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« on: December 04, 2017, 01:27:30 am »

JEFF BEZOS THE GREEDY FILTHY COMMIE NAZI WHITE TRASH DIRTBAG


He is a perfect example of why we need to exterminate all communist pigs[/b
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Amazon bosses try to raise morale by giving exhausted staff two 7p chocolates each after shocking working conditions were exposed
Neil Drinkwanter, who recently quit the company, says the gesture was 'insulting' - while others in the delivery giant say they've heard NOTHING about how conditions will be improved

Neil Drinkwater quit Amazon days after our expose into the company's working conditions

Miserly Amazon bosses reacted to the Sunday Mirror’s investigation into its shocking working conditions – by giving out tiny chocolates.

Staff on gruelling 10-and-a-half-hour shifts were given one Celebration sweet in the first half of their day and another in the second half.

The bizarre gesture is revealed today by former employee Neil Drinkwater – who quit after his partner read our exposé and realised for the first time what he had been enduring.

We told last week of exhausted warehouse staff falling asleep on their feet as they chased impossible targets.

And the five-week investigation led to a widespread backlash against the £7.3billion-a-year online giant.

Neil, 41, started at Amazon after losing his sales job when the construction firm he worked for went bust.



Staff were offered two miniature chocolates in a desperate bid to boost morale

Amazon customer buys dinosaur pillow for her little boy - but what arrives leaves her gobsmacked
He told us: “This week our managers started coming round with a box of ­Celebrations for the first part of the shift, and gave us a chocolate each.

“Then they did the same at the second part of the shift. Me and my colleagues were saying this was down to the Sunday Mirror. We all thought it was an insult.”

Staff at Amazon’s “fulfillment” centres, where orders are put together, packed and shipped, work up to 55 hours a week for £8.20 an hour.

Their boss, American Jeff Bezos, 53, is the world’s richest man. Like Neil, he is a dad of four. Last year he made £2.2million an hour.

Neil, who had spent a month on nights at Amazon’s plant near Manchester, handed in his resignation after ­Wednesday’s night shift.



It comes after the Sunday Mirror exposed how exhausted staff were falling asleep on their feet (Image: Sunday Mirror)

He told how he asked a supervisor whether Amazon had any plans to improve conditions for workers.

Neil said: “I asked, ‘Did you read that article in the Mirror?’ He said yes, and that they’d had feedback off Amazon to say if anyone asks about it they should say they’re reviewing the target system and their procedures.

“I said, ‘What do you think?’ and he said, ‘I think it’s dire. The way they work you guys is terrible’.”

But Neil said the manager told him that Amazon bosses are secretly hoping the scandal will simply blow over.

He said: “They told me the chocolates were given out to try to raise spirits, to get everybody on board. It’s a couple of sweets per shift to get morale up and make them think they care about us. I found it quite insulting, to be honest.”

After five weeks undercover our ­investigator told last week how “pickers” at Amazon’s newest warehouse, in Tilbury, Essex, were given targets of processing at least 300 ordered items per hour.

And we photographed “packers” asleep at their stations where, if they achieve 120 boxes an hour, they earn seven pence per box. Ironically, seven pence is also the cost of a Celebration.

Staff at Tilbury reported that after our story small chocolate bars and free lunches were now being given as prizes for top-performing staff.

And another Manchester-based worker told us: “They’ve been handing out chocolates, but I’ve heard nothing about how they will make it better.”


Football coach Neil told how he had missed his first game in three years – through exhaustion. He said: “I needed money for Christmas and thought it was half decent pay, enough to tide me over.

“After four days I was dead on my feet. I honestly believe they exploit people’s necessity, their need for money. They feed off that.” Neil even found himself crying on the 20-minute bike ride to the warehouse near his Altrincham home.



Amazon boss Jeff Bezos

Amazon told to “hang its head in shame" as staff exploitation inside new warehouse condemned
And it was only after our exposé that his teaching ­assistant partner Joanne, 31, understood what he had been suffering.

