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Time Cube is an incomprehensible "hypothesis", created by Gene Ray around 1997, that claims time is cubic. Interpretations vary, but the core appears to have had something to do with the earth passing through four simultaneous days in the course of 24 hours.
Ray was also a bit of a conspiracy nut, as evidenced by his assertion that we are taught to be stupid by "evil educators", and that only he knew the truth. It also had something to do with opposites. At least that's the impression we got, once our heads stopped spinning.
Time Cube was the single greatest weapon to combat mindless and repetitive debates about religion and the nature of god that occur endlessly in almost every corner of the interholes. You could copy-paste paragraphs from just about anywhere in the timecube.com rant and it would seem as though you are giving well thought out responses to the other people who are pounding their mushy skulls into the cyber-bulkhead of futility, and who would soon cease all discussions of such nonsense when mushy heads explode from exposure to timecube.
Central to Time Cube was (but of course) the idea of cubic time. Ray explained this poorly, if at all. This seemed to have been based on the "observation" that the Earth has four corners that sweep through four simultaneous days, each of which experiences its own time zone.
On the second page (yes, there's more), Ray posted several diagrams that implied that these four points are defined as "sun up", "midday", "sun down" and "midnight" (thus the points are defined in time rather than space). Ray explained in his own, uncharacteristically coherent, words: If Earth stood still, it would have mid-day, mid-night, sun-up and sun-down as 4 corners. Each rotation of earth has 4 mid-days, 4 mid-nights, 4 sun-ups and 4 sun-downs. The sixteen(16) space times demonstrates cube proof of 4 full days simultaneously on earth within one (1) rotation. The academia created 1 day greenwich time is bastardly queer and dooms future youth and nature to a hell.
Ignorance of 4 day harmonic cubic nature indicts humans as unfit to live on earth.
What is Baraminology?
Baraminology (pronounced with emphasis on the second syllable; also known by its Intelligent Design technobabble name "discontinuity systematics" ) is a pseudoscience that attempts to provide a creationist alternative to Linnaean taxonomy and cladistics, based on a Biblically literal young Earth world view. It seeks to redefine the meaning of the word "kind" as used in Genesis to mean a much wider group (a baramin, an ignorantly constructed portmanteau of the Hebrew words for "creation" and "kind", so literally "created kind"), which has since diversified into the species we know today.
Baraminology was invented ad hoc for the sole purpose of solving a major creationist and literalist problem: how to fit two (or seven) of every kind of animal aboard Noah's Ark without the number of individual animals (and thus the size and scope of both the vessel and of the animal rescue operation being undertaken by the senior citizen in question) instantly reaching whimsical proportions.
The 30-million-plus species estimated to exist today could not have fit, let alone survived, on any plausible boat — and the dimensions of the ark given and accepted by creationists puts a further hard limit on the size and scale of the boat creationists can work with. The modern invention of "baramins" is thus intended to allow for a scriptural reading which reduces the number of animals Noah would have to care for from the absolutely farcical to the "merely" highly implausible.
Many attempts have been made to make this into a science, and attempts to figure out what suitably counts as a "kind" have been published in creationist journals such as the Answers Research Journal. Most of these approaches, however, are subjective at best — and at worst don't even attempt to hide the desperation to shoehorn observations into the literalist Biblical narrative.
What is Cryonics?
Cryonics is the practice of freezing clinically-dead people in liquid nitrogen (N2) with the hope of future reanimation.
Scientists will admit that some sort of cryogenic preservation and revival does not provably violate known physics. But they stress that, in practical terms, freezing and reviving dead humans is so far off as to hardly be worth taking seriously; present cryonics practices are speculation at best, and quackery and pseudoscience at worst.
What is IDC?
Intelligent design creationism (often intelligent design, ID, or IDC) is a pseudoscience that maintains that certain aspects of the physical world, and more specifically life, show signs of having been designed, and hence were designed, by an intelligent being (usually, but not always, the God of the Christian religion). The concept is older than science, but only since the 1980s has the term "intelligent design" come into circulation. Supporters of intelligent design (termed design proponents, less respectfully, IDiots, or, once, cdesign proponentsists) usually claim that the idea is not based on Christian creationism, although the existence of the Wedge Document is a pretty big hint that there is a link. It appears to be some form of agnostic creationism, and creationism is inherently religious. Attempts to have ID taught in public schools have been defeated in court, and science papers proposing a "designer" usually cannot get past peer review — although not for reasons of prejudice against the subject matter. Intelligent design has been widely criticised for its failure to state what mechanism drives it, its lack of falsifiability, and many other problems that leave it lacking as a scientific theory. Where it has faced the scrutiny of the law, the US court system (apparently the only one to have considered the question) has appeared to consider it a form of Old-Earth creationism, making its teaching in public schools constitutionally impermissible under the Supreme Court's holding in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987).
What is Confabulation?
Confabulation, false memory, or less often pseudomemory is a term in cognitive psychology defined as a recollection of something that never happened. This can range from something as minor as misremembering an item on a list to fabricating an entire detailed, vivid memory out of whole cloth. While it is intuitively obvious that memory is fallible, a great deal of pseudoscience and woo is built on the idea that all or at least some memory is infallible, as in much anecdotal evidence. This assertion is unsupported by current evidence. Memory, in essence, is not akin to a tape recorder but a process that reconstructs past experience. This makes it highly susceptible to errors.
