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And see World to End in 2012 (Check Back for Updates) | LiveScience and Top 10 Crazy Cults | LiveScienceYou know what's going to happen on ( Read more... )

UFO visit will warn us about global warming, says author | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Now this is simply bullshit -- as proven by what didn't happen yesterday. But even before then, it's pretty clear this is somebody's wet wish-fulfillment dream -- and damned irresponsible.

HOW THE RELENTLESS PROMOTION OF POSITIVE THINKING HAS UNDERMINED AMERICA


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Sex Abuse Critic to Pope: Swap White Cassock for Black, Lose the Red Shoes

Before this year, when Pope Benedict XVI became best-known for his questionable record in dealing with the sexual abuse of children by priests, the pontiff often made headlines for his fastidious attention to high-end clerical fashion ( Read more... )

I just heard from someone that Shirley MacLaine, the chief guru of the New Agers, said that what has happened to the Gulf of Mexico is just humanity's way of helping Mother Earth "work out her past-life karma," and that everything will be fine if we all just "stop worrying about it." If anyone reading this has seen an article or video or whatever ( Read more... )

Robert Jay Lifton was one of the early psychologists to study brainwashing and mind control. He called the method used thought reform, and offered the following eight methods that are used to change people's minds.

Milieu controlAll communication with outside world is limited, either being strictly filtered or completely cut off. Whether it is a ( Read more... )

2012 phenomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

All of which should be highly embarrassing for the New Age community -- but won't be, because they're oblivious of anything that contradicts their mystical feeding frenzies.

. . . Earth did not spring into being in its present state; instead, it took billions of years to develop into what it is today. Similarly, it will not sustain today’s environment forever; Our planet will break down as the human body does, in a complex series of processes that can be forecast as surely as our own deaths. [We believe habitable ( Read more... )

Certainly we have shown that the conditions for the Earth’s rich diversity did not pop into being, but instead were the result of billions of years of geologic processes, the modification of the atmosphere, and evolution. A complex system has arisen in which plants and animals provide services to one another and in which photosynthesis and animal ( Read more... )

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There are so many things dead wrong with this video that I don't know where to begin. But one of the stand-outs is the assertion by the narrator that this, that, and the other thing happened in such and such a way with no evidence to back it up, such as life coming to Earth from extrasolar worlds, worlds tens or hundreds or thousands of light- ( Read more... )