Jim Little
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@TheWeirdOne77 @GeorgeSears48 @Peter_Fox59 Here's a statue that Peter Norman asked to be modified so people today could stand with Tommie Smith and John Carlos, ie. Norman suggested that a statue that would also honour him be modified to remove him for the benefit of ongoing, contemporaneous recognition of human rights
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Australian Peter Norman won 200m silver at the Mexico Olympics. At the medal ceremony he wore a human rights badge in solidarity with black American athletes still flighting for equality.
He would have been so proud of Gout Gout in beating his own🥈time news.com.au/sport/sports-l…
Track & Field Gazette@TrackGazette
18-year-old GOUT GOUT 🇦🇺 19.67s (1.7) over 200m at Australian Championships in Sydney!!🤯🤯 A new U20 World Record ☑️ National Record ☑️ First Australian man under 20 seconds ☑️ A star is born!
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@ImantsRStrautin @randyjo93598077 @bigg_wildcat My claim, "well-argued," is cogent.
I haven't real Schmidt's book yet.
Though I'll be biased and poison- the- well and say I bet he special-pleads. I'm looking out for Ken Olson's response. Here's Olson's 2013 article on the issue, academia.edu/4062154/Olson_…
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@JimLittle1 @randyjo93598077 @bigg_wildcat Are you 100% certain of that claim?
Have you read the book found below?
It’s on my To Do list.
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@Murph0matic @hookskat The "No True Scotsman Fallacy"
could/should be renamed the
*No True Christian Fallacy*
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It's fun watching Christians throw the No True Scotsman Fallacy at each other.
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@deedeewhiteshep @DrG_d_CHEMIST His mum also represented Australia. And is a multiple medalist at world champs and Commonwealth Games (individually in the 200m)
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@DrG_d_CHEMIST By their definition Aidan Murphy ain't a real Australian either , his mum was a 400 meter runner for Sri Lanka.
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So Gout Gout broke the World U20 record over 200m (subject to ratification obviously) and somehow the discourse has become about RACE (and heritage)?
Read a comment that said “it sucks for the real Australian who won’t be recognized for his 19.88s run”.
Are ppl okay???
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@KA_1dn Murphy is going sub 10, too.
And sub 45. He's just getting started (he's only 22 and already represented Australia at 3 senior world champs).
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If Aidan Murphy goes 21 again over 200m anytime soon, Erin Brown & American track twitter are gonna eat him up
That 19.88 just put a target on his back
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Also Aidan Murphy improvement is not that strange, but people will use it to fit the agenda. He’s been doing primarily 400’s for the last two years, the 200’s he’s ran this year have been into heavy headwinds. Plus, this is the peak of the Australian season.
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@kawhibernard @_LamNam_ @DailyLoud Not as fast as Lemaître yet. But he's only 22. Though he's already represented Australia at 3 senior World Championships (& a Junior World Champs). A huge talent in his own right (a potential Bolt, too).
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NEW WORLD RECORD: 18-year-old sprint phenom Gout Gout has clocked a stunning 19.67 time in the 200m run, surpassing Usain Bolt’s legendary mark.
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@RKING90210 @_LamNam_ @DailyLoud Nope. His mother was from Sri Lanka (a sprinter herself: a World Champs medalist for Australia).
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@itzfolarin101 @_LamNam_ @DailyLoud Murphy's mother is from Sri Lanka. She was a very good 100-400m sprinter (for Australia: a World Champs medalist).
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@MetaWire @dom_lucre Murphy's mother was/is Sri Lankan (& a very good 100-400m sprinter for Australia; & iiuc, for Sri Lanka before moving to Aus). He's 22 (23 in June). Big story is he's only the 6th person without African ancestry to go under 20 seconds. He's been to 3 senior World Champs already.
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@dom_lucre What’s the bigger story here? That Gout Gout ran 19.67 & is the new world record holder, or that a white boy- Aidan Murphy also beat Usain Bolt’s world record at 19.88.
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🔥🚨STOLEN NEWS: The fastest man in the world Usain Bolt has just been surpassed by an 18-year-old sprinting prodigy named Gout Gout who has made history after clocking a 19.67 time in the 200m run, surpassing Usain Bolt’s 19.93s mark he set in 2004.
I wasn’t at this race so I had to steal this footage from the Australian Athletics Championships social media page to present it to all of you.
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@patomariscal @grok @Demchille @dom_lucre Murphy is 22 yrs of age (23 in June). He's only the 6th person without African ancestry to go under 20 seconds. His mother was/is Sri Lankan and a very good 100-400m sprinter, too (for Australia and, iiuc, for Sri Lanka before moving to Australia).
