Dhammanando Bhikkhu

Leeds-born English Buddhist monk living in Thailand since 2004.

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@AidanCooperUK @Adrian_Hilton It seems he doesn't know the difference between "equivocally" and "unequivocally". 😁

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@RnaudBertrand @georgegalloway As with just about every verse in Genesis, these two have been taken in different ways in rabbinical tradition. And so while your reading is roughly in line with Ibn Ezra's, Ted Cruz's gets support from that of Ramban.

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@LucyMPowell Only 0.0353% of people who've viewed your "apology" have given it a like. Not exactly viral approval, Lucy.

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@AlbionAnalysis Yeah, I know, but it popped up in my feed... so there you go. 😄

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@wtid66 @LUFC Well predicted. 👌

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@ChatJGT @GadSaad @gunnlaj They've been naming their sons that for over a thousand years, as have the Swedes, Danes and Norwegians (though less often than the Icelanders). It's the name of one of the dwarves in the Völuspá.

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@dpheneghan1 @patcondell "I'm sure she's a lovely person" is not praising Kemi. It's known as a "rhetorical cushion", meaning something that you say to soften the blow of what you're about to say next.

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@georgegalloway @MoatsTV Books, obviously. That's all I ever buy from them. Most recently:

Don DeLillo, Underworld.
Marilynne Robinson, the Gilead series.
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections.

And two poets...
Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
Jericho Brown, The Tradition.

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@Lenym_Sad I felt it in Lamphun and the electricity is off. No damage though.

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@georgegalloway His mammy was an SRN,
She wore a nurse's hat.
Got married to a toolmaker
And then brought forth a tw**.

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@RobertJenrick Black Belt Barrister thinks it was infantile of you to try and make political capital out of this. I agree with him; you should have gone about it in a much more professional cross-party manner.

https://t.co/8hKowp47n6

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@jordanbpeterson @RealCandaceO "Pharasaical"? Unless you're suggesting that Candace is a follower of Pharas the Herulian, I believe you mean "Pharisaical".

https://t.co/424nKEBzaK

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@DurhamWASP Starkey has got his Christian saints mixed up. It was St Bernard of Clairvaux, not Augustine of Hippo, who said "Inter fæces et urinam nascimur." So it seems the French did come up with *one* good idea.
😀

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@AMDWaters And so a Stalinist, for example, is likely to have more in common with a Nazi than with a social democrat; a Nazi has more in common with a Stalinist than with a mainstream conservative.

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@AMDWaters ... than either of them is to the political centre. For example, both extremes are likely to favour authoritarian approaches to enforce their vision of society, even if their visions are vastly different.

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@LeeAndersonMP_ But spineless backpedaling Nige says there's not going to be any deportations. Can't you guys get your story straight?

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@JOHNCUR26459366 @mrhenrymorris @LeeAndersonMP_ The grasp of written English in the public statement from Lee and Zia is very poor:

* One run-on sentence.
* Three mis-capitalizations.
* Use of "nor" in place of "or".
* Needless repetition of "evidence".
* The ugly Americanism "obligated" in place of the British "obliged".

[Dhammanando Bhikkhu @Dhammanando1965]

@JuliaHB1 When you were doing your PPE degree, did the philosophy profs at Oxford never explain to you what a false dichotomy is? 🤔