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Review of "The Gods Never Left Us" by Erich von Däniken

11/25/2017

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THE GODS NEVER LEFT US: 
​THE LONG AWAITED SEQUEL TO THE WORLDWIDE BEST-SELLER CHARIOTS OF THE GODS
Erich von Däniken | 256 pages | Career Press | 2018 | ISBN: 978-1632651198 | $17.99
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​Earlier this month, ancient astronaut theorist Erich von Däniken released his latest book, The Gods Never Left Us (Career Press, 2018), which his publisher billed as the first direct sequel to Chariots of the Gods in fifty years. This seemed like hyperbole to me since several of his earlier books were also termed sequels. Perhaps the publisher was inspired by Jurassic World to make a “direct” sequel that ignored the existence of previous, less popular sequels. More likely, they were simply hoping that some marketing puffery would attract readers who will have forgotten about all of the other three dozen books the author produced
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​At any rate, I will preface my review by stating that the publisher is a division of New Page Books, which has placed me on a list of reviewers to whom they will not provide review copies of their books. I obtained mine the old-fashioned way: Space aliens beamed it from the Akashic Record into my brain while I was sleeping. Or at least that’s how Ancient Aliens, the television adaptation of von Däniken’s body of work, would explain it.
 
The Gods Never Left Us is a strange book for von Däniken, henceforth EVD, since it opens with the author’s acknowledgement that too many of his previous books were tired rehashes of material from his 1970s heyday. EVD had to start the book by telling his readers that this new book contains all-new material and that “in only very few sections do I have to cross-refer to my previous books.” Considering how much recycling went into his books from the past two decades, since he started phoning it in in the 1990s, this is a major departure for the author and perhaps a recognition of his declining influence in the field of ancient astronautics.
​Ah, but the appearance of honesty was a bit deceptive. He may not be repeating claims directly, but he did model the book quite closely on its predecessor. The second chapter of Chariots of the Gods contained a science fiction story in which EVD tried to imagine the journey of astronauts who were mistaken for gods on a distant planet. The new book similarly opens with what EVD terms “a strange short story” of his own device, an admitted piece of fiction. While EVD fancies himself a novelist and has published fiction, he is no prose stylist, and the story is pretty bad, made worse by uninspired translation. The story itself, about what would happen when our society makes first contact with space aliens by reading a hidden binary code uncovered by the Large Hadron Collider, is rather turgid, and it takes up 10 percent of the book. Your enjoyment will depend on how thrilling you find action like this: “The next day Roger fixed his Nikon to a stool. It had been loaded with a highly sensitive 400 ASA film and connected up to the motion-sensitive plug.”
 
Following the overlong and dull short story, EVD briefly summarizes his half-century hypothesis, about space aliens acting out the part of the Sons of God in the Bible, hybridizing human women. He then asks: “Totally insane?” This is either self-awareness or meant as a challenge. He informs readers that he is now of the opinion that at least some UFOs are the ships of the same aliens who visited humanity in the ancient past. He takes a swipe at Zecharia Sitchin by claiming that it is inefficient to mine Earth for minerals when uninhabited rocks produce more for less effort. But then he goes off the rails, arguing that all of the world’s powers, secular and religious, are conspiring together to suppress the truth of aliens because knowledge of space aliens would destroy all world religions, Darwinian evolution, and all temporal and ecclesiastical power. He paints an apocalyptic picture of our entire civilization collapsing for fear that space aliens could refute Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha, and Darwin. “Slowly even skeptics must realize that, not just the public in general, but science as well, must be protected from the appearance of ETs. Science requires censorship as much as the trusting mass of the people.”
 
EVD then, essentially, declares himself a prophet, for profit, by arguing that his TV show is part of the aliens’ agenda to prepare humanity for their arrival by circumventing the suppressive elites and transforming the consciousness of the masses directly. Science fiction, he says, is the other prong of the aliens’ agenda, creating the conditions to accept their existence. He devotes much of the rest of the chapter to fantasizing about how ETs might circumvent liberal elites and leftist governments by appealing to the salt of the earth types in the rural heartlands. This is why, apparently, aliens like to abduct and anally probe hillbillies.
 
The remainder of the second chapter is a grab-bag of loosely related spaghetti from earlier books thrown at the wall—flood myths, the Book of Enoch, crop circles, UFO sightings, anger at religion, and shout-outs to the “irrefutable” proof offered on Ancient Aliens. The latter produced a guffaw of laughter from me, considering how baseless that show has long been.
 
