are farther. For example Belatrix is some 243 light years distant, while Alnilam is 1360. These stars are also rather far from each other. Can you also tell us which of these stars has an earth like planet or few orbitting it? None of the stars appears to be a good candidate.
How long did it take them to get here, why did they bother to come, and what was their technology? I've understood that to get to the closest star to us using our current technology, Promixa Centauri at just 4.2 light years away would take upwards of 10,000 years. The distances appear prohibitive, unless you have some physics to share with us.
Is the suggestion that all life evolved from these space beings, i.e., because all DNA in all life, plant, animal, bacterial, virus on earth etc is composed of the same protein structure, that they seeded life at the beginning? How is it that we can detect DNA lineages among all of the forms of life on the planet? This would argue for space beings to have visited in the range of 3 or 4 billion years ago (3,000 or 4,000 million), decided to seed DNA such that we would have bacteria only for nearly all the history of the earth, with multicellular life possibly starting as much as 2 billion years, but really nothing much evolving until about 600 or 700 millions of years. With people for space people to talk to only within the last 250,000 years at the very most, and probably significantly less than half that.
Someone else may have additional biological and evolutionary knowledge to refine the dates and sequences, but this is approximately right.
Or perhaps the space people have time machines? Star Trek types of space ships?
Posted by Net Spinster (# 16058) on
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
And to get on with conventional belief structures,
you also believe--
...
the earth is flat and you'll drop off the edge;
...
civilization began just 6000 years ago;
before that people lived in caves;
...
Since when was a flat Earth a common view? It hasn't been a common view....ever. The Ancient Greeks, Persians and Arabians all believed in a spherical Earth. As for things to do with the sun, moon and Earth, those are worked out mathematically. Do you doubt mathematics?
Strictly speaking very early societies seem to have believed in a flat earth. See Psalm 104, the Egyptian myth of Geb and Nut. However, it has not been common among educated people for the last 2500 years. There is a group (or perhaps a few groups) that believes in a flat earth even now but they are small in numbers (The Flat Earth Society, certain Saudi clerics). I would be very surprised if anyone on the ship believed in a flat earth (after all this ship is sailing in uncharted waters and if the earth were flat we might fall off).
As for civilization, Çatalhöyük dates to 9500 before present so large settlements date back that far. Before that people would have have lived in small groups in various shelters (caves have the advantage of preserving stuff so we know more about cave dwellers). It is a bit more likely that there are a few young earth creationists on board who might have a different view.
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
And to get on with conventional belief structures,
you also believe--
the earth is flat and you'll drop off the edge;
the sun is 93 million miles away;
the moon is 2100 miles in diameter;
the earth has a molten iron core;
civilization began just 6000 years ago;
before that people lived in caves;
there's a Law that mandates the IRS income tax;
Edward Duke of Windsor abdicated for the love of Wallis Simpson;
Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy;
Building Seven came down of its own accord;
and
the Supreme Court rules on Common Law in the nation called the United States of America.
Right? You believe all that too, right?
These beliefs are common mythological currency in this country, where Annunaki culture is considered a myth and secret societies remain secret.
This is the stuff we are expected to swallow.
I don't swallow it; but you guess that already.
To me, what is actually true is up for study.
EEWC
Emily, you are off topic again. This thread is only for discussing the Annuaki and extra-terrestrial mythology not the twin towers, caves, or geology. Referred to Admins.
Gwai,
Purgatory Host
Posted by Louise (# 30) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Google Rossyln Chapel, the Templars.
http://tinyurl.com/b6h2zfq
EEWC
Rosslyn Chapel is a Scottish medieval collegiate church - a sort of church built by the well-off to have a fancy place for a group of priests to say mass for the repose of their soul and those of their families. It's extremely ornate - because it's meant to impress the other noble and gentry families who were also building them. It's a fashion that post-dates the dissolution of the small and not-very-influential Lothian preceptory of the Knights Templar in Scotland by over a hundred years. It has nothing to do with them.
I know this in part because I actually worked in a manuscript repository which had Sinclair papers and charters and had to deal with the various types who came in who didn't know one end of a medieval charter from another, but weren't going to let that stop them making stuff up about Templars.
Hello Emily, if you can't actually read the relevant original documents to put them in their proper historical context or know enough to make sure you're getting your ideas from someone who can - what you're doing may be thrilling for you, but it isn't history. It would be rather like me offering to produce code for software by communing with astral spirits after chicken sacrifices. It might make me feel jolly important and I might manage to impress a few people with my astral chicken computer wisdom but it hasn't the first thing to do with how to write code.
If I signed up for a forum of software coders and put forth my chicken-sacrifice theory and credentials - I 'd get the same sort of reception that you get. Now I might get off on that and how I was being persecuted for the truth, and how coders were all part of conspiracy to stop people understanding how their computers were really governed by spirits, but if I actually wanted to know anything about computers and thought understanding them was important, it would be tragic and sad.
I would just be blindly insulting the people who could actually tell me about what I was interested in, and wasting their time because I was so far adrift from reality and somehow unable to perceive that. And I'd end up feeling isolated because I was unable to communicate enjoyably with other people and getting a hostile response from them - even if I could give myself an utterly false sense of superiority and 'being right' as some sort of compensation.
I think you should try posting about anything you can think of except your fascination with this sad pseudo-history, because if you could make contact with people and enjoy talking to them about subjects where you can have an ordinary conversation, you might enjoy it and might start to get some perspective.
Best wishes,
Louise
[ 20. May 2013, 02:17: Message edited by: Louise ]
Posted by Rowen (# 1194) on
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I think I would like to start an elite society.....
Anyone else care to join?
Elite about wot?
I dunno!
[ 20. May 2013, 02:25: Message edited by: Rowen ]
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on
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Originally posted by Rowen:
I think I would like to start an elite society.....
How about this one?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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I'm really amazed at your comments.
I don't have any reasonable way to answer you, except to say, I'm doing the best I can with the information I can find.
I know my links only work off and on ... always. That's a problem I always have.
God is very real and Personable to me, and He leads me on, in the pilgrimage that my life is.
At least we here have GOD in common, even if we don't agree about the time of day.
Whether our thoughts align or not, at least our Lord gave us behavioral guidelines so that we can get along anyway despite our divergent and unharmonious thoughts.
Howzzat for an answer? Hope it's sufficient.
I'll try not to stir things up so much next time.
With kindest regards,
Emily
Posted by Evangeline (# 7002) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Rowen:
I think I would like to start an elite society.....
Anyone else care to join?
Elite about wot?
I dunno!
Any society that'd accept me wouldn't be elite enough
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
I'm really amazed at your comments.
I don't have any reasonable way to answer you, except to say, I'm doing the best I can with the information I can find.
I know my links only work off and on ... always. That's a problem I always have.
God is very real and Personable to me, and He leads me on, in the pilgrimage that my life is.
At least we here have GOD in common, even if we don't agree about the time of day.
Whether our thoughts align or not, at least our Lord gave us behavioral guidelines so that we can get along anyway despite our divergent and unharmonious thoughts.
Howzzat for an answer? Hope it's sufficient.
I'll try not to stir things up so much next time.
With kindest regards,
Emily
Stirring up things is just fine, but this is a discussion forum, and people do actually debate, ask for evidence, ask questions, and really do want to know. You've said a number of things that are both interesting and challengeable on this topic, so you do get requests for info and questions. Suggest that you sift through the posts and comment on what you can. You'll get respect for how you post and what you post. The group is not usually mean, though they are not always cuddly little kitties, they do have claws and may even spit and hiss. But, if you don't post to answer and defend, people may put you on ignore. Just saying.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.309061465893604.1073741827.175354842597601&type=1#
Whew! I got the Annunaki page and its photo Albums straightened out.
What a mess! All cleaned up, and I have more archaeological images to put up, but not today.
Posted by Fr Weber (# 13472) on
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"Dogs flew spaceships! The Aztecs invented the vacation! Men and women are the same sex! Our forefathers took drugs! Your brain is not the boss! Yes! That's right! Everything you know is wrong!"
--The Firesign Theatre
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Posted by Arethosemyfeet (# 17047) on
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As with every other massive conspiracy: if every government is in on it, every archaeologist bribed to cover it up and so on... why are you being allowed to talk about it on the Internet? If there are genuinely significant conspiracies then you will know nothing about them at all - not know complex and intricate details.
Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
And to get on with conventional belief structures,
you also believe--
the earth is flat and you'll drop off the edge;
the sun is 93 million miles away;
the moon is 2100 miles in diameter;
the earth has a molten iron core;
civilization began just 6000 years ago;
before that people lived in caves;
there's a Law that mandates the IRS income tax;
Edward Duke of Windsor abdicated for the love of Wallis Simpson;
Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy;
Building Seven came down of its own accord;
and
the Supreme Court rules on Common Law in the nation called the United States of America.
Right? You believe all that too, right?
These beliefs are common mythological currency in this country, where Annunaki culture is considered a myth and secret societies remain secret.
This is the stuff we are expected to swallow.
I don't swallow it; but you guess that already.
To me, what is actually true is up for study.
EEWC
Oh gawd! It seems if you believe in one conspiracy theory you believe them all.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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For ten years, since Nancy Lieder had her dog put to sleep in anticipation of Armageddon, I have been re-rendering and analyzing NASA/ ESA/ JAXA and Astronomy photos to see what they conceal.
In the process what I discovered is that there is nothing in Astronomy or Space Science that is taught from Truth; everything you read everywhere is confabulated mythology.
I have archived about 50,000 photo images that prove--to myself--that what I have just stated is true. I don't know of any way or means for me to convince anybody else of anything who wasn't willing to spend the next ten years studying images and manuscripts as I have done.
So, I just state what I know, which is, we are lied to by TPTB about nearly everything. That's a game the Elites play against the rest of us.
You don't have to believe me, but I've done the work. And I would be hard pressed to have to cough up ten years' research on my very first day in a forum such as this.
Each of us knows what we know, what we believe. We have a foggy notion of what we don't know that we'd like to know. But the killer aspect is when we don't know WHAT WE DON'T KNOW. And that's the Game human leadership has been playing against the people -- Not telling us what we don't know so we have to go digging for it ourselves.
I'll share anything I have with you ... anything except ridicule. I don't believe in ridiculing people for what they know or what they haven't found out about yet. I don't call people names like "delusional" or "crazy" because they don't know what I have taken a great deal of time and trouble to find out.
I come here to chat and make friends and play with people--not to pretend I'm any better. We're all sinners, after all is said and done.
Emily
Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on
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Such a conspiracy would be impossible to pull off.
Posted by Ricardus (# 8757) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Emily Windsor-Cragg:
before that people lived in caves;
Yes. Some of them continued to do so for some time afterwards.
Is that actually true? What about areas with no caves to live in?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Well, I don't trust our leaders either, the higher up the tree you get the more heads you stood on to get there. But I do trust jobbing archaeologists and scientists - there is no way they could all be silenced, especially in this 'information age'. Look at Jimmy Saville, it all came out in the end - it always does imo.
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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I had an initial peek at your photo albums. I would have found it helpful if the captions gave a few more details. Such as:
Where the feature shown is from.
What it is. (As in monument, pot, seal...)
What Earth culture produced it. (As in Sumerian, Akkadian, not Annunaki)
What, exactly, it is supposed to demonstrate.
Some you have annotated. Others you have not.
If you refer to a life on, or in, Lyra, you explain where or what Lyra is. If it is the constellation, the same objections apply as to Orion. Constellations are human artifacts, images projected onto the screen of the starry sky, linking together stars which may be very, very far removed from each other in reality. We as a species are very good at image projection.
We are especially good with regard to faces. (Research with babies has shown that they react to a pattern of dots on a disc something like a smiley as if it is a face.) Seeing faces in landscapes is so easy that is isn't proof of much.
Coming back to your list of myths which are believed with no challenge, the sizes and distances of the major heavenly bodies in the Solar System can be determined experimentally by anyone, using techniques devised by the Ancient Greeks - I've done it as part of the Open University Science Foundation course.
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Emily--
Serious question: have you been reading David Icke?
I skimmed much of his site, years ago. He, too, seems determined to make sense of and connect a wide variety of things, so that they make sense.
I take a "don't know" attitude toward most things. I like to play with ideas. If someone says that something isn't true, I mull over whether I can think of any way that it *could* be true. That doesn't mean that it *is* true--just that looking from different perspectives can be interesting, and fun.
But, sometimes, you just have to hold the puzzle pieces. *Forcing* them together can just muddle your search for truth. Living with "don't know" can be very scary. For me, it's the best way to go. And it takes a lot of pressure off of me. Whew!
If what you say about the Annunaki is true, what difference does it make in our everyday lives? What is the good truth that they've kept us from.
I've noticed, both on the Ship and on your sites, that you emphasize right behavior over doctrine.
So how then shall we live?
Not poking at you. Honestly asking.
Posted by Anglican_Brat (# 12349) on
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Strange that the people who go on about extraterrestrial influences on ancient culture never seem to publish in academically peer-reviewed journals on Near-eastern societies.
Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Serious question: have you been reading David Icke?
I was thinking the same thing.
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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Search engine work suggests that Icke is not unconnected.
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on
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Emily, you do realise that when you say 'from Orion', that's pretty much meaningless?
Orion only looks like Orion because of where we are in the galaxy compared with the other stars. Some of the stars that make up Orion are as distant from each other as they are from us, in the same way that Algeria and South Africa are really close if you look at them from Scotland.
Making patterns of things we see in the sky is a universal human trait. It doesn't mean those patterns have any external significance.
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
I have archived about 50,000 photo images that prove--to myself--that what I have just stated is true. I don't know of any way or means for me to convince anybody else of anything who wasn't willing to spend the next ten years studying images and manuscripts as I have done.
In most fields of work, it is normal to be able to write a two or three page article that explains, to the non-specialist, the key findings and illustrates the evidence for them. The sort of thing that one might read in Scientific American, for example.
One of the ship's linguists could describe, in a few paragraphs, the evolution of the English language over the past millennium with illustrative examples, without requiring the rest of us to go and do the primary research.
I don't see why your claims are any different. You claim that, by analyzing 50,000 photographs you have evidence that conventional Astronomy is a hoax, and conceals evidence of Anunakis. Fine. Show us two, or three, or half-a-dozen. Explain the conventional interpretation of the image, and show us why that interpretation is wrong.
To give another example of a decade's work in analyzing tens of thousands of pictures, read John Coster-Mullen's book on his reconstruction of Little Boy. He has condensed a decade or so's work into a couple of hours of reading, without leaving anything important out.
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So, I just state what I know, which is, we are lied to by TPTB about nearly everything. That's a game the Elites play against the rest of us.
"Just stating what you 'know'" isn't going to get you very far. You need to show us why you know it.
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But the killer aspect is when we don't know WHAT WE DON'T KNOW. And that's the Game human leadership has been playing against the people -- Not telling us what we don't know so we have to go digging for it ourselves.
Are you Donald Rumsfeld's long-lost sister?
Seriously, this doesn't make any sense. How can "human leadership" tell me what I don't know. It - governments or whoever - doesn't know what I don't know.
Posted by EtymologicalEvangelical (# 15091) on
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Originally posted by HughWillRidmee
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Originally posted by mousethief
You need to give us evidence that we can smell, eat, taste, feel, touch, or see, and link it with sound reasoning to your conclusions.
That requirement, if applied consistently, must inevitably lead to atheism must it not?
Well, to philosophical naturalism, in which the existence of God is unknown (although I realise that 'atheism' seems to have been redefined as 'agnosticism').
But, of course, mousethief is wrong to imply that evidence should be limited to an empirical definition. Empiricism is, of course, self-refuting (as no less a person than Bertrand Russell recognised), and if naturalism depends on this epistemological theory, then that philosophy is self-refuting also. Where does that leave atheism, I wonder?
Posted by SusanDoris (# 12618) on
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Originally posted by Barnabas62:
I think I get it, though. Emily Windsor-Cragg does not trust any of the well publicised sources because they show the effects of successful suppression of the truth by those who wish to suppress the truth.
<snip>
(Pity she wasn't around for our special "Da Vinci Code" discussion board. That was a fun time with Dan Brown, the Knights Templar, the Priory of Sion, the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail etc. Louise went to town IIRC. Much fun was had by all.)
I missed that one! I have read as far as this post and hope I have picked up correctly the trend of the thread. I wonder whether EEWC has thought of joining the Graham Hancock message boards, where she will find sympathetic views onZechariah Sitchin et al ... although I'll be there as a challenger.
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Interesting thing I noticed when reading Icke's site:
When I skimmed his site, years ago, he seemed obsessive about making a coherent whole of all his questions--kind of a General Theory of everything. The one section that seemed less so was about childhood sexual abuse. (Against it.) Which got me to thinking about the long-term effects of trauma, and being caught in someone else's lies, and how a survivor makes sense of all that.
I might have been totally off-base, but it seemed like a possibility.
Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
A couple of years ago, I was posting on a Dutch forum that in the end was overrun by people who argued like Emily. What I always found interesting was their double-edged fascination with Science.
On the one hand, Science is dismissed by them as 'foregone objective conclusions'. On the other hand, they almost crave to be recognised as scientific ('objective, physical, actual data').
Picking up on Leaf's point re gnosis, cultish beliefs can be quite empowering for people who otherwise lack recognition. In the cult, the "outsider" becomes "in with the in-crowd", which seems to breed a certain kind of superiority. new personal significance is found. If this is coupled with a self-enclosing ideology (e.g. mainstream sources are not to be trusted, conspiracy to deceive is everywhere, "we" have a special revelation) the mental prison has two locks; I'm better "inside", I'm safer "inside". Well, if it makes them happy, it can't be that bad. But if it makes them happy, why the hell do they look so sad?
The massive attraction of "The Matrix" seems to have something to say about modern (perhaps I should say postmodern) western culture. Take the red pill. Find out how deep the rabbit hole goes. Welcome to the "real world".
All you have to do is swallow that red pill, folks. But, let's face it. Pills may be hard to swallow, but not nearly as hard to swallow as the suspension of disbelief required to find anything plausible in Emily Windsor-Cragg's linked website. Nothing of significance to be found down that rabbit-hole. Well, at least not about the "real world". What it has to say about Emily Windsor-Cragg is a matter for experts in a rather different field of enquiry. I couldn't possibly comment. Well, not in Purgatory, anyway.
Posted by Thyme (# 12360) on
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It's all reminding me of the stories that surface occassionally about how the Christian Churches have suppressed the real truth about Jesus, citing various Gnostic Gospels as evidence.
Rowan Williams (Former ABC) nailed it when he said something like: 'The reason these documents disappeared from mainstream Christian sources is not because they were suppressed (they are readily accessible now to anyone with internet access or even access to a bookshop), but because they are a collection of badly written nonsense.'
Anyway, I'm getting a bit confused about whether the Annunaki are the evil overlords screwing with our perceptions or hugely advanced beings that the PTB are trying to prevent us from knowing about. Or both.
But I am a bear of very little brain which is why I don't post much in Purgatory. Mainstream thought isn't always the correct or final answer but this Annunaki stuff (which I've never heard of before) just seems too barking to be worth much mental effort.
I think I'll wait till Emily and her friends have convinced the PTB.
Barnabus 62's question about the enduring power of the extra terrestial myth is interesting, there does seem to be something hardwired in us that finds this idea compelling. I wonder if it is just a way in which our brains interpret that sense that their is something inexplicable about the universe and its workings which religious explain as God.
Posted by Nicodemia (# 4756) on
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These Annuki would be homo erectus then, not homo sapiens?
Posted by SusanDoris (# 12618) on
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barnabas62: If this post is too off topic, please delete. thank you.
I turned on Radio 4 yesterday and caught the end of Desert Island discs, where the castaway chose as her book something by David Icke!! I think I'll listen to the repeat on Friday to find out why.
Some years ago I read 'Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark' by Laurence Gardiner in order to challenge some GH ideas. It stated that gold can be super-heated and turned into a magical white powder which was fed to the AE pharaohs. I followed this up, had an interesting conversation with someone in the Gold Institute (or whatever it was) who was pleased to have a change from the usual enquiry of how much their gold was worth.; also I checked out all web sites claiming to supply this powder! Quite a few led back to David I cke's site. My efforts were in vain, however, because thpostter(s) concerned on GH still believed.
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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The Annunaki are REAL! I was a skeptic, but then the kind chap who lives in the local underpass offered to show me the TRUTH and when I woke up and dried off from the ice bath he'd left me in (apparently extreme cold shorts out the Illuminati tracking chip they implant in everyone at birth) I could hear the beautiful song of the wonderful travellers from Orion! To think it was being blocked by my fillings - DENTISTRY IS PART OF THE CONSPIRACY, PEOPLE!!!
The One World Government conceals the truth about the Annunaki, but not well enough. Someone found out at the start of the last century - King Edward VIII and his brother Adolf. When it became clear that the Cabal would never allow the Truth to be disseminated the latter even hid a clue to it in the name of his political party - AnnuNAKI/NAZI - coincidence? HA! You have been deceived my FRIEND! The whole of WW2 was fought to make sure that THAT clue would never AGAIN be seen!
Ia, Ia - they come AT last! Earth Government hides ALL truth! The pyramids are PROOF! NASA is lying to you! The Earth is NOT FLAT! The Annunaki will return! The Labyrinth has you! I am the Minotaur! Take the RED pill! THE cake is A lie! WE aLl live in A YELLOW subMARine! THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!
