Tag: religion
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Wikipedia @ 25: Necker Island
Today, thanks to Wikipedia, I learned a lot about a miniscule Hawaiian island with an interesting cultural and archaeological history... after I found my way there from a random page about a hip hop album!
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I'm not sure which of our children was last in this bath, but the configuration in which they've left their toys makes me feel as though I'm the subject of some kind of waterfowl-related shunning.
Perhaps they finally got wind or my heretical opinions on the God of Ducks (may he throw us bread) and they've collectively decided to disassociate from me?
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Four thematic rubber ducks sit along the edge of a fitted white bathtub, seemingly deliberate in their placement which sees them facing directly away from the bather and towards various shampoo bottles and a candle in a glass.
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Found GCAJHQ1 The Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III
Two virtual caches in such close proximity! And what a beautiful fountain. As requested, photo shows the fountain and my username, but also me! Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK, and TFTC!
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Found GCAJG5P The Two Mosques Virtual Reward 4.0
Here with worth colleagues on our "day off" from meetings and code hackathons, we're planning to visit the mosque I chose to photograph behind me. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.
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Don't Bishops normally get to retain their regular name? This BBC News headline makes it sound like we're gonna end up with Bishop McBishopface!
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BBC News headline: Public invited to suggest names for next archbishop.
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God's Adviser
When I was a young child I took part in a school nativity play, and was so insistent about picking holes in the theological inconsistencies implied by the script that I had to be expelled from the classroom. Here's how it went down.
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When you love Jesus but you're sick of Him blocking your driveway.
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Orange garage on a tropical hillside, on the front of which are painted the words: 'Jesus is Lord. I love him.' And then below and between those lines: 'No parking'.
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Coco the Criminal and Peanut the Prophet
After squirrels steal his bird feeder, Dan wonders about their motives... and what happened next.
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Why Aren't Jehovah's Witnesses Vegetarian?
A visit from the Jehovah's Witnesses leaves Dan wondering why it's blood transfusions, not beefburgers, that they famously reject.
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See the @NYTimes story about how Dutch church @BethelDenHaag has been holding a non-stop six-week service in order to prevent the deportation of a family taking refuge within?
Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/world/europe/migrants-dutch-church-service.html
My take: https://danq.me/2018/12/15/to-protect-migrants-from-police-a-dutch-church-service-never-ends/ -
To Protect Migrants From Police, a Dutch Church Service Never Ends
by Patrick Kingsley ...[A] marathon church service, which started more than six weeks ago, and hasn’t stopped since, can never take a break.
Under an obscure Dutch law, the police may not disrupt a church service to make an arrest. And so for the past six weeks, immigration officials have been unable to enter Bethel Church … -
SQLite Code Of Ethics (formerly Code of Conduct)
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Attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good you see in yourself.
Recognize always that evil is your own doing, and to impute it to yourself.
Fear the Day of Judgment.
Be in dread of hell.
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The Quakers are right. We don't need God.
The Quakers are right. We don’t need God | Simon Jenkins by Simon Jenkins (the Guardian) The group is considering dropping God from its meetings guidance. This is the new religiosity, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins The Quakers are clearly on to something. At their annual get-together this weekend they are reportedly thinking of …
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The 1969 Easter Mass Incident
http://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/169723347468/the-1969-easter-mass-incident (gallusrostromegalus) The 1969 Easter Mass Incident Content Warnings: Religion, food, symbolic cannibalism, symbolic gore, penis mention, Blasphemy, SO MUCH BLASPHEMY, weapons, war mention. Mind the warnings and your... When my dad was a young man and still a practicing catholic, he participated in a small church communion that nearly got him and six other …
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You'll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf
It was September 1738, and Benjamin Lay had walked 20 miles, subsisting on “acorns and peaches,” to reach the Quakers’ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Beneath his overcoat he wore a military uniform and a sword — both anathema to Quaker teachings. He also carried a hollowed-out book with a secret compartment, into which he had …