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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RIP
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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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Believing in things that you know are not true has an emotional cost.
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https://www.magicrocks.com/
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I think you left out the far-right, "evangelical" populism part. What audience are the Brethren trying to appeal to? There's not a big pool of people in America who want to be religious or regard it as an essential part of their lives, and the current big "E" Evangelical movement is more about tribalism than it is about faith and religion. As others have pointed out,
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Daddy's girl, raised on Westerns and WW2 movies. It's from a line in an old movie that I used to watch with my Dad. Couldn't think of anything, just popped into my head. https://clip.cafe/the-professionals-1966/could-be-anybody-even-friendly/
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More important question: Where did Joseph get the idea of using rocks or crystals as a means of augury or divination? Pre-Christian Germanic tradition? The Romans adopted divination via animal entrails from the Etruscans.
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https://moderndogmagazine.com/articles/can-dogs-see-spirits-or-sense-ghosts/
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Did you even bother to read the article?
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https://www.healthline.com/health/tantric-yoga Tantra is a technique that allows you to connect with your inner energy and experience enlightenment. In Tantric yoga, you might hold a yoga pose while visualizing energy moving through your body with your breath. *** Tantra yoga may include: chanting breath work yoga poses chakra work meditation
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Why would you care? What does it have to do with you? Nothing.
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