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Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on
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(Wipes coffee splutters off keyboard)
Thanks Marvin. I needed that.
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Marvin's post reminds me of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
Basically, people purposely make up a fake conspiracy theory. They think it's funny. Then things start happening. Things get so confusing that they don't know whether things are really happening, or they've gone crazy, or a mixture of both.
It was, frankly, the bleakest book I've ever read. Some people take it as pure satire. ISTM there was some humor in it, but not much.
When I finished it, I didn't want to read anything else ever again. The only thing that *might* get me to read it is if I read up on Kabbalah, because I got a feeling it was subtly worked into the story. (I've read another novel--Dante's Equation--that worked its way openly through...is it the Tree of Life? And Katherine Neville's The Eight has some interesting things worked into that very haunting book.)
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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Anglican_Brat: Strange that the people who go on about extraterrestrial influences on ancient culture never seem to publish in academically peer-reviewed journals on Near-eastern societies.
These journals are controlled by The Elite. Duh.
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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Doc Tor: Emily, you do realise that when you say 'from Orion', that's pretty much meaningless?
That's what they want you to believe...
People like Emily can explain almost anything away like part of a Conspiracy. Of course, the Conspiracy needs to get bigger and bigger to accomodate for all the discrepancies, but I bet she's happy to live with that. It makes her all the more special because she sees through the Conspiracy.
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Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on
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The Elite have even infected our movies! Nothing is safe!
Posted by Thyme (# 12360) on
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
The Real Truth
Thank you Marvin for enduring such physical torment to lead us to the truth.
As you represent the PTB here I am now a believer.
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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He is clearly in error, because that should read SHEEPLE not PEOPLE.
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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Originally posted by Thyme:
As you represent the PTB here I am now a believer.
NOOOOOO - don't start believing until you've shorted out your tracking chip! THEY will find you and BRAINwash you again, over and over, always with the goddamn brainwashing guys, really it's getting old now so just stop ok? Nothing can prevent the TRUTH except for the FORCES of DARK. DARK is the absence of LIGHT, which means there isn't anything brightening up the place where you are did your candle blow out OMG YOUR CANDLE BLEW OUT. Prepare for the dugongs, for they come at night in the DARK. My new fillings said so. These ones AREn't a conspiracy. They're made of iron. Good, dependable iron from OrION - coincidence? HA! You have been deceived my FRIEND!. I am he who knows the truth because of iron in my tooth.
We are ALL star children FROM Beetlejoos. DO not believe THE lies. All is LIES. I AM THE walrus.
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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Except Emily, who is from Lyra. But, I think, deserving of the same HGTTG assessment as the Earth.
Marvin, I am in total admiration of your ability to do that!
SusanDoris, what is GH?
Posted by Thyme (# 12360) on
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Marvin has unmasked himself! His disguise has vanished. The clue was always in his screen name. HE IS A MARTIAN! And probably a Lizard as well.
It all makes so much sense now.
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Posted by Mr Clingford (# 7961) on
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Originally posted by Penny S:
...SusanDoris, what is GH?
I think she is referring to Graham Hancock who is a writer of pseudo-history.
Posted by Holy Smoke (# 14866) on
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Originally posted by Barnabas62:
Picking up on Leaf's point re gnosis, cultish beliefs can be quite empowering for people who otherwise lack recognition. In the cult, the "outsider" becomes "in with the in-crowd", which seems to breed a certain kind of superiority. new personal significance is found. If this is coupled with a self-enclosing ideology (e.g. mainstream sources are not to be trusted, conspiracy to deceive is everywhere, "we" have a special revelation) the mental prison has two locks; I'm better "inside", I'm safer "inside". Well, if it makes them happy, it can't be that bad. But if it makes them happy, why the hell do they look so sad?...
I have come across a fair few miserable Christians over the years...
Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on
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In hell I joked that one person's bat shit crazy is another's theology. This was a very generalist joking comment based on that thread development. But like a lot of my humour, it expressed an element of my underlying belief or fear. Now I accept the presentation is a little unusual but the content Emily presents is probably no less unusual than all religious beliefs. I don't share Emily 's beliefs. But then I don't share many of the beliefs of my own faith tradition.
But I do like what Emily wanted as her screen name. The feminine form of Pinocchio. And I guess, I too, want to be a real boy, (a real girl), a real human. And I shudder to think how I, with my one trick relational theology, present to an outsider.
Posted by SusanDoris (# 12618) on
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Originally posted by Penny S:
Marvin, I am in total admiration of your ability to do that!
SusanDoris, what is GH?
Agree with you about Marvin!
GH is the Graham Hancock Message Boards.
In case anyone wants to know, the Ark of the Covenant is, apparently, suspended above the labyrinth in the centre of Chartres Cathedral in another time dimension. Unfortunately, it cannot be retrieved because the correct conjunction of the original stained glass window, roof peak and something else I forget is impossible because of the ravages of time.
Posted by SusanDoris (# 12618) on
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Originally posted by Mr Clingford:
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Originally posted by Penny S:
...SusanDoris, what is GH?
I think she is referring to Graham Hancock who is a writer of pseudo-history.
I'd add that when I used to read all of GH's books, I found that whenever he was speculating, he always made that clear.
Posted by Komensky (# 8675) on
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Have I missed something? The Dukes of Hazzard Abdicated?!
Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on
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Originally posted by Holy Smoke:
I have come across a fair few miserable Christians over the years...
Me too. Sometimes it's because of bad stuff in their local churches. (You know the kind; where everything is forbidden, unless it is compulsory.)
But sometimes it's just them, or what's going on in their lives in other ways.
Posted by Gee D (# 13815) on
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Originally posted by Mr Clingford:
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Originally posted by Penny S:
...SusanDoris, what is GH?
I think she is referring to Graham Hancock who is a writer of pseudo-history.
A different sort of funny to his programme, well known to older shipmates, Hancock's Half Hour .
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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Ah, light dawns - I was running through lists of things, not people.
I now have, running through my head, a parody of a parody composed by a friend of mine about the theories of Bauval and Hancock and sphinx measuring.
I have read that thing about the Ark - someone with all of the author's books donated them to Oxfam, so I bought them, scanned them, and returned them.
I thought it quite amusing to see Marcus Du Sautoy on TV risking standing beneath the invisible Ark when discussing maths. It was quite clear that one essential pole of the suspension mechanism was missing.
I'm impressed that SusanDoris went to the trouble of investigating the gold hypothesis. I just wrote it off without bothering. (Did you know that Waitrose sells edible gold for cake decorating?)
And the Guardian today has, by virtue of synchronicity, a photo of a painting of the Queen actually STANDING on the Westminster Abbey COSMATI PAVEMENT, which must indicate something!
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Posted by Thyme (# 12360) on
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Originally posted by Patdys:
In hell I joked that one person's bat shit crazy is another's theology. This was a very generalist joking comment based on that thread development. But like a lot of my humour, it expressed an element of my underlying belief or fear. Now I accept the presentation is a little unusual but the content Emily presents is probably no less unusual than all religious beliefs. I don't share Emily 's beliefs. But then I don't share many of the beliefs of my own faith tradition.
But I do like what Emily wanted as her screen name. The feminine form of Pinocchio. And I guess, I too, want to be a real boy, (a real girl), a real human. And I shudder to think how I, with my one trick relational theology, present to an outsider.
I was thinking something along these lines mulling over the various threads and reactions. There was a time when I dismissed most of what I now believe from the mainstream Christian traditions as 'batshit crazy'.
Posted by Erroneous Monk (# 10858) on
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Originally posted by Patdys:
In hell I joked that one person's bat shit crazy is another's theology. This was a very generalist joking comment based on that thread development. But like a lot of my humour, it expressed an element of my underlying belief or fear.
People *do* believe unusual things. My aunt was married to a gentleman who believed that there was life after death for all, but that for non-Christians, this life would be, not in heaven, but on other planets. He mentioned Venus and Mars as options.
I think he was a Methodist
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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I AM THE walrus.
Sir Paul, is that you???
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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Originally posted by Thyme:
HE IS A MARTIAN! And probably a Lizard as well.
You know of the lizards? Take CARE lest they drink your thoughts. Wear your TINFOIL with pride, for then THEY are powerLESS.
Don't let your candle blow out. That's IMPORTANT. And beware those from Lyra for they are liars. LYRA/LIAR - coincidence? HA! You have been deceived my FRIEND! The pyramids point the way. Follow the camel. Forsake the dugongs and keep your candle alight. A day is coming when NIGHT will fall, but it not this day. I am the kwizats haderach.
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
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I AM THE walrus.
Sir Paul, is that you???
I AM not a "sir" for "sirs" are part of the elites that crush the Truth and prevent you from HAVING access to it. SO many have failed and so MUCH has been lost. Trust the pyramids to point you to the FUNdamental facts. WITH them in your life all can be won. Do not forget THIS. You have power. You are strong when you believe. Send no money now. All I ask is your trust. I am not a FUCKWIT. Promise.
Posted by Moo (# 107) on
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Originally posted by Barnabas62:
Pity she wasn't around for our special "Da Vinci Code" discussion board. That was a fun time with Dan Brown, the Knights Templar, the Priory of Sion, the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail etc. Louise went to town IIRC. Much fun was had by all.
Here is a link to the Da Vinci Code board.
Moo
Posted by Komensky (# 8675) on
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Originally posted by Penny S:
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I now have, running through my head, a parody of a parody composed by a friend of mine about the theories of Bauval and Hancock and sphinx measuring.
That sounds hilarious.
Posted by Porridge (# 15405) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
. . . Each of us knows what we know, what we believe. We have a foggy notion of what we don't know that we'd like to know. But the killer aspect is when we don't know WHAT WE DON'T KNOW.
. . . Emily
Ah, but Dick Cheney does.
Posted by SusanDoris (# 12618) on
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Originally posted by Penny S:
I have read that thing about the Ark - someone with all of the author's books donated them to Oxfam, so I bought them, scanned them, and returned them.
Eminently sensible!!
In fact, I checked the biblical references too. It made for quite an interesting hobby for a while actually.
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I thought it quite amusing to see Marcus Du Sautoy on TV risking standing beneath the invisible Ark when discussing maths. It was quite clear that one essential pole of the suspension mechanism was missing.
I didn't know about that programme - can you tell me more please?
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I'm impressed that SusanDoris went to the trouble of investigating the gold hypothesis. I just wrote it off without bothering. (
*Gracefully acknowledges compliment!*
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Did you know that Waitrose sells edible gold for cake decorating?)
Obviously, waitrose know something we don't.
Posted by Crœsos (# 238) on
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Originally posted by Patdys:
In hell I joked that one person's bat shit crazy is another's theology. This was a very generalist joking comment based on that thread development. But like a lot of my humour, it expressed an element of my underlying belief or fear. Now I accept the presentation is a little unusual but the content Emily presents is probably no less unusual than all religious beliefs. I don't share Emily 's beliefs. But then I don't share many of the beliefs of my own faith tradition.
To a certain extent, isn't virtually all religious belief about visitors from another world, whether it's Annunaki from space, Zeus from Olympus, or the Son of God from the Kingdom of Heaven? Is there any way to claim 'your visitor from another world is ridiculous, but mine is totally plausible' without appealing to special pleading?
Posted by chris stiles (# 12641) on
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
kind of a General Theory of everything. The one section that seemed less so was about childhood sexual abuse. (Against it.)
People of this sort seem to generate General Theories - a case of pattern recognition gone mad perhaps.
On a more mundane level, there is Andrew Kadir-Buxton who believes everything, bar everything, from the female orgasm to mental illness can be solved by punching people in the head:
http://www.kadir-buxton.com/
Posted by goperryrevs (# 13504) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Crœsos:
Is there any way to claim 'your visitor from another world is ridiculous, but mine is totally plausible' without appealing to special pleading?
Yes and no. In terms of the high-level beliefs themselves, there's not much difference. But the worldview that contains that belief also contains a whole bunch of other beliefs (and perhaps relies upon them) that might be demonstrably false.
So if your religious worldview also contains a whole bunch of unlikely conspiracy theories, or scientifically invalid nonsense, then that worldview can be critiqued more heavily than a worldview whose beliefs are generally consistent with reality as we observe it.
Posted by Justinian (# 5357) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Ad Orientem:
Oh gawd! It seems if you believe in one conspiracy theory you believe them all.
A phenomenon known as Crank Magnetism.
Posted by Porridge (# 15405) on
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quote:
Originally posted by goperryrevs:
. . . So if your religious worldview also contains a whole bunch of unlikely conspiracy theories, or scientifically invalid nonsense, then that worldview can be critiqued more heavily than a worldview whose beliefs are generally consistent with reality as we observe it.
A few Christian beliefs not generally consistent with any reality I personally have observed (YMMV):
The capacity of Jesus to:
turn water into wine
walk across storm-driven waters
revivify people who've been dead several days
re-attach sword-severed ears with touch alone
be the progeny of a supernatural being
The capacity of the BVM to:
give birth without the agency of human sperm
remain virgin (if that means an intact hymen) after giving birth
Other, more general, beliefs:
An eternal life-after-death in two distinct phases, the second of which returns individuals to perfected versions of their original physical bodies
I grant you, the addition of highly-unlikely conspiracy theories would make any the above look even dodgier. But you've got to admit Croesos has a point.
Posted by TomOfTarsus (# 3053) on
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Emily, if you come back after all this: forget about all the stuff posted in your first post and the rest, the twin towers, the flat earth, all of it, just for a minute.
What do you think are the facts about Jesus?
I'm not challenging you, I'm curious.
Blessings,
Tom
Posted by ken (# 2460) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
It's like, "Secrets of the Elites" are never to be revealed, eh?
So reveal them then.
quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
Basically, people purposely make up a fake conspiracy theory. They think it's funny. Then things start happening.
The late John Sladek wrote some books exposing some various conspiracy theory mystery religions, and then another which was a comedy spoof of one he made up. And some people really started believing it.
quote:
Originally posted by Erroneous Monk:
My aunt was married to a gentleman who believed that there was life after death for all, but that for non-Christians, this life would be, not in heaven, but on other planets. He mentioned Venus and Mars as options.
I think he was a Methodist
Actually that sounds like Mormon teaching to me. Everyone, whoever htey are, gets retrospectively baptised and gets to live on new planets, with their social status depending on how near their beliefs are to Mormonism and how many kids they have and how white they are (they have kept quiet about that last bit for a few decades). These new planets are managed by the best Mormons (i.e. white, male, and with lots of kids) who get to be a sort of local god. Once upon a time (*they might have officially repudiated the idea now, I'm not sure) they would go on to say that the God of this world was just such a holy man promoted to godhood out of some repvious world - and of course there could be other such gods in other worlds inaccessible to us. So strictly speaking Mormonism is, or was not so long ago, not theist at all. Much more like ancient pagan beliefs. Maybe even Sumerian ones. (Except that they didn't think the rest of us had a chance, you had to be a god to live on)
Posted by Cara (# 16966) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Porridge:
quote:
Originally posted by goperryrevs:
. . . So if your religious worldview also contains a whole bunch of unlikely conspiracy theories, or scientifically invalid nonsense, then that worldview can be critiqued more heavily than a worldview whose beliefs are generally consistent with reality as we observe it.
A few Christian beliefs not generally consistent with any reality I personally have observed (YMMV):
The capacity of Jesus to:
turn water into wine
walk across storm-driven waters
revivify people who've been dead several days
re-attach sword-severed ears with touch alone
be the progeny of a supernatural being
The capacity of the BVM to:
give birth without the agency of human sperm
remain virgin (if that means an intact hymen) after giving birth
Other, more general, beliefs:
An eternal life-after-death in two distinct phases, the second of which returns individuals to perfected versions of their original physical bodies
I grant you, the addition of highly-unlikely conspiracy theories would make any the above look even dodgier. But you've got to admit Croesos has a point.
Exactly, if we are Christians we do believe some pretty amazing things.
To go back to the OP...I do remember being captivated by Erick von Daniken's books when young. Not that I bought into them wholesale exactly, but that there was something wonderful about the idea that all the mysteries--like those enormous diagrams in Mexico for example-- could be explained by this theory. Also there was something very compelling about the idea in itself of beings--especially of wise, superior, teaching-us-everything beings--coming from "beyond" to help us.
As has been said upthread, isn't all religion about such beings coming from beyond?
And angels....same thing. Why do we (or many of us) have this craving to believe in them?
How to explain these yearnings and desires in the human psyche--yearnings and beliefs that cross cultures and eras??
Posted by chive (# 208) on
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quote:
Originally posted by chris stiles:
quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
kind of a General Theory of everything. The one section that seemed less so was about childhood sexual abuse. (Against it.)
People of this sort seem to generate General Theories - a case of pattern recognition gone mad perhaps.
On a more mundane level, there is Andrew Kadir-Buxton who believes everything, bar everything, from the female orgasm to mental illness can be solved by punching people in the head:
http://www.kadir-buxton.com/
The Kadir-Buxton method has been discussed several times between mental health specialists and myself. We have come to the conclusion that it only works if the mental is really, really irritating.
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on
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quote:
Originally posted by goperryrevs:
quote:
Originally posted by Crœsos:
Is there any way to claim 'your visitor from another world is ridiculous, but mine is totally plausible' without appealing to special pleading?
Yes and no. In terms of the high-level beliefs themselves, there's not much difference. But the worldview that contains that belief also contains a whole bunch of other beliefs (and perhaps relies upon them) that might be demonstrably false.
So if your religious worldview also contains a whole bunch of unlikely conspiracy theories, or scientifically invalid nonsense, then that worldview can be critiqued more heavily than a worldview whose beliefs are generally consistent with reality as we observe it.
I think a better point to make would be that the traditional view of the incarnation of Jesus, while in one sense supernaturally fantastic, doesn't require serious breaches of the laws of planetary motion.
Posted by Lothiriel (# 15561) on
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quote:
Originally posted by chris stiles:
quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
kind of a General Theory of everything. The one section that seemed less so was about childhood sexual abuse. (Against it.)
People of this sort seem to generate General Theories - a case of pattern recognition gone mad perhaps.
Speaking of pattern recognition -- reading through this thread and its relative in Styx, and glancing through Emily Windsor-Cragg's website, I'm reminded of the film A Beautiful Mind--especially the state of his office, plastered with pages from magazines with an intricate web of string connecting random words that spelled out Soviet spy messages.
Posted by Prester John (# 5502) on
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Does all of this mean Gozer the Gozerian will be coming back??!
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Serious question: have you been reading David Icke?
... Some years ago I did, but he comes to a lot of conclusions that my data does not support. [I'm using elipses ... to differentiate between your text and mine.)
I skimmed much of his site, years ago. He, too, seems determined to make sense of and connect a wide variety of things, so that they make sense.
... Yes. We need to make sense of our lives, and particularly of our public and civil lives, where leaders are taking us.
I take a "don't know" attitude toward most things. I like to play with ideas. If someone says that something isn't true, I mull over whether I can think of any way that it *could* be true. That doesn't mean that it *is* true--just that looking from different perspectives can be interesting, and fun.
... Sure! And that's what game designers do, because they don't have to be bothered with too much data, too little data, or data that doesn't fit.
But, sometimes, you just have to hold the puzzle pieces. *Forcing* them together can just muddle your search for truth. Living with "don't know" can be very scary. For me, it's the best way to go. And it takes a lot of pressure off of me. Whew!
... Yes, I began this poking into things twelve years ago when I was forcibly retired (by illness), and had time on my hands to do it.
If what you say about the Annunaki is true, what difference does it make in our everyday lives?
... Huge. They signed Treaties with Eisenhower from 1954 onward that have affected our use of technologies in a very extremely negative way ... as in serial wars just to test armaments and guns;
bacteriological warfare, electronic warfare, etec.
What is the good truth that they've kept us from.
... Very little "good" truth; just a lot of predatory military operations that we never should have taken on.
I've noticed, both on the Ship and on your sites, that you emphasize right behavior over doctrine.
... Everybody has their thoughts. When I was a kid I believed all sorts of silly things; and then when I had children, I went through my Fundie period; and then when the kids were growing up and teaching me about limits and boundaries; I lightened up. After all the kids left home, I had to deal with my own inner self. And each time my life changed, my beliefs changed (or maybe the other way around). But my behavior had to remain consistently civil, thrift, simple and decent in order for me to live with myself and with other people. So I adopted the tactic of just letting people have their own thoughts (and beliefs) because I figure, they're going through their own shit.
So how then shall we live?
...Jesus' teachings are still the best, and hardest in the short-term to abide by. But i think His approach is the best, along with Common Laws (against Harm, Deceit, Waste and Undue Cost) which His Father YHVH gave to Israel first, and then to the British.
Not poking at you. Honestly asking.
... I can tell that. Thank you so much for poking questions at me. I love that challenge, to answer and be civil.
EEWC
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
For ten years, since Nancy Lieder had her dog put to sleep in anticipation of Armageddon, I have been re-rendering and analyzing NASA/ ESA/ JAXA and Astronomy photos to see what they conceal.
In the process what I discovered is that there is nothing in Astronomy or Space Science that is taught from Truth; everything you read everywhere is confabulated mythology.
I have archived about 50,000 photo images that prove--to myself--that what I have just stated is true.
Out of interest, how many photographs did you discard as not supporting your theory?
Posted by Surfing Madness (# 11087) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
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Originally posted by Thyme:
As you represent the PTB here I am now a believer.
