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> > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote:
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> > > > > > > Surely to God no one believes either the author or that GN
could possibly have posted this with a straight face.
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> > > > > > Are you kidding? There's a whole sub-culture of evolving new
> > > > > > age guff like this. *Millions* believe it. I know perfectly
> > > > > > sane, intelligent, successful people who believe mankind is
> > > > > > in telepathic communication with alien beings at the centre
> > > > > > of the galaxy.
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> > > > > If it was me I would amend that to "...perfectly successful
people who believe mankind is..."
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> > > > Nope. Are all christians, muslims insane because they don't
apply
> > > > logic to their view of the world? Some would say yes, I think
that
> > > > in an absence of structured and tested knowledge about the world
> > > > all sorts of nonsense can creep in and be taken as fact.
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> > > > And in a science-savvy world, these religious sci-fi concepts
are
> > > > to be expected. Believing that Marduk is an extraterrestrial is
no
> > > > stranger than believing in astrology or crystal healing.
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> > > I think you are taking this past where I was going initially. I
was talking about the particular post made by GN which cited a
particularly wild assertion by Sasha Lessin regarding the Earth having
been nuked by aliens a very long time ago. In case you have lost the
initial guffaw-inspired reaction you no doubt had when first reading
this little gem let me refresh your memory:
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> > > "3,663 years ago, Yahweh, known then as Enlil, a 9 -12 foot fully
Homo
> > > Sapien ET from the Planet Nibiru, 49 astronomical units from
Earth, ordered
> > > nuclear attacks on the people and cities south of the (thence)
Dead Sea in
> > > Canaan and on a spaceport he ran in Sinai. The fallout immediately
blew over
> > > and killed most of the Sumerian Earthlings--those loyal to
Yahweh."
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> > > If you would like to continue to defend statements like these as
perfectly in line with other beliefs that run rampant among the human
race, be my guest. But all I'm saying is that I am pretty sure that
anyone who would believe this particular theory isn't likely to be
having afternoon tea at my abode; I prefer not to hang out with crazies.
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> > Sure it makes me laugh but no more than Jehovas witnesses,
> > scientology or spoon bending. It's all about whether you have an
> > evidence based view of the world or a belief based one.
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> > But do you think it's somehow different from biblical beliefs
> > about God smiting the caananites and the fiery chariot in Ezekiel?
> > The old testament is where the new age get their inspiration. The
Xtians weird beliefs seem normal simply because they've been with
> > us for longer and have become a tradition. And don't get me started
> > on flying machines in the Vedas, I'm sure Nabby will tell you that's
> > all proof of extraterrestrials.
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> I agree with you; we are surrounded by lots of " fantastical" theories
and religions and ideas - some of them chronologically older, some of
them younger. Many are based on nothing scientific or concrete. Many I
ignore, most I have never heard of and some I was brought up with from
when I was a child.
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> I don't take very much of these things as indisputable truths and I
think about and analyze, to some extent, all of the ones that I come
into contact with. Some are outlandishly funny but might be true. Some I
think are true but am aware they could be, in the end, preposterous
fairytales. I certainly respect people's right to believe and tout
whatever theories and beliefs they want but it won't keep me from
rejecting those beliefs or laughing uproariously at them.
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> > If all ideas were fresh, which would you think crazy? Afternoon
> > tea might be a lonely experience for you. Me, I don't care what
> > people believe as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, and my new age
> > friends who believe in all sorts of channeling and weird shit are
> > no different from my TM friends or my Christian ones, as long as
> > they don't try and convert me they'll get scones and jam on my
> > best china for sure.
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> I also think there is a difference between thinking something is crazy
from thinking something unlikely or sensing something mired in dogma and
therefore ill considered. I was actually initially using the word
"crazies" as a catch-all and general term not really indicative of any
highly analytical description of any one specific person or belief.
"Crazy" is a very, very relative term.
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