Comments on: My Picks for Top Tweets: 25 August 2017

By: nicky

nicky — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 07:31:52 +0000

Re Kay's tweet. It is not that I want to defend Christians here, but the NT scriptures are relatively 'peaceful' , the Kingdom is not really of this world. The Islamic Trilogy is very predominantly not peaceful (eg. they devote a greater percentage of text to Jew-hatred than Mein Kampf), and very much of this world. That being said, it could be argued that Christianity has not so much to do with the NT scriptures, but more with the 4th Century X-ian religion, when Christianity became the Roman State religion, and very much not peaceful. In the latter view, the top photo is not that unrepresentative :)

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:43:32 +0000

In reply to Frank Troy. On the bottom of the e-mails you get notifying you of a post is an option to unsubscribe.

By: Frank Troy

Frank Troy — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:24:10 +0000

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By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:21:16 +0000

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By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:05:06 +0000

In reply to Mark R.. Ha ha! Sounds like a guy with a wicked sense of humour. :-D

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:01:26 +0000

In reply to Lee Knuth. Cheers Lee. H

By: Mark R.

Mark R. — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:15:03 +0000

That ring juggler illusionist was something else.

Re. the HUD tweet. I will say that I’m glad my region (Washington state) doesn’t have one of Trump’s/Carson’s cronies; I’m fine with the vacancy. Now if there was someone competent in the position I’d welcome it. Unfortunately, the word “competency” doesn’t exist in this administration’s vocabulary.

The dog with the sign reminded me of a funny story years ago. I was in Seattle’s university district when this hippy who looked like the typical westernized Jesus was passing out leaflets or tracts. As an atheist I just said, “no thanks, not interested”. But he had a glint in his eye and nudged the leaflet closer, saying: “I think you’ll like it”. So I begrudgingly took it and started walking away. The cover of the leaflet had a haloed Jesus with opened arms, the caption read: “Jesus wants you”. I opened up the leaflet and inside were the words: “To Fuck Off”. I LOL’d and looked back at the Jesus impersonator. He was smiling, looking right at me, I gave him the thumbs up and continued on my way.

By: Lee Knuth

Lee Knuth — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 13:50:18 +0000

New Zealand really has spectacular scenery.. Through your tweets I have found new ones to follow. Thanks.