Universal Love TRTT Part 6: The Undiscovered Ken

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Eddie Dingle

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If you're a good listener there's a podcast series by a guy named Dan Carlin called Hardcore History, Blueprint for Armageddon. It's huge, in 5 parts and goes for more than 20 hours. I've been listening on and off for about a month and have just finished part 3. The detail is incredible - and intense.

From a personal point of view my great grandfather fought at Gallipoli. He was a scottish sailor who jumped ship in Port Adelaide (illegal immigrant/boat person) for a bird (great grandmother). When the war started he signed up in Adelaide. He was wounded at Gallipoli badly enough to be sent home, which might have saved his life as it meant he wasn't sent on to the western front. I've read his army records, which are pretty funny. A few court martials for being drunk and going awol in Egypt.
Pretty sure you can only get court martialed once.

And in times of war it generally meant you were executed.
 

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Pretty sure you can only get court martialed once.

And in times of war it generally meant you were executed.
Nah. It meant you went before the army court. Could have been for a whole range of things. I may have read it wrong though. I'm not a military expert.

Edit: I just googled it and I'm right
 

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It is recommended a minimum of one-hour fasting before communion. No need for suffering...

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My wife and I have a compromise: I can take the kids to church, but not force them to go. So, they only go by their own volition. It comes and goes. But, I believe it is better this way. Hopefully, from my part, they will eventually get why I go and follow me.

Still, I once scared the sh*t of my older boy when I answered that "I go to mass to die" (which is true). I should be more careful with my words. He wasn't much convinced even when I told him that "but we never do. We always come back alive. That's the 'Good News'!" :)

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Nobody is allowed to take kids to church or indoctrinate them until they are 20.

See how long religion lasts then.
 

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Would have been lucky to avoid execution for desertion/awol?
It just meant he got on the piss and got back late. It was during training in Egypt and I think there were probably a few doing it. At that point it was still a big adventure for them. He did do it a few times though so he was either a slow learner or didn't give a ****.
 

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Ricky Gervais has the right idea.

Nobody is allowed to take kids to church or indoctrinate them until they are 20.

See how long religion lasts then.
This worked fine with me. My parents aren't churchgoers. I wasn't myself when I met my Atheist wife (I was 22). Philosophy has moved me toward Religion; when I already was in Graduate school. I am Catholic because it was my background church.

On Religion, I am fundamentally Brazilian: "whatever works". My wife is the same, so we have been able to compromise. She followed my journey into the Church without much understanding, but she accepted pretty well. My marriage was celebrated by a Lutheran pastor (my wife's background) and a Catholic priest because I needed a religious ceremony. One week later, my wife and I celebrated our civil union. We've baptized the kids in the Lutheran Church.

The kids find amusing our differences. I love our differences. They help revealing what we have in common.
 
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I like the raw, dry sound of justice for all better than the sound they got when they brought in Bob Rock to make them sound more like motley crue
Black album sounds great but I agree the Justice sound is phenomenal and fits the grim lyricism perfectly.
 

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This is how you get high rating show cancelled, vj is Valerie Jarrett, an African-American woman who was a senior adviser to Barack Obama throughout his presidency and considered one of his most influential aides.


Ms Jarrett, via spokesman Jordan Finkelstein, declined to comment.
 
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