NOOOOOO - don't start believing until you've shorted out your tracking chip! THEY will find you and BRAINwash you again, over and over, always with the goddamn brainwashing guys, really it's getting old now so just stop ok? Nothing can prevent the TRUTH except for the FORCES of DARK. DARK is the absence of LIGHT, which means there isn't anything brightening up the place where you are did your candle blow out OMG YOUR CANDLE BLEW OUT. Prepare for the dugongs, for they come at night in the DARK. My new fillings said so. These ones AREn't a conspiracy. They're made of iron. Good, dependable iron from OrION - coincidence? HA! You have been deceived my FRIEND!. I am he who knows the truth because of iron in my tooth.
My first thought on reading this was, does than mean that half of Scotland have the truth from drinking so much Irn-bru?
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on
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This is all too Euro-centric. What about the Anasazi? The Hopi?? The Inca??? The Inuit????
The MAYA people!! There are "Indian" mounds down river from me that pull everyone in SE Minnesota and NE Iowa into a MATRIX VORTEX!! It happened to me...I was only going to stay in Winona for a few years and now IT HAS BEEN 14!!!!!
And don't get me started on what goes on in the Antipodes...
Posted by goperryrevs (# 13504) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Porridge:
I grant you, the addition of highly-unlikely conspiracy theories would make any the above look even dodgier. But you've got to admit Croesos has a point.
Sure, which is why I said 'yes' and 'no'. Christians (and I'm one of them) believe a whole bunch of remarkable things.
I think there's a difference, however, between believing unprovable things and believing provably-wrong things.
So, for example, I might believe that Jesus rose from the dead, despite the fact that experience tells us that people don't rise from the dead. I can't prove that he did, I believe that in some way the normal rules got broken and a miracle occurred. It's an unprovable, remarkable, and for some unbelievable, thing.
If someone, however, found some kind of proof that Jesus definitely didn't rise from the dead (for the sake of argument, some kind of indisputable archaeological evidence, though I'm not sure what that might be), then Jesus rising from the dead goes from being something unprovable to something provably wrong.
There are some 'Christian' beliefs that might fall into the provably wrong category. I'd put something like Young Earth Creationism in that category. However, most Christian beliefs (and most beliefs of other faiths too), including those in your list, simply fall into the 'unprovable' category. They might break the laws of physics as we understand them, or describe something about the supernatural that we can't know for sure, but as individual events we can't prove that they didn't happen. Take out and reject the provably wrong beliefs and I think Christianity still stands as a coherent worldview.
So, personally, I find it a lot harder to accept the validity of a religion like Mormonism than I do Christianity or Buddhism. There's too much there that is demonstrably wrong - linguistically and archaeologically. Mormonism's religious claims aren't, on the surface, any more remarkable than Christianity's (or our dear new Shipmate Emily's). But to accept Mormonism, I'd have to accept a bunch of things that I know aren't true, like horses (and a bunch of other animals, and crops) being around in America before the Europeans introduced them, like native Americans being descended from the Jews, like civilisations existing that there is no archaeological evidence for. It's moved from being unprovable to provably wrong.
Does that make sense? Of course unprovable and provably wrong aren't binary terms, and there's going to be a scale that religious beliefs fall on, but I hope you see the difference between "I know this sounds crazy, and things like this don't usually happen, but I believe..." and "I know this is in direct contradiction to something we know to be true, but I believe...". For me, the former holds more integrity than the latter.
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on
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The 'About' section on the Facebook link posted by EEWC above states:
quote:
ET visitors from the Orion Constellation have been coming to Earth in 3616 cycles for nearly half a million years. Kept secret by elite societies, their top-down hierarchy form of governance has been replicated here all over the world, despite Secrecy.
If we're descended from the genetically-modified slaves created by extra-terrestrials, can someone explain to me:
1. Why we're being visited at 3,616 year intervals? Who visits? What is the purpose of these visits? Why do they not appear more frequently and what happens between each visit?
2. Who are these 'elites'? Are they human beings or are they aliens? Or are they aliens in human form? How do the humans and the aliens interact with one another and why do humans obey the wishes of the aliens? Are humans still subservient to aliens - what is the nature of this relationship? Why is it in the interests of the elites (if they are human) to maintain secrecy?
If we're going to have a proper, Purgatorial discussion of this subject, these seem to me to be fairly basic questions about but after three pages I can't see any clear concise answers (unless our alien overlords are shielding my eyes from them).
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on
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If you Google "3616" the first hit is
Hydroxyzine
I have never seen any significance to the number in any of the odd books and websites I've read.
[ 20. May 2013, 16:01: Message edited by: Kyzyl ]
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Surfing Madness:
My first thought on reading this was, does than mean that half of Scotland have the truth from drinking so much Irn-bru?
The Pictish Folk never knew the Annunaki Giant Humanoids From Beyond The Moon so they SWALLOW their iron when it should be in the tooth! The TRUTH is in the TOOTH! The TOOTH, Duke Leto! Testify! Beware the dugongs! SoyLENT Green is PEOPLE! The clue to this Truth was left in the Christian Festival of Lent - SoyLENT/LENT coincidence? HA! You have been deceived my FRIEND! The TICKETS are now DIAMONDS!!!
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Anglican't, I didn't come up with a theory until I was 40,000 photos into the project. I work phenomenologically ... without a hypothesis until it all fits together in a single Aha!
Also, Nibiru used to orbit OleSol in a 3616-year long orbit; and it would only show up here, come through, and the rest of the time Nibiru & Company were traveling back to Orion (1800 years) and then back here again (another 1800 years). They're long-lived people, so their culture took advantage of resources on this planet, from visit to visit.
Elites. Bloodlines beginning with Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Jacob, etc., through the twelve tribes of that racial group ... who utilized crusades to enrich themselves with Babylonian banking practices, namely the Templars ... who then became the founding 300 families of Europe and who today own most of the world (they think). Elites today are industrialists, bankers and coupon-clipping globalists.
Why do humans obey the wishes of the ETs? Humans taught the ET cosmology (Occultists, New Age, Rosecrucians, Masons, Theosophists, etc) because it's COOL TO BE COOL. They have a set of teachings that promote individual self-love and outright complacency. (All One, Like Attracts Like, As Above, So Below, Reality is Illusion, Live by Astrology etc.)
Elites are commanded to maintain secrecy of the Annunaki teachings by their hierarchy MASTERS. Ask any Mason. ... But the A-liens are not overlords in any direct sense. They have their own lives, their own Monarchy, hierarchical systems, technologies and problems ... albeit similar to our own. They're divided into factions, as we are.
British Royalty, although claiming to be the head of the Anglican Church but being members of secret and civalric orders, were responsible for the founding of Tavistock (the psycho-puzzle palace), for the splitting off of Jews into Palestine (the Balfour Declaration), for the dumbing-down of the working classes (in opposition to Church schools' efforts at increasing literacy), so they're playing both ends against the middle, calling themselves Christian but playing the Occult card in the back room.
Kyzyi, the Mayans have pictographs of saucer craft, and their number system is similar to the Sumerians who learned from the Annunaki. Likewise, the Egyptians. There are pyramids all over the planet having similar architectural specifications, is another clue.
I hope I have covered everybody. If not, holler.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Anglican't, did the photo albums come up alright?
Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't; and I didn't want to add more photos until I knew if the system's working today.
Facebook fails a lot, in their linking, show and tell.
:/
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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SusanDoris, I'm sorry, I can't recall the details of Du Sautoy's programme - it was about a year back, and I can't remember what the maths was, either. It seemed very interesting at the time! He was on TV quite a bit then. (There's a piccy on this page Labyrinth )
Also, when I said I scanned the books, I meant scan read, not digitally copy them! Just in case anyone with a copyright interest is hanging about.
[ 20. May 2013, 16:25: Message edited by: Penny S ]
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on
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Everybody, this is neither the circus nor heaven - no trolling, no games. Parodies that make no debating point come very close to personal attack / trolling.
You are not obliged to participate in this thread if you don't want to, other boards (including hell) are thataway -->
Doublethink
Purgatory Host
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on
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Emily, thank you for improving the readability of your posts. Much appreciated.
Doublethink
Purgatory Host
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on
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So if I've understood this correctly, our alien 'overlords' only visit when they happen to be passing through our part of the solar system. They also don't appear to hold any sanction over their appointees on Earth so it's not clear why these appointees would so clearly conform to their masters' wishes if they are subject to such lax, infrequent control.
And if the aliens are so technologically advanced, is there no merit in following their practices and way of life?
___________________________________
Separately, I note that you say the ROYAL FAMILY are part of our oppressive culture but that you call yourself Emily WINDSOR-Cragg. How are we to interpret what you say as the truth rather than a FALSE FLAG OPERATION?
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on
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(In light of Doublethink's post at 5.22pm (cross-posted with mine) the second part of my post should perhaps be disregarded.)
Posted by TomOfTarsus (# 3053) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
I hope I have covered everybody. If not, holler.
You missed me! But no wonder, considering the speed that this thread is moving at.
What do you think of Jesus?
Tom
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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While trying to find details for SusanDoris, I came across this site, which does not entirely seem off topic. Exposing du Sautoy
Also of interest: du Sautoy again
Here's the BBC trailer, with a comment underneath about religious trolls.
Trailer
I remember it now - lots of diagrams of the geometry of the cathedral. I don't think the name of the programme was an accident.
Posted by Justinian (# 5357) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
[QB]Also, Nibiru used to orbit OleSol in a 3616-year long orbit; and it would only show up here, come through, and the rest of the time Nibiru & Company were traveling back to Orion (1800 years) and then back here again (another 1800 years). They're long-lived people, so their culture took advantage of resources on this planet, from visit to visit.
Interesting. If by Orion you mean the Orion Nebula, they travelled 1340 light years in 1800 years or more than 2/3 the speed of light. Not a bad speed to travel at.
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Elites. Bloodlines beginning with Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Jacob, etc., through the twelve tribes of that racial group ... who utilized crusades to enrich themselves with Babylonian banking practices, namely the Templars ...
So the Jews are the Templars? That's a new one on me.
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who then became the founding 300 families of Europe and who today own most of the world (they think). Elites today are industrialists, bankers and coupon-clipping globalists.
"Coupon-clipping globalists"? What do you mean?
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Why do humans obey the wishes of the ETs? Humans taught the ET cosmology (Occultists, New Age, Rosecrucians, Masons, Theosophists, etc) because it's COOL TO BE COOL.
First, the [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucian"]Rosicrucians[/url] are a joke. They were prophecying that the enlightened ones would reveal themselves - and then the Rosicrucians didn't so they decided they must be them.
Second, you're equating the belief system of the patriarchal ritual-centered followers of the Supreme Architect of the Universe with the no true way fluffy New Agers. Wait, what?
quote:
Elites are commanded to maintain secrecy of the Annunaki teachings by their hierarchy MASTERS. Ask any Mason. ... But the A-liens are not overlords in any direct sense. They have their own lives, their own Monarchy, hierarchical systems, technologies and problems ... albeit similar to our own. They're divided into factions, as we are.
I'm having distinct shades of The Masquerade here. Without a Sabbat.
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Kyzyi, the Mayans have pictographs of saucer craft, and their number system is similar to the Sumerians who learned from the Annunaki.
And we, of course, use Arabic numerals for a lot of very good reasons. I'd hate to design a starship using representational algebra - how many lines do you need? Arabic numberals are quite simply more usable than Mayan. But representational (or abstract representational like Roman numerals) are far easier to invent than abstract numerals. seems they aren't that advanced.
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Likewise, the Egyptians. There are pyramids all over the planet having similar architectural specifications, is another clue.
Is this to do with four sides and a wider base than tip? Or is it the Golden Ratio showing up everywhere?
Posted by Organ Builder (# 12478) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Justinian:
"Coupon-clipping globalists"? What do you mean?
If she's saying what I think she's saying, she's out-of-date. Stocks which paid dividends used to have coupons that you sent in to collect your dividend. People who had enough money invested to live without working were said to clip coupons. Nobody has used coupons (that I know of...) for decades. Computerization has made all of that seem charmingly quaint.
So she seems to be dissing jet-setting rich people.
Posted by ken (# 2460) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
While trying to find details for SusanDoris, I came across this site, which does not entirely seem off topic. Exposing du Sautoy
Well no, but it does seem to be the ravings of a crazed yeccy loon on a crusade against science.
I saw the du Sautoy programme. It was quite interesting - in a BBC-popular-science-over-glossy-shallow sort of way. (The noble exception to that being the very wonderful The Skyt at Night of course). I don't recall anything worthy of the shrieking vitriol on the website you linked to.
Posted by SusanDoris (# 12618) on
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Penny S
Thank you for the interesting links. I notice in the second one that one of the comments includes:
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If I’ve read your article correctly, you are hostile to du Sautoy because his programme is somehow anti-Christian.
I think he would like the strength of his arguments to help towards a realisation that atheism is the best choice!
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
British Royalty, although claiming to be the head of the Anglican Church but being members of secret and civalric orders, were responsible for the founding of Tavistock (the psycho-puzzle palace
And I always thought that Tavistock was the pleasant little town we passed through on our way to Cornwall...
Posted by CL (# 16145) on
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This thread is in poor taste. We should not make fun of the mentally ill.
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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As Doublethink posted, this thread is for serious discussion of these topics. Any joking or mockery, as she reminded everyone, had to cease. I don't think you're trying to do this, but remember that discussion of hostly rulings is also out of place here. That belongs in the Styx.
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
British Royalty, although claiming to be the head of the Anglican Church but being members of secret and civalric orders, were responsible for the founding of Tavistock (the psycho-puzzle palace
And I always thought that Tavistock was the pleasant little town we passed through on our way to Cornwall...
According to information on that notably reliable source, the internet, Tavistock was founded some time before the Norman Conquest and was given a market charter in 1105 by King Henry 1. I suppose that could be construed as being 'founded' by the British royal family although the town must have existed for some time before then - yes, here it is in the Domesday book.
Posted by Jon in the Nati (# 15849) on
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This thread is in poor taste. We should not make fun of the mentally ill.
Not in purgatory, but there is a similar thread in Hell where we can have our fun.
Posted by Porridge (# 15405) on
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Originally posted by orfeo:
I think a better point to make would be that the traditional view of the incarnation of Jesus, while in one sense supernaturally fantastic, doesn't require serious breaches of the laws of planetary motion.
Oh, you mean like the star over Bethlehem which led the Wise Men to the manger?
Posted by dyfrig (# 15) on
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How can we take seriously anyone who presents a view of the world that requires us to believe that civilization predates the earliest possible point for human history to begin, as conclusively demonstrated by Fomenko's New Chronology?
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Porridge:
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
I think a better point to make would be that the traditional view of the incarnation of Jesus, while in one sense supernaturally fantastic, doesn't require serious breaches of the laws of planetary motion.
Oh, you mean like the star over Bethlehem which led the Wise Men to the manger?
Which only violates planetary motion laws if you take "star" literally. It's interesting how atheists and hyper-fundamentalists have such similar exegetics.
Posted by Amos (# 44) on
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Emily, what is your view of Lyndon LaRouche? Some of your thinking reminds me of his.
Also, do you know the work of Dr Margaret Barker? If not, I think you might enjoy it and find that you and she have a lot in common.
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on
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[tangent] goperryrevs: quote:
But to accept Mormonism, I'd have to accept a bunch of things that I know aren't true, like horses (and a bunch of other animals, and crops) being around in America before the Europeans introduced them...
I'm not sure that it fits the Mormon timetable but horses did exist in North America before Europeans arrived. Horses evolved in North America and migrated to Asia and Europe. Humans migrated to North America and hunted horses (DNA on Clovis tools confirms it). Then horses died out here. Thousands of years later Europeans returned with modern breeds.
But I'm generally with you on Mormon "history". [/tangent]
Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on
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I used to enjoy bear baiting too. Still do to be honest. But I've repudiated that. This is about minds stretched beyond their elastic limits. Like mine. Luckily that happened along a different axis for me. My first instinct, as with original sin, was to say that it's irrelevant, non-explanatory. Even if David Icke and his like were right and all conspiracy theorists were (and I embraced Velikovski in my time, so the axis wobbled all right), what has any of it got to do with the needs of the needy?
With the beatitudes? And which beatitudes should prevail here?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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What PITHY questions!
quote:
Originally posted by Anglican't:
So if I've understood this correctly, our alien 'overlords' only visit when they happen to be passing through our part of the solar system. They also don't appear to hold any sanction over their appointees on Earth so it's not clear why these appointees would so clearly conform to their masters' wishes if they are subject to such lax, infrequent control.
Before I dive in here, have you read "The Holographic Paradigm"? .... just so I can gauge what to place in the background.
And if the aliens are so technologically advanced, is there no merit in following their practices and way of life?
We're 3rd Dimension Physical, but they're 5th-thru-9th Dimensional Subjective.
We don't live by the same operational rules.
We in 3D live by causes and effects.
They in 7th D live by manifesting their thoughts as on a Startrek Holodeck.
Our rules do not work for them; and their rules do not work for us.
And this is part and parcel of the problem we have with Occult and New Age Teachings: they're appropriate for a place where results, effects and outcomes OPERATE DIFFERENT than here.
There's really no MIXING the two.
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Separately, I note that you say the ROYAL FAMILY are part of our oppressive culture but that you call yourself Emily WINDSOR-Cragg. How are we to interpret what you say as the truth rather than a FALSE FLAG OPERATION?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Anglican't:
(In light of Doublethink's post at 5.22pm (cross-posted with mine) the second part of my post should perhaps be disregarded.)
IN RE: Separately, I note that you say the ROYAL FAMILY are part of our oppressive culture but that you call yourself Emily WINDSOR-Cragg. How are we to interpret what you say as the truth rather than a FALSE FLAG OPERATION?
I'm absolutely certain the Royal Family CONSIDER ME as a false-flag operation. There is NO DOUBT about that!
They didn't like my Dad and they don't like me.
And that's how it is, why I say, there's nothing in this situation for me to gain.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by TomOfTarsus:
quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
I hope I have covered everybody. If not, holler.
You missed me! But no wonder, considering the speed that this thread is moving at.
What do you think of Jesus?
Tom
In my adoptive situation when I was five or six, the family was in chaos.
We were spending the summer of 1950 at Venice Park in California near Muscle Beach and on the way down to the beach I met a lady standing with some books in her hands. And she pulled me aside, and told me about Jesus. And I remember thinking at the time, "Gosh! He sounds as if He knew how to handle things better." So I said, "Okay, I'll give my life to Jesus ..." and I hoped Jesus would sort things out for me.
I love His methods, if not His outcome. I work at doing things His way.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Justinian:
[/QB]
Justinian--So the Jews are the Templars? That's a new one on me
... Jews have joined the Templars and Jesuits.
"Coupon-clipping globalists"? What do you mean?"
... People who live off interest instead of living off their own labor.
"Second, you're equating the belief system of the patriarchal ritual-centered followers of the Supreme Architect of the Universe with the no true way fluffy New Agers. Wait, what?"
... Their dogma, cosmology and operating ethics are identical: All is One, Like Attracts Like, As Above so Below, Reality is Illusion, etc.
"Or is it the Golden Ratio showing up everywhere?"
... Annunaki are masters of the golden ratio in all their architecture and art work.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
And I always thought that Tavistock was the pleasant little town we passed through on our way to Cornwall... [/QB]
Not at all. Tavistock and its US equivalent, Stanford Research International, are thinktanks devoted to the "Protocols of the Elders of Sion" Playbook of mercenary manipulation of populations.
Tavistock, it can be noted, is just across the street from the Archbishop of Canterbury's office.
King George V wanted the Archbishop brought up-to-date on psych-methods of persuasion.
Posted by PataLeBon (# 5452) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Justinian--So the Jews are the Templars? That's a new one on me
... Jews have joined the Templars and Jesuits.
Why would the Jews join two groups that either (1) want to Christianize them or (2) have at times tried to eliminate them?
quote:
"Second, you're equating the belief system of the patriarchal ritual-centered followers of the Supreme Architect of the Universe with the no true way fluffy New Agers. Wait, what?"
... Their dogma, cosmology and operating ethics are identical: All is One, Like Attracts Like, As Above so Below, Reality is Illusion, etc.
I'm going to need that unpacked for me....What on earth are you or he talking about??
quote:
"Or is it the Golden Ratio showing up everywhere?"
... Annunaki are masters of the golden ratio in all their architecture and art work.
Well, one also could say that gravity and language are everywhere also. I'm not sure how a naturally occurring thing means that there is a higher power (or ET's or Aliens or Conspiracies, etc.)
Posted by Jahlove (# 10290) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Fr Weber:
"Dogs flew spaceships! The Aztecs invented the vacation! Men and women are the same sex! Our forefathers took drugs! Your brain is not the boss! Yes! That's right! Everything you know is wrong!"
--The Firesign Theatre
well, there was
Laika
c'mon, them ole heart-rippers had to have had a day off now and then
zygotes are not differentiated into M/F at fertilization
every civilization has "drugs" of one kind or another
as any rehab clinician will tell ya
I still want to know how to make these guys
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
[qb] British Royalty, although claiming to be the head of the Anglican Church but being members of secret and civalric orders, were responsible for the founding of Tavistock (the psycho-puzzle palace
Jesuit/Vatican Agenda - Tavistock Institute - Science of Mass ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fRpB-9PnVA
http://hwaairfan.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/social-engineering-and-the-tavistock-institute/
http://www.pseudoreality.org/committeeof300.html
These people make Freud look primitive by comparison.
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
"Or is it the Golden Ratio showing up everywhere?"
