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🧙‍♂️These three things, monks, are conducted in secret, not openly. What three? Affairs with women, the mantras of the brahmins, and wrong view.
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I don't support harassing spouses but I do support encouraging them to reflect on whether their relationship is consistent with their values.
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I had the same thought but decided I've been sharing too many parallels with a Star Wars show. It's uncanny though!
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sounds like "a half a dozen violent[?] criminals, that you're rotating[?] on your…"
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One problem (among many) of the sequel trilogy is that they never really recognize, much less resolve, this tension.
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'Balance to the Force' means the Jedi Order has to be effectively wiped out. The influence of the Jedi must be constrained to avert galactic disaster, similarly as with the Sith, who operate under the Rule of Two. Dominance by either side of the Force leads to galactic instability.
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Why does Anakin become a baddie? Because the Jedi code demands celibacy, and so leaves him ill-prepared to handle his romantic emotions, leaving him vulnerable to Palpatine's manipulation.
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It's pretty much unavoidable given the setup of the original trilogy and the prequels. The Force creates a virgin birth of the Chosen One who will "bring balance to the Force", but surprise! he's actually a baddie.
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I'm interested in both rundowns, though I'm skeptical that Alon blocked you over this topic in particular.
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seems just as likely the crowd control tactical knowledge went the other direction
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In Seattle, for RapidRide bus routes, you can tap your card at an outside reader and avoid needing to tap as you board (and they do all doors boarding).
The Light Link Rail and Sounder commuter rail works similarly (afaik there is no on-board reader on the light rail, dunno about Sounder).
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gonna take this tangent to suggest that the running theme (intentional or not, I'm not sure) of the Star Wars trilogies is that it's that Manichean dualism that keeps tearing everything apart, both the Jedi and the Sith are culprits, and "the Force" keeps trying to right their imbalances.
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To be fair it seems his farm had been through some things, and the story has a somewhat happy resolution (from www.manchesterjournal.com/news/local/a...):
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This explains some of the reasons Jews made convenient scapegoats, but it was true in Luther's younger years when he was critical of the mistreatment of Jews. Did his material conditions change in a way that explains the shift?
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that's good camo, I can't see a single one of them
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but why is there a reserved seat for a male and another seat available for someone of any gender? are they worried if they don't reserve a vice chair seat for a male they'll get two non-male vice chairs? because that's quite a concern given they previously and recently elected two males.
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an improvement over what?
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Israeli military announces Hamas fighters found in every shadow.
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what about triple dog genocide theory
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If the clip is of an ICE guy getting stomped by multiple protestors, it cajoles the groyper will to fight and rage. If clip is an ICE guy getting outwitted or scurrying away, there's no rallying cry they can form around that.
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NYC residents: get your vote in for Mamdani and anyone else not named Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams before the police arrest you for protesting
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if you're not Anglo you get a new surname based on the town you're from or your father's given name
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I'd like to think so too… but why is it so hard to get something closer to that? Any proposal that would cover the second group of immigrants you mention is shot down as "amnesty".
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yikes… thanks for the info