This thread is a godsend.

[itsaname]

rr-bb.com/showthread.php?152305-Breatharians-Is-this-guy-for-real-or-is-it-a-hoax
Just read this thread. It's hilarious.

[erictheblue]

To their credit, most realize the claim is impossible. While going without food for a few weeks is possible (though risky), going without water is deadly.

[Tiger]

I like the post where the mod edited out links to and information about an organization they disagreed with. And the poster wasn't even referring to them favorably.

Do they still pretend to support freedom of expression?

[Mlle Antéchrist]

^^ I found it amusing that they also appear to have edited out the word "crap". Onoz, a quasi-swear, everyone run!

Irony meters have official gone extinct.

Hard to believe people are believing this just because someone claims it's true and it's hit the media.

Good Grief people have lost their minds to just accept this as true.

Exactly...some of the stuff he's peddling seems like it could be something that people somewhere actually subscribe to, as weird as it is...there are plenty of strange cults around after all...but then there are other things that are so ridiculous it makes me think that it's just a hoax or a joke instead of an actual belief system.

Anddddd, further evidence that RR doesn't actually know what the ToE states (like we needed any more):

it is interesting to note that we can see 3 possible scenarios that might occur after the rapture:
1. the Aliens took us
2. the evolutionary pull of the world has finally rid itself of the unwanted and can now be cleansed, and can move into the next evolutionary process
3. the so-called "god" claimers of this world, will have a chance to stand up and say "I told you so, I was right all along."

Knowing the world's love for the ridiculous hypothesis (it doesn't qualify to be a theory) of evolution, my guess is #2 will be the popular choice closely followed by #1.

The "ridiculous hypothesis" DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY

[MaybeNever]

SILENCE! EVOLUTION IS MAGIC AND POSSESSED OF VOLITION!

[Admiral Lithp]

Or skepticism.

1: Most atheists do not believe in alien abductions, because there is about as much evidence for them as...most religions.

2: Evolution does not work that way. I'd be more inclined to believe it if they blamed black holes, because at least black holes traditionally suck matter away. It still wouldn't make any sense, but it's more accurate of a straw man.

3: Assuming I wouldn't believe the explanation they push now, why would I believe ANY religious explanation?

[Mlle Antéchrist]

^^ Hell, most of mainstream society views alien abduction as more or less being science fiction. Just goes to show how out of touch these people are.

[Admiral Lithp]

It also goes to show us what they think would be a sensible explanation to a bunch of people mysteriously disappearing, if they didn't already have a ridiculous explanation for it.

[Mlle Antéchrist]

Thing is, there are enough people who know about the rapture myth that if it did happen, I have a really hard time believing that most of them would reject god as an explanation, especially when all of the people who disappear just so happen to be rapture-believing Christians. They always handwave it with that crap about "the great delusion" (aka "magic!"), but that ultimately just makes their god look like even more of a dick.

[Admiral Lithp]

Well, if you're talking to someone who doesn't suck at making shit up (ironically), then it could be done. If you made people who weren't Rapture believing Christians disappear, censored the media, possibly triggered something a disaster that would hide the evidence (or lack thereof) of a magical disappearance, you could make a pretty effective smokescreen. But "aliens, evolution, &/or Crystal Dragon Jesus" did it just isn't going to cut it. The only reason to believe it would is either projection or assuming that your skeptics are just so stupid & gullible that they'd fall for ANYTHING that wasn't True Christianity (tm).

Which brings another problem: How in the bloody Hell are any of those explanations supposed to sway ALL groups of non-believers? We're talking atheists, Jews, Hindus, every denomination of Christianity besides pure batshit insane protestant, Muslims, & Buddhists, just to name a few. Pretty sure at least some of those will go, "Aliens? Evolution? A false God? What the fuck is the One World Government smoking?"

[Shane for Wax]

The link is to Fox news... what does that tell you about it being a hoax?

[The_L]

Dec 23, 2010 19:26:42 GMT -5 erictheblue said:

To their credit, most realize the claim is impossible. While going without food for a few weeks is possible (though risky), going without water is deadly.

Sadly, there actually are Breathanairians. They honestly think you can do that. The leaders of the movement, of course, don't believe any of what they're selling to the extremely gullible.

One lady got a Darwin Award about a decade back for actually trying to live without food or water.

[Tiger]

Dec 24, 2010 4:17:24 GMT -5 The_L said:

One lady got a Darwin Award about a decade back for actually trying to live without food or water.

Aaaand this is the point at which First Amendment rights come screeching to a halt. Or should, anyway.

[goonerboy]

For those of us whose IPs have been banned from RR, can somebody give us the gist of the thread?

[Shane for Wax]

The only humanoid creatures I know that can survive only on air and some tiny bits of water are Namekians.

/DBZ nerd