Nibiru, doubtless you’ve been made aware of this pseudoscientific, utterly preposterous, inane bullshit. For those who haven’t yet had the misfortune To encounter it, I shall present a brief summation.

 

http://www.crystalinks.com/nibiru.html

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa021102a.htm

 

Now, you can imagine the lengths to which this sort of thing has been taken with the 2012 crowd. In 2012, Nibiru will obliterate Earth when its orbit comes into conflict with ours, asteroids and destruction will reign down from the planet of our progenitors. And then, unexpectedly, Jesus will fly down on a chariot “made of chocolate feathers,” …

 

In truth it does no good to dispute these claims, because those who make them are certain, they KNOW the truth of their statements, they have Zecharia Sitchin!!!

Kind of like the scientologists have L. Ron Hubbard, or the Heaven’s Gate cult had Marshall Applewhite, People’s temple had Jim Jones, Well, perhaps it’s a bit unfair to compare an “academic” to leaders of suicide cults. Nonetheless, the principle remains the same–blind faith in self-appointed leaders whose purpose is to provide a sense of the sacred after the end of Christianity’s stranglehold on civilization. This end was brought about by the enlightenment–which lead to its own problems, such as the domination of instrumental rationality–but that’s for another post. The point here is that with religion no longer a credible conception of the world, thanks to science and natural explanations for religious phenomena, people have to look elsewhere for their sense of mystery and mysticism. This all springs from a desire to place humanity above nature, to provide people with an impression of their own significance. We’re special!! We were created by aliens; they placed 20 percent of their genetic material in us!! Or, we’re saved, Jesus loves us, and he’s gonna take us with him when the world comes to its inevitable end as foretold by the bible! You know, the bible, with the talking snake, the man swallowed by the whale, or the children who mock Elisha and are subsequently torn to pieces by bears, the worldwide flood that archaeologists don’t believe ever occurred, … a paragon of verisimilitude if ever there was one.

 

It’s all so patently infantile.

 

 

Z