nightspirit

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by nightspirit 11y ago
I'm not robust, I'm just angr^H^H^H^H victimized by people who try to make me feel bad for their emotional issues. I try to explain that a) most people have little reason to feel consistently victimized, besides just a bad hab
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by nightspirit 11y ago
"Safe-spaces" are practical application of the principle, accidentally unearthed by xyz-equality movements of the 20th century, that people generally don't like hurting others and hence you can control them by appearing to be
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by nightspirit 11y ago
This looks like they are actually jettisoning Biblical Creationism and trying to explain the act of "Creation" in terms of evolutionary processes. I'm under impression that such is also the official stance of the major "
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by nightspirit 11y ago
The beauty of Internet flamewars is that half of the people who voted this comment to the top voted out of agreement with the literal interpretation and the other half voted because they read "you missed /s" and took it for s
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by nightspirit 11y ago
This is what you get following link in the article: An ICM poll on behalf of the Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya tested the awareness of the group ISIS (previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant), in three European nati
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by nightspirit 11y ago
> The fact that the EU’s replacement rate is 1.59 children per couple and the continent needs substantial levels of immigration to maintain a productive workforce > The idea here is that all people are the same, and all you need to
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by nightspirit 11y ago
For Hollywood. You said that associating pyramids with Biblical events was their idea, so I thought that maybe there was some particular movie which spawned this meme.
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Are you suggesting a CNC mill was involved? What's your point? Neither the article nor anybody here mentioned chisels...
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by nightspirit 11y ago
> The pyramids having anything whatsoever to do with the Exodus is a myth created by Hollywood, it is not a Jewish belief at all. Any source? Google only returns articles about Carson, so it looks like it may be his idea. edit: It seems
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by nightspirit 11y ago
I'm not sure if this shows he is really serious or exactly the opposite. In Poland there is a guy, Janusz Palikot, who in 2005 owned a "Christian", anti-(many things including LGBT) newspaper but later sold it and founded a p
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by nightspirit 11y ago
... in modern times :)
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Was he being serious or just trying to score some sympathy of Jews and Christians? Nobody has ever found any evidence of Exodus and it isn't like people aren't trying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus
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by nightspirit 11y ago
I believe the discussion was about founders' beliefs and their influence. As for the second part, I'm hardly a theist, so what I'm doing is not walking around and telling gullible people that they have been created by some go
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by nightspirit 11y ago
No, it's "police was able to enter our neighborhoods because we were (sufficiently) law abiding". Equivalently, "police being unable to enter their neighborhoods shows that they are insufficiently law abiding".
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by nightspirit 11y ago
There is a difference between prediction of future violence and explicit call for violence. Which of these you think can be easier used to "justify" violence? What semantics of "inherently violent religion" do you propos
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by nightspirit 11y ago
A problem with religions which I see is that their screw people's sense of truth and reality by requiring them to proclaim beliefs in dubious magic and jump through bullshit hoops, all under threats ranging from constant nagging to dea
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Starting counting one year earlier and see whose "score" now is higher and how much higher.
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Go read the Gospel of Thomas. Seriously. I believe that these words have a deep and nonobvious meaning, provided all the gospels weren't totally made up.
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Well, the Catholic Church for centuries was a serious part of European political machinery and our politics weren't always peaceful. One could argue that nowadays some religions play similar role, btw.
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Technically, this comment is factually correct and also it is spot on. Some people trying to defend some ethnic groups in this thread are hypocrites.