Neil said: “She read it and said, ‘I’m so sorry. I thought you were exaggerating’.

“We looked at a photo from two days before I started and couldn’t believe it. I’ve lost loads of weight. I felt depressed, to be honest – really depressed.

“It’s the constant pressure they put on you. I was on a final written warning for seven mistakes… out of 4,000 items.” Hundreds of staff and ex workers had similar stories. One former area manager told us: “An employee with cancer needed less walking and wanted to change roles. I tried to help but was forbidden.”

Another told us bluntly: “The last two months have been the worst of my life.”

Amazon said our report was “inconsistent with [the experience of] the many thousand we employ all over Britain.” They added: “There is on-site physiotherapy. We do not monitor toilet breaks.”

Sleep in car and just ride out the pain


Hundreds of workers at Amazon shared their experiences of working there

Hundreds of Amazon workers contacted the Sunday Mirror this week to share their experiences. Here are some of their stories:

'One of my staff told me about his struggle with depression in such an environment. He’d had many issues with other managers, with one telling him if he has mental health issues he “should not be here”, as well as telling him to “get out” if he suffers anxiety.’ - Former Area Manager

‘The last two months have been the worst of my life. Every break I have to try and catch some sleep. I’ve seen plenty of people sleep in their cars.’ - Worker, Tilbury warehouse

‘We were told we weren’t allowed to use the toilet outside of scheduled break times.’ - Fulfilment worker



Reporter Alan Sleby went undercover for five weeks

‘It’s only a matter of time before an Amazon driver kills someone. Amazon create routes based on numbers, supposedly to an eight- hour working day. But if you start at 8am you’ll sometimes finish at 8pm or 9pm.’ - Amazon delivery driver

‘Some of us have been placed on report just for sitting down during our shifts.’ - Amazon staffer

‘Working in picking I was always either squatting, or climbing the ladder. It was like taking a 10-hour step class.’ - Ex staff member at US fulfilment centre

‘I’m 28 and healthy. In six weeks there I’ve injured my back, both my knees and am currently nursing an ankle injury after 11 hours standing up for five days a week. I’d estimate around 75 per cent of my colleagues would say the same.’ - Manchester fulfilment worker

‘I was told to work faster and twisted my foot on a ladder. I had to quit, my foot hurt too much to continue under those conditions.’ - Ex Tilbury worker


Staff turn to loan firms in desperation


The number of Amazon staff seeking payday loans has soared 70 per cent in six months, a firm claims.

CashLady said the rise, between May and October, came as the average loan request soared to £437, up £150 from a year earlier. Boss Chris Hackett said: “The reality is employees of the UK’s biggest retailer struggle to make ends meet, despite the unforgiving hours.”

Workers earn £8.20 an hour – 70p higher than the legal minimum outside London. But staff claim deductions and punishing fines handed out by Amazon can leave them taking home much less.

The firm’s drivers have even faced penalties in the past for making their deliveries “too early”.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/amazon-bosses-give-exhausted-staff-11629106



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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2017, 06:32:45 am »


Hillarious....somebody feels threatened by a successful businessman who HASN'T gone through the multiple bankruptcies Donald Trump has.

The closer Robert Mueller gets to Donald J. Trump, the more desperate Trump's mentally-retarded supporters get (including those in NZ).

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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2017, 08:25:36 am »

Check out how Amazon treats its workers. The stories are attrocious.
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« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2017, 10:22:53 am »

You are a mug if you admire how Bezos allows his workers to be treated. Especially so if you endorse his company's machievellien and paranoid systems for preventing union membership.
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« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2017, 10:33:47 am »

"who HASN'T gone through the multiple bankruptcies Donald Trump has."

You do realise many of the world's richest people have been bankrupt or near bankrupt right? It comes with the territory of huge risk taking.
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« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2017, 10:37:05 am »

My money is on Flynn being a storm in a teacup which produced nothing but a "I couldn't be fucked explaining the innards of a trivial business as usual conversation with russian officials as lefty idiots were out to make a meal of it".
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« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2017, 11:09:32 am »

Check out how Amazon treats its workers. The stories are attrocious.