... Annunaki are masters of the golden ratio in all their architecture and art work.
The sunflower and the conch are two of their especial glories.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Amos:
Emily, what is your view of Lyndon LaRouche? Some of your thinking reminds me of his.
Also, do you know the work of Dr Margaret Barker? If not, I think you might enjoy it and find that you and she have a lot in common.
Okay, now, this is fun ... following thoughtstreams.
LaRouche is a brilliant tactitician (sp?) He's mostly over my head because I'm focused on the Beatitudes and on imagery in Astronomy and NASA.
His explanations sound sensible, but I don't know ANYTHING! about Economics except what I had to learn in College Econ101 & 102.
I Googled Dr Margaret Barker, and--I don't think so. She's not an astronomy nut like I am. She's into all the folds and twirls of epistemology, and after reading Ray Dubuque, I gave that up.
I trust Jesus' methods and His Father YHVH to get me to where I need to go next. I go to Communion, and I let that be enough.
Is that enough around here?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Jon in the Nati:
[QB] [QUOTE] This thread is in poor taste. We should not make fun of the mentally ill.
Not even on a bad day when everybody looks like they've got the problem you've been waiting for?
Em
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Anglican_Brat:
Strange that the people who go on about extraterrestrial influences on ancient culture never seem to publish in academically peer-reviewed journals on Near-eastern societies.
They wouldn't HAVE IT!
It would wreck their chances for next year's grant!
Heaven forbid!
Some knowledge is really SECRET!
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by PataLeBon:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
[qb] Justinian--So the Jews are the Templars? That's a new one on me
... Jews have joined the Templars and Jesuits.
Why would the Jews join two groups that either (1) want to Christianize them or (2) have at times tried to eliminate them?
>>>Stalin was a Jesuit; Hitler was a Catholic honored with a Catholic funeral and six priests officiating.
It's not ours to know, why turncoats turn their coats.
quote:
"Second, you're equating the belief system of the patriarchal ritual-centered followers of the Supreme Architect of the Universe with the no true way fluffy New Agers. Wait, what?"
... Their dogma, cosmology and operating ethics are identical: All is One, Like Attracts Like, As Above so Below, Reality is Illusion, etc.
I'm going to need that unpacked for me....What on earth are you or he talking about??
OH! Paydirt!
Check this out! It's a MSWord .doc file, two sides of one sheet of paper.
Remember, I'm a Christian, and I do not buy into the Annunaki cosmology, because "manifesting one's reality" here in 3rd Density Physical Reality doesn't work for me.
http://www.holyconservancy.org/OCCULT2.pdf
Stored in a linux environment, this document is virus free.
You wanted proof I'm not just blowing smoke?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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On the topic of proof:
Somebody asked me for this in the Hell thread, but it didn't seem appropriate there, to talk about THIS. So, here it is.
I put up the Annunaki page I have on Facebook, yesterday; but here it is again.
https://www.facebook.com/AnnunakiFromOrion#
And the Album
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.309061465893604.1073741827.175354842597601&type=1#
The planet Nibiru has been visible to some since 2003 (when Nancy Lieder began her odyssey). I've been archiving photos since about 2009 that I didn't know how to interpret.
The the images I finally re-rendered into ultra-violet (because Nibiru is a black-light planet with a black-light sun Nemesis) are here:
http://www.scienfree.org/Elenin_Files/
Sumerian writings that discuss the Annunaki culture are here:
http://www.enkispeaks.com
This is like trying to take a drink from a firehose.
Does this Forum have the capability to put up just one photo image at a time, so I can bring exceptionally clear images here?
So, if these links do not constitute PROOF to you that the Annunaki and Planet Nibiru are REAL, what would constitute such proof?
Please advise.
Emily
Posted by Crœsos (# 238) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Hitler was a Catholic honored with a Catholic funeral and six priests officiating.
Erm, Hitler was "honored" by an improvised cremation behind the bunker between air raids.
Posted by Jon in the Nati (# 15849) on
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And neither was Stalin a Jesuit. Stalin was not even Catholic; at least you got that part right about Hitler's upbringing.
I don't suppose you have cites for either of these propositions?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Jon in the Nati:
And neither was Stalin a Jesuit. Stalin was not even Catholic; at least you got that part right about Hitler's upbringing.
I don't suppose you have cites for either of these propositions?
I can find them. Not instantly, but within a day.
Posted by Jahlove (# 10290) on
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Why is emily ignoring my crochet-related questions? Is it because the crochet-hook is a symbol of alien ZOG-Lizard repression?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Jon in the Nati:
And neither was Stalin a Jesuit. Stalin was not even Catholic; at least you got that part right about Hitler's upbringing.
I don't suppose you have cites for either of these propositions?
I can find them. Not instantly, but within a day.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Jahlove:
Why is emily ignoring my crochet-related questions? Is it because the crochet-hook is a symbol of alien ZOG-Lizard repression?
Jahlove, I wish I had run across your crochet questions before you find me derelict.
I thought I scanned everything because I was out most the day; but sure enough, I missed them.
What were they? I love crochet even though my eyes are too bad to do it anymore.
Em
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Stalin was Orthodox. At one time he considered a monastic calling and actually spent time on Mt. Athos.
Posted by PataLeBon (# 5452) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
>>>Stalin was a Jesuit; Hitler was a Catholic honored with a Catholic funeral and six priests officiating.
It's not ours to know, why turncoats turn their coats.
Hitler didn't persecute Catholics as a hard and fast rule, not like the Jews. And what historical evidence is there that he had a Catholic funeral? He committed suicide (a mortal sin) and was buried by the Russians (who were definitely NOT RC).
Stalin may have been brought up by the Jesuits, but I've seen nothing that says that they kept him in their fold.
quote:
Remember, I'm a Christian, and I do not buy into the Annunaki cosmology, because "manifesting one's reality" here in 3rd Density Physical Reality doesn't work for me.
Yeah, but what does the New Age crap have to do with Pope Francis, or any other Christian leader of note?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Jon in the Nati:
And neither was Stalin a Jesuit. Stalin was not even Catholic; at least you got that part right about Hitler's upbringing.
I don't suppose you have cites for either of these propositions?
Here's Googling Stalin:
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One Evil: Fr. Joseph Stalin S. J.
one-evil.org/content/people_20c_stalin.html - Cached
The more credible and controversial conclusion is that Stalin did graduate from the Jesuit Seminary as a proper Jesuit priest, with his first assignment being to ...
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Jesuit conspiracy theories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_conspiracy_theories - Cached - Similar - A Jesuit conspiracy refers to a conspiracy theory about the priests of the Society
of ... The earliest recorded anti-Jesuit conspiracy theories are found in the Monita
.... Joseph Stalin (1953) · Dag Hammarskjöld (1961) · Patrice Lumumba (1961) ...
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Is it true that Joseph Stalin was trained as a Jesuit priest ... answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid... - Cached - Similar
Because Joseph Jugashvili (I have no idea how to spell that!) was a Georgian, he must have been Eastern Orthodox. I have read somewhere that he ...
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Stalin castro “Practically every right-wing dic... - the jesuit vatican ...
vaticannewworldorder.blogspot.com/.../stalin-practically-every-right-wing.html - Cached
Mar 25, 2012 ... The more credible and controversial conclusion is that Stalin did graduate from the Jesuit Seminary as a proper Jesuit priest, with his first ...
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WWII The Jesuits Brought HITLER and STALIN to Power ! - YouTube
► 9:55
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUZIcPfTDJYOct 24, 2012 - 10 min - Uploaded by WeAreONEbigFamily
Jesuit Controlled 33rd degree Albert Pike designed 3 World Wars in 1871 , Controlled by a ...
More videos for Stalin Jesuit »
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Jesuit Companion Notes
www.truthin7minutes.com/jesuit-companion-notes.php - Cached - Similar
http://www.nba.com/playerfile/allen_iverson. Adam Weishaupt was trained by
Jesuits: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07661b.htm. Joseph Stalin was trained ...
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Investigative Journal » Josef Stalin and Jesuit Fr. Edmund Walsh of ...
www.arcticbeacon.com/.../josef-stalin-and-jesuit-fr-edmund-walsh-of-georgetown-connected-at-hip/ - Cached
Jun 24, 2012 ... Josef Stalin and Jesuit Fr. Edmund Walsh of Georgetown Connected at the Hip?
Walsh, father of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service: Most ...
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Pope Pius XII: Secret Master of Stalin, Jesuit NKVD and its Katyn ...
www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1269687/pg1
As covered in your Editor's VAIII, the 1940 Katyn Massacre in the forests of the
USSR was ordered by Polish Jesuit Superior General Wlodimir ...
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CORRECTION and APOLOGY - Call to Decision
calltodecision.com/corr.htm - Cached
May 5, 2006 ... Wherever in my writings the statement is made that Joseph Stalin and Cardinal
Gregory Agagianian were “Jesuit-trained” – that, in and of itself, ...
SEE ALSO
http://calltodecision.com/corr.htm
One down, one to go.
Eric Jon Phelps, author of the book Vatican Assassins, an 800-page tome dedicated to figuring out who's who in Catholicism, is the one I believe is telling it the best he can find it.
I believe Eric. Yes, Stalin was trained a Jesuit.
Em
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by PataLeBon:
Yeah, but what does the New Age crap have to do with Pope Francis, or any other Christian leader of note? [/QB][/QUOTE]
YES! This is an important question worth pursuing.
Go for it! New Age crap = Occult crap = 5th-thru-9th dimensional dogma having NOTHING TO DO WITH 3RD DIMENSIONAL CAUSES AND EFFECTS.
Right on!
Em
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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There's a lot of absurd bullshit there, but let's just look at this one.
Link: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07661b.htm
Weishaupt was educated at a Jesuit school. That's not the same thing as being "trained" in Jesuitism. The Jesuits operate hundreds of schools as shown in this link. I have friends who graduated from Gonzaga. That doesn't make them Jesuits or "trained" by Jesuits. That's a bullshit claim.
Stalin is not mentioned once on that page, by the way. Why is it even in this list?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
Stalin is not mentioned once on that page, by the way. Why is it even in this list?
Because he was a Church-trained thug who believed manipulation and power were more important than consent of the governed.
He REPUDIATED EXODUS 19:8, in spades. That's why.
The Law was given to be consented to, to monitor HARM, DECEIT, WASTE and correct same, by a process focused on "advise and consent."
Church hierarchies have and had another idea: control, top-down.
EEWC
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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mousethief: The Jesuits operate hundreds of schools as shown in this link.
I have taught at a Jesuit school
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
quote:
mousethief: The Jesuits operate hundreds of schools as shown in this link.
I have taught at a Jesuit school
YOU'RE STALIN? WHO KNEW!
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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quote:
mousethief: YOU'RE STALIN? WHO KNEW!
To be honest, it comes as a surprise to me too
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on
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Emily:
I'm astonished that you actually use stuff found out by googling to support your theories.
Despite their 'Do No Evil' clap-trap monicker Google could be described as a secretive, hegemonous global network which has spent the past n years amassing shedloads of data on men, women and children who only wish to use their computers to produce homework or keep in touch with relatives.
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on
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quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Emily:
I'm astonished that you actually use stuff found out by googling to support your theories.
Despite their 'Do No Evil' clap-trap monicker Google could be described as a secretive, hegemonous global network which has spent the past n years amassing shedloads of data on men, women and children who only wish to use their computers to produce homework or keep in touch with relatives.
You sure you're not thinking of Facebook? :-)
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on
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Definitely Google.
Think about it - what else is google earth (street view particularly) but an exercise in mass surveillance?
And cookies - such a homely, innocent-sounding name - which are another dat amassing tool.
As for SatNav... stick to the old-fashioned maps.
Posted by Jay-Emm (# 11411) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
On the topic of proof:
The planet Nibiru has been visible to some since 2003 (when Nancy Lieder began her odyssey). I've been archiving photos since about 2009 that I didn't know how to interpret.
The the images I finally re-rendered into ultra-violet (because Nibiru is a black-light planet with a black-light sun Nemesis) are here:
http://www.scienfree.org/Elenin_Files/
A sun (like any other black body) will either: emit more visible light than it emits UV (if it's colder than the sun),
or emit more visible light than our sun (if it's hotter),
or be proportionally smaller, I could do the maths (but then something else breaks),
or work in a non black body fashion (some form of intersteller X-ray machine)
Either way that's another discipline that has to be in the conspiracy (although it does provide an explaination for QM).
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on
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Emily, please try out the ubb practice thread to improve you ubb coding and make it easier to read your posts.
In particular, learning to use the quote function will be helpful - that and how to give a link a title. Here is a primer.
Doublethink
Purgatory Host
Posted by Pommie Mick (# 12794) on
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Fr Joseph Stalin S.J.
OMG - look, he really is a Jesuit. Its says so right there!
Posted by Hawk (# 14289) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
On the topic of proof:
Somebody asked me for this in the Hell thread, but it didn't seem appropriate there, to talk about THIS. So, here it is.
I put up the Annunaki page I have on Facebook, yesterday; but here it is again.
https://www.facebook.com/AnnunakiFromOrion#
And the Album
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.309061465893604.1073741827.175354842597601&type=1#
The planet Nibiru has been visible to some since 2003 (when Nancy Lieder began her odyssey). I've been archiving photos since about 2009 that I didn't know how to interpret.
The the images I finally re-rendered into ultra-violet (because Nibiru is a black-light planet with a black-light sun Nemesis) are here:
http://www.scienfree.org/Elenin_Files/
Sumerian writings that discuss the Annunaki culture are here:
http://www.enkispeaks.com
This is like trying to take a drink from a firehose.
Does this Forum have the capability to put up just one photo image at a time, so I can bring exceptionally clear images here?
So, if these links do not constitute PROOF to you that the Annunaki and Planet Nibiru are REAL, what would constitute such proof?
Please advise.
Emily
Hi Emily
I’ve followed your posts with interest and would like to ask you a few questions if I may.
Firstly, you say that you came to your conclusions purely on the basis of many thousands of astronomy photographs which you have worked on and re-rendered. Yet much of your ideas appear historical/archaeological rather than pictorially originated. If your conclusions came directly from your experience of these astronomical images where did such matters as Sumarian writings, British Royal Families, and Templars (for instance) come from? You wouldn’t have seen such ideas in your NASA images directly, however well re-rendered. So where did you get your ideas from if not your own direct experience. Have you taken these ideas from another source? Perhaps someone else’s work? If so, how do you know to trust their work if it is not your direct experience?
Secondly, I would question whether your approach to evidence is purely objective. It is always possible, I am sure you would agree, that we can read our own imaginings and presuppositions into the evidence in front of us. We are of course very imaginative creatures, and we have all done this at some point. What is important, for everyone therefore, is to make sure that what we think we see, in our subjective mind, is what is objectively really there. I checked out your facebook album but unfortunately could not see what you claimed the images showed. The first photo was a black and white grainy image of a sky above an observatory. In your caption you claimed to see many figures walking around in the sky in the image. I’m afraid to tell you that I cannot see any figures at all. In all of your images, I had the same issue. I would suggest to you, is it possible that you are seeing what you expect to see, and these things are not objectively present? It is a common phenomenon, which is why it is so important to check one’s own experiences with others.
Thirdly, I would ask about your approach to other secondary and tertiary sources. I appreciate your interest is astronomy and so, like all of us, you read other people to understand other subjects. But you must be aware of how important it is to check out your sources, to ensure that the person you are reading is an expert in their field. There are many people posting on the internet, some of which are genuinely mistaken, others outright deceiving, others just writing imaginative fiction. How do you discern which is true from which is to be discarded. You have posted above, as an example of irrefutable evidence for your theories, a very long, very rambling webpage written by a man called William Henry. Posted on a website written solely by a lady called Sasha Lessin. Who are these people that you appear to trust without question? Are they experts in historical, archeological, and astronomical analysis? Or are they deluded, or fiction writers? How do you decide? William Henry’s website calls himself a author, and an ‘investigative mythologist’. This is an invented title that he has awarded himself. He makes money from selling his opinions via book and radio. Do you not see that he can, and likely is, extremely biased?
And finally, what constitutes proof to you? You say that your links above are proof of the Annunaki and Nabiru. Yet to everyone else on this thread, they are not. They contain suggestions, conjectures, and forced pattern making between unconnected things. They are opinion, not evidence. The images you have posted contain nothing more than what you have made them contain. You have manipulated them yourself into showing odd coloured effects in the sky. The effects appear random, showing bands of colour in one image, and other effects in another. None of the images show anything resembling a planet. The catalogue of images you have posted on Facebook is equally random. Some containing images of relief drawings, but showing no understanding of where they are from, who took the picture, or what the context of the drawings is. You include among them an artistic drawing of a flying saucer. You are aware this is not a real photograph? The captions attached to the images have no relation to the image itself, neither explaining what the image shows, or what has led to the conclusions in your caption. You have an image which you say is an aerial map of Cobb mountain. You say it shows faces all over it. I’m afraid that I cannot see a single face in that photo. Again, this is not evidence, this is your personal opinion.
So please, explain to us, why do you believe that these random images show irrefutable proof of a specific alien race called Annunaki and their planet-ship 'Nabiru'. What has convinced you of this rather than one of the other many, many possible interpretations of these images?
Regarding your question, what would constitute proof? I would say if you showed us any image you hadn’t manipulated, which anyone could see showed another planet in the sky. Perhaps a translation by a Sumarian scholar of an actual Sumarian text, with appropriate source citing, which describes alien visitors, or an alien planet. Not an opinion piece on a random webpage, but the pure historical text, translated into English. These things constitute proof. Everything you have linked to so far shows nothing but your own imagination, and the imaginations of others.
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on
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Is this the same Nibiru where Kirk and Spock save the indigenous people from a volcano but violate the Prime Directive when rescuing Spock, or a different Nibiru?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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mousethief: The Jesuits operate hundreds of schools as shown in this link.
I have taught at a Jesuit school
Really??
Please elaborate.
[I just got here, and each time I arrive I glance at something somebody said a couple of days ago. Meanwhile, dialogue is piling up. :puff puff: )
Posted by ken (# 2460) on
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Is this the same Nibiru where Kirk and Spock save the indigenous people from a volcano but violate the Prime Directive when rescuing Spock, or a different Nibiru?
Apparently this one is toroidal, and so has a different number oif axes of rotational symettry than ordinary boring spherical planets, which is supposed to be important. For some reason. According to that Facebook page.
I can prove the n-colour problem on a torus. Well, I can if you give me twenty minutes with the right textbook, or else the notes I made last time I did any graph theory. Isn't that amazing
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by PataLeBon:
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
>>>Stalin was a Jesuit; Hitler was a Catholic honored with a Catholic funeral and six priests officiating.
It's not ours to know, why turncoats turn their coats.
Hitler didn't persecute Catholics as a hard and fast rule, not like the Jews. And what historical evidence is there that he had a Catholic funeral? He committed suicide (a mortal sin) and was buried by the Russians (who were definitely NOT RC).
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Remember, I'm a Christian, and I do not buy into the Annunaki cosmology, because "manifesting one's reality" here in 3rd Density Physical Reality doesn't work for me.
Yeah, but what does the New Age crap have to do with Pope Francis, or any other Christian leader of note?
This is all so pithy and ripe for a food fight photo.
The "Hitler" they found in the bunker was one of his doppelgangers; the real one got away to South America (or Antarctica or the Moon) is how the conspiracy nuts tell it. I have a photo image of that guy too, deceased, that was claimed to be the deceased Hitler. In Germany, after the war, he was honored at a full Catholic funeral, is another story I found.
So, as a matter of FACT, I do not know nor can I testify to what actually happened to Hitler.
YOU said: Stalin may have been brought up by the Jesuits, but I've seen nothing that says that they kept him in their fold.
Well, he knew exactly what ideas, concepts, doctrines and dogmas he was opposing, didn't he? He was well schooled in the cynicism of the Bolsheviks who said, "There'll be pie in the sky when we die, by and by!" Those Bolsheviks KNEW religious doctrine.
[/qb][/QUOTE]Yeah, but what does the New Age crap have to do with Pope Francis, or any other Christian leader of note? [/QB][/QUOTE]
Everything. New Age and Occult doctrine teach deliberate and insinuated COMPLACENCY, non-activism, non-interventionism.
"It's all good," "All is One," "As Above, so Below," "Like Attracts Like," Reality is an Illusion, "There's no such thing as Trying," and "Astrology" --these doctrines NAIL THE IDEA, There's nothing to do about Injustice in the world. Just think about something else.
Christians don't talk about the negative influence of New Age and Occult beliefs, nearly often enough.
Em
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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I've been looking a bit around the links that Emily has provided. Most of it is stuff I'd already seen before of course: the Templars, chemtrails, aliens having built the pyramids...
There is something about a hollow Earth, something I've also seen before.
But there is more: the Earth is growing! Just like a living organism would. Now that's a cool concept. I bet it's possible to write interesting SF based on the concept of planets that grow.
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Christians don't talk about the negative influence of New Age and Occult beliefs, nearly often enough.
You're hanging with the wrong kind of Christians, then. When I were an Evangelical, it was a perennial topic of flagellation.
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Christians don't talk about the negative influence of New Age and Occult beliefs, nearly often enough.
You're hanging with the wrong kind of Christians, then. When I were an Evangelical, it was a perennial topic of flagellation.
Indeed. What else was all the Harry Potter palaver about?
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on
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Here's the Cliffs Notes version of Stalin And Hitler Were Jesuit Agents.
