“How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things – praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts – not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.
They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds."
- CS Lewis
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things – praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts – not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.
They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds."
- CS Lewis
We're fast approaching the point where the blessings of diversity mean this conflict spills into Western civilization.
> it's not like the people want to get rid of it but the politicians subvert their demands. polling is always supportive of keeping it.
"If you don't vote for me, they'll take away your healthcare!"
Doesn't mean people like what they have, but they are more scared of the alternative.
Again, it gives the regime more power.
"If you don't vote for me, they'll take away your healthcare!"
Doesn't mean people like what they have, but they are more scared of the alternative.
Again, it gives the regime more power.
> but so why don't countries with it ever get rid of it?
Power.
Mostly control & money.
Power.
Mostly control & money.
Whatever incremental gains that might be gotten by using beagles over rats (there aren't any) are not worth it.
Frontrunner is 70.
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> "It has always been said that the Church is not a democracy. However, in these times there is a greater democratic spirit in the common feeling that must be listened to carefully.."
Oh no.
> ..jisaying that there has always been "change in the Church, the Church is open and attentive to the signs of the times but must be faithful to the Gospel."
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> "It has always been said that the Church is not a democracy. However, in these times there is a greater democratic spirit in the common feeling that must be listened to carefully.."
Oh no.
> ..jisaying that there has always been "change in the Church, the Church is open and attentive to the signs of the times but must be faithful to the Gospel."
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Is the excuse to hate each other still Kashmir or is it something different this time?
Don't know who this is, but this is on their Wikipedia..
> Dunham said: "I was sitting next to Odell Beckham Jr., and it was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, 'That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog.'
> Dunham said: "I was sitting next to Odell Beckham Jr., and it was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, 'That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog.'
But actually it very often is serving that role, despite the insistence of the bumper sticker..