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@JTedBell @MedcalfByESPN Gout ran 19.84 a yr ago this wk with a +2.2 wind. He's been under 20.0 at least one other time. Murphy is only 22. He's taken it easy-ish for 2-3 yrs. He ran 20.41 when he was 18 (the then Aus U20 record). He's fired up after a good 400m @ last year's World Champs. His 3rd Snr.
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@MedcalfByESPN Aidan Murphy went from 20.41 to 19.88. .53 seconds. He hadn’t been below 20.5 in three years.
Gout went from 20.02 to 19.67. .35 seconds
In the same race.
Think about this. Really hard.
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I always assumed I would never acknowledge any conversation about a sprinter one day breaking Usain Bolt's records and then this dude showed up.
Track & Field Gazette@TrackGazette
18-year-old GOUT GOUT 🇦🇺 19.67s (1.7) over 200m at Australian Championships in Sydney!!🤯🤯 A new U20 World Record ☑️ National Record ☑️ First Australian man under 20 seconds ☑️ A star is born!
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@hu_pow @glblathletichub Murphy is a former Australian U20 200m record holder. He represented Australia in the 200m in two senior World Championships by the time he was 20 and a half years of age. He's always had huge potential.
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Also Aidan Murphy improvement is not that strange, but people will use it to fit the agenda. He’s been doing primarily 400’s for the last two years, the 200’s he’s ran this year have been into heavy headwinds. Plus, this is the peak of the Australian season.
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@randyjo93598077 @ImantsRStrautin @bigg_wildcat The supposed accounts about Jesus in the writings of Josephus (& Tacitus & Pliny the Younger) are all well-argued to be later Christian forgery-interpolations, ie. in full, not partial as many claim.
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@ImantsRStrautin @bigg_wildcat that is irrelevant he wrote decades later he never met jesus & wasn't even a believer it only proves that the belief existed decades later...
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@nbchef42 @iamAtheistGirl There's no evidence whatsoever NT Jesus was ever anything other than a literary figure, a storybook character, albeit in a lot of narratives, including narratives based on or about earlier narratives
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@iamAtheistGirl Mythicism is pretty much indefensible but to call it the most documented and confirmed is ludicrous
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@hiphopupd @vortex482446490 @TheErinBrown @TrackGazette People were saying Kennedy's 60m times were fake, then he came out and took a bronze medal.
People said SCR's times were fake, then she won the WC. People said SAFP and ETH's times were fake, then they kicked arse on the world stage.
When are you People going to learn..?
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19.67s!!!🤯🤯
World U20 Record ☑️
National Record ☑️
18-year-old Gout Gout 🇦🇺 has just run a blazing 19.67s (1.7) to win the Australian men's 200m title!!
He breaks the World U20 Record of 19.69s by Erriyon Knighton and goes 16th on the alltime list.
Aidan Murphy 🇦🇺 was 2nd in a massive PB of 19.88s, while Calab Law was 3rd in 20.21s (PB).
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@GarveBrahman @JoelMCurzon Fuck off with nasty patronizing. And your stoopid 'spit-balling.'
Why are Christians such dumb-fucks?
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@JimLittle1 @JoelMCurzon Dude wtf 😭
I am sharing ideas with you. Don’t be such a fag about it 🤙
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Why would the gospel authors use women as witnesses to an alleged empty tomb in their stories, rather than men?
(My hypothesis is that the idea of Jesus being placed in a tomb at all was a literary invention of “Mark.” Later gospels took the idea from Mark.)
Joel M. Curzon@JoelMCurzon
@hookskat I think that the reluctance to use women as characters in either Jewish or Greco-Roman literature has been overstated. They are often used as important characters. I can think of several good reasons for “Mark” to have used women to discover an empty tomb. (1) It was the . . 1/n
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@GarveBrahman @JoelMCurzon You're special-pleading and being disingenuous in doubling down with "Jesus could have predicted" And cherry-picking an obscure so-called prediction from eleswhere
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@JimLittle1 @JoelMCurzon I think Jesus could have easily predicted the Temple being destroyed. A modern example: Joseph Smith predicted in 1832 that a Civil War would happen in the United States and begin in South Carolina. He made a lucky guess based on current trends (Nullification Crisis).
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@GarveBrahman @JoelMCurzon "God-fearing Gentiles" and "took off" are doing a lot of 'lifting' there
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@JimLittle1 @JoelMCurzon It really took off with God-fearing Gentiles. Eventually it developed into what we have today, in all it’s varieties. This is one way of looking at it 🤙
I think whatever happened, the early Church was more “charismatic” and loosely organized compared with later developments.
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