#ufo religions

[shiftythrifting]

Was too small for me or I would have got it

Cute dinos

Interesting Christian dvds

Extremely 90s shirt

Music from the Noah’s ark encounter

[seeminglyseph]

I know everyone hates M Knight Shyamalan's The Village, and "oooh it's modern day all along" seems like a lame twist, but consider:

A) wool cloaks fuck and that's always a cool look and I won't apologize for the fact that I definitely just wanted to wear cloaks instead of coats even though I live somewhere that experiences winters in Hardcore Mode and that was not viable

And B) the concept that your parents decided for you that you had to live in a dangerous and reductive environment and raised you on fear and punishment and secrecy because they hated the way society was developing and didn't want you to have access or choice was like. Extremely real fore as someone raised Catholic with multiple friends raised either Jehovah's Witness or Mormon. Like, obviously, it was extremely exaggerated as a 2000s horror-thriller type movie, but like.

It's no Lady in the Water. I honestly haven't seen The Village in a bit, but in concept, I think it does make sense as a cult movie. It's just that too much is like... "oooo it's a twist!" Rather than, like... "damn, the adults of this movie have a cult compound that they have used to isolate, indoctrinate, and control their children, literally creating and becoming monsters that haunt and torment them to keep them in line to maintain a way of life in line with their own moral values"

And like. If you look at it through the lens of like. The emotional impact of how much betrayal goes on within the film in the families and the cult and for the children who had no choice to be there and no information, like. That's much more impactful than simply "it was modern day all along"

It's "your parents have been lying to you all along, and all of your pain and fear has served no greater purpose. Half of these rules were not to keep you safe. They were to make you obey, and you have no way of knowing which are which. The people you trust have deeply and intentionally fractured your relationship with reality as a way to keep you contained and docile and under control. You have been betrayed on the most fundamental level by the people who were supposed to raise you and guard you and keep you safe."

And that's like. That's good horror that sticks in the back of your brain forever? Idk. Maybe my imaginary Village is better than the real Village but like. I think it's a better movie than it gets credit for.

And I want more excuses to wear wool cloaks, like damn.

[moonsporemoth]

Religion doesn't make sense to me. Like if a God existed, wouldn't it just be an alien entity in the cosmos?

[knoxvillerose-blog]

I sell Vintage Books at KnoxvilleRose On Etsy. This is a small sample of the works currently avaialble at the shop! Recently added some new inventory. I cater to the Ceremonial Magician, Witch & Occultist mostly, with forays into the Parnormal, Religions, Anthropology.... and more!

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

It's fascinating that extraterrestrial beings are so intelligent that they can find us in the enormous expanse of space, and build spaceships so advanced they can cross that unfathomable void and with all the hazards to be found along the way... but not intelligent enough, their ships not sufficiently advanced that having done all that they don't manage to avoid crashing on a wet dirt ball at night when there's a little light rain or it's a bit foggy out.

[aloha-eloha]

Raëlianism in brief

Raëlianism is a religion founded properly in 1976, when the previous Mouvement pour l‘accueil des Elohim, créateurs de l'humanité (Movement for the Welcoming of the Elohim, Creators of Humanity) was transformed into the International Raëlian Movement. The central premise of the religion, frequently referred to as 'the Message', can be found in the scriptural omnibus Intelligent Design and summarised like so:

-- On December 13th, 1973 a French sports journalist and racecar driver named Claude Vorilhon encountered a UFO. The occupant of the UFO invited Vorilhon inside, where the alien revealed to him the truth about Mankind's origins on that and successive days. (Intelligent Design pp. 3-9)

-- This truth is that Mankind was created artificially by a team of humanoid scientists from another, far more advanced planet. Denizens of that planet, and specifically our scientific creators, are referred to as Elohim -- those who came from the sky. (Intelligent Design pp. 10-18)

-- The events of the Bible, and of other world scriptures, are essentially true in that they record our creation by the Elohim; but that truth was intentionally hidden by the Elohim underneath a layer of supernaturalism so that in future times, when we were more advanced, we would recognise them as the ones spoken of in Scripture. (Intelligent Design pp. 76, 120)

-- Mankind has now evolved to the point where we are able to understand the truth, therefore the Elohim revealed it to Vorilhon -- the last prophet, the Maitreya from the West, and the literal son of the Elohim; resulting from a union between Yahweh (the leader of the Elohim) and a woman on Earth. He was renamed Raël as a sign of this prophetic mission. (Intelligent Design pp. 6, 93, 290, 306)

-- The Elohim love us, as parents love their children, and wish to return to Earth and impart to us the benefits of their 25,000-years-advanced civilisation They will not return however until we have built them an Embassy -- the Third Temple prophesied of old -- to demonstrate our own love and good intentions toward our creators. (Intelligent Design pp. 61, 93, 220)

[dyingforbadmusic]

[frank-olivier]

Jesse Michels (American Alchemy)

Diana Pasulka: UFOs & Religion (December 2023)

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

[blogparanormal]

Catholicism Is The Best Religion

Today I'm going to briefly explain why Catholicism is the best religion even though plenty of other religions would disagree. I'm not a values person. I'm a results person. For me it's not about the beliefs or the traditions of Catholicism. It is the results of good moral and ethical people generated from the religion of Catholicism. Not all Catholics are suddenly good people for being Catholic, but over time people have the greatest success of becoming better versions of themselves. I'd say from the Catholic world from traveling across my home country and other countries that 8/10 Catholics are good moral and ethical people. This also means all other religions need to do better at creating good moral and ethical people and Catholicism also has room for improvement.

