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Ron Pisaturo

Ron Pisaturo is an actorhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685436/#actor, writerhttp://www.ronpisaturo.com/PlaysAndScreenplays.htm, self-proclaimed philosopherhttp://www.ronpisaturo.com/Philosophy.htm, and batshit crazy Supremely Rational™ adherent of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. Among the positions which he advocates is the belief that the first human or group of humans to land on Mars should be able to claim ownership of the entire planet for themselveshttp://www.marspapers.org/papers/Pisaturo_1999.pdf, and that the War on Terror can best be won by nuking most of the Middle East, thereby killing large numbers of innocent men, women, and children savages, and leaving a large amount of land which can be colonized by rational, moral 'Murricans.http://ronpisaturo.com/WhyAndHowToConquerTheSavages.htm
In addition to this, he claims to be the founder and former president of the American Renaissance School, a private school which he claims maintains "high academic standards" http://www.ronpisaturo.com/ A cursory search of the school's website did not reveal any mention of his name.http://www.arsnc.org/index.php/search/?query=pisaturo This Google Group mentions him as a founder https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/humanities.philosophy.objectivism/x0BB_PzS43I A former student Peter Bertine attests that he was a founder of the school who encouraged professors to bully him https://www.quora.com/What-was-Ayn-Rand-wrong-about/answer/Pete-Bertine?share=280119ef&srid=YJAL
Notable among those associated with libertarianism, he opposes same-sex marriage.http://ronpisaturo.com/blog/2013/03/28/i-am-married-to-a-woman/
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Ron Reagan

Ronald Prescott "Ron" Reagan (born 1958) is an American former talk radio host and MSNBC news commentator. He is most well known for being the son of Saint Ronald Reagan, despite his liberal views and position as an atheist.
==Politics==
Ron Reagan's approach to politics comes from the other side of the fence than that of his father. 
Ron is a critic of Dubya. He has criticized Bush's opposition to stem-cell research using embryonic cells, which Ron believes could be used to find a treatment for Alzheimer's disease (which his father suffered from and eventually died from). Ron has also accused the Bush of "cheating to get into the White House" and "hijacking" his father's legacy.Johnston, Jenifer. Reagan Junior Warns Bush: 'Stop Hijacking My Father's Reputation'⁠. Sunday Herald. September 26, 2004. Ron ultimately roasted Dubya in an article he wrote for Esquire, titled "The Case Against George W. Bush".
Reagan was a supporter of Democratic Party candidates John Kerry and Barack Obama,Reagan, Ron. Making It Official: I Endorse Barack Obama Huffington Post. October 31, 2008. and later endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Primary.Ralph, Elizabeth. Politico. September 16, 2015.
==Atheism==
Unlike his father, who was a Presbyterian, Ron Reagan identifies as an atheist. He has stated that he would never run for any political office because of this, as "polls say that people won't elect an atheist." Ron has said that he likes Buddhism, though he does not affiliate with any organized religion.
Ron is a member of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and in 2010 he was named to the organization's honorary board of distinguished achievers. In May 2014, Ron Reagan appeared on a commercial hosted by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, in which he smugly proudly declared himself "an unabashed atheist" who was in fact "not afraid of burning in Hell."
==Relationship with his brother==
It can be assumed that Ron and his adopted big brother, Michael Reagan, may not get along quite well. They differ in views on religion, politics, their father's reputation, and, well, basically everything. As a matter of fact, Michael called Ron "an embarrassment" for making the claim that their Pa may have suffered from early onsets of Alzheimer's during his presidency in his memoir My Father at 100. Because we can't have honest observations about a loved one's health if they cast doubt on our political agenda, can we?
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Ron Wyatt

