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A very sincere message to my fellow homo sapiens.

6 years ago

"Rev. Chris Korda confronted an alien intelligence known as The Being who speaks for the inhabitants of Earth in other dimensions. The Being warned that our planet's ecosystem is failing, and that our leaders deny this. The Being asked why our leaders lie to us, and why so many of us believe these lies."

Into the face of the young man who approached me at five past noon, there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces some sinister secret is to be shared. Wordlessly, he beckoned me with a flap of his hand and pressed a scrap of paper into my palms. An address, not one of the physical kind - but one that leads to a certain website, was carelessly scrawled into the parchment. I queried him, asking for the nature of his enterprise, and was answered by a frantic gesture towards my computer. Puzzled and beleaguered, I acted upon his insinuations and tapped away at the search bar. It was then, that I discovered THE CHURCH OF EUTHANASIA [NSFW].

It is an inconvenient truth, that us humans attempt to smother beneath their selfish affirmations, that our actions will doom this planet to fire and brimstone. This raises the question, not of 'who is to blame', but of why we are to blame - and what should be our next course of action? I will elaborate on the first question before I proceed.

Edward O. Wilson proposes the profound theory, that intelligence snuffs itself out. He solves Fermi's paradox: we don't receive messages from the stars because by the time an alien life form has enough power to transmit that far, it's already on the threshold of annihilating itself, and the odds of its brief blaze of glory lining up with ours are infinitesimal. This is closely related to the view that life (particularly human life) creates short-term order at the cost of accelerating the entropy of its environment, in stark contrast to the idealistic Gaia theory. Antihumanism, is the answer. 

Antihumanism can be usefully contrasted with humanism. Humanism derives from the ancient Greek notion that man is the measure of all things, and that without human existence nothing would have value. Concealed within this is the assumption that only humans experience value. This assumption has no basis in biology, but is nonetheless one of the pillars of modern civilization, because it provides justification for extermination of other species. The denial of intrinsic value to nonhuman life is the essence of speciesism, and is closely related to the dogma of dominion, i.e. that it's man's destiny to subjugate all other living things. Human monoculture and its destructive nature is the crucible for our regression as a species.

The central paradox of antihumanism is that humans evolved, and are therefore no more or less natural than any other living thing. Stephen Jay Gould argued convincingly that evolution doesn't converge on anything except fitness for conditions: there are no good or bad organisms, just ones that survive, and mostly ones that don't. Richard Dawkins went even further and described organisms as mere transport for genes, in which case the DNA we share with all other eukaryotes is the winner, regardless of what humans do. One proposed resolution is that humans are malignant life, as argued by A. Kent MacDougall in Humans As Cancer. This sidesteps the problem however, because cancer is also natural, and closely related to viruses. The higher-order question is ethical: why is malignancy bad, and from what point of view is its badness determined?

The paradox of human naturalness could possibly be resolved by arguing that sentience is not intelligence but the ability to feel pain and pleasure. What distinguishes humans from other primates is the existential suffering that results from self-knowledge, particularly fear of death. Since humans have such capacity for suffering, we should have equally developed empathy, but instead we succumb to corruption, creating hellish conditions for humans and nonhumans alike. Thus despite our naturalness, humans can and should be blamed for wrecking the planet, precisely because we're capable of feeling remorse for having done so. If we're unable to reform ourselves, as seems increasingly to be the case, we should have the decency to step aside and give other organisms a chance. Apes might re-evolve back into us, but they might not, and either way it won't be our fault.

Onto, the latter issue - and more importantly - the issue of what should be our course of action. It is simple. Thou shalt not procreate. Achieving species consciousness is key to this One Commandment, and the only way we can achieve species consciousness is to eliminate history, and free ourselves from the malicious tyranny of our 'leaders'. Jeremy Rifkin explains.

"How do we leap in consciousness to species politics, how do we go beyond the rhetoric? First of all, we can't have cheap grace. You know what cheap grace is? Any neo-orthodox Christian philosophers, theologians? Okay, I'll give you the cheap version of cheap grace, you ready? You go to a Jimmy Swaggart rally. The guy got caught again, didn't he? (laughs) You go to a Jimmy Swaggart rally, and afterwards you're so moved by his eloquence you say "I have been saved." And the next morning you go out there in the driveway and there's the BMW, you stick that little bumper sticker on the bumper "Honk If You Love Jesus." You don't fight the powers and principalities, you don't bear witness to the coming of the kingdom, we don't walk in the footsteps of Jesus, we don't minister to the poor, God forbid, we don't re-distribute our wealth and commit ourselves to Jubilee, we just honk, honk, honk if we love Jesus, you know people like that? (cheers, applause) ... alright, you know these people.