I'm come across some bizarre thinking people that don't like Catholics or religions in general and they blame Catholics for killings over 150 years ago in a couple towns or cites. My response would be to them #1 it's not 150 years ago anymore, get with the times. It doesn't excuse what happened, but you can't be living in the past like that, which you weren't even alive then. #2 Catholicism is worldwide and the mentioned atrocities of the past were unfortunate, but it averages about 1/200,000 negative happenings which is so incredibly small at about 0.000005% being evil. It's just like the school shooting thing in the USA. There are over 130,000 schools and an average of 12 school shootings. 12/130,000 = 0.000009%. It so rare I don't understand the disconnect with mass hysteria and fear of it. Is it awful, yes. Is it something we should worry about every day, no.

I don't understand the brainwashing of people who hate or dislike Catholics over tragedies that are uncommon. How can one hate or dislike Catholics from such an extent? I just don't get it?

[esotericworld]

Diana Pasulka is a religious studies professor at UNC Wilmington who has written three books: Heaven Can Wait, American Cosmic and Encounters (links below). The first was about Catholic purgatory and when Pasulka began documenting historical accounts of “divine” or “angelic” visitations in the Catholic tradition she started to notice commonalities among them and modern alien and UFO experiences. Thus began her documentation of the modern religious aspects of the UFO phenomenon along with her journey into classified secret aerospace work in the United States. Her book Encounters served to destigmatize “disclosure” as a global, transhistorical phenomenon that transcends our myopic western frame.

If you haven't read her book American Cosmic, I highly recommend it: https://a.co/d/9VCSbYo

[a-typical]

I'm frequently asked, 'Do you believe there's extraterrestrial intelligence?' I give the standard arguments - there are a lot of places out there, the molecules of life are everywhere, I use the word billions, and so on. Then I say it would be astonishing to me if there weren't extraterrestrial intelligence, but of course there is as yet no compelling evidence for it.

Often, I'm asked next, 'What do you really think?'

I say, 'I just told you what I really think.'

'Yes, but what's your gut feeling?'

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgement until the evidence is in.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan (1996)

[mandarinaenjoyer]

RELIGIOUS PEOPLE🫵

I'm writing a Star wars-ish story, and for reasons I will not explain humanity leaves earth behind and migrates through the entirety of the galaxy. My problem is, as an agnostic who's not had a religious upbringing, that I can't phantom how any religion would evolve in case of galactic expansion.

Here comes the hard part: I need people to try to explain both the good and the bad things their respective religions could evolve into in case aliens and humans co-habitated. (As in, do they go to heaven? Are they also creations of god? Are their gods also your gods? Etc.) I'd love to know how you think your religion could re-shape with the appearance of such different creatures.

I ask with absolute respect, I'm just interested and in need of help, and prefer to get answers from you than to make them up myself.

⭐It doesn't matter what your religion is, I'm interested in your point of view⭐

Thank you so much 🫶🫶

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[zersk]

we really do need a new major world religion. it feels like its about time

[religious-extremist]

I'm curious (asking in good faith!): why aliens would be demons? Also, do you think this would also be true for unicellular creatures from another planet?

Aliens are demons. The aliens I am referring to with this statement are specifically extraterrestrial intelligent lifeforms, not including simple organisms like unicellular life forms possible on Mars or one of Jupiter’s moons.

I will try to answer this with my perspective as an Orthodox Christian.

A lot of the evidence we have for extraterrestrial contact come from UFO sightings and anecdotal accounts of alien kidnappings and experimentation. I agree with the Orthodox saints that have said these “proofs” are demonic manifestations that are called evidence of extraterrestrial life because modern society has rejected the Christian framework and theology regarding the spiritual realm. In short, secularists and materialists reject the idea that aliens are demons because they’d have to agree with the idea that there is a spiritual realm that can interact with the material realm.

The devil doesn’t want people to know he exists, because it’s easier for him to fight us when we’re unaware of his existence. You don’t protect yourself from an enemy unless you realize he exists.

If we look at the oldest stories of early church fathers’ battles against demonic attacks, we actually find their accounts of demonic manifestations to be very similar to modern accounts of alien encounters and UFO sightings. UFO sightings often speak of objects that “materialize” and “dematerialize,” always with the aim of awing and confounding people. UFO phenomena also report the strange mingling of physical and psychic characteristics in them. Some people speak of alien abductions, “time loss,” and “memory gaps” but even in the Gospels we read how Christ Himself allowed the devil to abduct Him and tempt Him after His forty days of fasting in the wilderness.

There is a book by St. Seraphim Rose that has a whole section focused on this topic called Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future. If you are interested in this topic, I recommend reading it. A dear friend posted the PDF file of the book in the book club server as well.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]