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I have set up this back-up account .
@HitchensReal
, after experiencing weird problems with my main account .
@ClarkeMicah
. These problems resolved themselves but I thought I should be prepared. So here I am. As proof of authenticity, I have followed this account and no other.
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I am having some difficulties with my
@ClarkeMicah
account, and hope to resolve them. However, in the event of severe trouble, I plan to migrate to this back-up account .
@hitchensreal
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If you go to Church this Sunday, please pray for Julian Assange and his family. Exclusive interview: Stella Assange on her husband, faith and meeting Pope Francis
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@guffynicola
Certainly more charming than people who cannot tell if it will rain this afternoon in Kent claiming to understand the operations of the global climate.
@HitchensReal
@void_void_viod
Primitive people thanking their gods for good weather is charming.
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Not Much Time Left to Save Julian Assange From Extradition - So Please Act
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This is actually shocking and disgusting. The fall of the Dzerzhinski statue in 1991 was the assurance that the Soviet era was finished for ever. Its reappearance is a step back into the dark past: Statue of founder of KGB unveiled in Moscow
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Mere Anarchy is Loosed Upon the World. Ignoring Shoplifting Threatens Civilisation
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@wabbey
. You mean 'For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.'
'For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands'
Isaiah 55: 12
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Why, in more than ten years of battle against the Marijuana cult, I haven't even scratched their paintwork:
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Please write asap to the Home Secretary, The Rt Hon Suella Braverman MP,The Home Office, 2 Marsham Street,London,SW1P 4DF.Ask her not to permit the extradition of Julian Assange. Please be brief,polite & above all,numerous.Stress that he did *not* endanger others by his actions.
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I am not minimisng anything, .
@lumieres_mnt
, nor am I remotely interested in riling you. I am just pointing out that the West's moral outrage against Saddam was and remains a fake. The West allies to murderers when it wishes to, drops them if it is convenient.
@HitchensReal
I'm not taking your bait Peter.
You're a man in your 70s trying to rile up a Kurd by minimizing the atrocities against his people - including the chemical warfare you're so enamored with in Syria - and a body count the Americans could never even dream of approaching.
Grow up.
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The C of E's Stalinist unpersoning of the great late Bishop George Bell has *finally* been rescinded :'4 Canon Lane at Chichester Cathedral to be renamed George Bell House' (when they say 'renamed, they men oit is to get its old name back).
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I did not say I strove to be unpopular. That is, as is so often the case with you, a falsehood. I said I was *prepared* to be unpopular. You lie as you breathe, as you type, as you walk.
@HitchensReal
I don’t doubt you strive to be unpopular. It’s your brand. You are after all known as a contrarian….
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Nobody said that it was an original. What I said was that the KJV and Shakespeare were comparable works of literary beauty.
@RosieMrsk
@jamesm_huxley
@HitchensReal
The point I was trying to make, is that the KJV is NOT an 'original', like a Shakespeare sonnet, but a translation. It's not even the original translation into English - Myles Coverdale got there first. Hope that helps.
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@wabbey
. You mean : 'Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near'.
'Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near'
Isaiah 55: 6
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@wabbey
, you mean :' And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: ...
'Jesus said: 'You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church...I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven''
Matthew 16: 18-19
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@pollybloom86
. In my experience about 97% of the C of E apparatus loathes both the 1662 Prayer Book and the King James Bible. I shan't 'take it up' with anyone, but I will continue to contrast the beauty of the originals with the sapless dreariness of the new versions.
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Just what you all wanted.
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Why is Israel the only country in the world that is blamed for being attacked?
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This is not argument, but caricatured (literally) dismissal of(in many cases ) perfectly reasonable doubts about your zealous faith (why are so many of them smoking, btw?) . Do you not see that your responses to challenge - heresy hunts and abuse - reveal your deep insecurity?
@bbcquestiontime
@GeorgeMonbiot
you did a valiant job last night as
@JohnnyMercerUK
and
@HitchensReal
rattled through the standard Discourses of Delay and Denial. We have produced this set of cards for just these occaisions
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@wabbey
, you mean 'Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.'
