1. So why do some people keep complaining about what they were made to do when they studied at Christian schools. By its very nature, it will make you sing hymns, ask you to take the Lord's name every morning and attend church on occasions, ask you to not wear bindis or keep your

2. hair loose. They frown upon religious customs not theirs. So grin and bear it. Or send your kids to other schools. No one asked me where I wanted to study but since I was there I took it in my stride probably because even then I wasn't interested in any religion, even mine.
3. Yes, we were taken to church and those of us who were not there for the purpose intended spent our time at the back playing knots and crosses or whispering dirty jokes. And no, the Good Lord did not smite us. Anyway who cared? They were bigger things to worry about. Read on...
4. I studied in a Jesuit-run boys' school. I don't think they had problems with Hindu festivals. I remember teachers and students came to school sporting rakhis on the occasion. One thing I did learn there was to say 'F**K OFF', because everyone used it from Principal to peon!
5. The first time I heard the word 'bastard' was when a teacher on a cycle, came up behind us laggards as we were walking during a long distance run and said "come on you bastards, run!" I asked a senior "Why is he calling us bustards?" I got a pitying look and then "look up the
6. "f*****g Oxford dictionary." I did. I think we must have been the only school that gave away beer bottles as prizes at school fetes. I'm sure no Hindi or Marathi medium school ever did that. We studied Shakespearean English which was then explained in colloquial English.
7. I never understood why we did Shakespeare. But it was because of Twelfth Night that I learnt that there were other meanings to the word 'pregnant'. And 'missionary position' didn't mean getting on our knees to pray. We felt so superior when asked what our English textbook was
8. and said 'Lord of The Flies' or 'Room with a View' or 'Far From the Madding Crowd' and erroneously presumed our peers from 'govt-run English medium' schools looked at us with awe! Even today I wonder, apart from the first one, which idiot chose the other two as textbooks.
9. I still tease a friend who studied at one such 'Govt-run English Medium' school. She is today the hotshot head honcho of an MNC while I'm spending my time on Twitter writing rubbish like this. I mean, when you are taught English by a propah Englishman who came to India to
10. teach the Queen's English to natives, one did tend to look down one's nose. While Christian schools did make you bit of a snob, things were never so blatantly religious as they are today. Who's to blame for that turn of events? But they were better managed than most others.
11. That doesn't mean non-missionary schools were bad, or badly run. When students of another Jesuit-run school came visiting, there we were in our starched shirts and trousers, tie and coat looking down on the ruffians from downtown, without ties, shirt tails out, laces undone
12. who were probably pulled out of a football match. That's why i hate wearing ties today. There was a girls school next door who we also looked down upon or up at, depending on whether the girls were standing or sitting. Uhh! So, maybe things have changed from my school days.
13. I realised early in life that places of worship or prayers left me unmoved. So, instead of desecrating them, I stopped entering them unless forced. Ok, so I sang hymns in the school assembly because it was a compulsion. It wasn't a conversion. I can't remember a single line
14. of any of the hymns today. I mean, if I my family were against my attending a missionary school, they would have put me in the school in the neighbourhood. The word 'hardcore' as it is being associated today for religionists wasn't there then. It had only one connotation for
15. schoolboys and it had nothing to do with religion! Today, so many years later, I wonder whether some people make too much of such schools. Seriously, I could have become a junkie, an alcoholic, a priest or a wastrel. But by fluke, I ended up becoming a journalist. Don't know
16. which is worse. Oh, my son studied at one of those govt-aided schools, became headboy, is now studying in Europe, and doing brilliantly. Sorry for boring you with sarcasm. But you had the choice of not reading it. And finally, I was inspired to begin this in the loo. Cough.

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Tomorrow, January 6th, MAGA chuds, Proud Boys, and white supremacists are planned to descend on Washington D.C. to contest the election. Among them will be NSC-131, a New England based neo-Nazi organization. Let's welcome them by saying hi to one of their members, Eddie Stuart!


