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Russian Court Bans Jehovah's Witnesses

posted by on Friday April 21 2017, @10:26PM   Printer-friendly
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."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/04/20/russian-court-bans-jehovahs-witnesses-extremist-group/100701524/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:19AM (2 children)

    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.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @02:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @02:38PM (#497919)

    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

    by butthurt (6141) on Sunday April 23 2017, @07:38AM (#498220) Journal

    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]