#raëlism

[mahdidarkdrop]

آبائنا الايلوهيم المحبين لنا الذين ولدونا بالهندسة الجينية، والمتقدمين علينا بخمسة وعشرين ألف سنة، يحكيها لنا مبعوثهم رائيل

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[prospheiro]

Garden of wishes, dreams may bloom, A yearning whispers, a desire to consume. Do swiftly end the enemy, a relentless doom, With petals of growth, in life’s vast zoom. Wishful winds carry aspirations high, To quell the enemy, let its echoes die. Swiftly as a comet streaks the sky, End the discord with a celestial sigh. Growth, a tapestry woven in wishes bold, A tale of triumph, untold and untold. As…

[sigmaleph]

Raël considered gender as an artificial construct and emphasized its fluidity.[121] Raël avoided a macho persona and is instead often described by his followers as being "gentle" and "feminine".[122] Palmer suggested that Raël regarded women as being superior to men because they were described as being more like the Elohim.[62] In Raël's account, the inhabitants of the Elohim planet "have 10 percent of masculinity and 90 percent of femininity."[62] Raël also proposed that if women were in positions of political power across the world, there would be no war.[62] The Raëlians have participated with public protests for women's rights.[123] At its June 2003 "Joy of Being Woman" demonstration, Raëlian women danced naked through the streets of Paris.[123] Palmer described the Raëlians as feminists,[124] although Raël criticized mainstream feminism, arguing that it "copied the shortcomings of men".[125] Generally adopting the belief that the human body is malleable,[126] Raëlism has a positive opinion of plastic surgery to improve physical appearance.[127]

now taking bets on the founder of Raëlism being trans

[bookclub4m]

Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs

This episode we’re talking about non-fiction books about Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs! We discuss unexplained aerial phenomenon, owls, exobiology, and aliens wearing hats!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction by David C. Catling

The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum

Death from the Skies! These Are the Ways the World Will End… by Philip Plait

Death from the Skies! The Science Behind the End of the World…

Search for the Unknown: Canada’s UFO Files and the Rise of Conspiracy Theory by Matthew Hayes

Aliens: Join the Scientists Searching Space for Extraterrestrial Life by Joalda Morancy, illustrated by Amy Grimes

Picturing Extraterrestrials: Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture by John F. Moffitt

Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO by David J Halperin

They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles

Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pikington

Mirage Men (Wikipedia) - The documentary

Other Media We Mentioned

Chariots of The Gods by Erich von Däniken

Chariots of the Gods? (Wikipedia)

The X-Files (Wikipedia)

Mars Attacks! (1996 film)

The yodeling scene ("Indian Love Call" by Slim Whitman)

Mars Attacks (Wikipedia)

The trading cards

Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber

The Disappearing Act by Florence de Changy

Disappearance of the Malaysian airplane

Links, Articles, and Things

Barney and Betty Hill incident (Wikipedia)

METI International (Wikipedia)

Reptilian conspiracy theory (Wikipedia)

ʻOumuamua (Wikipedia)

Raëlism (Wikipedia)

Martian canals (Wikipedia)

Neon Squid Books

U.S. judge says Penguin Random House book merger cannot go forward

Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (Wikipedia)

How Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher

10 Non-Fiction Books About Aliens & UFOs (and other phenomena) by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life edited by Jim Al-Khalili

Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines by Jim Al-Khalili

More Encounters with Star People: Urban American Indians Tells Their Stories by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke

Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System by Ray Jayawardhana

Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku

Aliens: Join the Scientists Searching Space for Extraterrestrial Life by Joalda Morancy

Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos by Priyamvada Natarajan

Mondes d'ailleurs by Trịnh Xuân Thuận

Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Why Aren't They Here: The Question of Life on Other Worlds by Surendra Verma

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 18th it’s time for our annual One Book One Podcast pitch episode!

Then on Tuesday, August 1st we’ll be discussing the genre of Pulp Fiction!