Ha, ha, some of your friends ... okay. Cheap grace and the body politic. Is it tempting to isolate out these great environmental and human tragedies, as if they could be neatly addressed through legislative initiatives? Electing the right people to office. Committing ourselves to a covenant or charter. These crises cannot be dealt with or addressed until we are willing to do battle with the world view that gave rise to them. That's what's missing at the Summit at Rio. That's what's missing at the official Summit at Rio. I sat in a room, I shouldn't tell you this, but I'll let you in on this, I sat in a room ... for four days, three years ago, on the first little planning session on Rio. With Maurice Strong and about twenty-five people. Not one word at that meeting about changing world views.

A world view is a world view when you don't know it's a world view. A way of thinking that's so embedded into the psychology of a species or a culture that we never challenge it, we never question it, yet it's world views that dictate our policies ... that motivate our politicians, that underwrite our institutional foundation. Let me give you an example. Anybody here have a, ah, and keep thinking the global and human environmental crisis, anybody here have a digital watch? A digital watch. Okay, let me, what's you name? Shawn, let me see that watch, if that's the right one for me. Absolutely. Thank you. Alright.

Keep thinking world views, and keep thinking global structures, now here's Shawn's watch, here's mine, what do you see on my dial that you don't have on Shawn's. Circle. You know if I were to come down here from another galaxy and I landed in this room at the Marriott, first stop, homo sapiens. Cute. But I don't know a thing about you, first thing I'd say is "show me your timepieces." If I know how you keep time, I'm going to know more about you ... than any other part of your social experience. Time is the most intimate part of our consciousness. Yet, it is the most important part of cementing social relationships. St. Augustine, the great schoolman of the church, once mused, "What is time? I know what it is," he said, "until you ask me." So I have a circle on my watch, and what's going on on the watch, we've got what else on that watch? Hands. And what are they doing? Which way? Good. (laughs) I had a student at a university two years ago who said "counterclockwise." (more laughs) My watch has a circle on it, the hands are going clockwise, and they relate to what? Right. The sun, the rotation of the Earth, the Circadian reference of the solar day, the last faint reminder that for eons of time, we measured time, in terms of our indebtedness to, the larger Earth rhythms that we are a part of. And if anyone ever asks you at a cocktail party "How do you know we're part of an organism?" Easy.

Below our spatial reality, below the atoms, below the DNA, there is a temporal reality they have not even been able to understand. And in every species, there are biological clocks, more than we can ever count. And we're learning, that they are totally in synchronization, with the Circadian day, the lunar month, as in the menstruation cycles, the Circannual rhythms, men and women, all species, are totally temporally, rhythmically synchronized to the rotation of the Earth in the universe. An accident of history? Darwinian trial and error?

If a civilization nails its time span to the moment, and loses a sense of history and the future, does that have any relationship to the global environmental crisis, enclosure, and the human crisis on the planet? Eliminate history, eliminate obligations, covenants, contracts. Eliminate history and my time is not spoken for; I can have pure power in a vacuum. That's what Big Brother did. He remade history every day to suit the expediency of the political moment. And our kids have a little saying, are there any people here under twenty? ... That should say something to us, we've got to get moving here, anyone under twenty? The young people have a saying, if they want to dismiss someone, they'll say "hey man, you're ... " What's the other one, "hey man you're ... " History. Because history doesn't exist for them. Eliminate history ... eliminate continuity ... between the generations. And narrow the time span ... can we then steward the future? Shawn? Where are you? Have you been born again? Shall we bury this out at the Marriott Hotel in a kind of ceremony? (applause) Thanks. Alright.

World views. Alright, I'm going to try something, with you folks. This is a little sleazy way to learn, but, I'm going to try it anyway. Are you ready? One dollar. One dollar. See if you can get this. If I were to say to you what value has emerged in the last ... how many have heard me speak in the last three ... four years? You can't play this. If I were to say what value has emerged in the last hundred years, out of obscurity, did not exist more than a 150 years ago, it is now the dominant value of our civilization, critical to our science, essential to our technology, motivates the marketplace, absolutely underlines our economic theory, and pushes most of our private and public life, what is that value? (many answers) Greed and sex? (laughs) That's close ... Ego ... Y'all missed it, you got pretty close, but you missed it. You ready? You're going to really regret that you didn't get this, because this is the simplest.

