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originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: Char-Lee
I would believe this much, much more if the 80's and 90's weren't rife with hoaxes relating to satanic ritual abuse. It was the "child sex predator" of the day, with all manner of innocent people being rounded up by over exhuberant detectives.
This whole satanic thing is mass hysteria. Until evidence proves otherwise.
Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation. He invented the first rocket engine to use a castable, composite rocket propellant,[1] and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets.
After a brief involvement with Marxism in 1939, Parsons converted to Thelema, the English occultist Aleister Crowley's new religious movement. In 1941, alongside his first wife Helen Northrup, Parsons joined the Agape Lodge, the Californian branch of the Thelemite Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). At Crowley's bidding, he replaced Wilfred Talbot Smith as its leader in 1942 and ran the Lodge from his mansion on Orange Grove Avenue. Parsons was expelled from JPL and Aerojet in 1944 due to the Lodge's infamy and allegedly illicit activities,
In 1945 Parsons separated from Helen after having an affair with her sister Sara; when Sara left him for L. Ron Hubbard, he conducted the Babalon Working, a series of rituals designed to invoke the Thelemic goddess Babalon to Earth. He and Hubbard continued the procedure with Marjorie Cameron, whom Parsons married in 1946.
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard (/ɛl rɒn ˈhʌˌbərd/, ell-ron-hub-ərd[2]) and often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. In 2014, Hubbard was cited by the Smithsonian magazine as one of the 100 most significant Americans of all time, as one of the eleven religious figures on that list
Hubbard would chant and invoke the spirits while Parsons and Cameron had sex.
io9.gizmodo.com...
I just don't accept claims without real evidence beyond a psychologist coaxing information from a child. This was kind of the peak of the hysteria that saw heavy metal music blamed for all manner of teen social anxiety issues and a peak in revivalist Christianity in the US. It doesn't mean its not worth digging in to. Only that ill save my shock and outrage for when they are actually warranted.
First revelations[edit]
Portuguese Judiciary Police (Polícia Judiciária) first accused the caretaker of a Casa Pia state-run children's home in 1981 of raping dozens of children over a period of 30 years, even though some reports of abuse pre-date the 1974 Carnation Revolution. Police accused the perpetrators of supplying children to men from Portugal and other countries, including to some prominent public figures in Portugal.[1] However, these early allegations did not result in any legal action.
originally posted by: Lichter daraus
a reply to: Char-Lee
All said was becarful. In my experience us children were guided and told what to say, they used fear and lies to make us say what they wanted to hear. So many families destroyed because of one sick person and Lawyer that had a lot of hate. That lawyer is still around but a divorce lawyer now. Go figure.
Peace.
originally posted by: Lichter daraus
a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn
I agree.
It was one person that actually did something he was prosecuted along with innocent people even some police.
Peace.
Speaking to Smithsonian Magazine, lead researcher Joseph Watts noted that ritual killings often occurred in elaborate ceremonies that exploited gore as effectively as an HBO show: "It's not just a matter of killing efficiently. There's more to it than that," he said. "The terror and spectacle [of the act] was maximised."
The fear that sacrifices inspired allowed the practice to function "as a stepping-stone to help build and maintain power in early hierarchical societies," Watts, a psychologist at the University of Auckland, wrote on his website. Once their authority was absolute, elites could use more traditional methods -- policing, taxation, war -- to keep the class system in place.
"People often claim that religion underpins morality," Watts told Science. But he says his study illustrates how religious rituals like human sacrifice are often designed to serve someone other than the gods: "It shows how religion can be exploited by social elites to their own benefit."
originally posted by: Char-Lee
You can't ask evidence to walk up and say hi when talking about a power that controls the world.
THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES.
originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
I am not asking people to prosecute or punish any one without due process. I am just asking them to look for the fire if there is smoke.
Children that report abuse and or sexual activity, should be believed and protected until guilt can be determined. Even if their claim is made at the prompting of another. That should be taken just as seriously, and punished just as swiftly.
Children don't have the ability to protect themselves, they have to rely on us.
None of this is ever presented. And I've worked long enough in mental health to understand that the insane can be very believable, because they believe it themselves.
That said, im arguing academics here for the most part. Your point of taking a moment to investigate each claim is spot on. But ill tell you: satanic ritual rape, if it exists, pales in comparison to Uncle Someone and what he does to his family.
That said, im arguing academics here for the most part. Your point of taking a moment to investigate each claim is spot on. But ill tell you: satanic ritual rape, if it exists, pales in comparison to Uncle Someone and what he does to his family.