Tuesday, June 11, 2019

RAEL'S VENGEFUL ELOHIM

The following are passages from Rael's compilation e-book, Intelligent Design (ID), that reflect the vengeful nature of his writings. Many Raelians gloss over it and often go as far as denying such texts even existing and insisting that Rael's "Messages" are instead full of love from the Elohim, our supposed extraterrestrial creators.


ELOHIM'S ETERNAL HELL
In Raelism, there is a concept of eternal life on Elohim's "planet of the wise" (ID, p. 200) for the most deserving of humans who will have led a positive life. Similarly, there is a hell for those who will have acted negatively in their lifetime:
"They will be recreated to undergo the punishment they deserve, after being judged by those whom they made to suffer or by their ancestors or descendants." (ID, p.168)
"... for those whose actions were particularly negative, a cell from their body will have been preserved, which will allow us to recreate them when the time comes, so that they can be judged and suffer the punishment they deserve. (ID, pg. 172)
Punishing clones, however, will not serve as punishment for the original evil-doers who have already died. Their clones are all innocent, and the Elohim punishing them makes the latter heartless torturers.


DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL
In Rael's first book published in 1974, a request for building an embassy for the Elohim in a "pleasant country with a mild climate" (ID, p. 101) is mentioned. However, in his second book published in 1975, a particular location was determined, that being the State of Israel:
"We wish our embassy on Earth to be built in Israel on a tract of land given to you by the government. If they refuse, you may build it elsewhere, and Israel will undergo a new punishment for not having recognized our messenger." (ID, p. 173)
On August 6, 2009, Rael apparently received a scornful message from his alleged extraterrestrial father, Yahweh for people of Jewish heritage because the State of Israel had continued not to respond to IRM's request for extraterritorial rights for building the ET Embassy. Below is an excerpt:
"Only those Jews who, in the past and until this day, have struggled from the inside and outside of Israel against this zionist racism, against the creation of the currently racist state of Israel, retain their Right to Jewishness, that is to say, to remain worthy to be part of the chosen people. The others, I vomit them from my mouth. They are not even equal to the other non-chosen people. They are inferior to all living beings of the creation. They are not even at the level of animals. As such they don’t deserve to live in the Land of Israel and they and their children for 7 generations are condemned to an eternal exile, to a permanent diaspora."
Then, on August 6, 2015, Rael fed up with Israel's non-response, allegedly received an ultimatum from Yahweh. The following excerpt prophesies the destruction of the State of Israel, what the Elohim euphemiouly call the "Land of Palestine":
"the protection previously granted by us [i.e. the Elohim] to Israel is totally withdrawn as of today, and we ask that all real Jews leave the land of Palestine as quickly as possible.”

ELOHIM'S EARTHLY HELL
Then, there is the following for all those who actively oppose Rael:
"Although the Elohim do not directly intervene for or against humanity as a whole, they do, however, exert influence on some individuals whose actions please or displease them. Woe to those claiming to have met the Elohim or to have received a message from them if it is not true. Their life will become hell, and they will regret their lie when faced with all the troubles they will encounter. 
"Also those who act against the Guide of Guides [i.e. Rael] and try to prevent him carrying out his mission, or who go along with him in order to spread strife amongst those who follow him, they will also see their life become hell. 
"Without any obvious influence coming from above, they will know why disease, family and professional difficulties, emotional woes and other problems will all invade their earthly existence while they await their eternal punishment." (ID, p. 215)

THREAT AGAINST AUSTRALIA
Given the language and tone above, it is quite possible that yet another threatening message from Yahweh in 1997, this time  directed towards Australian officials, for not recognizing the International Raelian Movement (IRM) as a religious organization, and who therefore did not authorize tax exemption, is genuine. At that time, IRM was publicized as the Raelian Church. Below is an excerpt:
"The only possible redemption for Australian officials who have questioned our Supernatural All Power would be that they publicly convert to Raelism. Otherwise they will be cursed forever and their families with them. We watch and wait. But the first symptoms of our chastisement will hit the disrespectful officials incessantly. 
"Look around and understand before it's too late. Our Supernatural Power will manifest itself by striking first those who dared to doubt or their family. Accidents, illnesses, inexplicable trials and all kinds. Hell awaits you. And no prayer addressed to false Christian gods or others can change anything. Only conversion to Raelism can save you."

