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Yup! I found another one. Another NutCaseOfTheWeek.

This week’s NCOTW’s name is Wiley Brooks.

Wiley Brooks is a Breatharian.

What is a Breatharian? A Breatharian is someone who thinks he/she doesn’t need food (including water). Ever.

Not only does the seventy year old Wiley Brooks not eat, he also sleeps only between one to seven hours per week.

Interested in such feats? Wiley once was willing to teach you all this for only $5000! However, at some point, he decided that only a select number (5) of billionaires were eligible for his teachings, and he would only charge them one million bucks each. He recently opened up his academy again (not many billionaires showed up, I guess) and now everyone who he deems ‘ready’ can get the training for a measly $100,000.

A few excerpts from his webpage:

A Breatharian is a person who can, under the proper conditions, live with or without eating physical food. 

Hm.. silly definition: what’s this “with or without’ about? I though Breatharianism was about ‘without’. Period.

And it doesn’t say how long they can go ‘with or without’ food. Heck, I can live without (see: no sneaky ‘or with’ even!) food too! Been doing it for the past two hours. And what is physical food anyway? As opposed to spiritual food or something?

Wiley also has some very interesting (I think .. I didn’t finish reading them) notions about our planet (Future Earth, Transition Earth, and, conveniently, a Fallback Earth: read all about it on his webpage!). Here’s a clarifying quote on that Fallback Earth thingee:

Fallback Earth is distinctly falling away in vibration. Even though there are people incarnate there whose personal vibrations are and still rising, the broad base of its population stands now a vibration level spanning the range between 2.10 and 3.25. The gap between Fallback and Transition is widening, and soon the two versions of future Earth will be entirely separated, except for crossover points in the etheric. 

I’d really be interested in seeing the actual equation that yielded a vibration level range of 2.10 to 3.25! I though it would be much higher (or lower .. whatever). Oh well, at least there will still be crossover points in the etheric when the two versions of future Earth are separated. That’s quite a relief. Phew!

Another deep delving quote:

Converting the human body from a food-based energy to direct cosmic (“free”) energy is like converting a fossil-fueled home furnace to an electric heat pump. The distribution equipment-the ductwork-that distributes energy throughout the body may be maintained in place and will continue to function, though the source of its energy has been completely changed. In order to accomplish this in our bodies, the mitochondria will have to be either phased out or retrained. 

I’m not sure I’m ‘ready’ yet to have my mitochondria phased out or retrained, but if you, my dear reader, are really interested in these enlightning teachings, you will have to hurry: his generous (“starts at an initial costs [sic] as low as“) $100,000 offer ends January 1st, 2007, see his announcement here.

And if, and only if, you’re ready, that wonderful course will include “a visit to Earth Prime in the 5th Dimension in your physical body“.

The only caveat: “All workshop applicants must be pre-qualified by the Breatharian Institute” (I presume that the pre-qualification process involves a look at your bank account).

And of course: “No Refunds”

My question to my readers: Is this guy a con man, or simply a severely delusional nutcase?

 

See also:

Wikipedia (quote: Wiley has stopped teaching in recent years, so he can “devote 100% of his time on solving the problem as to why he needed to eat some type of food to keep his physical body alive and allow his (5D) light body to manifest completely.” .. and .. In 1983 he was spotted leaving a Santa Cruz 7-Eleven with a Slurpee, hot dog and Twinkies.
He told Colors magazine in 2003 that he periodically breaks his Fasting with a Big Mac and Coke, explaining that when he’s surrounded by junk culture and foods, consuming them adds balance. )

Recently I have accompanied guests on quite a few visits to the various theme parks in and around Orlando.
Yesterday we visited Disney’s Animal Kingdom. While I love the park, I always seem to forget, and find out too late, that other people, especially kids, are allowed entrance into the park as well. This is very unfortunate, since most of these people don’t have a clue as to how to behave around me.
I will deal with that in another post.

Anyway, that night I had a remarkable dream about a visit to a theme park.
It didn’t appear to be a Disney Park though. It had more of a ‘Holy Land’ theme.

It was laid out according to various Biblical books. It was huge, but I don’t recall all the details, just a few.
In the Genesis section there was a big tent where brothers could play Cain-and-Abel: they were given a blunt foreign object, and he who killed his brother was crowned “Cain” and got to go in unto his mother in order to prevent the human race from dying out right there and then, or so they were told.
Next to the tent was an Egyptian village, where the Nile ran through. Here parents could buy wicker baskets for their babies and place the baskets with their baby in the fast streaming Nile. A popular attraction.
Some houses in the village had bloody stains over the doors. This is where parents could have their first-borns killed by a deceptively real looking Archangel. Parents were complaining about the long lines.
Next to the village was a dry and hot desert-like maze, parents were encouraged to send their kids into the maze to learn about the ten commandments. They could pick up their kids at the other side of the park … 40 years from now.
The center of the Park was the Deuteronomy Plaza, where its most popular attraction was a terrace where parents, so instructed by Biblical law, could stone their children to death for disobedience.
Beyond this point the park would become considerably less crowded: for instance, only a few parents took advantage of experiencing first hand the pedagogical effects of shoving their kids into a lion den, with a fake Daniel and real lions.
The quarter called ‘Numbers’ though was closed. According to a big sign it was being subjected to a ‘re-count’.
But the real highlight was the New Testament part of the park, where, twice daily, one could witness a real, Florida-style botched capital punishment, involving real blood, actual guts and a hydraulic cross, that was so gruesome, real and authentic that even Mel Gibson would have lost his lunch over it. At the end of each crossing, the few remaining bystanders were given little wooden crosses dipped in real blood, to wear around their necks to show the rest of the world their remarkable lack of taste and decency. Proud like kids they showed eachother their bloody miniature torture devices, while they were talking about this deep sense of Love they were experiencing.
I must assume that the brain can only go sofar with weirdness in dreams, that if things get too insane, it has to give up, because here I woke up abruptly. And BOY, was I glad it was only a dream …

Just a link
Commentary link 

Just one word: Shit

If you believe in God and in miracles, I have a tip for you:

Leave the miracles to God

He’s a trained professional. Don’t try this at home!

