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What a weird thing to say
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this user is a mod of a huge .world news community btw
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Ignoring that people were already living there says all it needs to.
You're going to have your mind blown when you find out that Islam came out of judism. There was a time when there were many jews and literally not a single Muslim on the planet. Christianity and Islam are groups of x-jews that murdered, raped and destroyed anything in their path. They pushed jews out of the land. I know this is all impossible to you because in your made-up world, nothing existed before the 1940s. That's just what happens when you are so against learning, it puts you into wacky made uo worlds that make no sense. The thing you hate is the thing you defend, you just can't be bothered to look at things from a deformed and chopped up world view. It makes sense, complexity takes effort.
gross! crazy to write this
humans lives are actually more important than preserving random human race lore structures from millennia ago
like it’s still okay to respect and pay homage to them, but as soon as the existing generation ticks over and people have lived their entire lives and built thriving communities for one another, it’s bad actually to use that lore to excuse killing and displacing them. nasty.
You are preaching to the choir. All this madness goes away when people quit convincing their children that Israel is some magical land that a space daddy wants everyone to fight over to they get special toys after they die. You want this to end, then start spreading the fact that it is all BS and magic land isn't actually a thing.
if i’m preaching to the choir then the choir is bringing up twisted and irrelevant arguments and it’s pissing me off
Choirs suck anyway. Orchestral music is where it's at.
but eric whitacre :(
You could always give this a go.
but but the seal lullaby :(