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The Oddness Poll

Ed

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There are a lot of wackey beliefs out there. Some are so damn odd that they seem either completely contrived or the work of the Trilateral Commission. What I would like to do is get at what we here think is the oddest.

I ask you to vote for the oddest belief system. This might be based on intrinsic oddness or that fact that there are adherents contrary to massive amounts of contradictory evidence. No matter. Treat it like a word association, what "seems" oddest? If you want to elaborate, feel free.
 
You really can't get past Scientology. I still find myself being skeptical about the stories of high clearance level 'truths'. I mean, how could anybody possibly sit and learn about such things and not just giggle?

Yes, yes..I know the whole cult 'baby step' indoctrination, but seriously, talk about absurd.

Athon
 
You really can't get past Scientology. I still find myself being skeptical about the stories of high clearance level 'truths'. I mean, how could anybody possibly sit and learn about such things and not just giggle?

Yes, yes..I know the whole cult 'baby step' indoctrination, but seriously, talk about absurd.

Athon

I had a poll, really. I saw it. 10 "oddities". I wrote them and they were there and now they are not. You gotta believe me.

Would this be a case of.............................................

Psirony?
 
I had a poll, really. I saw it. 10 "oddities". I wrote them and they were there and now they are not. You gotta believe me.

Would this be a case of.............................................

Psirony?

More likely you took more than 5 minutes to fill in all the blanks so the thing didn't let you attach the poll. It's stupid like that.
 
More likely you took more than 5 minutes to fill in all the blanks so the thing didn't let you attach the poll. It's stupid like that.

You mean there is a scientific explanation? I much prefer not looking too hard so I can comfortably, and smugly, say it is God's work.

Spoilsport.
 
Sure, Scientology is pretty strange, but they have the aliens visiting the Earth millions of years ago, the folks over here (http://www.reptilianagenda.com/hist/h031104a.shtml) believe that reptilian aliens are visiting the Earth right now and are in league with the federal government and occupy a massive city built (at taxpayers' expense) directly beneath Denver's airport!



DA: So what could all this be for?

AC: If Phil is right, and all this hooks up to the deep underground base that he was offered the plans to build back in 1979, and that what this other man told me in private that there is a lot of human slave labor in these deep underground bases being used by these aliens, and that a lot of this slave labor is children. He said that when the children reach the point that they are unable to work any more, they are slaughtered on the spot and consumed.

DA: Consumed by who?

AC: Aliens. Again, this is not from me, but from a man that gave his life to get this information out. He worked down there for close to 20 years, and he knew everything that was going on.

DA: Hmmm. Who do these aliens eat?

AC: They specifically like young human children, that haven't been contaminated like adults. Well, there is a gentleman out giving a lot of information from a source he gets it from, and he says that there is an incredible number of children snatched in this country.

DA: Over 200,000 each year.

AC: And that these children are the main entree for dinner.

Believing that there are thousands of government-sponsored, human-eating aliens living under the nation's fifth busiest airport is pretty wacky.
 
Breatharian. That one actively tries to kill people. And I guess it would take an absolute loony to believe that one can consist totally and singularly on air.
 
Any of the wierd food ones I suppose. Like the raw foodists.

The thing is, it's never 'normal' people who are into raw foods. It always shows up with 'aliens built the pyramids', or 'Kurt Cobain was assasinated by the CIA'.
 
You mean there is a scientific explanation? I much prefer not looking too hard so I can comfortably, and smugly, say it is God's work.

Spoilsport.

Okay, that counts as a weird internet belief. I was going to say Ki Sanctuary, but you had to do it.
 
Well, Marxism always struck me as downright silly.

(Except Harpo. He seemed cool.)
 
OK, it might not rate at the top of the oddness poll, but Christian Science is pretty weird stuff given the large number of Christian Science "churches" accepted as in the mainstream. Here is more info.
 
Treat it like a word association, what "seems" oddest?
Christianity.

Nothing in the catalog of wackiness compares to basing one's life on worshipping an invisible skydude who sacrificed himself to himself because he was mad at people he, himself, created. :boggled:
 
Christianity.

Nothing in the catalog of wackiness compares to basing one's life on worshipping an invisible skydude who sacrificed himself to himself because he was mad at people he, himself, created. :boggled:

Oh I don't know....... there is Mormonism, where not only do they base their life on the invisible skydude, they think he came from the planet Kolob and that when they die they get to have their own planet, (as long as they are male) complete with their own pet people and everything. I think that qualifies as odd.
 
Christanity? Mormonism? As far as religions go those two are not even in the same ballpark as Hare Krishnas.

http://science.krishna.org/Articles/2000/08/00082.html

two reasons why the moon landing was faked.

The Vedic account of our planetary system is already researched, concluded, and perfect. The Vedas state that the moon is 800,000 miles farther from the earth than the sun. Therefore, even if we accept the modern calculation of 93 million miles as the distance from the earth to the sun, how could the "astronauts" have traveled to the moon--a distance of almost 94 million miles--in only 91 hours (the alleged elapsed time of the Apollo 11 moon trip)? This would require an average speed of more than one million miles per hour for the spacecraft, a patently impossible feat by even the space scientists' calculations.


Another important reason why the manned moon landing must be a hoax is that, according to the Vedas, each planet has its particular standard of living and atmosphere, and no one can transfer from one planet to another without becoming properly qualified. This means that if someone wants to go to Mars, for instance, he has to give up his present gross material body and acquire another one suitable for life on that particular planet. Vedic knowledge teaches that the living being doesn't die with the death of the body, but that he is an eternal spirit soul. As Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita, "As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death" (Bhagavad-gita, 2.13). At the time of death the human being transfers to another material body according to the desires he cultivated and the work he performed during his lifetime. Therefore, since the moon has a particular standard of life and atmosphere, if one wants to travel there he has to adapt his material body to the conditions of that planet.

Besides, arguing about what happens after we die or what happened 2000 years ago is nowhere near as wacky as believing, as Scientologists do, that there has never in the history of modern health been a useful psychotheraputic drug. There is no way to prove that the Mormons' belief about what happens when we die is true or is false. It is however quite simple to prove the average Scientologist's beliefs as false. Or the average Hare Krishna's beliefs.
 
Christianity.

Nothing in the catalog of wackiness compares to basing one's life on worshipping an invisible skydude who sacrificed himself to himself because he was mad at people he, himself, created. :boggled:

Agreed, Christianity has it all:

Cannibalism
Beastiality (the dove humping the lady)
Zillions of murders in the name of the "skydude" while preaching compassion
Water to wine magic
So-do-mee
A self-invented antagonist (or: their Osama to their George)
The list goes on...

Wacky enough for ya?
How can 2,000,000,000+ active clients "be" wrong?
 
Christianity is the oldest absurdity in the book. It's only fun when stacked together with other oddities.
 
Wacky enough for ya?
How can 2,000,000,000+ active clients "be" wrong?
The numbers are the reason I put it at #1.

The music, however, is exquisite. Well, 18 century and prior. They even managed to screw that up.

Christian praise and worship song I heard the other day performed by a group of well-scrubbed young people:

"Deu deu-deu / deu-Deu-teronomy
Deu-deu-deu / deu-Deu-teronomy"

A real toe-tapper, to be sure!
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J.S. must be whirling dervishly in his grave.
 

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