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People aren’t going to read beyond a punchy headline and a picture the issue is about how to communicate well without becoming evil another issue is how to use FB more effectively it’s about plain English, the desire to communicate rather than impress it’s about getting a message out over and over which is not…

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Citizens’ assemblies, a phenomenon that is gaining in popularity around the globe, date back to ancient Athens, where legislative panels, courts and councils were chosen via random selection. In a practice known as sortition, Greek citizens over the age of 30 were enlisted to debate governmental matters from city finances to military strategy. More recently,…

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This “white” stuff gets up my nose
as far as I can see “white” was a term invented not so long ago to justify exploiting people
“white” is not a skin colour
“white” is definitely not a “race”
“white” is basically a gang of robbers and membership of this gang is not something to be proud of.
I don’t and won’t belong to that gang

I’m not colourblind, I know that these old an ugly categories have immense impact on people’s lives.
The direction to go is out of it

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How I hate that word, it’s calculated and manipulative and punishing as a stinger andfor me that’s not the point, the point is how to get the point across given the restricted band width I have questions 1) is it true 2) and if so is it consensual? 3) and if so, is it legal…

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How many centuries later and people are still going on about “free will”

“free will” is one of those meaningless concepts left over from christianity

Some Christian theology says that God has determined everything that was, is and will be !

So from this assumption, how is “free will” possible ?

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