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Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 3:12 pm
by krizrox
or whatever they call themselves......
any comments? I find this whole thing fascinating. I wonder if any of them have ever experienced the anal probe

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:27 pm
by valis
CARTMAN: "Would you stop going on about your little brother?! I KNOW it was just a dream! I KNOW I didn't have an anal probe! And I KNOW that I'm not under alien control!!!"
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:31 pm
by Spirit
I've been reading the clone stories about this cult,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2628799.stm but the "Anal probe" ?

I hate to ask, but what are you talking about ?
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 1:48 pm
by garyb
something some aliens seem to like to do to unwitting farmers,travelers and other humans...
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 2:27 pm
by eliam
They're a pathetic bunch of clowns. Let's hope they don't hurt themselves too severely, if possible...
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 1:03 am
by astroman
On 2003-01-05 12:31, Spirit wrote:
... but the "Anal probe" ?

I hate to ask, but what are you talking about ?
it's an episode from the Southpark TV cartoon
http://www.southparkstudios.com/
http://www.learnstuff.com/south-park-an ... sion-show/
the German dubbed version totally su**ed
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 1:25 am
by hubird
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 5:29 pm
by eliam
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 3:44 pm
by braincell
Clones are just a modern way of reproduction. I have no problem with it. I would like to raise a younger twin brother.
It strikes me as odd that you have to take a test before you can drive a car yet anyone is allowed to reproduce, even criminals and stupid people.
It is often said that women should not have an abortion because the baby may grow up to be another Albert Einstein. Let us not forget that the baby might grow up to be another Charles Manson or another Hittler or another Geroge Bush! If you ask me the planet (earth that is) would be better off without people, but if we must continue the race clones are people too just like you or me. We stopped evollution anyway with medicine and plastic surgery.
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 9:37 pm
by eliam
If you knew raeliens, I presume you wouldn't agree with them messing with hunan genes... I don't condemn them, they're just pathetically confused and brainwashed.
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 9:55 pm
by Spirit
On 2003-01-19 15:44, braincell wrote:
It strikes me as odd that you have to take a test before you can drive a car yet anyone is allowed to reproduce, even criminals and stupid people.
That be eugenics and it's been rather out of favour since WWII. But in essence I think it's fine: you try to improve the average health and intelligence of the population through mild incentives and disincentives for various people to breed.
That's at work in our society anyway, but in a very poor form IMHO. It's the disspirited, hopeless and generally less intellectual portion of the the population which is breeding the most.
There are also extremely few penalties against irresponsible males who simply sire children in one women after another but refuse to support them. Why should those types be the most successful breeders ?
And at the same time there's an outcry if IVF particpants want the sperm of healthy, intelligent people.
Rich and successful people - at least a portion of whom got where they are through hard work and intelligence - have no incentive to breed. But stupid people can sometimes see it as their only viable "job" and a ticket to 16 years of welfare payments.
Reversible sterilisation is the first thing I'd do to serious criminal offenders, especially since there's some evidence to suggest that there are genes for "crime" and anti-social behaviour.
I honestly see all this as quite reasonable, yet sometimes I get accused of having "nazi" views on this matter. If you think so too then please enlighten me

