Anybody notices the parallels between Cable Guy and Fight Club? In both movies, a seemingly boring protagonist encounters an eccentric who turns his life upside down. (1/7)
@Faustzme@BasedMikeLee If belief in the Trinity is your criteria for being Christian, then what about the denominations within the Latter Day Saint movement that believe in the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith's prophethood and are still Trinitarians, like the Bickertonites or the Community of Christ?
@Pellegrinoadict That doesn't hold water. Advanced maternal age is the biggest risk factor for having a child with Down syndrome. Most people who are pro-life are devout Christians who tend to have children at a younger age than the secular population, so they are less affected on average.
@RAlbackup@RacePopeIII That's true, but it was the Soviet Union and China that armed those groups and pressured the West into abandoning Rhodesia and South Africa, as they feared that the Third World would otherwise fall into the hands of socialism if they didn't join the anti-imperialist bandwagon.
@RAlbackup@RacePopeIII China trained and armed ZANLA fighters in Rhodesia. ZANLA slaughtered missionaries, farmers and their workers, infants, villagers who didn't want to collaborate with them and even infants. After the war was over their leadership orchestrated a genocide killing 20,000 Ndebele.
@19thCentMindset They seem to be libertarian-minded individualists like other White Africans. Unlike White South Africans, they have largely withdrawn from politics to avoid becoming targets. They are also not organized enough. Migrants in Germany often try to start smear campaigns against them.
@peterpetersili6@ratvisionist The famine happened over 170 years ago. The Balkans are united in the picture above, despite the fact that the Yugoslav Wars didn't even end 30 years ago and had 36 times the death toll of the Troubles (a conflict between Britain and terrorists who didn't even represent Ireland).
@archer_actual@ratvisionist The fact that they were often under the same governance established cultural ties, that's how cultural identities usually emerge. Larger nations try to assimilate smaller groups. That's also the reason why Brittany, Normandy and Alsace all share a common French culture.
@peterpetersili6@ratvisionist Ireland and Britain are already close partners. They form a common travel area, the UK defends Ireland's airspace and they watch the same television shows. The relationship between Serbia and Croatia, Greece and Turkey, and of course, Russia and Ukraine is much more tense.
@archer_actual@ratvisionist Both nations have gotten along well since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Good Friday Agreement. There is freedom of movement between them and Britain defends Ireland's airspace. There is no nation more culturally close to Ireland than the UK anywhere on continental Europe.
Ben Freeth legally acquired his farm during Mugabe's reign. In 2011, it was raided and burned down. Its later owner said: "We want you Whites out; we want to deal with friendlier people like the Chinese." Now, the Chinese kick their babies like footballs. https://t.co/7CRdEW05IR
@free_canuck@GeoChonker@Michaeldudufudu Yeah, the West, even 150 years ago, was really good at recording. For the US, you can find census records every 10 years, which show people's ages and residences. Otherwise, you'll find many birth and marriage records available on Ancestry or FamilySearch, even for South America.
@StefanFrancisci There are exceptions. Eichsfeld in Thuringia is a strongly Catholic region. There is a Bible Belt between Vogtland and the Ore Mountain where you'll find many pietistic and evangelical churches. Latter-day Saints are also very numerous in Saxony and had a temple before the West.
@johnmoneyfanboy@Michaeldudufudu The identity switch theory is wrong. Yvonne's husband was a soldier and requested to be placed in reserve in 1928, as his wife was terminally ill and he needed to stay by her side in Arles. We have photos of Yvonne in a tuberculosis sanatorium, and she had an open-casket funeral.
@Daumat@Michaeldudufudu The identity switch theory is nonsense and the evidence is weaker than ever. We have found letters from Yvonne Calment, Jeanne's daughter, from the 1920s, sent directly from a tuberculosis sanitarium, proving that she had been terminally ill for years before her death.
@free_canuck@GeoChonker@Michaeldudufudu To be verified as a supercentenarian (110 years+), you need to have early life records, midlife records and late-life records. The criteria are very strict and most verified supercentenarians come from America, Europe or Japan, rather than third-world countries with no records.
@Gudge1903@SconeOf That's absurd. Scotland is physically attached to England and had its referendum in 2014. Scots are represented in the British Parliament and Unionist Parties won a majority in the latest Scottish regional election. You meet all the markers of being a delusional Leftist, though.
@indy_swim@robert55012 Don't you think it's destabilizing for a nation to have secession referendums so often? France and Spain constitutionally enshrine that their borders are unchangeable for good reasons. What if Orkney and Shetland wanted independence? Would Scotland allow them to secede too?
@eatingacashew@ladiiiiiiiiii11@CajunNational At 25 weeks, a fetus has detectable brain activity, can hear sounds and react to movements. It's unarguably murder at this point. Even if you had a bad childhood, it's never too late to turn your life around. My parents separated early and I'm thankful that I wasn't aborted.
@ladiiiiiiiiii11@CajunNational There are plenty of happy people who were adopted. If you saw someone trying to shoot a homeless person and you saved the homeless person, would you be obligated to provide food, shelter and money for them afterward? Christians also donate more than any other group to charity.