Yes, I know my title is the same as a Carly Simon song, but please don't hold my dire musical tastes against me.
I digress. I was posting on
another thread which was about Scientology, which is a
Cult that has always held great interest to me as it was the first proper cult I ever researched in my younger years and it got me hooked on the
subject matter, especially cult leaders themselves and the way they create "reality" for their followers.
Anyway, now that the background stuff is out of the way, here is the actual post I made that made me start thinking:
Originally posted by revmoofoo I really like this: No doubt you are familiar with the Revelations section of the Bible where
various events are predicted. Also mentioned is a brief period of time in which an archenemy of Christ, referred to as the Antichrist, will reign and
his opinions will have sway. All this makes for very fantastic, entertaining reading but there is truth in it. This Antichrist represents the forces
of Lucifer (literally, the "light bearer" or "light bringer"), Lucifer being a mythical representation of the forces of enlightenment, the Galactic
Confederacy. My mission could be said to fulfill the Biblical promise represented by this brief Antichrist period. During this period there is a
fleeting opportunity for the whole scenario to be effectively derailed, which would make it impossible for the mass Markabian landing (Second Coming)
to take place. The Second Coming is designed, among other things, to trigger a rapid series of destructive events.
Source Sound familiar? Move a couple of bits around,
change a few names and what do we have? Delusions of grandeur still evident today in people like David Wilcox and the like. Same old stories, same
old gullible victims. Shame on us all for believing junk like this at some point in our lives. lol Rev
And
this is the Scientology document I was quoting from
above.
So what I was thinking/wondering was why do people continue to believe re-hashed versions of the above when they are so obviously just old stories
being changed and retold to fit a purpose? (like the story of Christ and how the same stories about a "god-man" appear in many other cultures, but
pre-date Christianity)
Why are we so gullible so often? And why is it that some of us never learn our lesson and keep believing this regurgitated garbage? I'm being very
broad with the whole "we" thing by the way, so please don't take that as me me calling everyone in the world stupid and gullible. lol
I've kind of forgotten exactly where I was going, so like anyone who's forgotten what they were saying, I'm going to take this opportunity to open the
topic up to the floor...
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I just remembered where I was going with all of this. It's not just religion where this happens. We hear the same re-hashed stories about aliens,
disclosure, UFO's, the Occult, etc and here we are (being "broad" again with the we thing) lapping it up like the sheeple we spend our lives trying
not to be.
I know that we're all looking for our own personal saviour/leader/mentor in one way or another, it could even be argued that the search for truth will
always involve such things, but in this age of information it is inexcusable for any of us to constantly have (or be so desperate in our search that
we almost "want" to have) the wool pulled over our eyes the way so many of us often do here on ATS. Someday's, it feels like we're inviting ignorance
round for a tea-party.
That's where I was going...kinda. lol
Rev
edit on 21/11/2011 by revmoofoo because: Just remembered the other bits.