[crazy-so-na-sega]

fermi tutti

traduzione:

la clonazione è illegale nella maggior parte dei paesi, ma in Canada è ancora in corso da parte di Clonaid. Fondata nel 1997 da Raël (Claude Vorilhon; fondò la religione Raëlian UFO Raëlism/Raëlianism nel 1974). Promuove il liberalismo, la sperimentazione sessuale e la clonazione per raggiungere l'immortalità.

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cacchio com'è cambiata la pecora Dolly....;-)

[apesoformythoughts]

Raëlism is wild, y’all. I had no idea “God is aliens” had achieved such a degree of organization and formality.

[disregardenedgnostic]

I'm pretty sure that's the symbol of a ufo cult called raëlism:

though of course, that's the alternate version. the original symbol is THIS:

you may remember that one from when kanye west posted it on his twitter after going full mask-off antisemite back in 2022.

needless to say, stonetoss is absolutely using it as a dogwhistle while keeping just enough plausible deniability that someone might think it's just a weirdly-drawn magen david

courting antisemitism

so i recently decided to take a look at the latest stonetoss comics (probably because i love suffering). and while i was expecting some content on the israel palestine conflict, what i did not expect was how... standard it seemed. well, most of it at least, but i'll get to that in a second.

for context, if you don't know what stonetoss is, it's a (poorly drawn) webcomic known for having radical alt-right views - meaning it's incredibly racist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, antisemitic. all that fun stuff.

so while i was expecting to see bad stuff, one of the first things i saw on the topic of israel was this:

terrible art aside, this comic is making a point that i usually see in left wing circles: that israel is pinkwashing genocide.

curious if there was more like this, i kept looking, and the comic right before that one was this:

again, this makes points that i usually see in left wing circles. that american healthcare is crazy expensive, that canada tells poor people to commit suicide, and that israel is bombing hospitals.

why does stonetoss, this well known alt-right nutjob, now seem to be bringing up left-wing talking points?

curious, i kept going deeper:

well this is... odd. clearly, stonetoss is trying to say that israel is on another level of bad, even worse than russia, iran, and north korea. i can possibly see someone on the left making the argument that the russian invasion of ukraine isn't as bad as what israel is doing in gaza, or that at least north korea isn't invading any other countries, but... iran??? the country that has a police force designed to enforce religious law, and gets away with murdering women who do not properly cover their hair? the country that props up paramilitary groups in countries all over the middle east, including lebanon, yemen, and yes, palestine?? that's completely ridiculous

but, given how much more israel is in the news nowadays than any of these other countries, i could see why someone would buy this

and now, we're starting to get to the crux of what stonetoss is trying to do. when someone sees this, they might be inclined to agree with it. they might begin to think that israel is the worst country on the planet

and that might not seem so bad at first. but the more you hate israel, especially irrationally, the more you feel allowed to dehumanize those who support it. the more you might be willing to agree with this comic, which came out two days prior to the one above

this comic says that jews, as a whole have no desire to exist with other people. it is blatantly antisemitic

i'm sure you could imagine some young leftist who sees the comics above this one and thinks, "this guy makes some good points". and then, when they get to this one, they might realize that this is antisemitism

or, they may not.

and that would start them down the road to becoming an antisemite.

this is what stonetoss and other alt-right nutjobs are hoping to achieve. to take left wing fury at israel, and direct it at jews.

we saw it with those neo-nazis at the palestine rally, and we're seeing it again here.

and if you've found yourself agreeing with what stonetoss has said so far, i would like you to see the last comic stonetoss put out before october 7th:

this horrifically racist comic is in reference to an environmental activist who was murdered by a black man in early october. this blatantly racist garbage is the kind of stuff stonetoss usually puts out.

but as soon as october 7th happened? these were his next two comics:

stonetoss completely changed the comic's tone as soon as the current crisis started. why?

to get as many people as possible to get on board with hating jews.

and i know many of you might be thinking that "well, everyone knows that stonetoss is racist garbage. nobody is going to fall for this"

except, as we saw with the neo-nazis at the rally for palestine, it's not always that obvious who the antisemites are and who is just rallying for peace. they are often a lot better at disguising it than stonetoss is.

AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE AWARE OF THAT

EVERYONE, no matter HOW much experience you have, can fall victim to propoganda. EVERYONE needs to be aware of what people around them are saying, and able to pick out hateful rhetoric, because even the stuff that is just kind of toeing the line of what's hateful is still putting your foot in the door

be cautious, everyone. and stomp out hate where you see it.

[safereturndoubtful]

Day 86 - to Chalmazel-Jeansagnière

May 17, 86 days away and by some way, this is the coldest it’s been. For just over two weeks now, there’s been rain every day. I came north from the Pyrenees a couple of days earlier than I had planned to, hoping to catch some warmer and drier weather in Auvergne. In the last week the weather has come from the north, so the temperatures have dropped significantly.

This morning my plan to take in a couple of peaks at the Col de Beal, at 1390 metres, didn’t seem such a good one when we got there. It was 1C, but with a ferocious northerly wind that knocked those degrees down quite a few further. It must be my age, but I didn’t find ridges as appealing as I usually do, and descended to the village of Chalmazel-Jeansagnière. This side of the Col is the Rhone-Alpes, now the Loire watershed.

It was a good move. The village has a tremendous ‘aire’ by the rugby club which looks up to the Château, a medieval castle dating back to 1231. There was a period of a couple of hundred years until the sixteenth century when it wasn’t occupied. It had an even bleaker appearance in those days, and was apparently rough inside also, a neglected summer residence. Winters were harsh, and the wealthy occupants preferred more luxury. In the 1550s though it had a makeover, and was inhabited by the Marquis of Talaru until the mid-nineteenth century, when it went the way of many of these old Châteaus, and became a sanatorium for those recovering from illnesses and injuries from wars. In the 1900s it was a boarding school for a while.

The nuns left in 1972, and the new owners have since run it as a hotel, with other parts open to paying visitors.

More sheltered from the wind, I put a hiking circuit of the town together, a couple of hours out in the late morning.

Mainly though, it was a day of reading and reviewing. I got through the second of my series of French novels, Jean Giono’s A King Alone, written in 1947, set in the 1850s in the hills not far from here, in a remote village tormented by a serial killer, and a kidnapper, and the pacifist police captain just returned from the war who has to deal with it.

One of the book forums I contribute to (at the Guardian) asked for recommendations for ‘strange alien invasion novels’. I am a bit addicted to these sort of things, trudging through my records, and the author who presented the column, Nina Allan, had already come up with a very good ten. I suggested five, three of which I’ll mention..

John Wyndham’s last novel, Chocky, from 1968.

Little wonder it earned a reprint from NYRB in 2015, and given today’s news of 1.5 degrees of warming, more relevant now than ever…

“You have not done badly with electricity in a hundred years. And you did well with steam in quite a short time. But all that is so cumbersome, so inefficient. And your oil engines are just a deplorable perversion - dirty, noisy, poisonous, and the cars you drive with them are barbarous, dangerous…

You should be employing your resources, while you still have them, to tap and develop the use of power which is not finite.”

If you’ve seen the film C’mon C’mon you may remember Star Child, by Claire Nivola. It’s a very short read, but powerful one, a reading available on YouTube also, by Joaquin Phoenix, just two minutes, something a bit lighter… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsEvEFs2XZw

War With The Newts by Karel Čapek from 1936.

“Hello you people! Chief Salamander speaking. . . .We regret the loss of human life. We have no wish to cause you unnecessary harm....”

So can you imagine my delight when I came across this poster, advertising and ExtraTerrestrial conference here in Chalmazel.

This is Raëlism, and should you be keen to be amused, look at the Wikipedia entry, and their website quoted on the poster.

Despite this, the town has a lot that impresses. At the recreation area, by the campervan aire, there are three detailed route maps each for trail running, MTB, and orienteering.

There is also a small community run, and funded, library. It seems sad that volunteers should have to be organised to run libraries, but here it closed down, and has been reopened.

There’s what looks like a pleasant restaurant in town. I stopped by there this morning hoping for a coffee. The owner was about to close, so no coffee, but a good chat about red fox labs, Roja was doing his usual Spanish thing of waiting outside. In France of course, dogs are almost always welcome inside.

