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I wonder how Christianity will evolve over the next few hundred years while still claiming to be the same religion? A few centuries ago you could buy a pardon for your sins. You could even buy a pre-emptive pardon before you'd sinned. You were encouraged to do everything within your power to...

The people who are radicalised into any irrational mindset are more often than not vulnerable. Those doing the radicalising know how to appeal to that vulnerability. Unfortunately teenage boys everywhere have forever experienced things that make them vulnerable to this exploitation from...

The quiet and slow pace of the countryside on a comfortably warm day. A few years ago I ended up at a farm in Kent helping a mate who was doing some research. There are times I crave that moment I had of getting out of the car into a farmyard surrounded by fields and being hit by a quiet and...

There's literally nothing and no amount of money that would make me go in that having seen that CBS clip. I wouldn't even go 2 metres down in it.

I haven't read that book but there are similarities between ancient Egyptian religious beliefs and practices and Christianity that mean I wouldn't be surprised if elements were borrowed and became part of Christian legend. Also quite inconveniently if someone was to try and choose which son of...

Returning to this thread after a gap is...well...erm...fascinating. I can't decide if what we're witnessing here is epically successful trolling or someone utterly blind to the immense levels of confirmation bias they are demonstrating. Anyway @The Clamp - I couldn't re-find your post about...

There's a reddit called ukrainewarvideoreport which is full of footage from the frontline as well as some analysis. The footage is staggering, how they are using standard commercial drones to drop grenades for example, or "kamikaze drones", and much of the fighting wouldn't look out of place in...

Mini-Exile found it hilarious first time she realised what it was when she was 6 or 7 and couldn't believe a few thousand adults were doing something so childish and using a rude word as well. Even now she's older if it's particularly loud, especially if there's the pirate aaahhs too after and...

I don't know...the inbuilt ball levitation device might be useful

That's a great article, and I lurked for years before joining because even when I was a non-poster the value from the discussions here was tangible. In a way this forum makes my relationship with the club stronger too, I think because it keeps me connected to it all week and through the...

The time and attention and care to learn that and then make it is fantastic and I'm not surprised you're proud. Well done to your son, and hope he enjoyed the process and the focus away from his struggles benefitted him.

That El Salvador top gives me nostalgia for the World Cups of my childhood and looking at a map to find where these countries I'd never heard of were. Japan also beat El Salvador 6-0 in a friendly yesterday that sounds amazing: a goal in the 1st minute and El Salvador having a player sent off...

Cycling seems to me like a sport that should go the way of bodybuilding and just openly acknowledge the need for two categories of competition: one for those who don't use performance enhancing drugs, one for those who do.

Palace currently have more players with a double-barrelled surname than us, so on that basis, I'm in.

Sherberto di Zerbeer (I'll get my coat)

For some reason this makes me think of this tweet that (again, for some reason) sticks in my mind

Zaha's Tears

Reading this thread again there's some fascinating stories. I volunteered for a bit at Brooklands before it was opened properly as a museum and got to spend a fair bit of time with Norman "Spud" Boorer who was assistant to Barnes Wallis in the war and is mentioned in various books for his role...

Totally agree.

The Top Flight Time Machine look at Keegan ("The Keegan Odyssey") over 42 parts is incredible as an insight into his life (and full of very puerile, juvenile humour). There's even an 8 part Keegan Hamburg Odyssey they do...