The USA doesn't have an entrenched class system like Ancient Rome, Britain, or some Continental European countries. If that were the case, then all the top political offices would only be held by descendants of the First Families of Virginia or old New York Dutch patroons. Almost all of the top CEOs in the USA come from working class or middle class families. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs are (up
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So... everything is rigged by "them," eh, Hieronymous? If that's the case, why even try? Easy to blame everything on control by "them" (whoever "they" really are). Blaming everything on some mysterious "cabal" or "junta" is just a cop out. But then, xxx since I went to prep school and had teachers who also went to prep school and pro
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It doesn't have to grow. It just has to keep enough people in to successfully masquerade as a religion for tax exempt purposes.
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The Pope's Telescope is in Arizona. Really. ############# https://www.kjzz.org/the-show/2025-02-12/the-vatican-has-an-observatory-in-arizona-meet-the-priest-who-studies-the-stars Across the ocean overlooking an idyllic lake, away from the lights of Rome, the Vatican, the seat of the Catholic Church, runs an observatory to study the cosmos. And this might very well lead to an obv
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Update: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/dire-wolf-brought-back-pups-colossal-extinction/ The phrase “dead as a Dodo” may no longer be applicable anymore as one Dallas-based company seeks to make extinction a thing of the past. Colossal Biosciences has bioengineered a wolf that last roamed a vast range as far north as Canada and as far south as Venezuela some 10,000 years ago: t
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Dire wolves died out at the end of the Ice Age over ten thousand years ago along with other specialized predators that couldn't adapt to the changing climate. The vast North American grasslands that fed horses, camels, mammoths, and the other large herbivores the predators depended on for food gave way to modern forests. Then a new apex predator rose to the top of the food chain. Man. All
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Brigham Young and Jim Jones did it with geographical separation. Russia did it with bayonets. East Germany did it with barbed wire and concrete, and North Korea did it by just being crazy. What's so attractive about living behind walls — or, as it is with contemporary Mormonism, behind the Zion Curtain?
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John and Mary aren't the most common American baby names anymore either. What about naming a child X Æ A-12 ? I suppose you think if your name is Omar (Bradley), Muhammad (Ali), or Barack (Obama) you can't be a "real" American, right? Not so long ago, some people also thought Catholics couldn't be loyal Americans and thus couldn't be President. What about judging people by t
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It's not like they didn't tell you that your purpose is to provide worthy offspring as host bodies for alien spirits from Kolob.
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Nazi womens movement gave medals for birthing more children for the state as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn Also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passing_of_the_Great_Race Crazy people who think that the world is coming to an end if others have the same rights and status as they do. I would also include Mormons and Evangelical extremists in that statement a
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########## https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-04/sundance-utah-colorado-move-politics Of course Sundance is fleeing. Utah has become a hateful place This past week, the Sundance Film Festival announced it will soon leave its four-decade-plus home in Park City, Utah, for Boulder, Colo. The gut reaction from many was “Why did they leave?” Some close watchers answered by fo
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https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/04/travel/jonestown-guyana-tourism-cnnphotos/ Port Kaituma, Guyana (CNN) — Dark storm clouds broke to reveal a dense Amazonian rainforest outside the window of the 13-seat Cessna prop plane. Massive trees, in every shade of green, blanketed the landscape. We were closing in on the airstrip where, nearly 50 years ago, followers of the Reverend Jim Jon
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• Rise of superstition • Rejection of reality • Denial of science • Quack "medicine" • Isolationism • Fear
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Mormonism is a perpetual investment fraud scheme run by LD$, Inc. That's all.
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With few dentists and fluoride under siege, rural America risks new surge of tooth decay https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/health/fluoride-tooth-decay-partner-kff-health-news/index.html “If you have folks with little access to professional care and no access to water fluoridation,” said Steven Levy, a dentist and leading fluoride researcher at the University of Iowa, “then they are missi
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttlIuyMFwRw
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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Why Not? Science is just lies to turn you away from The Lord, right? Measles, smallpox, polio, cholera, tuberculosis are meant to cull the less righteous, wicked, and sinful anyway /s
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Brain cancer is tough. Hard way to go. RIP.
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Joel Osteen on CNN discusses Mitt Romney and Mormonism Evangelicals aren't concerned about Mormon theology as long as Mormons are allies in the culture wars. ############ Charlie Rose asks Lakewood Church senior pastor Joel Osteen about his views on Mormonism, and how he defines it within the Christian community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3glYyqhw2XA
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Tough to see innocent people getting sick and/or dying from a preventable disease because of dogma, ignorance, and fear. ############ https://measlesrubellapartnership.org/perspective-risks-measles-religious-communities/ Measles cases in 2013 in the United States are already amongst the highest they’ve been in any year since 2001, according to the most recent report from the US Cen
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Most scientists -- as opposed to many engineers -- tend to have eclectic backgrounds and a well-rounded education including arts and literature. People become interested in science because of curiosity, and that extends to many fields, not just a few.
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Such was the title of a 1970s pamphlet by Mark E. Petersen. These old brochures with North Korean / JW "Watchtower" style propaganda illustrations used to be online, all taken down now.
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You can show some people reality, but you can't make them abandon fantasy. ########### Original Video Link: https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/breaking-news-parents-of-child-in-texas-measles-outbreak-death/ ############ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/measles-outbreak-texas-child-dead-parents-anti-vax-b2718899.html Parents o
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