@SnappyTurtle73 @BenWilsonTweets Correct. Emperor Diocletian tried to stamp out Christianity by executing them all and it had the opposite effect he intended.
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CalebTrask
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@BenWilsonTweets Um here’s how it happened 🗡️ 🩸 ⚰️ 🙏 🌎
Also, Mormonism is the same, started out with a few quacks now millions.
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People don't understand how insane the explosion of Christianity was:
- There were maybe a thousand Christians at Jesus's death.
- In 100 AD there were still only about ten thousand Christians.
- One hundred years later it was still less than one percent of the Roman empire.
- And then a hundred years later there were over SIX MILLION Christians, more than 10 percent of the population.
- Go forward another 150 years and there are over 30 million Christians and it is the official state religion of the Roman empire.
It's one of the most stunning transformations in world history.
And yet there is wide disagreement on why it occurred.
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@ArthurMacwaters Can't get to Kardashev II without more babies.
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@delujog "I don't see the problem. She is a human female of childbearing age."
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@Kpaxs How do I increase my enthusiasm for the tedious or daunting.
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@pops_the_weasel @thedimitri Especially in Texas:
Gruene-> Green
Boerne-> Bernie
Bexar -> Bear
San Jacinto -> San Juh-cent-toe
Schertz - Shirts
Blanco -> Blank-oh
Amarillo -> Am-a-rillow
Buda -> Byoo-duh
Rio Grande -> Rio Grand River
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@thedimitri In American English, when we borrow a word from another language, we pronounce it as American as possible because all words belong to America.
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@escapefrommelos It took me way too long to figure that out.
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I don’t particularly like Clavicular but he’s 100% right.
watching sportsball and getting drunk with your “friends” is one of the most harmful ways of spending you time
“the best choose one thing above all: immortal glory. the many care only to glut themselves like cattle”
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@Kpaxs How does one distinguish whether the heat represents a genuine threat and whether that threat can and should be confronted?
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People who offend you are holding up a mirror you didn't ask for. They're showing you the edges of your reality tunnel, the places where your map stops making sense.
When someone pisses you off, that's actually information. The heat you feel? That's where your beliefs are most fragile, most in need of examination.
You don't get triggered by things you're genuinely secure about.
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@CBJimandB Only major country that seems to want to forge ahead with us 🤝
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"やや"どころか「アメリカ人よ、日本人に褒められるようなアメリカ人であれ！」という大量のコメント群から察するに、この何十年間のポリコレ汚染によってトラディショナルBBQおっさん達がどれだけ息苦しい思いをしてきたか察するに余りある
淑女@syukujo3111
英仏大使たちのあのTwitterとか、今のアメリカのBBQと車とか、各国のトラディショナルなものを外人(日本人)に褒められて白人がめっちゃ喜んでるのを見ると、自国内ではそういうのを「いいよね！」と言い辛い雰囲気なのかなというのが察せられて、どこも大変なんやねぇ…とやや同情的な気持ちになる。
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Yep.
China is winning in biotech.
They are now definitively ahead of the United States.
Gonçalo Hall@Gonzohall
@cremieuxrecueil showing China is now leading the development of new drugs while US is going straight down. Wild.
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People forget that in pre-HR America, Dennis Rodman would walk out of Bulls games beer in hand, hop on his motorcycle, and drive off into the night.
What actually happened to us??
Justin Ayers@Ayers4President
Dennis Rodman’s pre-motorcycle Miller Lite is a big time mood. #TheLastDance
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@BobbyFinanceX @ShitpostGate If you received an untraceable, unlimited murder weapon from the God of Death, what would you do?
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@RandomSprint You ghiblify because it's kawai. I ghiblify because it irritates Miyazaki. We are not the same.
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Crazy how AI has gotten better at everything other than studio ghibli.
Grant Slatton@GrantSlatton
tremendous alpha right now in sending your wife photos of yall converted to studio ghibli anime
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@delujog "For you" spikes my cortisol.
"Following" spikes my dopamine.
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@ShitpostGate How I feel when the chess engine gives a thumbs up to my move.
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@Fedup026 @Real_RobN They also voted to outlaw health underwriting while requiring multiple uninsurable coverages.
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This is:
The architect of ObamaCare, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, calling the Unaffordable Care Act a scam and the American voter “stupid” not once, not twice, but three times.
“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,”
The Unaffordable Care Act was written in a way that deliberately and maliciously deceived, robbed, extorted, and blackmailed the American public, including the (CBO) Congressional Budget Office.
In other words: You have been robbed, deceived, blackmailed, extorted, and defrauded by Jonathan Gruber, Barack Obama, John Roberts, and—thumb up his ass—John McCain.
All captured on videotape.
Barack Obama@BarackObama
The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time. The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more. But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.
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If there is a status attached to height – and there is – then 5ft 11in doesn’t quite measure up. Six foot is manly, commanding. Five-11 is acceptable, unremarkable. But a near-miss. It’s the upper end of almost, the FT's Alex Bilmes writes. ft.trib.al/Cy2ronS
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