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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Nancy Levant, professional crazy lady

Oh, thanks for nothing, Red State Rabble. You just had to highlight the existence of Nancy Levant, certifiable kook and religious raver. This is scary stuff, at least it is if there are a significant number of people who believe Levant should not be sent home and told to rant quietly, and quit bothering people. She's convince that we're in the middle of a great war between Good and Evil—she weds conspiracy theories with End Times religious nuttiness.

For several hundred years, a cabal of the godless has conspired to rule the Earth with a bank-based global government. They desire to own all natural resources on the planet, and they want to very specifically eliminate all but the very few of their choosing.

They are also responsible for programming that slutty Desperate Housewives show, and have a few other nefarious plans.

They intend to eliminate at least half, if not three-quarters of the human population using manufactured and financed wars, plagues, and other scientifically orchestrated catastrophes. They intend to enforce a global taxation system, which will guarantee the massive wealth and power of the very few and force mankind into what appears to be a pharmaceutically imposed enslavement. Any and all dissenters will be put to death.

What I'd like to know is how Nancy Levant knows all this…are there subliminal messages in Desperate Housewives that lay all of this out?

Or maybe she just read the Republican Party platform.


She's also terribly confused. She has somehow got it in her head that atheists are dupes who actually belong with the People of Faith, but that the Lucifer-worshipping Illuminati are the truly godless, amoral evil ones.

No matter what your spiritual leaning, the battle between good and evil has arrived. It doesn’t take a spiritual genius to realize that the great test of faith is upon mankind, because the antithesis of faith has captured control of the world’s nations. It’s called evil. If you are of the Judeo-Christian understanding, you have a mission, a calling, and faith that the universal war was immanent. You have a path to follow. If you are atheist, you have to trust in mankind. But the problem for atheists is that mankind is now controlled by dedicated Luciferians. Therefore, you follow a group who leads by faith. Therefore, I suggest to the world’s atheists that you reconsider humankind’s historical situation.

OK, consider it reconsidered. My considered consideration is that listening to nutjobs like Levant who babble about "demons" and divide the world into a humanity-destroying Evil and Good People whose defining characteristic is that they have faith in invisible sky fairies is probably the real problem.


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#32916: rob loftis — 07/27  at  07:38 AM
If you are of the Judeo-Christian understanding

New rule: no one is allowed to say "Judeo-Christian" when they just mean "Christian"

Also, anyone who says "of the Judeo-Christian understanding" looses the right to have anyone listen to them ever.



's avatar #32919: — 07/27  at  08:31 AM
Whenever I read end times/conspiracy nuttery of this type I just can't help think of the Monty Python Eurovision Song Contest sketch:

"Bing tiddle tiddle bong"

Basically I think of this because I am convinced those are the noises being made in the heads of the nutters in question. Who comes up with this stuff? I want to avoid whatever it is they are smoking, because regular drugs simply don't do this to you!

Oh dear am I being mean? Lest anyone accuse me of meanness: I think all people are equally valid in ethical terms, but that all people are not equally capable. I also think that all ideas are equally worth listening to once, but all ideas are not equally valid in either logical or evidential terms.

On the Judeo-Christian front (splitters), shouldn't it be Judeo-Christian-Islamic front, after all they do all believe in osetnsibly the same deity, just with "minor" denominational differences.



#32924: — 07/27  at  09:49 AM
"They intend to eliminate at least half, if not three-quarters of the human population using manufactured and financed wars, plagues, and other scientifically orchestrated catastrophes."

Brothers and sisters of the Luciferian Bank-Based Global Government Cabal, it is my distinct pleasure to report our misinformation campaign is working: the poor deluded saps have no idea that our actual goal is to elminate two-thirds of the population.

All glory unto Baphomet.



#32926: — 07/27  at  09:59 AM
What is the Sierra Times? Does it have any influence?



#32928: — 07/27  at  10:01 AM
"All glory unto Baphomet."

Baphomet?! I thought we worshipped Babalon. Or Baal. Heck, I just know this is going to get me condemned to hell.

Shucks.

P.S.: Did anyone notice that with her raving about "bank-based global government" Nancy is channeling the favorite slur of generations of anti-Semites? Of course, everyone noticed! Yet she has the nerve to use "Judeo-Christian" in her diatribe, perhaps because "some of her best friends are ... ".



#32929: — 07/27  at  10:04 AM
Humans have a need for narrative and this poor woman is no exception. Myths are developed to explain the inexplicable:
Why does the sun rise?
Where does lighning come from?
Why does the current administration insist on cutting down all the forests, fouling the air, and starting illogical wars?
Scientists have explained the first two to my satisfaction, but historians are going to have to do a little better with George W. and his administration than they have so far with George III to convince me that there is a logical reason behind his madness. Until then Lucifer, little green men, desperate housewives, or lead in the DC drinking water all seem equally interesting narratives, if not equally rational.



#32931: — 07/27  at  10:09 AM
The true irony is that she uses the term "Judeo-Christian," when she her rant appears to be just the ancient Persian religion Zoroastrianism with a few minor "Judeo-Christian" terms added. If one simply replaced "G_d" and "Lucifer" with "Ahura Mazda" and "Ahriman," her lunatic rambling would have been a word for word statement of Zoroastrian beliefs.

