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Multiple Space Jesuses: What's the Problem?
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BruceRMcF

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December 15, 2025 - 8:47 am

BJH1960 said
I’m sorry, but I won’t have any of this nonsense. I know a team of researchers, trained at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who have conclusive proof that they are unfortunately unable to disclose that the moon is of a decidedly different composition.
  

I see a rumor that an informal working group was established to to collaborate with that team at the University of Kent, arriving at a very different view regarding to composition, but the collaboration continues.

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BJH1960

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December 15, 2025 - 9:43 am

Rumors are sometimes the only hard evidence we have.

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Stephen
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December 15, 2025 - 12:55 pm

There has recently been a group of researchers in the Netherlands who have challenged the consensus that the Lunar Substance occupies the Green portion of the light spectrum. The puckish European press has dubbed them the New Gouda-ists. 

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BJH1960

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December 15, 2025 - 1:02 pm

I love that.

We can only hope for full cooperation among the various research teams.

And may they be willing to listen to all voices, not just those who know something about astronomy. 

I’m scientifically illiterate but see it as a strength not a weakness. 

My suggestion is that they begin spending time on what I have begun to call the ** you do not have permission to see this link **

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December 17, 2025 - 10:30 pm

Ron James is the Director of Media Relations for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to investigating Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs/UFOs) and related mysteries, collecting reports, and conducting research through a global network of investigators, with Ron also co-founding MUFON Television for broader UAP content.

In the Redacted interview:

Past civilizations on Mars…

Steefen:
The biblical God is the God of all civilizations on and off Earth?

Redacted Interview (continued):
mentioning the documentary film:

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BJH1960

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December 18, 2025 - 2:39 am

Sorry, but another ** you do not have permission to see this link ** full of sensationalist videos.

I could list quite a few, but I’ve got to go to my physiotherapist (frozen shoulder!), so I’ll leave you with this choice item:

Alex Jones warning to President Trump “this is an EMERGENCY!”

Who else deserves to be given more credence than the guy who claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax?

After all the rubbish I saw on YouTube yesterday and today, I can only ask those responsible for the channels what was asked of Joe McCarthy: Have you no decency?

Obviously they don’t, if they did they’d never have a video entitled:

HIGH ALERT! BONDI BEACH FALSE FLAG ATTACK AS POLICE STOOD DOWN FOR 20 MINUTES, STRATEGY OF TENSION!

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Stephen
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December 23, 2025 - 9:32 pm

It’s a real shame that the main result of all the hysterical alien tech stupidity is that people will be more disappointed by what 3I/ATLAS is not than excited by what it is. Way to go Avi! I hope it was worth it. 

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December 25, 2025 - 4:57 pm

Stephen:
all the hysterical alien tech stupidity

Steefen:
The army of the United States and the armies of other countries do not see hysteria and stupidity in the contributions of aliens.

Second, neither Voyager I nor Voyager II travel as fast as 3I/ATLAS. The technology is not stupid.

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BJH1960

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December 26, 2025 - 1:01 am

Seriously, more from Redacted?  The source that tells us that Bondi Beach was a false flag?  And here I thought that would would have been a red flag.

As for the host, let me just say for the record I would avoid buying property from ** you do not have permission to see this link ** be it in Indiana or in Portugal.

But just to be fair, I thought I’d go to ** you do not have permission to see this link ** to see what they had to say:

Overall, we rate Redacted Right Biased and Questionable based on promoting conspiracies, pseudoscience, propaganda, false claims, and failed fact checks.

As for ** you do not have permission to see this link ** really, a pickup mission?

Heriton is a space-focused channel covering the latest cosmic discoveries, astronomical events, and deep-space mysteries. All content is based on open scientific data and public research. The narrator is a fictional virtual character.

Do you have any information on the fictional virtual character’s qualifications? 

Why is nearly every video you post sensationalist and conspiratorial? 

