(LAS VEGAS, Nv) -- The Raelian Movement is announcing plans to build a UFOland in Las Vegas where visitors can attend a Happiness Academy and see a full-size replica of a UFO.
Raelians believe that humanity was created by extraterrestrial scientists and they want to share their belief with visitors to Las Vegas. They will also host a museum and a 1000-seat theatre where their spiritual leader, Rael, will give lectures.
"The museum will display all the evidence we've gathered for the past 35 years that shows ,we were indeed created by scientists -- highly advanced human beings from another planet," said Ricky Roehr, leader of the North American Raelian Movement.
He said he expects the UFOland to become one of the most popular destinations in Las Vegas within the next five years.
There is no word on where UFOland will be built.
Why don't they just call themselves a Babylonian Mythology Cult and get it over with?
There is no word where it will be built, yet they just told us it's going to be in Las Vegas.
Ra=Sun, El=Saturn (add 'em up and he's claiming to be Osiris)... Judging from my personal talks with others on the subjects of ancient gods, I don't think I would be too comfortable speaking with any of these people with their hard-set beliefs.
The difference between us and Raelians is, we make this shit look good. There's a big difference between seeing Creator God as a group of alien eugenicists, and seeing the Creator God as a divine, formless being which we manifest into as humans in order to experience ourselves and consciousness as a whole.
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Maybe because "Babylonian Mythology Cult" is Fundie-bullshit codetalk for "anything that is not inside my church doors." That includes the other church of the same exact denomination across town, those heathen apostates.
Seriously, this guys are just media clowns. Maybe one day they'll become holy fools...
I'm goin' to RaeLLand.... and you not!
I'm not a fundie by any stretch of the imagination (or am I, and I'm simply not aware of my own mind's workings?), I only made the Babylonian link because there's that whole scientist alien/gods approach going on with them. I'd sure like to think we're not just some alien's lab experiment. That seems to be the mindset of most religious types, and even some atheists, surprisingly. I didn't even know "babylonian mythology cult" was a code term or anything. I don't pay much attention to the fundies...
Whoooa Chris! Easy tiger!
Someones ready for revolution.
Its a f$%ked up cult for sure. But I agree there symbolism is righteous.
I know its kinda obvious but doesn't Rael look like his 'counter part Picard' from Heaven's Gate...
I like SOME Star Trek but come on already. Hearing about how some people didn't like the movie is fine...but hearing why is what surprises me.
There is something about the alien creator god thing that makes me feel as if we have no origin to return to. It's too complex. For some reason, I think that time travel is indeed possible, and all those references to extraterrestrial life were placed there by a group which has somehow managed to pop up all throughout history (time travel would explain this), let's call them the "Magi", and the current state of things makes me wonder if they are currently operating in this time period as well, playing with the DNA code and creating star-gates... Kind of sounds like that old "Satan put the dinosaur bones there to trick us" thing, doesn't it?
The most powerful future world controllers placed a couple of their own back in time, to grow like a tree (bloodline), in order to maintain control even before they existed, thus giving them a god-like power. Doesn't mean they're aliens, just means they're psychotic people obsessed with power who simply bought the technology necessary to do this sort of thing before it was even underground. They didn't create us, they are attempting to destroy the idea of God in our minds by killing our dreams, through the fundamentalist movement/most religions.
Jon - He just looks like a crazy man wearing a puffy vest to me. Haven't seen the new Star Trek movie yet...
I don't think Intervention Theory makes aliens into "creators"- interventionists, more like. I still believe in the Divine Spark within and think that's the meaning of being made of the prima materia of Creation.
That's where the mystical traditions come in- finding the spark within and tuning out the noise from the manipulators outside. This is the original impulse behind the monastic and Hermetic traditions- and something the corporate religions are constantly trying to interfere with.
Well, the Raelians seem to be implying that we are entirely the product of Alien Intervention and we are 100% modeled after them (I haven't read any of their stuff so I'm probably wrong, but I can see that being the case). Alien Intervention is possible, but I kind of see it as a bad thing, and the "interventionists" probably shouldn't be worshipped as gods. When I think "alien intervention", I think of Sumerian mythology, and the implications of that whole thing taken seriously.
To be honest it hurts my brain to think that far back, so I will stick with "Divine Essence Materialized to Experience Itself" for now (which is what the mystery schools probably taught at first through their mystic teachings, but were then altered and such through intervention, I am certain there are "dark spirits" btw), and all the alien stuff as a sort of distraction (but a really interesting distraction nonetheless, considering all the UFOs in art throughout history)
The fact that mushroom spores can travel through space can also explain alien intervention... Chimps eat the new mushrooms, become confused, think they're somehow better than every other creature, yet evolve through the "spark" attained through the psychedelic experience.
I used to be a full-on believer of AI theory, but it opens your mind to some really scary spiritual traps and whatnot... There is such a place as hell, and you can think yourself into it.
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