Israelis charge four dealers with faking 'biblical' artefacts
Scholars said the fakes were exploiting the need of Jews and Christians to find physical evidence to reinforce their beliefs.
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Scholars said the fakes were exploiting the need of Jews and Christians to find physical evidence to reinforce their beliefs.
A Midland psychic will be holding his own unique service on New Year's Eve for people around the world - via the internet.Mystic Ed, real name Francis Ward, is urging people to log on to his website to take part in a special service of love where he will be sending out thoughts across the psychic airwaves to people in need.
Like the hat, Ed.People from as far afield as India, South Africa and Mexico have already logged on to his website, leaving messages for him in a special guest book and asking him to send out his thoughts to them.
He said: "The purpose of the Christmas Eve ceremony is based on sending to people across the world the gift of love.
"I ask people to switch off their TV at 10pm and sit quietly and pray for all those that are sad."
He held a similar service on Christmas Eve. Mystic Ed, from Pye Green Road, Cannock, will appear on Channel 5 psychic programme Housebusters in the New Year.
Illusionist Derren Brown is planning a new Channel 4 show, which sees him trying to convince American religious leaders that he is the Messiah.And then he says:
"I am not knocking people's genuine beliefs. The agenda of this show is only to raise questions. People are not mocked or made to look stupid."Hmm, now that's a tall order ;-)
Among the 2004 headline-making events that psychics didn’t predict, for example, Emery lists the Janet Jackson Superbowl breast flash, the prison torture in Iraq and the Boston Red Sox World Series win. And he reminds us that, in the past, psychics have missed out on foreseeing such major events as the death of their once-favorite subject, Princess Diana, as well as the 9/11 attacks.And now the biggest earthquake and natural disaster in half a century, as well. Tell you what- I posess a copy of Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book for 2004 (and 1998,2001, 2002, 2003).Not a word. Nary a whisper from some of the world's best-qualified (read best paid) magickal forecasters. What, children? Could this all be a heap of crap?
While walking through Bruntsfield, in Edinburgh, recently, I noticed a poster advertising a clairvoyants' gathering. Was that poster really necessary?Magnus K Moodie
Scotsman, July 26
If only George Bush had been in the Oval Office during the Cuban missile crisis. His strong faith and decisiveness would have ensured that there were no Islamic terrorists today. And for good measure, there would be no atheists or moderate Muslims or Catholics or Protestants, either.Peter McCarthy
Age, Australia, November 2
It seems like this sudden redecoration-angst is coming to Africa too.
“I'll bet you if I was announcing a prayer meeting nothing would have been said,” Russell said in a telephone interview. “We live in America. People are not supposed to be prejudiced in this country. For some reason, it's not OK to not believe. We're the gays of religion I guess, people are so scared of us.”
Parents-to-be are increasingly opting to have their children delivered at the time suggested by local astrologersIn a country every bit as superstitious as ours, people would rather rely on the fatuous mouthings of a Swami espousing psuedoscience than on the benefits to be derived from good nutrition,education, and a rationlist view of life.
Astrologer Swami Trilokinathji Maharaj said: "Financial aptitude, fame and fortune, career - everything could be ensured by timing the birth."Well no, it couldn't-but you're not going to persuade the peasants, here or there, of that in a hurry.
One of my pet peeves is that when someone who commits a crime is known to be kinky or gay, his or her sexual identity becomes the scapegoat: it was the perversion that made him (or her) do it.Actually it seems like this is trend worldwide.Yet there's been a gruesome trend in America: Christian moms who kill their children, believing that it is what God wants them to do. And this week, we have another good Christian, Lisa Montgomery of Kansas, who killed a pregnant mother and cut the baby out of her body.
LONDON (Reuters) - Nursing home staff paid tribute to a 105-year old British woman who had smoked since the age of 15 by cremating her with a packet of cigarettes and laying a large floral cigarette on her coffin. Marie Ellis died -- of natural causes -- at the Eaton Lodge Nursing Home in Kent, southeast England, in early December and was cremated on Tuesday, clutching a packet of her favorite Benson and Hedges cigarettes. "We will always remember her for her smoking because the first thing she asked when she got up was 'Can I have a cigarette,'" said matron Maria Kallis, who commissioned a large wreath in the shape of a cigarette, made with white and yellow chrysanthemums, for the spinster's coffin. The enigmatic Ellis, an ex-typist, arrived at the nursing home 15 years ago. Apart from her 15-a-day habit, she was also notorious among staff for her unhealthy eating habits, often asking for sugar in her soup and always demanding three sugars in her coffee. Staff played the song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes at Ellis' funeral and are planning a memorial concrete ashtray for her in the nursing home garden, where her ashes will also be buried.Cheered me up for the weekend, anyway!
"Ek is mal oor hulle", sê die groep se meisie, "daar is soveel diepte in hul fisiek." "U bedoel seker 'diepte in hul musiek'?", vra Die President. "Ja, watokal."
"Alhoewel ek nie altyd verstaan waaroor hulle sing nie is die boodskap van vokkov S.A.T.A.N. 'n rein een wat lankal deur die afdwalende jeug vandag gehoor moes word. Ek hoor die band het 'n groot voël versameling wat my interesseer" het Antie Gris Jisme gesê.
A British sailor made waves in a round-the-world yachting competition on Tuesday when he used his radio to propose to his sweetheart, who is also a rival competitor. The famously rough seas at Cape Horn, on the southern tip of Africa, did nothing to dampen the ardour of Graham Thompson (31) who asked 30-year-old girlfriend Laura Alexander the crucial question. "Most sailors approaching Cape Horn have a sense of fear, but I had two reasons to be a little apprehensive," he told Britain's domestic Press Association newswire. "Rounding Cape Horn is such a significant landmark for sailors that I decided that it was the perfect place to do it." In an impeccably planned operation, his girlfriend's yacht, BP Explorer, was briefly turned into a love boat as a crewmate presented her with an engagement ring on behalf of her new fiancé. Thompson used an open frequency from his boat, Pindar, to reach his beloved, thus sending out a live signal to all 216 competitors in the Global Challenge race. The twelve 22-metre yachts taking part in the Global Challenge 2004 set off from Portsmouth in early October and are expected to reach Wellington, New Zealand, by January 9. - Sapa-AFP
SENIOR churchmen reacted angrily last night to a Madame Tussaud’s nativity tableau depicting Victoria and David Beckham as Mary and Joseph, calling it “a nativity stunt too far”. A spokesman for one senior Church of England bishop condemned it as an outrage.
You know, when I was four and knew nothing of the world but the very small rural town in which I lived, I believed Jesus loved me. I knew this for fact in the way a four-year-old knows things. And I used to sing about it every Sunday. I imagine we must have been innocent darlings. Cute little southern kids singing their hearts out for "Jeebus". Twangy munchkins.
LONDON (Reuters) - British comedian Rowan Atkinson -- creator of the hapless "Mr Bean" -- attacked a planned law outlawing incitement of religious hatred on Monday, saying it would curb free speech and humour.
There is no such organization and there certainly is no such conspiracy. You have nothing whatsoever to worry about. And if you've seen any mysterious black helicopters flying near your home - well, they don't exist either. And even if they did exist, which they don't, they wouldn't be in the least bit dangerous or harmful, and they certainly wouldn't be beaming evil mind-control rays into your home through your television screen and fillings. You need not worry on that regard.Check in at the Department of Corrective Phrenology for a visit to the Unholy Trinity, Rummy, Dummy and Chummy. Looks like an incomplete work in progress which hasn't been updated since early this year-pity.
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