The third chapter tries to explain human and extraterrestrial biology by exploring hypotheses about the origins of life and the origins of the human species. He uses arguments from creationists, anti-evolution thinkers, and ancient astronaut theorists to undermine the mainstream scientific consensus. His arguments are the same ones creationists have used for a century and a half, particularly the question of how a given structure could have evolved if it would be “useless” without all of its parts. He claims that “chemical evolution” is mathematically and statistically impossible on Earth, so the building blocks of life were sent to Earth from another planet via directed panspermia. Why the aliens then needed to return to have sex with the results he leaves unstated. He adds that he believes that a certain species of beetle, the acid-firing bombardier beetle, was “imported from an alien world.” God may be inordinately fond of beetles, as J. B. S. Haldane joked, but aliens love them more.
 
Much of the rest of the chapter is EVD’s standard attack on human evolution. For decades he has claimed that evolution only applies to other animals and that humans were genetically engineered by aliens. He cites myths of gods impregnating women as evidence of “artificial insemination”—though it doesn’t seem very artificial!—and specifically claims that (a) the logical argument that these stories are symbolic is “too easy” and (b) ancient humans “were not science fiction writers” and could not have recorded anything that was untrue. Based on that, I suppose the Greeks really traveled to the moon to meet space aliens, as Lucian recorded in his True History. He supports this with the fantasy cuneiform translations of Dr. Hermann Burgard, a fringe loon whom he cited in several of his earlier books. (What? You thought “all new” would really mean “all new”?) Burgard believes that the Sumerians recorded trips to a space station. He concludes the chapter with some facile attempts to undermine Occam’s Razor by alleging that the simplest and most reasonable explanation is a matter of “the zeitgeist,” so if we believe in aliens, then explaining via aliens is the easiest and best way to understand human biological and cultural development.
 
The fourth chapter opens with material recycled from several of EVD’s earlier books, including Odyssey of the Gods and one of his 1970s volumes, though off the top of my head I don’t remember which one. It doesn’t matter; he admits that the material came from 1972. He devotes much of the chapter to Polynesian mythology, following the familiar pattern of asserting that any reference to the gods in heaven must be a literal account of space aliens in outer space. EVD may not remember that he covered this material in his book In Search of Ancient Gods, and again in some of his recent books, but I do. He throws in a few variations with some slightly different myths, but the overall thrust is the same. He adds material that he admits came from Evidence of the Gods and some more that he doesn’t admit was first discussed in Signs of the Gods and Remnants of the Gods, about the supposed flying chariot of the Kebra Nagast. This time, however, he managed to cite a real passage and not a fake one, as he had done in Signs, so he’s gradually learning, over decades. He adds a raft of mythological examples of gods descending from heaven to the Earth, many of which he has cited before, and here claiming that civilizing gods “always” came from the stars. There is no reason to take the stories at face value, of course, since in myth gods who are not here on Earth can only be in the sky, under the ground, in the ocean, or outside space and time. In mythologies around the world we find examples of all of these, but EVD chooses to focus only on sky travel. To take but the most famous example, Oannes rose up from the sea to deliver civilization to Babylon, while Viracocha rose up out of Lake Titicaca to do the same for the peoples of the Andes.
 
As with all his other mythological references, he expects us to take stories of gods walking on Earth and sexing up local women literally, so that by identifying gods with space aliens he can assert that aliens have geographical as well as lustful interests. He complains, though, that scholars of religion refuse to concede that the gods were aliens, or that all cultures believe that the gods came from space in their ships. “But in the theological faculties, even those teaching comparative religion, people still live in the Middle Ages. Nothing new is added.” Considering that EVD is rehashing material he wrote about in 1968, which was a recycling of other authors’ work from the preceding two decades, there is rich irony here.
 
He adds some material about advanced weapons in Sanskrit epics, claims that he has made many times since 1968 and which he here cites to one of his own books, one never translated into English. He has apparently forgotten that the exact quotation he gives he first used in Chariots of the Gods (1968), where he quoted it wrongly to make the passage sound more like a nuclear weapon. He then paraphrases anew the misrepresented and fabricated parts about nuclear fallout that he mistakenly grabbed in his ignorance from Morning of the Magicians, as I laid out years ago.
 
