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Then I'm afraid we're going to have to agree to disagree.
Originally posted by undo
reply to post by ThreeNF
Then I'm afraid we're going to have to agree to disagree.
Has it made any difference?
Since the 70's over 150,000,000 female children have been aborted or murdered after birth in China, as a result of the One Child Policy. It's destroying their society. The end result of not applying moral imperative
to any question related to human society, is that it eventually has drawbacks
that are unforeseen by those making the decisions, either deliberately as a form of social engineering or as the result of our inability to see the big picture. Regarding the passage of time, we are complete idiots.
I don't agree with your point of view, nor do I think it can possibly provide any value added to society, which is what I'm sure you'll say about my point of view
Originally posted byThreeNF
We don't "worship" sex and it certainly isn't how one defines a Raelian.
Originally posted byThreeNF
I think the problem is that most people are sexually REPRESSED, because society, churches, etc. tell you it's wrong. Stupid. To be sexually "obsessed" means your body and mind are functioning correctly.
The term "sexual addiction" is used to describe the behavior of a person who has an unusually intense sex drive or an obsession with sex. Sex and the thought of sex tend to dominate the sex addict's thinking, making it difficult to work or engage in healthy personal relationships.
Sex addicts engage in distorted thinking, often rationalizing and justifying their behavior and blaming others for problems. They generally deny they have a problem and make excuses for their actions.
Originally posted by Bigwhammy
reply to post by ThreeNF
Originally posted byThreeNF
We don't "worship" sex and it certainly isn't how one defines a Raelian.
I think you do. As evidenced by...
Originally posted byThreeNF
I think the problem is that most people are sexually REPRESSED, because society, churches, etc. tell you it's wrong. Stupid. To be sexually "obsessed" means your body and mind are functioning correctly.
To be sexually "obsessed" does not mean your body and mind are functioning correctly unless you are an adolescent. For an adult, it means you are a sexually obsessed or addicted as defined below.
The term "sexual addiction" is used to describe the behavior of a person who has an unusually intense sex drive or an obsession with sex. Sex and the thought of sex tend to dominate the sex addict's thinking, making it difficult to work or engage in healthy personal relationships.
Sex addicts engage in distorted thinking, often rationalizing and justifying their behavior and blaming others for problems. They generally deny they have a problem and make excuses for their actions.
www.medicinenet.com...
edit: I apologize pervert was the wrong word. I changed it to sexual obsession/addiction
[edit on 4/10/2008 by Bigwhammy]
Originally posted by undo
I don't agree with your point of view, nor do I think it can possibly provide any value added to society, which is what I'm sure you'll say about my point of view
True, however, I'm hoping beyond hope that someone intelligent enough (such as yourself) is capable of doing the math. The principles of "religion" are primarily about rising above the situation in which your life and your spirit is couched. Yes? We are more than simply biological beings, we are also sentient beings and capable of acting on more than pure instinct.
I never understand why some people get jealous when they see someone they love, loving another person.
Originally posted by Bigwhammy
reply to post by ThreeNF
I never understand why some people get jealous when they see someone they love, loving another person.
I am not sure what you mean by loving. I do not think I define love the way you do. It sounds like you are pleased by your spouse of significant other sleeping with other people then?
Bigwhammy
There is a conspiracy to replace belief in God and the human soul with the belief we are the product of Alien scientists, substituting "aliens" for God.
Originally posted by ThreeNF
Are you saying that some people don't belong, or aren't worthy of your religion? I hope I'm reading that wrong
I won't get angry if it happens, yes. That's because I don't see love and sex as the same thing. Everyone should love everyone, regardless of sex, color, race, etc. If everyone loved each other like they love their own children, we would be much better off!
Sex on the other hand is just physical play. I believe I mentioned this before. If my spouse decided to have sex with another person and it made them happy, then yes, I would be pleased (happy) for the both of them. There is simply no valid reason for me to be angry or jealous about it. It's there bodies and their experience!
news.bbc.co.uk...
Promiscuity 'fuelling HIV spread'
More needs to be done to persuade people to have fewer sexual partners, according to leading HIV experts.
They said encouraging people to have fewer partners would result in fewer HIV infections.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said little effort has gone in to tackling the issue in recent years.
They said the message appears to have been lost, as campaigns put the emphasis on abstaining from sex or using condoms.
The experts, who include officials from the Global Fund for Aids, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the US Agency for International Development, said efforts in some countries to address the issue had paid off.
Raelians don't agree with today's concept of marriage because it creates a contract between two people who will eventually feel forced to love each other because of that contract. People are living beings who are bound to change because they are alive. It doesn't make any sense to sign a life long contract that says I'll only be with you for the rest of my life. Soon science will extend the lifespan of humans, possibly by many, many years. Does it really make sense to stay with the same person for say 100 years?
Raelian couples do exist and there are celebrations for "marriages", but it isn't a life long contract. It's just simply an agreement between the couple at that time. However, at any time the couple begins to feel the harmony between them disappear, they will separate. We call this a Raelian divorce and there is a celebration for it as well This is because Raelians are smart enough to understand that it doesn't make any sense to stay together and be miserable, but rather part at a time when the memories of their time together are happy memories. Unfortunately, many traditional couples will stay together because of that artificial contract, even when children are involved. They think by doing so that it will be better for the children, but in reality it's far worse because the child will be exposed to constant bickering, hostility, etc. It's better for the child to be with only 1 parent and in harmony, rather than with both parents in discord.
Originally posted by Bigwhammy
Oh it sounds so “evolved”. You expect us to believe that if your lover where to sleep with someone else it would not hurt your feelings? I have lived long enough and observed human behavior enough to not believe you.
