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45 minutes ago, Ned Nederlander said:

Cold War Soviet maps of Edinburgh & Glasgow from The Red Atlas:

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Love shit like this.  I'm assuming the buildings marked in black are high priority targets?  Railway stations and factories and the like.  Infrastructure. 

8 minutes ago, Brother Blades said:


No circling of what is considered City Centre in Glasgow? Not very good intelligence.

On you go, comrade @throbber

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Just now, KnightswoodBear said:

Love shit like this.  I'm assuming the buildings marked in black are high priority targets?  Railway stations and factories and the like.  Infrastructure. 

On you go, comrade @throbber

Don't forget @enrico annoni.....

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I was reading a book the other night and in I the guy mentioned that his twin daughters were born at only 28 weeks.
 
Thankfully they were fine and are growing up normally with no complications.
 
The guy thanked ‘the healing powers of prayer and the lord’. It was totally jarring and I actually laughed out loud. Absolutely mental, crazy stuff to say. If ‘the lord’ was responsible for them pulling through, then who was responsible for them being born prematurely and having to spend weeks in intensive care?!
 
It reminded me of an episode of a TV show where a guy gets shot and dies for a minute or so on the operating table before being revived. He pulls through and is fine but describes having a sort of ‘near death experience’ where he sees his dad and some other folk. A friend asks him ‘what did Jesus say?’ as she’s convinced that he met Jesus when he died for that minute, not knowing of the dream he did have. She was utterly convinced that people meet Jesus when they did. Again, it was amusing and absolutely mental stuff. Is Jesus met everyone who died, he’d a very busy guy! Were he real of course.
 
Anyway, religion is crazy, absolutely insane and if you came out with that type of shit and it wasn’t related to a religion you’d be viewed as a mentalist and widely ridiculed, and potentally a dangerous threat who requires restraint and treatment.
 
 
Not a new view at all, but hopefully more and more folk view religion as a crazy pile of shite and its influence is increasingly limited. Folk can practise it all they like, just like folk can worship a tree or perform a weird ritual like punching themselves in the duodenum every 5 hours (genuinely no more mental that praying numerous times a day in a certain direction) or any sort of hilarious batshit crazy stuff, and folk should be allowed to do so, as long as they aren’t harming anyone, but religion should have absolutely zero say in running things.

See you at mass again on Sunday?
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7 hours ago, DA Baracus said:

The guy thanked ‘the healing powers of prayer and the lord’. It was totally jarring and I actually laughed out loud. Absolutely mental, crazy stuff to say. If ‘the lord’ was responsible for them pulling through, then who was responsible for them being born prematurely and having to spend weeks in intensive care?!

I know a God-botherer who routinely goes on rants about sheeple who have been brainwashed into thinking science is real while in fact God is responsible for everything. His wife went into the hospital for something routine and while there, the docs discovered she had cancer. Because it was early enough in the process they were, after an extensive course of treatment, able to cure her and she's now cancer free.

Of course, you know where this is going. He's currently on social media giving it large with the "Eff you atheists! This proves God is real and loves us." He's genuinely too stupid to make the leap that "if" God exists, it was He who gave his wife cancer. The scientists were the ones who discovered and cured it.

If anything, I have more respect for the nutters who refuse medical treatment, believing that God will save them if he wants to.

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8 hours ago, Ned Nederlander said:

Cold War Soviet maps of Edinburgh & Glasgow from The Red Atlas:

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I saw a TV programme about the Ordnance Survey maps. The Soviet ones include details that are left off the OS ones for security reasons!

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10 hours ago, Ned Nederlander said:

Cold War Soviet maps of Edinburgh & Glasgow from The Red Atlas:

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Can we view the equivalent UK forces map of Moscow and Leningrad?

Of course not, they're still top secret and probably in a "not to be released for 100 years" file.

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