THREAT AGAINST SOUTH KOREA
It followed that in 2006, after Rael tried to pull off the CLONAID human clone hoax, he got barred from entering South Korea. In response, Rael declared this spiteful threat in an official Raelian newsletter:
"I prophetize [sic.] that, as described in the Messages from our Creators the Elohim, the punishment of the Elohim will continue to hit Korea and Korean officials with many more scandals to come, and natural and unexplainable catastrophes." (Contact #307)

Besides all the threatening examples above, there are numerous passages in Rael's e-book that contain violence perpetrated by the Elohim. Rael's Elohim are a vengeful and violent species of extraterrestrials... if they exist, that is. LOL


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Monday, June 3, 2019

100,000 IRM Structure Members?

The International Raelian Movement's (IRM) ET Embassy website claims there are "more than 100,000 members around the world" in a FAQ explaining what IRM is:



Semantically, there's a difference between Raelian Structure members and "simple Raelians". While the latter are not required to join IRM, the former are individuals who have joined IRM. There are also national movements, the members of which are free to join IRM or not. However, according to the FAQ above, IRM claims to have more than 100,000 Structure members (as opposed to including "simple Raelians").

We can also differentiate Raelians by the amount of money they donate. According to Rael's book, all Raelians are commanded to pay 1% of their annual incomes to the Raelian Foundation, the sole beneficiary of which is Rael (Intelligent Design, p. 358). National movement members are obligated to pay 3% of their annual incomes, while IRM members are required to pay an additional 7%. All IRM members are also members of their respective national chapters and therefore pay 11% in total.

Structure members are given "levels" ranging from 0 to 6 (Level 0 are initiates, while Level 6 is Rael) and are obligated not to deviate from any directive Rael gives them. Rael says "simple Raelians" are free to express themselves in any way they wish, but not Structure members. Rael's Face Book "friends" are apparently all Structure members.



However, leaked internal documents present a very different picture. A Level 5 Raelian Bishop Guide, Leon Mellul, sent out an email dated October 1, 2017, reporting the latest stats in IRM's database (as of September, 2017).

All Raelians, whether Structure members or not, need to get baptized in order to be recognized as followers of Rael. Such a ritual is called "Transmission of the Cellular Plan" (TCP). The records below show that there has been only 21,168 TCPs since 1973 when Rael created his cult.



This means there can't be more than 100,000 Raelians worldwide, let alone Structure members. IRM has consistently been inflating membership numbers to the public.

Below is a breakdown of different categories of Raelians:



"Prospects" aren't Raelians; they are anyone who have signed their names when attending Raelian conferences and/or gatherings, downloaded Raelian e-books, etc. but didn't get their TCPs done. This figure is closest to the inflated "official" stats and could be the basis for IRM's deception.

The next two categories, "Raelians (non-structure)" and "Members", aren't very well defined. It could be the former are people who got baptized, but didn't join local national movements.

We can see that there were only 2,665 Structure members worldwide, contrary to what Rael claims how many Face Book "friends" he has. It's interesting to note that almost an equal number of people quit the Structures over time. That's a far cry from the official stat of "more than 100,000 members."

If we ignore the "prospects" and add up the next three categories, we get a total of only 18,111 Raelians worldwide as of September, 2017. If we count the rest, i.e. people who have been "suspended", "excluded", or quit, we get a total of 5,300 people who were once Raelians.


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Saturday, June 1, 2019

Navy UFO Sightings: A False Message

The International Raelian Movement (IRM) is trying again to ride on the coattails of the recent UFO hype stirred up by mainstream media.

