#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....;-)

[jaybe11]

The Shocking Secrets of Raëlism Group: And its relation to UFO sightings...

[apesoformythoughts]

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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

rlly just caught myself being like ‘I should flip a coin to decide!’ concerning something for an assessment worth 30%

i cannot deal with myself

[webcorners]

claimed to have made the first human clone; won’t tell anyone where it is

has “philosophical ties” with the UFO religion Raëlism

[niqhtlord01]

Humans are weird: Religion Part 2

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Alien: Why would anyone make a deal with a demon? Alien: They are pure evil! Human: Well it’s all about perspective. Alien: How so? Human: An angel will often only show up when things are terrible and even then there’s no guarantee they’ll be there. Human: A demon will show up to play D&D with you if you read out their summoning incantation correctly and prepare everything. Alien: What if you make a mistake? Human: Then there’s a fifty fifty chance of you being flayed alive. Alien: How is that even remotely good!?!? Human: Clearly you’ve never tried getting a full D&D session together. -------------------------------------------------------

Alien: If their belief is that there is no divine being how can the lack of faith be considered a religion? Human: Honestly I think it was started by some religious people to fuck with atheists. Human: You’d be surprised how much people get pissed off when you call them the wrong thing right to their faces. Alien: That’s silly. Human: Whatever you say little green man. Alien: I AM GREY AND YOU KNOW THAT!!!!! --------------------------------------------------------

Alien: This church…..says you should kill yourself for the betterment of the world? Human: Sadly the church of euthanasia is a real thing. Alien: Who would possibly advocate for this!?!? Human: An angsty thirteen year old boy playing an m rated game online who just got killed, for starters. --------------------------------------------------------

Alien: What is Raëlism? Human: Some silly religion about aliens coming to visit planet earth. Alien: How the hell is it silly? Alien: I’m an alien and I’m standing right in front of you on your planet! Human: It’s silly because they thought mixing the star of david and a swastika would be a perfect symbol for their religion. Alien: But that cou- Human: In 1974 France. Alien: Ah….that’d do it. --------------------------------------------------------

Alien: How the hell did a religion begin based around a sentient pasta dish? Human: It started out as a satire and just grew from there. Alien: That makes no sense! Human: You give anything to the internet today and they’ll make a god out of it in no time. Human: *looks at you* Human: Praise be to Lord Helix, bitches. -------------------------------------------------

Alien: How could anyone take a religion that was made for a science fiction action series as anything but silly? Human: One could argue that all religions are silly by their very nature. Human: What difference does it make if you want to be a jedi or not? Alien: Because it’s ridiculous! Human: Agreed, they should have been sith anyway. -----------------------------------------------

Alien: Why are there so many different sects and versions of the same religion? Alien: What makes a “murmon” and different from a “prozitant”? Human: You need to look at religion like a tree. Human: At first when it sprouts it has one stem, growing high into the sky. Human: For the longest time that single stem is all that it will need to sustain itself. Human: But as the tree continues to grow a single stem is not enough to keep it growing, so it grows a branch. Human: With this branch the tree can continue to grow even higher until again it reaches a point it needs more and so grows another branch. Human: The higher the original stem goes the more branches it will need to support it, and even then those branches will grow their own branches to support them in turn. Human: Eventually the original stem will be lost in a sea of branches while the tree as a whole continues to grow. Alien: That is….an oddly specific and effective manner of describing branching faiths. Alien: Exactly how high are you right now? Human: Higher than that fucking tree for starters. -------------------------------------------------

Alien: I thought yoga was a form of exercises you humans do, not a faith. Human: Nah, it can be both. Alien: *Mockingly* Then drinking this coffee will become my new religion! Human: There already is one of those but don’t think you want to join it. Alien: Why not? *Overhearing from coffee counter* Angry customer: I spilled my coffee and demand you bring me a new one! Retail worker: Ma’am, we offered you a holder to stop it from burning your hand but you refused to take it. Angry customer: Are you talking back to me!? I demand to see your manager!!! Human: *Points thumb over shoulder at angry customer* Because it’s mostly full of angry karen’s, and those bitches are petty as fuck. -----------------------------------------------

Alien: So they worship…..a nuclear bomb? Human: Did the whole “Children of the atom” bit give it away??? Alien: But why? Human: Not a lot of options after a nuclear winter. Human: Besides, you’d probably worship the thing that can give you a third arm or make you immortal as well. ----------------------------------------------

Alien: It seems after going over your records it appears many gods were developed to explain natural phenomenons such as thunder and earthquakes. Human: True. Alien: Were there no men of science to give your people the truth? Human: Oh there were, but they didn’t last long. Alien: Short life span? Human: Tends to be the case when one is being chased by an angry mob. ----------------------------------------------

Alien: What the seven hells is a cargo cult? Human: It’s what happens when an industrialized society makes first contact with an underdeveloped and technologically lacking people. Human: It’s the same way how people mistake advanced technology for being magic. Alien: I don’t follow. Human: Imagine that you and your people spent their entire lives living on an isolated island with only the simplest means of survival. Human: Then one day a cargo plane flies over head and drops human soldiers from the sky all over your island. Human: In your eyes all you see is great beings leaping from giant birds carrying strange clothing and tools. Alien: If that’s the case then why didn’t your people develop cargo cults for us aliens? Human: Ever heard of crop circles?