@HiddenYorkshire I lost all respect for old people once I discovered that they weren't, as in my childhood they had assured me, alive during the Great Depression, but were, in fact as it turned out, only just in their mid-twenties in 1980.
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My gay best friend is actually a 70 year old Royal Navy veteran from church. A few years ago we went for a pint after the Remembrance Day service and it was quite touching to sit at a table with others, all ex-military and gay, in their 70s and 80s. Put your phone down and start listening to the elders!!!
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@JoelMCurzon That Being is the ultimate Being? Yeah, that tracks.
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Theism is essentially a claim that fundamental reality is some kind of ‘person.’ If that claim doesn’t strike you as utterly bizarre, why doesn’t it?
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@designmom Maybe, but this sort of demoralisation attempt is well behind the curve. The whole world thinks it's made from atoms anyway and legacy is nothing. Your point would have been spunky twenty years ago. Now it's just hot air. Well done kitten.
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Hey men, if having a genetic legacy is important to you, I have some bad news: Men don’t. Ever. Only women do. Literally.
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@shanianottwain2 True, and I'd say it to my daughters just as I'd say it to my sons.
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Young women,
You should not marry a porn addict or manwhore, even a reformed “born again” porn addict or man whore
He is forgiven, and that’s between him and God but you should not reward him by allowing him to be your spouse
He should seek a life of solitude and repentance for his whoredom and addiction
Don’t be an idiot
White American@White_Amercan
Young men, You should not marry a whore, even a reformed “born again” whore She is forgiven, and that’s between her and God but you should not reward her by allowing her to be your spouse She should seek a life of solitude and repentance for her whoredom Don’t be an idiot
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@KILLTOPARTY The menopausal instinct women have to jettison their husbands is so common. Perhaps they instinctively return fertile men to the group for the good of society. Who knows?
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Not me watching 40 something-year-old women ruin their lives for absolutely no reason
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@AtheistTakes There can be only one God since he exists beyond the realm of categories. He must be One. Other gods may well exist, but if they do, they exist within the universe, in among the realm of the many, or else they are rough glimpses at the one God as through a dirty telescope.
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Terrible way to explain the industrial revolution
The Figen@TheFigen_
A teacher showed up at school with a PlayStation 5 and started playing Assassin's Creed to explain the Industrial Revolution.
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@Kulambq King Lear is an attack on the inevitable consequences of nihilism. The absence of meaning leads to the excessive cruelty of Edmund, Cornwall, & Regan. It is Gloucester and Cordelia's error.
Lear is an arsehole, but he is restrained by meaning and the gods and thus redeemable.
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@_I_AM_DAN_ No rival, not a Derby. Bournemouth was just the place you went on sunny days back when it was safe to take your girl to the beach there.
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@mckdeb4 @Jj95343 @LoftusSteve @ChrisFalconer16 I was working in Havant. It was a grey afternoon. Someone came into the office and said "One of the Twin Towers has fallen down." I said "What do you mean?" Memories like this are very precise, even after 25 years.
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For a number of years, more than 20 years ago, I worked for a Pakistani owned business and lived in a Muslim dominated area of Manchester.
I understand why Nick feels this way, and those railing against it in the name of diversity are ignoring that Islam is aggressively intolerant of other religions.
I have many years of personal experience with both immigrant and British born Pakistanis. There was no real difference. Islam is the one true faith and all others are "kafir". It's a far more exclusive religion than others, there is no interest in diversity of faith. You are Muslim, or you are "kafir".
This was highlighted to me on the day of 9/11. It was early in the morning, around 9am, and cheers started echoing down the corridors. Word started to spread and they were all grinning and clapping each other on the backs. These were men and women born and raised here for the most part. The owner wheeled in a big CRT TV and 30-40 of them gathered around BBC news laughing and cheering like Pakistan were in the cricket world cup final.
It is not hard to see why large public prayers by followers of a religion perceived as hostile to your very existence can feel less like worship and more like an assertion of dominance.
