Hey believers! Where are the Quakers on the moon!?!

[_Mercury]

This was posted on the JREF site in the amazing Randi's newsletter:

QUAKERS ON THE MOON?

Reader Shaun Aisbitt from Ireland reports in again after a long illness which he says has left him crippled and has kept him away from the computer screen for a long while:

I read your piece on the Haré Krishnas (or ISKCON as they sometimes go by) and the Moon in Swift 23/2/07. No wonder they want the Moon landing to be a hoax. You see, they believe and teach Krishna (or Krsna) lives on the Moon now! So, men landing on the Moon in 1969 and for some reason not meeting Mr. Krishna up there, would show the falseness of their teachings! My wife was a devotee for three years before she escaped the cult of Krishna, and an alarming story it is, too, involving chases across two countries and people turning up with baseball bats at 3 a.m. to sort her out shortly after her escape. She told me many of the weird and wonderful teachings of the Haré Krishnas and that one about Krishna living on the Moon came to mind when I read your article.

It's funny though, as a cult researcher, I found out many years ago that Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, believed that men seven feet tall, dressed in Quaker clothes and wearing very high hats, lived on the Moon, and he prophesied that a certain young man named Oliver B. Huntington would be a missionary to the Moon – this was around 1837. This false prophecy was reprinted in Oliver B. Huntington's recollections – in “The Young Woman's Journal” – a Mormon magazine, in 1892. They deny it to this day, and certain Mormon Apologists who do venture to mention this to those who have discovered this disturbing bit of false prophecy and who might thereby “lose faith,” try to play down or suppress the prophecy and say Mr. Huntington was either misquoted or had “fanciful ideas.” I wonder if the Mormon church didn't try to hide this false prophecy prior to 1969, and if it was a general teaching instead of a specific prophecy given to a young man, would they join the Haré Krishnas and also be denying the Moon landing today?

Apologists save your breath. Yes, joe was a man, and yes he was speaking but as always he was speaking as a self proclaimed prophet of the Kolobian space god.

So since there are no quakers (or anybody) on the moon how does one wiggle out of this quandary without pulling the whiny/dodgy "he was speaking as a man" BS?

The answer is simple: He was lying/making sh*t up.

[_Jason Bourne]

This was posted on the JREF site in the amazing Randi's newsletter:

QUAKERS ON THE MOON?

Reader Shaun Aisbitt from Ireland reports in again after a long illness which he says has left him crippled and has kept him away from the computer screen for a long while:

I read your piece on the Haré Krishnas (or ISKCON as they sometimes go by) and the Moon in Swift 23/2/07. No wonder they want the Moon landing to be a hoax. You see, they believe and teach Krishna (or Krsna) lives on the Moon now! So, men landing on the Moon in 1969 and for some reason not meeting Mr. Krishna up there, would show the falseness of their teachings! My wife was a devotee for three years before she escaped the cult of Krishna, and an alarming story it is, too, involving chases across two countries and people turning up with baseball bats at 3 a.m. to sort her out shortly after her escape. She told me many of the weird and wonderful teachings of the Haré Krishnas and that one about Krishna living on the Moon came to mind when I read your article.

It's funny though, as a cult researcher, I found out many years ago that Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, believed that men seven feet tall, dressed in Quaker clothes and wearing very high hats, lived on the Moon, and he prophesied that a certain young man named Oliver B. Huntington would be a missionary to the Moon – this was around 1837. This false prophecy was reprinted in Oliver B. Huntington's recollections – in “The Young Woman's Journal” – a Mormon magazine, in 1892. They deny it to this day, and certain Mormon Apologists who do venture to mention this to those who have discovered this disturbing bit of false prophecy and who might thereby “lose faith,” try to play down or suppress the prophecy and say Mr. Huntington was either misquoted or had “fanciful ideas.” I wonder if the Mormon church didn't try to hide this false prophecy prior to 1969, and if it was a general teaching instead of a specific prophecy given to a young man, would they join the Haré Krishnas and also be denying the Moon landing today?

Apologists save your breath. Yes, joe was a man, and yes he was speaking but as always he was speaking as a self proclaimed prophet of the Kolobian space god.

So since there are no Quakers (or anybody) on the moon how does one wiggle out of this quandary without pulling the whiny/dodgy "he was speaking as a man" BS?

The answer is simple: He was lying/making sh*t up.

Are you aware that right around the time Joseph Smith made this highly speculative remark that there was a spoof in the new papers where it was claimed that some scientist actually had proof of men on the moon the looked or dressed like Quakers? He was simply indulging in discussing a "contemporary issue of the day. Nothing more.

[_Mercury]

This was posted on the JREF site in the amazing Randi's newsletter:

QUAKERS ON THE MOON?

Reader Shaun Aisbitt from Ireland reports in again after a long illness which he says has left him crippled and has kept him away from the computer screen for a long while:

I read your piece on the Haré Krishnas (or ISKCON as they sometimes go by) and the Moon in Swift 23/2/07. No wonder they want the Moon landing to be a hoax. You see, they believe and teach Krishna (or Krsna) lives on the Moon now! So, men landing on the Moon in 1969 and for some reason not meeting Mr. Krishna up there, would show the falseness of their teachings! My wife was a devotee for three years before she escaped the cult of Krishna, and an alarming story it is, too, involving chases across two countries and people turning up with baseball bats at 3 a.m. to sort her out shortly after her escape. She told me many of the weird and wonderful teachings of the Haré Krishnas and that one about Krishna living on the Moon came to mind when I read your article.

It's funny though, as a cult researcher, I found out many years ago that Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, believed that men seven feet tall, dressed in Quaker clothes and wearing very high hats, lived on the Moon, and he prophesied that a certain young man named Oliver B. Huntington would be a missionary to the Moon – this was around 1837. This false prophecy was reprinted in Oliver B. Huntington's recollections – in “The Young Woman's Journal” – a Mormon magazine, in 1892. They deny it to this day, and certain Mormon Apologists who do venture to mention this to those who have discovered this disturbing bit of false prophecy and who might thereby “lose faith,” try to play down or suppress the prophecy and say Mr. Huntington was either misquoted or had “fanciful ideas.” I wonder if the Mormon church didn't try to hide this false prophecy prior to 1969, and if it was a general teaching instead of a specific prophecy given to a young man, would they join the Haré Krishnas and also be denying the Moon landing today?

Apologists save your breath. Yes, joe was a man, and yes he was speaking but as always he was speaking as a self proclaimed prophet of the Kolobian space god.

So since there are no Quakers (or anybody) on the moon how does one wiggle out of this quandary without pulling the whiny/dodgy "he was speaking as a man" BS?

The answer is simple: He was lying/making sh*t up.

Are you aware that right around the time Joseph Smith made this highly speculative remark that there was a spoof in the new papers where it was claimed that some scientist actually had proof of men on the moon the looked or dressed like Quakers? He was simply indulging in discussing a "contemporary issue of the day. Nothing more.

Mhmmm, and magic underwear was a giant practical joke played on joe to see who was gullible enough.

[_moksha]

How do we know he was speaking of our moon? Is it not possible that that he was speaking of the posterity of Oliver B. Huntington, serving a mission to the Quaker-like Ewoks on the Forest Moon of Endor? Consider this possibility before you put down Mormons!

[_Mephitus]

didn't he give the prophecy/story about the quakers on the moon at the same time he was giving naming and referance as to what the ancient lamanites called/considered the moon? As such, it would stand that he was speaking about the same subject.