My French is terrible at the moment. I’ve just downloaded Drive Time French, which I’m hoping will help. I had worse problems than I expected on the telephone to the vet this morning, making an appointment for Roja’s worm treatment for next Monday.

Fortunately, the restaurant owner was the son of Spanish parents, who owned a restaurant in Madrid, and we were able to speak Spanish. I’ll report back later… I’ve actually only eaten out once so far this course, back in Trabáu in Somiedo on Day 49. No particular reason, just that nowhere has been particularly convenient.

All the beer from a local brewery, La Canaille, the usual breeds, a blonde, an amber and a brown, all about 6-7%. All the meat ‘from the local mountain’ - which takes me back to the French courses in the past when leading groups.

On the tougher bike courses after years of struggling to cook in the big tent and carrying everything necessary we priced in eating in restaurants, and booked them ahead where possible. It was a good decision. Sometimes trying to economise is not the best. In the rural restaurants they mostly claimed local produce, Translating the menu, I always offered something like ‘trout of the river’, ‘beef of the mountain’, ‘mushrooms of the forest’, ‘potatoes of the ground’, ‘salad of the garden’, ‘pizza of the oven’ - none of it accurate, but no one noticed, and all were happy. I’m not sure whether they actually wanted to know, or preferred to hear my ‘translation’. Quantity was the key. A meal like mine tonight would be a starter to those teenagers. In Corsica after a tough bike day it was incredible how much was eaten. Often it was pay for a campsite or tents put up wild and the money can be spent on food, so double budget - guess the answer.

On those sort of courses food, especially dinner, was the absolute key and the highlight of the day - very sociable and understandably lengthy.

It was a good atmosphere and good food. Menu of the day at 13 euros, I went for salad of the maison’s garden, pork (of the maison’s sty) with garlic mushroom sauce and three local cheeses (of the village cattle), all with a couple of beers at 2.50 a bottle.

[hyenaswine]

well that sure was an unexpected rabbithole. tw philosemitism & probably THE shittiest religious symbol i've ever seen. you couldn't have done it wronger.

[nerdwingarts]

I feel like this piece requires some explanation. This piece was done for an assignment called “What’s on your mind” and at the suggestion of a friend I decided to do my piece about my experience as a skeptic of religion. I want to be absolutely clear that this piece is not meant to be an insult to any religion symbolized here. In fact, it is a self-deprication of my inability to understand religion. The geometric halo represents my rigid black-and-white (true or false) way of thinking. Even as I “dissect” various belief systems, I have trouble grasping fundamental concepts, such as “faith”. I also noticed during the process of making this piece that openly skeptical views are far more likely to draw dirty looks and the like than mainstream religious views. Somehow, that makes this piece even more important to me.

Thank you for your understanding.

[prospheiro]

Chat you are bait

Afraid fried catfish’s use to sound sadder than orphan donation commercials. No laughing matter is the sense of the finish. It’s a small world said the idiot who taught not to eat dog. What I’ve learned idiots in gangs think a leader can’t get away with Raël I were’st a gang leader and got got for a Madeleine cookie and initiating Raëlism against a Geniocrat in a power struggle

[delightofthepheonix]

Note To Self; Cliff Notes

A belief system stating life on Earth was scientifically produced by extraterrestrial beings - Elohim (Hebrew; god(s) , Angels)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonaid - Human cloning (Rapper Kid Buu is either playing off of DBZ Majin/Kid Buu clones) but states specifically from "Clonaid" "in Canada" the flakey wiki article cites locations in Bahamas, Japan, Korea

[worldreligions2019]

UFO Religions | What do you know about it?

UFO Religions | What do you know about it?

UFO religions Summary A UFO religions is any religion in which the existence of extraterrestrial (ET) entities operating unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is an element of belief. Typically, adherents of such religions believe the ETs to be interested in the welfare of humanity which either already is, or eventually will become, part of a pre-existing ET civilization. Others may incorporate ETs…

[capt-confusion]

Raelism is a shitty religion that culturally appropriates other religions and its symbol os rude and antisemitic.