There are two basic coordinates: time and space. If we want to know the problems of our world view, go deep into the temporal value, and deep into the spatial value, and then we'll be able to re-learn our participation in the universe, you ready? Here's the temporal coordinate of the modern world view. It is this word.Efficiency. How important is that? Have you ever had anyone ... efficiency is the prescription for disaster for this Earth. Efficiency is destroying the planet. Now you heard real crazy stuff, didn't you? That's how you know you're deep in a world view."

And with that, let me remind ourselves to maintain the great vigil of this great insitution. The Four Pillars: suicide, abortion, cannibalism and sodomy. In the words of the Cree people: 

Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.

 

The Being

A very sincere message to my fellow homo sapiens.

6 years ago
Viewing all this on my phone made me want to kill myself. Mission accomplished?

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6 years ago

"Save the Planet, Kill Yourself"

- The Church of Euthanasia

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6 years ago

Those dudes have been around for awhile. I think the first time I heard about them was on a really old episode of Jerry Springer back in the 90s.

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6 years ago
They predate the Church of Cthulhu by quite a bit then. I've never heard of this one but I guess if they were on Jerry Springer they're older than most of our forum regulars too.

...also, why the fuck were they on Jerry Springer? Are there people who take this as more than a joke? (and if so, why were they still alive?)

But it put me in mind of the Georgia Guidestones a little actually, which is less likely to have been created as a hoax and thus manages to be genuinely creepy. I've actually considered a story based around something similar.

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6 years ago
Well I was going to convert to this religion but then I made some fresh cherry sorbet, and on second thought I'm not going to kill myself after all, so that I can continue eating cherry sorbet. Did the Cree have anything to say on this subject, because it is pretty tasty.

Oh wait they're all dead. lol, dumbasses

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6 years ago

I would have thought the whole rampant sodomy thing would have been the main reason to give you pause to joining such a cult.

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6 years ago
'The Four Pillars: suicide, abortion, cannibalism and sodomy.'

IDK, I could see it as a fascinating challenge trying to figure out how to do all of those, at the same time. Perhaps this is the sense of direction I've been missing in my life.

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6 years ago
cut abortion in half, eat lower half while having sex with upper half, and jump off a building.

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6 years ago

How exactly do you physically cut abortion in half, oh Master Chanbot?

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6 years ago
do lots of situps to strengthen your core and then as you're aborting it squeeze and flex tightly, it'll come out in basically two parts. Either that or just rip a leg off like a chicken wing.

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6 years ago

Honestly if Mizal engages in a lot of the 4th pillar, she shouldn’t really need to ever do the 2nd pillar.

Though her lowered sense of self worth and respect after engaging in a lot of the 4th pillar might cause her to eventually do the 1st pillar.

Not really sure how cannibalism ties into the whole euthanasia ideal though. Suicide, abortion and sodomy all make sense in the whole keeping the world population down thing, but unless you’re actively going out and killing people and eating them, cannibalism is just there for shock value.

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6 years ago

"<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Congratulations on your hilariously facetious portrayal of abortion as a means of population control. The positions stated on your Web page show to what absurdities abortion could lead. It simply devalues man to nothing. I hope this is blunt enough for all those pro-aborts out there. Have a blessed Easter! -Dominik

<<<< Looks like the joke's on you, Dominik. It must be tough getting through life with the cranial capacity of a chipmunk. We are pro-abortion. Shall I say it again? Pro-abortion, Dominik, as in sucking human fetuses out of vaginas with a bloody great vacuum. Now Dominik, you're not a vegetarian, are you? Does the thought of eating flesh bother you? I hope not, because we think pro-life cretins like you should be munching on those fetuses, Dominik. That's right, not only are we pro-abortion, we are also pro-cannibalism, as you would have discovered if you were capable of comprehending anything other than the Reader's Digest edition of the bible. And I'll bet you do read the bible, Dominik, don't you, so you'll be delighted to know that we're also pro-sodomy. Yes indeed, the only thing we'd like better than watching you dine on mangled human fetuses would be watching you get fucked up the ass with a giant rosary, while our entire board of directors take turns peeing in your mouth. Of course you'd probably rather kill yourself than submit to such an ungodly invasion of your sacred sphincter, and that's just fine with us. I hate to be pushy, but it's time to go. We'll all be much better off. Eat a queer fetus for Jesus, Dominik, and then SAVE THE PLANET--KILL YOURSELF!"

