Kevin Hargaden
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theologian just outside Dublin. i use lists instead of the twitter feed. lowercase tweets are not at all serious. everything i write here autodeletes
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"you attacked my car"
Scientists now estimate Automobile Derangement Syndrome afflicts 63% of private motorists at some point every year. If you regularly find yourself threatening people's lives as you rush to the next red light, please, hide your keys from yourself.
This absolute weapon almost runs me off the road withe her panzer and then plays the victim
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joyous solidarity with everyone else who, like me, welcomed a new heir into the world today
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My colleague writing today in the Irish Times gives the essential first word on all conversations about crime in Dublin. It's close to the last word too.
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Irish Twitter is debating whether Eve Hewson - whose dad is a billionaire - can play a character who is working class and there's no other discourse I love more. Before this website I couldn't imagine people thinking actors should only play people like themselves
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Important account of changed practices in the Irish Times letters page: you can't have a modal shift to active travel without first causing friction
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In the Irish Times today (not linking; don't want to reward them), Finn McRedmond suggests ebikes & escooters have no place in cities (a "scourge"!). I asked Peter McVerry, who is almost 80 & commutes on an ebike what he thought of escooters... >>
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The cross exposes that we are far worse than we dare to believe. And that we are far more loved than that.
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Greatest Good Friday tweet ever
We should just pin all the debt in the world to one guy and then kill him
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Please pray for my friend. Their beautiful baby has passed away.
Friends who pray: my friend has had a baby who is *not well*. It's the most serious kind of not well. I would ask you to remember M in prayer and,, honestly, ask for one of those miraculous turns that leaves everyone dumbfounded.
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every single night she treats me like i'm a bed and it's more satisfying than any other job i've ever had
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"Amazing", he said. "Gives so many people a chance to hold down a job. I know a good few lads who got jobs in warehouses where their shifts started before they could get buses there. Impossible in the past. Now they can make it to work on time every morning." >>
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The idea that it's "undemocratic" for Leo to resign without calling an election is West Wing brain rot that misunderstands the Taoiseach's role. They're not the US President and we don't want them to be. The Dáil, which we elected, persists.
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All this is to say: The stereotypes about active transport are as real-to-life as cardboard cutouts. And ebikes and escooters are marvellous inventions we should embrace and though they must be used responsibly, they are vastly safer than the alternative that currently rules
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Friends who pray: my friend has had a baby who is *not well*. It's the most serious kind of not well. I would ask you to remember M in prayer and,, honestly, ask for one of those miraculous turns that leaves everyone dumbfounded.
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Very Zizek voice: "The child-free movement wishes at the deepest level to be free of the self as a being in relation. They do not in the end hate 'children', they hate that they were ever a child and therefore dependent and bound to others..."
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Someone asked me if I was joking when I said my wife and I would never even consider taking a job in America. This little piece seeks to explain why we are deathly serious
An open letter to America about gun violence, from a very concerned Irishman
Read more from
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getting ready to convince my undergrads to lock in on the queen of the sciences
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Yer da and ma: "Shure this Green plan to make bus lanes everywhere is madness. Why child knows taking lanes away from cars will make traffic worse."
The hard facts of how great buses are:
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Besides any critique of the very poor article, it's simply a shocking failure of judgement for a newspaper with any self-respect to publish this on the high holiday of the major religious traditions in its society.
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I met with garment workers in Dhaka this time last year. I asked them "What should I tell my students, my congregation?" One young woman said, "Tell them my blood is on their clothes."
Tens of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh who make products for brands like Zara, H&M and GAP are on strike.
Their minimum wage is $75 a month, and they're demanding it rise to $208. The bosses are only offering $90.
They've shut down over 300 factories so far.