Check out how Donald Trump has treated both his workers AND his contractors over many decades.

The stories are absolutely attrocious.

Every time Donald Trump's business has gone bankrupt, he has financially shit on a shitload of both workers AND contractors.

And while Trump spouts about American jobs, Trump branded clothing is made in India, Bangaladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, China, and other places.

And Trump's resorts are notorious for getting waivers to hire cheap labour from overseas, instead of paying a living wage and hiring Americans.

Donald Trump is a piece of trash & filth who is only interested in lining his own pockets and fuck everybody else.

And you are obviously a stupid simpleton who is looking the other way while Trump abuses everybody he has associated with in his business dealings.
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You do realise Trump is an American businessman and he isn't actually hiding under your bed at night? 😁
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« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2017, 12:11:50 am »

You do realise Trump is an American businessman and he isn't actually hiding under your bed at night? 😁

ktj has reds in his bed and under it they whisper in his ears while he's asleep say trumps bad,white people are bad,the ice is melting,climate is changing , jeff bezos is allowed to treat his slaves like shit because he's a commie fake news propaganda globalist lacky

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A little bird has given me some first hand knowledge of what happens inside Amazon warehouses. No self respecting advocate of unionism should be supporting their sordid shot.
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A little bird has given me some first hand knowledge of what happens inside Amazon warehouses. No self respecting advocate of unionism should be supporting their sordid shit.
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« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2017, 11:20:18 pm »

communism is about rich clowns exploiting the great unwashed unarmed minion slaves
their leaders think they are better than everyone else and it's lucky for them their followers are so stupid and like to be ordered around like uneducated baby's

i wonder if Bezos will give his washington post minions a couple of chocolates each for christmas they are calling him the richest man in the world

dont know why that is

when the rothschilds are worth hundreds of trillions
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In honour of Jeff Bezos and his ilk...

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from The Washington Post....

Amazon wants a key to your house. I did it. I regretted it.

Amazon Key might help you avoid package theft, but the smart lock and camera
aren't good enough to warrant giving Amazon control of your door.


By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER | 7:30AM EST - Thursday, December 07, 2017

Amazon Key works with three different smart locks including the Kwikset Convert that we tested, shown here. — Photograph: Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post.
Amazon Key works with three different smart locks including the Kwikset Convert that we tested, shown here.
 — Photograph: Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post.


I GAVE Amazon.com a key to go into my house and drop off packages when I'm not around. After two weeks, it turns out letting strangers in has been the least-troubling part of the experience.

Once Amazon owned my door, I was the one locked into an all-Amazon world.

When Amazon first floated the idea of Amazon Key, an Internet-connected lock it can access, people had two responses. 1) THIS IS CREEPY. 2) I kind of want this, so my packages don't get stolen.

But make no mistake, the $250 Amazon Key isn't just about stopping thieves. It's the most aggressive effort I've seen from a tech giant to connect your home to the Internet in a way that puts itself right at the center.

Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post, but I review all tech with the same critical eye. So I put an Amazon-compatible smart lock on my door (installation was included) and hooked up its companion Cloud Cam nearby to record who comes and goes. Then I ordered enough Amazon packages to earn overtime for Santa's elves.

The good news is nobody ran off with my boxes — or burgled my house.

The bad news is Amazon missed four of my in-home deliveries and charged me (on top of a Prime membership) for gear that occasionally jammed and makes it awkward to share my own door with people, apps, services — and, of course, retailers — other than Amazon.

“Amazon Key has had a positive reception from customers since its launch last month,” Amazon spokeswoman Kristen Kish said. “There have been situations where we haven't gotten it right with a delivery and we use these situations to continue making improvements to the service.”

Big tech companies love building walled gardens, in ham-handed attempts to keep customers loyal. But for an ask this big (total access to your home, after all), Amazon needs to make Key better.


The Amazon Cloud Cam live streams and archives deliveries with Amazon Key. — Photograph: Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post.
The Amazon Cloud Cam live streams and archives deliveries with Amazon Key. — Photograph: Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post.