Posted by Jon in the Nati (# 15849) on
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That's not okay, Stetson. Links to Chick Tracts should be clearly marked. People could get hurt.
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on
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It's Hell. Deal.
Stop reading and close the link, already.
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on
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Originally posted by PeteC:
It's Hell. Deal.
Stop reading and close the link, already.
Oops, it is so not Hell. Apologies.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by mousethief:
quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Christians don't talk about the negative influence of New Age and Occult beliefs, nearly often enough.
You're hanging with the wrong kind of Christians, then. When I were an Evangelical, it was a perennial topic of flagellation.
Love, I live in the forest where there are NO Christians, nobody to even talk to.
And near local Hot Springs where New Age Hippies congretgate, all I hear is their dogma: All One; As above, so below; Reality is illusion; No such thing as Trying; Like attracts like; Astrology, etc.
That's why I come here, for christian encouragement. I used to go, from 2005-2011, to BBC's Religion Forums. That was a wonderful place til they shut it down in favor of secular materialistic blah blah blah.
Emily
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on
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Originally posted by PeteC:
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Originally posted by PeteC:
It's Hell. Deal.
Stop reading and close the link, already.
Oops, it is so not Hell. Apologies.
Hell or otherwise, this thread was already hosting an extensive, multiple-sourced discussion on "Was Stalin A Jesuit?" to begin with. So, I wouldn't say I was adding an unprecedented degree of fringiness to the proceedings.
But yes. I'll be more careful about dotting the Is and crossin the Ts in future.
Posted by Crazy Cat Lady (# 17616) on
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The Tavistock Institute is really quite banal - it researches issues in the social sciences. It doesn't legislate changes in social systems.
You can take me as fairly well informed as I have a Masters in the Social Sciences had to read exhausting amounts of their stuff. Really, you could have more fun reading the instructions on your shampoo bottle
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Quite banal, eh?
And a masters degree confers upon one the authority to judge social agencies and consequences, does it?
Glad to hear, I didn't just waste my time when I won that masters degree!
EEWC
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on
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posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg
Quite banal, eh?
And a masters degree confers upon one the authority to judge social agencies and consequences, does it?
May I suggest that Crazy Cat Lady, being resident in the UK, is likely to have a better idea of the bona fides of the Tavistock Institute than a non-resident?
The Tavistock is a registered charity which is engaged in the field of research in the field of organisational behaviour.
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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L'organist: The Tavistock is a registered charity which is engaged in the field of research in the field of organisational behaviour.
That's what they said about the Second Foundation...
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on
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Okay so Pete thinks this is a Hell thread, now I think it's Circus.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by L'organist:
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posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg
Quite banal, eh?
And a masters degree confers upon one the authority to judge social agencies and consequences, does it?
May I suggest that Crazy Cat Lady, being resident in the UK, is likely to have a better idea of the bona fides of the Tavistock Institute than a non-resident?
The Tavistock is a registered charity which is engaged in the field of research in the field of organisational behaviour.
I submit, because my grandfather was instrumental in the establishment of Tavistock, that they're not just in the business of organizational behavior. They're here to AFFECT organizational behavior, especially HIERARCHICAL BEHAVIOR.
Are you aware how hierarchical behavior operates, today versus in the past?
I am. I have watched as they put changes into place to specify, objectify and ossify roles and functions.
My masters degree is in functional conflict analysis, and I personally have overturned factions in several major international corporations.
The games they have created in HR--resume lotteries, job descriptions and confidentiality--have stupefied corporate structures to a laughable degree.
Do you want to claim, those changes are of your making?
:tee hee:
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by no prophet:
Okay so Pete thinks this is a Hell thread, now I think it's Circus.
I agree with you.
Nobody serious intends to sit still here.
Em
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Hawk:
Hi Emily, I’ve followed your posts with interest and would like to ask you a few questions if I may.
Firstly, you say that you came to your conclusions purely on the basis of many thousands of astronomy photographs which you have worked on and re-rendered.
Yet much of your ideas appear historical/ archaeological rather than pictorially originated. If your conclusions came directly from your experience of these astronomical images where did such matters as Sumarian writings, British Royal Families, and Templars (for instance) come from? You wouldn’t have seen such ideas in your NASA images directly, however well re-rendered. So where did you get your ideas from if not your own direct experience. Have you taken these ideas from another source? Perhaps someone else’s work? If so, how do you know to trust their work if it is not your direct experience?
...MY WORK IS MY OWN PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE. I was digital imaging technician and corporate trainer for Xerox corporation in the 1970s. That's where I learned how digital images work; how they work with pixels and colors.
Secondly, I would question whether your approach to evidence is purely objective. It is always possible, I am sure you would agree, that we can read our own imaginings and presuppositions into the evidence in front of us. We are of course very imaginative creatures, and we have all done this at some point. What is important, for everyone therefore, is to make sure that what we think we see, in our subjective mind, is what is objectively really there. I checked out your facebook album but unfortunately could not see what you claimed the images showed. The first photo was a black and white grainy image of a sky above an observatory. In your caption you claimed to see many figures walking around in the sky in the image. I’m afraid to tell you that I cannot see any figures at all. In all of your images, I had the same issue. I would suggest to you, is it possible that you are seeing what you expect to see, and these things are not objectively present? It is a common phenomenon, which is why it is so important to check one’s own experiences with others.
MY APPROACH--since I presume that I know nothing and have no hypothesis--is PHENOMENOLOGICAL, after the method of Idhe and Hussrl.
Thirdly, I would ask about your approach to other secondary and tertiary sources. I appreciate your interest is astronomy and so, like all of us, you read other people to understand other subjects. But you must be aware of how important it is to check out your sources, to ensure that the person you are reading is an expert in their field. There are many people posting on the internet, some of which are genuinely mistaken, others outright deceiving, others just writing imaginative fiction. How do you discern which is true from which is to be discarded. You have posted above, as an example of irrefutable evidence for your theories, a very long, very rambling webpage written by a man called William Henry. Posted on a website written solely by a lady called Sasha Lessin. Who are these people that you appear to trust without question? Are they experts in historical, archeological, and astronomical analysis? Or are they deluded, or fiction writers? How do you decide? William Henry’s website calls himself a author, and an ‘investigative mythologist’. This is an invented title that he has awarded himself. He makes money from selling his opinions via book and radio. Do you not see that he can, and likely is, extremely biased?
DUE TO THE VERY FACT THAT PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGES PREDOMINATE ON THE NET, I view every image as potentially faulty at the outset. Only when an image falls within the limits and boundaries of a large body of OTHER IMAGES do I claim or infer that that image has some salience to what I believe.
And finally, what constitutes proof to you? You say that your links above are proof of the Annunaki and Nabiru. Yet to everyone else on this thread, they are not. They contain suggestions, conjectures, and forced pattern making between unconnected things. They are opinion, not evidence. The images you have posted contain nothing more than what you have made them contain. You have manipulated them yourself into showing odd coloured effects in the sky. The effects appear random, showing bands of colour in one image, and other effects in another. None of the images show anything resembling a planet. The catalogue of images you have posted on Facebook is equally random. Some containing images of relief drawings, but showing no understanding of where they are from, who took the picture, or what the context of the drawings is. You include among them an artistic drawing of a flying saucer. You are aware this is not a real photograph? The captions attached to the images have no relation to the image itself, neither explaining what the image shows, or what has led to the conclusions in your caption. You have an image which you say is an aerial map of Cobb mountain. You say it shows faces all over it. I’m afraid that I cannot see a single face in that photo. Again, this is not evidence, this is your personal opinion.
... I believe in the Holy Spirit of Truth; I believe in the "RING OF TRUTH." By government classification I QUALIFY as a "remote viewer." I am classified ON THE RED LIST BECAUSE I reveal information that the USGovt doesn't want revealed, so I must be doing something right.
So please, explain to us, why do you believe that these random images show irrefutable proof of a specific alien race called Annunaki and their planet-ship 'Nabiru'. What has convinced you of this rather than one of the other many, many possible interpretations of these images?
WHY DO I BELIEVE??? On any day of the week, I can take webcam images from several observatories and SHOW YOU what is on the surface of Nibiru. I can SHOW YOU what surfaces and conformations are on the landmass of Nibiru AS IT STRETCHES OUT BEHIND THE ARTIFICIAL SUN Wormwood. This is NOT BELIEF.
Regarding your question, what would constitute proof? I would say if you showed us any image you hadn’t manipulated, which anyone could see showed another planet in the sky. Perhaps a translation by a Sumarian scholar of an actual Sumarian text, with appropriate source citing, which describes alien visitors, or an alien planet. Not an opinion piece on a random webpage, but the pure historical text, translated into English. These things constitute proof. Everything you have linked to so far shows nothing but your own imagination, and the imaginations of others.
GO TO
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Hawk:
Hi Emily, I’ve followed your posts with interest and would like to ask you a few questions if I may.
Firstly, you say that you came to your conclusions purely on the basis of many thousands of astronomy photographs which you have worked on and re-rendered.
Yet much of your ideas appear historical/ archaeological rather than pictorially originated. If your conclusions came directly from your experience of these astronomical images where did such matters as Sumarian writings, British Royal Families, and Templars (for instance) come from? You wouldn’t have seen such ideas in your NASA images directly, however well re-rendered. So where did you get your ideas from if not your own direct experience. Have you taken these ideas from another source? Perhaps someone else’s work? If so, how do you know to trust their work if it is not your direct experience?
...MY WORK IS MY OWN PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE. I was digital imaging technician and corporate trainer for Xerox corporation in the 1970s. That's where I learned how digital images work; how they work with pixels and colors.
Secondly, I would question whether your approach to evidence is purely objective. It is always possible, I am sure you would agree, that we can read our own imaginings and presuppositions into the evidence in front of us. We are of course very imaginative creatures, and we have all done this at some point. What is important, for everyone therefore, is to make sure that what we think we see, in our subjective mind, is what is objectively really there. I checked out your facebook album but unfortunately could not see what you claimed the images showed. The first photo was a black and white grainy image of a sky above an observatory. In your caption you claimed to see many figures walking around in the sky in the image. I’m afraid to tell you that I cannot see any figures at all. In all of your images, I had the same issue. I would suggest to you, is it possible that you are seeing what you expect to see, and these things are not objectively present? It is a common phenomenon, which is why it is so important to check one’s own experiences with others.
MY APPROACH--since I presume that I know nothing and have no hypothesis--is PHENOMENOLOGICAL, after the method of Idhe and Hussrl.
Thirdly, I would ask about your approach to other secondary and tertiary sources. I appreciate your interest is astronomy and so, like all of us, you read other people to understand other subjects. But you must be aware of how important it is to check out your sources, to ensure that the person you are reading is an expert in their field. There are many people posting on the internet, some of which are genuinely mistaken, others outright deceiving, others just writing imaginative fiction. How do you discern which is true from which is to be discarded. You have posted above, as an example of irrefutable evidence for your theories, a very long, very rambling webpage written by a man called William Henry. Posted on a website written solely by a lady called Sasha Lessin. Who are these people that you appear to trust without question? Are they experts in historical, archeological, and astronomical analysis? Or are they deluded, or fiction writers? How do you decide? William Henry’s website calls himself a author, and an ‘investigative mythologist’. This is an invented title that he has awarded himself. He makes money from selling his opinions via book and radio. Do you not see that he can, and likely is, extremely biased?
DUE TO THE VERY FACT THAT PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGES PREDOMINATE ON THE NET, I view every image as potentially faulty at the outset. Only when an image falls within the limits and boundaries of a large body of OTHER IMAGES do I claim or infer that that image has some salience to what I believe.
And finally, what constitutes proof to you? You say that your links above are proof of the Annunaki and Nabiru. Yet to everyone else on this thread, they are not. They contain suggestions, conjectures, and forced pattern making between unconnected things. They are opinion, not evidence. The images you have posted contain nothing more than what you have made them contain. You have manipulated them yourself into showing odd coloured effects in the sky. The effects appear random, showing bands of colour in one image, and other effects in another. None of the images show anything resembling a planet. The catalogue of images you have posted on Facebook is equally random. Some containing images of relief drawings, but showing no understanding of where they are from, who took the picture, or what the context of the drawings is. You include among them an artistic drawing of a flying saucer. You are aware this is not a real photograph? The captions attached to the images have no relation to the image itself, neither explaining what the image shows, or what has led to the conclusions in your caption. You have an image which you say is an aerial map of Cobb mountain. You say it shows faces all over it. I’m afraid that I cannot see a single face in that photo. Again, this is not evidence, this is your personal opinion.
... I believe in the Holy Spirit of Truth; I believe in the "RING OF TRUTH." By government classification I QUALIFY as a "remote viewer." I am classified ON THE RED LIST BECAUSE I reveal information that the USGovt doesn't want revealed, so I must be doing something right.
So please, explain to us, why do you believe that these random images show irrefutable proof of a specific alien race called Annunaki and their planet-ship 'Nabiru'. What has convinced you of this rather than one of the other many, many possible interpretations of these images?
WHY DO I BELIEVE??? On any day of the week, I can take webcam images from several observatories and SHOW YOU what is on the surface of Nibiru. I can SHOW YOU what surfaces and conformations are on the landmass of Nibiru AS IT STRETCHES OUT BEHIND THE ARTIFICIAL SUN Wormwood. This is NOT BELIEF.
Regarding your question, what would constitute proof? I would say if you showed us any image you hadn’t manipulated, which anyone could see showed another planet in the sky. Perhaps a translation by a Sumarian scholar of an actual Sumarian text, with appropriate source citing, which describes alien visitors, or an alien planet. Not an opinion piece on a random webpage, but the pure historical text, translated into English. These things constitute proof. Everything you have linked to so far shows nothing but your own imagination, and the imaginations of others.
GO TO
http://www.scienfree.org/Elenini_Files/ and see for yourself ... the SURFACE of Nibiru and the Sun we call Wormwood.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Gosh! One character off!
http://www.scienfree.org/Elenin_Files/
I thought I typed it correctly.
Sorry.
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
On any day of the week, I can take webcam images from several observatories and SHOW YOU what is on the surface of Nibiru. I can SHOW YOU what surfaces and conformations are on the landmass of Nibiru AS IT STRETCHES OUT BEHIND THE ARTIFICIAL SUN Wormwood. This is NOT BELIEF.
Questions.
If Nabiru is so close to Earth, why do we not see any gravitational effects? The moon, which is relatively small, nevertheless has a gravitational effect strong enough to cause tides - surely a massive planet would be dragging water round earth with enough power to cause daily, and global, tsunamis?
If the sun is an artificial construct in close proximity to Earth, how is it that we can see both Mercury and Venus pass in front of it at predictable intervals that are consistent with it being what and where astronomy says it is?
Why have none of the astronauts on the ISS noticed either Nabiru or the artificial sun? Surely they'd cotton on to the fact pretty quickly once they were up there? In fact, wouldn't the ISS crash into Nabiru or the artificial sun if they were so close?
Where are these people/faces you claim to be seeing in your pictures? Seriously, I see nothing of the sort in any of them. Perhaps you could annotate one or two of them to point out where these features are?
Posted by Cara (# 16966) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Christians don't talk about the negative influence of New Age and Occult beliefs, nearly often enough.
You're hanging with the wrong kind of Christians, then. When I were an Evangelical, it was a perennial topic of flagellation.
Love, I live in the forest where there are NO Christians, nobody to even talk to.
And near local Hot Springs where New Age Hippies congretgate, all I hear is their dogma: All One; As above, so below; Reality is illusion; No such thing as Trying; Like attracts like; Astrology, etc.
That's why I come here, for christian encouragement. I used to go, from 2005-2011, to BBC's Religion Forums. That was a wonderful place til they shut it down in favor of secular materialistic blah blah blah.
Emily
I too come here for "Christian encouragement" and discussion.
Funnily enough, beneath all the joking on some of these boards, there is a great deal of Christian encouragement to be found on the Ship.
Especially within threads that discuss Christian doctrines, faith issues, and prayer.
Posted by que sais-je (# 17185) on
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Emily, I'm really impressed with your postings. Shipmates seem even more interested than they were in Atheists' Sunday Meetings and that's saying something.
In fact I suspect you are an agent of the international atheist conspiracy trying to distract Christians from the plot to take over Sundays and fill building with people singing and telling jokes (which seems an awful idea - and I'm not even a Christian).
Only one thing puzzles me, I don't get the de rigeuer pun/anagram/esoteric reference in your user name. Could you explain it?
Posted by ken (# 2460) on
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Originally posted by PataLeBon:
Hitler didn't persecute Catholics as a hard and fast rule, not like the Jews.
Tell that to the priests and bishops of Poland
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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quote:
Originally posted by ken:
quote:
Originally posted by PataLeBon:
Hitler didn't persecute Catholics as a hard and fast rule, not like the Jews.
Tell that to the priests and bishops of Poland
I think he persecuted them primarily because they were Poles. Back in those days, everyone persecuted the Poles (well, the Russians and Germans did, which was more than enough).
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by ken:
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Originally posted by PataLeBon:
Hitler didn't persecute Catholics as a hard and fast rule, not like the Jews.
Tell that to the priests and bishops of Poland
I think he persecuted them primarily because they were Poles. Back in those days, everyone persecuted the Poles (well, the Russians and Germans did, which was more than enough).
Did he toss out all the German Catholics? Smash their shop windows? Round them up and toss them into ovens? No, he did not. Therefore he didn't persecute Catholics the way he did the Jews, and examples of him persecuting some Catholics somewhere do not disprove this. There are some groups he treated the way he did Jews -- gays and Jehovah's Witnesses come immediately to mind -- but Catholics were not one of them.
Posted by ken (# 2460) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
http://www.scienfree.org/Elenin_Files/
I did look at that. Its got lots of mostly rather blurry retouched and digitally enhanced pictures, some of them included on the other websites you've linked to, with no discussion or captions or explanation or descriptions of where they were taken or what they are supposed to be. Can you explain why you think that the stuff there ought to persuade me that the world has been repeatedly visited and interfered with by human-like creatures from another planet? How exactly do all these nice shiny pictures tell us that there were aliens on earth a hundred thousand years ago?
Did you see the question I raised on another thread? On your website you have pictures of Mars and other solar-system objects retouched with what you say are the correct colours. You say that NASA put false colours in their pictures and that you have corrected them. Why do you think your colours are correct and NASAs are false? How do you know what the true colours should be?
quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
And a masters degree confers upon one the authority to judge social agencies and consequences, does it?
No, but we all make judgements like that all the time anyway. If someone has the skills to get a Master's degree then they probably also have the skills they'd need to explain their judgements in writing and back them up with evidence (if there was any). That doesn't make their judgements right or authoritative, but it does give the rest of us a better chance of assessing them and judging for ourselves. (*)
quote:
Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
... they're not just in the business of organizational behavior. They're here to AFFECT organizational behavior, especially HIERARCHICAL BEHAVIOR.
An organisation is trying to AFFECT organisational behaviour!
I am shocked, SHOCKED to find that behaviour-affecting behaviour is going on! And right here in Bloomsbury!
I mean we all know that advertisers, charities, courts of law, demonstrators, economists, educators, governments, journalists, legislators, management consultants, managers, marketers, moral reformers, novellists, political lobbyists, political parties, PR drones, rioters, single-issue campaigners, spammers, trade unions, and so on, would NEVER sink as low as trying to AFFECT organisational BEHAVIOUR!
(*) Which is one reason why science done properly is profoundly democratic and egalitarian, because when you include detailed descriptions of your method in an argument, and include your data, and all the boring old-fashioned scholarly apparatus of references and indexes and formal nomenclature, and you separate your assumptions and workings and discussions and conclusions from each other, then you put the maximum about of power in the hands of the reader, whoever they are.
[ 22. May 2013, 14:31: Message edited by: ken ]
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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I've been trying to find a sensible source online to verify what I learned years back about one of the issues raised, the recolouring of Mars pictures by NASA, but if there is one which is a historic and properly scientific out there, it is drowned in piffle.
Basically, the processes used on the first pictures were based on the idea that the Martian sky would be blue. Subsequently, it was realised that the sky was coloured by red dust from the planet, rather than blue light scattered by the atmospheric gases, and was actually pink. Recalibrating the images made everything much redder. I probably have evidence for this buried in my collection of old Astronomy, New Scientist or Scientific American magazines, and I have contacts closer to the source who I trust to confirm it.
The reasonable process has now, apparently, been seized upon as evidence of other stuff, which has buried the original online.
I assume that more recent photographs are using more effective photography methods.
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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An apparently sensible site
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Hawk:
There's a thread about this matter--
Kerygmania biblical unrest 542 17213
Word of God? (Emily Windsor-Cragg) 22 May, 2013 17:54
in Kerygmania, the Books I've read down through the years, which include also some Sumerian records, Book of Enoch, Bible chapter 6, Emanuel Velikowsky's Worlds In Collision (in the 1960s).
So I was EXPECTING astronomical changes to take place. And of course, NASA and Astronomers are averse to that. At about 2003 I ran across Nancy Lieder's stuff, which is channeled ET stuff, and I began studying the sun and Moon. Then in 2007 I took on NASA and the Mars Rovers, and I proved to myself NASA wasn't looking at their own photos.
So, there are lots of points of light coming together. My method from University Philosophy is Phenomenology after the specifics of Hussrl and Don Idhe. ... You begin without any hypothesis and you just collect data. And you collect a huge amoung of data and then you spread it all out in front of you ... on the floor. And then you figure out, what relates to what, like a puzzle.