Originally posted by Bigwhammy
Sex is so much more than “play.” Sex was designed by God for the propagation of the human race and to be an expression of love inside a marriage, between husband and wife. It carries heavy baggage as undo has already tried to show you. You think that birth control makes you immune, but it often fails. It also doesn’t prevent many STDs . It is also powerless against the psychological and moral decay that results from promiscuity.
Originally posted by ThreeNF
Why should it? The reason why people feel that way today is because we've been brainwashed into thinking that way since they day we were born. Everywhere you look (TV, books, movies) etc., will always portray a person getting angry when their "significant other" is sniffing around. Stupid! So the anger or hurt feelings is simply a reaction (thinking with the back of the brain) due to neuronal connections created by the media, church, society, etc. Unfortunately, once those connections are in place it is very hard to break them. Use your consciousness, the front part of brain! Train it! Meditate! Then you'll begin to experience happiness in a completely different way
Originally posted by Bigwhammy
I can see cloning happening already... accelerated growth can probably be done with hormones and the like. But this "mind transfer" is another matter entirely.
Originally posted by Bigwhammy
Originally posted by ThreeNF
Why should it? The reason why people feel that way today is because we've been brainwashed into thinking that way since they day we were born. Everywhere you look (TV, books, movies) etc., will always portray a person getting angry when their "significant other" is sniffing around. Stupid! So the anger or hurt feelings is simply a reaction (thinking with the back of the brain) due to neuronal connections created by the media, church, society, etc. Unfortunately, once those connections are in place it is very hard to break them. Use your consciousness, the front part of brain! Train it! Meditate! Then you'll begin to experience happiness in a completely different way
You are the ones engaged in brainwashing. That's what "Train it!" means. What you are advocating is morally bankrupt behavior. It is not a new or original idea. Ancient Greece and Rome tried similar experiments. Historically it always results in the destruction of the cultures that embrace it. You think you are evolving your concisenesses but it is exactly the opposite, you are devolving. You are behaving like wild animals. Most of them have indiscriminate sex.
Although they are not necessarily faithful Gibbon apes, wolves, termites, coyotes, barn owls, beavers, bald eagles, golden eagles, condors, swans, brolga cranes, French angel fish, sandhill cranes, pigeons, prions (a seabird), red-tailed hawks, angler fish, ospreys, prairie voles (a rodent), and black vultures are all animals that mate for life.
I like to think humans are capable of a little more than a black vulture. Black vultures discourage infidelity. Any other vultures in the vicinity will attack a vulture caught in infidelity.
source
Originally posted by Conspiriology
I was married to clone cult leader Rael 15 years. He wrecked my life and our children's
The ex-wife of the 'alien messenger' who claims to have cloned human babies reveals how he abused and brainwashed his own family
I was married to clone cult leader Rael 15 years. He wrecked my life and our children's ; The ex-wife of the 'alien messenger' who claims to have cloned human babies reveals how he abused and brainwashed his own family
Fighting back the tears as she perches anxiously on the edge of the sofa in her remote French Alpine chalet, it is still hard for Marie-Paul Cristini to express her anger and disgust at her 15-year marriage to sinister sect leader Claude Vorilhon - the man who claims to have cloned humans.
Even 17 years after their divorce, raw emotions at the way he abused and corrupted her and their two children are just under the surface. The mention of the word 'Rael' makes her tremble with loathing.
Spitting out the words, she says: 'He destroyed my life and our children's lives. They were so young and innocent. They should never have been exposed to the debauched and wicked things that went on in our home.' Marie-Paul, now an elegant 57-year-old woman living as a virtual recluse, tells how Vorilhon brought home hundreds of young women to have sex with during their marriage.
She witnessed nude gatherings in the living room and says she was treated as a servant while he brainwashed their preteen children into believing he was a divine messenger for an alien race.
She says: 'The kids believed him . . . they'd had it drummed into them since before they could talk. What he did to them was hateful - he devastated their lives. No child should be expected to witness adult nudity and exist in an environment so close to people having orgies.' For 15 years after their divorce in 1985, Marie-Paul's daughter Aurore, now 30, and son Ramuel, 28, refused to have anything to do with her. Only in the past two years has she resumed contact with them and rebuilt her own life free of the clutches of the sect.
Not content with all this amateur whoring, Rael also has an actual subgroup of real-life whores called Rael's Girls made up solely of woman who work in the sex industry. If this whole religion sounds like some insanely clever man's diabolical plan to wear pajamas all day and (have sex with) really gullible women then, congratulations, you may qualify to enter the inner sanctum. Membership numbers indicate followers in the tens of thousands, most of whom were probably swayed in no way by the religion having its own skank squad.
www.nuvo.net...
Sensual meditation. Nudity. A group of beautiful women, Raelian Guides, called “angels” who surround Rael in the hopes of summoning the Elohim back down to Earth.
According to Grescoe, "Raël's success seems to derive from providing a structured environment for decadent behavior: He offers a no-guilt playground for hedonism and sexual experimentation."
Cult leader Rael denied residence in Switzerland
Geneva, Switzerland - Cult leader Rael, who shot to media prominence in 2002 by claiming to have cloned a human being, has been denied residence in Switzerland for fear of endangering public morals, authorities said.
Rael, a French citizen whose real name is Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon, had sought residence in the Canton Valais in the southwest of Switzerland, where he wished to carry out "commercial activities" in a local vintners.
The Valais authorities refused his application because many of his views are at odds with the Swiss constitution, notably his approach to children and sexuality.
Rael preaches a doctrine of "complete sexual liberty" and believes parents should show their children how to obtain sexual pleasure, "which by its nature can lead to sexual deviance with under-age children," the authorities said in a statement.
Human cloning is also legally forbidden in Switzerland.
Rael, who claims to have some 50,000 followers around in the world, said in a brief statement he was considering an appeal at a European level.