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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 4, 2021 at 12:19 pm
Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator to German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future sound like a hillbilly. So no wonder that he escaped to the USA where everyone can be what they are without being ridiculed.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 4, 2021 at 12:49 pm
Bought some Christmas candies...I didn't know you could get Hershey's kisses wrapped up in Grinch foil...neither did I know that the Reese's Santas I bought would be very PC with white Santas and Santas of color. It's an interesting candy dish now on the counter.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 4, 2021 at 1:41 pm
(December 4, 2021 at 12:50 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (December 4, 2021 at 12:19 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator to German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future sound like a hillbilly. So no wonder that he escaped to the USA where everyone can be what they are without being ridiculed.
The least bad republican California had in several decades is a hick from the mountain fastnesses of Austro- Hungarian empire?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 4, 2021 at 3:24 pm
In 2013, Disney abandoned its policy of letting disabled people skip lines in its theme parks, after rampant abuse of the rule by people hiring disabled "tour guides" to skip waiting lines for rides. These guides sometimes charged up to hundreds of dollars per hour.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 4, 2021 at 5:13 pm
Whole wheat cheez-its are acceptably good.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 4, 2021 at 5:13 pm
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Hm, that's a hard one I'm very bad with coming up with things of the top of my head. But something my philosophy teacher taught me was: Nobody is born knowing how to critically think we are taught how to critically think and the system is sorta messed up and has often failed to teach it. I always had the false assumption that everyone could critically think but weren't using it. Its made me a lot more careful with my words and patient with people.
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