#Secular

A THREAD detailing the daily routine of Hindu emperors of the past during peace time. Once we are done through with the thread, one will realize what a contrast the
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Would appreciate feedback on my "best" idea at this moment. Beware, it’s ugly. $HNRG produces thermal coal, an industry in obvious secular decline. Crux is: $HNRG is small enough to
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Yesterday a guy broke the internet by asking when a man is in his rights to call in the elders if his wife is denying him sex.My replies dotted the
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1. I believe history is cyclical, not linear. This is an ancient view, one informed by observing seasonal changes and rotating constellations.The ancients cherished an existential treatise by Hesiod that
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Shadi, a number of these examples are misleading, which weakens @AkyolinEnglish’s argument, and yours. For instance:https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1336793510243164161 Headscarves are not banned from public buildings. Civil servants
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Review of #ASuitableBoy by @MiraPagliNair in 10 clipsClip 1:Construction of a Shiva temple is equated with erection of penis of the king building itOriginal book has no such scene or
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These highly emotional and tense times require us to go to Gurmat Meditation techniques that lead to most of the famous feats of our glorious past.We already know the amazing
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1/ @threadapalooza of Sociotechnical Diagrams.These images answer the question: how does tech change society? And how does society change tech? 2/ We can start with the original tech society
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Scenario Z: Covid is never brought under control, mutates too much every season to be managed like the flu, and goes endemic with higher base fatality rate and is too
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Eric Clapton's Racist 1976 Rant Resurfaces After Announcing Lockdown Protest Song with Van Morrison - PEOPLEhttps://people.com/music/eric-clapton-racist-rant-resurfaces-after-lockdown-protest-song-van-morrison/ It was at a Birmingham gi
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#HappyHanukkah everyone!It is nice to talk to you all again, my friends. Today, let's take a short look at the history of the Jewish Diaspora, and various pre-Holocaust purges
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The entire story of how David offered up the children and grandchildren of Saul, to end a famine. It has all the steps. David "inquired", which means some form of
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some books from this year: gods of pegana, lord dunsany. between this & the book of wonders, I preferred this. a primitive religious mythology described in a typical pantheon. sorrows
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Guardian Angel Cathedral in Las Vegas has a great distinction of being my favorite Modernist cathedral of all time, created by the architect who helped define the cosmopolitan, international but
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2020 recap for me 1) had my biggest week ever in January with swing trading. 2) had my worst week ever with swing trading in January. Bought on the Friday
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Some identities are better than others or how historians contribute to their making or their demise (a thread that I did not have the time to write the other day
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