“What is sacred to Bokononists? I asked after a while. Not even God, as near as I can tell. Nothing? Just one thing. I made some guesses. The ocean? The sun? Man, said Frank. That s all. Just man.”
“It is interesting to see government law enforcement officers arresting Hawaiians that are protesting the illegal Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea.”
“For religious man of the archaic cultures, every every existence begins in time; before a thing exists, its particular time could not exist. Before the cosmos came into existence, there was no cosmic time. Before a particular vegetable species was created, the time that now causes it to grow, bear fruit, and die did not exist. It is for this reason that every creation is imagined as having taken place at the beginning of time, in principio, Time gushes forth with the first appearance of a new category of existents, This is why myth plays such an important role; as we shall show later, the way in which a reality came into existence is revealed by its myth.”
“Aloha Mauna Kea, aloha sacred spirits.”
“Aloha sacred mountain, aloha ancient Hawaiians.”
“Every time I look up at the huge telescopes atop the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea, I am reminded of what astronomical greed looks like.”
“When I look up at Mauna Kea, I see astronomical observatories desecrating a sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
“In 1967 astronomy declared war on the sacred Hawaiian mountain of Mauna Kea.”
“I had two definite encounters with Hawaiian spirits. The first occurred on the forested slopes of Mauna Kea where I spent the night receiving instruction from a spirit. The second was an encounter with Poli’ahu, the snow goddess of Mauna Kea, that occurred near the summit of the sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
“When I was hired from Europe to work atop Mauna Kea, I had no idea how sacred the mountain was to the Hawaiians. Today, I am ashamed that I worked at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO).”
“Life is given to you as a sacred covenant to do with exactly as you please.”
“It is a foolish person that desecrates a sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
“I am a sacred scientist.”
“I came to the belief that Mauna Kea was indeed sacred because all the visions that I had on the mountain were of Hawaiians.”
“When we get down to basics, we find that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is nothing more than a corrupt group of scientists trying to build a known biologically toxic project atop a sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
“The only thing sacred to a corporate scientist is their scientific data.”
“Truth is sacred till it s revealed; post it becomes an impression”