I'm sure there are many good, tolerant Muslim people in this country who mix Western ideals with the muslim faith. People that consider themselves British among all else. But I learned that day that there are less than you think.
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.
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Physicist who suggest an infinite universe are either mathematically illiterate or self deluded, the absurdity of mathematical infinities, are evidence against an infinite material universe, even a repeating universe like that postulate by some physicists like Sir Roger Scruton must still have a real and actual beginning to their existence. When - in physics - the mathematics hits an infinity, this is a red flag, that we are missing information. This logic and principle must also apply to the universe as a whole, therefore - even an infinitely rebounding universe - must have an actual real beginning, the source of which cannot be itself but something else: we call God.
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@GlynnErnesto @DenRak1 @STRUCTURALRUIN @Acts17David I shall await the outcome of the poll before I delete.
Vox populi, vox dei.
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@DenRak1 @SmilingAtteke @STRUCTURALRUIN @Acts17David Cool story, run a poll for your followers and if 50 of them agree I'll get one 😉
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Oops. The god of the gaps just got a little smaller.
Curiosity@CuriosityonX
BREAKING🚨: ALL FIVE types of nucleic acid bases, the building blocks of LIFE 'DNA and RNA', have been found in samples collected from asteroid Ryugu
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@DenRak1 @GlynnErnesto @STRUCTURALRUIN @Acts17David Of course, if he doesn't, I will remove the post.
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@DenRak1 @GlynnErnesto @STRUCTURALRUIN @Acts17David He'll have to confirm if he owns a fedora, but if he does:
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@STRUCTURALRUIN @Acts17David That's a cunt ad hominem, but I don't use glasses ;-)
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Atteke 🏴 retweetledi
Hi! I made this meme and I am, in fact, a woman
I’m sorry if a man has made you feel stupid for asking something like this, but this is just a lighthearted joke about the difficulties of planning as a couple
Madelaine Hanson@MadelaineLucyH
This meme annoys the fuck out of me because it misunderstands invisible labour as stupidity. Women don’t ask “roughly when will you be home?” because we think you can predict the future. We ask because someone has to organise dinner, childcare, and the rest of the household around your absence.
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@ZoeJardiniere @ChrisHumble79 Children who have been warped and twisted out of all ability to see the world clearly is... 'fucking lame'?
Compassion is in vanishingly short supply for men. Kinda makes you want to say 'Have at it, broken men. They'll only hate you anyway."
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@Zero_4 If a woman suffered from alopecia and wore a wig to parliament, you'd be an absolute shit for calling it out. Yet you attack a man for the same thing.
He never mentioned the Green MP, but he's fair game. He's not on your side. So basically, anyone can attack anyone for anything
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For years on end there was a Tory MP who wore an utterly ridiculous wig every time he attended parliament but look at this woman wearing relatively smart, contemporary clothing yeah
Chris Rose@ArchRose90
The contrast, such decline!
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@MadelaineLucyH Lines like this in The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt:
"I knew my mother’s feet, her clothes, her two-tone black and white shoes."
Er, yeah, right. Never been a teenage boy, never even raised a teenage boy.
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I love (genuinely, it's interesting) when a male author tries to write as a female character and gets it badly wrong.
Male author: She blushed, impressed by his courage in having asked her out. He was kind of attractive, and she felt very aroused. "I'm so flattered," she whispered shyly. "But I have a boyfriend."
Female author: She stared at the table, annoyed at the awkwardness of the situation. The stranger hung over her, like a scavenging gull. "I'm so flattered," she said limply. "But I have a boyfriend."
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@carolecadwalla @Glos_Police In the first part of the clip, Starmer was clearly unwell and being helped out of the door. The second part of the clip shows Starmer and Clarkson boxing, which is a sport.
Also, from what we see, Starmer throws the first punch. It doesn't land, but there's solid improvement.
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This isn’t ‘satire’, it’s violence.
This should be a police matter & I hope @Glos_Police takes the necessary action.
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