The foundational works relating to confabulation in memory were produced by Frederic Bartlett and Elizabeth Loftus. Bartlett drew on the work of Hermann Ebbinghaus and contemporary social psychology of the day (early 20th century) to describe the process of confabulation. Loftus, working from the 1970s on, laid the groundwork for research of confabulation in modern cognitive psychology.
Multiple psychologists in the field have strongly protested the work of Loftus claiming that it is both unethical and unscientific to attempt to diagnose an individual who has never been met by the diagnostician (the Goldwater rule). These psychologists cite multiple cases of corroborated repressed memory as evidence that simply because some people get it wrong doesn't mean they all do and that some people get some right and some wrong as is intrinsically discovered with most psychological memory experiments.
What is Pseudomathematics?
Pseudomathematics is any work, study or activity which claims to be mathematical, but refuses to work within the standards of proof and rigour which mathematics is subject to. Much like other pseudoscience, it often relies on ignoring proven facts and methods, making unsubstantiated claims of fact and ignorance and rejection of the work of experts. Unfortunately for practitioners of pseudomathematics, mathematics is an absolute science of black and white — everything is right or wrong (but sometimes fuzzy). There is not often scope for debate or discussion, as only mathematical proof is relevant. Pseudomathematics takes multiple forms, often focusing on disproving accepted facts or proving things which have been proven impossible. While a conventional mathematician is welcome to reject and attempt to disprove theories or prove something, they must work within the rigour and framework of mathematics. To attempt to refute a theorem, one must prove it to be false or find an error in the given proof. One cannot simply make an argument against it. Likewise, modern mathematics has proven various things to be impossible, and so to attempt to prove it without addressing the alleged impossibility is folly.
Common claims among pseudo-mathematicians often involves refutations of the works of Gödel and Cantor; attempts to solve compass-and-straightedge problems which were proven to be impossible in the 1800s; attempts to change the values of mathematical constants or to question the accepted nature of irrationality, transcendence or complex numbers. Pseudo-mathematicians may use convincing and sophisticated mathematical vocabulary, however their theories using such terms tend to be not even wrong due to the highly specific nature of the terms.
What is Pseudopsychology?
Pseudopsychology refers to pseudoscientific formulations of psychology. Although psychology has increasingly become associated with cognitive science in recent times, there is still no general unifying theory of psychology. This makes the demarcation problem in the field more difficult to assess. However, there are some schools of thought and erroneous claims that have been widely rejected within the field today. Psychology has also been applied to numerous fields and occupations, leading it to be rampantly used, misused, and abused by a wide variety of professionals and amateurs alike. The proliferation of pop and pseudopsychology has been a concern for psychologists and those in related fields from very early on, as is evidenced by Joseph Jastrow's debunking of psychological pseudoscience published in 1900.
What is Misotheism?
Misotheism is the hatred of God or gods. It derives its name from the Greek μῖσος "hatred" and θεός "god". Although the concept of hatred of gods and the belief that gods are worthy of hatred dates to antiquity, misotheism is a relatively recent term, appearing only in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
What is The Abydos helicopter?
The Abydos helicopter (a.k.a. the Abydos Submarine, the Abydos Jet Plane, the Abydos UFO, etc.) is a pseudoscientific modern myth that has been spread rapidly via the Internet concerning the singular appearance of a re-carved inscription in the mortuary temple of Seti I in Abydos, Egypt. It is claimed this carving depicts various high-tech or alien technologies, such as submarines, jet planes, and UFOs, thus playing into the theories that Ancient Egyptian civilization was either influenced or founded by aliens or Atlanteans.
What is Nuwaubianism?
Nuwaubianism is a sect promoting a bizarre mixture of anti-white racism, bunk about aliens, and Old Testament guff.
It was founded by convicted child molester Dwight York (b. 1945, also known by a multitude of aliases, including Malachi Z. York-El, Atume-Re, Isa Muhammud, Issa Muhammad, Abd Allh Idn Abu Bakr Muhammad, Rabboni Y’shua Bar El Haady, The Angel Michael, and Chief Black Eagle), who has described himself as "the Supreme Being of This Day and Time, God in Flesh".
The sect regards York as an alien from the planet Rizq, and at one point declared that, on May 5, 2000, he would return to his home planet with 144,000 followers while the rest of the world plunged into Armageddon. This does not appear to have happened.
What is The Law of Attraction?
The Law of Attraction (abbreviated LOA) is the "natural law" that thinking about some goal and behaving as though you'd already achieved that goal will cause the Universe to bring that goal closer to actually happening. To become rich, truly believe you are already rich. To win your sporting event, envision your victory in detailed technicolor. To gain someone's love, behave as if you already have it. The LOA is self-defending: failures of this method are waved off as "just not visualizing it" or "not truly believing it" and ignored. In short: "thinking about things makes them happen". Proponents try to wrap the idea up in pseudoscientific language, usually something to do with quantum physics. Thoughts form "energy fields" that "vibrate" with a "frequency" that attracts "like-energy" from the "cosmos" and all this somehow happens because of quantum probability waves or wave-particle duality. Your vibrations are a precious bodily fluid treasure that you should guard.
What is The Equation of Creation?
The Equation of Creation is an equation and argument promoted by creationist David Cumming. He argues that God has presented proof of Himself in the form of a simple equation that uses the frequency of the hydrogen fine transition line, the speed of light when converted, and Ω, which he defines not only as every numeral used in base-10, but also the difference in "weight" of the Moon compared to the Earth.