That's my method. And at this point, solar astronomers can no longer show the Sun in black and empty space because that's not where it's at.
They can't show the Moon in black and empty space either, because it's SITUATED on a colored back-ground. That's as far as can go with data. But I can, and did, thread together finally a hypothesis how it all fits. And that was given to me as an inspiration, which I have yet to be able to refute.
I'm not working with anybody else's data at this point. Either I've figured it out, or I haven't. When somebody shows me data that refute my present hypothesis, I'll go into THAT DATA, and see what I can figure out NEXT.
I have no comments on anybody else's work. I just do my own work, that's all. It stands or falls.
Ah! How does the British Royal Family TIE IN TO THIS? Great question! The Throne of the British Royal Family goes back to the Jacobian Covenant with YHVH. YHVH is God of the Annunaki ["Let US make man in our image."] Thus Annunaki history is also the history of our Judaic-Christian culture; and Nibiru is the Planet from which "God" emanates and does His Will. It's a planet run by a Monarchy bloodline along the doctrines of hierarchy [which work there but don't work here, but that's another story].
It's all tied together, with a nice neat bow. And the future is tied in also. We have a future with Nibiru and its black sun Nemesis, from now on.
I hope I have, if not satisfied you, at least amused you.
Emily
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Hi Emily
I’ve followed your posts with interest and would like to ask you a few questions if I may.
Firstly, you say that you came to your conclusions purely on the basis of many thousands of astronomy photographs which you have worked on and re-rendered. Yet much of your ideas appear historical/archaeological rather than pictorially originated. If your conclusions came directly from your experience of these astronomical images where did such matters as Sumarian writings, British Royal Families, and Templars (for instance) come from? You wouldn’t have seen such ideas in your NASA images directly, however well re-rendered. So where did you get your ideas from if not your own direct experience. Have you taken these ideas from another source? Perhaps someone else’s work? If so, how do you know to trust their work if it is not your direct experience?
Secondly, I would question whether your approach to evidence is purely objective. It is always possible, I am sure you would agree, that we can read our own imaginings and presuppositions into the evidence in front of us. We are of course very imaginative creatures, and we have all done this at some point. What is important, for everyone therefore, is to make sure that what we think we see, in our subjective mind, is what is objectively really there. I checked out your facebook album but unfortunately could not see what you claimed the images showed. The first photo was a black and white grainy image of a sky above an observatory. In your caption you claimed to see many figures walking around in the sky in the image. I’m afraid to tell you that I cannot see any figures at all. In all of your images, I had the same issue. I would suggest to you, is it possible that you are seeing what you expect to see, and these things are not objectively present? It is a common phenomenon, which is why it is so important to check one’s own experiences with others.
Thirdly, I would ask about your approach to other secondary and tertiary sources. I appreciate your interest is astronomy and so, like all of us, you read other people to understand other subjects. But you must be aware of how important it is to check out your sources, to ensure that the person you are reading is an expert in their field. There are many people posting on the internet, some of which are genuinely mistaken, others outright deceiving, others just writing imaginative fiction. How do you discern which is true from which is to be discarded. You have posted above, as an example of irrefutable evidence for your theories, a very long, very rambling webpage written by a man called William Henry. Posted on a website written solely by a lady called Sasha Lessin. Who are these people that you appear to trust without question? Are they experts in historical, archeological, and astronomical analysis? Or are they deluded, or fiction writers? How do you decide? William Henry’s website calls himself a author, and an ‘investigative mythologist’. This is an invented title that he has awarded himself. He makes money from selling his opinions via book and radio. Do you not see that he can, and likely is, extremely biased?
And finally, what constitutes proof to you? You say that your links above are proof of the Annunaki and Nabiru. Yet to everyone else on this thread, they are not. They contain suggestions, conjectures, and forced pattern making between unconnected things. They are opinion, not evidence. The images you have posted contain nothing more than what you have made them contain. You have manipulated them yourself into showing odd coloured effects in the sky. The effects appear random, showing bands of colour in one image, and other effects in another. None of the images show anything resembling a planet. The catalogue of images you have posted on Facebook is equally random. Some containing images of relief drawings, but showing no understanding of where they are from, who took the picture, or what the context of the drawings is. You include among them an artistic drawing of a flying saucer. You are aware this is not a real photograph? The captions attached to the images have no relation to the image itself, neither explaining what the image shows, or what has led to the conclusions in your caption. You have an image which you say is an aerial map of Cobb mountain. You say it shows faces all over it. I’m afraid that I cannot see a single face in that photo. Again, this is not evidence, this is your personal opinion.
So please, explain to us, why do you believe that these random images show irrefutable proof of a specific alien race called Annunaki and their planet-ship 'Nabiru'. What has convinced you of this rather than one of the other many, many possible interpretations of these images?
Regarding your question, what would constitute proof? I would say if you showed us any image you hadn’t manipulated, which anyone could see showed another planet in the sky. Perhaps a translation by a Sumarian scholar of an actual Sumarian text, with appropriate source citing, which describes alien visitors, or an alien planet. Not an opinion piece on a random webpage, but the pure historical text, translated into English. These things constitute proof. Everything you have linked to so far shows nothing but your own imagination, and the imaginations of others. [/QB]
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by ken:
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
http://www.scienfree.org/Elenin_Files/
>>>Let's define the DIGITAL IMAGING ASPECTS I deal with, from Xerox Corporation when I was a trainer for them. 1) Rotation 2) Scaling 3) Contrast 4) Hue saturation. "Retouching" doesn't come into it because I don't mess with pixels.
... no discussion or captions or explanation or descriptions of where they were taken or what they are supposed to be. Can you explain why you think that the stuff there---
INTERRUPT. I don't GET CAPTIONS. I get non-random and structured data that must be seen in the light of anthropological research around RANDOMNESS versus ORDER. This is preliminary, daily, data.
ought to persuade me that the world has been repeatedly visited and interfered with by human-like creatures from another planet? How exactly do all these nice shiny pictures tell us that there were aliens on earth a hundred thousand years ago?
INTERRUPT. Sumerian records describe what the culture of the Annunaki did ages ago. I don't even have to go there. That's another discipline.
You say that NASA put false colours in their pictures and that you have corrected them. Why do you think your colours are correct and NASAs are false? How do you know what the true colours should be?
GOOD QUESTION! Every intensity of light has a color that it emanates. You NEVER SEE blue soil, purple tire tracks or a high-noon orange sky. It doesn't happen in color refraction. I have posted the photo of NASA's Mars red-filter system--
http://www.scienfree.org/images/MARS/23_NASAcolorfilter.jpeg
NASA uses to color ALL Mars photos taken on the surface. NASA ALSO, confuse the viewer, refuses to ORIENT images N-S-E-W with North at the top, so their images are always katty-corner and sideways and everywhich way, making a certain orientation for the geography of Mars impossible.
I mean we all know that advertisers-- ... Which is one reason why science done properly is profoundly democratic and egalitarian, because when you include detailed descriptions of your method in an argument, and include your data ... then you put the maximum about of power in the hands of the reader, whoever they are.
I don't pretend to be a scientist; I'm just a digital imaging technician, and I EXPECT THAT REAL SCIENTISTS are going to have to take this on, and to do it right. Don't you?
But scientists today are paid, through their Federal grants, to only know and show what is politically-correct according to Annunaki ELITES.
Emily
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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What I hope is that you're beginning to see how everything ties in to one package.
--Annunaki history, the story of hierarchy.
--Church history, the story of the intrusion of hierarchy into the Teachings of God's Sun Yeshua.
--European history, the story of the rise of Elites who follow the Annunaki line (secret societies and chivalric orders);
--Modern history, the story of the rise of Not-See-ism out of the Anu-Nazi/AnuNaki experience, with WWI and WWII being the cultural eradication of undesirable minorities according to Annunaki interpretation of the Emerald Covenant, which was crafted out of Lyran Wars a million years ago.
--NASA and ET Non-disclosure is merely a tiny aspect of Secrecy demanded by Treaty with the Annunaki as of 1954, 1964 and ad on. Non-disclosure and secrecy are taught in trauma-based thought control sessions, by designated Elites.
See? It all fits.
It all fits.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Penny S:
Basically, the processes used on the first pictures were based on the idea that the Martian sky would be blue.
The Martian sky IS blue.
Posted by Karl Kroenen (# 16822) on
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Indulge me as I leap to defend some (not all!) of the theories of the curiously named Emily Windsor-Cragg (Someone, it seems must). She wallows not alone in her paranoid delusions.
See the wonderful Mysterious Milton Keynes for example - this neatly summarises some of the more extreme suppositions regarding the so called 'reptilian preconditioning'. Milton Keynes appears to be an Illuminati / Annuniki capital by all accounts....
Some put blind faith in such interpretations of the world around us, whilst for others it's more of a light hearted fantasy which lends enchantment to the banal existence of our everyday grind - just as schoolboys imagine their bicyles are motorbikes, or that their pencil cases are walkie-talkies....no harm will come.
Posted by South Coast Kevin (# 16130) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
What I hope is that you're beginning to see how everything ties in to one package... It all fits.
It certainly all fits for you, Emily. But not for everyone else who's contributed to your threads, it seems...
You're trying to convince people of this global (cosmic, in fact!) conspiracy - I can't think of a better word, sorry - but it's all new to just about everyone here, so we're struggling to find an entry point into understanding where you're coming from. That's where I'm at, anyway.
It's like trying to explain Christianity to someone who knows nothing about it; you need to find something, some fact, idea or practice, that they can get a handle on. If you try to dump a whole set of connected beliefs and practices onto people - well, it's a bit overwhelming.
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
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Originally posted by Penny S:
Basically, the processes used on the first pictures were based on the idea that the Martian sky would be blue.
The Martian sky IS blue.
How do you know?
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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If you look at my link, it contains images of colour sample strips both under Earth conditions and on Mars. These were used to calibrate the images and revealed the dusty sky.
Mars looks red from Earth and from space. Anyone with a small telescope can see the redness. Anyone without a telescope can see the redness - it isn't named for gods of war for nothing. In the same way, deserts on Earth look red, from oxidation of iron minerals. Mars can be observed to have dust storms, both from Earth and from space. The dust, like the surface, is red. Dust in suspension on Earth changes the colour of the sky, for example after volcanic eruptions (see Munch's Scream). This is the process by which the Martian sky is pink. You need an explanation for it's not being pink, for why there is no dust.
If you are postulating that NASA is part of a great conspiracy, in the same way as proponents of the we never went to the Moon hypothesis, you have to remember that NASA is very big, and contains very many people chosen for their independence of mind, and dedicated to the search for truth. There were whistleblowers about Challenger's O-rings. there would be whistleblowers about these conspiracies. My contact would be one. He isn't. He, like his fellow workers, finds this sort of talk insulting to their integrity.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Karl Kroenen:
Emily Windsor-Cragg (Someone, it seems must). She wallows not alone in her paranoid delusions.
See the wonderful Mysterious Milton Keynes for example - this neatly summarises some of the more extreme suppositions regarding the so called 'reptilian preconditioning'. Milton Keynes appears to be an Illuminati / Annuniki capital by all accounts....
Annunaki were never Reptilian; they are our direct Progenitors, mammalian. See www.enkispeaks.com for Sumerian writings in some sense of chron order.
Some put blind faith in such interpretations of the world around us, whilst for others it's more of a light hearted fantasy which lends enchantment to the banal existence of our everyday grind - just as schoolboys imagine their bicyles are motorbikes, or that their pencil cases are walkie-talkies....no harm will come.
Blind faith, eh? Never mind personal knowledge.
I try not to just dismiss people out of hand because they believe differently from what I know.
But you do what you want, Karl.
Em
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Penny S:
If you look at my link, it contains images of colour sample strips both under Earth conditions and on Mars. These were used to calibrate the images and revealed the dusty sky.
I found, in practice, some images were falsely hued more than others, with OCCASIONAL BLUE sand, PURPLE tire tracks and ORANGE sky over head despite hundreds of other images in which the soil, the sky and standing water were all hued same as here would be: BROWN MUD and tire tracks, blue sky and water showing as a reflective surface. I remember one ESA image in particular showing snow drifts that was colored a lovely PEACH color. I laughed at that one. ESA images are more imaginatively "assisted" with innovative hues than NASA images. JAXA (Japanese) images are manipulated the least. I have some fabulous Moon footage from JAXA.
Emily
Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on
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Assuming it's all true, how does it feed the hungry Emily ? How does my asking come to that ?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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How does it feed the Hungry? Good question.
I've given it some thought.
Revelation speaks of a time when black is white and white is black, when martyrs cry out, the four horsemen of the apocalypse gallop forth: famine, war, death, pestilence.
That's now, when Justice is turned upside down, the world operates by the Laws of the Jungle, good people attract predators, evil people attract security.
Also in Revelation is the RESOLUTION of its terrible End Times problem. The generals and Elites who seek safety in their underground enclaves won't be coming out again.
Predatory and parasitic society will crash and burn. The meek shall inherit the earth, and they shall find their exquisite delight in the abundance of Peace.
The Annunaki, for their part, live in a holographic dimension Other than Ours. I expect they'll just recede into the background, and maybe just leave us Earthlings alone.
That's my hope anyway. And we're going to have to forge new leadership along the lines of "governance by CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED," since all of that has been overwritten by predatory commercial statutes, Laws of the Sea and Admiralty. There's gong to be a lot of work to do, to bring our Law Codes back to BEHAVIOR: only prosecuting Harm, Deceit, Cost and Waste, not thoughts, not beliefs, not ideologies.
Behavior alone.
Those are my thoughts on our future.
Posted by Anchorman (# 16469) on
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Hi, ad_o
Good here, innit?
I've read some of the pseudo science stuff (Hancock, Rohl etc in particular...you know my 'thing' about serious Egyptology.)
Anyway, the real archaeology is far more exciting than the fantasy stuff (except for Stargate SG-1).
We'll get onto Nabiru next.....or possibly not.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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What is pseudo-science and what is a scientific issue that Governing Leadership stonewalls and refuses to examine publicly--
space science [ETs and space wars], chemtrails, fluoride in the water, use of depleted uranium, genetic modifications, etc.--
these are issues that the public must insist on the public policy, "Advise and Consent," because these issues affect us all.
Practically all these matters are completely out of our hands at this time. And in consensual societies, THAT is inappropriate.
And if nobody asks questions or poses any contradictions to the Usual Official Stories, we won't get anywhere learning what's true about these areas.
Emily
Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on
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Revelation was all 'fulfilled', in so far as there was any prophetic element, from Nero to Domitian. It is figuratively true still of course. So again, what are we doing to be instruments of His Kingdom coming, being, happening NOW? To be instruments of justice, peace, equity, sanity, freedom, kindness, co-operation, humility, inclusion, compassion REGARDLESS of what's gone on before and going on around?
I'm happy to assume that everything you say is true, but what difference does it make Em?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard:
Revelation was all 'fulfilled', in so far as there was any prophetic element, from Nero to Domitian. It is figuratively true still of course. So again, what are we doing to be instruments of His Kingdom coming, being, happening NOW? To be instruments of justice, peace, equity, sanity, freedom, kindness, co-operation, humility, inclusion, compassion REGARDLESS of what's gone on before and going on around?
I'm happy to assume that everything you say is true, but what difference does it make Em?
I realize you are correct: we have just completed the so-called Millennium. Satan is loosed for a little while and then he too is gone.
But is that the end of the story? I don't think so. I think we need a new whole chapter.
Em
Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on
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Indeed not Em. And it may NEVER be. So how do we 'occupy' till He 'comes' ?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Jews are also expecting a Messiah, just as Annunaki cycled through their periodic Messiahs.
So, I'm not so sure that anybody's coming. Looks to me as if Messiahs are a dime a dozen in the ancient Annunaki as well as current ideological marketplace.
Would you settle for a government of honest common law? ... And never mind bloated egos ... ?
Emily
Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on
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Yes we should all remove the beams from our eyes and love one another.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
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Originally posted by Penny S:
Basically, the processes used on the first pictures were based on the idea that the Martian sky would be blue.
The Martian sky IS blue.
How do you know? [/QB][/QUOTE]
There are more pictures of a blue sky over Mars than any other color ... just not published much.
EEWC
Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on
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Originally posted by Anchorman:
Hi, ad_o
Good here, innit?
I've read some of the pseudo science stuff (Hancock, Rohl etc in particular...you know my 'thing' about serious Egyptology.)
Anyway, the real archaeology is far more exciting than the fantasy stuff (except for Stargate SG-1).
We'll get onto Nabiru next.....or possibly not.
Posted by Dave W. (# 8765) on
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And what is the source of those "blue sky over Mars" pictures?
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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In fact, pictures of Mars with a blue sky are quite common, for example this one. NASA often does this on purpuse, because astronomers are more likely to spot features in the picture when the lighting more or less resembles what they're used to on Earth. The Bad Astronomer explains here.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Dave W.:
And what is the source of those "blue sky over Mars" pictures?
NASA
http://www.scienfree.org/images/MARS/2005marsunsetnasa.jpg IN 2005
http://www.scienfree.org/images/MARS/23_040225marsunset.jpeg IN 2004
Em
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Here's another one, but upside down. NASA scientists never orient planetary photos as to north-south.
It doesn't occur to them that we might want to see a planet in a predictable orientation so we can learn its geography.
http://www.scienfree.org/images/MARS/mars2005.png
The other thing is, Mars is behind us. It would be nice if scientists would begin studying the planets that have become our companions at present.
What's past is behind us; what's ahead is unknown. So let's focus and "Be Here Now," as Ram Dass taught me back in the 80s.
Emily
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Here's another one, but upside down. NASA scientists never orient planetary photos as to north-south.
Firstly, that's because they appear "upside-down" in telescopes, so the pictures are showing what the astronomers actually see.
Secondly, are classifications such as "north" and "south" even relevant when we're referring to a completely different world? Maybe Mars' magnetic field is that way round?
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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I'm also not sure, even if NASA would render the pictures upside-down, what would be the relevance of this. How would this help them to deceive us?
Surely, even if there are buildings on Mars, showing the pictures upside-down won't do much to hide them.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Here's another one, but upside down. NASA scientists never orient planetary photos as to north-south.
[qb]
Firstly, that's because they appear "upside-down" in telescopes, so the pictures are showing what the astronomers actually see.
Secondly, are classifications such as "north" and "south" even relevant when we're referring to a completely different world? Maybe Mars' magnetic field is that way round?
Okay; however, once an astronomer looks closely enough to DETECT UP-AND-DOWN by isolating how lifeforms grow relative to GROUND, then one can establish a "correct" orientation, to keep to, so that subsequent studies can all be related, geographically.
Why not teach geography, coming out of the gate?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
I'm also not sure, even if NASA would render the pictures upside-down, what would be the relevance of this. How would this help them to deceive us?
Surely, even if there are buildings on Mars, showing the pictures upside-down won't do much to hide them.
Mars' architecture is camouflaged viewed from above; it is bermed, with whole enclaves underground. Why? Possibly due to ET-incursions there.
Perhaps we would have fewer ET-incursions here if our planners were not so extravagant, novel, creative, silly and unmindful of the necessity of securing our housing by making it indistinguishable from the surroundings, from above.
People who live on Mars don't appear to want to be visible from above. That's my take on it.
Em
[ 29. May 2013, 19:58: Message edited by: Emily Windsor-Cragg ]
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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Emily Windsor-Cragg: People who live on Mars don't appear to want to be visible from above. That's my take on it.
I don't like my picture taken from above either. But what I don't understand is how photographing a planet upside-down is going to help with this.
This is a picture of Earth, upside-down from how we normally think of it. How will showing it like this make me less visible?
Posted by passer (# 13329) on
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There are people on Mars? What - like us, in the image and likeness and so on? What colour are they?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Emily Windsor-Cragg: People who live on Mars don't appear to want to be visible from above. That's my take on it.
I don't like my picture taken from above either. But what I don't understand is how photographing a planet upside-down is going to help with this.
This is a picture of Earth, upside-down from how we normally think of it. How will showing it like this make me less visible?
Visibility of course is not the only issue.
when Science LEARNS their standard job is to make knowledge accessible, to regulate its expression so people can internalize it easily.
It's inexcusable from the perspective of curriculum develop, to skew and distort true images so that simple recognition becomes impossible.
Every planet has a north-south polarization.
Every one has a center of gravity and an up-and-down.
Every one can be made more or less visible either in white light or in black light.
Every one has regular features that can be utilized as signposts--polar axis, bodies of water, major rock formations; large holes into an interior.
And it has periodical features that serve as signs of life cycles--vegetation, snow, water run-off, color changes over time.
If astronomers wanted to teach astronomy to the world, they would be mindful how to make the topic both accurate, easily grasped and interesting.
They don't do that, in my opinion.
Emily
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by passer:
There are people on Mars? What - like us, in the image and likeness and so on? What colour are they?
Same Races as here (Blacks, Whites, Semites, Asians) plus Reptoids from the Alpha Draconis culture.
I've seen all those Races in Mars images that were altered and damaged by NASA to hide social data.
This is why my opinion of NSA/NASA is so very low, because their behavior is very low.
Emily
Posted by passer (# 13329) on
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Well I wasn't equating colour with Race, but I suppose lots of people do. What colour are the Reptoids?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by passer:
Well I wasn't equating colour with Race, but I suppose lots of people do. What colour are the Reptoids?
Good question!
