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The discussion has been wide-ranging. The thread has the general expansive title of freedom of speech, even if you've kept bringing it back to your one point. But has anyone told you you're arrogant or self-righteous for spending your money as you like? Of course that's up to you. And beyond...

Thank you! :flowers: Juicy read, written by Mathias Losel (b.1974 Germany), producer and writer, known for FunnyMovie (2008), Kommissar Dupin (2014) and SOS: The Bunnyguards on Board (2005). And Morrissey aficionado.

🎯 "and if you ever need self-validation" ; ) - https://www.rte.ie/culture/2021/0719/885611-are-whipping-boy-the/ Margaret on the Guillotine &

According to this Buddhist article on Right Speech, someone who practices it, "is the rare person who can always be counted on to be truthful and honest; who never speaks in such a way as to cause discord and is both good at and enjoys making friendships; someone whom people routinely seek out...

An individual, or individuals, may boycott. They may continue alone or in concert. Either configuration counts as a boycott. You are at times speaking for others here yourself and making plenty of implications of your own, about those who don’t agree with you being, for example, conspiracy...

Cats Cats sleep, anywhere, Any table, any chair Top of piano, window-ledge, In the middle, on the edge, Open drawer, empty shoe, Anybody's lap will do, Fitted in a cardboard box, In the cupboard, with your frocks- Anywhere! They don't care! Cats sleep anywhere. - Eleanor Farjeon

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And what does the first paragraph say please? :flowers:

The comment could have been formulated more carefully. Was that one of the interviews where he contested quotations after? I get confused. Choosing no longer to be a consumer of something is indeed a not insignificant freedom. Do you know that the word boycott entered the English language after...

A very absorbing and thoughtful review, Bookishboy, for anyone with a half-hour to invest. Thank you. The question of permission to depict freely runs through it and gets discussed from different angles at several points, such as here: "The ability of art to do this moral work, the work I...

He wouldn't deny he's playing it for comedy and entertainment as well. In his own original way, he's unearthed quite a few nuts and bolts.

The Soul selects her own Society (303) by Emily Dickinson - 1830-1886 The Soul selects her own Society — Then — shuts the Door — To her divine Majority — Present no more — Unmoved — she notes the Chariots — pausing — At her low Gate — Unmoved — an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat — I've...

The Girl from Tel Aviv Who Wouldn't Kneel &

Anonymous keeps blaming gashonthenail for bringing up transgender conflicts while repeatedly redirecting the discussion back to paedophilia Which I suppose both can do, thanks to freedom of speech here, but it might be an example of the basic ideas in contention being understood in...

by T.S. Elliot :thumb: Brings us down to size. What about believers who don't have and never had a church, whose religious teachings are transmitted in other ways? And even in Christian denominations, beliefs differ? Quakers, who've had a disproportionate influence on society, just need to sit...

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This is JK Rowling's 2020 post, for anyone who's not aware - https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/ American sociologist Evan Stark wrote a book called Coercive Control and was in Ireland explaining it a couple of years...

This has become a big deal. I didn't realise Nicola Sturgeon stepped down partly because of the dilemmas that arise as described by JK Rowling. A few similar situations simmering in Ireland have also pushed politicians into taking positions. The Taoiseach, PM Leo Varadker, who is openly gay, is...

I love Sufi stuff. That's a sax solo wild enough for whirling dervishes! 2 by Miroslav Holub, a 20th century Czech immunologist poet. They still resonate, and contain enough misery, if a little short on eternal light. The fly She sat on a willow-trunk watching part of the battle of Crecy...