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		<title>SKEPTIC Admits Reading Billy Meier Predictions… Foretold BEFORE Events Occurred!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rising skeptical star eclipsed by super-nova, the dark, skeptical night illuminated by Germanic Jennifer’s close encounter with the truth  A young astronomer, who bills himself as a skeptic – rather than a scientist – may have bitten off more than he can…Chew*. Stuart Robbins, who specialized in targeting the flimsy claims of lightweight paranormal theorists, [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Rising skeptical star eclipsed by super-nova, the dark, skeptical night illuminated by Germanic Jennifer’s close encounter with the truth </em></p>
<p>A young astronomer, who bills himself as a skeptic – rather than a <strong><em>scientist</em></strong> – may have bitten off more than he can…Chew*. Stuart Robbins, who specialized in targeting the flimsy claims of lightweight paranormal theorists, has himself been skewered – and embarrassingly so – by one of his own fellow skeptics.</p>
<p><strong>Gravitational Collapse</strong></p>
<p>On a recent <a href="http://pseudoastro.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/new-interview-on-the-conspiracy-skeptic-podcast/">blog</a> Robbins again chose to go after Michael Horn’s claims regarding the evidence in the Billy Meier case. As the predictable attacking, skeptical responses mounted to Horn’s rebuttals, along with demands he prove that there was verifiable documentation from Wendelle Stevens to support Meier’s claims, an unexpected thing happened.</p>
<p>A German-speaking skeptic named Jennifer mentioned (<a title="post 93." href="http://pseudoastro.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/new-interview-on-the-conspiracy-skeptic-podcast/" target="_blank">post 93.</a>) having read Meier’s German language book, ‘Existentes Leben im Universum’. The book, first published in <strong><em>1978</em></strong>, not only accurately predicts the discovery of a then unknown comet <strong><em>and</em></strong> that it would be named <a href="http://www.theyfly.com/A_True_Prophet_Revealed.html">Toutatis</a> – it also contains Meier’s accurate prediction that two unknown planetoids beyond Pluto would be discovered around the turn of the century.</p>
<p>Thus, Jennifer becomes the first skeptic** to admit having read <strong><em>two </em></strong>examples of Meier’s prophetically accurate information, verifiably published years, and decades, <strong><em>before</em></strong> the “official discoveries” were made.</p>
<p>Robbins’ reaction to such stunning, heretical and personally embarrassing news supporting Meier’s authenticity, and to subsequent requests by Horn for accountable and professional, scientific conduct, was…<strong><em>stony silence</em></strong>. He had catapulted himself – and <strong><em>any</em></strong> credibility – into a black hole.</p>
<p><strong>Volcanic Implications </strong></p>
<p>The significance of this is even greater than it may seem. The issue under dispute at the point at which Jennifer serendipitously demolished Robbins’ pseudo-science, was Meier’s prophetically accurate information that Jupiter’s moon, Io, was the most volcanically active body in the solar system. The skeptics, of course, claimed that Meier either backdated, or retrodicted, the information.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://theyfly.com/Wendelle-Stevens-Jupiter-Io.html">documentation</a> that Horn provided rebuts such unfounded, defamatory claims, proves Wendelle Stevens’ prior possession of the information and also just happens to refer to, and confirm, the prophetically accurate Pluto information.</p>
<p>Could one ask for anything more? Well, even if they didn’t, indeed <strong><em>more</em></strong> exists.</p>
<p><strong>And Now, Back to the Future </strong></p>
<p>Meier actually <strong><em>first </em></strong>predicted the discoveries regarding Pluto’s satellites…in <strong><em><a href="http://theyfly.com/lost/meier.prophecies.1958.htm">1958</a></em></strong>. That makes a chain of <strong><em>three</em></strong> publications foretelling the planetoids beyond Pluto, going back to 1958.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be wise to study <strong><em>the rest</em></strong> of the prophecies contained in Meier’s two letters (going back to <a href="http://theyfly.com/lost/sfath.prophecies.1951.htm">1951</a>) as well as all of the other <a href="http://theyfly.com/Prophecies_Predictions.html">prophetic and predictive</a> information he’s since published…and try to make some course corrections in time?</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it especially be prudent to (re)visit the <a href="http://theyfly.com/prophecies/prophecies.htm">Henoch Prophecies</a> and what they bode for America (and the rest of the world), especially in light of rather foreboding information pertaining to possible forthcoming <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8666756.htm">attacks from Russia</a>? Even for those who can <a href="http://theyflyblog.com/you-cant-handle-the-truth/09/01/2011">handle the truth</a>, the implications are both mind-blowing and frightening.</p>