The fifth and final chapter tries to tie EVD’s conservative politics in with the ancient astronaut theory. EVD is an old man, and a product of his time. He remains fossilized in the 1960s, like a fly in amber, and so he reaches back to the obsolete ideas of that era to frame his analysis. Back then, before the Green Revolution, a wave of Malthusian panic led to concern about the population explosion and whether the world would run out of resources in the succeeding few decades. EVD laughs at the concern over such problems, and he uses this to argue that global warming is of no concern. He dismisses all climate change as the product of natural Earth changes, and argues that no human activity contributes. He is even more conservative on gender issues, devoting several pages to his outrage over transsexuals and feminists, whom he sees as in league to suppress masculinity in favor of a female-led world order:
Within the framework of equality between men and women, some women demanded a program to implement gender equality. Meanwhile, gender has grown into a proper world strategy. “Gender mainstreaming” is even one of the goals of the European Union. But a few fundamentally correct thoughts have turned into a feminist world dictate. There are hardly any scientists left who have the moral courage to stand up against gender. […] There are only unisex people any longer. The biological sex no longer counts for anything. Boys should actually be ashamed to have been born with a penis. […] Anyone who does not adhere to “gender” is excluded from the community of reasonable people
​While EVD pays lip service to his opposition to the dogmatism of both left and right, his howling rage at liberal, progress, feminist, and basically anything that smacks of the left belies his pretended balance.
 
He claims that European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker’s slip of the tongue in 2016, saying that he was in communication with leaders from other planets (“d’autres planètes”) instead of other countries is proof that elites are already in contact with space aliens—in apparent contradiction to the first third of the book when the aliens were actively avoiding said elites.
 
EVD goes on to discuss a range of modern concerns that he has been railing about for years—genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, European integration—but failing to tie any of it to aliens except to claim that aliens have already made the same advances long ago. He then adds a bizarre paragraph that I frankly have trouble making heads or tails of:
If we were all identical, no extraterrestrial intelligence would bother with us. Because each one would be the same as their neighbor, contact with a single human being would be sufficient. “Humanity” would not be of interest. But now we are units that multiply with pleasure. Sex means the greatest pleasure. Then we collect information for a lifetime and pass it on through electrons. The ETs out there are dependent on our diversity.
​So… yay diversity? And yay for pleasure sex with aliens?
 
And of course EVD swings back around to Al-Maqrizi and his al-Khitat of c. 1400 CE, because he thinks this is clever since he discovered it decades ago. On his authority, he calls the Great Pyramid antediluvian (for EVD does not know that he copied from earlier writers, going back 400 years to Wasifi and the Akhbar al-zaman, or their common source) and alleges that it is filled with prehistoric wisdom. He throws in a bunch of Graham Hancock’s claims about various ancient structures attributed to a lost ice age culture, and he tells us that he believes that the aliens left a library of records in orbit around the Earth. He name checks Martian pyramids, secret UFO files, and all of the accoutrements of conspiracy theories, but without any details or analysis. He expects the reader to already know, accept, and believe.
 
He concludes by reminding his regular folk readers that the elites can’t keep aliens secret much longer, and the truth will come out soon. Once the liberal elites have been defeated, he seems to be implying, regular, normal, manly conservative people won’t just inherit the Earth but will touch the divine.
 
The Gods Never Left Us is a typical example of late-period EVD. It is a rambling, disconnected series of claims, most recycled from earlier books, with heavy doses of EVD’s social conservatism. It is not a good book, or even much of a book. As a sequel to Chariots of the Gods, it is an utter failure, lacking even a quarter of the argument, analysis, or originality of the original—which is sad since Chariots was a collection of recycled claims from other authors wrapped in a bad argument given a gloss of entertainment by a former Nazi propagandist. EVD’s glimmers of self-awareness about the weaknesses of his recent books are an improvement, but the lack of follow through on the promise of originality marks it as just another false claim in a career full of them.
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Residents Fan
11/25/2017 09:13:00 am

" Your enjoyment will depend on how thrilling you find action like this: “The next day Roger fixed his Nikon to a stool. It had been loaded with a highly sensitive 400 ASA film and connected up to the motion-sensitive plug.”"

Sounds like that might appeal to Tom Clancy fans.

How long before we see EVD on the Alex Jones programs, or has he already guested on one?

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Anonymous Nerd
11/25/2017 11:58:36 am

Not from what I can tell, but there are mentions of VD on AJ's site, infowars.com, which seem to be both positive and negative. There's a link to an interview but it wasn't AJ and VD, it was VD and some other dude I haven't heard of before.

It doesn't matter, though. These fantasies folks have are all variants on one another and it scarcely matters who's saying them or which variant they use.

