That's a nice anecdote. Thanks for sharing. :)

Wait, bring out a bible to "fact check"? I think you need a different phrase there. According to your grandmother, how accurate are hoch's statements about the bible and biblical passages with regards to content?

I’m a religious person myself but I love the videos

my grandma would just lecture me about how the bible is always right and nothing else should even be considered.

I'm a biblical literalist and I enjoy his videos

what do you mean?

@@enderblazejames9487 I think most major religions all have some variation of a “great flood” myth, I’m sure there are other similarities between completely separated religions/cultures that are there as well

muslims believe prophets were sent down to all the people with the same message, then got corrupted u ntill the quraan

Not so much mass communication, as shared origin. The history of homosapiens is that there hasn't really been many homosapiens until very recently.

@@SamPlaysFunGames I believe the Great Flood was a real event that occurred at the end of the last ice age, personally.

Yeah kinda sad how they know they ain’t getting on the ship ( also the ship wasn’t the comet itself allegedly it was catching a ride)

"left behind to complete tasks and answer questions" you say? RRRRRiiiiiiggggghhhht.... Soooo very sssssssuuuuure of that. . . well then, I guess I'll be on my little mary way then... ....this doesn't leave the room, ok?.... and DON'T tell them this either or anything.... but am actually a group of squirrels all stacked up together wearing a human skin suit. we actually come from another planet seeking a new king that will restore our damaged society... one who will provide many nuts for us as well as a way to bury them in a way where we very evidently will by ANY circumstances NOT be watched... ever. . . for strangers will obviously plunder our riches and take them from us. This Needs to be kept from them because other interstellar traveling species are NOT to be trusted... for if they learn of our mission.... they will come to find our planet and seize our precious nuts from us. the things that there have been many bloody wars fought over for many century's. . . which is also why our society is currently suffering... damage. . . . from. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The only reason I know Heavens Gate still exist is because they sued Lil Uzi Vert.

@Marshal Marrs I know right? I Imagine if an advanced civilization come to visit us and the leader of these species says: What the f*ck?!? Why you people of earth are so crazy to say these things on us? There are no such things like: green/gray alien, reptilians, Annunaki, nordics, or what else, just you of earth, us, and maybe other spieces, but their are not like those "aliens" that you people believe. We are appeared thanks to Evolution, like you. No one has helped you in the past to develop your civilization, you are the responsible for this. No extraterrestrial civilization visit your planet for years with these so call UFO to study your world, this is the first time of the history that an advanced civilization visit your world. And the stories to kindap people for experiments or other bad things? We are not monsters, we don't kindap species from other planets or our species. This is why we don't visit earth. You humans have too many prejudices about everythings, you are also arrogant and suoerficial. And don't you dare to accuse us to be the responsible of the end of your species, you are destroying yourselfe. And about some humans that say "better to be an animal, because they are more better of the humans", well… they have rights, the animals are better of you humans

@@TheDeepThinker-sq3iy Is there a squirrel queen?

Based moment there. 👍🏽

The coolest part of that story, is that the letter did not come from ego. He wasn’t trying to disprove a potential fraud. He was trying to learn from a potential one-of-kind opportunity for exchange that was extremely unlikely to occur and if legit, would unlikely occur ever again. Carl Sagan was a true scientist. 👍 Worst case: Fraud gets rekt Best case: We get access to alien knowledge

Plot Twist: The letter back got lost in the mail. The answers are still out there till this very day.

@@rocketxiv4980 Indeed he was a really based scientist, open to any possibility but really down to earth.

@@QuintonRC23 Just send via telekinesis that your letter got lost, duh!

yes

I found the dweeb lol

It's still pretty wack tho

@@lefishe6611 the same thing could be said about all religions

@@chasethemaster3440 Fair

Because it's all made up.

lol you dont even know dude , this rabbit hole gets so much deeper. i can tell youre at lvl 1. If you want to know more look up the Vril Society. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ndOVY9Z7sc6ZqX0.html

Cuz nordic people are supposedly more pure alien? While the darker people are more mixed with the native population that was here before supposed nordic aliens came here and mixed with them🗿Yea smt like that

I think it means Nordic gods, myths and such. But i am just guessing, like Odin beeing humanoid but Alien.

@@arobotwithepilepsie6053 nah, it literally refers to aliens that just happen to look like 6 to 7 foot tall pale, blonde, blue-eyed people. one guy in the 50s said some Nordics picked him up and they had a good time basically. most investigators have concluded that that guy was just a con artist charlatan. and yet Nordics are now part of modern alien race canon, like the greys or reptilians. there's also cat people aliens but i don't care enough about this obvious bullshit to remember what they're called.

