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on Friday April 21 2017, @10:26PM
from the weird-sure,-but-extremist? dept.
An Anonymous Coward writes:
USA Today reports:
"Russia's Supreme Court formally banned Jehovah's Witnesses as an extremist organization Thursday and ordered the state to seize its property in Russia, according to Russian news media."
Maybe, they should ban all cults other than The Cult Of Putin.
The biggest problem would be the US congress instantly mandating an even bigger font for GOD on everything, first amendment be damned.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @10:44PM
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by Anonymous Coward
on Friday April 21 2017, @10:44PM (#497638)
Yes. After they ban Scientology they should go after the Hari Krishnas and then the AT&T fuctards that keep knocking on my door trying to sell me Uverse. Apparently the large "No Solicitors" sign on the door doesn't mean anything to them, or... they can't read English.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:19AM
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by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:19AM (#497832)
I got interested in Scientology when I saw them with a display at the mall and they apparently could use a meter to measure how "clear" I was.
I was quite intrigued. I sat down, held his cans, and while he asked me questions, I just had to fiddle around with the cans to see what this thing was doing.
It seemed to work almost identical to a Metrigraph Psychogalvanometer. Measured skin resistance. With a bridge circuit. Design extrapolated from observing the operator use the thing.
I could do the same thing with a Triplett 260 set to the high resistance range.
I left, still quite dubious about the religion, but I sure as heck knew how to improve the design of the meter. It had a region it was pretty insensitive to.
Although I wanted to join Scientology to perfect the E-meter, I would have made a poor convert because I simply could not accept in any which way or form that what they were teaching had any basis in truth. To me, this was just another dog-and-pony show for technically illiterate people to believe in, with the E-meter a prop to lend scientific authenticity to the presentation.
Resistance is measured by applying a voltage. That might have effects on the person whose resistance is being measured. At least one critic has speculated that there might be effects on someone's thoughts:
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday April 21 2017, @10:37PM (5 children)
Maybe, they should ban all cults other than The Cult Of Putin.
The biggest problem would be the US congress instantly mandating an even bigger font for GOD on everything, first amendment be damned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @10:44PM (4 children)
Yes. After they ban Scientology they should go after the Hari Krishnas and then the AT&T fuctards that keep knocking on my door trying to sell me Uverse. Apparently the large "No Solicitors" sign on the door doesn't mean anything to them, or... they can't read English.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 21 2017, @11:51PM
Put a infrared detector, electromagnetic valve and a spray hose at the door?
Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool :p
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:19AM (2 children)
I got interested in Scientology when I saw them with a display at the mall and they apparently could use a meter to measure how "clear" I was.
I was quite intrigued. I sat down, held his cans, and while he asked me questions, I just had to fiddle around with the cans to see what this thing was doing.
It seemed to work almost identical to a Metrigraph Psychogalvanometer. Measured skin resistance. With a bridge circuit. Design extrapolated from observing the operator use the thing.
I could do the same thing with a Triplett 260 set to the high resistance range.
I left, still quite dubious about the religion, but I sure as heck knew how to improve the design of the meter. It had a region it was pretty insensitive to.
Although I wanted to join Scientology to perfect the E-meter, I would have made a poor convert because I simply could not accept in any which way or form that what they were teaching had any basis in truth. To me, this was just another dog-and-pony show for technically illiterate people to believe in, with the E-meter a prop to lend scientific authenticity to the presentation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @02:38PM
They don't care what you think, they just want your money to share amongst the leadership and their celebrity bait characters.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday April 23 2017, @07:38AM
Resistance is measured by applying a voltage. That might have effects on the person whose resistance is being measured. At least one critic has speculated that there might be effects on someone's thoughts:
http://www.lermanet.com/e-metershort.htm [lermanet.com]