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I don’t appreciate the popery on display here
Clearly England took a wrong turn when they deposed James II. An autocratic monarch a la Louis xiv would have put those unruly puritans and methodists and Baptists and Presbyterians in their place and kept England in the one true faith, the holy Roman Catholic Church... |
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Less to do with popery, more to do with intolerance on either side. The English had a knack at persecuting fringe religious groups and the Catholics as much as the French had toward the Protestant faith. |
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It's hard to disagree with the disagreeableness of the straight and narrow. |
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And after two decadent kings, the puritans has their revenge as James ii was valiantly deposed in the name of the Protestant faith Religious freedom, which was a founding cornerstone of the 13 colonies (outside mass) btw hardly applied in the England if you were catholic . Being catholic in England around 1700=Like being a hazara under the taliban Learn some history, English |
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I've been noticing it more over the past week or so working from home, but it's gotten to the point that my cats now feel very strongly that nothing in this house can be accomplished without feline assistance and close feline supervision. By this point I would like to laugh in the face of anyone who would describe a cat as aloof or independent.
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Axe the Irish Catholics how they feel about Cromwell. It might add a little twist to your take on history. |
On another note, I've been dreaming of getting a tattoo, some scarification, a couple of rings sticking from my nose, and why not, a few implants, maybe horns on my forehead to complete the picture.
I wonder if there are any emergency tattoo parlors open, at least one deemed essential by the powers that be, in my community. I just can't stand the thought of not having at least one tattoo!!! What is going to happen to all those parlors when this crisis is over? Will it mean a decline or a resurgence of this trend? |
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As for the house cat, yeah--she does seem to have gotten more clingy, following me around whining which is unusual for her. |
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Emancipation laws (for Catholics and Jews) under Napoleon happened in 1802, while in the United Kingdom, (for Catholics and Jews), they happened in 1829. |
I see many discussions on cats preventing people from working. If you have young children, they go through the house finding things and insist on showing them to you, as if they found an amazing treasure. They always seem to find the worst time to do this. Like when you're talking with someone though video chat. Even on these forums, sometimes it can take a while for me to post, due to this. I only have one. I can't imagine what it's like with two or three. They also like to make repetitive noises and turn-on things and walk out of the room, including water. And if you think something is out-of-reach, they will surprise you.
There is nothing like spending Easter waiting for severe thunderstorms to arrive. It's foggy and somewhat cool outside. My wife Lauren so desperately wants to leave the house. She speaks of her favorite closed restaurants and places she wants to go almost every day. There is nothing to do and no where to go. I guess I've just accepted it. We haven't been to the city (Atlanta) in a long time and I do miss not going into the city. At least we didn't have to go out for most of pollen season. In the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta, I would roughly estimate only 35% of store customers wear a mask. I've seen one food delivery driver without a mask. Most store employees wear them now. The cleanest store is Publix. My wife was nearly run-over with a shopping cart while picking-up a pack of toilet paper. If you find it, be aware people are prepared to nearly fight over it. She was inspecting her favorite shoes after the incident. So many people aren't social distancing. I haven't been to the stores since they started one-way shopping. In the mountains of Northern Georgia, the locals are trying to close tourist attractions and make it clear they don't want people from hot spots visiting their counties. They asked the Governor to close state parks. Some have talked about how difficult it is to get food and supplies up there and don't want outsiders buying out their stores, too. It's an interesting time and I'm sure we will one day have great stories to tell. |
Psst, this whole debate about churches is merely pointless.
Jesus never really trusted any 'religious' or political establishment. He only trusted in endless space and infinity. That's why they wanted him dead. They all were so jealous about him. Then they all died from envy and jealousy at him, while He never died. The Lord understood everything about life way sooner than anyone of us ever did. It will yet take thousands of years for us to figure it out. Notice that contemporary Jews or Romans have nothing much to do with it. They only bear it as a motherfucking burden. Mankind is full of sin anyway. The fact that you'd be Jewish, Muslim, supposedly Christian, Chinese, Black, White or whatever is simply meaningless. I don't give a fuck what you say. Only the Lord is true dope. |
From ABC7 Los Angeles:
CA commissioner orders insurers to refund premiums to drivers amid coronavirus pandemic California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara ordered insurance companies to return premiums paid for at least March and April. It will extend through May if stay-at-home restrictions continue. Updated 2 hours ago Relief is coming for auto insurance customers in California as people are driving far less during the coronavirus emergency. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is ordering all insurance companies to return premiums effective Monday. The order covers premiums paid for at least March and April. It will extend through May if shelter-in-place restrictions continue. Insurance companies will have no later than August to comply. Some insurers like Allstate, State Farm and American Family have already voluntarily offered to return premiums to their customers. Additionally, Allstate said it is also offering anyone in the United States, whether or not they are an Allstate customer, free identity protection for the rest of the year "since our lives have become more digital." Locally, the notoriously heavy traffic in Los Angeles has been nearly non-existent since the "safer-at-home" order went into effect. ABC7 spoke with California Highway Patrol Officer Robert Gomez via Skype about the fortuitous development. "The good news is there's less traffic, but what that comes more speeders, erratic drivers," Gomez said. The amount of calls to the CHP have dropped compared to the number of fender-benders that occurred during normal gridlock before the coronavirus outbreak. But now the agency is receiving calls and witnessing more rollover incidents, single-car collisions and more ambulances responding due to the higher volume of speeders on the empty roads, which in turn results in more dangerous results. Link: https://abc7.com/automotive/ca-order...rLLM6tXqX4b1fA |
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And in Los Angeles, for decades now, in the Fairfax District at least, the crosswalk signals are tripped by sensors that knows someone is standing at the intersection, so that Orthodox Jews don't have to press the beg button during Shabbat. |
The way things are in my little town near Tucson:
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