Ron Wyatt was an American pseudoarchaeologist famed for alleged discoveries of material evidence in support of some of the major events recorded in the Bible.
His work was typically rejected by mainstream archaeology and Christians alike, the bulk of his support coming from the more extreme fringes of evangelical Christianity.
Wyatt's work is best characterized as being highly interpretive and suffering from a deficit of evidence. A schism developed after his death in which the ownership of his records fell into dispute. This led to some of his records being difficult to locate.
Answers in Genesis (AIG) provides an appraisal of Wyatt's remarkable good fortune in discovering so many artifacts and sites of the Bible:
This may be one of those odd occasions in which AIG is correct, since the alternative is to accept that Wyatt, an amateur archaeologist, did the archaeological equivalent of developing General Relativity, Gravitational Theory, and after a break for lunch went on to develop the Theory of Evolution.
Wyatt's work is typically cited by fundamentalists as proof that events in the Bible actually occurred, but even this is only attempted by the terminally ignorant or stupid. When AIG shies away from something, it's a pretty good indicator that it's broken on through to the other side of crazy.
==Background==
Wyatt was working as a nurse-anesthetist when in 1960 he saw a photo of the Durupınar site, a mountainous region of Turkey, in which rock formations appear to resemble a hull of a large boat. This inspired him to grab his hat and whip and revolver and seek glory and riches as an amateur archaeologist.
In later years he founded Wyatt Archaeological Research (WAR) and the Wyatt Archaeological Museum to support and publicize his work.Wyatt Archaeological Research
=="Discoveries"==
Ron Wyatt was a textbook example of a pseudoarchaeologist, having presented fraudulent or amateurishly misinterpreted "evidence" on a number of occasions, notably the remains of Noah's Ark, the Ark of the Covenant and various nonsense regarding Moses and the Red Sea in Exodus.
==Carrying on the torch==
While Ron Wyatt died in 1999 and can thus no longer "enlighten" us with his "discoveries", his widow, Mary Nell Wyatt,Ron Wyatt's Funeral has continued to defend her late husband's legacy as well as adding some similar nuttery of her own.
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Ronald DeWolf

Ronald DeWolf , born Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Jr., was the eldest son of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Initially a Scientologist, DeWolf later changed his name and actively campaigned against his father. He lent a certain amount of credibility to the anti-Scientology movement when he told various horror stories about his father, though his stories at times did sound a bit far-fetched (e.g. he claimed that when he was a child he witnessed his father performing an abortion on his mother with a coat hanger, and that his own birth was the result of a botched abortion).Ex Scientologist:L. Ron Hubbard's children DeWolf sought to have his father declared dead and/or insane, and to therefore gain access to his money.Son of Scientology believes Hubbard dead or ill
He later retracted much of what he said, but many of his associates have claimed that he did so only because he was desperate for money, and the church paid him off.Atack, Jon, A Piece of Blue Sky (NY: Carol Publ. Group, 1990), ISBN 0-8184-0499-X, p. 147.
With Bent Corydon, he co-wrote an exposé on his father, L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? in 1987. It is available on-line for free from a number of sources.PDF and plaintext version.
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Ronald Weinland

Ronald Weinland is a Christian religious crackpot who believes he is appointed by God to reveal to mankind the timetable of the end of the world, as described in Revelation. 
He has written a book called 2008: God's Final Witness, which despite none of the terribly bad things predicted in it actually coming to pass in 2008, he continues to hawk it, calling 2008 the beginning of the end. 
In June 2012, Weinland was convicted of five counts of tax evasion. In February 2013, he began a three-year prison term; he'd better hope Jesus is forgiving towards fraudsters, false prophets and tax-dodgers. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2012/06/21/man-who-touted-end-of-the-world-guilty-of-tax-evasion/ 
==Predictions==
Weinland originally prophesied that Christ would return on September 29, 2011, but changed that during June of 2008 to May 27, 2012. Weinland believes World War III will very soon be upon us, during which the United States and most of the rest of the world will be laid waste, except for ten European countries who will unite under the rule of the Anti-Christ (who will probably be the Pope), and make life generally unpleasant for the final 3 and a half years (which, in his original prophecy, began on December 14, 2008). So, if you want to survive the coming nuclear war, move to Rome and start sucking up to the nearest cardinal.
===Missing the deadline===
After May 27, 2012, passed without an apocalypse, Weinland engaged in some frantic backpedalling, saying that Jesus would actually return on Pentecost of 2013 (which was in May 9th of that year) and commanding his remaining followers to stand strong and keep giving him money.Ronald Weinland's blog, May 30, 2012. Of course, Pentecost 2013 also passed without event, leading Weinland to shamelessly reissue his prophecy, vaguely saying that Jesus would return on "a future Pentecost".Timing and Our Commission. Ronald Weinland's blog. May 13, 2013.
== See also ==
* End times
* List of predictions of the end of the world
== External links ==
* Weinland's personal site
* The website for his (outdated) book
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Rosary

