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In reply to the discussion: What's the craziest fucking woo you've ever heard? [View all]frogmarch
(12,226 posts)58. John Lear’s insane babblings
His father, Bill Lear, founded Learjet.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/john-lear.htm
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In recent years new and even wilder strains of paranoia have sprouted along ufology's fringes. Inspiration comes not just from UFO rumors but from conspiracy theories associated with the far right end of the political spectrum. The two major figures in what has been called the "dark side movement" are John Lear, a pilot who once flew aircraft for a CIA-linked company, and Milton William Cooper, a retired Navy petty officer.
According to dark siders, a ruthless "secret government" controls the world. Among other nefarious activities, it runs the international drug trade and has unleashed AIDS and other deadly diseases as population-reducing measures. Its ultimate goal is to turn the Earth and surrounding planets into slave-labor camps. For some time this secret government has been in contact with alien races, allowing the aliens to abduct human beings in exchange for advanced alien technology.
The aliens, known as the "grays" (because of their gray skin color), do more than abduct human beings. They mutilate and eat them as well, using the body parts to rejuvenate themselves. The secret government and the aliens labor together in vast underground bases in New Mexico and Nevada, where they collect human and animal organs, drop them into a chemical soup, and manufacture soulless android creatures. These androids, who are then unleashed to do dirty work for the government/alien conspiracy, are best known to the rest of us as the men in black.With each retelling, with the appearance of each new and expensive book, video, or tape, the dark-side story gets crazier.
In one version the conspirators travel into the future to observe the emergence of the anti-Christ in the 1990s, World War III in 1999, and the Second Coming of Christ in 2011. George Bush oversees the world's drug traffic. The secret government has maintained bases on Mars since the early 1960s. The conspirators employ drugs and hypnosis to turn mentally unstable individuals into mass murderers of schoolchildren and other innocents; the purpose is to spur anti-gun sentiment, resulting in gun-control legislation. Thus, Americans will be disarmed and defenseless when the secret government's storm troopers round them up and herd them into concentration camps.
Can anyone top that?
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From those I have known in person when I was often associating with religious cults...
ZombieHorde
Jan 2012
#11
It means, we live on the inside of a hollow sphere with the rest of the universe at the center.
DetlefK
Jan 2012
#34
That a person was dead for three days, buried in a tomb, came back alive, then ascended to heaven.
cleanhippie
Jan 2012
#46
He offers 1000 bucks to anybody who can disprove his "theory" which is just rantings and insults.
DetlefK
Mar 2012
#56
He also claims -1 x -1= +1 to be wrong, which means he doesn't understand geometry.
DetlefK
Mar 2012
#57
Single male god in charge of universe; invisible hand of the market creates best possible world.
JackRiddler
May 2012
#73
Something about all plants mutating because some individual plants mutate, right? nt
daaron
Jun 2012
#94
Sheldrake also claims one person solving a problem makes it easier for anyone else.
SwissTony
Jun 2012
#100
I wish I could believe in the supernatural but I've always been a skeptic,
beam me up scottie
Oct 2012
#117