'So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!'
2 Corinthians 5: 17
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@plsSeemaJohns
The prisons are full because we are so feeble. Apart from homicides and a few other crimes, most people in prison do not get sent there until they are already habitual criminals. We have abandoned the deterrent effect of prison.
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What do you mean 'my' Syria war, .
@lumieres_mnt
?? I opposed the Western/Gulf intervention in Syria too. I agree it was disastrous. The USA should never have started it.
@HitchensReal
@RosieMrsk
Yes, and your Syria War was much more deadly, savage, and had much more disastrous long-term effects, than your brother's Iraq War - which I demonstrated definitively with the data I presented to you.
(which, it seems I correctly guessed, you were too lazy to read)
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Total vindication at last for the mighty George Bell,anti-Nazi,friend of refugees,courageous opponent of area bombing,then condemned without a hearing by a C of E kangaroo court. '4 Canon Lane at Chichester Cathedral to be George Bell House once again'
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But your suggestion, contained in your use of the word 'populist' is that I oppose it because it is popular to do so. This is just a smear, for which you couldn't provide any evidence if challenged. On the other hand I can easily show that I'm more than ready to be UNpopular.
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Before the 20th century , .
@theblue_on
, it would never have *occurred* to anybody that you would forgive someone who didn't desire to be forgiven, and was not contrite. Luke 17 3-4 is clear on this, by accident. Our Lord would not normally have felt any need to state the obvious.
@ClarkeMicah
Nothing in the lord's prayer indicates that those that sin against us require to ask forgiveness nor that God will forgive them if we do it merely asks that our sins are forgiven as we forgive others.
Vengeance is for the lord. Not us.
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How cuttings in my attic left me pondering via
@MailOnline
What if the Tories had narrowly won the 1964 General Election and the grammar schools had never been abolished? What if the Task Force had been beaten in the Falklands?
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@wabbey
You mean: 'Ascribe unto the Lord worship and strength. Give the Lord the honour due unto his name: worship the Lord with holy worship'.
Surely you must have a copy of the C of E's Book of Common Prayer, somewhere in the building? I could lend you one.
'Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name; worship the Lord in holy splendour.'
Psalm 29:1-2
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University (just) Worked For Me, But For Many, Expansion Has Been a Huge Disappointment
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@lastenglishking
The weird thing about modern Britain is that the prisons are far fuller than they were 50 years ago, but there is also *much* more crime. To understand this paradox, please read my book 'The Abolition of Liberty'
@ClarkeMicah
The prisons are already full - a large proportion of shoplifters are junkies, there's limited provision to address this. Tougher sentences aren't viable and don't work.
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2/2 .
@wabbey
, you mean '...and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.'
'Jesus said: 'You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church...I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven''
Matthew 16: 18-19
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Why did So Many Carry on Smoking Long After its Horrible Dangers Were Evident? My Column in 'The Lamp'
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@alexwc1964
. A lesson here in reading links before replying to the tweets containing them. Also, it is no dispraise to be called 'Eeyore' , one of the greatest characters in English literature, and much the most sensible and wise.
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@theblue_on
I confess that this is the most enjoyably incomprehensible tweet (or must we call them 'exes' now?) that I have seen for some time.
Don't be fooled by Peter Hitchens. It's all Right Wing. The lot of it. The Sexy Capitalist Bohemians. The prudish War tolerating conservative Christians. The Bourgeois Marxists 'socialists'. Free Market Anarchist Libertarians, and definitely every single National Socialist.
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2/2 Perhaps we should begin using the term 'Unpopulist' for governments which adopt policies (such as mass immigratio) without explaining why or, if they can help it, even telling anyone what they are doing.
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You can imagine six impossible things before breakfast. But that does not mean that they are true or have any importance.
@polytixs
@HitchensReal
@ClaxheughRocks
I can imagine Peter saying the true meaning of populism has been cancelled by woke Marxists seeking to confuse the laity.