I've never met one, so I don't know.
But Reptiles are in the green-to-brown tones, and I have seen a yellow python.
Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on
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Prove it. Which feels cruel of me Em. Because of course you cannot. Only you can see these things. So again, let's assume as an act of faith that you are right and everyone else is wrong. So ? How does it benefit the poor ? What should we do in the light of your vision for the poor ? The needy ? The lonely ? The afflicted ?
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Another thought:
Jesus taught: "Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free."
I'm here to say, we're not allowed to know the truth about too many human topics, too many science topics, too much false history is what we get.
So, what will set us free if we are not permitted to access what is true?
Emily
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Originally posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard:
Prove it. Which feels cruel of me Em. Because of course you cannot. Only you can see these things. So again, let's assume as an act of faith that you are right and everyone else is wrong. So ? How does it benefit the poor ? What should we do in the light of your vision for the poor ? The needy ? The lonely ? The afflicted ?
Wait a minute. I'm not saying, everybody else is wrong.
I'm saying, the popular and conventional explanations are wrong for reasons of TREATIES.
What benefits the poor, the afflicted is to have honest governing, truth-telling, impartial problem-solving.
That is impossible when conventions overtake and overturn what is true, in favor of politically-correct myths and scientistic fables.
See?
[ 29. May 2013, 22:44: Message edited by: Emily Windsor-Cragg ]
Posted by Dave W. (# 8765) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
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Originally posted by Dave W.:
And what is the source of those "blue sky over Mars" pictures?
NASA
http://www.scienfree.org/images/MARS/2005marsunsetnasa.jpg IN 2005
http://www.scienfree.org/images/MARS/23_040225marsunset.jpeg IN 2004
Em
I see. But if your blue martian sky pictures are actually coming from NASA itself, how can they be evidence that NASA is trying to deceive you? Are you claiming that these have been smuggled out of some secret stash of pictures NASA has been hiding from us?
Also - I'm pretty sure this:
http://www.scienfree.org/images/MARS/mars2005.png
is, in fact, displayed with north at the top - the light and dark patterns are more clearly shown in pictures like this one from the Hubble, and appear to reflect the Martian dichotomy:
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The most conspicuous feature of Martian surface geology is a sharp contrast, known as the Martian dichotomy, between the rugged southern highlands and the relatively smooth northern basins.
Why do you think it is not shown with the north at the top? And how would you know the difference?
As for this:
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The other thing is, Mars is behind us. It would be nice if scientists would begin studying the planets that have become our companions at present.
If Mars is "behind" us, how come it still appears in the sky exactly as predicted in (e.g.) the US Naval Observatory's Astronomical Almanac?
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Okay; however, once an astronomer looks closely enough to DETECT UP-AND-DOWN by isolating how lifeforms grow relative to GROUND, then one can establish a "correct" orientation, to keep to, so that subsequent studies can all be related, geographically.
"Up and down" as they relate to the ground and/or the planet's centre of gravity have nothing to do with "north and south". From any given point on the planet* north, south, east and west are all sideways relative to the up/down axis that runs perpendicular to the ground.
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*= excepting the poles, where compass points have no meaning.
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
People who live on Mars don't appear to want to be visible from above.
Or from the side, if the fact that no Mars Rover missions have yet identified any signs of life is anything to go by.
The image of those Rovers as Martian versions of the Google Street View van taking pictures to complement our overhead satellite views is an amusing one, though
Posted by horsethorn (# 17695) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Another thought:
Jesus taught: "Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free."
Out of interest, how do you know this jesus guy wasn't just another annunaki stooge?
ht
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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Tomorrow, asteroid 1998 QE2 will pass by Earth, a lot closer than Elenin ever did. It's slightly bigger too (2.7km/1.7mi vs 2km/1.2mi across).
Posted by Jay-Emm (# 11411) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
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Every one [planet] can be made more or less visible either in white light or in black light.
...Emily [/QB]
What is black light? and how do you make it more visible?
I'm particularly curious when via a digital/photographic image as I see limited ability to extract info even about non-visible light (e.g. UV) in the common file formats.
And a [different] 'black light' or 'white light' concept (that is they aren't another word for UV/anything between red and purple respectively) would have interesting implications for Physics (and vast swathes of Chemistry). So is rather significant.
[edited-to reflect paying attention to that UV dominent lights are sometimes called black light]
[ 30. May 2013, 20:07: Message edited by: Jay-Emm ]
Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on
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No Em. It's not possible. All we need is love. But a lot of it. And we don't have it of ourselves.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard:
No Em. It's not possible. All we need is love. But a lot of it. And we don't have it of ourselves.
What Jesus said was: "Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free," right?
Live is fine, it's good; but it's not sufficient.
We must know what is true, to overcome conventional reality.
Emily
Posted by passer (# 13329) on
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I saw this article and thought of this thread, for some reason.
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on
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@ passer
Posted by Bostonman (# 17108) on
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It takes a bold spirit to look at thousands of pictures of Mars, not find any buildings, and decide, "It's because they've hidden them" rather than "It's because they're not there." So I salute you, Emily Windsor-Cragg.
I submit, however, as Martin has above me, that God and your neighbor might be better loved by your redirecting energy away from analyzing tens of thousands of pictures and toward the ideals of Matthew 25: feeding the hungry, taking in the stranger, visiting those in prison, and so on.
Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on
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Love is the truth.
Truth is just one aspect of love.
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on
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Originally posted by passer:
I saw this article and thought of this thread, for some reason.
Unaccountably, this sprang to mind.
Posted by passer (# 13329) on
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Unaccountably, this sprang to mind.
In the spirit of this thread, I think that's quite accountable!
As an aside, I just ran through that test, and was struck by how different my answers were to what they'd have been if I was still working. I was clearly a ball of pent-up angst when I was working, whereas I now come out as laid-back approaching horizontal. That's office politics for you. Sigh. Learning to let go...
I love the last few questions. I can see that for some people the internet might appear as an anthropomorphic hive-being sort of presence - I've known my fair share of conspiracy theorists who are apprehensive of the Deep Web and the Dark Web where the Illuminati can be found, and where such as the Annunaki plough their mysterious furrows. It's as if they see life though a photoshopped lens. They spend their time looking for yet more things to be afraid of, more things on which to lay the blame for their own feelings of inadequacy and helplessness.
I do wonder if it's an age thing. My kids and their peers regard the internet as an extension of their daily lives, just another tool accessible through their iPhones. They are completely at ease with all the technology they've grown up with, and relatively incurious as to how it works beyond the front-end. Older people may be just more suspicious of anything that can be loosely labelled as new-fangled, and less trusting of its infrastructure. If a youngster finds something wrong or illogical on the web, they just shrug it off as they would if a person gave them inaccurate information (it's only Wiki) whereas an older person might be more inclined to wonder why it is wrong, and another faux conspiracy is born.
//streamofconsciousness
Posted by St. Stephen the Stoned (# 9841) on
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
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Originally posted by passer:
I saw this article and thought of this thread, for some reason.
Unaccountably, this sprang to mind.
The scariest thing about that is:
"Please note that this questionnaire only works in the Internet Explorer web browser."
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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Why does the statement "People deliberately try to irritate me" have as its highest-frequency answer "Once a day"?
Posted by St. Stephen the Stoned (# 9841) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
Why does the statement "People deliberately try to irritate me" have as its highest-frequency answer "Once a day"?
Posted by Komensky (# 8675) on
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQdvYFMBAU
For what it's worth. I don't believe his analysis, but there you have it.
K.
Posted by HughWillRidmee (# 15614) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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HughWillRidmee: That requirement, if applied consistently, must inevitably lead to atheism must it not?
To be honest, I think the requirement is too strong. Scientific evidence might be sufficient to make people believe something, but it isn't necessary. There are plenty of things I believe in life without scientific evidence ("Don't drink that coffee yet, it's hot!" "Ok, I'll take your word for it.")
Been on holiday so only just seen this.
1. Scientific evidence removes the need for belief.
2. Your thinking reminds me of the “youth evangelist” I heard in the 1960s.
All you need to become saved is to have faith; having faith is easy – you have faith every time you turn on a tap and expect water to come out of it.
Expecting water to flow from a tap when it’s happened successfully several times a day for a dozen+ years is not exercising faith – it’s a reasonable expectation based on overwhelming repeated experimental evidence. Similarly you probably learnt as a child that when people tell you that a drink they made for you is still hot they are probably right. (Because you learnt the hard way).
Sometimes we have to guess without certainty and behave as though we are right – getting married comes to mind – you could argue that getting married implies belief about the future. Often we don’t need to guess but some people choose to do so; I don’t know that there’s a God, I’ve chosen to believe that there is exABC Rowan Williams.
We tend to test things we understand and take on trust things we don’t. It was always said that the bank manager who grilled you severely over your application for a £10K house loan would grant a business a million pounds with little scrutiny – he had a house, he’d never contemplated a use for a million quid. The late George Carlin put it thus; "If you tell people that an invisible man in the sky created the universe and everything in it then they will believe it without question BUT tell them that the paint is wet and they have to touch it...just to make sure!"
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Hugh--
But trusting scientific evidence requires trusting the Scientific Method, the people using it, the quality of their tools and data, that reality can accurately and fully be measured that way, etc., does it not?
Posted by HughWillRidmee (# 15614) on
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Hugh--
But trusting scientific evidence requires trusting the Scientific Method, the people using it, the quality of their tools and data, that reality can accurately and fully be measured that way, etc., does it not?
Which is why peer review and replication are essential - that's how the scientific community learnt to reject Pons and Fleischmann's
cold fusion
reports.
Science isn't always right first time, but the scientific method includes tools for self-correction.
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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HughWillRidmee: 1. Scientific evidence removes the need for belief.
I agree.
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HughWillRidmee: Expecting water to flow from a tap when it’s happened successfully several times a day for a dozen+ years is not exercising faith – it’s a reasonable expectation based on overwhelming repeated experimental evidence.
I agree.
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HughWillRidmee: 2. Your thinking reminds me of the “youth evangelist” I heard in the 1960s.
All you need to become saved is to have faith; having faith is easy – you have faith every time you turn on a tap and expect water to come out of it.
This isn't the argument I was making.
Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on
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When you think of it, the building blocks of scientific knowledge and understanding are very humble. Careful observation and careful measurement. Plus the vital ingredient of replicability. The finding is offered with information to enable another researcher to check it. The hypothesis is offered with information about how it has been tested, or how it might be tested. These things are done on an open hand, openly.
Bronowski observed that science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible. At its best (and it is not always at its best, in common with all well-intentioned human endeavour), its findings and offerings take us beyond the measure of any single human mind into the territory of secure, common, understanding. Findings which can be repeated can be trusted. Hypotheses which can be tested can be trusted; at least until they are falsified. And both confirmation and any subsequent falsification aid the cause of a better, and shareable, understanding.
By contrast, the impact of all conspiracy theories is to diminish this shared understanding. True knowledge is seen to reside only with those who are "in the know". The "real" truth is always being "concealed" by "them". That is a pernicious, destructive, idea. It can cause otherwise good people to lose their way big time.
I felt very sad when I watched Komensky's video clip.
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
People who live on Mars don't appear to want to be visible from above.
Or from the side, if the fact that no Mars Rover missions have yet identified any signs of life is anything to go by.
The image of those Rovers as Martian versions of the Google Street View van taking pictures to complement our overhead satellite views is an amusing one, though
No doubt there's an extra button to show canals as well as streets over the topography view.
Posted by Moo (# 107) on
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Originally posted by HughWillRidmee
"If you tell people that an invisible man in the sky created the universe and everything in it then they will believe it without question BUT tell them that the paint is wet and they have to touch it...just to make sure!"
People touch it because paint does not remain wet. They want to find out whether it has dried yet.
Moo
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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Moo: People touch it because paint does not remain wet. They want to find out whether it has dried yet.
Some people even like sticking their finger in fresh, wet paint
@HughWillRidmee: I'm sorry that my answer from yesterday evening was a bit short (it was quite late). I have been thinking a bit about it, and I'll try to give you my tl;dr answer now.
On the first page of this thread, a couple of weeks ago, the conversation went a bit like this (if I'm allowed to paraphrase a little).
Emily: The Annunaki are real.
Various Shipmates: We want to see scientific evidence of that, otherwise we won't believe it.
You: You don't have scientific evidence that proves Christianity either, so by your own logic you should abandon it.
I hope I got the gist of the conversation right. Let me try to explain my answer that I gave back then a bit better. I guess it is possible to divide the claims we can make into three categories:
CATEGORY 1: There are claims that have been proven scientifically. We should simply believe these claims, faith isn't required here.
Claims of the form 'if I let go of an apple, it will fall to the ground' fall into this category. Of course, strictly speaking science has no way to prove that the next apple will also fall to the ground, but you've made the Popperian argument (in your example about the water taps) that overwhelming evidence says that it will.
I agree with you, no faith is required here.
CATEGORY 2: There are claims that have been disproven scientifically. We should simply disbelief those claims, faith doesn't come into play here. (In fact, we could see this category as a form of category 1 of course, where the scientific proof would be negative instead of positive.)
CATEGORY 3: There are claims that have neither been proven nor been disproven scientifically. This is the interesting category of course, because here we have a choice.
Emily's claim "The Annunaki exist" falls into category 3 (although some of her other claims don't, for example the ones about a 12 mile wide Mars with buildings on it). The Christian claim "God exists" falls into this category too (I know there are some people on the Ship who claim that they can prove God's existence, but I'm not one of them).
If Emily could give scientific proof for the existence of the Annunaki, her claim would obviously fall into Category 1 and the matter would be resolved, but as long as she can't it's in Category 3. The same is true for the Christian claim of God's existence.
Which means that we have a choice: either we believe it, or we don't.
When it comes to claims in Category 3 (especially the Christian claim) you seem to have an attitude on the Ship that I'm paraphrasing as: "For all claims in Category 3, we should adopt a default position of disbelief, to be on the safe side." For example, you seem to have this attitude in this post.
What I tried to show (admittedly clumsily) in this post is: "the bulk of human communication takes place within Category 3, and it's quite common for us to choose to believe things that haven't been scientifically proven".
For example, in this post, you claim that you heard an evangelist speaking about water taps in the sixties. I believe that you did. But I have no scientific evidence to prove that this really happened, and there isn't exactly an overwhelming evidence that anonymous people on the Internet always speak the truth.
Yet, I believe you. Because you strike me as a basically decent person, and I don't see why you would lie about this. These are perfectly valid reasons for me to believe you, but they aren't scientific evidence. I can't just go to the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and say: "π + e is a transcendental number because I'm a decent guy and I wouldn't lie about this"
So, all I want to say in this rambling post is: "I don't have scientific evidence that God exists, but I choose to believe it, and in fact it's perfectly normal to believe in things for which we don't have scientific evidence."
Thank you for your patience.
Posted by SusanDoris (# 12618) on
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Originally posted by Le Roc:
So, all I want to say in this rambling post is: "I don't have scientific evidence that God exists, but I choose to believe it, and in fact it's perfectly normal to believe in things for which we don't have scientific evidence."
Except that all the other beliefs can be shown to be ideas from the human brain, or have a basis in scientific/natural fact. And the difference is also that no other beliefs have the same world-wide influence that belief in God/god/s does, nor do they teach children that hugely influential things without evidence are true.
(Not well expressed, I'm afraid! I blame it on the gloomy, damp, June weather.))
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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SusanDoris: Except that all the other beliefs can be shown to be ideas from the human brain, or have a basis in scientific/natural fact.
That in itself is a Category 3 claim, which you choose to believe but I don't.
For example, on the Ship you have said things like "The concept of love can completely be explained in scientific terms" and then you mumble on a bit about hormones and evolution, thinking that you've explained love sufficiently in scientific terms. No you haven't, and I don't think you can.
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SusanDoris: And the difference is also that no other beliefs have the same world-wide influence that belief in God/god/s does, nor do they teach children that hugely influential things without evidence are true.
Yes, there are other beliefs that do exactly that.
There is a belief that has no evidence at all (I would even say there is strong scientific evidence against it), it is spread massively all around the world by all possible means, and it has a huge influence on children.
This belief is: "buying stuff is what will make you happy".
FWIW, within our society I find this belief far more dangerous than most religious beliefs.
Posted by HughWillRidmee (# 15614) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
So, all I want to say in this rambling post is: "I don't have scientific evidence that God exists, but I choose to believe it, and in fact it's perfectly normal to believe in things for which we don't have scientific evidence."
Thank you for your patience.
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SusanDoris: And the difference is also that no other beliefs have the same world-wide influence that belief in God/god/s does, nor do they teach children that hugely influential things without evidence are true.
Yes, there are other beliefs that do exactly that.
There is a belief that has no evidence at all (I would even say there is strong scientific evidence against it), it is spread massively all around the world by all possible means, and it has a huge influence on children.
This belief is: "buying stuff is what will make you happy".
FWIW, within our society I find this belief far more dangerous than most religious beliefs.
We are probably not that far apart until............
Like (as I recall from her previous posts) SusanDoris I am an atheist and also a humanist. I understand the temptation to be a christian and can admire those who (like you and Rowan Williams) state that they have no knowledge of the existence of God but have chosen so to believe. I think they are mistaken but, provided any harm they do is limited only to themselves, their belief presents little danger to humanity. Unfortunately a part of many religious beliefs is something akin to the great commission – and that’s where my problems begin. Quite apart from the effects on me and others caused by a childhood based on irrational fear and the certainty of failure
Nigel De Grasse Tyson
shows a correlation between the existence of fundamentalist religion and the erosion of progress. And no, most Shippies do not meet the usual definitions of fundamentalism, but moderation tends to produce fundamentalism and provide it with a cloak of acceptability.
It is only a few steps from I believe to I know to you must know to The lower house also passed a bill imposing up to three years in jail on those who offend
religious believers.
to kill the apostate. Along that road we get science is great – provided it agrees with our religious book(s) – when it disagrees it's wrong . Again – relatively harmless if you think it, wicked if you teach in schools etc. in part because it facilitates acceptance of the associated supernaturality of homeopathy, acupuncture, anti-vaccine, mediums and other despicable charlatans - all sheltering under the religion supported umbrella of "science doesn't know it all" and other such cant. It also permits silly ideas (The Annunaki, Scientology, Anthroposophy et al) to present themselves as valid concepts because they can claim to meet the same standards of evidence as the older religions).
Teaching people that the physical world can be changed by superstition is wrong – it provides the hope of false short-cuts (at least someone wins the lottery) and ideas such as heaven encourage social inertia (the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate) and the acceptance of poverty/abuse/violence/genital mutilation etc. because it will all be alright once you’re dead.
As to “buying stuff is what will make you happy” – it’s not the only way to happiness (and it’s temporary of course) but
this
evidence suggests that it does work – though buying memories is better than buying stuff.
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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HughWillRidmee: We are probably not that far apart until............
Darn, here was me looking for a long fight
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HughWillRidmee: I think they are mistaken but, provided any harm they do is limited only to themselves, their belief presents little danger to humanity.
I'm fine thank you, but are you open for the idea that my religion might also inspire me to try to do some good?
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HughWillRidmee: It is only a few steps from I believe to I know to you must know to The lower house also passed a bill imposing up to three years in jail on those who offend
Oh yes, and that step has been taken far too often for my liking.
I don't deny that some awfully bad things have been (and continue to be) done in the name of religion. Believe me, I hate these as much as you do. Religion is connected to some strong emotions of ours, and therefore it can easily be abused. But isn't this the same with some other things: money, sex, politics, even love? Surely you don't want to abandon all of those as well?
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HughWillRidmee: Teaching people that the physical world can be changed by superstition is wrong – it provides the hope of false short-cuts (at least someone wins the lottery) and ideas such as heaven encourage social inertia (the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate) and the acceptance of poverty/abuse/violence/genital mutilation etc. because it will all be alright once you’re dead.
Yes, but not all religion is like this. Mine isn't, for example. (Maybe this sounds like bragging, but there you go.)
Posted by HughWillRidmee (# 15614) on
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
I'm fine thank you, but are you open for the idea that my religion might also inspire me to try to do some good? Yes of course, but if you are the sort of person, as I suspect you are, who is able to be inspired to try to do some good can you accept that you might be the same person without that religion? Obviously we can’t test the hypothesis but I’ve known a lot of good people – some of them were also religious.
I don't deny that some awfully bad things have been (and continue to be) done in the name of religion. Believe me, I hate these as much as you do. Religion is connected to some strong emotions of ours, and therefore it can easily be abused. But isn't this the same with some other things: money, sex, politics, even love? Surely you don't want to abandon all of those as well? No, but I’m not sure that you’re analogies are valid. This is thinking on the hoof. Humans, to varying degrees, are motivated by the same wants as they were seventy thousand years ago –things such as food, warmth, shelter, companionship, security , sex. Money/power is the stepping stone to satisfaction of these needs whilst religion, politics, and sometimes love are means to obtaining money/power.
You say religion is connected to some strong emotions - granted that it’s not total but I suspect that religion is most often and most closely linked to fear. I know some people will say that they want to go to heaven and spend eternity with their god but I reckon most religious want to avoid hell (or get today their daily bread). Not a scrap of evidence for hell but play on the natural fears that enabled us to survive on the African savannah and some will fear. (Ever known anyone listen to the twigs hitting their bedroom window on a dark, stormy winter night only to find that it actually was the bogeyman?). In many societies there's plenty of reason to fear hunger and violence. Then get others to share the fear as a price for companionship/mutual support. It’s interesting that the lack of religion is generally greatest in those countries where the citizens are, or feel, most secure. It’s also interesting that some sections of christianity (and other religion) work very hard to try to keep their congregations dependent upon the church rather than other agencies/"socialism".