Edward Stuart, from Chester, New Hampshire, has been a member of Nationalist Social Club (NSC) since the very beginning and is a staple participant in their actions. He is known in NSC chats as "Carl Jung" and is well connected in the New England Nazi scene.
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NSC-131 is a neo-Nazi group that was started in Massachusetts in early 2020 by Chris Hood. You can learn more about NSC and it's members in these threads:


Eddie describes his ideology as "Esoteric Hitlerism" which is an occult form of Nazism that literally worships Adolf Hitler as a god, or, specifically, as an incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu. Here is Ed holding the RigVeda with some of his occult Nazi pals. Interesting Ed!
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Much of this ideological insight was gained from Eddie's Twitter, where he originally used his "Carl Jung" persona and reposts explicit neo-fascist content and racist memes. In one edited picture, Eddie can be seen at an NSC event in late June 2020 holding a Nazi Sonnenrad flag
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So, as the #MegaMillions jackpot reaches a record $1.6B and #Powerball reaches $620M, here's my advice about how to spend the money in a way that will truly set you, your children and their kids up for life.

Ready?

Create a private foundation and give it all away. 1/

Let's stipulate first that lottery winners often have a hard time. Being publicly identified makes you a target for "friends" and "family" who want your money, as well as for non-family grifters and con men. 2/

The stress can be damaging, even deadly, and Uncle Sam takes his huge cut. Plus, having a big pool of disposable income can be irresistible to people not accustomed to managing wealth.
https://t.co/fiHsuJyZwz 3/

Meanwhile, the private foundation is as close as we come to Downton Abbey and the landed aristocracy in this country. It's a largely untaxed pot of money that grows significantly over time, and those who control them tend to entrench their own privileges and those of their kin. 4

Here's how it works for a big lotto winner:

1. Win the prize.
2. Announce that you are donating it to the YOUR NAME HERE Family Foundation.
3. Receive massive plaudits in the press. You will be a folk hero for this decision.
4. Appoint only trusted friends/family to board. 5/
I’ll address every nonsense argument and lie used to defend the suicidal gender ideology Thats in vogue today:

3:45 - “So what if you don’t have gametes?”

It’s called a birth defect. You’re still male or female.


~5:00 *nonsense trying to say the sexes of seahorses could be swapped coz male carry the eggs*

male doesn’t produce eggs, he produces the sperm. He’s still the male. If I impregnated a chick then carried the amniotic sac in a backpack ‘til the baby was done I’ll still be male🤦‍♂️

5:10 - we could say there’s 4 sexes of fruit fly cause there’s 3 producers of different sized sperm

No. They’re still producing sperm. They’re males. This is idiotic. Is this whole video like this? (Probably. 99% likely. Abandon hope.)

~6:10 - hermaphroditism and sequential hermaphroditism exists therefore....

No. Some animals being hermaphrodites, which is meaningless w/o the existence of binary sex to contrast it to, still doesn’t make gender ideology or transgenderism valid.

Intersex ≠ transgenderism 🙄

6:20 - bilateral gynandromorphism is a disorder in some species (not in humans). Has nothing to do w/ “gender” or transgenderism.

Ova-testes in humans are also a disorder, usually found in those w/ the karyotype disorders that you ppl also try to appropriate (extra X’s/Y’s).
Patriotism is an interesting concept in that it’s excepted to mean something positive to all of us and certainly seen as a morally marketable trait that can fit into any definition you want for it.+


Tolstoy, found it both stupid and immoral. It is stupid because every patriot holds his own country to be the best, which obviously negates all other countries.+

It is immoral because it enjoins us to promote our country’s interests at the expense of all other countries, employing any means, including war. It is thus at odds with the most basic rule of morality, which tells us not to do to others what we would not want them to do to us+

My sincere belief is that patriotism of a personal nature, which does not impede on personal and physical liberties of any other, is not only welcome but perhaps somewhat needed.

But isn’t adherence to a more humane code of life much better than nationalistic patriotism?+

Göring said, “people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”+

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