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A blog by Al Harron which discusses Scottish independence, politics, culture, history and other subjects. Occasionally dinosaurs, art. Justice for Alex Salmond.
Gourock, Scotland
Joined September 2015
To new indy supporters: welcome! Folk go at their own pace on the road to indy: wish you joined earlier, but you're here now. That's enough.
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To end the year, finally, after 3 years of creating the "Accurate" versions of the JWE2 dinosaurs, I was finally able to finish the entire list, featuring 115 species (not counting hybrids) Thank you all so much for your support!! Hppy New Year!!!!
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Theresa Mary's Sugar Tax makes a lot more sense once you realise the Tories had been captured by the Inseelie Court, & began a campaign to weaken humanity's defenses, starting with making the beloved Bru unpalatable to the discerning Scot, forcing us to look abroad for proxies.
Irn-Bru is a soft drink unique to Scotland. It famously has actual iron in it. Also, Scotland is notoriously infested with fairies and goblins, who hate cold iron. THEREFORE the purpose of Irn-Bru is to prove to another Scot that you are a true human, not a woodwose nor a
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But then, maybe it's as simple as thinking "this is what I would do in that situation, therefore it's what everyone would." if you think humanity's inherently good or evil, perhaps it's just you unconsciously seeing yourself as a cypher for all. I could easily be guilty of that.
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There's compelling evidence suggesting that Neanderthals cared for their sick. We see compassion among animals. The theory of man as inherently evil without Christianity is a dark reading that I'm surprised an atheist would take.
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They have an unwarranted image as brutish and uncaring, but new research has revealed just how knowledgeable and effective Neanderthal healthcare was.
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Cruelty is part of human existence, and it didn't end with Christianity or the Enlightenment or any other movement. Likewise, mercy did not begin with any of those moments. You could point to any number of contemporaneous ancient texts speaking of kindness & morality.
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Compare to Kirk's speech at the end of "A Taste of Armageddon": it acknowledges the "blood of a million savage years" on humanity's hands, but it also acknowledges the simple idea that "we can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today."
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It baffles me why people laid such a dark episode as one of TNG's best, when it seems such a damning indictment of human nature. It's like the barbarism vs civilisation argument, only without the nuance (barbarism =bad, civilisation = good).
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It's an astoundingly bleak view of humanity, not only that the mere presence of religion must inevitably lead to holy wars & inquisition, but that logic is so terribly fragile that it could be so easily destroyed by the slightest challenge to it.
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This reminds me of TNG's "Who Watches the Watchers." An alien species which prized logic was in danger of evolving into superstition & savagery because of a blunder by Starfleet. The implication is people are inherently violent psychopaths who can devolve back at any time.
If you ever read Tom Holland’s “Dominion,” in which he makes the case that the pre-Christian human mind is so alien to any mind infected by the ideas of Christ as to be wholly unintelligible, which he does by surveying the sheer depth and breadth of ideas which we take for
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In case you didn't know, Rudolph was specifically depicted without antlers in the earliest adaptations of the story, so there's that.
In case you didn't know... Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.
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Gigantic melancholies happen, Cimmerians. Do not suffer in silence. Crom cares not, but your mutuals on here, do. If you don't have anyone irl and aren't comfortable talking on here, you can talk to someone by dialing 988 in the USA and Canada. You are not alone.
If you find yourself feeling lonely this year... you're not. Reach out to people if you are struggling... try a local church... or just post something here... people care. you aren't really alone. Merry Christmas.
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As liminal psychopomps go, Paddington isn't the worst. (Terry Pratchett's DEATH still probably the best, though)
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First time I got really upset at Granda today. I know I'm not meant to make it personally with dementia. But this man was my male role model growing up. Seeing him act so out of character, accusing me of the most horrible things, only to forget it 10 minutes later...
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SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT: “What? Looks normal to us.”
BREAKING: The Redacted Epstein files have been released. The First file I opened, here are 4 of the pages:
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A useful rule of thumb is that lies, and the systems built on them, are rarely consistent. They can't be. To invert reality, they have to contradict it. For three centuries Scots have been fed a set of mutually incompatible, contradictory, stories: - Scots were incapable of
@SymbolStones @ianbhood I love how Scots are simultaneously too feckless & stupid to run their own country, but *also* canny and intelligent enough to "run the British Empire." Almost as if it's all a web of self-contradictory lies aimed to disoriented & obfuscate what really happened.
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When they tell you ‘Scotland’ was a coloniser, they mean this. Scots, to the same degree as the Irish for example, participated in the empire and its slave trade and colonial expansion but not ‘Scotland’. Scotland as a state was extinguished while England having annexed Scotland
🛑 History is your best teacher! During colonization, France 🇫🇷 had what they called the black army which was made up of Africans, primarily Senegalese whom they use to go fight against their fellow Africans. The saddest part is that, one of two French soldiers could lead the
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Here's a good litmus test: ask any SNP voter or supporter which they'd rather won this election, Reform, or (if they stood) Alba? If they say Reform, or even "both as bad as each other," then they are who to blame for this.
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By all means prove me wrong: hold your own party hierarchy to account, take over the NEC, usurp the throne. But you'll forgive me if I think it'll take some kind of miracle for thslat to happen, & that Scotland can't afford to rely on miracle thinking.
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I used to believe that reforming the SNP (forgive the pun) was possible. But the more the SNP & their allies actively *feed* votes to Reform by treating them like Labour treated the SNP for decades, the more I'm convinced they need what reduced Labour to 1 MP in 2015.
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