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people in here dissing wow saying rift is better is laughable , wow is like what 99% of what rift copied from their arrow over their head quests to just about every single warfront in the entire game , then with guild wars 2 coming out they tried to get a jump on them and put in conquest. All Rift has ever done is copy every other single games systems except their souls which was its saving factor. Now with storm legion Rifts soul system is cookie cutter maybe two or three builds per a class that actually can go into storm legion zones and level their way to 60. This game only kept any population at all because of Trion and their customer service , and interacting with their player base and content updates. Now they dont even do that and their content patches come slower than wows. Not sure how any fanboi or girl can even begin to rationalize how Rift is better than GW2 or WOW for that matter, its leagues behind both games and was made as nothing but a money grab from the start copying wow with their low overhead.
Heres something else thats hilarious on the guild wars 2 forums , there are actually players posting complete lies about rifts store on guild wars 2 trying to just get other players to come to it with them because they dislike GW2 and feel robbed though they played for months for free. Rifts cash shop is by far the worst cash shop ever released for a western mmorpg. They are literally selling every single thing in the game for cash except last tier raid gear but on the forums in GW2 people are lying saying they are not even selling gear or anything except luxury items. So many liars that just love to go from game to game telling fabricated stories in hopes of making the population leave another game because "they" dont like it anymore.
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Originally posted by Grailer
If you take away your crutch (holy trinity), two things will happen:
1) You fall down
2)You move faster
I take it you "fall down" without your crutch.
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Originally posted by Celcius
GW2 is mostly empty, you rarely see players in any of the zones outside of Lion's Arch and the lack of NPCs and Towns in the way that RIFT does them makes it feel so huge and empty. GW2 may be large but most of the gameworld is totally empty and lifeless compared to RIFT which actually feels like a real world. GW2 I do enjoy more overall although neither game is really all that awesome to be honest. But as far as world design RIFT wins out. Not to mention, GW2's zones are instanced A), and B) all big ugly squares and rectangles. Have you ever zoomed out and taken a look at the shapes of them? It's entirely unrealistic.
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Originally posted by rodingo
Some of us merely enjoy playing specialized roles instead of the weird do everything hybrids that GW2 has. It's just a lot more fun playing as the trinity. GW2's class design was bad. Classes are usually only kinda sorta the ones I typically enjoy but they are either watered down or have other skills and roles thrown in that I do not want instead of ones I do, in a poor attempt to make it fit in to GW2's trinity-less combat. I prefer my standard MMO class archetypes. There's a reason we have seen them in so many games - it's because they're fun to play.
I would suggest that the entire "casters must stand still to cast a spell" trope harkens all the way back to the beginnings of Dungeons and Dragons. As a Mage, you had to spend time to cast a spell, or it could be interrupted. EQ copied many of its concepts from the pen and paper world and I think it's a fair assumption they copied that idea as well.
Also, especially at low levels, you had only a handful of spells to use during a day, so yes, you would end up cracking skulls with your staff or flinging sling stones or darts--saving your spells for harder fights.
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Originally posted by Leiloni
I played trinity games for years and reality is that big big majority plays 1 role - dps. Then u have 2 small minorities - healers and tanks who carry rest through the whole endgame pve content. So yea, there are very few ppl who realy enjoy playing specific roles of tank or healer, but big big majority just enjoys being on easy mode.
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Originally posted by Zzad
I very strongly disagree with this. yes, its awesome planning where to put your points...and when its finally all done you have a character build that is kind of shallow. I think Burning Crusade era WoW was *much* better for example. Rift gives you lots of choice but the end result of it is less than spectacular. I
There are a few strong souls (Harbinger and Chloromancer for instance) but most of them are ultimately duds, and you cant really make true hybrids, for a system with as much choice it sure feels awfully limiting. the fact you couldnt make a melee mage until SL speaks to that, as does the fact that you cant have a plate wearing healer.
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Last Time I played GW2 it had animation lock which is something I find unacceptable in an MMO.
In regards to the holy trinity - 5 players running around like chickens with their heads cut off dpsing a boss or group of adds is hardly a better alternative.
While I've played WoW for a very long time and have become extremely bored of it in the last year or so the sad reality is there is no alternative yet that does it as well as WoW while being significantly different enough to compensate for all the character(s) advancement built up over the years. i.e no point quilting WoW to start again in a pretty Wow clone - I really wish there was but there isn't.