<p><strong>Gaseous Clouds </strong></p>
<p>It’s time that Robbins, Phil Plait, Stephen Novella, Michael Shermer, James Randi, Seth Shostak et al, stop their adolescent snickering, and their portraying of Meier as some kook. The unimaginable havoc and damage from the impact of the <a href="http://theyfly.com/Red_Meteor.html">Red Meteor</a>, aka asteroid Apophis, could be another cost of their cynicism.</p>
<p>So long as Robbins, who’s gone from seeking the starlight to being stuck like a deer in the headlights, continues to define himself as a skeptic he will remain a pseudo-scientist, like his cohorts. And until we have <strong><em>evidence</em></strong> to the contrary, perhaps the conjecture that *Chew and Stu and maybe a few…other anonymous skeptics are one in the same person may not really be such a wild one – at least for a skeptic, right?</p>
<p>**Jennifer is not however the first skeptic to help support the authenticity of the Billy Meier UFO contacts. Please see <a title="this information" href="http://theyfly.com/Swiss%20Skeptic%20Photographs.htm" target="_blank">this information</a>.</p>
<p>NOTE: Please also see the Comments sections <a href="http://theyflyblog.com/scrutinizing-supercilious-steve-the-pseudo-scientific-skeptic-2/09/13/2011">here</a> and <a href="http://theyflyblog.com/the-answer/09/14/2011">here</a> for examples of what happens when either Robbins, or his equally pseudo-scientific supporters venture outside of the relative safety of their cultic online compounds.</p>
<h5><span style="color: #888888;">Copyright 2011 - All Rights Reserved. Please do not copy or reproduce the content on this blog for re-publication without the author/s written permission. Thank you.<br /></span></h5><p><a href="http://theyflyblog.com/skeptic-admits-reading-billy-meier-predictions%e2%80%a6-foretold-before-events-occurred/09/15/2011" rel="bookmark">SKEPTIC Admits Reading Billy Meier Predictions… Foretold BEFORE Events Occurred!</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://theyflyblog.com">They Fly</a> on September 15, 2011.</p>
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		<title>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Mars</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over-inflated, bruised egos may be among the biggest obstacles to overcome in order to accelerate our journey to the planets and the stars I had no sooner posted my blog about Stuart Robbins, the protégé to Phil Plait, then someone sent me a link to Plait’s latest blog at Discover Magazine about recent NASA discoveries [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Over-inflated, bruised egos may be among the biggest obstacles to overcome in order to accelerate our journey to the planets and the stars</em></p>
<p>I had no sooner posted my <a href="http://theyflyblog.com/stars-in-his-eyes/08/04/2011">blog</a> about Stuart Robbins, the protégé to Phil Plait, then someone sent me a link to Plait’s latest blog at <a title="Discover Magazine" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/08/04/more-evidence-of-flowing-water-on-mars/" target="_blank">Discover Magazine</a> about recent NASA discoveries of water on Mars. Of course, as had been pointed out previously, Billy Meier had already <a href="http://theyfly.com/WILL_HUMANITY_WAKE_UP.html">published information</a> about the presence, and discoveries, of water there as far back as 1976 and 1987.</p>
<p>Obviously, it wasn’t something that the know-it-alls wanted to acknowledge then and they certainly don’t want to now. It seems that scientists are just like any and everybody else seeking their 15 minutes in the spotlight, meaning that they will go to great lengths to not only get it to shine on them but to try to pull the plug on anyone else that they feel may be a threat to their public ambitions and aspirations.</p>
<p><strong>Maybe Discover Magazine Doesn’t Want To?</strong></p>
<p>Okay, so I quickly rushed to post a provocative comment on the blog. And can you imagine my surprise when it failed to show up…even after two attempts?</p>
<p>“Wow, water on Mars, really? Do you mean kinda like what&#8230;Billy Meier first published in 1976 (with more in 1987), which can be found here:</p>
<p><a title="Will Humanity Wake Up...in Time?" href="http://www.theyfly.com/WIL L_HUMANITY_WAKE_UP.html" target="_blank">Will Humanity Wake Up&#8230;in Time?</a></p>
<p>Gee, what a clever &#8220;hoaxer&#8221; he is indeed. Good thing we have these sharp young whipper-snappers to set us straight about that!</p>
<p>Heck, one day we may discover that there really are &#8220;<a title="closed space bulges" href="http://www.theyfly.com/Space_Bulges.htm" target="_blank">closed space bulges</a>&#8220; that are the opposite of black holes&#8230;as Meier reported in 1986.</p>
