
A selection of some of the stranger inhabitants from the darker
nooks and crannies of the internet.
Click the images to go to the website.
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Time Cube The universe is a spinning cube of time. Or something. Apparently everyone in the world is wrong, apart from this guy. If you can even get a vague hint of what he's talking about, you deserve a medal. Sample quote:
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Jack Chick Tracts Jack Chick creates and publishes little comic-book pamphlets explaining why atheists, homosexuals, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, evolutionary scientists and just about everyone else are evil and hellbound, and the only way to save yourself is to agree with his particular view of the world. Many of these insane rants are funny for all the wrong reasons. Also see the Jack Chick Parody Archive. Sample quote:
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Society For The Practical Establishment And Perpetuation Of The Ten Commandments Deranged rants about politics, religion, satan, atheists and homosexuals. You know, the usual stuff. Sample quote:
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Conan Thunder Warrior Group Not much of a webpage, unfortunately. These guys belong to a strange sort of philanthropic bodybuilder end-times cult. God is going to "attract" millions of dollars to them, which they will use to train orphans in speed-reading, critical thinking (!) and (of course) body building. They excitedly look forward to the coming Armageddon, in which they will fight for good with the spirit of God (sort of like Jedi Knights). Sample quote: (I've collected some of the sayings from the message board where I encountered "Warrior Seer", one of the group.)
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CAP Alert A Christian movie-review service (although they prefer to say movie "analysis"). They examine movies in detail to determine how well they score for Christian-ness, and rate them according to violence, hate, sex/homosexuality, drugs, offence to God and murder/suicide. Reading through their reviews, it becomes apparent that they often don't even try to follow the storyline (which may justify some of the things they object to) but just count up all the "hits" on their scorechart. For example, their review of The Matrix says : "The quintessential 'hero' is "the one" -- a modern Moses that has the answer to an unanswerable question. The hero was even portrayed as believing himself incapable of leading humanity out of from under the control of the computer Pharaoh. A little deeper inspection into the plot might even lead the observer to believe the producers were casting the central hero as Jesus. A most uncomfortable picture to paint before a Christian. .. A most sly movie......sly almost to invisibility about its position regarding the King of kings and Lord of lords, about His Authority, AND about our subservience to it." The list of things on which The Matrix was marked down includes: falls, graphic invasion of a human body by "mirror matter", exploding human preceded by rippling of his flesh, coaching to avoid fair authority, bar room with booze, Seven uses of God's name in vain with the four letter expletive and 5 without, mystic transcendental nonsense.
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Hollywood Jesus A Christian movie-review site which attempts to find hidden spiritual (i.e. Christian) meaning in movies. They have a large archive of reviews, where you can find out how "The Truman Show" or "Aliens" have secret Christian symbology and messages embedded in them. Sample quote (from the review
of 'The Phantom Menace'):
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The Natural Law Party A political party which feels that problems such as crime and unemployment can be adequately dealt with by hordes of loonies bouncing up and down on matresses, believing that they are somehow "flying" and emiting positive radiation waves which make the world a better place (this is probably not how they would describe it themselves, of course).
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Jasmuheen A "breatharian", she (apparently) sincerely believes that human beings need neither food nor water to live, but can be nourished purely through "prana" or God's Light. This will no doubt come as a surprise to the thousands of people starving throughout the world - if only they could afford to buy her books and videos... Sample quote:
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I Am Jesus Christ A loon who believes he is Jesus "in the genes". The website is quite difficult to read as he writes in incredibly long, rambling sentences with little or no punctuation. Also includes a lengthy list of miracles and signs that back up his delusion. Oh, and all products are colour coded for sinister reasons. So now you know. Sample quote:
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Demon Buster Everything bad (and a few good things) are not only caused by, but actually are real live demons. This includes the demons known as : ANTI SUBMISSIVENESS, QUARRELING, DOMINANCE, DAYDREAMING, HEADACHE, DEATH, CONFUSION, THEATRICS, SADNESS, UNITARIANISM, MORMONISM, JESUS ONLY , NOSE BLEED, MUSIC COUNTRY and DEJAVU
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The Enterprise Mission Richard Hoagland is one of the guys who promoted (and still promotes) The Face On Mars, as well as other "life on Mars", UFO and Egyptology nonsense. Publishes many books and videos, and is very active in the space-alien-conspiracy arena. The solar system appears to be littered with alien artifacts, and Hoagland is the guy to explain them to you. Specialises in examining fuzzy images from NASA space missions and finding all sorts of ruined buildings in them, as well as geometric clues to lost civilisations. Also into other kookery like Reverse Speech. Sample quote:
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HateWatch has sadly closed down, but The Dark Side of the Net has many examples of hate groups. |
White Supremacist Groups Too many to choose from, each one being as bigoted and ignorant as the last. Click on the image to the left to go to HateWatch, which lists white supremacists and many other online hate groups. These organisations are often Christian and anti-Semitic, as well as paranoid conspiracy theorists. Afterwards, you'll probably want to take a shower. Sample quote (from "The