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UK legislators ( and journalists ) please follow this example : Julian Assange: more than 60 Australian MPs urge US to let WikiLeaks founder walk free
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@void_void_viod
The psalms are poems and were written by men,not God. These are expressions of joy in the beauty and plenty of the earth. My favourite is Psalm 65 'The folds shall be full of sheep: the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing'.
@HitchensReal
@wabbey
Do either of you know what God meant by “trees of the field shall clap their hands”?
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@drfrancisyoung
, in the immortal words of 'Saki' (H.H. Munro) It certainly produces more history than it can consume locally.
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This was the point at which I tired of .
@aylmer51
, when he seriously suggested (actually for the second time in a few hours) that I did not know that the Bible was a translated work. This is a fantastically rude thing to say, and I do not see why I have to put up with it.
@ClarkeMicah
No, of course I don't! I just think you may have overlooked the important difference between an *original* piece of work, and a translation. The purpose of the latter is to make the original intelligible to a wider audience, not to embellish it.
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But I do not 'like to disagree'. I express my opinions , regardless of whether people disagree or agree. If they disagree, I am willing to debate with them. If .
@guffynicola
cannot distinguish between these two things, then he should retire from social media.
@BrendanBellian
@HitchensReal
The reason I believe Peter Hitchens often is a contrarian is that he likes to disagree with other people and express opinions that are unpopular.
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2/2 .
@cpmasterson
. As for Baghdad being a 'better place', we have not yet seen the full resolution of the political developments which followed 2003 there. But the position (for example) of Christians and of women in today's Baghdad is not necessarily better... I put it mildly.
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My thoughts on an earlier overpraised Nolan film: '"Dunkirk" Considered at Length'
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It's pretty bad, .
@JW_Davidson
but do you think that Labour governments have never presided over welfare systems in which such things can take place? And you think the result yoiu cite was *intended* by the framers of the rules?
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@NeoShires
I think I am happy to be insulted by you. Certainly better than to be complimented by you.
@ursine_meeting
Everything 'social' is fashionable. Social housing. Social care. A healthy economy doesn't need state ownership in any of these areas. Privatise the lot.
@ClarkeMicah
it pays to know some economics, that way you don't have to sound like a doddering simpleton.
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1970s, I'd say, that blue check pattern and the aluminium window frames. 1960s BR carriages were much more handsome .
@lastenglishking
. The worst thing was the total failure to explain what was going on and why. The 1958 film was far better.
@HitchensReal
The worst thing of Dunkirk was the 1960s railway carriages towards the end of the film.
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My MoS column, on University Expansion,. the worrying way Gollum is starting to look like Blair, what inflatiion really is (the shrinking of money) and a sad decline in 'I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue'
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I did in fact specifically predict the inflation.
@ClarkeMicah
@BrianCass5
Same here hitch but u didn’t predict the inflation and house price crash be honest. U would av said it before the pavermic otherwise. Anyway they won’t invade.
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Yes, .
@guffynicola
. These are the founding texts in the English language, first generally used in English churches by the reformed CoE. The recognised standard of scripture is the King James version, except for the Psalms, where the earlier Coverdale translation is used.
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@alkemajan1
, now you come to mention I do recall a number of people rather repellently claiming that the USA 'had it coming' (that is to say they thought all those innocent people in Manhattan deserved to die. Such ghouls ). But there is no 'inevitability' in such matters.
@HitchensReal
Have you had a knock to the head
@HitchensReal
?
The exact same thing happened after 9/11 when the adults in the room pointed out the inevitability of the USA as the ‘oppressor’ being a target.
Same principle for the current Israeli administration. Get a grip already…
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1/2 It's perfectly legitimate to oppose immigration on its current unprecedented scale. There's nothing 'populist' about doing so.On the contrary,such a major issue must be discussed. I'm not sure how he describes *supporters* of this policy who've never put it to the electorate.
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@larryq6
. It is more or less impossible to *prove* that reviewers have not read one's books. As I myself *always* read any book I review from cover to cover before reviewing it, especially if the review is hostile, I do admire all those reviewers who do the same as me.
