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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat
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Quote from: madbluboy – on
No one can comment on anything here then, shut the forum down.

What are you talking about?
Everyone can raise points of discussion
Everyone else has the right to challenge those.
That's what discussion forums are all about.
Give an example of where people have been told they shouldn't comment.

If someone wants to use a set of figures, or a table, or a team sheet to make a point then they should be prepared for the point they are making to be challenged.
If someone find the challenges not to their liking pick another thread.
The code of conduct spells out actions and issues that may not be appropriate.


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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
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Dunno whether to laugh or cry, AFP boss says the Bondi shootings were "not religious". Um, 15 people were murdered because they were Jewish. If that's not religiously motivated I don't know WTF is. She needs to be relieved of her duties immediately.

Islamic extremist deniers are worse than climate change deniers.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: northernblue – on
dunno about that catch, comfortable for the benefit to go to the batsman

I think that the use of technology to aid the umpires has largely removed the benefit of doubt favouring the batsman.  If there is the slightest doubt, and DRS is far from perfect, the decision should be 'not out'.

I'm not sure what the fuss was about the Jamie Smith not out.  Regardless of whether the ball brushed his gloves or helmet, Khawaja clearly took the ball on the half-volley and he signalled that he was unsure if it was a catch.  
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Dunno whether to laugh or cry, AFP boss says the Bondi shootings were "not religious". Um, 15 people were murdered because they were Jewish. If that's not religiously motivated I don't know WTF is. She needs to be relieved of her duties immediately.

Paul recently posted:

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Robert Pape has done significant work in the related and adjacent space of suicide attacks and terrorism. His book Dying To Win contains original research and is now a landmark study in the field. It may surprise some that most people who carry out such attacks are not motivated by religion. As Pape shows, their scriptural literacy and interest in religion is low. Many of the attackers are secular. What motivates them more than anything is foreign powers doing s h i t t y things to their people and on their land, removing any possibility of self determination and removing any chance of building a life of some meaning and purpose.

Material conditions always take precedence over theological principles and considerations.

Many other researchers have drawn the same conclusions as Pape, almost all terrorists, and particularly lone wolf terrorists, are motivated by the real and/or perceived repression of those they identify with.  The slaughter of 70,000 Palestinians since October 2023 is the likely motivation with the victims representing Netanyahu's IDF.  Krissy Barrett is correct, the Bondi terrorist attack wasn't religious even if the intended and actual victims were Jewish.