Natural or un-natural selection has consequences. Evolution is real. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbdnp/rampant-poaching-forces-elephants-to-evolve-to-not-have-tusks-study-finds https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/22/tuskless-elephants-poaching-mozambique/ Intensive ivory poaching has been linked to the increase of tuskless elephants in Mozambique, and the elephants have l
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Sorry, Mormons... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-dating-method-shows-vikings-occupied-newfoundland-in-1021-ce-180978903/ Three rough pieces of wood—discarded sections of branches and tree stumps found among the refuse Vikings left behind after their short sojourn in Newfoundland—have turned out to be some of the more important evidence of the Norse in North America. T
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I feel for you, but you can't help people who don't want to be helped.
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NOTE: Mormons also claim that both the founding fathers and the US Constitution were "divinely inspired" and the USA is a "christian" nation. https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/02/13/christian-nationalism-heresies God doesn’t bless America. That’s not how this works. I’m sorry to break it to you, Bible Belt Christians—but that’s just how it is. I know thi
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https://youtu.be/zGBXA1tBiLw Franz List, Totentanz Valentina Lisitsa, Piano I feel sorry for the medical staff who will fight to save the lives of these idiots. There's no "freedom," religious or otherwise, that gives you the right to infect and kill others. That's like saying the Taliban or DAESH have "religious" freedom to be suicide bombers because their "
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The younger Moon didn't get the keys to the kingdom, so he found other sheep to fleece. The incredulity of humanity never ceases to amaze me. This reminds me of stories of early Mormon converts who literally gave *everything* to LD$, Inc. It's the same for any cult group. But this one is armed.
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Anatomy and DNA do not decide what you are or how you act. Your brain does. There are plenty of women who with female parts who are biologically male. There are also a fair number of intersex people as well. There is not a 100% clear, sharp dividing line between male and female. It's not a simple matter of "inspection." Human sexuality is complicated and exists on a spectrum
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dagny Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > All that stuff is on the church conveyer belt to > go down the memory hole. The younger members > probably never heard or got taught any of that > crap. They don't care about problematic gibberish > from the past, IMO. > That's why there are no Mormon theologians. The shell game can't wor
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I think what you really mean is that *some* people who call themselves "christians" are out of sorts because they can't control, dominate, and repress others they don't like for cultural reasons -- not religious -- as easily as they once did. Prayer in school and public christmas decorations are two examples. Why do so called "christians" endlessy argue about school pray
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https://theconversation.com/psychology-behind-the-unfunny-consequences-of-jokes-that-denigrate-63855 Q: Why did the woman cross the road? A: Who cares! What the hell is she doing out of the kitchen? Q: Why hasn’t NASA sent a woman to the moon? A: It doesn’t need cleaning yet! These two jokes represent disparagement humor – any attempt to amuse through the denigration of a s
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No matter how many times I tried to summon him, he never showed up. Spells didn't work. Incantations didn't work. Satan is a jerk.
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As the world interred into the Information Age and all of the secrets-that-were-not-so-secret about Mormonism began to leak out to the wider world, I thought it would bring down the house on LD$, Inc. But then a strange thing happened. Nobody cared. I've tried explaining Mormonism to people. It's so weird they can't believe you are telling them the truth. Some accept the cover stor
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https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html?year=1800
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After all, if Mormons believe that you get ancient Hebrew DNA after baptism, or that your eternal spirit is downloaded from Kolob into a "worthy" (i.e. "white and delightsome") infant human body, or that the spirits of "fence sitters" in The War In Heaven were downloaded into dark-skinned human bodies as "punishment," no matter if you agree or not, you shou
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In our culture, when we use the words "man" or "woman," we have an inherent mental image of a cisgendered heterosexual white male or female only.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlian_beliefs_and_practices In his book The Message Given to me by Extraterrestrials (now republished as Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers 2006 ISBN 2-940252-20-3), Vorilhon claims that on 13 December 1973, he found a spacecraft shaped like a flattened bell that landed inside Puy de Lassolas, a volcano near the capital city of Auvergne. A 25,00
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Here's an open letter from someone who can explain this better than I can -- an African American trans comedienne. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/09/dave-chappelle-letter-trans-comedian-netflix For comparison... Why the N word is no joke https://medium.com/@MainlineLeRon/why-the-n-word-is-no-joke-20bcb3e6b14e
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It's pointless to argue with you about this, SC. Dave Chappell says he's "team TERF." He's saying he's %100 on board with radical fems who deny trans women are women, are not female, and should be rejected and denied access to women's spaces. It's the same as saying that black people don't have a right to live where they wish and/or should be segregated against, or fat people a
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You seem to be missing the point, SC. When your humour is based on denying another persons' existence, you've gone too far.
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That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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One of my favorite books and movies :)
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"You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon!"
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Excellent satire, LW.
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https://deadstate.org/jim-bakker-to-his-followers-send-me-1-million-or-theyll-cancel-my-show-in-a-week/ In a somewhat frantic tone on The Jim Bakker Show this week, televangelist Jim Bakker begged his followers for money, saying that if he didn’t pay his bills, his show would soon be taken off the air. “I’ve been told that the network is gonna cancel our broadcast within another week,
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If you want to live in a world of conspiracy theories and lies, fine. But you don't have the right to endanger the lives of others because you want to live in a world of lies.
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