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RE: Noteworthy News
September 1, 2024 at 4:48 am
(September 1, 2024 at 4:19 am)Belacqua Wrote: (August 30, 2024 at 7:18 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: How is this Noteworthy News?
This thread consists of news reports and people's comments on those reports.
The Auden quote was my comment on the previous seven posts, which had to do with the situation in Palestine.
FWIW, I found this quote perfectly appropriate for this thread (no sarcasm).
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 1, 2024 at 5:17 am
shot in the eye
shot in the brain
shot in the ass
shot like a flower in the dance
amazing how death wins hands down
amazing how much credence is given to idiot forms of life
amazing how laughter has been drowned out
amazing how viciousness is such a constant
I must soon declare my own war on their war
I must hold to my last piece of ground
I must protect the small space I have made that has allowed me life
my life not their death
my death not their death...
Charles Bukowski
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: Noteworthy News
September 1, 2024 at 6:36 am
Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin among 6 hostages found dead in Gaza, Biden says
President Biden announced late Saturday that the bodies of six Hamas-held hostages were recovered by Israeli forces in a tunnel under the Gaza city of Rafah, including that of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
"I am devastated and outraged," Mr. Biden said. "Hersh was among the innocents brutally attacked while attending a music festival for peace in Israel on October 7. He lost his arm helping friends and strangers during Hamas' savage massacre."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hersh-goldb...mily-says/
I guess Hamas is not that innocent after all and Israel has a right to defend themselves.
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: Noteworthy News
September 1, 2024 at 6:59 am
(September 1, 2024 at 6:36 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin among 6 hostages found dead in Gaza, Biden says
President Biden announced late Saturday that the bodies of six Hamas-held hostages were recovered by Israeli forces in a tunnel under the Gaza city of Rafah, including that of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
"I am devastated and outraged," Mr. Biden said. "Hersh was among the innocents brutally attacked while attending a music festival for peace in Israel on October 7. He lost his arm helping friends and strangers during Hamas' savage massacre."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hersh-goldb...mily-says/
I guess Hamas is not that innocent after all and Israel has a right to defend themselves.
Sorry, did someone claim Hamas is innocent?
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 2, 2024 at 6:12 am
Fifth day in a row that Israeli bulldozers have gone up and down the streets of Jenin, in the illegally occupied West Bank, ripping up pavement and sideswiping random buildings.
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 2, 2024 at 6:30 am
(September 2, 2024 at 6:12 am)Belacqua Wrote: Fifth day in a row that Israeli bulldozers have gone up and down the streets of Jenin, in the illegally occupied West Bank, ripping up pavement and sideswiping random buildings.
I expect nothing less. If you destroy Palestinian infrastructure, it becomes MUCH easier to exterminate Palestinians.
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 4, 2024 at 5:54 pm
^Now is not the time to talk about gun control. Don’t politicize the Second Amendment. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Arm the teachers and harden the schools.
Kid was probably a crisis actor, anyway.
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