#Origins

Every now and then I think back on the fact that the Wesleyan Methodist church that I grew up in was founded on the grounds of anti-slavery in the 19th
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Thread. The more I learn about the human brain the less I understand the resistance against "the medical model". I personally don't see a problem with the medical model. I
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A friend of mine I don't know well took me in his truck to get compost and sand and it took three trips and I noticed that the handle on
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Hannah Arendt is maybe only writer who managed to say something insightful or profound in almost every paragraph. It’s *almost* annoying how gifted she was. On Zola, taking on the
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15 reasons I believe evangelical churches are losing so many people to disillusionment and deconstruction (a thread). I shared these Sunday and we talked about them in our young adult
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Need additional information. Backgrounds, family heritage, Networths etc.https://twitter.com/MilkyLazarus/status/1297173728808308736 I'm going to my home gym in a sec, so won't be here to do back and forth.This conversation is stale
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Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy our home, my dad stunned me with how quickly he could compute loan payments in his head. I
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Help me with LOOT?Hobson Jobson finds separate origins for Hindi and Persian versions:Hind. lūṭ, & Skt. lotra, for loptra, root lup, 'rob, plunder'; luṇṭ, 'to rob'Ar.Pers. lūṭīy 'one of the
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A Thread on Pakistani MangosThere are about 1000 known varieties, ill talk about few grown in Pakistan.Anwar RatolA small sized delight, with an average weight of 180 g; it has
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I don't know much about my Jewish family's origins, but I do know some of my ancestors came to the US from Belarus at the turn of the 20th century,
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#ACSisterhood is important to me because ever since Claudia Auditore was inducted as an Assassin, I knew I wanted a female-led AC game. I loved Ezio and his story but
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Get ready. This is going to be an important thread. Election season will be over soon and hopefully more people will devote some attention to this...I'm going to walk through
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The Vedas are the oldest written documents of human civilization and Hinduism. It is believed that the ideals of Hinduism are the oldest scriptures in the world. ... The mantras
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Origins documentaryhttps://youtu.be/Gdd7dtDaYmM  Now that evidence points to COVID-19 being the product of engineering, the only question left is: is COVID-19 of CCP accidental release origin or was it intentional false
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Lots of game designers I know swear by film as reference. Which has lots of merits, not least of which is unifying a team behind an easily communicable vision. But
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1/ #CatholicTwitter: with all this talk on watered down theology/modernism I’m rightfully triggered. I’m going to slightly vent. Those of us that have the background/education in theology—well grounded of course—have
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