Also you can upgrade to demi-God level in the afterlife and you get your own planet to mess with. Damn they really do got some appealing points to not male you sin.

@@Ballin4Vengeance but you do have to engage in every LDS sacrament; including plural marriage. at least, that's what Smith taught.

@@TOBAPNW_ ain’t too shabby either… Ok kinda is.

What if the aliens are just us?

I'm an alien

The question you have to ask yourself is how did you come to that conclusion, and what made you think that way. You need evidence for such a hypothesis friend. God bless.

we are technically aliens to other aliens so...yeah

@@Stevie-J who realed us before we realed the real reals into realdom?

Same. Saw the title and was just so ready for it.

First comment lmao

Get of ma hed

Same

Exactly

Yeah your point is pretty good. I am religious and believe in aliens (not necessarily close enough that it matters to us, but out there somewhere)

If god created everything wouldnt that include aliens as well?

@@FlyingAlfredoSaucer Same. I'm religious too but I think I have common sense. It is quite narcissistic to believe that we are the only ones in such a large universe with different worlds that can have their own ecosystem. But this does not affect my faith in God, to whom I am grateful for the blessings I have. I don't think we'll have confirmed contact in this lifetime, but it's fascinating to think about other worlds and species.

@@alxofficial1541 can be, for all we know humans and animals are the only creation mentioned to be created by god in the Bible if ur a Christian buy it isn’t wild to imagine what if god had made other living creature not exactly what we imagine aliens to be. Demons are creatures not exactly humans sooo it’s safe to say there could be others or we are alone in this vast universe. It’s interesting nonetheless

@@tituspaul2345 so when he said let there be light. He was only talking about the light on earth? Wouldn't that be the sun? That would mean God created EVERYTHING! or at the least our Galaxy. Why would we wanna limit ourselves to only life on earth ? Makes no sense to me

Yeah i felt compelled to click !

The thing is: *today* the mainstream religions we have are more subdued and are not so wacky and cultish like those two, but are we sure this has always been the case? What if the way a religion becomes mainstream is first being super cultish and amassing power, and then after it has stablished itself, slowly become more PG so that it will spread better? I feel like we don't know enough about how religions are born to make a definite guess on this, which is why these UFO religions are interesting subjects to study in the first place. And, second, and perhaps most importantly, the Church of Scientology is known to be very sensitive to their public image and tends to pursue legal action against critics, as well as doing a lot of shady things to silence then, so I think it makes sense for Hochelaga to tiptoe around them when mentioning them.

@@nivircescrittore8304 I disagree, some of the largest mainstream religions have been completely open with their texts and doctrines from the very beginning, Islam and Buddhism for example. Some religions were and still are secretive (to a varying extent) as they weren't supposed to be preached outside of their ethnicity/culture, like Judaism, Druze, Yazidis. The only example of a religion I can think of that started as a cult and then changed to become a more open religion is Christianity (and the various related forms of Gnosticism).

@@theokra Fair enough. I guess being raised christian made me think of them first instead of Islam and Buddhism, that being said, the fact Christianity, the most practiced relligion in the world is the one of the mainstream religions with cultish inceptions still seems significant.

The difference between cult and culture is a critical mass.

Are you saying there aren't abusive practices in Christianity, Buddhism, etc and none of them have any secrets? Because we know that's not true.

Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken (1968). That might be it. 🙃

AMONG

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I believe those depictions of angels predate the use of wedding rings

A term can be useful when you find a unique application. Consider cult as a mini-culture. While a so-called subculture is a culture within a culture, a cult implies such a subculture that is deliberately insular versus a subculture that is not or less so.

Jesus is GOAT and outsold them all perioddddd

@@cloud2451 jesus is always missing in action. Just another story

Little green men from Mars will save us

@@cloud2451 Indoctrinated much?

@@carpo719 cause aliens are so helpful to humanity what would we do without them

Also, would like to see the Utsuro-bune incident adapted into an episode of Ultraman.

The Catholic Church would just love to have someone new to subjugate and abuse, the same way they did when they discovered the indigenous people of North America, Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, South America and every Pacific island.

Biggest plot twist of the century

Kind of related but you should check out people seeing white light when a near-death experience occurs. You can try to google it, or check it on youtube as well. It is a phenomenon and lots of people who experience them either become religious or have some altered perspective towards life. Because sometimes they see heaven, or hell or some paradise or talk to some entity. My father actually experienced this back then when he got rammed by a car and told me about it, I didn't care about it then, but grown up now, reading more and maturing and now turning a spiritual person after years of Atheism myself after realizations, it is kind of making sense. There really is more to what we know of today.

@@farewelltome. hard to see how nearly dying would make someone religious. A god that doesn't nearly kill you would seem like better thing to worship.