 

^ Cannibalism for Jesus

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6 years ago

“Eating a queer fetus for Jesus” seems slightly counter productive to their cause since a gay baby is going to ultimately grow up to engage in a lot of sodomy and not reproduce. They could even potentially lure away some bisexuals from potentially taking a partner of the opposite gender which would further the cause of population control.

Though I suppose an argument could be made to eat the fetus anyway, just in case the person ends up being confused and has some kids before coming out of the closet.

In any case I still maintain that necrocannibalism isn’t a pillar that really lines up with the belief system properly. Arguably murder would make a lot more sense, but I imagine they probably might get into some real legal trouble if they were advocating that people should go out and kill other people.

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6 years ago

Actually, I found their reasoning.

Cannibalism, like all of these points, should ALSO be made legal. Good point on it being flesh already dead! Instead of burying the dead of our race in a way that the body is preserved, instead, let me propose that bodies of the dead should be cremated, buried in the ground so that the body can decompose quickly, donated to medical science, or broken down into its nutrients for use as food-stuffs. With food shortage being as it is, remember Benjamin Franklin: Waste not, want not!

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6 years ago

Retarded reasoning on their part.

If food shortage is a problem in the world then that would be a good thing. More people starving, means more people dying. More people dying means less population and that hastens the whole human extinction thing.

If starving people start eating their dead that’s just prolonging their lives which is counter productive.

Hell, donating a corpse to medical science is even counter productive. If doctors are discovering how to cure shit or preventing diseases with them, then again that’s prolonging the human race and the whole fucking point of the church is to move it quicker to extinction.

If anything, Hindus are doing a better job by just dumping their corpses into the Ganges River where people still bathe and drink and furthering the cause of wonderful diseases that eventually kill people.

Fucking amateurs.

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6 years ago
This is easiest for a guy actually because he'd just need to Be sodomizing a pregnant woman as he jumps. Cannibalism can be covered simply by taking a bite of an arm on the way down; his or hers.

I'm sure somewhere on the internet is an erotic story featuring exactly this, its very existence all the proof needed that ending the species is good and correct.

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6 years ago

Is there a tl;dr for this? Because I'm just too damn lazy to read the whole thing on my phone..

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6 years ago
eat babies and die

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6 years ago

Yeah, it's about this guy speaking to the church of euthanasia to outline some of his core beliefs. The picture is of some kind of alien that this guy supposedly listened to.

He first establishes his anti-humanism, meaning that he does not believe that humans are the only good species out there - stuff isn't good because we like it. We're also a cancer to other species and unto ourselves.

He then spouts a bunch of gibberish about perspectives, watches, and communism before finally clueing us in on his environmentalism. In conclusion, in order to save the Earth, more humans must die so that other humans can have plenty of trees, rivers, and fish. He blames efficiency for the state of the Earth.

Oh! And the way to solve "efficiency" (probably producing as much stuff as possible, using up Earth's resources) is by actually eating other humans, killing yourself, killing your children, and having unsafe sex.

My own note: these are solutions primarily to overpopulation (which is a myth), not industrial waste (efficiency).  

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6 years ago

That's certainly...interesting. Wow. I would have never thought of this before. True, it is mostly pointing toward overpopulation but the whole unsafe sex thing also contradicts the earlier statements of killing yourself, others, children, etc. This whole thing must have been such a whacky dream. Nice going, whoever the fuck thought this was an actual, real thing. Kudos to you, man. 

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6 years ago

It's not so much advocating unsafe sex as it is ass fucking, which generally doesn't result in children unless you're the Antichrist and got super demonic powers to impregnate humans in that way.

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6 years ago

You have a point there. But I'm pretty sure the Flying Spaghetti Monster has equal demonic power. I mean, look at it. 

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6 years ago
I'll have you know that male/male butt babies have an entire community devoted to them. I'm sure Sent could tell you more.

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6 years ago

I have no idea what you're talking about. Male-male babies are conceived through the urethra and born like kidney stones but somehow not painfully at all. The only kind of birthing that happens anally is un-birthing, and now I need to curl up in the corner of my room shooting holes in the ceiling until the flashbacks stop.

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6 years ago
This is another one of those threads that makes me rant James back. He would be all over this shit.

The Georgia Guidestones are way better though because they advocate for the cold and methodical slaughter of six and a half billion while the remaining population (those rich and powerful and dedicated enough to do all that) then voluntarily separate Into hunter gatherer tribes living like apes. Suicide is the easy way.

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6 years ago

The Being guy kinda looks like a dick.

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6 years ago

What a rude thing to say.