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“There are exceptions among the disbelievers, no doubt, people who will unabashedly declare that jihad and the laws of the shari’a—as well as everything else deemed taboo by the Islam-is-a-peaceful-religion crowd—are in fact completely Islamic, but they tend to be people with far less credibility who are painted as a social fringe, so their voices are dismissed and a large segment of the ignorant masses continues believing the false narrative.”

Excerpt from “Why we hate you and why we fight you” - Dabiq magazine (ISIL journal) 2016
 
Having a day of reflection and just being so grateful for my life in Thailand and fairly good health.
This from Paul Simon....
"I get the news I need from the weather report"
 
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour"

William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
 
"I would like to make a special appeal to the men of the army, and specifically to the ranks of the National Guard, the police and the military. Brothers, you come from our own people. You are killing your own brother peasants when any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God which says, “Thou shalt not kill.”

No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you recovered your consciences and obeyed your consciences rather than a sinful order. The church preaches liberation. The church, the defender of the rights of God, of the law of God, of human dignity, of the person, cannot remain silent before such an abomination.

We want the government to face the fact that reforms are valueless if they are to be carried out stained with blood. In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression.”

Archbishop Oscar Romero. Murdered by right wing death squads while saying Mass the following day.
 
egb_hibs said:
"I would like to make a special appeal to the men of the army, and specifically to the ranks of the National Guard, the police and the military. Brothers, you come from our own people. You are killing your own brother peasants when any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God which says, “Thou shalt not kill.”

No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you recovered your consciences and obeyed your consciences rather than a sinful order. The church preaches liberation. The church, the defender of the rights of God, of the law of God, of human dignity, of the person, cannot remain silent before such an abomination.

We want the government to face the fact that reforms are valueless if they are to be carried out stained with blood. In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression.”

Archbishop Oscar Romero. Murdered by right wing death squads while saying Mass the following day.
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Right, I'll quote that pithy 3 long paragraphs verbatim at the next parish council meeting.

Do you just not do threads where your personal input is not required?
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
Right, I'll quote that pithy 3 long paragraphs verbatim at the next parish council meeting.

Do you just not do threads where your personal input is not required?
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I don't do threads where I try and control subsequent contributions.

If you think everything worth saying can be said in a handful of words, twitter/ x has been designed especially for you.
 
egb_hibs said:
I don't do threads where I try and control subsequent contributions.

If you think everything worth saying can be said in a handful of words, twitter/ x has been designed especially for you.
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Naw ok, wreck away.
 
“Pithy expression of nihilism which makes me sound cool if you’re 19 but whose logical conclusions I recoil from endlessly; tax the rich”

- uncountable ‘rebels against the man’
 
egb_hibs said:
“Pithy expression of nihilism which makes me sound cool if you’re 19 but whose logical conclusions I recoil from endlessly; tax the rich”

- uncountable ‘rebels against the man’
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Man, it's in the title, that's all. No narrarive. Out.
 
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

Dostoyevsky and hopefully compliant
 
greencol said:
Having just returned from a week in the sticks I contemplated this one every day.

'Ah gang te the hills te Stan an glower,
an look for coupit yowes"
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That's just struck me that being related to a North farming family, I've heard and used the word yowes hundreds of times. First time I've ever seen it written. 😮🤔
 
Bangkokhibby said:
That's just struck me that being related to a North farming family, I've heard and used the word yowes hundreds of times. First time I've ever seen it written. 😮🤔
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My grandfather was a crofter.
My father was brought up on the croft, moved into PD just before I came along.
My mother was from a village in the other direction.
With both being teuchters, they used many words not heard in town.
When I worked in those villages I had the ability to drop into the lingo.
It was interesting to say the least.
Handy being bi lingual!!!
A starter( reminder?)just for you.
I didn't start work in the morning, I got yokit.
And knocking off time was lowsed.
Getting ready for something is 'riggit'.
So many more.
 
greencol said:
My grandfather was a crofter.
My father was brought up on the croft, moved into PD just before I came along.
My mother was from a village in the other direction.
With both being teuchters, they used many words not heard in town.
When I worked in those villages I had the ability to drop into the lingo.
It was interesting to say the least.
Handy being bi lingual!!!
A starter( reminder?)just for you.
I didn't start work in the morning, I got yokit.
And knocking off time was lowsed.
Getting ready for something is 'riggit'.
So many more.
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Good memories 👍
 
greencol said:
My grandfather was a crofter.
My father was brought up on the croft, moved into PD just before I came along.
My mother was from a village in the other direction.
With both being teuchters, they used many words not heard in town.
When I worked in those villages I had the ability to drop into the lingo.
It was interesting to say the least.
Handy being bi lingual!!!
A starter( reminder?)just for you.
I didn't start work in the morning, I got yokit.
And knocking off time was lowsed.
Getting ready for something is 'riggit'.
So many more.
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Back then, someone could just be plain “bappit”, “glaikit” or “gypit” without having a string of labels attached to them too. Life was simpler.
 
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

Albert Einstein
 
I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. What suburb of Rome is Aston Villa from?

Actor Tom Hanks speaking on the BBC.
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'My mother once said to me: “why are there so many children with Down’s Syndrome in Catholic Churches?”'

Tim Stanley
 
“There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.”

- David Hume
 
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. "There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. "If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice! "Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."
 
Sancho Panza said:
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. "There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. "If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice! "Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."
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If that was a quote, I can see why he had 50,000 books. Eco, school yourself in brevity!
 
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