@ClarkeMicah
Did this guy read your book, at all? In his blog post he quotes a work arguing Britain was diminished and indebted to the US after the war, something he claims you didn't cover-- which is laughable.
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@Uugher7
It's not half as annoying as it is to be right and to be ignored when it would have been helpful if people had listened. When the metaphorical train runs over both of us, I can take some small comfort from the fact that it's not my fault. But it is yours.
@ClarkeMicah
@BrianCass5
"I told you so" Is rather annoying...
I listen to
@ClarkeMicah
because you are clearly intelligent, and have experienced life...
The goal is to see if you exhibit survival responses
Sitting around and saying "I was right" while the train runs you over doesn't help me at all
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@lumieres_mnt
. The best way of working out if a war is just is to look at it from the perspective of the dead,the maimed,the homeless and the refugees,who would not be these things had there been no war. Give it a try. You might become marginally less self-satisfed. .
@rosiemrsk
@RosieMrsk
@cpmasterson
@ClarkeMicah
@LensLarke
@HitchensReal
From whose perspective?
The Kurds?
The devout Shi'i Arabs?
A great number of Sunni Arabs?
The Christians and Assyrians of Baghdad, Mosul?
The Turkmen?
Iran?
The USA/UK?
All very different answers.
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Two old bores discussing religion in an even older church, or a fascinating conversation about our country and its beliefs? You decide
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How thick are you? It's perfectly plain that my case is that motor cars dominate our society because the government favours them over more advanced, technically superior, cleaner, quieter, safer public trannsport. I am arguing about what ought to be, not what is.
@ClarkeMicah
@HitchensReal
@OilAccount
“Motor traffic is irrational, inefficient, dangerous and makes us reliant on despots.”
Good luck taking the train to Lands End.
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1/2 That is interesting ,
@neil_abrams
. Where is the tribunal which rules on these matters? In its absence, you are just saying that if *you* don't like a government, then constitutions, impeachment rules, due process etc can be dispensed with.This is just dressed up lawlessness.
When leaders violate the agreed-upon rules governing access to power, they sacrifice any claim to legitimacy, whether moral or practical. With his unlawful power-grabs, violent repression, and epic corruption, Yanukovych made his own bed. He’d eventually have to lie in it.
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'For several reasons I did not enter fully into the spirit of things at University. People used to say that I and Harriet Harman were the only two York students in that era who did not smoke marijuana, but I cannot vouch for this.' via
@MailOnline
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What difference does it make? He doesn't respond on the real account. I just thought it was a good place to beef.
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I was *much* more certain about Trotskyism than I am about Christianity. That's one of the reasons I so distrust certainty . But , .
@skynetbuffering
, do please tell me what evidence it is that I dismiss, and about what.
@ClarkeMicah
@BrianCass5
LOL hilarious.
You’re just exhibiting a talent for dismissing evidence to fuel your confirmation bias.
You’re just as confident in your certainty about your idea of “Christianity” as you were in your idea of “Trotskyism”.
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1/2 .
@robertchallis
Obsession? Why do people use this insulting word to describe interests, likings and enthusiasms which they do not share? The Bible is a library of history, prophecy, law, poetry and(in the case of the psalms) complaint. It is not a computer manual.
@HitchebsReal
@RosieMrsk
@Aylmer51
@jamesm_huxley
@HitchensReal
Interesting feature of this is that the obsession with the KJ version is really an atheist's argument. A genuine Christian should go for the most accessible and accurate translation.
Someone who does not see it as the Word of God will prefer the KJ version for its poetry.
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And this was the first occasion on which .
@aylmer51
insultingly suggested that I did not know the Bible is a translated work. Then he did it again.
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2/2 .
@cpmasterson
. When Saddam was caught using poison gas at Halabja in 1988, the UK Foreign Office said ‘Punitive measures such as unilateral sanctions would not be effective in changing Iraq's behaviour over chemical weapons, and would damage British interests to no avail.’
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@kynohy
2/2 'If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.' This is also supposed to be read out before the General Confession.