@@EinarEle Well, it is almost guaranteed all people living right now will eventually die

Because it doesn't fit with your own preconceived notions? Because you're starting with a conclusion and working backwards to try and find "evidence" that seemingly fits?

@@DukeOnkled no. Because its a ridiculous explanation that doesnt even make sense. If you read the original article of the incident you would know that it talks about a massive trianglular aircraft, spheres falling to the Earth in clouds of smoke and many different shapes cylinders, crescents, crosses and spears. Obviously its 1561 so they don't have the proper language to describe what could be alien aircraft. Non of it describes a sun dog even remotely which makes that excuse laughable.

@@alxofficial1541 I'll discount anything that inaccurately or insufficiently describes a certain phenomena, mainstream or not. I agree that the sun dog explanation for Nuremburg is ridiculous given the accounts and the depictions. There's clearly crashed smoking objects like the ones in the sky seen in the painting. While sun dogs DO describe a lot of the stuff you see depicted in biblical paintings of miracles and such, this particular event seems completely unrelated. There isn't even a ring of light depicted anywhere in the sky. To then go and say something like: "See? Maybe think about reality before jumping to conclusions and calling it aliens." is hypocritical. This isn't even in defense of ufos or aliens being the culprit in this Nuremberg case, just of common sense and equality of skeptical rigor. People will go to ridiculous lengths to debunk or explain away something they personally find ridiculous. Typically equally (if not more-so) as ridiculous as whatever theory they find ridiculous. "What could these UFOs be that were tracked by military clocking impossible speeds for any known aircraft that're causing such a ruckus in our national defense programs? That's really strange. Could it be some kind of technology the public and/or military's never seen before?" -> "OmG iT's JuSt A bIrD yA dUmMy aLiEns ArEn'T rEaL! LmAo! bEtTeR fInD yOuR TiNfOiL hAt! LoL!" By their own purported logic, it's should be equally silly to jump to conclusions that, while familiar to us, completely fail as a reasonable explanation for what's observed, as it would be to jump to a more likely, but unconfirmed (advanced tech of some kind), explanation that isn't familiar to us. What they fail or refuse to explain, they'll either ignore, or just settle on an equally ridiculous explanation that just happens to be something regularly observed. Then, they still have enough cognitive dissonance left over to chortle and insinuate you're an idiot for exploring alternative explanations (because you've already done the research to find out if there WAS a simple explanation) that they refuse to consider because they've already determined them to be silly based on "how they feel about it" and congratulate themselves on being "rational". People made fun of explorers coming back from Africa and describing Gorillas. Nobody believed them. People living in Europe had obviously never heard of them or seen them before, except for these "silly stories", and it took a long time for them to become scientifically recognized, despite being observed and reported by "silly sun-sick explorers" for decades. It's beyond me how people can dismiss extraordinary and unexplained things like UFOs and either totally write them off as either totally fabricated and irrelevant to any reasonable public discourse, as if it were a complete non-issue, or they outright betray their own reasoning in favor of overly simple, banal, and inaccurate explanations. That or they just outright ignore it because they don't care. I can at least sympathize with that last reason to dismiss it a bit more, though I definitely don't relate to it. At least they aren't trying to appear smart or superior at the cost of betraying what intelligence they actually have.

Atleast Christianity slowly devolve into atheist states… Islam on the other hand… *shivers*

@@Bluecheese1400 well put. Christianity has the possibility of allowing secularism, which leads to conditions for atheism and free thought. Islam on the other hand.. *shivers* *with* *you*

People back then didnt know cotton was a plant and thought there was a plant that sprouted little sheep

@@molotera8789 they still were people though, a piece of cotton could have looked a piece of sheeps fur to someone who didn't know about biology enough and in a world where people simply didn't have the resources to research this kind of stuff i could have seen them get to that conclusion. but there is no way that they would have made the association between a huge circle in a sky and cannons shooting each other. i have seen sun dogs myself and they are quite a peaceful phenomena. besides Nuremberg chronicles have already depicted sun dogs and it is nothing like the sky battle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog#/media/File:Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Sun_Dogs_(CCIIIv).jpg

I guess many just believe that medieval people were all braindead peasants, and that because we can't explain it it must be imagination/ a hoax/ a natural phenomenon. There sure is a lot of the latter, but the Nuremberg example specifically seems much more complex than just that and I think it's sad to just brush it off.

Exactly! The problem is obvious when the debunker ignores evidence that doesn't fit their "explanation" or narrative. The result is that these debunkers are the easiest to debunk.

You’re confusing Hollywood movies with reality. Humans are as advanced as can be, there’s nowhere within billions of light years where anything else is capable of space travel.

@@oskardirlewanger6083 Really? How do you know that?