If you really have to do that water-trick, then follow the bible: the correct order is:

first part the seas, then do your crossing.

 

If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin

*wipes foam off mouth*

I will probably respond to this later. It’s too soon after I read this. I need to sit down a bit for a while. Get my heart rate and blood pressure under control. 

I mean:

“Separation of church and state is ‘a lie we have been told’“?

This candidate for the US senate *gasp* calls her own nation’s constitution a lie?

“separating religion and politics is ‘wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers‘”?

Lady, go look up the meaning of the word ‘democracy’. This is neither Iran nor the Vatican. US citizens choose our leaders (check that constitution again!). In any case, if God chooses our rulers, why are you campaigning?

“God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.”“?

To claim to know God’s intention is pure blashpemy, or stupidity, depending on your religiosity, but in both cases extremely arrogant. The intention of the founding fathers, however, can be known, since they wrote it down. Mrs. Harris clearly doesn’t have a clue about her own country’s history.

She means to tell me that the founding fathers didn’t mean to establish the strict separation of church and state after one of them, Thomas Jefferson, wrote this (part of a longer) letter:

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.“

 

JUST after I wrote the post about ‘remnant prayer’, I came across an hilarious website that offered Armor of God Pyjama’s.

Hilarious, untill I realized these people are most likely serious about it. Just read it. I’m just speechless. Don’t know where to begin. Too crazy for words.

Okay, just one remark: see their about page and notice these two statements:

a. “although we are a new company, our desire is to grow” (followed by a lot of blah-blah, but what they want is to simply sell a lot of that crap .. I’m tempted to say “Holy Crap”).

b. “we believe in One God – God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit”

ad. b: Armor-of-God-folks, if you keep up this kind of arithmetic, or rather, basic counting, you’re probably not going to achieve your goal mentioned ad. a. 

Well, okay, maybe a second remark:

This whole idea was inspired by a mother reading Ephesians 6:10-18 to her children every night.

First of all, read it yourself here: imagine that this is read to you every night .. is that really going to give you a warm fuzzy feeling and helps you falling asleep feeling safe and well guarded? Flaming arrows from the evil ones? Would scare any kid shitless .. If they had a clue what it was all about.

But they don’t. They’re kids for crying out loud.

Heck, even mama doesn’t really understand what it is all about:

“Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

See that Mam? That helmet and that sword? It’s a (difficult word: look it up mam!) ‘metaphor’. It doesn’t mean a real helmet or a real sword, it means (read it again!) “the word of God“, whatever that means, but most definitely it does not mean a pyjama!

It’s not about man to man combat (could ‘our struggle is not against flesh and blood‘ be anymore clear?)!

It’s about fighting rulers corrupting power. It’s simply telling you to join the ACLU.

Just join the ACLU and don’t turn your kids into the joke of the day by forcing them to wear moronic PJ’s.

Please? Mam?

 

When I read about remnant prayer (English not being my native language I first read ‘rampant prayer, and thought .. ‘yeah!’) I had a quick look at the calendar to see if it was April 1st already.

Time flies you know.

Please read the details too: very informative!).

I feel so silly: every time I think things can’t get any crazier, I am proven wrong!

For sure, even devoutly religious people must see that this is a ridiculous joke scam. (Or will I be proven wrong on this statement too?).

Anyway, since they’re selling stuff .. can’t these people be sued and taken out of business for something or another?

Come to think of it: probably not, they nowhere claim that it actually works!

That’s brilliant: selling ‘prayer’ stuff … since prayer, despite various scientific studies showing the opposite, is ‘supposed’ to work, you don’t have to explicitly state that in your ads.

As for “We don’t concern ourselves about the complex technology of electronic broadcast”: so much is obvious, at least for them (we don’t receive broadcasts through a relay of antenna’s. No matter how many antenna’s you use, if you don’t have transceivers at each relay station, you’re not going to get very far).

It’s amost unimaginable that there are still people who do not know that, despite the first amendment, one cannot joke about explosives anywhere near an airplane or airport. Just like jokingly yelling fire in a crowded theatre isn’t a particularly smart move.

This guy however never got the memo …

Judge jailed for exposing himself during trials

So many  astonishing facts in one case!

1. that the guy did this.
2. that he did it so often and everyone and his brother seemed to know about it.
3. that folks were looking under his desk for semen.
4. that folks tried to take pictures of it.
5. that he got four years for ir. Sure, he deserves a slap on the wrist … but four years in prison? Who got harmed? Come on!

Insanity strikes again.

Sweden’s state broadcaster SVT on Monday faced ridicule for mistakenly showing a porn movie in the background of a news broadcast over the weekend.

Granted it was midnight, but still, can you imagine the uproar over such a thing if this would have happened here on CNN in the US?

I mean, if half the nation already goes bezerk when Janet Jackson flashes for what we can only assume is her right breast for three microseconds?

5 minutes of hard core porn on a Swedish TV channel and … “there had been no complaints from viewers about the mishap”

Culture gap?