It matters far more who is listening.

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Will
11/25/2017 07:03:17 pm

" Your enjoyment will depend on how thrilling you find action like this: “The next day Roger fixed his Nikon to a stool. It had been loaded with a highly sensitive 400 ASA film and connected up to the motion-sensitive plug.”"

This actually had me laughing out loud -- every time I read it I can't stop myself from laughing!

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Jim
11/25/2017 11:15:33 pm

When he says fixed it to a stool, what exactly does he mean ?

TONY S.
11/25/2017 09:34:37 am

Well, I hadn't meant to be gone this long, but it's good to be back.

And what a post to return to! Good old Erich and his new book!

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Only Me
11/25/2017 11:10:04 am

I've noticed there are two consistent themes to books about extraterrestrials: the promise of new material/evidence and the claim all will be revealed soon.

Both EvD and his nonsense have grown too long in the tooth.

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TONY S.
11/25/2017 03:08:58 pm

He knows it, which is why he's incorporating Hancock into his rubbish now too. The trouble is, Hancock himself and his own brand of nonsense are also getting old.

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Jim
11/25/2017 12:16:31 pm

"he tells us that he believes that the aliens left a library of records in orbit around the Earth." ,,,,, He's confused, the library was put in the moon, when it was built by time traveling Templars from the future.

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TONY S.
11/25/2017 03:10:57 pm

Scott Wolter will be doing a separate book on the lunar exploits of time traveling Templars.

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Kal
11/25/2017 03:14:53 pm

The promise of a good deal, more info, and an even better story down the road, is a classic old hook for stories going back ages.

So, EVD discounts everyone, even science, to prove his snake oil space stories are some kind of her truth. Aye?

Actually, in this age of tech and alien shows, these guys seem to think actually meeting aliens would destroy religion. I think not. For the faithful, it would still exist. The aliens would not be convincing them to buy their snake oil.

Thise that weren't in any religion might be drawn in though, and some weird alien worshiping cults would develop, but quickly would burn out when the aliens told them to buzz off.

And one would figure any alien race capable of navigating the stars, FTL, and dimension hopping, or whatnot, would be as Clarke thought 'indistinguishable from magic' to us.

They would not need our minerals, would not need our water, and certainly would not need our women, or or religious praise of them.

As Tyson suggested, that one percent that separates us from the chimpanzee, would separate them from us, and we would be like a quaint species to them, a child like race incapable of doing the math and science their 3 year olds could do.

The only way they would genetically be similar, is if they are us, from the future, but no such time travel has really been spotted.

Naturally, EVD disputes science and physics, or else then his theories, which are over glossed opinions, not theories, would be silly.

Also recently the scientists disputed the idea of a life as simulation theory, in that our modern computers, and binary, would seem not to be able to transition to true artificial intelligence, which could build a simulation capable of housing a universe simulation. Such as in the works of online scifi writers Guoedier and Arthur.

In other words, aliens would not use our computers, as they would be as archaic to them as an abacus to us, or more so. Binary computing and radio tech would be quaint and in museums.

Ancient Aliens theory is little more than science fiction. Can't they just call it that?

Did EVD self publish his sequel? Seems more like a follow up.

JC needs his own Youtube show.



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Americanegro
11/25/2017 03:21:36 pm

What is "film"? Is that a typo Jason?

I have no problem believing that hillbillies are anally probed, but it's probably easier to go on with life if your brain makes up a story about aliens so you don't have to confront your hillbilly neighbor about taking liberties.

Is "the motion-sensitive plug" a coded reference?

In 1995, Louis Farrakhan told the story about how he was taken up into a flying saucer at the Million Man March. So it's still going on.

Sex Apes!

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Louis Farrakhan
11/27/2017 05:13:10 am

Negro you will burn in the fires of hell. You need to come to me and confess your sins, so that I may forgive you and take you into that space ship led by Elijah Muhammed.

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Matt
12/2/2017 11:20:15 pm

"highly sensitive 400 ASA film"

"He remains fossilized in the 1960s"

Yes, yes he does.

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E.P. Grondine
11/26/2017 09:55:10 am

Hi Jason -

typo alert -

"he obsolete ideas of that era to fame his analysis"
"he obsolete ideas of that era to frame his analysis."
.

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Americanegro
11/26/2017 02:20:46 pm

YOU obsolete ideas!

Typo alert my behind. Trees, meet forest. Mote, meet plank. SMGDFH.