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My new column in 'The Lamp' , on August 1914.
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@SkepticSupreme
Poor as in 0/10. I wished afterwards that I had been at home reading. C.P.Snow's fine novel on the British bomb project, 'The New Men', contains more of interest on this subject in ten pages than the film does in three hours.
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@GrahamFrench247
A much better portrayal of the evacuation, especially the return of the defeated BEF to home ports, is contained in some short scenes in the superb 'In Which We Serve'. Nolan's film actually used 1970s (!) railway carriages
@HitchensReal
@ClarkeMicah
The condition that the troops came back in, is mostly correct, but Hollywood are never that accurate, sometimes completely wrong about the entire subject at hand.
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@jimmyhsands
What points are these? Saddam was a murderer. We knew this when we allied with him against Iran. We knew this when we decided to do nothing about Halabja. And we didnt care, as we do not now care about the bloodstains all over our current allies in Saudi and Egypt
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In A & E?
@NeAnOrScared
@HitchensReal
But I know people who used to go out to the Peak District to camp it, rock climbing on Stanage edge and smoke dope. So where does that leave us?
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@lumieres_mt
. Do please go ahead. I long to learn of the great success of the invasion.
@RosieMrsk
@cpmasterson
@ClarkeMicah
@LensLarke
@HitchensReal
I'm Iraqi, I lived through it, reported on it, and wrote about it at length.
If you would like to increase your extremely myopic understanding of the events of the US-led invasion of Saddam's Iraq and the subsequent hostilities, I'll be happy to point you in the right direction.
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@lumieres_mnt
. No, I'm just trying to work out who you are. The only part of Iraq which (temporarily) benefited from the invasion was Kurdistan. Mass murder is mass murder. It is bad in anyquantity. If mral outrage is your justification, you need to grasp this.
@HitchensReal
Is this an attempt to get under my skin by attacking my ethnicity and the atrocities they've suffered?
Or are you really just that historically ignorant? Or, and? maybe, just plain, unfamiliar with the ethical distinctions in such atrocities that the average person is?
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That is one way of putting it , .
@adhdinsdale
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@wabbey
: 'But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)'.
'God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ'
Ephesians 2: 4-5
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@kynohy
1/2 As you rightly say, the Parable of the Prodigal Son (quoted in the opening sentences of Morning Paryer, befre confession) relies wholly on that son seeking forgiveness. The First Epistle of John(1, 8-9) is also very clear:...
@theblue_on
@HitchensReal
Forgiveness includes two actors.
It begins with acknowledging one's wrong doing as it is, regret and ask for forgiveness.
Nowhere in the Bible I can find that God promises that the sinners (all of us) without repentance/asking for forgiveness through Christ, can be forgiven.
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I think you might struggle to establish intention in either case. The law of Unintended Consequences is passed by Parliamnet evry few days. .
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@spy_historian
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I thought this would be the case. It was a reasonable supposition. At that time not *one* front bench politician, not one major newspaper or media outlet opposed EU membership. To this day I am baffled by the conversions, at the last minute of so many persons and institutions..
@HitchensReal
This one is particularly funny:
"most of you will be scared and bamboozled into voting to stay in"
Oops…
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@syouth93
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Hello
@HitchensReal
I asked chatGPT to solve the problem of you’re Sherlock Holmes enigma - and this is what it come up with..
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@cpeutat
, It was impossible to foresee that figures such as Johnson and Gove, who I knew to be pro-EU, and several newspapers which had been pro-EU for decades, would abruptly switch sides.
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@guffynicola
, since you trail me around the internet so much, how can you possibly have failed to notice my criticisms of legal psychotropics? You are a pain in the neck.
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2/2 .
@churchillmyths
. I actually began to re-examine the 1938-40 period *because* all modern wars are advanced as repeats of it. The book goes into this quite a lot. Munich was hugely popular. I doubt that the German seizure Prague changed that opinion in most minds.
@ClarkeMicah
Fair enough. I don't recall you saying that expressly but my recollection (I did read your book but it was a number of years ago so forgive me if I have misremembered this) is that Simon Newman's "March 1939" influenced your view of the guarantee.