Of course, the Zoroastrians have been predicting a Last Battle between good and evil for over 2500 years, so I think that Ms Levant is just a bit out of date.

Trivia bit for history dorks like me: If Cyrus the Great (also known as Xerxes) of Persia had not conquered Babylon in ca 520 BCE, the "Last Battle" mythology of Zoroastrianism would likely not have spread across the Arabian peninsula, into the Semitic mythology, and from there into early Christian thinking. So the next time you read some random nuttiness like Levant's, just remember that it's all due to a battle fought 500 years before there even was Christianity.



#32937: — 07/27  at  10:27 AM
"mankind is now controlled by dedicated Luciferians"


Well, finally. Something we can all agree on.



#32956: — 07/27  at  12:22 PM
For several hundred years, a cabal of the godless has conspired to rule the Earth with a bank-based global government. They desire to own all natural resources on the planet, and they want to very specifically eliminate all but the very few of their choosing.

Seriously, Nancy, the tinfoil has to come down to at least the ears in order to work.



#32988: Kagehi — 07/27  at  05:41 PM
Its all true I tell you, this web site explains it:

http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/

Some examples:

HIV conspiracy in Korea - http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/2005/07/songun-blog-proven-right-london-terror.html

Weather control technolog - http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/2005/07/us-imperialists-attack-china-with.html
http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/2005/07/us-imperialist-weapon-of-mass.html

Its all there! Though they confuse the US as the instigator, not the vast... what was it she was babbling about doing it again? Sadly, she would probably consider such a site as valid, instead of a paridy. lol

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent - Robert A. Heinlein



#32993: — 07/27  at  06:09 PM
I liked this quote,

" I suggest you [atheists] consider that every time, in all of human history, that a group attempted to eliminate the religious beliefs of another group, carnage, lies, and barbarism of every make and measure were unleashed."

... yeah, "Religion is the opiate of the masses" & all that! But we godless materialists have been saying that for years...



#33010: — 07/27  at  08:25 PM
Hyperion, that's interesting for me.

To take it further, the Viking time asa gods of Scandinavia, who substituded earlier beliefs (shaman/fertility godess depending on place), were as I understand it inspired by Roman christianity.

So there is a Last Battle ('Ragnarök') were the gods themselves have a go at it. Damned if I understand why, but the chief god (Oden) knew about it beforehand, so it was as much inevitable as the christian happy ending.



#33011: — 07/27  at  08:28 PM
I'm confused. I thought that was the republican plan.



#33016: — 07/27  at  09:33 PM
OK... she caught me. I made the plan... and it almost worked.

DAMN! I was so close to world domination.



's avatar #33033: — 07/28  at  03:50 AM
They control institutes of higher learning, and they also control public school education. They fund and control scientific research and technology.
Who are these people? Where can they be rached? Please anybody give me the phone number of one of the friends of Nancy Levant! I really could use some additional funding. Paris vaut bien une messe, does it?

Quod natura non sunt turpia



#33064: — 07/28  at  10:17 AM
Trivia bit for history dorks like me: If Cyrus the Great (also known as Xerxes) of Persia had not conquered Babylon in ca 520 BCE, the "Last Battle" mythology of Zoroastrianism would likely not have spread across the Arabian peninsula, into the Semitic mythology, and from there into early Christian thinking. So the next time you read some random nuttiness like Levant's, just remember that it's all due to a battle fought 500 years before there even was Christianity.

I'm told that whoever-is-in-charge-of-these-things, in recognition of Cyrus allowing the Babylonian-captured Judeans & Israelites to return to Palestine, officially declared him to be a "messiah" (one among several).

Since "christ" is purportedly "messiah" in Greek, it could be argued that there was thus christianism long before there was Christ (and some people still say there are no miracles!).



#33066: — 07/28  at  10:29 AM
Speaking of historical dorkitude:

Cyrus the Great, according to the first reference I could find, lived from 600 BCE to 529 BCE, conquering the kingdom of Babylon ten years before he died.

Xerxes I, called the Great, was born in 519 BCE, ten years after Cyrus died, and was murdered in 465 BCE, burning the city of Athens fifteen years before dying.

Without invoking metempsychosis, it would seem difficult to assert that C & X were the same person...



#33103: — 07/28  at  04:53 PM
Actually, *all* the gods (well, all the Aesir) knew about the Ragnarok long, long before it happened. There was a prophecy, and all that.

Even the *name* means (approx.) `fate of the Gods'. They didn't just all know it was going to happen, they knew they'd all die in it and the universe would be consumed in flame, and they knew *how* they'd die.

(No, I don't know why they got up in the morning either. Perhaps not existing helped.)

Norse mythology is *strange*. It certainly explored the implications of foreknowledge in ways that Christianity, for one, persistently brushed under the carpet.



#33119: — 07/28  at  09:00 PM
Yes, all the asa ('Aesir') gods knew about it. I thought Oden made or first heard the prophecy; he was the 'all-seeing' god.

I think a better name is 'Viking' or perhaps 'Scandinavian' mythology since it was not confined to Norway.

It is strange, but it, like German mythology, supported activities like war and strife very well. Just as older christian mythology does.



#35948: — 08/16  at  07:28 AM
Simply open your eyes and observe. Observe to observe. Be aware of being aware. See what you are observing. You will be able to determine truth.,



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