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A Buddhist
11/26/2017 12:27:35 pm

Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, and Darwin
should be
Jesus, Muhammad, Gautama Buddha, and Darwin
or
Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha, and Darwin
or
Jesus, Muhammad, Shakyamuni Buddha, and Darwin

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Americanegro
11/26/2017 02:18:44 pm

That's the hill you want to die on?

Might as well say "It should be Yeshu ben Yôsēp̄, The Prophet, peace be upon him, the small prince who disappointed his family, and Charles Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS."

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A Buddhist
11/26/2017 08:19:47 pm

Well, I really do not it whenever people talk about any Buddha unless it be with an article (that is, either "a Buddha" or "the Buddha") or another title (that is, "Shakyamuni Buddha") or a name (such as "Gautama Buddha"), because to do otherwise leaves people with the mistaken idea that the term "Buddha" is a proper name. But it is a title. For what it is worth, I refer to Shakyamuni Buddha as "the World Honoured One" out of respect.

And are you willing to die upon the hill of constant insults and harsh words to others? If so, I pity you, just as I pity Ishvara worshipers, those in the Hell Realms, and Donald Trump's supporters.

Americanegro
11/26/2017 10:09:35 pm

Dude, I haven't even begun to insult you and I'm not going to.

"He paints an apocalyptic picture of our entire civilization collapsing for fear that space aliens could refute Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha, and Darwin."

Notice the article. I guess Jason yielded to you, unless you just read and typed it wrong. Jason would it kill you to throw a PBUH to the Prophet, PBUH? And while we're at it hook Darwin buddy up with his FRS FRGS FLS FZS. Bam, yo!

"I pity you, just as I pity Ishvara worshipers, those in the Hell Realms, and Donald Trump's supporters."

Yeah, THAT's how you want to present yourself. I call your pity and raise you scorn.

I will say this though: Buddha sucks my left knuckle and sews socks in hell.

Notice I haven't insulted you. To quote a great Americanegro, Lou Gossett Jr., "You in America now, mbwoy!"

BUDDHA
11/27/2017 05:14:08 am

Buddha is a butthead and a fake religion, only idiots follow that fake bald headed drunk.

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A Buddhist
11/27/2017 07:21:48 pm

Would you be willing to provide a source from the Tripitaka or Tipitaka about the Buddha being a drunk?
Congratulations, though, for being aware of the tradition, found within the Tipitaka, that the Buddha was bald: [Ghatikara-sutta, MN 81].

Americanegro
11/27/2017 10:29:16 pm

I'm going to give you some advice and you're not going to take it.

You are not the guardian of all things Buddhist.

You do not know as much as you think.

It would be absurd to assume that Buddha (not "the" Buddha) when he was a pudgala did not on occasion get drunk.

BUDDHA
11/28/2017 03:56:52 am

Buddha was a drunk and got drunk. He is not a holy man but just a man who was a drunken hobo!

Erich Von Daniken
11/27/2017 05:15:32 am

All of you will be proved wrong. Aliens will return soon. They will contact me and prove my theory is correct.
Jason I will see you in court for violating the publishers terms.

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Weatherwax
11/27/2017 12:31:35 pm

Define soon.

What terms? The publisher didn't provide the book to Jason for review, it was purchased. So no terms.

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Wim Van der Straeten
11/27/2017 01:11:33 pm

It's nice to see that Von Däniken (if it's the real one) reads a skeptic's blog. Maybe he can learn a thing or two about logical thinking.

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BigNick
11/27/2017 03:35:59 pm

Don't know if you're joking or not but "Von Daniken" posted at the same tie as the "Buddha" commenter above. This is a calling card of Fake Jason. And while Fake Jason is an annoying troll, you have to admire his bravery for admitting he has a small penis in these comments. We can all learn from Fake Jason

BIGNICK
11/28/2017 03:55:52 am

I like a BIG DICK

RobZ
11/27/2017 08:24:24 am

"He concludes the chapter with some facile attempts to undermine Occam’s Razor by alleging that the simplest and most reasonable explanation is a matter of “the zeitgeist,” so if we believe in aliens, then explaining via aliens is the easiest and best way to understand human biological and cultural development."

That is funny as hell. The contradictory and circular reasoning required to arrive at such a conclusion is mindboggling.

Of course, Occam's Razor doesn't really tell us that the simplest and most resonable explanation is most likely true, it tells us that the explanation that requires the least amount of assumption/speculation and fits the evidence is the most reasonable expanation. and thus most likely true.