Smart locks get a purpose…

Amazon's path to home domination requires persuading Americans to connect appliances and everyday things to the Internet — thermostats, lights, even water filters. With the Echo speaker and Alexa talking assistant, it's had more luck than most companies at getting us interested.

What Amazon gets right is that the so-called smart home has to solve real problems. Smart locks have been around for years, but Amazon Key finds a real use for them: stopping package theft.

Amazon smartly paired the lock with its security Cloud Cam. Having a camera — which only you can watch, and which must be powered up for the door to unlock — makes this a little less terrifying. (If the power goes out, you can always open the door with an old-fashioned key.)

When you use Amazon Key, you get a phone alert with a window when a delivery might occur. If no one is home, the delivery person taps an app that grants one-time access to unlock your door, places the package inside, then relocks the door. (They don't recommend Key if you have a pet, and won't come in if they hear barking.) The moment the door unlocks, the Cloud Cam starts recording — and sends you a live stream of the whole thing. It's a surreal 15 seconds.

Even if your family runs on Prime shipping, this scenario would likely test your faith in Amazon. There are certainly less-invasive ways to keep packages safe, like lockboxes or shipping to the office. The company promises deliveries are only made by carriers that Amazon thinks are trustworthy. (The drivers are contractors vetted by Amazon's own background check vendor.) It also says that it will “correct the problem” if your property gets damaged. (In the fine print, you also agree to arbitration, rather than a lawsuit, if something goes really wrong.)

Amazon's drivers earned high marks for discretion. Most of them opened the door just enough to slide in a package. None of them stopped to use the toilet. None of them took a cookie — not even when I set some by the door with a card.

The Amazon workers are no doubt aware they're under digital surveillance. Amazon's systems monitor their whereabouts before they can unlock the door, and when they lock it again.


Amazon's delivery people are all business. When we left cookies and a sign, shown here, they didn't bite. — Photograph: Geoffrey A. Fowler/The Washington Post.
Amazon's delivery people are all business. When we left cookies and a sign, shown here, they didn't bite.
 — Photograph: Geoffrey A. Fowler/The Washington Post.


If only it worked…

Worry about a creepy driver turned out to just be the beginning of Amazon Key's problems.

The other reason smart home tech has been a tough slog for Silicon Valley is that houses come in so many shapes and ages. And there's a lot at stake if tech fails where you live.

My Amazon Key setup was finicky, even though Amazon sent someone to help. My installer was friendly, but found a problem with my decades-old door he wasn't authorized to fix — the spot where the deadbolt went into the frame slightly misaligned. I paid a locksmith $100 for a new strike plate, which was Amazon's recommendation.

That wasn't enough. From time to time, my Kwikset Convert lock makes a screech that would alarm a hyena, and flashes a warning in the Key app about jamming.

Even worse, that happened during an Amazon delivery. Fortunately, the driver kept trying until the door actually locked. Amazon said it thinks my lock is not properly installed. I also might have had a better experience with one of the two other compatible smart locks, whose designs are bulkier.

Then I heard Amazon Key got hacked. Researchers found a way a rogue delivery person could cause the security camera to freeze and then potentially lurk in your house. Amazon said customers weren't really at risk, but pushed a software update to provide quicker notifications if the camera goes offline during delivery.

The biggest head scratcher: Of eight in-home deliveries, Amazon missed its original delivery window on four of them. It sent some inaccurate alerts about when packages might arrive, which is especially unnerving when drivers might be entering your house. (The packages all arrived eventually, a day or more late.) This is a record-breaking online shopping season, but this is the part of the business I expect Amazon to get right.


Amazon drivers making in-home deliveries knock first, then use an app that grants one-time access to unlock the door. — Photograph: Geoffrey A. Fowler/The Washington Post.
Amazon drivers making in-home deliveries knock first, then use an app that grants one-time access to unlock the door.
 — Photograph: Geoffrey A. Fowler/The Washington Post.


