#History

THREAD: Church Small Groups, Trauma, and Mental HealthSome musings: While I know that this is not characteristic of all church community/small groups, I have heard time, and time again how
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ThreadLet's talk about protestors. I'm watching all of my news feeds freaking out about the protests in Minneapolis (and the tensions in LA). The usual white hand-wringing over "looting" seems
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This comeback rally for stocks won't last, if history is any indication."The first and second declines were followed by substantial rallies . . . which then gave way to even
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Pretty good overview of China's statist thinkers. But it underestimates how much the Party integrates Marxist views of power with this theoretical toolkit.Fortunately, Palladium has some navigation-grade theory for @nytimesworld
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I wonder if Jerry Falwell is thinking about Jim Bakker today. He is making me think about Jim Bakker today. A history thread: Falwell, like Bakker, said his wife’s infidelity
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CODED MESSAGE: "They want to invade your suburbs"UNCODED MESSAGE: "They want to desegregate your neighborhood"THREAD CODED MESSAGE: "They want to bring communism to America"UNCODED MESSAGE: "They want Ame
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OK, I don’t want to do this today, so I’ll cave. The Lakers knew what they were doing the whole time. Signing Dwight Howard was a genius move. Building a
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NEW: none of the homegrown ventilators - including one by Dyson - have got green light for use in NHS as design spec shifts as docs find more about #COVID19
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1) Let's play a game, shall we?Name this person:*William MillerNo? How about*Edmund MuskieNothing? Try*John Edwards (Now you're close. Wasn't he a senator?)*Geraldine FerraroAh! Veep candidate under Dukakis.What happened to thes
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I have a theory....Military coups crowded out our knowledge of the right kind of history.The likes of IBB, Buhari & OBJ are not supposed to be our mainstream historical figures.We
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i sometimes think about that scene in that movie 300 where xerxes is talking to leonidas and threatens to erase sparta from memory and that it would be like it
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I look forward to the time when time and the perspective it brings will make clear that Trump's crude, flailing demagoguery was pure id and contained not a shred of
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[controversial thread] So in celebration of #RotumanLanguageWeek a lot of social media posts from well-meaning Rotumans and non-Rotumans are using images of this flag which they’ve found online which in
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Much b4 @ShekharGupta killed an institution called @IndianExpress - it used to be edited by Sh Arun Shourie-who on 5th Feb 1989 wrote an article titled "Hideaway Communalism" -after breaking
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I think Sikhs can benefit a lot about ‘what to do & how to do’ in current environment of hate, from what Guru Nanak Paatshah taught us. Guru Nanak was
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giantesses cramming people into themselves as sex toys: brokegiantesses using their devotees to build an enormous segway: wise tiny men want to go inside the giantess but what if she
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