I sort of agree
But an Icke-fan friend of mine showed me a DVD of him speaking in front of a theatre audience. Within the first ten minutes, he had proclaimed that algebra was a nonsense and there was no need for anyone to learn it. Whilst standing on stage lit by electrical lights, being recorded by video cameras from which the footage would then be encoded on DVD discs and played back on DVD players and LCD TVs. None of which would require algebra, right?

He also said in the first few minutes that the side-effects of prescription drugs were not side-effects, and that "they're the bloody effects, mate!" So he also believes that we as a species know enough about hacking the human body with chemicals that we can make any chemical we want that will have precisely the effects we want, with no drawbacks.

That sowed doubt in my mind about his ability to think properly.

Although the one about the moon being a secret alien base put there to spy on us is especially good, since it's only due to the moon that we have seasons, and without seasons no life would have evolved, therefore negating the need for an alien spy-base.
(Eukanuba, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 17:07, 4 replies)

I got the Breaking Bad boxset,
but my inability to solve simultaneous equations means I'll never be able to watch it.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 17:30, closed)

That only works
If you believe that all chemistry is a fraud and you think it should be banned. And then you go and watch it anyway.
(Eukanuba, Wed 16 Oct 2013, 8:34, closed)

I've had a similar reaction to him.
The lizard people thing gets me.
Perhaps he's just being metaphorical and obfuscating things?
A lot of the real world things he says about real things seem plausible so perhaps he's hiding behind a persona or starting a cult for commercial gain.
Isn't The Church Of SubGenious [sp?] something like that?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 18:37, closed)

I am the same,
He seems very insightful and accurate with a lot of his stuff, then comes out with the lizard people, holograms and the like. I tried to square it away as him being metaphorical, but he does seem to be being quite literal.

Who knows, though, maybe he's right about that as well. Some humans I know are stranger than his lizard people.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 0:46, closed)

I thought the seasons were caused by our distance from the sun.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 14 Oct 2013, 19:20, closed)

It depends what you mean by "our".
The seasons are when the North or South are angled towards the sun at the time.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 19:35, closed)

That does
have an effect, but the main cause is due to the tilt on the elliptic plane. The planet is actually closer to the sun during the Northern hemisphere winter.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 20:16, closed)

By our I meant me and other people in the area experiencing the same season.
So our distance from the sun caused by the tilt is around the same.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 14 Oct 2013, 21:49, closed)

The tilt is reckoned to have been caused
By a Mars-sized planet smashing into the Earth many years ago. The Moon then coalesced from some of the fragments.

So no moon, no seasons, no life.
(Eukanuba, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 22:41, closed)

He does tend to draw a lot of strange conclusions
and a lot of his stuff is a bit too weird for me. He strikes me as an extreme existentialist.

Watching him speak, though, it is amazing how much sense he makes a lot of the time, and seeing how many of his crazy predictions now seem to be accurate. Probably more through being connected to a large network of less mainstream information.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 0:44, closed)