"All this has happened before, and will happen again." "Ten percent of your income for life for a chance to become a god in the afterlife!" ############ https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/i-witnessed-the-birth-of-an-immortality-cult-surely-it-cant-last-dmskgd2ww The tech bros believe we are close to conquering death. Matt Rudd travels to the ‘superhuma
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Many people, myself included, thought that Mormonism would not survive in the Information Age. The Brethren may have abandoned Earthly polygamy and the priesthood ban, but they did it by a claim of divine intervention via direct revelation. Now they want to pretend they never thought that men could become gods and would be awarded their own planets to lord over and rule just as their divine
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/696630103088254
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_A._Larson Larson later secured a then-unprecedented $1 million per episode budget for Battlestar Galactica. The show incorporated many themes from Mormon theology, such as sealing (marriage) for "time and eternity" and a "council of twelve". Larson, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in real life,[2][3] had been
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https://galactica.fandom.com/wiki/Council_of_the_Twelve
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https://galactica.fandom.com/wiki/Council_of_the_Twelve
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If you are wondering by what twisted logic someone can reach this conclusion, here you go. Remember the Mormon weird stuff? I present this as an example of how people can rationalise anything. ############ https://www.premierchristianity.com/interviews/this-churchleader-thinks-empathy-can-be-a-sin-we-asked-him-to-explain-himself/19196.article Joe Rigney has authored a much-
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Ribbon An unnamed elderly tailor narrates the parable, recounting events from a distant year in which he worked as a village schoolteacher and met his fiancée Eva, a nanny. The setting is the fictitious Protestant village of Eichwald, Northern Germany, from July 1913 to 9 August 1914, where the local pastor, doctor and baron rule over the area's women,
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"For ten percent of your income for life, a chance to become a god in the afterlife!"
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https://mndaily.com/275183/opinion/white-i-took-the-scientology-personality-test-so-you-dont-have-to/ The test has some fairly cookie-cutter questions about your mental well-being. Think: “Have you felt down or hopeless in the last 30 days?” or “Are you often quick to anger?” Then you face some more worrisome questions, like “Could you agree to strict discipline?”, “Would the
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It seems she was informed on by an unknown party. ########### https://newschannel9.com/news/local/grad-continues-with-suit-against-cleveland-private-school-despite-diploma-delivery-promise
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"The Mysterious Monsters" (1975) produced by SLC based Sunn Classic Pictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOZpuSqS6aw
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Did she go there by choice? I can't find anything on that. The article says the online argument had more to do with her family than it did with the school. Perhaps she was naive enough to think her online activities wouldn't be monitored by a "religious" institution.
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Weekly World News, Dec 28, 1999: "Jan 1, 2000, Is this the End?" https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SnEAAOSwHH9nVyN9/s-l500.jpg
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They aren't dumb, but their education has significant gaps. One guy that I worked with was a software engineering graduate who didn't know what a molecule was. Apparently, he didn't have the same basic high school chemistry that I did.
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Another day, another crazy EV Fundie outrage. If you wonder why many people see religion as a vector of hatred and intolerance, this is why. ############ https://www.advocate.com/news/tn-high-school-graduation-ban-queer-student A student-athlete who was banned from graduating with her classmates after she came out in a social media post is suing her high school, local NBC and AB
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"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) Bone / Armed Satellite Match Cut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avjdKTqiVvQ
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If you remember, I said no apparent physical advantage if a: never went through puberty and b: dosen't have or never had male hormonal levels. As I have told you before, there are few musculoskeletal differences in children until about age ten. You can't even easily tell the sex of remains of children younger than that without a DNA test. We're talking about about less than 2% of the pop
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and not in Missouri. If there's any one place that could be called the Garden Of Eden, it's probably ancient Lake Makgadikgadi. This lake is long gone, but the modern Okavango Delta region is one of its remnants. While there's no way to know this with absolute certainty, the birthplace of modern humans wasn't in North America and it most definitely wasn't in Missouri. #############
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To me, it's all linked -- religious extremism, patriarchy, racism, TERFism, etc, are all fruits of the same poison tree. All of this anti-LGBTQIA stuff is ultimately driven by men and male sexuality, especially in the Western world. Women who want to carve out their own place under the patriarchy cater to the tastes of (white patriarchal) men. The racist misogynistic Michelle Obama cartoon
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just fear and panic. The existence issue and participation in sport issue are related, but not the same. Remember the news story about a trans model being (accidentally) included in a Top 100 list in a men's magazine then people freaking out about being attracted to her? Men who are threatened (and I mean by their own sexual desires, not physically) by trans women simply do not want th
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Heartless Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mormon doctrine changes so much no one can keep up > with it. The only Mormon doctrine is there is no Mormon doctrine.
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I was referring to the End of Antiquity and the rise of Christian Europe in the Sixth Century AD. What we call "the ancient world" lasted roughly between 600 BCE to 400 CE. Christians thought that sex act itself and/or sex for pleasure is a sin. Ancient Greeks or Romans before Christianity didn't see it that way. Giving up or sacrificing something for the gods like your fertil
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Here's a case of someone who has spent most of their adult life obsessed with "Satanism." This individual is a doctor and well-educated. What makes someone like this see signs of Satan everywhere? Is it a mental illness, a religious fundamentalist upbringing, self-hatred, or a combination of all the above? IMHO, this person isn't playing with a full deck and has more than a few l
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https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s1-5407475/supreme-court-religious-charter-school-oklahoma Supreme Court blocks creation of religious charter school in Oklahoma A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court effectively blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school in Oklahoma, leaving in place a state Supreme Court ruling that declared the school violated the constitutional se
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https://www.wrs.edu/assets/docs/topics/Mormons_and_DNA.pdf Western Reformed Seminary (www.wrs.edu) MORMONS AND DNA John A. Battle, Th.D. One of Mormonism’s key doctrines is under increasing attack, and the coup de grace may now have been delivered. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints teaches that all the Native American tribes are descended from a Jewish family who c
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How can Mormonism qualify as a religion if the leadership continuously denies what the faithful actually belief in? Or does everyone tacitly acknowledges that the leadership is lying?
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