The main issue I have with new games is the low population - when I jump on I want to do things within an acceptable period of time. e.g when I tried Rift for the second time I could queue in the LFD tool AS A TANK and not get a run for hours. GW2 is the same its a ghost town.
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Originally posted by Leiloni
I can assure you having played the game recently it is not empty. If you are on a low population server you can also guest to a higher population server. Not to mention that Rift is FAR more empty then GW2 considering the fact that they are doing so poorly that they had to lay off a bunch of people and turn the game F2P....
The fact that you compare Rift ascetics to GW2 ascetics is laughable though. You are entitled to your opinion in that regard.
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Originally posted by Malevil
Players (have always been?)* are playing games for the quick shot of fun. And this quick shot of fun should be action packed and very diluted so you don't need to put too much brains in to the system. So in the end, future of the MMORPG genre has to be renamed to Massively Multiplayer Online Action Role Playing Mini Game?
Right now, the future looks pretty grim. A sandbox MMO might be the last hope to counter the dumbing down of the MMORPG genre to oblivion.
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Originally posted by Leiloni
Indeed there is, but I don't think it's because it's "fun to play". Sure there can be enjoyment in playing a role that's more of the same old, same old I guess. However, we keep seeing the same versions of it because a lot of devs don't seem to have the confidence in developing something different. Options in playstyle are a good thing. If you want to stick with your comfort blanket, that's fine. Millions have moved on though even if you don't acknowledge it.
I'm pretty sure whatever game you play that makes you feel at home can be picked apart for it's features. Does that make that game suck? No. It just means that there are options in playstyle, which is,...you guessed it,... a good thing.
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Originally posted by Hatefull
LOL...You just gave me my laugh for the day.
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First came pride, then envy.
Rift was actually decent.
I didn't like the character models though, and the character creation didn't help either. They all looked the same without any variation (except hairstyles). Granted, GW2's is the same, as is WoW's, but at least they have different races to make up for it, which brings me to my next dislike about Rift.
The racial choices were underwhelming. It reminded me too much like Swtor, where all the races are humanoid only. Dwarves is the only distinct race in Rift. GW2 at least has asura, charr, and slyvari, which are all distinct in their own way.
The actual Rift events were fun, so i'll give Rift a positive mark for that. I never got higher than lvl 30 though, but i'm sure they get more difficult and challenging, which brings me to GW2's DEs. GW2's dynamic events are also fun, but the sheer amount of people doing them ruins the challenge, which is a shame. To truly enjoy GW2's DEs, is to do them with less players; same with Rift.
My major complaint though, is the combat in Rift. It's very slow, even when compared to WoW or Swtor, or any other traditional MMO. I think the devs tried to make it too realistic, which makes it uninteresting and boring. Even the casters in Rift were slow. It's a huge step backwards when compared to GW2's combat. GW2's combat is fast-paced, as is WoW's and even Swtor's. Mobs seem to die faster in these MMOs. That's the perception i get anyway. It might be Rift's early levels that make it seem this way though, but that's how i felt about it.
I could write more pros and cons of both games, but this is just a short comparison of my views. Both games are fun in their own right, in my opinion.
edit: forgot to add, that i tried Rift several weeks before their f2p announcement.
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Originally posted by piquet
Ah yes, yes, 1 zone separating in 2 each side of the same bridge. I'm going to be generous and say it's 1 starter area per faction then. That's still ridiculous compared to games like WoW or GW2.
And there's close to no racial lore in Rift either, all races are similar looking and don't have specific story lines. That also doesn't come even remotely close to games like WoW or GW2, or even SW:TOR or LotRO.
I agree with Observer above about combat too. Both GW2 but also WoW have very responsive and fast combat, as well as a few other MMOs like SW:TOR. Rift is average at best (and I'm being generous), LotRO being among the worse concerning speed and responsiveness. I think Rift also suffers from the choice of engine they made, combat is clumsy and slow just like Warhammer, that's not a coincidence.
So I agree with those saying Rift is a "sub par" WoW clone compared to many other games released in the last years. For me, there are much better games in the same genre (theme park MMO) to spend my limited gaming time in even if I was not playing GW2 for now. Games with bigger worlds, better character diversity, stronger racial lore and story lines, better combat and better leveling diversity and possible choices while leveling. In short, more interesting games that go beyond simple monster bashing.