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25 years ago tonight, a really smart, beautiful girl gave me her phone number as I walked her home after a party and just now she brought me a glass of wine and a bag of orange Daim bars. Small seeds grow to mighty oaks and 7 digits shared generates an epic little love story
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If we could get Dubliners to care 25% as much about homelessness as they do about driving their private cars into the city, we'd be half way to fulfilling the hopes of the Republic
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Canadian court rules a person with autism can access State provided Euthanasia because to do otherwise would inflict on her "irreparable harm". Sit with that idea for a second.
These are not slippery slopes. They are dead-end paths.
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Went to church today. Pastor didn't know anything about Russell Brand. But preached the story of Judah & Tamar, sensitively unpacking how women have had to work around the abuse of greedy men since words were first written down.
The Bible: better than you've been told
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Update: "this is the greatest game ever!"
i am taking Micro-Giant to the League of Ireland final this afternoon in Landsdowne Road. any tips for how to prep to bring a 5 year old to a football match in the Irish winter?
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for reals, is there any feeling to match that feeling when your best friends become best friends with each other?
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The debate around Euthanasia is coming to Ireland. We must recognise the complexity and invest in improved palliative care and community health. But the political logic of medically supported death is profoundly dark. Saying no, as Denmark has done, isn't regressive
Matthew Parris: the government will not force you to euthanize yourself. Social pressure will be enough. And that's a good thing.
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Micro-Giant read his first book on his own today. I believe that completes the majority of my parenting responsibilities, right?
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A reminder: . People are allowed care about things and not talk about them on social media
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Eventually, Ireland will have a viable active transport infrastructure and people in the future will be baffled that it was so widely opposed.
How many will die before that time, though?
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Tiny Titan has now been sick for 3/4s of her life since birth. she still, somehow, smiles more than anyone i know
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Astonishing case of Cycling Derangement Syndrome in the Irish Times today. I'd be embarrassed to say something as dumb if I was in the pub with friends. But to volunteer it in print for the nation and posterity? Truly, letting cyclists live in your brain rent free
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@DubCityCouncil
It's really poor practice to behave like this to someone who works in your city and was making a coherent point - if sharply. This citizen might need the Twitter feed for information and blocking like this is unfair & undemocratic
I guess anything but a glowing review of DCC’s initiatives is a blockable offence
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Burning down a hotel because asylum seekers are going to live there, 8 days before we mark the birth of Jesus, is deep damnation territory. Weigh your souls rightly and lean into mercy.
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Paid two euros and I got escorted from Maynooth to the centre of the IFSC while going over meeting notes and drinking coffee.
Public transport remains one of the great miracles of modern life and most people are sleeping on it (when they could be asleep on it)
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I don't mean to dunk, but I sincerely think there's a connection between this kind of bizarre tepid take & the decline of the church in the West.
"Did you guys know this movie about a man who engineered the murder of 130000 people has boobs in it!?!"
We are not serious people
My
#Oppenheimer
hot take is this: no priest (let alone Christian) should watch a movie that has sex scenes/nudity in it. This would also apply to Game of Thrones, etc.
Let's bring back the concept of "custody of the eyes", as what we consume with our vision affects our soul.
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I'm a Protestant theologian whose expertise is Catholic Social thought, particularly as it relates to Irish public life. I am obliged to state that this interpretation is as fanciful a myth as you'll find from any religious fundamentalist
Compelling piece from Jim O’Brien in
@Farming_Indo
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21st Century Ireland is a universe away from the world of 1937… when Eamon De Valera and John Charles McQuaid authored the Irish Constitution - with the Code of Canon Law in one hand and a catechism in the other.
#VoteYesYes
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I'm never slow to criticise this politician, who is my political opposite in so many ways. But it takes a brazen cynicism to draw the conclusions many on here have jumped to. This is a fine statement about a joyous event many of us feared wouldn't come to pass. Relief indeed.
This is the full statement I issued yesterday regarding the release of Emily Hand
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I wrote my angriest thing yet for JCFJ this morning, about how the Irish church faces a kind of "Barmen Declaration" moment over the anti-immigrant protests springing up in towns around Ireland.