Order"):
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David Icke One time sports commentator, Icke now devotes his time to exposing the hidden facts behind the fraud we know as society. The British Royal Family, for example, are shape-changing lizard aliens from space who drink blood. (What? You already knew that?). More reptoid malarkey can be found at Reptoid.com. Sample quote:
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John P. Boatwright A regular USENET user, Boatwright has spent years perfecting the art of Delusional Kookery. His usual response to any criticism is "Ha ha ha... God made it all, and Jesus died for our sins". All findings of science are clearly predicted in the Bible, and many images from the Hubble Space Telescope obviously depict passages from the BIble. He has a large archive of annotated images demonstrating this. He can be found in newsgroups such as talk.origins and alt.atheism. Also gets a mention in the a.a. Twit List and Kook List. There is also a summary of his ludicrous ideas about science. Sample quote:
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Dr. Dino Also known as Kent Hovind, a fairly typical young-earth creationist. With a flimsy grasp of basic science and the facts and theory of evolution, he insists that the universe is about 6000 years old and the book of Genesis should be taken as a factual account. As "Dr. Dino", he offers a $250,000 prize for anyone who can provide him with proof of evolution - but he is the one who decides whether or not the evidence should be passed on to the panel of judges (also selected by himself). For more on the good doctor, see The Wild World Of Kent Hovind and also the "Creationist Frauds" section of No Answers In Genesis. Sample quote:
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Jesus-Is-Lord.com A fundamental-Christian website, with unhinged rants against Catholics, atheists, Wiccans, anyone who does not use the King James Bible, Muslims, and the rest of the world in general. It's amazing how fundies can spout so much hatred in the name of their supposedly loving deity. Sample quote:
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Jesus, Dinosaurs and more A Bible-believing, anti-evolution young-Earth creationist site. For this sort of website, it actually has a quite reasonable attitude - no rants about Satan, and evolutionists being the tools of evil, or anything (although he does suggest that teaching evolution leads to suicide, murder and violence). The author simply believes creationism is right and science is wrong, and sets out to explain why. Unfortunately, along the journey he makes the usual errors and the page is filled with misconceptions about science and evolution, factual errors, and ad hoc explanations to allow him to fit the evidence to his beliefs (instead of the other way round). Sample quotes:
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The CIA is trying to control people's minds with the sinister and mysterious MK-Ultra Project Monarch operation. Luckily, Trance Formation are here to save your very mind and expose this cruel operation. Sample quote:
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The Twelve Tribes Of Israel Jesus was black. Most important people in history were black. Blacks, American Indians, Mexicans and others are the direct descendants of the original twelve tribes of Israel. The races should not mix. I saw this group first on Louis Theroux's Wierd Weekends. They claimed that in the year 2000 Jesus would return to Earth and kill the Pope. I didn't notice that happen - did you? Sample quote:
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Immortality Rings Want to live forever? Easy
- just buy some of Alex Chiu's "immortality rings" for your
fingers or toes. The magnets they contain restore the magnetic flux in
your body and enhance your metabolism. These widgets will reverse the
ageing process and make you young again. But be careful you don't put
them on the wrong way round, or you could get sick! Sample quote:
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Texe Marrs Texe produces books, video and audio tapes explaining how Satan works with the government to corrupt you and take over the world. This is a fairly standard fundy-conspiracy-endtimes website. Kooky, in a run-of-the-mill kind of way. If you want to learn about average fundy kooks, this is a good place to go. Plenty of archive material to read through as well - witches, illuminati, Satan, conspiracy theory, homosexuals all get a mention. Sample quote:
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God Hates Fags The website of the Westboro Baptist Church, and the infamous Rev. Fred Phelps. There's not a lot to say about these people other than that they sick, evil and humanity would be a better place without them. These are the mindless morons who picketed Matthew Shepard's funeral, gleefully pronouncing that he was burning in hell. Another one to avoid if you are easily offended. Sample quote:
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The Website of Anti-Porn Guy David does not like porn. David thinks you should go to prison just for looking at it. Birth control should be banned and you should go to jail for selling condoms. Oh, and he's not a racist but the races should not intermarry - 'cos God says so. Oh, and transvestites, adulterers and vampires should be killed. He also has some great ideas on a legally enforced national dress code and prison reform. Highly entertaining until you realise that a) he's serious, and b) he's allowed to vote and/or run for office. Sample quote:
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The Christian Gallery Not for the young or easily offended, this is one of the most infamous and disturbing websites on the entire internet. They were partially shut down for allegedly encouraging physical assaults (including murder) on doctors and other workers at abortion clinics. They like to display close-up photos of aborted fetuses and also had a gallery of some extremely hardcore (and bizarre) pornographic images from around the net. Also home to the equally looney (and scary) Creator's Rights Party, who want their state to secede from the Union by threatening the govt. with nuclear weapons. This is the real dark side of Christian fundamentalist thinking. Sample quote:
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I don't make this stuff up, you know. 8-)