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I'd like to clear up a lot of the back-and-forth stuff as well as the misconceptions....
1) GW2 doesn't have animation lock, you're thinking of Tera.
2) Magi (which is plural for Mage, not "mages") are wielders of magical properties. They stem for lore throughout history in a variety of ways. They could be conjurers, potion mixers, matter manipulating super beings; each of these done either through mental concentration, channeled magically attuned bodies, item use, or by the look of an eye. It doesn't matter what you believe is correct to you in terms of this ideology, because it's all just fiction really. But, when it comes to a game, what one is fun is the most important factor.
3) Though the "TLDR" section focused on combat comparison between the two games, the focus of the whole was mostly that of the first 5-15 minutes experience within each of them. It's that experience taken as a whole, not a part, that is a make-or-break factor for players. It's was drives them to want to experience more of a game, or pass on it from there.
4) Since the topic repeatedly showed it's ugly head... End-game is what the player makes it from what's in the game. There's no defined, set in stone, must follow or will burn in hell End-Game that every game must follow to the 'T'. To say one has end-game where one does not is just a foolish statement that should be rephrased to state: "That game doesn't have end-game material that I prefer." Simple, precise, and plays into being an opinion as it rightfully should be. To this point, Rift's end-game is about doing raiding and slivers for gear; where as GW2's end-game is about doing world events, WvW, sPvP, guild missions, and just whatever you want to do openly within the game (it's basically all end-game material).
5) Holy Trinity is something of a flavor choice that some prefer and some do not. Those that mentioned in this thread that it's usually a mostly DPS affair anyways are correct ( about an 80% DPS, 13% Tank and 7% Healer population set up *statistics completely pulled out of the air*). A game can be played without the requirement of those old-school mechanics, and yet players can still go into them if they'd like. In GW2 there are Staff Ele builds and Guard builds that are used as key healing supporters (in fact, many WvW groups have been building around having them with blast finisher Area Healing done in very precise fashion); tanks are also showing up through specific warrior builds ...though mainly a soaker standing there wailing on something because there's no aggro pull.
Bosses don't have to be built around "hold aggro, DPS the thing, and heal those that get hit" as they are in the past. Take for example how during the F&F event, the two bosses at the end of the dungeon had interesting kiting and AoE mechanics. The fractal bosses added all have special things to them that are really coordinated for group cooperation (try fighting the first cat Golem without having people set the fan batteries and see how long you outlast the poison). I guess I'm stating in this prolonged section that the Trinity of H/T/D can be a possibility in a game, but shouldn't be a stand-in required mechanic. That kind of mechanism always plays against the player (and even pits allies against each other "...who do we blame for the wipe? Tank? Healer? DPS? 'Yo mama!' " )
6) Large zones are empty if you go to an empty spot and stand around there alone, ....right. But moving around the zone, interacting with other players, and participating in the events will find that there's a very large population for GW2 and the zones are far from empty. Take the example of the above mentioned Guild Missions, of which people run the same missions with other guilds, hunt the same bounties, do the same jumping puzzles, Rush together, and so on; I cannot speak for the population of Rift because I honestly don't know it's situation and could only play the very short less-than-1hr session that I'd ran. However, I will say that Guild Wars 2 is doing very well and there are lots of people in the game in different zones across the world...
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I tried out RIFT when it first came out and whent back a year later for a short visit, I kinda liked the rift things for a while then it got repetive.
What I really hated in that game you were forced to complete quests in the right order to unlock the next quest hub, only very few quests were located off the beated path.
Secondly the mobs were placed in such a manner it was impossible not to aggro all sort of shit even if they were 20-30 levels below you.
If it's not broken, you are not innovating.
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Heh....GW2 and Rift are the only two MMOs I play right now, and I enjoy them both for different reasons.
Current MMOs: Rift, GW2, Defiance
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Dyslexics of the world...UNTIE!
I have spent a lot of time in both games, and I will definitely choose Rift over GW2.
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Joined: 5/14/07
I believe in life before death... So dont forget to enjoy it while you still can.
Well , certainly recognise this, the only games i can stand outside of GW2 are those with highly interactive and immersive stories like SWTOR, TSW . But only because there is not enough story quests in GW2.
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
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If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
Originally posted by Lord.Bachus
Even WoW has more story than Rift though. When it comes to story and lore, Rift is one of the worse possible choice of the market.