In the Christmas run-up, as shelter for refugees burned, elected representatives claimed "there was no room at the inn."
JCFJ reject this logic - as there was clearly room at the inn - and the politics that sets people against their brothers and sisters.
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Did ye hear? Jordan Peterson is a Northern Irish Protestant now
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don't hate me just because i have what you want.
very very exciting Theo delivery this morning
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Wife-unit & I are very Protestant & we are delighted to send our kids to Catholic schools (over other available options), where they enjoy diversity, learn how to treasure difference, & are habitually formed to not mistake their perspective for the default human view of things.
Faith, education and pluralism.
“While there are some who hold to a fiction of an ethical view from nowhere, we acknowledge that all ethical views are grounded in a particular anthropology …. There is no neutral ethical standpoint.”
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If church this morning is too much for you, I'm preaching in Ireland's youngest Presbyterian church - Balbriggan - at 1630. Gonna be talking about the actual Christmas in the Bible, a story of subversion, liberation, and revolution
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your work as a teacher is (in almost all cases) more important than your work as a researcher
What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?
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I got sent a review copy of one of the most eagerly anticipated books on Christianity of the decade - Marilynne Robinson's essay on Genesis. It is remarkable. At every point, freed from complying with the scholarly conventions, she clears space for the text to shine.
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Amazing thread for preachers who may have a need to use Hauerwas' line about how most all of our social injustices stem from the belief among the rich "that they can get out of this life alive"
Bryan Johnson spends $2 million a year to be 18 years old again.
In 2021, he reduced his epigenetic age by 5.1 years in 7 months (a world record)
His 13-steps for a long healthy life:
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At an event organized by
@DublinCommuters
about life "beyond the commute" and it's so interesting that thinking about sustainable transport *drives* you to thinking about everything else of value in life: where kids play, where people pray, how we live healthily.
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Guys, I got a baby who wants to stay awake so bash the little heart button if you want me to pray for you and DM if you want me to know particularly what to pray for (though God already knows so...)
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im 41 and i have been with the same girl since 1998
my wife is smart and funny and brave & very generous
we stood in front of our friends one day and promised to stay together, forsaking all others. then we partied.
so i recommend you do the same
understand the game
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Olden days people never believed in the solar gods half as much as modern rationals actively trust in The Markets and the various other names we have for Mammon
The solar eclipse will cost America almost $700 million in lost productivity
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It's preposterous to have a fire in August but I don't make the weather and I'm OBLIGED to keep this tiny human warm
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introducing Micro-Giant to hurling, and enjoying your Saturday afternoons even when there's thunder, lightning, and torrential rain
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I'm reminded of a conversation with a Bavarian colleague who told me the AfD get their most votes in villages that receive the fewest refugees. Support of immigration is proportionate to exposure to actual immigrants because it's simple: they are our friends & colleagues
At times, the migration debate paints those arriving in Ireland with broad strokes, using various tags I won't repeat. But they're people, individuals, with their own histories and their own contributions to make. Having taught many kids from the DP system, I can't forget that.
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almost a week into being a parent second-time round and am keenly aware of how unqualified and inept i am for this task (and also how those categories are actually meaningless). time to solicit some advice!
what's your top parenting tip? (especially for
#2
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Awful piece.
I'm not a Catholic, but I teach the Deacons in training a little theology. This week I corrected their final papers and the numbers who cited the radical obligation of Christians to welcome refugees in their exam answers was remarkable.
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@cludlum
Anthony Edwards sat beside me in a Burger King on Baggott Street and it became very clear, very quickly that he didn't really have the first grasp of medical anatomy. I think the producers of ER should be held to account for letting him cut people open without a medical licence
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My political views in 2016 vs my political views now
My political views in 2016 vs my political views now
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Sinéad's death rightly dominates Irish discourse this morning. But yesterday four separate reports were published that detailed the compounding ways in which the Irish State is failing the most vulnerable young people.