Who owns your door?

When you add Amazon Key to your door, something more sneaky also happens: Amazon takes over.

You can leave your keys at home and unlock your door with the Amazon Key app — but it's really built for Amazon deliveries. To share online access with family and friends, I had to give them a special code to SMS (yes, text) to unlock the door. (Amazon offers other smartlocks that have physical keypads).

The Key-compatible locks are made by Yale and Kwikset, yet don't work with those brands' own apps. They also can't connect with a home-security system or smart-home gadgets that work with Apple and Google software.

And, of course, the lock can't be accessed by businesses other than Amazon. No Walmart, no UPS, no local dog-walking company.

Keeping tight control over Key might help Amazon guarantee security or a better experience. “Our focus with smart home is on making things simpler for customers — things like providing easy control of connected devices with your voice using Alexa, simplifying tasks like reordering household goods and receiving packages,” the Amazon spokeswoman said.

But Amazon is barely hiding its goal: It wants to be the operating system for your home. Amazon says Key will eventually work with dog walkers, maids and other service workers who bill through its marketplace. An Amazon home security service and grocery delivery from Whole Foods can't be far off. (Walmart has announced plans to test delivering groceries straight to the refrigerator with a smart lock maker called August.)

Amazon said it doesn't have access to data about when you lock your door or the video feed from the Cloud Cam — both good things. But surely its data team is also crunching the numbers on how Key changes your consumer behavior, especially whether you are buying more stuff from Amazon.

What's so bad about living in an all-Amazon house? The company doesn't always have the best prices, or act in ways that benefit consumers. For example, it's currently in a spat with Google, whose smart-home products like Chromecast and Google Home are not carried by Amazon — and who retaliated by blocking access to its YouTube apps on some Amazon products. (Grow up, you two!)

After two weeks, my family voted to remove the Amazon Key smart lock and take down the camera.

Amazon Key did give me some peace of mind about delivery theft. But the trade-off is giving more power over your life to a company that probably already has too much.


• Geoffrey A. Fowler is The Washington Post's technology columnist based in San Francisco. From 2001 to 2017, he wrote for The Wall Street Journal.

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« Reply #18 on: December 08, 2017, 10:57:22 pm »


Well, this kinda disproves all that “god creating the universe 6,000 years ago bullshit” 'cause the universe created itself 13 billion & 690 million years before the god delusion inside weak-minded idiots' heads supposedly created it. Just goes to show how “full of shit” religionists are, eh?



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Scientists just found the oldest known black hole, and it's a monster

The discovery could offer clues to the enigmatic early years of the universe.

By SARAH KAPLAN | 10:44AM EST — Thursday, December 07, 2017

An artist's conception of the most distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang. — Illustration: Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science.
An artist's conception of the most distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang.
 — Illustration: Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science.


Eduardo Bañados had three nights to spot something that might not even exist: a supermassive black hole close to the beginning of time.

At the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, perched high atop a mountain in the world's driest desert, he scanned for the signature of a massive, invisible sinkhole in the sky slurping up a whirlpool of brilliant, hot matter.

Just before sunrise on the third night, he found it. Way out at the very edge of the observable universe, there loomed a black hole 800 million times more massive than the sun. The signal had traveled more than 13 billion light-years across time and space to reach Bañados's telescope.

In a paper published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, Bañados and his colleagues report that their new find is the oldest and most distant black hole ever discovered.

The object's size is stunning, Bañados said, because it existed just 690 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age and still emerging from an enigmatic era known as “the Dark Ages”.

That such a large black hole can exist so early in time will shape models of how black holes form. And it will offer insight into the universe’s hard-to-study early years.

“If the universe was a 50-year-old person,” Bañados explained. “Now we have a photograph of that person as a toddler … when they were 2½.”

The Dark Ages began just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, once the hot particle slurry that constituted the early universe condensed into atoms. The universe was getting bigger and colder in this period, filling up with a featureless fog of hydrogen gas. There were no galaxies, stars or supernovas (which appear when stars explode) — nothing that gave off light. The only form of radiation was a very weak hydrogen glow.

