‘Mustatil’ sounds like a low-priced knockoff of a popular incontinence medication, but it’s more like a monumental knockoff of Stonehenge … except these stone monuments in Saudi Arabia are older that Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid and more numerous than their stone counterparts in England. While these mustatils (the name means ‘rectangle’ in Arabic) have been known about for years, it was only recently that aerial mapping counted their numbers (over 1,000) and ground studies confirmed their age (over 7,000 years old). However, their purpose to the area’s prehistoric culture remained a mystery. Now, a new study has peeled away another layer of the mystery of the mustatils and determined that they’re much more than simple rectangles. Even more exciting, the cattle bones found inside them were due to mustatils being corrals but that these stone structures were worship locations for a cattle cult. Cattle cult? In a desert?
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This eight-minute interview with Rose McGowan and my friend Tammy Bruce is destined to become a red-meat classic. The #MeToo activist and actor doesn’t identify with any political party (and neither does Tammy), but McGowan says only one of the two are a “deep cult.” Having grown up in the dangerous Children of God cult, McGowan tells Bruce she can see the signs leaders who demand conformity while reaping all of the benefits for themselves (via Citizen Free Press):
McGowan told Fox News host Tammy Bruce that she used to vote for Democrats herself, but stopped.
“I am not here to make people feel bad about their political choices,” said McGowan.
YouTube Videos Brainwashed My Father. Can I Reprogram His Feed?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/magazine/youtube-radicalization.html
YouTube Videos Brainwashed My Father. Can I Reprogram His Feed?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on dealing with a parent radicalized by a recommendation engine and whether to cut off a friend who has joined a cult.
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April 20, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
For nearly his entire life, my 80-something-year-old father has been a quiet, gentle and deeply religious man who went to Mass and said the rosary daily. Although his political views have always been conservative, he has also always believed in kindness and fairness. Since the start of the pandemic, his social interactions have become severely reduced, limited to daily calls from me (I live across the country), weekly visits from my brother and the occasional shopping trips and church attendance. As our mother passed away before the pandemic, his one loyal companion has been his iPad an
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I Grew Up In The Children Of God, A Doomsday Cult. Here s How I Finally Got Out.
Our leader believed the world would burn when the Great Apocalypse arrived.
By Flor Edwards, Guest Writer
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Flor Edwards, third from left, and with seven of her siblings in the rural Thai province of Udon Thani. (1987)
Growing up in ― and leaving ― a cult is something from which a person never fully recovers.
My parents met in Spain shortly after they both had joined the Children of God cult in 1978. Mom said she joined because Father David, the charismatic leader of the religious doomsday cult, offered the youth of her generation a purpose in life and a way to serve God without joining a church. One day, when my mother was in Sweden and on her way to buy a ticket to Tunisia in search of some new adventure, she met a man sitting on a street corner strumming a guitar. He told her about Jesus and Father David and living with a group of other followe