To remix her words: "We should keep the light on"
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Tiny Titan is sick for the first time. How horrible it is to hear a 7 week old oppressed by a nasal infection. She'll be fine like, but it's awful as she endures it.
Prayers for her rapid recovery are appreciated! 🙏
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the golden Micro-Giant and i went to a walk to some place to talk about long extinct glaciers
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Tell me you've never read the Bible without telling me you have never read the Bible
Debt “forgiveness” is nothing more than a socialist scheme.
I’ll continue fighting to defend working-class Americans who paid off their loans or went directly into the workforce.
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Introducing Micro-Giant and Tiny-Titan to their cultural heritage (M.A.S.K. cartoons on a Saturday morning)
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We finally bought our home only because the family we were buying from explicitly rejected all investor bids, declared the asking price the price, and moved on to another town unable to even receive our gratitude for the difference their decency made to our children's lives
Greed is a choice . It's that simple. Mam & Dad gave us values as kids ,a lifelong mantra. " If I don't already have it , I probably don't need it."We sold the family home over the weekend. At the start of the process,we engaged a local estate agent & as a family insisted 1/3
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most Presbyterian sign in history?
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gonna find someone tangentially related to a celebrity wearing a top with an orange on it and insist they are secretly signalling their support of Cromwell
Beverly Hills - Jennifer Garner's 18 year old daughter was spotted today donning a sweatshirt featuring a watermelon, a fruit repurposed to represent the challenges of the Palestinian people.
The symbol erases the entire country of Israel.
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I realise as an ethicist, I'm prone to thinking too much into some things but it is very clear that any clear mind will look at the existing evidence and conclude that euthanasia invites a nihilism into our societies that is existential
"Good."
No one in the panel, no one in the audience, objects. Welcome to the world of death care.
Patients with conditions never considered to be valid reasons to die are now being helped to die by willing physicians: hearing loss, autism, sexual exploitation by a psychiatrist
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@oliver_moran
@INARIreland
The real objection I encounter isn't with the idea of a hate speech bill but the drafting of the law such that there is no guardrail against malicious use by the (future) State. Engaging the weakest version of the argument that disagrees with you is not enough.
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@DaveAtherton20
@amolrajan
@BBCiPlayer
@BBCTwo
@ChCh_Oxford
@EmmaCambridge
Why is this still up? Why haven't you apologised?
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A lot of rumours and speculation, especially the last few days, and I think now it's time we come to terms with the truth. Jesus did die. He was buried. Then he rose again. Not what the pundits expected, maybe not what his followers wanted, but it is what we have to deal with.
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Even by their extraordinary standards, the current issue of
@DublinInquirer
has a truly beautiful cover image. Everyone who lives in the city and loves it should subscribe. A newspaper full of *news*
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I don't want to dunk on QT-poster here too much, because this is a common thing.
But men really, really do have agency around their sexuality.
I've heard of some men who turn down sexual advances from very attractive female friends for no reason greater than they'd promised to
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I wanted to write about one of the weirdest but coolest things I get to do with the Jesuits
(RTs for this thread appreciated, especially for those who know young people interested in the intersection between Christian faith, public service, and the common good.)
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I realise many people just don't really reckon with these threats but if we were serious, there would barely be an adult in Ireland who didn't understand what's at play here.
Because what's at play is every single thing we take for granted about what it means to live here.
Short thread on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
#AMOC
, which brings a huge amount of heat to the northern Atlantic.
If it slows, the region west of Britain cools. And the Gulf Stream moves closer to the US coast, causing warming there.
Both are already happening,…
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I've a "solid grounding in reality-based learning" and yet spend my life "retelling fairy tales". I would encourage environmentalists in Ireland to attend to the *reality* of the active make-up of their support: about half of Stop Climate Chaos is faith-based. Respect is critical
At a time when it was never more critical that young people have a solid grounding in reality-based learning, our primary schools instead devote vast amounts of time retelling fairy tales as part of a state-sponsored indoctrination program for one religious sect.
