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(April 17, 2021 at 12:48 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Jim Caviezel 2nd coming:
Actor Jim Caviezel appeared at a right-wing COVID conspiracy theorist conference yesterday and promoted the QAnon blood-harvesting conspiracy theory about "the adrenochroming of children."
The adrenochroming is a belief that the "elites" like Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Hollywood stars, etc., suck adrenaline from children as a drug.
I wonder if Jim or his people keep an epipen handy for wasp stings and such.
April 19, 2021 at 3:50 pm (This post was last modified: April 19, 2021 at 3:50 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(April 19, 2021 at 8:47 am)Ranjr Wrote: I wonder if Jim or his people keep an epipen handy for wasp stings and such.
Jim Caviezel is crazy. A few years ago I posted an interview with him in some hall filled with people. The interview was pretty crazy, but at some point he stopped paying attention to the questions and the conversation, turned toward the audience, and just started ranting. Then he started yelling at them and accusing them of having abortions, and then he just got up and left without saying a word.
Even in the book "Heaven and Mel", Joe Eszterhas mentioned a story which Jim Caviezel likes to talk about and that is how during the filming of "Passion of the Christ" Jim was lying on his bed at night when the devil walked from the corner of the room and put his hand down his throat to its elbow almost choking Jim, but then Jesus came and saved him.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
(April 19, 2021 at 8:47 am)Ranjr Wrote: I wonder if Jim or his people keep an epipen handy for wasp stings and such.
Jim Caviezel is crazy. A few years ago I posted an interview with him in some hall filled with people. The interview was pretty crazy, but at some point he stopped paying attention to the questions and the conversation, turned toward the audience, and just started ranting. Then he started yelling at them and accusing them of having abortions, and then he just got up and left without saying a word.
Even in the book "Heaven and Mel", Joe Eszterhas mentioned a story which Jim Caviezel likes to talk about and that is how during the filming of "Passion of the Christ" Jim was lying on his bed at night when the devil walked from the corner of the room and put his hand down his throat to its elbow almost choking Jim, but then Jesus came and saved him.
Sounds a lot like Drich.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
April 21, 2021 at 1:30 pm (This post was last modified: April 21, 2021 at 1:30 pm by Irreligious Atheist.)
Politico runs smear job of Andrew Yang. Yang hates women. More BS from the fake news corporate media propaganda machine. And you wonder why it was so easy for Trump to rile people up by calling MSM the enemy of the people. It's because they are.
What? The idiot from the first post of this topic has a new documentary from the last year and I only find about it now?
This time it seems from the trailer that the government is trying to portray space aliens as bad guys to create a war with aliens because the government wants to create a global government. But Dr. Greer is already talking with aliens in the woods for years, along with anyone who is willing to pay hundreds of dollars for alien sessions, so he knows that is not true.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
What UFOs and Joe McCarthy Have to Do With the Assault on the Capitol
Quote:In the 1980s and 1990s, right-wing extremists made a concerted effort to use interest in UFOs to lure disaffected white men into what Barkun called “a culture of conspiracy.” Come for the aliens, be a man, and stay for the racism, homophobia, and misogyny.
What came next was no surprise.
On any given night, viewers of the highest-rated show in the history of cable news, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, might find themselves treated to its namesake host discussing flying saucers and space aliens alongside election conspiracies and GOP talking points. Praise for former President Donald Trump, excuses for those involved in the Capitol assault, and criticism of racial and sexual minorities can sit seamlessly beside occasional interviews featuring UFO “experts” pleading conspiracy.
Most outside the right-wing bubble treat his UFO segments as a joke. They’re not.
Flying saucers are part of his midlife rebel act. He argued in November that UFO conspiracy theories and his political analysis are inseparable. “We literally do UFO segments,” he said on-air, “not because we’re crazy or had even been interested in the subject but because there is evidence that UFOs are real and everyone lies about it.” That “everyone,” of course, is the Deep State, the federal bureaucracy, and Democrats—enemies of conservatives for other reasons, too.
Carlson appeared in 2019 on the History Channel series Ancient Aliens to say he was “starting to believe” that the U.S. government harbors UFO wreckage.
Why is this dangerous? In September, a judge found that no reasonable viewer would mistake Carlson’s program for factual. But that is a generous assumption. A 2018 Pew Research Center report found that news consumers cannot reliably distinguish between fact and opinion. And just as Barkun warned more than a decade ago, UFO conspiracy theories serve as a vector of radicalization.
Viewers become curious, start searching online, and discover a constellation of right-wing extremism. Whether it’s YouTube’s algorithms directing conspiracy fans to ever-more-extreme content, UFO researchers embracing QAnon-style conspiracies online, or Ancient Aliens star Erich von Däniken putting racist and transphobic coments in his books, the jocular cable UFO conversation is the smiling face of a nasty underbelly. Former Ancient Aliens star David Wilcock started an online spiritual movement combining QAnon, UFOs, and Donald Trump for his more than 450,000 YouTube subscribers.
In short, most people don’t treat the paranormal fringe seriously, so poisonous attitudes can seep in where mainstream journalists and scholars aren’t looking until they erupt onto the national stage. And erupt they did on Jan. 6. Many in the mob that breached the Capitol wore shirts promoting QAnon conspiracies. One of the most visible insurrectionists, Jacob Anthony Chansley, who goes by the name Jake Angeli, mounted the Senate dais shirtless in a horned headdress. He posted a video to YouTube before the company shut down his channel in which he relayed his “secret” history of the world, complete with space aliens and Egyptian pyramids, even citing History Channel regulars like author Graham Hancock by name.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
(April 22, 2021 at 9:46 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Carlson appeared in 2019 on the History Channel series Ancient Aliens to say he was “starting to believe” that the U.S. government harbors UFO wreckage.
At least some people recover and admit that they were wrong
Quote:Jesmond man who thought Covid was fake and the world was flat admits: 'I was wrong'
A man who pushed conspiracy theories on the streets of Newcastle has apologised to the city, and admitted: 'I was wrong'.
Jesmond's Lloyd Mitchell once believed that the world was flat and that 5G could cause Covid.
During the pandemic, he distributed flyers in Newcastle City Centre claiming the killer virus was fake. He also pushed claims about Bill Gates which he now realises were nonsense - after researching the "fantastic" work done by the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation with vaccines.
However he's now fighting misinformation after "re-educating" himself - and realising how dangerous his actions were.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
April 25, 2021 at 12:35 pm (This post was last modified: April 25, 2021 at 12:50 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(April 25, 2021 at 12:27 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: At least some people recover and admit that they were wrong
Quote:Jesmond man who thought Covid was fake and the world was flat admits: 'I was wrong'
I think a knee-jerk response to this sort of thing is "Of course you were wrong, dumbass."
But nothing makes me more optimistic about humanity than people overcoming their own erroneous beliefs. It takes courage to do this. Even more valuable than obtaining correct beliefs is the ability to question one's own dogmas. None of us has an inventory of completely correct beliefs.
