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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
August 18, 2020 at 4:57 pm
(August 18, 2020 at 8:56 am)Eleven Wrote: From watching this Danish show Rita, Kim seems to be quite the popular male name.
I know a guy called Kim.
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
August 27, 2020 at 8:36 am
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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August 27, 2020 at 9:09 am
The Rocky Mountain Locusts, which devastated crops and grasslands across the Midwest several times during the 1800's, are now an extinct species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
August 27, 2020 at 9:19 am
(August 27, 2020 at 9:11 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (August 27, 2020 at 9:09 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: The Rocky Mountain Locusts, which devastated crops and grasslands across the Midwest several times during the 1800's, are now an extinct species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust
That the one that the Mormons had trouble with?
No, that's a different species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_cricket
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
August 27, 2020 at 9:46 am
'Cliche' is not a synonym for 'lie'. Just sayin'.
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