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"I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I..."
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"in this country even flies are pressed for time
half dozen kites flying high
west wind I think
I hadn't flown a kite in a quarter of a century
suddenly I was 12 again
for you 1,000 times over
I ran" — 3 hours, 48 min ago
"in this country even flies are pressed for time
half dozen kites flying high
west wind I think
I hadn't flown a kite in a quarter of a century
suddenly I was 12 again
for you 1,000 times over
I ran" — 3 hours, 48 min ago
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Another attempt at reforming Islam from within also ended in tragedy.
Sudanese theologian Mahmud Muhammad Taha tried to minimize the role of the Koran as a source of law.(...) He was tried again, and was publicly hanged at seventy-six years of age in Khartoum in January 1985." — Aug 30, 2024 01:20AM
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Another attempt at reforming Islam from within also ended in tragedy.
Sudanese theologian Mahmud Muhammad Taha tried to minimize the role of the Koran as a source of law.(...) He was tried again, and was publicly hanged at seventy-six years of age in Khartoum in January 1985." — Aug 30, 2024 01:20AM
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"Let us then acknowledge the situation honestly: not only the "Imitation of Christ" but also the Gospel itself needs to undergo this correction, and the whole world will make them undergo it." (T. de Chardin)
in: The Sheer Silliness of Teilhard de Cha ...more "
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"By the end of the Tertiary era, the psychical temperature in the cellular world had been rising for more than 500 million years. From branch to branch, from layer to layer, we have seen how nervous systems followed pari passu the process of increased complication and concentration." — Aug 30, 2024 01:11AM
"By the end of the Tertiary era, the psychical temperature in the cellular world had been rising for more than 500 million years. From branch to branch, from layer to layer, we have seen how nervous systems followed pari passu the process of increased complication and concentration." — Aug 30, 2024 01:11AM
“It was St. Francis who made the first Christmas menagerie, which portrayed the animals coming to kneel before the baby Jesus. Some people think it’s the most beautiful image Christian civilization ever produced.”
― War and Peace with the Beasts: A History of Our Relationships with Animals
― War and Peace with the Beasts: A History of Our Relationships with Animals
“What have you done today with your inheritance of time?”
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“We are witnessing the uglification of the world, the Globalist goal is to make the whole planet identical in its atomizing dreariness by dulling our senses they hope to dull our very life essence. This is all inherently totalitarian, but in an Age of Ugliness a work of beauty is an act of defiance.”
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“If artists, writers and musicians were not just a little delusional, they would all have office jobs.”
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“Voter
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a paranoid schizophrenic who believes the voices promising them an alternate future are real.”
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a paranoid schizophrenic who believes the voices promising them an alternate future are real.”
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Q & A with Lawrence M. Schoen
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Discussion about Science Fiction and Fantasy, about writing, about language and linguistics in sf & f, about Klingon in particular, about small press ...more
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