Even if we believe in Aliens, there are numerous assumptions in EVD's thinking.
- Believing in Aliens equals actual aliens exist (not true per se)
- Actual aliens exist equals actual aliens have been visiting earth
- Aliens visiting earth equals aliens having sex with the Original inhabitants
- interplanetary sex leads to viable off-spring

On the other hand: the explanation "It's all nonsense EVD is either an idiot or a money grabbing fraud" requires no assumptions at all. His books prove that beyond reasonable doubt.

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Americanegro
11/27/2017 02:06:28 pm

My money's on idiot. He's no Thor Heyerdahl.

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Riley V.
11/28/2017 04:59:54 am

I threw away my Occam’s Razor and my Hanlon’s Razor and joined the $1 Shave Club. The new razors are cheaper, almost as sharp, and most people know what I’m talking about as I slash their arguments to pieces.

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A Buddhist
11/27/2017 07:31:25 pm

Americanegro: I was copy-pasting the text directly from the blog post, so Jason must have changed the text, for which I am glad. The difference between insisting upon writing "the Buddha" versus writing "Muhammad (PBUH)" is that writing "the Buddha" is being accurate about the function of the term Buddha (as a title, not a name), whereas writing the phrase "Muhammad (PBUH)" is not clarifying anything, but yielding to Islamic precepts.

I thank you for not insulting me. That having been said, it would be even better if you were to refrain from insulting anybody. Attacking the ideas, not the people, makes everything much more polite and promotes the development of skillful criticism.

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Americanegro
11/27/2017 10:35:05 pm

Jesus effing Christ you have issues.

Buddha

Buddha

Buddha

Buddha

Buddha

Buddha

Buddha

Buddha

Buddha


YOU DO NOT GET TO DETERMINE WHAT A DEAD GUY'S NAME IS.

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Americanegro
11/27/2017 10:49:52 pm

"writing the phrase "Muhammad (PBUH)" is not clarifying anything, but yielding to Islamic precepts."

On the contrary, "Peace Be Upon Him" CLARIFIES Muhammad's role as the Seal of the Prophets.

You know less than you think you know. Stop the madness.

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MOHAMMED
11/28/2017 03:58:05 am

MOHAMMED WAS A PEDOPHILE RAPIST CHILD KILLING FAKE THAT STOLE THE BIBLE TO INVENT A FAKE RELIGION. JUST LIKE L RON HUBBARD, FAKE!

Americanegro
11/28/2017 02:08:08 pm

No argument there. But it's not new information.

Buddha is fake
11/28/2017 03:55:06 am

BUDDHA IS FAKE
BUDDHA IS FAKE
BUDDHA IS FAKE
GET IT FAKE FAKE FAKE GO WORSHIP A PIG NOW

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Americanegro
11/28/2017 02:11:39 pm

I met the Buddha on the road and I killed the heck out of him but he just kept arising in new emanation bodies. After a while (it felt like aeons) I lost count.

Erich Von Daniken
11/29/2017 03:33:22 am

I see that the followers of Jason Colavito are insane and unstable. At least my followers are true and trust in my theory's, that will be proven true next year.

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Wim Van der Straeten
11/29/2017 04:47:28 am

Next year? That's very specific. What are you gonna do when nothing happens? Say your theories will be proven true the following year?

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Oniomancer
11/30/2017 02:01:59 pm

Ah yes, the LGBT agenda, still sapping our precious bodily fluids.
An interesting stance in light of all those the ancient "space gods" who exhibited alternative sexuality or transgenderism of one form or another.

I hope he does try to sue. That 'd put a nice drain on those book profits.

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ANNUNAKI KING
1/6/2018 05:50:00 am

Healthy skepticism helps us to remain in control of an unsuspecting humanity.

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Jerit Adamson Fourman
4/15/2018 03:45:25 pm

Poor misled immature rats! The ability to reason but substance, gentlemen, you utterly lack. Calm your quizzing calculators a moment and me-di-tate on arguments advanced: Dismiss abundant evidence of superior sentience on Earth and cling to beliefs your calculus grade proves you’re IQ is in the 130s at least. The poverty of imagination and lack of comprehensive consideration, combined with eagerness to ridicule bold propositions, makes this blog feel like a freshman dorm room. Have fun in your linguistic minds! Maybe someday you will realize you’ve been deliberately steered away from alchemy and that, yes, people smarter than you do exist, and we only feel sorry for you.

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