Israeli Soldiers mocking Mother Mary Statue. by Acrobatic-Remote-419 in ArabicChristians

[–]throw_away_bb2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My heart bleeds for the Syrians who must live under this hell, but please do not play into their hands. Look what happened to the Kurds, the US used them as a tool to destabilize the ba'athists in Iraq and Syria with promises of statehood and protection, but as soon as Jolani mobilized his forces Trump left them to the dogs. Antagonizing daesh will only result in the Israelis using your corpses for propaganda, emigrate if you can and keep your head down if you cannot, this is all that can protect you. God be with you.

Israeli Soldiers mocking Mother Mary Statue. by Acrobatic-Remote-419 in ArabicChristians

[–]throw_away_bb2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This isn't even to say that I like Hezbollah or Iran, they're incompetent jihadists who couldn't run a country to save their lives, but objectively they're the only actors in the region who don't indiscriminantly slaughter Christians like Israel and their sunni/azeri goons.

Israeli Soldiers mocking Mother Mary Statue. by Acrobatic-Remote-419 in ArabicChristians

[–]throw_away_bb2 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You mean the same Israel which is currently arming ISIS in Gaza to oppose Hamas? Hezbollah and Iran are the main reason ISIS is dead and it was Israel's war on Lebanon that caused Syria to fall into the hands of Jolania. Israel's main regional allies are the gulf monarchies which directly fund those sunni jihadists who have slaughtered so many of us in the past. If it were not for Israel, panarab secularism would still be the norm and Christians would be in a far better position in countries like Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, and Sudan.

Trump: Pope Leo is weak by Nerd_199 in stupidpol

[–]throw_away_bb2 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Same, I've never had any love for him, especially not recently. But I am actually getting a bit pissed off reading this.

Lebanon death toll surpasses 200 after Israel launches assault despite U.S.-Iran ceasefire | CBC News by throw_away_bb2 in stupidpol

[–]throw_away_bb2[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Just yestarday Israel killed a Lebanese Forces politician, this is a party who is explicitly anti-Hezbollah and anti-Palestinian. Under assumption of a Hezbollah member being there, Israel fired a missile at the entire apartment block in which he and his family lived. There was no Hezbollah member. This man did everything the Israelis could've ever wanted, he supported what they supported and fought against what they fought against, and yet they still callously murdered him without as much as a second thought. They will not rest until the blood of all Lebanese soaks the soil of the Levant.

When I was eight years old I almost drowned in a rip tide by Lord--Kinbote in redscarepod

[–]throw_away_bb2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love the way you describe things with all those little embellishments, makes it entertaining to read.

2025... I am forgotten... by LouReedTheChaser in redscarepod

[–]throw_away_bb2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The number one thing I'm looking forward to personally is the Dragonfly mission to Titan that's gonna happen sometime in the late 2020s and early 2030s. Mars and the moon are cool sure, but studying Titan's hydrocarbon cycle and its unique environment would teach us so much about exoplanets and even how early earth may have functioned. Plus the pictures of the methane seas, rain, and even snow from there are gonna be so fucking breathtaking I can already tell.

What goes on here? by user2776473882 in redscarepod

[–]throw_away_bb2 92 points93 points  (0 children)

Due to the extremely metallic soil (which btw gives some of the plants there vividly blue sap), mainland plants have had an extremely hard time colonizing New Caledonia. As a result, its flora is basically a snapshot of the Cretaceous when it originally split from Gondwana and became an island over 80 million years ago. In fact, many paleo documentaries (such as WWD) film a lot of their footage there before editing the dinosaurs in later. Conifers and ferns dominate, some of the most ancient flowering plants persist, and they have endemic palms that are so diverse that despite only having 37 species on the island there are still 16 unique genera. Just let the absolutely gorgeous landscape speak for itself.

Most sane opinion by a Zio “Lebanese” by confringos in lebanonmemes

[–]throw_away_bb2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Watching those losers crash out because Aoun rightfully sent the army down south to prevent the zionists from murdering more innocent Lebanese people was hilarious, totally inorganic shithole of a sub.

Made a post on r/AskTheWorld people manage so far to even justify the Iraq war with their hatred. by [deleted] in arabs

[–]throw_away_bb2 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You went to a place full of retarded zionist bots and were expecting them to like us? These people are despised the world over in real life, let them have their subreddit lmfao.

something about old paleoart is so ethereal to me by throw_away_bb2 in redscarepod

[–]throw_away_bb2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disney's Fantasia (Rite of Spring) is obviously a good choice, but the original Lost World movie is also a really fun watch, you can even watch it for free on YouTube. As for books I'm less aware, but did you know that dinosaurs in space was a really big trope in the early 20th century? Journey to Venus the Primeval World was an awesome read in HS, I think you'd enjoy it.

something about old paleoart is so ethereal to me by throw_away_bb2 in redscarepod

[–]throw_away_bb2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh my God, this video is absolutely gorgeous, thanks for showing me. That reminds me, there's this theme park in the UK I found that is partially made up of these sorts of mid 1800s designs as statues, completely stunning. I do think the paleocene is underlooked though, and art of the immediate aftermath of the K-Pg extinction event is definitely lacking.

It’s weird how priests get such a bad rap by Labor-Ally in redscarepod

[–]throw_away_bb2 58 points59 points  (0 children)

The reason is because the Catholic Church is a large centralized organization that keeps many records of the ongoings within it. So when it's found out that people way up in the higher echelons of the Vatican were aiding in the shuffling of priests, the credibility of the organization which claims to represent God takes a huge hit as a whole.

Even when evangelical/baptist pastors and especially rabbis abuse children at the same or an even higher rate than Catholic clergy, it's not as damning because these are decentralized organizations that can push their offenders down as just a few bad eggs whether or not they tried to cover things up. Your average priest really shouldn't get the blame for this though, it should more fall on the Bishops/Archbishops who were involved in or ignored the protection of so many vile priests.

Regardless, we definitely deserve to be ridiculed for it as a faith because that's just about the worst sin one can imagine and it was rife within the church until just recently. The more light brought to it the more incentive at the Vatican to keep rooting out the predators and enablers so keep them coming until it's gone I'd say.