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The real old guys had a lot of amazing things to say:
"I have come to the conclusion that time is nothing other than tension; but tension of what, I do not know, and I would be very surprised if it is not tension of consciousness itself."
- Augustine, Confessions, XI.26.33
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We are excited to announce that we have a new opening for our Housing Policy Advocate! Have you got experience working on housing issues and want to see it dealt with in a just way?
Click here for more information
#HousingCrisis
#Justice
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Worth remembering tonight and all nights that the urge to call people things like "animals" diminishes our own humanity and that MLK was on to something when he said a riot was often the language of the unheard.
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@Casey5122dark
Political libertarians don't usually want to intrude on the decisions made by Grounds Maintenance departments at major institutions.
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I'm on holiday so paying insufficient attention to anything that isn't my son's Batman coloring book - & may have missed something - but are the people outraged by this tweet alert to how the image is based on real evictions supported by An Garda Síochána?
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to live at a time when Rowan Williams has the time to wander around and have chats? we don't deserve such grace
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I'm up with a fussy baby. As long as this post is up (meaning as long as the Tiny Titan remains up), hit the like button if you want me to pray for you
(no need to tell me what for, the lad I'm talking with already knows)
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Last night, awake with a sick baby, I was struck by the awful perversity of affliction besetting one so small and perfect and the tremendous fittingness of being there to tend to her. On her side of the bed, Wife-unit was drafting similar thoughts in poetry instead of prose
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things you absolutely love to see
More than 1,200 people are being conferred with Irish citizenship today at two ceremonies in the National Concert Hall, Dublin. 🇮🇪
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Micro-Giant asked me to write down his bucket list. dude knows what the good life looks like
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You lose moral clarity about the failures of the 20th century Catholic church when you abandon intellectual seriousness.
I know some Pakistani and Afghan refugees who would query the conclusion drawn from this "evidence"
I got a lot of stick for comparing the Catholic Church to the Taliban. Here's photographic evidence of how bonkers things were.
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The idea that a child doesn't have religious beliefs is simultaneously empirically untrue and gloriously patronising. It's as mad as saying a child doesn't have aesthetic preferences or political intuitions.
Taken formally, I suspect it's ableism.
I’ve read some BS in my time.. however saying a child (8) has religious beliefs is epic. No 8 year old has formed any religious belief of their own. “God” is described as being neither male or female , invisible, omnipresent, commits genocide but loves you .. not confusing at all
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I don't know about you guys but I go to conferences to hear papers and then make a rambling comment suggesting it would have been better had it engaged my work more
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"I feeled her wobble me!" Micro-Giant getting the pay off of encountering his soon-to-be-born sister after patiently waiting with his hand on his mother's belly
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rumours circulating that myself and
@ciara_murphyphd
will be doing a rapid response webinar to Pope Francis' follow up to Laudato Si' next Thursday at 1830 Dublin time. reports that it will be called LAUDA2 SEE: 2GREEN; 2FURIOUS may be less reliable
more as we have it.
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@thomasbrunkard
I agree with the basic point. They are going to be used by lots of male teenagers and so there'll be plenty of anti-social behaviour. We can build norms around that.
I will say, every time I see a kid cycling on a path I see it as my failure -- that we can't provide a safer way
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28. Physically well. So utterly hopeless that she got a tattoo of the tree of life *but reversed it* and has scheduled doctor-enabled suicide for next month. She can't even imagine her friends would want to go a funeral.
This is not a slippery slope.
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Along with my
@jcfjustice
colleagues, I am deeply concerned this Christmas that Irish Christians understand the *good news* of the nativity and oppose the rising racist voices who are driven by fear. A sort of open letter to all Christians:
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