On May 30, 2019, IRM published a press release about a recent New York Times' article spotlighting a US Navy's F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, Lt. Ryan Graves, who reported observing UFOs. Pilots from the aircraft carrier Roosevelt made repeated observations of strange objects like a "spinning top'' surrounded by a "glowing aura" flying over the East Coast that could allegedly fly at hypersonic speeds, make swift stops and turns, reach 30,000 feet in altitude, and fly all day long without apparent engine or exhaust plumes. According to them, such technology assembled in one craft simply doesn’t yet exist, implying the objects were alien spacecrafts.

An infrared (ATFLIR) video taken on January 20, 2015, was released by the US Defense Department's secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program [1] in late 2017 that seems to back up the anecdotal claims made by Lt. Graves above. The New York Times ran an article about it at that time written by the same authors. The video in question is being widely circulated with the title GIMBAL since the infrared camera was mounted on a gimbal pod that can rotate in any direction.

It isn't apparent whether Lt. Graves was one of the pilots in the video. The conversation heard in the video is very casual and does not use military protocol, indicating that it might have been taken during a training exercise for rookies. The transcript attached to the video opens with, "It's a fucking drone, bro!" followed with "There's a whole fleet of them! Look on the ASA." At one point, one of them says, "It's rotating!"


After a thorough investigation by Metabunk, it was concluded that the object is most probably another jet (or, drone). The apparent "glowing spinning top" was due to the long distance and infrared glare caused by a twin jet engine. The rotation is consistent with how spikes in a glare artifact would rotate when viewed by a gimbal FLIR camera following a curved trajectory.


There are no other visual evidence that corroborates the fantastic claims made by Lt. Graves except for another video that was released shortly after the GIMBAL video titled GO FAST. In it, we can just observe a small dot darting in a straight line showing nothing significant or unearthly. It's likely it's a balloon rather than a jet plane, since it doesn't have a heat signature. Again, the conversation heard does not maintain military protocol and is very casual.

Thrown into the mix of this naval UFO hype is yet another video titled FLIR1 taken way back in 2004 using a similar infrared camera setup. It's known as the USS Nimitz UFO incident. The Washington Post published an article about it just days after the New York Times first broke the news about the black project in late 2017. Cmdr. David Fravor claimed in an interview with Fox News he saw a flying object about the size of his plane that looked like a Tic Tac after a break in a routine training mission. The object moved rapidly and unlike any other thing he had ever seen in the air. Apparently, Cmdr. Fravor's account was just a recollection of the incident and that he wasn't the one who had taken the video.


Again, Metabunk did a thorough investigation and concluded that the footage is consistent with a distant jet plane flying away from the camera. At the end of the video it gently drifts off to the left, either making a turn or due to the camera lock drifting. A sudden jump between 1x and 2x zoom makes this look vastly more dramatic than it actually is.

The Raelian press release tries to insinuate that alien spacecrafts deliberately showed themselves to these naval pilots in order to bring to them a "message of peace" before they were deployed to the Persian Gulf to drop bombs over Syria and Iraq.

In reality, IRM is just taking advantage of the media hype related to UFO sightings (as they always do) to advance their belief that aliens called the Elohim of the Bible scientifically created all life on Earth and that they would appear more and more in our skies in order to increase awareness and facilitate their ongoing efforts of promoting an official encounter at an Embassy dedicated to welcoming them officially. Fortunately, these UFO sightings eventually generate more conventional evidence that show the objects to be misidentified normal aerial phenomena. UFOs do not automatically equate to alien spacecraft.


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[1] Apparently the ex-chief of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, Luis Elizondo, resigned from the Pentagon in October 2017. Subsequently, he joined this organization created in 2015 by musician, Tom DeLonge, "To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences". The government black project lost funding in 2012 (but is still apparently operational), and this new venture may have had the potential of becoming a lucrative option for Elizondo and other retired people of the Department of Defense to get behind and "disclose" the officially released videos. This video outlines the connection between the Elizondo and DeLonge.