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How Scientology Changed the internet - BBC article
by HB inthought some of you might be interested in this bbc article dealing with the ways that scientology has tried to prevent ex members spreading negative information about their church on the internet.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23273109#.
the various battles between digital rights acticivist and the church of scientology are covered, particularly in relation to google and you tube.
this was quite funny in retrospect:.
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The Wrath of the Almighty
by HB ina very bad "groan" joke....... there was a painter named wayne who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.. .
as it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the local baptists decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of their large church building.. .
wayne put in a bid, and, because his price was reasonable, he got the job.
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The chemistry of Hell
by HB inas i am a relative newcomer, i don't know what has been posted before so i apologise if you've already seen this....... .
hell explained by a chemistry student.
the following is an actual question given on a university ofwashington chemistry mid term.. .
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Death for Islamic apostates
by HB ini know this board is focused on jw issues, but one or two people may be interested in an article on the bbc website, which discusses the attitudes to apostacy in the islamic religion.
here is a quick overview:.
the penalty for leaving islam or converting to another religion is death.
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Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans (satire)
by HB inminneapolis (the borowitz report) scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.. the research, conducted by the university of minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.. these humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information, davis logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said.
and yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.. more worryingly, logsdon said, as facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.. while scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information en route from the auditory nerve to the brain.
the normal functions of human consciousness have been completely nullified, logsdon said.. while reaffirming the gloomy assessments of the study, logsdon held out hope that the threat of fact-resistant humans could be mitigated in the future.
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Child witches in Africa
by Caedes ini watched (with a growing sense of anger and disgust) a program on tv last night (dispatches - http://www.channel4.com/news/dispatches/ ) on the problem of children being accused of witchcraft in the niger delta.
these kids (even babies) are usually tortured, beaten and denied food until they "confess" if they are lucky they may be just abandoned, unlucky ones are buried alive.
the parents can purchase an exorcism quoted as being roughly a years wages, this seemed to entail further abuse of the victims.
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Church can be fun...
by HB infact is often funnier than fiction.
if you haven't seen this clip before, it should make you laugh:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtppqotw3q0.
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Holy Hell
by HB inapologies if this has been mentioned on here before but i didn’t find it by doing a search.
if you are interested in the inner workings of cults, you might want to watch out for a new documentary film called ‘holy hell’ which is due to be released in may 2016 and was premiered at the sundance film festival in january.
it was described by critics as a powerful and ground breaking film and the audiences at sundance loved it and gave it a standing ovation at almost every screening.
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BBC article lists ALL JW predictions for the end of the world
by HB inthearticle below is on the main bbc news webpage today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-24432491 .
bob geldof has said the human race might have as little as 17 more years before "a mass extinction event".
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TV programme: Watchtower mags are Junk Mail
by HB inthought you might like to hear about a programme on uk tv (channel 4) yesterday in which jws featured.. it was a light-hearted and quirky programme called junk mail britain where the presenter who has hoarded all his junk mail for the past 5 years, went out into his community (willesden, nw london) to meet the people behind the various businesses and companies who were trying to get his custom via leafletting.. http://www.channel4.com/video/brandless-catchup.jsp?vodbrand=junk-mail-britain.
it was fun and much more interesting than you might think from this brief synopsis.
he met everyone from taxi drivers to pizza takeaway firms to find out how much business they got from junk mail and then interviewed some of the people who trailed from door to door dropping unwanted leaflets through letterboxes.