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A French journalist who started a religion named after himself in the 1970s. Religion in Antarctica: There's no continent on Earth without organized religion. Reincarnation Application: Must be filed by all living Buddha within the People's Republic of China before they are allowed to reincarnate. Religious pareidolia
Though the number of unhoused people has increased to a 10-year high, according to the Fresno Madera Continuum of Care’s most recent Point-in-Time census, the city of Fresno has doubled its ...
Time magazine considered that, by the Soviet Union, longevity had elevated to a state-supported "Methuselah cult". [126] The USSR insisted on its citizens' unrivaled longevity by claiming 592 people (224 male, 368 female) over age 120 in a 15 January 1959 census [127] and 100 citizens of the Russian SSR alone aged 120 to 156 in March 1960. [128]
Social norms are the unwritten rules that determine what is acceptable within a community and what is not. Usually, they are those things we all just "know" to be true, and that are either ...
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire.Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks, typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
Shermer explores the psychology of scholars and business men who give up their careers in their pursuit to broadcast their paranormal beliefs. In his last chapter, added to the revised version, Shermer explains why he believes that "intelligent people" can be more susceptible to believing in weird things than others.
2012 phenomenon – a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or otherwise transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar and as such, festivities to commemorate the date took place on 21 December 2012 in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization ...
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.