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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · 11h

James Bond is a violence-loving thug and a slut.

Discuss.

Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · 11h

“Learn To Fly The Easy Way” by Kara Shand-Byrne

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · 1d

“Our Invincible Military” by Isa Render

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · 4d

He wasn’t just the landlord, he was the entire Balowski family.

I loved his various “Stuff” series of random comedic sketches and rants, from the 1990s.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · 4d

That phrase became the basis of the plot for an entire TV movie.

Also: bicycles.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0544...

"The Comic Strip Presents" Didn't You Kill My Brother? (TV Episode 1988) ⭐ 6.6 | Comedy

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · 6d

In a black hole, gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. For something to escape, it would have to travel faster than light, which is impossible.

Gravitational-wave detectors work because gravity propagates at the speed of light.

So how does gravity come out of a black hole?

Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · 8d

Greetings from 🇳🇿, a country which is not a republic, but is a democracy.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

I thought a lot of the de-mining experts were independent groups. Some even funded by charities.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

You don’t accept the reality of religious intolerance happening in a great many parts of the world today?

This is a matter of fact, not religious doctrine.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

You yourself admitted they are not “inerrant”. Therefore you must know of errors in them.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

All the attempts to counter my arguments have been based on simplistic interpretations of religious doctrine.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

Come on, it’s true of all the major religions. Look at the religious intolerance that’s happening as a fact.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

All of them. The legal text — even historical narratives often have to be amended as new information comes to light.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

They would only need “resettling” if they were expelled from where they were.

Israel’s attempt to empty out Gaza seems to have hit a hiccup. And the West Bank will be even more difficult.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

The martingale betting system has been well-known for about 300 years.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

If your holy books have errors in them, are you allowed to fix them?

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

The fact that they are simplistic is very much germane to the point at hand.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

You said I lack the knowledge to assess them as simplistic.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

But the primary mandate of UNHCR is to get the refugees back to their original land.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

The fact that significant numbers of followers of the religion cannot be characterized as “moderate”, shows that such “moderate” interpretations are not inherent to the religion itself.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

That you don’t accept those generalizations as simplistic ... and you claim that I lack knowledge about them.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

Here’s the question again:

Is there a religion whose adherents are more “moderate” than any other?

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

Everything humans create has human fallibility built into it.

The difference is that science does not claim that any religious text is some “inerrant” reference to what is true or false.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

I would say both of those are simplistic generalizations. But irrelevant to the point at hand.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro @ldo17.bsky.social · Feb 1

If both moderate and extremist interpretations are common to all religions, then clearly these are not a characteristic of any particular religious belief.

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