The Rosary (from the Latin for "rose garland") is a devotional set of prayers that is used by Roman Catholics. The actual name refers to a string of beads used to "count off" each prayer in the devotional set, generally one "Our Father", ten "Hail Mary's" and one "Glory be...". The person praying generally meditates on various events in the life of Jesus (the Mysteries of the Rosary). The entire rosary cycle (called a decade) is counted from 5 to 15 large, distinct beads (depending on the length of the rosary) which counts of each "Our Father". Monks, nuns and priests often carry the large 15 decade long rosary as a formal ornament on their garments.
The rosary arises out of, and is central to the veneration of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Praying the Rosary is generally used to cleanse you of your sins especially after confession. In more uncommon circumstances it can be used to pray deceased relatives out of Purgatory. 
In specialist woo, wearing the rosary will protect the wearer from the Evil Eye, from curses, and of course from the big bad guy himself, Satan.
Modified rosary prayers pop up in strange places, including some right-wingers engaging in campaigns to pray the Rosary so God will "end abortion".
==Rosary and healing==
Real live actual science has found that praying the Rosary (and meditating, chanting "ohm", or fixedly listing the names of your 123 lovers out loud, in a single slow rhythmic pattern) has strong healing propertieshttp://www.crystalinks.com/medbrain.html, as it releases endorphins that lower both heart rate and blood pressure, causing your mind to let go of obsessive and stressful thoughts. Over time, this can change the structure of the hypothalamus - a change that lowers the effects of physical (medical) depression. Of course all these studies show that the effects are because of events happening in the brain, as you focus on a simple thought, word, song or sound, and not due to any intervention of a divine being who feels inclined to take away your stress simply because He's having a good day.
Buddhists, Hindus, and some Native American tribes have rosary like chains of beads or other counters to click off their own prayers, meditations, or names of 10000 gods.
==References==
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Rosemary Altea

Rosemary Altea is yet another crap merchant who claims to be able to talk to the dead and have some sort of healing powers. She appeared on Larry King and Oprah Winfrey, proving once more the credulity of prime-time TV viewers.
She was featured in an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! where mentalist tore her a new one explained how she cheated by using hot reading: she talked to audience members beforehand, who gave out information, and audience members were referred by her agent. She's also shown using cold reading, or rather, trying to, as she gets it absolutely wrong. One genuinely-impressed audience member who "contacted" his mother and was quite literally crying later sent a letter to the show explaining that he'd had a think about it, and realized everything she said was pretty genericLike, "she wants you to move on with your life." Geez, what a shock. and probably not that impressive after all. Good for him.Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, episode 1.01, Talking to the Dead
James Randi challenged her to the $1 million prize, which she chickened out of.James Randi on Larry King Live 1/26/07 Pt 1
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Rosenblum's First Law of Chocolate

Rosenblum's First Law of Chocolate (from a book on the craft of chocolate-making)Rosenblum, Mort. Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light. New York: North Point Press (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), 2004 (hardcover), 2006 (paperback). ISBN 0865476357 (hardcover), ISBN 0865477302 (paperback) states:
The application of this in fields far removed from confectionery should be self-evident. Obviously, though, there are at least two fields where the opposite is true: espionage and Christian evangelism.
==See also==
*Tea Party movement (as in their political candidates' reluctance to talk to the media)
==References==
Category:Eponymous laws
Rosicrucianism

Rosicrucianism denotes a woo-peddling secret society, based largely on alchemy, that transformed into a New Age-y religion in modern times.
==Back in the day==
Rosicrucianism has its origins in two anonymously-authored manifestos from the early 17th century: and The subject of these books was a doctor and philosopher called "Frater CRC", renamed to Christian Rosenkreuz (or "Christian Rose Cross") in a later, third book.
However, some claim Rosicrucianism is even older, and that the originators of the practice were the Knights Templar of Crusades fame.Picknett and Prince (November 1998). The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ. Touchstone. p. 150. ISBN 978-0684848914. Of course, there's no basis for this belief, but Rosicrucians still weave Templar aesthetics and lore into their ceremonies for the cool factor.
The original writings were widely dismissed as hoaxes, but attracted some alchemists, scientists, and Freemasons.
Various pseudohistories have popped up around these books: their author(s) (Francis Bacon, according to some) are the subject of speculation and links for other organisations popular amongst the observant set.
==New Age revival==
The modern version of the movement came about largely due to the founding of the (AMORC) in 1915. It was co-founded by Harvey Spencer Lewis and May Banks-Stacy.
Lewis was less well known for pseudonymously claiming that Lemurians were living under Mount Shasta, California.Melton, J. Gordon (March 1999). Religious leaders of America: a biographical guide to founders and leaders of religious bodies, churches, and spiritual groups in North America (2nd ed.). Cengage Gale. p. 332. ISBN 978-0810388789. AMORC and other various sects of the religion exist today and operate in a milk before meat fashion.Though the "meat" seems to be of the tofurkey variety according to some ex-members.
You send away for their "lessons" and receive booklets that include information on Rosicrucian theology as well as how-to guides on all sorts of woo like "mental alchemy", telekinesis, telepathy, regeneration, and "attuning" with the "Cosmic Consciousness".
Rosicrucian theology had a great amount of influence on the Law of Attraction and, thus, The Secret.
The San Jose, California, branch operates the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, perhaps the main source of funding.
==Hardcore Rosicrucians==
The (OTS), a sub-group founded by Rosicrucian members, participated in ritualistic suicide and murder. It was essentially a cult; its leader ordering the death of an entire family of former members, accusing them of bringing the Antichrist to the world.
==See also==
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==External links==
*Skeptoid on Rosicrucianism
*Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
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RoundSaturnsEye