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Who are the Jam-eaters
Last updated at 13:33, Thursday, 02 October 2008
FOR decades, there has been an ongoing feud between Whitehaven and Workington folk about who are the jam eaters. Now The Financial Times, no less, has entered the debate.
For a brief moment putting the global financial crisis to one side, the city newspaper ran a piece on famous feuds. And on the rivalry between the two towns, it said: "Legend has it that one town's miners had jam on their sandwiches and the other did not, but no one agrees on which town it was or whether they did it because they were snobs or peasants."
That prompted a letter from a Maryport reader who said he was neutral but believed the term referred to Whitehaven folk.
Both sides of the argument agree that the term goes back to mining days. The common view is that the term is insulting because it implies people could not afford to buy meat for their sandwiches, so they had to eat jam instead.
The insult has stuck over the years, and even now can cause offence to both sides.
Ray Devlin, local mining author, said: "In my opinion, the jam eaters were the ones from High Siders.
"When we worked in the pits, it was very warm. You couldn't take much down there apart from bread and jam. Ventilation in the Whitehaven mines improved and because it was a bit cooler, we could take sandwiches with corned beef, Spam and other kinds of meat down there.
"When the mine at Clifton closed, some of the Workington lot came through to the Haig Pit and they were still eating jam sandwiches, when we had sandwiches with meat in them!"
Martin Brough, club secretary for Wath Brown Hornets disagrees. He said: "In my view the jam eaters are people from Moor Row. The term jam-eating comes from when people worked in the mines. If you look at old maps, the mines are mainly concentrated in the Moor Row area.
"Never mind about it being people from Workington or Whitehaven people, it's the people from Moor Row."
Robert Baxter, archivist at the Whitehaven Record Office said: "In terms of traditional evidence, we do not have any records of who the jam eaters are. It seems to be one of these informal terms of abuse or friendly banter that just seems to be in living and oral tradition."
Who do you think are jam-eaters? Cast your vote - see panel on the right-hand side of this page.
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At a very young age,I was taught catagorically that men from Workington had to be termed "Jam eaters" and believe me it was not intended to be complimentary!
i was a good friend of the late ike douglas who was from whitehaven and worked the mines for over 50 years.This conversation came up many times and he even said it was the whitehaven miners who where jam eaters.
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A genealogy blog focused on families settling in East Tennessee and the Northern Neck of Virginia with explorations of Rusyn roots.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
'Tis the season - Wordless Wednesday
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You gave me the idea to post a picture I had of my grandfather in a football pose from 1913. I linked to your blog from mine.
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My uncle, Thomas Bond, married Phil Sawyer's widow, Clara, several years after his tragic death. Tom's first wife, Violet Dearing died of kidney disease the year before Phil died. The four of them were friends and classmates at Milligan College.ReplyDelete
Tom and Clara, both educators, had a long and happy marriage and maintained their relationships with the Sawyer and Dearing families through visits and correspondence all through their lifetimes. They considered them family.
I find your blog very interesting!
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Thank you so much for commenting, Bonnie. Aunt Clara was indeed a constant presence in the Sawyer family for generations. I don't remember your uncle well, but Clara never missed a birthday, reunion or any excuse for a party well into the 1990s. She was a complete love. I didn't realize she went to Milligan, too. Wonderful to know! We're blessed with our relative, aren't we?Delete
Thanks for your reply, Susan. I'm glad you remember Aunt Clara, too! Yes, she was always interested in people and very supportive of me as I was growing up. And she was a fantastic teacher!Delete
The Milligan College yearbooks (the "Buffalo") are online and there are pictures of her and of Phil -- also Tom and Violet.
Their tale would make a great little book!
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What do we really know about modern practicing polygamists - not fictional ones like the Henrickson family on HBO's Big Love? We've seen the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the news, the underage brides in pioneer dresses on a Texas ranch. But the FLDS is just one of many groups that have broken with mainstream Mormonism to follow those parts of Joseph Smith's doctrine disavowed by the LDS Church.
Gaining unprecedented access to these communities, journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya reveals a shadow country teeming with small town messiahs, dark secrets, and stories both heartbreaking and strange. Polygamy's dark side - incest, forced marriages, and physical abuse - is laid bare. But Bhattacharya also finds warmth in the fundamentalist diaspora and even finds himself taking an ideological stand for polygamy's legalization.
