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Peterloo in Rock - What’s on in Glossop Experience the powerful fusion of progressive folk rock with classic rock, indie and blues as The Reformers of Peterloo showcase Peterloo in Rock.  The show begins in the immediate aftermath […]

@peterloomemorial.bsky.social This will be a cracker.

Glossop, Sat 7th March.

All other gigs have sold out, standing ovations etc...

We suggest a stroll in the hills, then a gig?! Easy by train.

Gig visuals by author of PETERLOO graphic novel.

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Peterloo in Rock - What’s on in Glossop Experience the powerful fusion of progressive folk rock with classic rock, indie and blues as The Reformers of Peterloo showcase Peterloo in Rock.  The show begins in the immediate aftermath […]

This will be a cracker.

Glossop 7th March.

All other gigs have sold out, standing ovations etc...

whatsoninglossop.com/event/peterl...

Deepak Chopra wrote to Epstein: “Come to Israel with us. Relax & have fun with interesting people. If you want use a fake name. Bring your girls. It will be fun to have you.”

Chopra offers Epstein a chance to travel incognito & bring young female companions. “God is construct. Cute girls are real”

You understand I'm an atheist, yes?

Religion = superstition.

But superstitious mythologies can still contain uplifting ethical passages.

EG the xian creation smyth is a fascinating lyrical description of animals becoming self aware.

I greatly admire the Thomas More of A Man for All Seasons whilst knowing the real person was a shit.

I simply suspect that beneath the cult distortions of Xianity, there may well have been a person or group who created the more positive ideas of... 'Jesus'.

Ultimately, it's all lost to time.

Yes, I know.

These are purely my emotional and philosophical reactions to a religious text I treat with skeptical caution.

If the positive apects were imposed, what difference does that make when it's all borderline fiction, not history or reportage?

CN's pull out stuff from OT and NT, but ignore the 'hippy Jesus' aspects.

As with all religious gibberish, eg the Quran, there's room for a range of kind to vile interpretations, IF you take religious nonsense seriously.

I don't. But parts of all fictional mythologies are cool...

The issue is it's impossible to be able to seperate out the positive aspects of that character from the sinister ones that have been imposed on him by the cult that grew up around him.

Hippy Jesus = cheefully filtering out what feels crap.

I take none of it as literal history or reportage...

OK that's a bit more clear, thanks. But majority of xians all agree the OT is part of their religion.

Meantime I'm not talking about any superstition about a god- just a bare bones positive humanitarian social ethos linked to the central character still discernable in those 4 problematic books.

Some suicides are just suicides. Not everything needs to be folded into a tedious conspiracy narrative.

By 'hippy Jesus' I mean the very basic pronunciations and cultural observations of the personality (one that might well be fictional) outlined in the four main MMLJ gospels, not the deranged authoritarian cult ramblings in the rest of the NT.

Your antisemitism claim is just bizzare...

Much as I loathe religion, MAGA xianity has fuck all to do with the teachings of 'hippy Jesus'.

It's mainly based on the vile, authoritarian Old Testament psychopathic skykingdaddy character, and the old right wing religion surrounding 'him'.

Toon c/o polyp.org.uk

On a more serious note, it is quite likely that he'll end his own life.

Longer / Bigger Cartoons - polyp.org.uk Whoppers worth zooming in on (double click in slideshow) and some multi page strips… Before using any of these cartoons, please check my copyright rules. The Crap Crusaders! A deluded duo meet their m...

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Longer / Bigger Cartoons - polyp.org.uk Whoppers worth zooming in on (double click in slideshow) and some multi page strips… Before using any of these cartoons, please check my copyright rules. The Crap Crusaders! A deluded duo meet their m...

But it isn't.

Before science and reason, 'religious' superstition was the default mode for some poor primates who found themselves in the bizzare situation of being fully self aware.

See Lab Rats cartoon bottom of this page polyp.org.uk/cartoons/lon...

Can't really see this appealing to any voters other than conspiracy obsessed MAGA fruitcakes...

A commemorative plate with Andrew after his arrest on it.

The very latest in Royal China. #Andrew

This is the most gratifying and iconic photograph I have seen in a long time.

Really hoping there'll be a similar one of Trump one day.

A neglected enlightenment and democratic hero!

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Excellent to see NH resisting the tedious ideological vilification of Pinker.

You win the internet today!

All religious (and political*) indoctrination of children is brainwashing.

Teach kids critical thinking: it's vital in an era of online toxic polarization and disinformation.

*EG using kids as political props at demos, holding statement banners for issues they can't comprehend at that age.

But not "Blessed are the meek" nor “Woe to you who are rich." nor "Blessed are the merciful" nor...

Toon c/o polyp.org.uk

Science is not the truth. It is a way to find the truth. The Candid Atheist

Science isn't about absolute answers; it is about asking the right questions and exploring the wonders of the Universe together.

More at suchanek.name/texts/atheis...

#science #philosophy

It's more like $16 million it made. (A big %age being MAGA loyalty viewers.)

Still a disaster, given the total costs, but it wasn't ever for profit.

It's an ego bribe.

One that has failed, given the humiliating reaction.

She must be feeling crushed. No eyes shut tight reward fuck for Don!

He was saying some kind of extraterrestrial life is very likely in our giant galaxy (though that could include just VERY primitive single cell things) but he has zero evidence intelligent aliens have visited the Earth.

He's right- they haven't and can't, coz extraterrestrial travel is impossible.

Anchor Light Publications (@anchorlightpublications) Trump shared this as a photo. Someone turned it into a video. Much improved!

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From my Tom Paine visual biography. polyp.org.uk/books/paine-...

c/o polyp.org.uk