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  1. Kirran

    Unitarian Universalism

    In the UK it's just Unitarians, which cleave a little more closely to the Christian roots. They are worth a try. I used to go to their services in Cambridge. Google 'unitarian church [your area]'. There are Unitarian churches in Torquay, Cullompton and Plymouth.
  2. Kirran

    Trump says Jews who vote dem are disloyal.

    Can we check for a moment this idea that any kind of support for Palestinians equates to supporting radical Islam and Iran? Why would that be the case? Has anyone saying so been to Palestine? There are two governments operating in the Palestinian occupied territories, with very different...
  3. Kirran

    Move over Judge Judy. Judge Jerry (Springer) is coming.

    Hmm, there are things a little bit like that in the UK. I suspect most countries have them. There's something in the UK called the Jeremy Kyle show, which I think also did an American version. Whether it showed in the US, I don't know.
  4. Kirran

    Trump wants to buy Greenland

    It seems that the Thule culture and Dorset culture, which had come in from present-day Canada, were there when the first Norse settlers came in. Those settlements died out, the Thule remained, and are the predecessors to the present-day Inuit.
  5. Kirran

    Trump wants to buy Greenland

    Inuit people are the majority, Terry. Descendants of Scandinavian settlers are a minority. 88% Inuit, including some who also have European descent. Danish as a first language is very much in the minority, over 80% speak one of the Greenlandic dialects first, although in Nuuk lots of Inuit and...
  6. Kirran

    Reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir

    How do you mean, a Hong Kong situation?
  7. Kirran

    Reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir

    Aup, chill. First off, it is incorrect to say that a union territory is necessarily a democratic body. The majority are not. There are two who have been granted what is called 'partial statehood', namely Puducherry and the National Capital Territory. The law applied to Puducherry will also be...
  8. Kirran

    Reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir

    Those are exceptions, they are partial union territories which enjoy democratic processes which no other union territories receive. They have proposed making J and K like that too, but talk is cheap. And even if they do, it's less than they had before!
  9. Kirran

    When can the West begin colonizing again?

    I think she is a nice lady. But the institution, yeah.
  10. Kirran

    When can the West begin colonizing again?

    Seeing as the UK probably has a more humane legal system than the USA's, why not just incorporate the USA into the UK, instead? We could also include some Latin American countries, if they were into it.
  11. Kirran

    I'm at a Franciscan monastery

    And they let you use your phone?! :O The one I lived at has rules against that sort of thing ;) *sniffs*
  12. Kirran

    Reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir

    I had a quick look. I can't see anything like that about HP, but Nagaland apparently has some kind of greater autonomy. I can't see what shape that takes. Also, tribes in Nagaland have quite a bit of freedom to manage their own affairs autonomously. Perhaps a little bit like Native American...
  13. Kirran

    Reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir

    Can you point out some examples of those, atanu?
  14. Kirran

    Reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir

    So to give people a quick low-down on what the deal is: during the transition to independence of former British India, what has become Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) accepted coming under Indian rule so they could get more autonomy than they thought they would have if they'd gone to Pakistan, although...
  15. Kirran

    Brahman [Hindu Only]

    What's up my dude! But is scripture's intent (aside from the bits which came out of power mongering and cultural ideas and whatever) really about cultivating and developing notions?
  16. Kirran

    Brahman [Hindu Only]

    Dude, how you gonna prove anything through rationality and semantics about Brahman? Meditate on the 'I am' bro.
  17. Kirran

    Degradation of Porn

    Gosh, we've rather gone off on one :D
  18. Kirran

    Degradation of Porn

    Well, I think our views are a little different on this, but we're both nice sorts of people so it's all good. And we're in the same general direction in things. Haha, well, I think my girlfriend might be a little unimpressed to hear about me having shared details on the Internet forums!
  19. Kirran

    Degradation of Porn

    It makes me a feel a lot better, Duke ;) I am sure you are right that sexual repression is a real thing for a lot of people, religious and otherwise. But I like to feel I'm not one of them, if you're alluding to such. Although I'm not sure I wanna go into details of my sex life here :D
  20. Kirran

    Degradation of Porn

    Believe me, I have no issue at all with people jerking off! I was pretty surprised when I was in uni, and a friend of mine said 'Oh did you go for a w***? Oh no, wait, you didn't have your laptop, nevermind'. There's that reliance so many people have developed on gratuitous visual stimulation to...
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