More than just an exposé of Mormon polygamy, Secrets and Wives is the personal journey of a foreign atheist and liberal, a stranger in a strange land who grapples with hard questions about marriage, monogamy, and the very nature of faith.
©2011 Sajiv Bhattacharya (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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"Hard listen and not that interesting"
If you have already kept up with the news stories and court cases of polygamy over the last ten years then you will probably find this book boring and tedious. I think this book would be an interesting read for people outside the USA.
I would recommend the print version over the audio version. If someone is not at all familiar with the different polygamous groups in the USA, this book might be interesting.
The narration was not good. I understand that the author is from the UK, but his attempts at Utah accents are just so bad they are comical. Definitely should have had someone else read the book if he was targeting an American audience.
I didn't really learn anything from this book that hasn't already been published in newspapers or magazines.
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"Mormon exposure"
The fact that the author hit the name on its polygamist head. I grew up with a family of LDS I cannot say any religion on this planet is as harmful to women esecially in America.
A Church only A Man Could Love
Great book, no bias, no one sided thought, very informative.
Audible rawks! My taste is beyond eclectic and Audible always has plenty to choose from, no matter what mood I'm in!
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Sanjiv Bhattacharya does the impossible by keeping his cool around some of Joseph Smith's most delusional followers. That he pulls off as much as he does without being 'white and delightsome' makes this book even more amazing.
Bhattacharya's style is smart and humourous, tho' the humour isn't mean spirited even when it comes from the more frustratingly exhausting encounters with people who KNOW they are correct, evidence and science be damned.
Obviously, some tales are sadder/more horrendous than others, but Bhattacharya still manages to find some fundamentalists who are capable of treating him (and their children and each other) with decency and kindness and he repays these few in kind. His patience is, however, generally not rewarded and the bad treatment he receives from a SLC-based "journalist" who seems to be more of an "apologist" for the less savoury cults is very disheartening. Still, he keeps on track and ultimately delivers an excellent overview of the various mormon-based polygamy/fringe groups.
"A most in - depth look into Mormon Fundamentalism"
I was spell - bound by the details of the people, their beliefs, and way of life. As a Utah Mormon, with lots of polygamist ancestors, I learned so much--even things I didn't want to learn. Only a thoughtful, intelligent outsider could have written this with such credibility. I highly recommend it.
"Very interesting - nice to get a modern update"
Maybe some sections. It was extremely well done but a little repeatitive.
The insight into modern polygamy vs historical polygamy.
Very, very charming and fun to listen to. His female voices were not great, but otherwise I thought he was great.
"Great stories (+), religious amateur hour (-)"
This book is an interesting travelogue of Sanjiv's interactions with some very colorful personalities within the various polygamous groups in Utah as well as those who have left (escaped) the culture. While the stories are fascinating at times, most of the experiences that Sanjiv chooses to focus on are full of abuse and neglect and are at their core quite depressing. Sanjiv lightens the mood through humorous jabs at his subjects, their towns, and especially their faith. I strongly prefer audio books to be professionally narrated (not performed by the author) but it really worked in this case. It is like Sanjiv is telling you all of these crazy experiences over dinner complete with his endearing British accent. 5 stars for the narration.
My problems with Sanjiv's book and the reason why I gave the story only 3 stars are twofold. First, he is obnoxiously dismissive and mocking of the Mormon religion. I am active LDS. It doesn't bother me at all if people disagree with the tenets of the faith or poke fun at the idiosyncrasies of Mormons as a subculture. I'm cool with that, I think that Mormons are funny too. But if Sanjiv is going to call Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon a fraud and mock them mercilessly throughout the book, he better do his homework. His "teardown" of the faith was religious amateur hour and a book this long deserved a little more rigor than that. He seems to have given no serious consideration to the other side of the argument at all. In the end, the tone of the book was that of a smug, liberal atheist from LA swooping in to mock and disparage religious conservatives in small town Utah.