This state of affairs lasted for hundreds of millions of years. Yet sometime during this inscrutable period, the universe as we know it emerged. Gravity pulled hydrogen into the first gas clouds, from which the first stars were born. The radiation from the newly formed objects broke hydrogen atoms apart into their constituent particles — protons and electrons — finally dispelling the chilly fog.

This process, called “reionization” because previously neutral hydrogen atoms became ions with an electric charge, was the last major transition in the universe's history. Understanding the reionization epoch, Bañados said, is one of the “frontiers of astrophysics”.

The absence of light sources during the Dark Ages makes it difficult to probe this period with telescopes. The hydrogen fog further complicates matters. Bañados says it is as though someone went through the universe's childhood photo album and ripped out all the pictures of its most formative years.

But studying the behavior of the universe’s very first quasars — luminous whirlpools of fast-moving, ultrahot particles surrounding supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies — could shed some light on this inscrutable era.

That hope is what drove Bañados, an astronomer at the Carnegie Observatories in California, to the Chilean mountaintop in March. It was not entirely clear whether he'd be able to find a quasar so far away. Supermassive black holes swallow up huge amounts of matter, squeezing the equivalent mass of several hundred thousand suns into a space so small that gravity wraps around it like an invisibility cloak and causes it to vanish. An object like that needs a long time to grow and more matter than might have been available in the young universe.

But the object Bañados and his colleagues discovered, called ULAS J1342+0928, was even bigger than they'd bargained for — suggesting that something might have made black holes grow more quickly. Scientists don't yet know the underlying reasons for such rapid growth, or whether still older black holes are waiting to be found.

“This is what we are trying to push forward.” Bañados said. “At some point these shouldn't exist. When is that point? We still don't know.”

In a companion paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, the scientists report another odd finding: The galaxy where ULAS J1342+0928 dwells was generating new stars “like crazy”, Bañados said. Objects the size of our sun were emerging 100 times as frequently as they do in our own galaxy today.

“To build stars you need dust,” Bañados said. “But it's really hard to form all this dust in such little time on cosmic scales — that requires some generations of supernovae to explode.”

During the universe's toddler years, there hadn't been time for several rounds of stars living and dying. So where were the ingredients for all these new stars coming from?

Observations of the light coming from the quasar point to a third curiosity: This object lived when roughly half the universe's hydrogen was still neutral. That places it right smack dab in the middle of the reionization epoch, when the light of the first celestial objects burned away the Dark Ages fog.

“Maybe we are probing the region now where the first stars and galaxies formed,” Bañados said. The quasar “is basically a gold mine for follow-up studies of this 2½-year-old universe.”


• Sarah Kaplan is a reporter for Speaking of Science at The Washington Post.

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« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2017, 04:06:02 pm »


meanwhile the dead sea scrolls story

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« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2017, 04:53:43 pm »


Dead Sea scrolls are a load of bullshit written by primitive, ignorant people who were stupid enough to believe the god delusions inside their heads.
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 Edgar Cayce must have been a wizard


More than eleven years before the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947, Cayce’s readings described a sect of Judaism about which scholars knew little. This group was the Essenes. Cayce gave a great deal of information about their work and their life in the community. For example, he claimed that in the Essene society men and women worked and lived together. At the time of the reading, scholars believed that the Essenes were a monastic society composed exclusively of men. However, in 1951, more than six years after Cayce’s death, archaeologists made further excavations at Qumran near the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. They discovered evidence that both men and women lived together in the Essene society.

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When somebody puts up absolute proof that god is REAL and not a mere delusion inside the minds of simple people, then I may believe in bullshit such as the dead sea scrolls, but until then, you can shove that primitive, superstitious bullshit up your arsehole.
 
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and about people in the old times being  stupid then how did they build these giant stones thousands of years back






you really dont disprove anything you have a picture from an artist that is supposed to be a black hole

i can draw a picture of a black hole> .
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