Talk:Aetherius Society
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The members of the Aetherius Society clearly sincerely believe this stuff. However, their claims are generally treated with skepticism by others, many of whom regard them as a UFO cult. The article does not make this clear, and is written almost entirely from an Aetherius Society POV. -- The Anome 16:35, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
- I added a bit more criticism and critical sites here recently. The main criticisms I find, besides the widely held notion they are very odd, seem to be as followed.
- George King made many elaborate, as well as unusual and unverified, claims about his accomplishments in life. Including declaring himself archbishop and prince I believe.
- The group believes there is life on Venus, including "Master Jesus."
- The group believes in conspiracies of governments covering up information about UFOs.
They may not be quite as harmless as I originally wrote them up as being, but I admit this is simply a feeling and may be unfair. Because I did look for criminal or serious allegations, but the closest was the discredited idea they were a Communist front. So for now I'm keeping it as "intensely odd, but harmless" being sort of the general verdict.--T. Anthony 07:09, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Recent edits
I've ignored this for awhile. Many of the new edits seem fine. However if you are going to say that George King was legitimately made a prince and really did receive a doctorate I think you need a source. Especially on the prince deal.--T. Anthony 10:18, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
- He was made Prince of Santorini by an "Emperor of Constantine" - there's more at [1]. The "honour" looks entirely meaningless. Apepper 16:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Chernobyl
From the article:
- The Society also claims that approximately four hours before the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, Dr. George King received from his extraterrestrial contacts advance warning of an imminent, major catastrophe. It is a matter of record that the Society activated its Spiritual Energy Radiators in order to radiate power to mitigate this disaster, four hours and 23 minutes before the event itself, and that this unprecedented period of such activity continued for three days. It was only as this activity was coming to an end that the first traces of radiation from the accident were being detected in Sweden.
This smells a bit suspect. Is there any substantiation for this? The Holy ettlz 15:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
- It begs the question; how often did George King "receive" warnings like this - if it was once a month, then occasionally you'd get lucky (if you can call a nuclear disaster getting lucky!). Apepper 16:18, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
- I added some contradictory information from the Chernobyl disaster page. The radioactive dust was detected in Sweden on the day after the incident. Unless the Aetherians want to say that "towards the end" of the 3-day effort equals the very next day, I'd say it's a pretty good counter argument. The disaster page also says that the radiation was detected in Finland even before Sweden, but wasn't yet published... I don't know if the source I cited covers this claim as well, so I'm leaving it out for now. Cheers. DasBub 00:43, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] POV - a new Wikipedia Record!
In 1954, George King, then in London, England, was contacted by an extraterrestrial intelligence
This is uncited and, as a claim, must be some kind of record in the strength of evidence that would be required to make it plausable.
Apepper 16:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
- There is a utility in explaining what their mythos is and how they see this guy. When I tried to fix POV problems on this I just started out and didn't know much. It should've been clear though that the statement is what they believe happened, not what necessarily did happen. However I've added an "other views" section to the history segment.--T. Anthony (talk) 04:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
