Literary critic Camille Paglia talks about the vacuity of contemporary culture, why the university system is broken, and how a growing focus on sex and sexual identities indicates the West is in decline. She explains that all leaders should serve in the military so they know war is hell and don't get us entangled in pointless adventures abroad, and also that the Left is totally divorced from the realities of the working class. A wonderful interview.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Cults: Mormonism
Two videos, both produced by former Mormons. The first is a short primer on what Mormons actually believe, including God once being a mortal man from another planet who only later became God, spirit children being transported to Earth to live in human bodies, and becoming gods to rule over your own alien planets. Runs 4 minutes.
In the next video a former temple worker proposes a challenge as to what exactly will count for evidence that Mormonism is a fraud perpetrated by Joseph Smith and his successors. Runs 13:40.
In the next video a former temple worker proposes a challenge as to what exactly will count for evidence that Mormonism is a fraud perpetrated by Joseph Smith and his successors. Runs 13:40.
Cults: How Mind Control Works
Former Mormon and physician Joshua (last name unclear) explains how cults employ mind control using the BITE model (Behavior control, Information control, Thought control, Emotional control) of Steven Hassan, famous cult expert. He explains the specifics with examples from Moromonism: how they control what you can, and cannot read, who you can and cannot interact with, what you can wear and eat, lies they tell about doctrine until you are higher level initiates, and exhausting members with constant activities. Runs 29 minutes.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Cults: Scientology
Another hour long documentary, Secrets of Scientology, in which former top brass within the church blow the lid off its devious nature. Any thinking human already knows Scientology is an admitted scam invented by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard to make loads of tax-free money.
The people in this video still believe in the doctrine of Scientology, but they reject the authority of the Church of Scientology, which is an evil, monolithic entity that seeks to control the lives of all its current and former members. They wish to start a reformation within the religion to turn it into something legitimate instead of a cult bent on gaining money and political influence.
The people in this video still believe in the doctrine of Scientology, but they reject the authority of the Church of Scientology, which is an evil, monolithic entity that seeks to control the lives of all its current and former members. They wish to start a reformation within the religion to turn it into something legitimate instead of a cult bent on gaining money and political influence.
Cults: Jehovah's Witnesses
I'm beginning a new series on cults. A cult, as I will define it, is a political organization that masquerades as a religion, has a highly secretive structure and promises revelation of secret knowledge for ever increasing amounts of money (tithing), isolates members from their families and the outside world, is highly litigious, says that all other religions are wrong, or evil, and promises to correct all the errors with knew knowledge, uses brainwashing tactics on its members, and presents a view of the world and religious facts that is obviously wrong. The three main cults I will focus on are the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, and Scientology. They all have pretty much the same structure, and, as we will see, both Mormonism and Scientology are forms of ET religion with very similar cosmologies.
To begin the series here is an hour long documentary film Witnesses of Jehovah.
The Watchtower has made about 20 "prophecies" of the exact date of the end of the world over the past 200 years that have all failed. They say that only 144,000 of their select Jehovah's Witness members will go to Heaven, and they've all already gone there so Heaven is completely full already. The Bible itself says that the 144,000 are all from the 12 tribes of Israel, so they are ALL Jews. The Bible also says way more people will go to Heaven than just that handful of Jews. Their doctrine blatantly contradicts all the stuff that is definitely true or at least probably true about the Bible. In fact, if Jesus said it you can be sure The Watchtower teaches the exact opposite. Jehovah's Witnessism is fake.
To begin the series here is an hour long documentary film Witnesses of Jehovah.
The Watchtower has made about 20 "prophecies" of the exact date of the end of the world over the past 200 years that have all failed. They say that only 144,000 of their select Jehovah's Witness members will go to Heaven, and they've all already gone there so Heaven is completely full already. The Bible itself says that the 144,000 are all from the 12 tribes of Israel, so they are ALL Jews. The Bible also says way more people will go to Heaven than just that handful of Jews. Their doctrine blatantly contradicts all the stuff that is definitely true or at least probably true about the Bible. In fact, if Jesus said it you can be sure The Watchtower teaches the exact opposite. Jehovah's Witnessism is fake.
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