I would like for humanity to abandon unnecessary fear.
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HughWillRidmee: Teaching people that the physical world can be changed by superstition is wrong – it provides the hope of false short-cuts (at least someone wins the lottery) and ideas such as heaven encourage social inertia (the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate) and the acceptance of poverty/abuse/violence/genital mutilation etc. because it will all be alright once you’re dead. Yes, but not all religion is like this. Mine isn't, for example. (Maybe this sounds like bragging, but there you go.)
And that’s great – but, in truth, I suspect most religious people would say theirs wasn’t like that either. Yet they will pray expecting to improve the divine will and teach others to try to do so, they will fund the adornment of buildings and the enrichment of officials when others are in desperate need of the basics, they are sure that they know what their god wants everyone else to do in their bedrooms, and who with, and under what circumstances. And their religion is not harming anyone, where would morality be without their religion – they’d all be murderers and rapists wouldn’t they – not.
So - why are you religious? How is your religion different to most other peoples’? Do you encourage others to share your religious views?What do you get/hope to get from your religion?
You can PM me if you wish
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Hugh--
Acupuncture and homeopathy aren't about the supernatural. I know homeopathy is pretty controversial, at least in the US. But acupuncture is well documented in medical settings.
Acupuncture worked well for me, over a long period of time. I've had good experiences with Oscillococcinum homeopathic cold/flu medicine. And I don't seem prone to placebo effects.
FWIW.
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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HughWillRidmee: Yes of course, but if you are the sort of person, as I suspect you are, who is able to be inspired to try to do some good can you accept that you might be the same person without that religion? Obviously we can’t test the hypothesis but I’ve known a lot of good people – some of them were also religious.
First of all, I don't believe that religion has a monopoly on morality. There are many atheists and agnosts who do much good. I know a number of them, and I respect them very much.
For myself, of course I would be able to do good also if I were non-religious. But at the same time, I don't doubt that I would be a different person. My religion is a part of me, and I don't think you can separate that.
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HughWillRidmee: You say religion is connected to some strong emotions - granted that it’s not total but I suspect that religion is most often and most closely linked to fear.
I'm glad that you aren't going very far down the 'religion is just a crutch for people who fear death' route. I've heard that a couple of times too many, and I'm not sure if want to go very far into that discussion again.
For the moment, I would just like to point out that for most people, religion is very strongly linked to positive emotions too. There is a reason why we celebrate marriages and the birth of children in church. I could talk of many experiences that I link positively with religion: nature, music, science, inspiration...
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HughWillRidmee: I know some people will say that they want to go to heaven and spend eternity with their god but I reckon most religious want to avoid hell
I don't believe in Hell myself. I don't think it is a very useful construct, partly for the reasons you mentioned here. You're right, I don't believe that fear of Hell is the best motivator.
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HughWillRidmee: It’s interesting that the lack of religion is generally greatest in those countries where the citizens are, or feel, most secure.
This is true, and I think you'll agree that there are many and complex reasons for that. I agree with you that when people feel they have more control over their lifes (less fear?), they'll also feel that they have less need for God or religion. But I doubt that this is the only reason.
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HughWillRidmee: I would like for humanity to abandon unnecessary fear.
Me too. No argument from me here.
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HughWillRidmee: And that’s great – but, in truth, I suspect most religious people would say theirs wasn’t like that either. Yet they will pray expecting to improve the divine will and teach others to try to do so, they will fund the adornment of buildings and the enrichment of officials when others are in desperate need of the basics, they are sure that they know what their god wants everyone else to do in their bedrooms, and who with, and under what circumstances.
Like you've undoubtedly noticed on the Ship, there are many flavours of Christianity. I don't like this particular flavour very much either.
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HughWillRidmee: So - why are you religious?
I'm afraid I don't have a very spectacular story to tell here. I'm not a convert, my parents already took me with them to church when I was a child. It helped that it was a very warm community, I had many friends there. As time progressed, I started to accept Christianity more and more as my own. Later, I've been influenced by many things, especially my encounter with Liberation Theology here in Brazil.
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HughWillRidmee: How is your religion different to most other peoples’?
I'm not sure. I'm definitely quite far out on the left-wing/liberal/progressive scale. Maybe this is what you mean?
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HughWillRidmee: Do you encourage others to share your religious views?
I'm not really into evangelizing, if that's what you mean. I just talk about the way I try to live my faith when it comes up.
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HughWillRidmee: What do you get/hope to get from your religion?
I don't see my faith in purely utilitarian terms of "what can I get out of it?" But I guess I coud say that my faith gives an extra dimension to things, through which I see the world, and which inspires me to try to do something good for other people. I wouldn't want to miss it.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Well, isn't this judgment interesting?
This guy thinks he ought to be my Guide and Mentor, telling me what I ought to be doing.
Never mind, that I have found buildings, military bases and operations (in NASA photos) and all the Races of mankind there; plus snakes. Oh the snakes.
Look. You do what you are called to do, and I'll do what God has called me to do, okay Friend?
Emily
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Originally posted by Bostonman:
It takes a bold spirit to look at thousands of pictures of Mars, not find any buildings, and decide, "It's because they've hidden them" rather than "It's because they're not there." So I salute you, Emily Windsor-Cragg.
I submit, however, as Martin has above me, that God and your neighbor might be better loved by your redirecting energy away from analyzing tens of thousands of pictures and toward the ideals of Matthew 25: feeding the hungry, taking in the stranger, visiting those in prison, and so on.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Hugh--
But trusting scientific evidence requires trusting the Scientific Method, the people using it, the quality of their tools and data, that reality can accurately and fully be measured that way, etc., does it not?
A scientistic method that leaves out the rest of this dimensional universe is not scientific.
without Intuition and [telepathic] remote-viewing, scientists are completely cutting themselves off from higher knowledge, which is a form of deliberated ignorance.
And that's where secular materialism stands to this day: knowing absolutely nothing about higher intelligences [like who "God" is and what "God" functions are].
Today, astronomers have been taught a cosmology that is completely obsolete, out of date and wrong. They believe in it, the way they believe in Jesus ... by faith.
That is no way to run a planet.
Emily
Posted by SusanDoris (# 12618) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
without Intuition and [telepathic] remote-viewing, scientists are completely cutting themselves off from higher knowledge,...
Why do you call it 'higher' knowledge? Wouldn't it be more accurate to call it 'different'? I have asked this question of believers quite often over the years and have never had a really satisfactory answer. It's alwaysa rather preciously woolly response which seems to mean that they are on some imagined 'level' unattainable by non-believers!
I do not recall seeing Sof posters implying that idea though!
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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SusanDoris: It's alwaysa rather preciously woolly response which seems to mean that they are on some imagined 'level' unattainable by non-believers!
I do not recall seeing Sof posters implying that idea though!
That's great. I do believe that religion adds something 'extra' to me, another dimension through which I see the world. But I don't feel that this would be 'higher' in any way than the knowledge you might have.
Posted by ken (# 2460) on
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Without diesel engines and power steering, poets are totally cutting themselves off from bus driving.
Without maps and contour lines plumbers are totally cutting themselves off from geography.
Science isn't about "higher knowledge" , its about knowledge of the natural world gained through reproducible methods. Reflective, scholarly, experimental. Whatever "higher knowledge" might be, its answers to different questions.
Posted by malik3000 (# 11437) on
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But trusting scientific evidence requires trusting the Scientific Method, the people using it, the quality of their tools and data, that reality can accurately and fully be measured that way, etc., does it not?
A scientistic method that leaves out the rest of this dimensional universe is not scientific.
without Intuition and [telepathic] remote-viewing, scientists are completely cutting themselves off from higher knowledge, which is a form of deliberated ignorance.
And that's where secular materialism stands to this day: knowing absolutely nothing about higher intelligences [like who "God" is and what "God" functions are].
Somewhere in St. Paul's epistles, he says that if something can be proved, there is no need for faith. In other words, God cannot be proved scientifically. So "Creation Science" is attempting the impossible. By the same token, neither can God be disproved scientifically. Thus atheists of the Dawkins variety -- as opposed to agnostics -- are likewise attempting the impossible.
As Ken says :
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Without diesel engines and power steering, poets are totally cutting themselves off from bus driving
And I don't believe that, as yet, "Remote viewing" or other methods purporting to rely on telepathy can be said to be part of the Scientific Method.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
without Intuition and [telepathic] remote-viewing, scientists are completely cutting themselves off from higher knowledge,...
Why do you call it 'higher' knowledge? Wouldn't it be more accurate to call it 'different'?
No, not different at all. MULTI-dimensional knowledge is all part of the same diverse universal reality.
The Universe is as diverse as the forest, the ocean, the meadow and the mind.
Turning off the rest of the Creation so you can only see what your IDEAS HOLD AS "sacred" is like
only believing BBC and letting the rest of the world go to Hell.
That's not an intelligent strategy.
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Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Originally posted by malik3000:
Somewhere in St. Paul's epistles, he says that if something can be proved, there is no need for faith. In other words, God cannot be proved scientifically. So "Creation Science" is attempting the impossible. By the same token, neither can God be disproved scientifically. Thus atheists of the Dawkins variety -- as opposed to agnostics -- are likewise attempting the impossible. ... And I don't believe that, as yet, "Remote viewing" or other methods purporting to rely on telepathy can be said to be part of the Scientific Method.
Ah! So that's where the heresy lies--again--in Saul of Tarsus' false testimony!
if something can be proved, there is no need for faith is false!
What can be proved in 3rd Dimensional Physicality is absurd and requires FAITH in 7thD or 13thD subjectivity.
The rules of manifestation in subjective existence absolutely refute the laws of cause and effect in 3rd dimensional physicality.
So, if the Angels didn't have faith that God knows how to run 3rd D Causes and Effects, they would not be able to attend to the outcomes of Physical failure uncaused by bad intentions.
Every time Paul opens his mouth, he contradicts the teaching of Jesus, Son of YHVH.
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Posted by HughWillRidmee (# 15614) on
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Hugh--
Acupuncture and homeopathy aren't about the supernatural. I know homeopathy is pretty controversial, at least in the US. But acupuncture is well documented in medical settings.
Acupuncture worked well for me, over a long period of time. I've had good experiences with Oscillococcinum homeopathic cold/flu medicine. And I don't seem prone to placebo effects.
FWIW.
Cochrane reports homeopathy aggregated results over many properly constituted trials – indistinguishable from placebo.
Acupuncture works just as well with sham needles (they have retractable points) and normal needles placed randomly (but not in the recommended places). – conclusion – placebo.
Much info. readily available if you want it.
They both rely on concepts not found in the natural world (succussion and chi) and, by definition, would prove the existence of the supernatural if they worked better than placebo.
As to colds/flu – your immune system, in time, deals with viruses – just don’t, please, risk relying on homeopathy for prevention against dangerous conditions such as malaria. My doctor had a patient who did - the patient survived, but only after six weeks at death's door in a specialist London hospital.
LeRoc – thanks and good fortune
E W-C the US military got scammed for several million dollars on RV – it doesn’t work.
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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Placebo is difficult, isn't it? It does work better than nothing, there is something going on, but it isn't going to work if the patient knows that's what it is. So why not use homeopathy or acupuncture if they are as good as placebo?
Though not for the killers.
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Posted by HughWillRidmee (# 15614) on
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Originally posted by Penny S:
Placebo is difficult, isn't it? It does work better than nothing, there is something going on, but it isn't going to work if the patient knows that's what it is. So why not use homeopathy or acupuncture if they are as good as placebo?
Though not for the killers.
Homeopathy worked better than the alternative when it was dreamt up by Hahnemann - but the alternative was blood-letting. Blood-letting increased the risk of infection, water/sugar pills with no active ingredient have no direct impact on risk whatsoever. Nowadays we often have alternatives that work spectacularly better than placebo.
Possibly the most disconcerting aspect of placebo is that it does work when people know that's what it is. But it usually only works for some people and is a waste of time/effort/money in the majority of cases.
And, if its done without disclosure, it's deceitful.
And telling people that science can be replaced by supernatural delusion is both immoral and potentially dangerous to the listener.
Posted by malik3000 (# 11437) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
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Originally posted by malik3000:
Somewhere in St. Paul's epistles, he says that if something can be proved, there is no need for faith. In other words, God cannot be proved scientifically. So "Creation Science" is attempting the impossible. By the same token, neither can God be disproved scientifically. Thus atheists of the Dawkins variety -- as opposed to agnostics -- are likewise attempting the impossible. ... And I don't believe that, as yet, "Remote viewing" or other methods purporting to rely on telepathy can be said to be part of the Scientific Method.
Ah! So that's where the heresy lies--again--in Saul of Tarsus' false testimony!
if something can be proved, there is no need for faith is false!
What can be proved in 3rd Dimensional Physicality is absurd and requires FAITH in 7thD or 13thD subjectivity.
The rules of manifestation in subjective existence absolutely refute the laws of cause and effect in 3rd dimensional physicality.
So, if the Angels didn't have faith that God knows how to run 3rd D Causes and Effects, they would not be able to attend to the outcomes of Physical failure uncaused by bad intentions.
Every time Paul opens his mouth, he contradicts the teaching of Jesus, Son of YHVH.
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Oy vey!
Well i guess i'll just have to live in my own little 4D world (counting time as the the 4th dimension) and not trouble my poor brain about the 13th dimension. You are free to accept on faith that the Annunaki told you that Paul was a heretic. Moi, i'll just have to get along without my tinfoil hat.
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Posted by malik3000 (# 11437) on
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Please note thati really didnt intend my previous post to be an ad hominem comment on the poster but on the content of the post, my opinions of which i stand by. Actually Sister Emily is a sincere person and probably a very nice person, and i loved her post in Eccles where she related her enthusiastic Texas-style response in church to a Bach piece that had been playrd. I thought "You go girl!"
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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Originally posted by HughWillRidmee:
Possibly the most disconcerting aspect of placebo is that it does work when people know that's what it is. But it usually only works for some people and is a waste of time/effort/money in the majority of cases.
And, if its done without disclosure, it's deceitful.
I wasn't aware of that - that it worked when the patient knew what it was.
And I agree that ethically it's not on to do it without disclosure.
I suspect that part of the homeopathy effect is down to the length of time taken in assessing the situation, and the interest in what the patient has to say.
I had a friend who told me that a friend of theirs found that his conditions got better when he had identified the supposed remedy. Which would presumably be the "it was going to get better anyway".
I did try the little pills for myself once for the odd cold. What turned me off was when I had the sort of earache that might possibly a tooth instead, and the remedy was supposed to be mercury. When I pointed out to the guy in the shop that I must be getting enough of that off my fillings, he said that that wouldn't work because there was too much of it.
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Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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Left out the word "situation" after "it was going to get well anyway".
Posted by Hawk (# 14289) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
without Intuition and [telepathic] remote-viewing, scientists are completely cutting themselves off from higher knowledge, which is a form of deliberated ignorance.
Imagination may have a place in scientific inquiry but unless ideas can be tested against the world outside one's dreams it is not science. The technical phrase I beleive is "making shit up".
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I've had good experiences with Oscillococcinum homeopathic cold/flu medicine. And I don't seem prone to placebo effects.
Two mutually contradictory statements I'm afraid.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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If earthbound, physical scientists cut themselves OFF from "other-dimensional" [The Holographic Paradigm] knowledge, they can't understand the relationship because "what they know" and the cosmic perspective in which "what they know" operates and has its effects.
Staying COMPLETELY and SOLELY within the confines of physical "causes and effects" is ...
LIKE the physician who refuses to acknowledge effects of nutrition and stress;
LIKE the architect who refuses to acknowledge effects of climate;
LIKE the engineer who refuses to acknowledge effects of wear and tear;
LIKE the computer geek who refuses to recognize or acknowledge effects of neglected UPDATES;
LIKE the media who refuse to recognize or acknowledge effects of dysinfo and misinfo on the public mind.
Partial knowledge creates a situation in which chaos can operate TRANSPARENTLY.
eewc
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Posted by Plique-à-jour (# 17717) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
Partial knowledge creates a situation in which chaos can operate TRANSPARENTLY.
Yes, any project which doesn't take its lead from the mystical pronouncements of visionary initiates, or the authority of monarchy by divine right, will have to muddle through as best it can with what information it can derive from the observable.
Posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg (# 17687) on
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Well, maybe we can s-t-r-e-t-c-h what's observable in terms of developing better digital image interpretations.
A nobel laureate physicist was surprised to hear that someone can see "dark matter" simply by photographing in NIGHTSHOT, black-light digital images that leave out R-G-B hues. That never occurred to him.
I laughed til my sides ached.
http://www.scienfree.org/marsmap.htm
I guess, one can try to open the minds of the already-schooled.
eewc
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Posted by South Coast Kevin (# 16130) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
...someone can see "dark matter" simply by photographing in NIGHTSHOT, black-light digital images that leave out R-G-B hues
(Independent) Citation needed.
Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on
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You'd have fitted in just fine in the prayer group I was in at Triangle tonight Em.
I watched The Master a week tomorrow ago. And a few days after the John Huston documentary about combat PTSD. The treatment can be initially spectacularly successful because battle neuroses are rapidly acquired.
Ours aren't. We can become walking - cognitive - wounded, some of us. Of the guys I was with tonight, most barely will if that. One could see that I can. But even so, the wind changed a long time ago for us Em. And our funny faces set.
Some here seem to think that people whose funny faces are actually harmful to others have to go to even further to Hell for that.
That's one of the most harmful, wind set funny faces there is.
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Originally posted by Hawk:
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
I've had good experiences with Oscillococcinum homeopathic cold/flu medicine. And I don't seem prone to placebo effects.
Two mutually contradictory statements I'm afraid.
Seriously, I'm known for all sorts of rare reactions to prescription meds. If I were placebo-effect prone, I'd think I wouldn't have such bad reactions. FWIW.
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Seriously, I'm known for all sorts of rare reactions to prescription meds. If I were placebo-effect prone, I'd think I wouldn't have such bad reactions. FWIW.
The unanticipated reactions to prescription meds may be in themselves you being prone to placebo effects.
My favorite story on placebos was something that was coming up in Olympic doping detection. They were starting to get some athletes who were being given undetectable performance enhancement drugs which were in fact placebos like water.
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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There is the nocebo effect, which causes negative results.
Mistakenly pressed reply instead of URL
Report on nocebo effect
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Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Originally posted by Penny S:
There is the nocebo effect, which causes negative results.
Mistakenly pressed reply instead of URL
Report on nocebo effect
Thanks for this link. I'd never heard of this but it makes all kinds of sense.
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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Yes, when I used to have baddish migraine, I developed new symptoms after reading about them, or being told of them! But after spotting what was going on, that stopped. That was before I learned about the concept of nocebo.
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on
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It might be difficult to distinguish the nocebo effect from health anxiety.
Classic cycle of health anxiety being very high monitoring of physical state - any change of physical state being interpreted as a symptom.
The checking can then cause problems itself - I knew someone who checked their breasts for lumps upto 30 times a day. So of course she experienced tenderness and mild swelling - which tended to confirm to her that there must be a problem so she would then increase her checking.
Likewise I knew another person who always tended to believe that any symptom was caused by something she ingested. So heavily restricted diet. When given medication for another condition she felt tired and ill and her glands swelled so she immediately stopped it. Within a few days it became clear she had flu - which she realised and acknowledged. However, wouldn't restart the medication. I guarantee that if you asked her 6 months later she would remember that episode as the medication causing her to have a bad reaction - because that was consistent with her pre-existing biases.
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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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In my case, these were effects that I didn't expect nor want. They were effects known as possible but rare to the medical community. Like chemical psych effects from something I was taking for non-psych problems. Getting jittery from something that was supposed to calm me down. (Paradoxical reaction; have had it with both prescription and herbal medicines.)
I know that some people develop symptoms after reading about them. (Medical students are often cursed with that.) But, from long experience, I'm not one of them. I just have an extremely sensitive system.
Posted by malik3000 (# 11437) on
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Originally posted by Emily Windsor-Cragg:
If earthbound, physical scientists cut themselves OFF from "other-dimensional" [The Holographic Paradigm] knowledge, they can't understand the relationship because "what they know" and the cosmic perspective in which "what they know" operates and has its effects./[QB]
Not true.
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Staying COMPLETELY and SOLELY within the confines of physical "causes and effects" is ...
LIKE the physician who refuses to acknowledge effects of nutrition and stress;
LIKE the architect who refuses to acknowledge effects of climate;
LIKE the engineer who refuses to acknowledge effects of wear and tear;
LIKE the computer geek who refuses to recognize or acknowledge effects of neglected UPDATES;
LIKE the media who refuse to recognize or acknowledge effects of dysinfo and misinfo on the public mind.
Partial knowledge creates a situation in which chaos can operate TRANSPARENTLY.
eewc
These are apples and oranges comparisons. The effects of nutrition and stress on health, the effects of climate on buildings, the effect of wear and tear in engineering remain within the confines of physical "causes and effects". The other examples fall within the parameters of their respective disciplines/areas. When physical scientists fail in the above-cited examples, they are failing within their recognized areas of practice, not failing because they failed to look outside into some extra dimensional area of "knowledge", otherwise known as believing in something because one just wants to believe it, or (as cited above) "making shit up".
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