"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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What if Elohim forced his ethereal offspring to possess human bodies as a punishment? Perhaps Mormons have it backwards.
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Just checked weather radar on Windy.com. Stay Safe :) https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,36.033,-82.050,6,m:eGHadOk
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Pretty hilarious. ############# https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/a-hitchhikers-guide-to-kolob “How can you people possibly believe God lives on a planet near a star named Kolob?” “Well, the prophet Joseph Smith received a revelation from God in which. . .” “…How? Did God transport him to this Kolob so he could get a good look at it?” “No. Jos
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https://www.howtogeek.com/114037/researchers-prove-tin-foil-hats-boost-receptivity-to-government-signals/ You know the old bit about putting tin-foil on your head to keep the government signals out of your brain? It turns out cladding your head in tin-foil has the opposite effect. Researchers at MIT, using a network analyzer, tested the impact of tin foil helmets on receptivity of radio-f
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The recent Palm Springs fertility clinic bomber acted out of a sense of not wanting to be born. The anti-natal movement is against birth since people cannot give their consent to be created. However, in Mormon Cosmology, human bodies are merely empty vessels for Elohim's ethereal spirit offspring to inhabit. "Worthy" or "valiant" ethereals are downloaded into white Nordic
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/sperm-racing-eric-zhu What is a sperm race, anyway? Well, it’s all in the name, really. Round up a couple of guys, get a sample of their semen, and examine it under a microscope to see whose sperm swims faster. Contrary to what you may be thinking, the race doesn’t actually start until an hour or so after the sample is produced. This, as Eric Zhu, on
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Ancient Greco-Roman religion was transactional. If you did something for the gods, then perhaps they would do something for you. There was no original "sin." Guilt had nothing to do with it. Sex and sexuality was just another part of life. There's even a famous story in Herodotus' "History" about women in Mesopotamia offering votive sex at a temple. A first century R
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It's really strange, isn't it? ############ https://reflections.yale.edu/article/sex-and-church/homosexuality-and-dr-dobson-what-s-stake-american-christianity
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Edward Mark Edward coined the term "grief vampire" as a description of alleged psychic mediums who prey on vulnerable people.[2] Edward was a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Edward's involvement in the skeptical movement has been extensive. In an interview with Skeptical Inquirer, he stated his skeptical history goes back to
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-12-16/call-me-miss-cleo-documentary-takeaways Late-night TV viewers of a certain age were once well-acquainted with a certain TV psychic by the name of Miss Cleo, who made “call me now” her catchphrase. The documentary “Call Me Miss Cleo,” which began streaming on HBO Max on Thursday, tries to decipher whether the woman was a
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Remember when Mormons used to claim Native Americans were descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes and that your DNA would magically become Jewish after baptism and other ridiculous nonsense? ############ https://www.dw.com/en/dna-study-fills-gaps-in-indigenous-americans-ancestry/a-72558361 The first people to colonize the Americas migrated from modern-day Russia about 20,000 to 30,000 years
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No, this story isn't from Gilead -- yet. Fetishization of fertility isn't about "life," it's about men controlling women's bodies. Keeping a dead person alive is the ultimate control. You have no say, you have no voice. You don't count. To them, you are merely a "vessel" or "pod" for their seed. Again I Ask: Why theocracy? It didn't solve problems in Iran
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Wonder if they'll try to ban those too.
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Hieronymus User Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sheesh could be here all day Then show us funding, an actual policy, or lesson plan used by a school to "indoctrinate" students. Remember I said things like anti-bullying, tolerance, or secular, scientific fact based education aren't indoctrination. ############ “Friendly Father”: N
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Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah yes. > > But in politics, performance art still has its > place. Maybe that's the point. The Mormon and EV anti-porn "crusade" seems to be more about tribal loyalty and virtue signaling than anything else. ############ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/21/mike-jo
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It's impossible, of course. It would simply make arbitrary censorship legal and make the creative process very difficult. What is and what would not classify as "porn?" Anything religious fundamentalists want to classify as "porn." Again I Ask: Why do people want to imprison themselves inside walls of their own making? ############ https://reason.com/2
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Women have fewer children in educated, prosperous populations. This has been known for many decades. Unlike many Latin American countries where religion and machismo play a role in limiting womens' rights and access to abortion, racism and fear of "losing control" or being "outbred" are the primary factors. Religion and concern for the "unborn" are canards a
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