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@harry_limey
You'd have to know so little about me even to ask that question that I cannot be bothered to answer it. See if you can find out from some other quarter, you prejudiced ninny.
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That is distressing to know. But then again, if Guffers enjoys our exchanges it's probably because he does not know what is going on during them.
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@lumieres_mnt
. The torture of Shia rebels in Bahrain in 2011 is also striking. If we in the 'West' had a principled objection to violent, cruel repression, then presumably we would by now have invaded Egypt, Saudi and Bahrain. I see no sign of any plans for such operations.
@Jordan54941136
@cpmasterson
@HitchensReal
Again, I must ask - have you not looked into it?
Top marks for the most random analogy though - Suharto? For his anti-Communist purges nearly half a century ago? 😄👍
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Exactly,
@rosiemrsk
, the whole thing smacks of disagreeing for the sake of it. Why was he even interested?
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@wabbey
'The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart : and will save such as be of an humble spirit.'
'The Lord is near to the broken-hearted, and saves the crushed in spirit'
Psalm 34: 18
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@kynohy
also see the *three* stages set out in verses 15-17, by which a wronged person may seek restitution from the person who has done him wrong. If the offender refuses the third 'let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.'
@theblue_on
@HitchensReal
How do you see this parable - resembling the thought in the Lord's prayer:
"O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?"
(Matthew 18:21-35)
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@kynohy
. The fellowservant had begged for forgiveness (v.29) 'And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all'. The wicked servant spurned the plea for mercy.
@theblue_on
@HitchensReal
How do you see this parable - resembling the thought in the Lord's prayer:
"O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?"
(Matthew 18:21-35)
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'The novelist Linda Grant, who was at York University around the same time, described the experience of her generation leaving York as like a lorryload of baby koalas being tipped out on to an ice-floe in the Arctic and left to fend for themselves.'
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Well, if they say so, .
@lastenglishking
, but as someone who has travelled a *lot* by train (mostly in Southern England), since about 1957, the sort of carriages shown in 'Dunkirk' did not appear in BR use before the 1970s. Vastly anachronistic. No excuse.
@HitchensReal
"British Rail Mark I type, which where built from around 1950. Also the blue upholstery on the seats looks to be the corporate blue introduced by British Rail in the 1960s"
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What predictions do you refer to?
@guffynicola
@BrendanBellian
@HitchensReal
@ClarkeMicah
Almost every prediction Peter made around leaving the EU was wrong. He likes to brush this under the carpet now, but I suspect his narcissism had a hard time coping with this.
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No, but I know people who do. Such people are quite common among the clergy and laity of the C of E.
@ClarkeMicah
Peter, this is a reasonable and (on my side, at least) respectful debate, not a trolling exercise. You may have a point when you say the original Hebrew/Greek was also poetic, but I cannot tell because I do not speak them - do you?
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It's a good point, .
@guffynicola
, and I am in any case glad that you have managed to find me here so quickly, amid your busy life.
Imagine if it had occurred to Peter to call himself Real Hitchens instead of Clarke Micah years ago.
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@ponssublicius
. Alas, this seems to have been so. The most rudimentary study of the facts would have shown them that no such support was even possible. Only symbolic acts. See for example:
@ClarkeMicah
@ChurchillMyths
Certainly Poland thought/hoped for significant help against the more powerful Germany attacking from the west, north, and south. Unfortunately, the only ones who came were the Russians who invaded from the east a couple weeks later.
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@C4thmusic
. I do not oppose the (considerable) research taking place into the alleged medical uses of marijuana. But it seems odd to me that anyone should promote as a medicine a substance whose use is closely correlated with lifelong incurable mental illness.
@ClarkeMicah
@HitchensReal
@slashNburn
Peter, is there any work of yours that goes into your views on cannabis being used for medical purposes? I just wondered whether you were open to cannabis being used in a medical setting?
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That is a very sad story. I am sorry for your loss. Of course you can't get rid of it.
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