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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

So what? And can't it be both wealth and helping people?
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

I am constantly AMAZED and AMUSED by the number of whining freeloaders who think everything should be given to them for free. They expect boneless BBQ'd chickens to fly into their mouths!
Well, time to pay the piper, crybabies! FREEDOM ain't FREE! - NN
I am constantly bemused by the constant barrage of strawman arguments on this forum. Does anybody care about accurately understanding the position of the person they disagree with?
Nobody has suggested that Hassan should offer anything for free.
He is an ex-Moonie and a "counselor". His market is vulnerable and distraught people who despair for their relatives who are members of a cult. He charges $400 per hour for a skype call.
It is not unreasonable to suggest that his main motivation might be wealth. It appears that not a few people are blindly following the maxim that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

He mentioned once that a Cult education website had been bought out by Scientology , which in turn kept the original name, maybe this is the website ?
If it is why would they still have all this damaging information about Scientology?
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

400$ an hour for a Skype call
I cant believe he is a scammer
How much per hour would a scammer charge an individual who needed a chat about cults?
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

according to complaints he has charged fees varying from $250.00 per hour or $2,500.00 per day to $500.00 per hour or $5,000.00 per day. This does not include Steve Hassan's expenses, which according to complaints can be quite substantial.
Steve Hassan has charged families tens of thousands of dollars and provided questionable results. One family that recently complained about Steve Hassan cited total fees charged of almost $50,000.00 and said that the very expensive intervention effort ended in failure.
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Steve Hassan. Can some one verify if this is true.
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/8227-disclaimer-regarding-steve-hassan.html.
cofty

Very interesting.
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What is the purpose of life?
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
cofty

Bollocks
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Inevitable Life - Video
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
very interesting lecture and q&a session by professor eric smith of the santa fe institute.

in his discussion of the primacy of energy there is a lot of overlap with the ideas of nick lane of university college london.

if you still think abiogenesis had something to do with "primordial soup" you should invest half an hour to watch this.. ....
cofty

Well you could watch half an hour twice!
Yes LisaRose that is one of the big challenges of recreating prebiotic conditions in the lab. There are so many variables. The temperature, pressure, mix of gases in the atmosphere, the metallic catalysts, the PH balance etc etc.
Interesting to hear that most of the Krebs Cycle has been achieved already! I need to listen to it again, it was in the background while I was cooking and I missed some of the details.
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ls homosexuality really normal?
by atomant in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
l know animals do it but their animals.they dont live by a moral code.the thought of 2 men going for it is not normal.what are your thoughts?.
cofty

What determines sexual orientation - bobld
Despite frequent claims in the tabloid press no gene "for" homosexuality has been found. It is likely that a combination of genes are involved in sexual development but a more important influence seems to be developmental rather than genetic. A reduction of testosterone in the womb seems to increase the likelihood of a boy becoming a gay man.
I think it was a misstep when the gay rights movement began promoting a "born this way" message. It opens up the possibility of a "cure" or even of a pregnancy test for a "gay fetus" and the option of an abortion.
Sexuality is on a spectrum. At one end - perhaps a majority - are men who have never had any feeling of sexual attraction towards other men, and at the other end are men who have no attraction to women. According The Williams Institute around 3.5% of the population identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual. Of these, bisexuals comprise a slight majority. In between these are a substantially bigger group who report any lifetime same-sex sexual behavior and any same-sex sexual attraction.
That leaves only around 1.7% of the population who exclusively desire same-sex relationships. For everybody else on the LGBT spectrum, same-sex relationships are a choice. So what? Why should consenting adults not choose who they have sex with?
I also agree with Simon that the portrayal of gay relationships in the media is massively out of proportion to the real world. I genuinely don't care who anybody else is having sex with, but like a lot of heterosexual men I feel the same way about seeing a gay kiss as I feel about watching contestants eat sheep's eyes on a popular UK game show. The reasons for that are probably rooted in evolutionary psychology. I'm not going to apologise for that and I also would not expect gay men to refrain from public displays of affection just because of my feelings.
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The status on the child abuse inquiry in ENGLAND
by Sliced in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
looks like we lost ben emmerson for the england inquiries.

does anyone have an update on what's happening in the uk?

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cofty

Can anything be so unfortunate?
It is becoming difficult to believe that somebody isn't sabotaging the inquiry.