And since year after year you’ve inundated the forum with such, isn’t it about time you let us in on who’s behind it all and their exact motivation?  I, for one, am dying to know.
 

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Robert
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December 26, 2025 - 1:05 pm
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Stephen
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December 26, 2025 - 4:34 pm

invincible ignorance

I’ve met a few of those folks, online and off.   Denialism is often mistaken for skepticism but they are not the same at all. Skepticism takes recourse in the evidence. Denialism is as irrational as credulity. 

This is why I’ve sometimes wondered if it is worse to lie to another person or to lie to oneself. The latter seems more innocent or naive, of course, but it may be a greater evil from a more systemic point of view.

I think it does more real damage. 

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BJH1960

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December 27, 2025 - 3:34 am
Invincible ignorance – what a term, and so apt.
 
You know I doubt even that proposed flight to the moon would do it.  He’d have a way of even explaining that away.
 
It’s difficult for me to understand why anyone should be so committed to such a belief. It’s not as if it brings any degree of comfort.  Maybe it’s just that they have the insight and the rest of us are damned fools.
 
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December 27, 2025 - 8:41 am

I’ll conjecture that we are witnessing the phenomenon of psychology which causes myths to be always developing around the world.

If a good number of us are afraid of crops failing, lack of water, invasion, etc. or just trying to get through the day, and some of us declare an explanation, otherwise unbelievable with enough force and conviction but little evidence, they may win the hearts and minds of the otherwise unconvinced due to persistence alone.

Once established these otherwise wild ideas become the identity of the group and are as unshakable to the group as they were to the originator.

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BJH1960

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December 27, 2025 - 10:00 am

I do think that many conspiracies arise because people are looking for an easy explanation, and for certain, once adopted, it is a real part of their identity, and thus the reluctance to part with the idea, even if it is utterly bonkers.

The belief we didn’t land on the moon, however, seems to be driven primarily by distrust in established institutions.

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December 27, 2025 - 10:37 am
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Stephen
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December 27, 2025 - 9:45 pm

Would I be exaggerating to point out that religion is simply the greatest conspiracy theory of all?

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December 27, 2025 - 9:55 pm
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December 27, 2025 - 10:10 pm

Is this the woo thread? It looks like the woo thread.

 

So I’ve never sat down and channeled on Bible stuff, the Gospel’s ‘puzzles’ are just what I do to relax. I did find a person with my ‘rare’ yoga name as a surname and their birthday coinciding with my birthday in Cayce’s past life readings. In Cayce lore that person is supposed to be a not front-facing person in the First Century – the sister to the Luke-Acts author. I still didn’t care. I just started doing the ‘puzzling’ because I had time.

Channeling/meditating/praying/intentionality I reserve for real-life stuff. Well, I decided I had the energy to channel on this about last week. And finally figured out what this person’s first name meant with the help of AI. It is simply the proper First Century Greco-Roman vowel change for Nammu

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December 27, 2025 - 10:52 pm

So anyway, I didn’t channel before that but I did go off of Star Wars hahahaaaa

Lucas utilizes Joseph Campbell’s the Hero’s Journey as a monomyth, but I found an interview where he had consulted with something called the Theosophical Society. So the monomyth:

Anakin = Anakim “Giant” 

Luke= “Light bringer”

Leia = “L Ea”

Chewbacca: “Hairy One” Lahmu

Han Solo = idk

Jabba = literal piece of shit

C-3PO = golden god

Ben = “Son” (a Son training Luke to be a Son)

Tusken raiders = Bedouin

Jedi= Yadai, Mandaean for “Knowers”

Naboo = Nabu, Nabataea

Death Star = Matarta, the Mandaean purgatories in the way of the stars

And Gemini AI wants to tell me they’re flying The Way (the astral stations of the Mandaeans where they must do a lil battle). It says that Star Wars tracks the gnostic myth “Hymn of the Pearl”

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December 28, 2025 - 3:20 pm

Can you tell us more about what channelling entails?

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