We saw this heron across the river at the Firehole River picnic area where we stopped for lunch. Husband broke out the tripod and telephoto lense to practice. Our telephoto lense is only okay. Most of the photos we took with the telephoto lense are blurry, although that probably has more to do with motion from wind (or in the case of the elk, the husband choosing not to use the tripod) than the lense itself.
‘I Couldn’t Continue On’: A Former Jehovah’s Witness On Leaving The Faith
As she grew up as a third-generation Jehovah’s Witness, there were certain things Amber Scorah did not question.
When, as a teenager, the community shunned her and prevented her from participating in her father’s funeral, she accepted it as appropriate punishment for having sex with her boyfriend. Rather than pulling away at that time, Scorah doubled down.
“When my father died, it just gave me more impetus to want to go back to the faith,” Scorah says, “because I knew that the only way I would see him again was if I were a Jehovah’s Witness who survived Armageddon, because after Armageddon, the faithful would be resurrected to Earth, in our beliefs.”
Scorah went on to marry an elder in the church, and she and her husband traveled to China as missionaries. But gradually, doubt set in.
“The more I got to know and learn about Chinese culture … the more I realized their culture had thousands of years of rich wisdom and cultural tradition and history,” she says. “And here I was, across the table, coming here, this person from the West telling them to throw all that away in favor of this a-hundred-or-so-year-old new American religion.”
In her new memoir, Leaving the Witness, Scorah reflects on her decision to leave her faith and her marriage. She eventually moved to New York and had children with a new partner, but the transition wasn’t easy.
“It was very disorienting,” she says. “I felt like everything that had mattered to me was gone. And the weirdest part of it all was that it was my own doing. Nobody did it to me. I chose it, because I couldn’t continue on in something I didn’t believe in anymore.”
Photo: Lee Towndrow/Viking
On this day, 24 June 1980, a two-day general strike began in El Salvador protesting against the US-backed military dictatorship and its counter-insurgency death squads. 85% of the economy was paralysed and 80,000 people took to the streets. Police and soldiers killed two people building barricades in the suburb of Delgado. This is Noam Chomsky’s short account of the regime: https://libcom.org/history/1970-1990-the-war-of-counter-insurgency-in-el-salvador
Pictured: political prisoners on hunger strike later that year https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1153456501506165/?type=3
she should have been rewarded.
Y'all got sources?
yeah so more information about this woman who leaked important information pertaining russia’s involvement in the election:
Her name is “Reality Leigh Winner” and she was a NSA Contractor. She passed a top secret NSA document to a news source (an article from The Intercept) that contains information about a Russian cyber-attack with one voting machine DAYS before the 2016 presidential election. This is considered the most detailed piece of proof regarding Russia’s interference with the elections to date.
Here’s how the NSA document described how the Russians did the hacking:
So instead of having Trump and his entire party removed, they gon throw home girl in jail and try to act like none of this happened.
nasa:
Image Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech
In this large celestial mosaic, our Spitzer Space Telescope captured a stellar family portrait! You can find infants, parents and grandparents of star-forming regions all in this generational photo.
There’s a lot to see in this image, including multiple clusters of stars born from the same dense clumps of gas and dust – some older and more evolved than others. Dive deeper into its intricacies by visiting https://go.nasa.gov/2XpiWLf Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.