I can't see the harm in it . . .
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 10:23 pm
by kensuguro
I think the "punishing irresponsible stalions" part is not really nazi at all.. I mean, it's a bit different from trying to wipe out all other races because of genetic deficiency..
It is quite intersting though, as you say, that people who have more than enough time on their hands, seem to breed more often. The similarity between the successful and the unsuccessful, though, is that either way, people don't want responsibility. They either don't have kids, or have them, and try not to face the fact. Kids are becoming unwanted burdens? Then that would be a problem of the entire human race.
I mean, they don't want real kids.. who'd want cloned kids? And the world's already over populated anyway.
It's so strange.. people make all sorts of contraceptives, but research clones? As if they're trying to make sex some sort of sports, and leave reroduction for all other means? When did humans become an asexually reproducing species? LOL
Kinda OT?
As for the strange cult.. well, they can believe in whatever they want to. Sure ain't good image for cloning tho, since if their story is true, the that'll be the world's first clone baby. Definitely done by the wrong crowd of people. To me, the whole cloning business is kind of wierd. Clone lungs, hearts, bone marrow, or whatever is cool.. but an entire human being is a bit pointless. Cuz if a baby is what you want, there's always the old way to doing it. Which leaves cloning for situations where genetic accuracy is involved. And then that leaves a whole lot of marginal ways of using the technology.
I thought cloning was banned as of '97 anyway. (some sort of international agreement) Maybe my teacher lied. Cloning is useless.. you can't make a copy of yourself and transfer your brain. That's been proven not to work already. You can't chop off your arm and get a new one. Anything that does environmental adaptation (especially bones) don't work. Anything with a mixture of different types of tissues (like an arm) don't work. Yet. It'll be cool if they get the arm part done tho. Forget the brain transfer bit.. That'll probably impossible forever.
I've read NASA is doing a research on cloning meat. Like cloning serloin steaks, so they can "grow" meat in space stations without bothering with a herd of cows. Now that's realistic.
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Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 10:59 pm
by hubird
Yet I prefer
(uhh...edited, I censored myself a bit...)
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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 1:11 am
by Spirit
I read somewhere (will try to find the link) that the scientists who did the "dolly the sheep" clone says that there is a very large failure rate among clone attempts. Even worse, many clones that are born have profound genetic defects and a much shorter lifespan. The clone process is not yet perfected, they are not "exact" replicas at all.
As to bringing up a clone of myself

God help me ! That's the last thing I'd want. I live in hopeful expectation that my son will be *much* nicer than I was

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 2:37 am
by Skunker
the truth is that it's a promotion thing and every media and most people got fooled by the annoucement of the raelians, who are pretty famous now, with no evidence of anything about what they said about anything too.
congratulations....
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:28 am
by j9k
they sound pretty tame to me because i live in the land of cults. heavens gate, the circle of friends( a cover for yoga prostitutes), unarius (more respected they have been in el cajon for years and a public access show on cable), another one from hawaii showed up with something about a golden umbrella and how they were going to take over the world, the minions of L ron (which a friend of mine was a meeting coordinator), world evolution ( an outcrop of the circle of friends to promote house music and provide slave for a fat guy that wears diapers).
god i wish we had raelians here something normal. at least their slant sounds real.
j9k
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 2:26 am
by eliam
For what I know of realiens from Quebec, (not that I want to gossip or anything -I've known people who were in their "club") they have compulsory sexual syndrome, and they use to ensnare pretty young girls by telling them that if they have sex only with Rael, they will be the first to breed with the extra-terrestrial species when they arrive on Earth. That's how he build his harem. Their victims are often nice, naive persons who get trapped in their psychic net and this is really unfortunate, especially for those who are the deceivers...
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 3:15 pm
by braincell
Those young girls are no more "victims" than catholics are "victims" of the Pope. I don't find the alien story any more fantastic than jesus walking on water etc.. All religion is silly imaginary crap.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 8:26 pm
by eliam
Maybe your swollen intellect might need to learn its place. Because you don't know of a thing does not take it out of existence, and the Great Life does not wait after stubborn intellects to create and run systems of world like the one in which we have the chance to embody.
I humbly suggest a more open attitude regarding Sacred Divine Messengers who came here to show us the way out of self-annihilation. What the "religious authorities" say about it matters not, and I'm not a catholic, but it's thanks to Christic Love that our planet still supports life! Speaking about Jesus's work is something and pushing young girls into lust is a wholly different story.
I'm not upset, brother, I just speak my Heart!

Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 9:04 pm
by braincell
Oh eliam! It must be so comforting for you to have an imaginary friend in the sky watching over you.