<p>Maybe it&#8217;s not such a bad idea to get some scientific and astronomical information from someone who&#8217;s&#8230;been there.”</p>
<p><strong>Allergic to the Truth?</strong></p>
<p>Okay, so maybe it was the fact that I had links in the post that stopped it. So I tried it without links, two more times. No luck. Was I detecting the petty, envious hand of Phil Plait…<strong><em>again</em></strong>? Having been <a href="http://skepticblog.org/2009/12/30/do-astronomers-see-ufos/#comments">challenged by me</a> before to use his own criteria to evaluate Meier’s evidence, Plait had simply checked out for parts unknown. Some “scientist”.</p>
<p>It’s bad enough that the skeptics went through all sorts of gyrations to try to prove that Meier either backdated his stunningly accurate <a href="http://theyfly.com/Jupiter.htm">Jupiter information</a>, or that he got important details wrong. So invested in their own tiny, myopic prejudices, so desirous of floating their own inflated egos over and above all else, these pseudo-scientists ignore the basic requirements of real, objective scientific inquiry, Had the information from Meier about Jupiter, for instance, been only a solitary, lucky guess adrift in a sea of wild speculation and incorrect information, it would be completely understandable to ignore the majority of his claims. But such is clearly not the case.</p>
<p>And it would be easy for any <strong><em>real</em></strong> scientist, and not just some current aspirant to be the next Carl Sagan, to discover the facts about the huge body of scientific information that is liberally spread through thousands of pages of Meier’s published information, in plain sight for all to see. But don’t expect it from the Phil Plaits, Michael Shermers and even Neil deGrasse Tysons, all of whom seem strangely allergic to venturing where few have gone before…in search of the real truth.</p>
<p><strong>Shining the Light in Dark Corners</strong></p>
<p>Do know, dear reader, that I have made more than a few handfuls of attempts to reach these “brilliant” fellows. Over-inflated egos are often quite fragile at their core. The need to exalt oneself as some form of “expert” – especially in light of the still relatively primitive level of actual scientific knowledge we possess – is a rather pathetic thing and often costly to real progress. Unfortunately, however, there always are those who try their hardest to hold back, suppress and even eliminate the greatest among us, and to try to make themselves look important more important. They are quite often aligned with religious forces; and nowhere is the dogmatic grip of antiquated belief systems more obvious and damaging than when it’s administered by the practitioners of the thinly veiled religion of skepticism.</p>
<p>Of course when one shines the light of truth on these shadowy forces in dark corners they can become very evasive. Such is the case with the poseurs at <a href="http://theyflyblog.com/792/07/14/2011">Point of Inquiry</a>, who chose a rather ignominious, cowardly retreat in the face of my challenges to take an objective, critical look at the Meier case. To the many pieces of correspondence from readers of my blog (copied to me), in support of such a program, not one response from these professional skeptics has been reported.</p>
<p>The thought that Meier had already trekked around Olympus Mons on Mars*, on the company of the Plejaren, would certainly be too much to entertain in the minds of these self-appointed “knowledgeable ones”.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>*On January 28, 2011, Christian Frehner of FIGU Switzerland, confirmed that Meier had indeed walked around on the volcano Olympus Mons, during one of his visits to Mars with the Plejaren.</p>
<p>Also, at an earlier time, Semjase explained to Meier that exotic biological life forms live on Mars that feed off of all biological life, something that is not yet understood by Earth scientists. It was actually a reminder to Meier that Asket and Sfath had previously explained this information to him. (See: <a href="http://theyfly.com/products/products.htm#mftpv3">Message from the Pleiades, Volume 3</a>, Page 216)</p>
<p>Perhaps in the near future I will have the opportunity to also link back to this article for the purpose of pointing out that a “new discovery on Mars about unusual biological life forms”…really isn’t that new at all.</p>
<h5><span style="color: #888888;">Copyright 2011 - All Rights Reserved. Please do not copy or reproduce the content on this blog for re-publication without the author/s written permission. Thank you.<br /></span></h5><p><a href="http://theyflyblog.com/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-mars/08/06/2011" rel="bookmark">A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Mars</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://theyflyblog.com">They Fly</a> on August 6, 2011.</p>
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