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RE: RIP thread
March 13, 2024 at 7:50 am
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Quote:Karl Wallinger, the multi-instrumentalist and solo force behind the band World Party and former member of The Waterboys, has died.
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RE: RIP thread
March 21, 2024 at 12:51 am
M Emmet Walsh, actor from Blade Runner, Blood Simple and Knives Out.
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
March 21, 2024 at 8:52 am
Sr. Edward Marguerite, the meanest, most abusive Catholic nun I ever had to study under. I recently ran across her name on the internet and discovered that she died in 2004 at the age of 77. She was on a par with pedophile priests, except that her vice involved beating kids. Her favorite method of abusing students was to seize them by the hair or cheeks and repeatedly slam their heads into a blackboard. I'll never forget that crooked little smile she always had on her face when she performed this act, or the bloody noses of her victims. I regard this news as welcome closure.
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RE: RIP thread
March 21, 2024 at 11:54 am
My friend and coworker of several years, Babette Boston.
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RE: RIP thread
March 21, 2024 at 12:17 pm
Sorry for your loss. She died too young.
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RE: RIP thread
March 22, 2024 at 1:03 am
Dianne Crittenden, 82. She was the casting director for ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’, which included watching over 3,500 auditions before helping George Lucas choose Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford as the main trio.
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"