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Since their inception and installation in inner-city testing areas several years ago, crime in the area has decreased in near proportionate manner to the number of people using the prayer booths. With such favorable trends, city council was quick to appropriate more land as ‘park space’ to install these ‘public service monuments of arts and counseling to the people of Kansas City’.
The move asks its own questions that are probably at least as interesting as their answers.
Since their inception and installation in inner-city testing areas several years ago, crime in the area has decreased in near proportionate manner to the number of people using the prayer booths. With such favorable trends, city council was quick to appropriate more land as ‘park space’ to install these ‘public service monuments of arts and counseling to the people of Kansas City’.
The move asks its own questions that are probably at least as interesting as their answers.
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Interesting story. Just loving the claims associated with it, that everyone seems to take as read. Unevidenced, unattributed and unclear claims like this one, for instance;
"The Topeka News reports that since the booths were installed just a few months ago, they have been receiving over 100,000 callers each week."
The Topeka news reports it? Where did they get the figures from? What do they mean when they say 100,000 callers? Is that 100,000 callers using these prayer booths? Prayers to God? Calls to Topeka News? What?
Its the same about the claims of reduced crime rates, too. Who says the crime rates have been reduced? What's the evidence to support it? How have they demonstrated causation over simple correlation? I do know that such installations would be the target for just about every bored vandal out there, and does anyone else think its creepy to show women on their knees when showing pictures of how this prayer booth works?
As Vulcan referred to in his post, it also illustrates just how selfish and petty and vindictive some christians can be. One woman, without any sense of apparent irony, exercised her christian principles to pray that an opposing quarterback on a football team opposing her own suffer from a more serious ankle injury!
The author of the piece in the Topeka News, the rather grandly named Haywood Bynum III+ "leads the charge of faith at Bible Fellowship Church". Hardly an impartial observer then :) And some of his previous stories raise eyebrows;
A story, carried nowhere else, that scientists in fukushima have developed a chimera between bird and dog as a pet; That a recent massive coronal sun activity was caused "by the gays", and some weird diatribe about evolution being wrong "because squirrels have not developed mecha-armour to cross the road".
I mean the man reads like a satirical invention. If he is real and genuine, I fear for rationality in small town USA, I really do :)
"The Topeka News reports that since the booths were installed just a few months ago, they have been receiving over 100,000 callers each week."
The Topeka news reports it? Where did they get the figures from? What do they mean when they say 100,000 callers? Is that 100,000 callers using these prayer booths? Prayers to God? Calls to Topeka News? What?
Its the same about the claims of reduced crime rates, too. Who says the crime rates have been reduced? What's the evidence to support it? How have they demonstrated causation over simple correlation? I do know that such installations would be the target for just about every bored vandal out there, and does anyone else think its creepy to show women on their knees when showing pictures of how this prayer booth works?
As Vulcan referred to in his post, it also illustrates just how selfish and petty and vindictive some christians can be. One woman, without any sense of apparent irony, exercised her christian principles to pray that an opposing quarterback on a football team opposing her own suffer from a more serious ankle injury!
The author of the piece in the Topeka News, the rather grandly named Haywood Bynum III+ "leads the charge of faith at Bible Fellowship Church". Hardly an impartial observer then :) And some of his previous stories raise eyebrows;
A story, carried nowhere else, that scientists in fukushima have developed a chimera between bird and dog as a pet; That a recent massive coronal sun activity was caused "by the gays", and some weird diatribe about evolution being wrong "because squirrels have not developed mecha-armour to cross the road".
I mean the man reads like a satirical invention. If he is real and genuine, I fear for rationality in small town USA, I really do :)
This article is satire. Consider other articles he's written:
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Take a joke, folks.
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Take a joke, folks.
This is from the same publication..
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@Sandy Well, I cannot recall anything specifically linked to Milton Keynes, but I do know that TM proponents have long claimed the benefits of the so- called Maharishi Effect - the notion that individual consciousness can affect the collective consciousness of the surrounding society.
Some proponents have gone further - back in the 70s, they made the claim that if just 1% of a society engaged in TM, there was a corresponding reduction in the crime rate - perhaps because all the criminals were engaged in TM? :)
The big problem with their claim ,and the reason why most would dismiss it out of hand as nonsense, is the lack of substantiation for such a claim. No evidence has been provided to demonstrate a causal link, or even a strong correlation.
Claims without substance or evidence can be dismissed without evidence, and this claim is high on the list of the nonsense. They will be telling us people can fly next through the power of the mind- oh wait, they already do with claims of Yogic Flying...
Some proponents have gone further - back in the 70s, they made the claim that if just 1% of a society engaged in TM, there was a corresponding reduction in the crime rate - perhaps because all the criminals were engaged in TM? :)
The big problem with their claim ,and the reason why most would dismiss it out of hand as nonsense, is the lack of substantiation for such a claim. No evidence has been provided to demonstrate a causal link, or even a strong correlation.
Claims without substance or evidence can be dismissed without evidence, and this claim is high on the list of the nonsense. They will be telling us people can fly next through the power of the mind- oh wait, they already do with claims of Yogic Flying...
LG, ever since I came across yogic 'flying' I thought it a wonderful example of reality denial. If someone can convince themselves that something that looks like aerobics for amputees constitutes flying then they can convince themselves of anything. But more to the point it demonstrates that these cults cannot be taken seriously. If the culmination of thousands of years of oriental mental progress is to be able jump very badly. then it looks like searching elsewhere for enlightenment might be more rewarding..
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