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RE: RIP thread
July 27, 2022 at 2:57 pm
James Lovelock died earlier today. He had a good innings and by all accounts was in good health until six months before he died and compos mentis all the way.
In case anybody doesn't know he's the granddaddy of the modern environmental movement, a scientist who spent years researching humanity's impact on the world and working to get people to understand the harm that we do and to get us to start doing stuff to stop and reverse this harm. He is most famous for the Gaia Hypothesis.
He will be missed by all who want the world to be a better place.
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RE: RIP thread
July 27, 2022 at 7:06 pm
He’s not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead.
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RE: RIP thread
July 27, 2022 at 8:02 pm
(July 27, 2022 at 4:41 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (July 26, 2022 at 7:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Update - he's still alive. Apparently his wife thought he was dead and put the word out. Seems like that would be something you'd be sure about before alerting the press.
He is sick but the RIP can wait a bit.
Latest update...he's dead again.
Bloody hell!
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July 28, 2022 at 5:04 am
Bernard Cribbins.
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July 28, 2022 at 10:06 am
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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RE: RIP thread
July 31, 2022 at 3:28 am
Samuel Sandoval, one of the last four remaining Navajo code talkers, dies at age 98.
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July 31, 2022 at 3:02 pm
Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Uhura.
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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