Posts by Steve Barnes
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Sorry I must correct myself. The The Jesus Christ Church of Later-day Saints is, in fact the Mormons (I cutted and pasted wrong)
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Coming at it from another direction I found this.
Causes of death classified by risk and condition, New Zealand 1997 Martin Tobias , Maria Turley
Ministry of Health, New Zealand.Approximately 30% of deaths were attributed to the joint effect of dietary factors. Tobacco consumption was responsible for 18% of deaths and insufficient physical activity for almost 10%.
Makes the anti Obesity drive look like the way to go eh?
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Or are you tell me that they so many fundies around these days, that they are mainstream?
"Seventh Day Adventists" or "The Jesus Christ Church of Later-day Saints" as they are known for short, very big in business here, Sanatarium for one. The Mormons have the largest database of births, deaths and marriages on the planet. You may not want to call them mainstream but they have clout.
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Why do you all dislike psychics so much? What have you got to hide? ;-)
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That amounts to $5625 for every man woman and child in this country every year
Which is about 20% of GDP. So Double Bollocks.
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smoking costs NZ society as a whole $22.5 billion dollars a year
unsubstantiated bollocks. That amounts to $5625 for every man woman and child in this country every year. I'm sure sombody would have noticed that.
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Actually they don't. It's the american inspired fundy churches that do. And deserved to be mocked as much as the psychics.
I think you will find that many Churches in this country require tithes.
New Thought Center and Church
Destiny Church
Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific
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your not a fucking rocket science, go on fly your rocket in the sky right now.
Like all rocket scientista I do not and would not fly one ;-)
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Unfortunately, the program is called "sensing murder", and it gives the "psychics" credibility. It's a shame that not everyone can see them for the charlatans they really are
People have faith in all kinds of fairytale stuff, who are we to insist otherwise?
It's a sad day when NZ tellymakers have to resort to psychics when angling a cheap, exploitative programme to the lowest common denominator.
They will resort to anything to make a buck and then the programme buyers snap them up because if your gullible enough to believe the crap then you are the right person to show ads to.
So-called psychics extract large sums of money from a gullible public, preying on their grief and distress, sometimes making it worse.
Churches extract large sums from their "Flock" to the detriment of their wealth and wellbeing.
We can't all be rocket scientists and the dull and gullible will always be amongst us. -
I watched Media 7 last night and i have to say i was more than a little disappointed.
I have never watched Sensing murder, mainly for the concept and the negative media reaction, but now I may just watch it occasionally. The reason? Well I thought the producer? had some salient points. The police have swept some cases "under the carpet" or into the "too hard basket" and if this program sheds some light, even if that light is only an increased public awareness, on those cases then that must be good.
I don't think it matters how stupid the concept of "psychics" is. If some dumb f**k watches the programme for that alone but comes away with a little empathy or, better still, a revelation that they actually know something that could help the investigation then, surely? that is a good thing.
your program purports to be fair and insightful yet the text of the discussion was decided before any opinions were aired.
Sorry Russell, but I thought it a poor show.