My second problem with the book is that Sanjiv really drills in when he finds abuse, oddities and "dirt" but seems uninterested in the truly happy families. When he meets wonderful people at Centennial Park and The Rock he simply says that they are great and then he talks about the flies or Bollywood flicks and curry. After seeing all of the problems in polygamy, why didn't these examples spark more intellectual curiosity? What are these people doing right? Aren't the positive cases as intellectually interesting and deserving as the scandalous ones? Apparently not for Sanjiv who seems more interested in proving a point (polygamy is evil) than understanding a multi-faceted issue. Sanjiv likes incest, abuse, intrigue, and suspense. But throw a happy community in his path and he doesn't know what to do with it. The snarky atheist quickly runs out of questions. Uh...more banana bread, please? I do agree with Sanjiv that polygamy should be decriminalized, just don't expect him to be fair and balanced.
All that said, it was still worth the price of admission.
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"Up Close and Personal with Mormon Polygamists"
A London East-Ender, fresh off the boat with an Esquire magazine press pass, goes to Utah to get up close and personal with Mormon polygamists. They proceed to take him into their homes like he's the first person they ever felt like talking to.
I'll never know exactly how Sanjiv Bhattacharya charmed or talked the fundamentalists into it, but his narration of his exposé gives you a clue: he is a born natural, a charismatic, a comic, and a raconteur like few others.
Sanjiv was BORN to do this, truly.
"Author incapable of handling this subject"
Not recommended, unless the reader can see how the author's leftism and atheism renders him blind and dumb to the ultimate truth (Jesus Christ).
The problem with Secrets and Wives is not that it exposes much of the terribly destructive insanity of polygamy, as has been practiced by the FLDS and other Mormon sects. That's a good thing... to the extent the author, Sanjiv Bhattacharya, does so, at least out of one side of his mouth. The problem is that he spends so much time essentially defending it as somehow understandable or not so bad and comparing government's attempts to stop it, to America's involvement in the war in Iraq, as if everyone agrees with him that that was a huge, unjust overreach by our government, employing the now proven questionable argument that there were no WMD's etc.
This is all because, as a typical, intellectual, leftist, pro-same-sex marriage, pro-abortion, atheist - i.e. stuck in his godless mindset, thus unwilling and actually unable to look at anything truly objectively - he also sees Mormonism as no more ridiculous than Christianity. Obviously not knowing anything really about Christianity, he outright mocks it, thus putting Jesus and Joseph Smith in the same boat… However, of course, as every true and thinking Christian recognizes, like most once were and like so many millions of other "smart" but blind folks, who are just as misguided and impressed with themselves as Mr. Bhattacharya, he clearly knows not what he is doing. There are way too many lapses in logic, common sense and good judgement, displayed by the author, to be able to address them all.
No. He is not a clear enough thinker for me - far too convinced of all the typical leftist pabulum and propaganda.
I did appreciate Chapter 3, where the story of Joe Smith and the history of the LDS church were presented fairly accurately and honestly.
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By Tim Burke @TB_Money on Jan 20 2014, 6:54p
One of the greatest fights in UFC history is apparently going down again in March. Mauricio Rua and Dan Henderson went to war at UFC 139 in 2011 and it was Henderson that pulled out the unanimous decision. According to Tatame, he'll get the chance to make it two for two on a Fight Night Card from Brazil. The bout hasn't been confirmed by the UFC as of yet, but my guess is that it will very soon.
Shogun (22-8) is coming off a thunderous knockout win over James Te Huna at UFC Fight Night 33, which broke a two-fight losing streak for the former UFC light heavyweight champion. He has surprisingly just fought once in Brazil in his UFC run, stopping Forrest Griffin in the first round at UFC 134.
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Braga vs Liverpool
Liverpool have been very strong under Dalglish and I expect them to have a fair chance at winning this one.
Liverpool win.
CSKA Moscow vs FC Porto
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Annapolis, Md. (May 24, 2012) — The hunt is on! The Diamond Jim component of the 2012 Maryland Fishing Challenge kicked off today when Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologists and some eager young anglers caught, tagged and released dozens of striped bass into the Chesapeake Bay. One of today's tagged fish is the official Diamond Jim worth $10,000 to the angler who catches it before midnight on June 30. The other tagged rockfish will be known as imposters worth at least $500 each if caught and registered before September 3, 2012.
"Every year the Maryland Fishing Challenge offers an added incentive for citizens to get out on the water and enjoy our State's natural resources," said Governor Martin O'Malley. "Whether it's your first time fishing or you're a seasoned angler, this is a great opportunity to get outdoors and enjoy our natural world."
