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RE: RIP thread
November 16, 2022 at 12:44 pm
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the guy who inspired that Tom Hanks airport movie.
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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November 21, 2022 at 1:25 pm
Greg Bear. He was a science fiction writer as well as the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, and also co-founder of Comic Con.
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: RIP thread
November 23, 2022 at 7:03 pm
Wilko Johnson, guitarist for Dr. Feelgood and Ser Ilyn Payne on Game of Thrones. In January 2013, he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and given 10 months to live. He lasted almost ten years (partly because his type was rare and treatable with radical surgery.)
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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RE: RIP thread
November 23, 2022 at 7:18 pm
(November 23, 2022 at 7:03 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Wilko Johnson, guitarist for Dr. Feelgood and Ser Ilyn Payne on Game of Thrones. In January 2013, he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and given 10 months to live. He lasted almost ten years (partly because his type was rare and treatable with radical surgery.)
Shame. It’s always sad when another finger-style guitarist snuffs it.
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RE: RIP thread
November 26, 2022 at 7:43 am
Irene Cara.
Singer of Fame and Flashdance.
63.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: RIP thread
November 26, 2022 at 7:50 am
(November 26, 2022 at 7:43 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Irene Cara.
Singer of Fame and Flashdance.
63.
Coincidentally, I was watching excerpts from
Flashdance on YouTube yesterday.
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RE: RIP thread
November 26, 2022 at 8:10 am
(November 26, 2022 at 7:49 am)arewethereyet Wrote: (November 26, 2022 at 7:43 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Irene Cara.
Singer of Fame and Flashdance.
63.
Both movies are guilty pleasures of mine.
RIP Irene.
I never got into Fame, but I really enjoy Flashdance.
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RE: RIP thread
November 30, 2022 at 4:08 pm
I usually don't get got, but that one got me. ;(
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