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Re: You Can Run

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Post by jibal »

Kaliboy wrote: post #26
password4321 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't quote that without also quoting: Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. -- Exodus 34:7

This is literally true now that we understand epigenetics a bit more.

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Re: You Can Run

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Post by natpalmer1776 »

simulator5g wrote: post #29
JRandomHacker42 wrote: post #24

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I've seen this attitude on HN all the time - the concept of "a narrative hook" is apparently a foreign concept here

Clickbaiters abused the concept of a hook until the hook itself was seen as clickbaity.

Damn near a whole generation estranged from basic literary convention due to its horrendous abuse.

Re: You Can Run

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Post by jibal »

nkrisc wrote: post #18
incr_me wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not?

Probably to show you can pick any choose any bible verse to make whatever point you want. There’s a verse for A and NOT A.

But they weren't touting the bible or offering it as an authority, just saying that one particular statement was "aspirational" but has practical problems ("To isolate children from the iniquity of the parent would require the dissolution of the family").

Re: You Can Run

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Post by jibal »

Kaliboy wrote: post #27
nkrisc wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably to show you can pick any choose any bible verse to make whatever point you want. There’s a verse for A and NOT A.

That's weird. I don't have this with the Bible. But maybe I haven't read those passages. Do you have some examples?

How is it possible to not be familiar with this common criticism? e.g., Leviticus prohibits wearing clothes woven of two different types of fabric and calls for killing adulterers, anyone who curses their parents, etc. etc. which millions of cherry pickers ignore while constantly referring to the bit about laying with a man as with a woman.

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

trelane wrote: post #25
Etheryte wrote: post #4

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They more or less did that during the bombing of London, children were evacuated to foster families in the countryside en masse. Luckily they came to terms with the fact that this was an insanely traumatic experience pretty quickly and reverted. It's literally less traumatic for a child to be in an active war zone than to be separated from their parents.

> It's literally less traumatic for a child to be in an active war zone than to be separated from their parents. Unless they happen to go to war themselves, vanquishing an evil queen with the help of a lion and becoming kings and queens, and reigning for a long while themselves. Those kids seem to mostly turn out alright. Small sample size though.

I'm not so sure you're interpreting the data correctly: 1 in 4 such children become "silly, conceited" adults, forgetting all the lessons they learned on their adventure; and 3 in 4 develop vivid visions that result in them getting killed by a train.

Re: You Can Run

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Post by dyauspitr »

> John was strict and controlling. He wanted his daughters to dress in identical clothing embroidered with their initials, and told them to wear their hair long, that it looked more ladylike than a popular bob cut. He wrote down chores for everyone in the family on sheets of yellow legal paper. Erin and Meredith got lists of books to read and words to memorize. The house had about a dozen phones, and John instructed Erin to answer formally: “McCann residence, Erin speaking. How may I help you?” John told his daughters that there was only one right way to install a new roll of toilet paper—feeding forward from the top, not hanging down in back—and insisted that they get straight A’s while lying about his academic achievements.

So completely normal things painted as some insidious nonsense.

Re: You Can Run

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Post by dyauspitr »

Ah to live in the 70s and 80s where nothing was verifiable. I probably would still have been a model employee but the possibilities were endless.

Re: You Can Run

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Post by bflesch »

Is this a story from the Epstein universe? Because the town of York during that time had some interesting characters like Donald and Kashoggi. Also "Lago Mar" in Florida sounds familiar.

Edit: At the end the main protagonist even mentions having Iran Contra evidence and speaks to the commission, but two senators present evidence that devalues his testimony. Interesting.

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