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Over the summer, as many as 600 imposters worth at least $500 each and one genuine Diamond Jim will be pursued by anglers. Each month Diamond Jim goes uncaught the bounty increases ─ from $10,000 in June, to $20,000 in July, and $25,000 in August.
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August 4 2014 marked one hundred years since Britain declared war on Germany. This was the beginning of what was to become know as the First World War, the 'war to end all wars'.
Hampshire played a critical role in the First World War, as the major embarkation point for millions of soldiers heading off to mainland Europe and further afield to join the conflict.
The Chairman of Hampshire County Council hosted Hampshire Commemorates, an exhibition in the Great Hall in Winchester, showcasing historic materials from Hampshire County Council and other partners to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the war. The free event provided a taster of some of the exhibitions and information available throughout the county.
An 18 pounder First World War field gun, on loan from the Royal Armouries at Fort Nelson, was situated outside the Great Hall, accompanied by costumed members of Ubique - Right of the Line, a living history re-enactment group. They were joined by a fully restored J Type Thornycroft lorry from the County Council's Arts and Museums collection.
There were displays from three County Council museum exhibitions: The Artists Rifles, Soldiers Journey and Trenchcoat, which form part of '1914' Hampshire's Big Theme programme of partnership exhibitions and events in 2014. Also on display were a range of objects from the Museum of the Hampshire Regiment and panels showing photographs and documents from other County Council services, including Hampshire Archives and Local Studies and Royal Victoria Country Park.
Chairman of Hampshire County Council, Councillor Colin Davidovitz, said: "It was a privilege to open this exhibition to mark the start of the Great War and to put on display from our museum collections, some of the huge range of letters and diaries written by soldiers, together with examples of wartime material that was used by the armed services in Hampshire during the First World War that are now being carefully preserved for posterity by the County Council's museum service.
This showcase event was mounted to provide a flavour of some of the exhibitions and information that are shortly being opened to the public across the county, including The '1914' Hampshire Big Theme programme - a Hampshire Solent arts, museums and heritage partnership initiative, supported by Arts Council England, to remind them of what was happening in their neighbourhood at that time."
The County Council's projects to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the war and commemorate the heroic actions of those involved in this conflict include poppies being planted at some of Hampshire's country parks and other locations, including Manor Farm and Country Park in Bursledon, Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley, and Milestones Museum in Basingstoke.
A wider commemorative programme across cultural venues will continue during the 2014-18 period, and the County Council is working in partnership with the National Museum of the Royal Navy to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign in 2015 and bring back to life the historic HMS Monitor M33 which served there.


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Was Velasquez's UFC 155 win the biggest landslide in UFC title history? | News
It's fairly easy to call Cain Velasquez's win over Junior Dos Santos this past Saturday a dominant performance.
The reality is, Velasquez never really was threatened by the champion at all over 25 minutes en route to reclaiming the title.
Just how dominant was it? It was one of the biggest blowouts in UFC title fight history and maybe even the biggest. Of course, helping it along the way to that claim is the fact it was the favored champion who was being dominated by the underdog, and it was a heavyweight title fight, in which fans have grown accustomed to seeing fairly quick finishes.
But UFC President Dana White can get on board with the thought that Cain Velasquez (11-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC) taking it to Dos Santos (15-2 MMA, 9-1 UFC) as dominantly as he did was history-making type stuff.
There obviously have been other dominant performances in UFC title fights that have gone the distance. So Velasquez is not alone."The biggest landslide in a title fight? Yeah, maybe," White told MMAjunkie.com (UFC blog for UFC news, UFC rumors, fighter interviews and event previews/recaps) after the post-event news conference for UFC 155 this past Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. "For going five rounds like that, that one sided? Yeah, probably."
Welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre had a long run of decision wins in title fights never having lost a round. His win over Dan Hardy at UFC 111 came with the same scores Velasquez got over Dos Santos 50-43, 50-44 and 50-45, meaning one judge gave him a 10-8 round, and another judge gave him two 10-8s.
But considering the odds of the fight going beyond four rounds were coming in in the neighborhood of 6-to-1, seeing two heavyweights go 25 minutes like Velasquez and Dos Santos did, and seeing Velasquez look as good right out of the gate as he did makes the scores he got from the judges loom even larger.
"I didn't think that thing was going five rounds in a million years," White said. "There's no way I thought that would go five rounds. It was unbelievable. Cain looked insane tonight. It was so good."