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rapLyrics: Factor e(d)X

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 I was born out of dream into a nightmare with a scream Dropped midstream in the flow of the bloodstream looking for the source I paddled upstream in the distance I could see the bleeding knife gleam That’s the spirit of Modern times theme That’s what lies beneath all that bling gleam People feed off it Like its bloody whipped cream They take it to bed like it’s a goddamn wet dream That’s the soul of the American dream but It ain’t my thing I’m another colour scheme My flag ain’t star spangled I strike for the red team U can’t tear me apart I’m stitched with no seam I’m your conscience 24/7 livestream I don’t give a damn About the right wing mainstream If you get in my way It’s best you veered Or you’re gonna find yourself Skinned, singed and seared I ain’t the herd, sheared Puppeteered careered Skin through bone Factor eX ain’t veneered ** stuff society I’m gonna form my own crew I ain’t falling for all that corporate voodoo Scheme scam Uncle Sam You’re screwed from the pram They’re m

A brief discourse on the Scientific Method

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Stating that the absence of a rational explanation for something is proof that it isn't true, is like determining that the ocean is a metre deep because my ruler has a maximum of a 100 centimetres. The tools of scientific analysis by the west can only measure that part of reality that their particular historical experience has given them the sense to discern. Just because it works some of the time, doesn't mean it works all of the time, and especially when their particular historical experience has itself curtailed their understanding of 'all'. All tools are invented by a particular History, nourished by all the experiences it contains, and impoverished by all that it doesn't.  The 'reality' of the partial historical development of the west, determines the degree to which their tools of discerning reality is impartial. All tools are invented by a particular History, nourished by all the experiences it contains, and impoverished by all that it doesn't. T

Attacks on Muslims in NZ an extreme example of global normalised Imperialist attitudes

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These attacks on the Mosques in New Zealand are just a more extreme reaction by vigilantes, but whose approach toward Muslims is constantly witnessed in comments on fb, the governments of the west and their global supporters terming retaliatory attacks against them as 'terrorism'. U nderlying it all is a globalised white supremacist attitude - shared even by non-whites across the globe - that is founded on the belief that the 'superior' west has a right to dispose of the lives of others as and when it is to their interests, , and all resistance from 'inferior' peoples are deemed to be 'terrorism'. This serves as the foundation upon which more extreme reactions are founded, i.e. those who conducted these attacks on the mosques. I have found, over a couple of decades of observaton, study, and personal experience, that the Chinese in s.e.asia (excluding the chinese reared in the west) are no different in their approach toward humanity as well as witnessed

What's the Recipe for the Body of Christ? Anyone?

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"According to Vatican officials, there are no current plans to allow a change in the bread that is used as matter for the Eucharist. Controversy was afoot after 80-year-old Father Francisco Taborda, S.J., a Brazilian theologian, said in February while attending a seminar in Rome that a watershed debate regarding the Eucharist was a probable topic at the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region in October. Fr. Taborda suggested that wheaten bread could be substituted with yuca, a root common in Latin America in use as a staple food. Also known as manioc or cassava, it is the source of tapioca. The Catholic Church regards wheaten bread and wine as the only suitable matter to be used as species for confecting the Eucharist, the central mystery of the Catholic faith. Fr. Taborda told Crux last month that environmental conditions in the hot and damp climate of the Amazon make communion wafers unsuitably moist. Suggesting a departure from the norm inherited from the Gospel, the Jes

Why the UK Can't Revoke ex-ISIS Shamima's Citizenship

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Britain has decided to revoke British, Shamima Begum's citizenship because she joined ISIS. 1. The UK Home Office is arguing that Shamima has another (Bangladeshi) citizenship (which the family has denied), so they are still observing International Law by depriving her of her British citizenship as that would still enable her to return to her other alleged nationality.  Whether this is true or not is irrelevant.  The first point - that a citizen is subject to the laws of the state is paramount.  To refuse to subject a person to their laws and yet revoke her citizenship citizenship is a contradiction where one is being told simultaneously that one is not eligible to be punished under the law, but is to be punished by having their citizenship revoked.  2. When a person is granted citizenship, they are given equality with ALL citizens, be they descendents of many generations of 'locals' or not.  To treat Shamima differently is to cast ALL naturalised citizens as 2nd class citi