RoundSaturnsEye (RSE or R$E. Now known as RISE) is a channel run by a YouTuber-turned conspiracy theorist named David Bass , who rants about the apocalypse and the AntiChrist. He really doesn't like CERN or modern media, and he will always link them to whatever the horror of the day is.
As of 2021, RSE's two YouTube channels had (combined) almost 370,000 subscribersThis assumes that 100% of the subscribers were different people between the two channels, which is unlikely. and 11 million views, since account creation in November 2013.Abouthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIsYlLpgMOFfixJ0y1vR2UQ/about
==Life before conversion==
Bass was responsible for skits in the past, including Dubstep Santa.
==Egregious examples==
*: According to RSE, the entirety of "the media, the celebrity culture, and the movies" is a "false projection" which is deceiving the people of the world as a literal false God. All this, from a picture of "Ashtar" that he pulled from the Internet.http://38.media.tumblr.com/a7b8df4130f3db391c10b09d2de6cf01/tumblr_inline_ncm5e9mR4Z1s0jxib.jpg
*: Typical "the apocalypse is coming" video. Features gore-porn and environmental destruction, rants about media deceiving everyone, and pleading that people turn to Christ.
*: Right off the bat, RSE notes that the popular videogame Battlefield 3 has a mission in which terrorists attack Paris, France, on 13 November — the same day as the 2015 Paris attacks.http://www.conspiracyclub.co/2015/11/18/the-game-battlefield-3-has-a-terror-attack-happen-in-paris-on-november-13th/http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/478664/Video-game-Battlefield-3-Paris-terror-attack-prediction This would be astounding -- if the date of the mission wasn't actually 13 November 2014 (the wrong year) and if there a year held more than 365 days.http://battlefield.wikia.com/wiki/Comradeshttp://www.albawaba.com/loop/conspiracy-theorists-think-video-game-proves-paris-attack-was-hoax-768544 Next, they note that the attacks occur on Friday the 13th — see "365 days" above. They proceed to argue that the Eiffel tower is actually a gigantic representation of a penis and that ISIS was sacrificing humans to it. Right.
==External links==
*Website (archive snapshot)
:*Main YouTube channel
:*Side YouTube channel
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Rove's Law

Rove's Law is an eponymous law of politics which states:
It was developed by blogger ACG on the blog "Submitted to a Candid World" which he originally stated as:
Or when he gets even more worked up:
It is based on the political spin developed by Karl Rove that favors talking points over extended political discourse. When attempting to smear a political opponent, single sentences, or even parts of sentences, are picked out of a speech and used to represent their views. Based on this quote mining, a label can then be attached to this person.
==Example==
====Sonia Sotomayor====
In 2001, Sonia Sotomayor gave the Judge Mario G. Olmos Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she said:
And the part that was quoted as a sound-bite:
Producing the talking point: "Sotomayor is a racist".
But consider Rove's very own racist slavery "joke" that he told to an African American woman:
Ooops!
==See also==
*Quote mining
*Climategate
*Conservative correctness
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Roy Masters

Roy Masters, born Reuben Obermeister, is a strange cookie indeed. He has a weekly talk radio show (and a book) called Finding God in Physics and does a daily radio show called Advice Line. His views are a weird hybrid of fundamentalist Christianity and the New Age movement, though he refutes the New Age claim and offers further explanation of his views in a statement of belief.Roy Masters' "Open Letter to Churches" 
Masters used to be a full-time hypnotist but apparently discovered that most people are already hypnotized and need to be freed. He also thinks that after a few hand-waving references to quantum physics and gravity, he has proven the existence of his God. Add in abstinence-only sex education, traditional gender roles, vicious misogyny, past lives, and any right-wing conspiracy theory he has ever run into (and probably some that he made up), and you've got his views in a nutshell. He has his own version of mumbletypeg physics. He never met a right-wing conspiracy theory he didn't like. His Wikipedia page is heavily whitewashed and seems to be defended by true believers.
He hates Obama so much that when a caller calls Obama a "communist", he runs with it. Unsurprisingly, he is also an enthusiastic birther.
==External links==
*One of his sites
* More of his quotes
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