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nenadsuperzmaj - Is Star Wars set in the future?

nenadsuperzmaj — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:21:16 +0000

I've stumbled upon this article after goggling for a bit. I read the Star Wars novel as a kid and, if I remember correctly, the plot was set in a post-apocalyptic future. This doesn't quite match with the famous "Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" line, so I though I'd ask someone who is more familiar with the Star Wars universe. Could anyone explain this. Did I perhaps confuse this book with another I read in the past? Thanks in advance!

buggybite - Review: The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

buggybite — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:02:22 +0000

I think I might disagree about Robert Maxwell. No, Maxwell didn't (to our knowledge) kill and physically torture people for fun. But that's not what a psychopath necessarily does. What they do is whatever they damn well please, and feel no remorse for any of their actions, and they enjoy holding power over people. This is a man who actively tormented his employees ...hired and fired at a whim and enjoyed making his employees scared of him, scared of losing their jobs for no reason. He was a cruel man. He treated his family abominably, by all accounts, playing one off against the other. He was unscrupulous in his financial dealings, and left hundreds of people destitute. He stole the Mirror Group's pension money, and didn't give a damn. Nobody knows exactly where he came from or if he even ever actually HAD money in the first place. He just flung himself about as if he had, and people believed him because he could be charismatic when the mood took him. From what I've studied about the Hare test and what I know of Maxwell, I'd say he might well have been a psychopath. If the notion took him to kill somebody, I don't think he'd have turned a hair. For all we know, he might have done. Even his own 'death' had suspicious overtones to it. Just disappeared in the ocean? Body 'recovered' and smuggled quickly into a grave in foreign parts? That sounds a bit off-ish to me. I think he's probably dead by now, but I wouldn't be surprised if he spent a few years hiding somewhere, laughing his head off at how he'd fooled the world.

Sue R - The Jihadist

Sue R — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:14:56 +0000

ery good, but shouldn't it be 'doe-eyed houris awaiting me in heaven.' for the scansion?

TonyBuck321 - Young people reject relgion; society somehow survives

TonyBuck321 — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:56:34 +0000

The medieval Church created the universities from which most Western learning has flowed. Many of the leaders of the 17th century Scientific Revolution were devout Christians - e.g. Boyle, Pascal, Galileo (and before him, Fr Nicholas Copernicus).

Al Nucbar - The Jihadist

Al Nucbar — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:23:25 +0000

Paedophile taxi driver or deranged extremist. Powell's prediction ominously close.

leopold1904 - The Jihadist

leopold1904 — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:21:06 +0000

Brilliant H

asquith - The Jihadist

asquith — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:05:20 +0000

And he enjoyed watching Robin Williams films, if that "jihadist" who was on Twitter a few days ago is anything to go by.

Skimmer - The Jihadist

Skimmer — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:43:34 +0000

Excellent. Begs the question, If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, where does that leave religion?

kb72 - The Jihadist

kb72 — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:19:34 +0000

Very good. May they all develop sepsis from infected mosquito bites.

Paula - Kate, William and the royal baby conspiracy

Paula — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:54:08 +0000

Mary of Modena had over twenty people watching her give birth, the rumours where investigated at the time by the privy council and found false. Now hundreds of years later that crap is being used to bolster the same crap all over again.

Cripstrop - My life is unbearable - don't fix it, just kill me

Cripstrop — Sun, 6 Jul 2014 21:51:53 +0000

The suggestion that Clair is attempting to speak for others is offensive, disgusting - and inaccurate. What she (and the anti-AS lobby) are attempting to do is safeguard the right of ALL disabled people not to face potential abuse (or indeed to be murdered) because they are unable to make their right NOT to be killed known.

Twisted Firestarter - My life is unbearable - don't fix it, just kill me

Twisted Firestarter — Sun, 6 Jul 2014 13:41:38 +0000

What about the physically healthy people who die by hanging, paracetemol overdose, jumping from bridge or train? Why did they have to die the way they do? Surely anyone serious about bringing about a 'good death' should be campaigning for EVERYONE to have access to the lethal means to make that happen?

Lauren Scott-Riley - Kate, William and the royal baby conspiracy

Lauren Scott-Riley — Mon, 26 May 2014 09:59:40 +0000

Great theory you got there.

Luke - Why am I giving this man further publicity?

Luke — Mon, 26 May 2014 04:53:51 +0000

It is beyond me why these people stay in a country they proclaim not to like, its rediculous.

Rachel - The Problem with Humanist Weddings

Rachel — Tue, 20 May 2014 11:52:52 +0000

The day should be about how connected spirtually a couple are, people get too bogged down on these things. Especially guests who always seem to have an opinion /view!

Boardman - Wine, women and bicycles

Boardman — Sat, 17 May 2014 18:25:43 +0000

'Of course, riding a bike while wearing a long swishy black skirt was never advisable' Sounds fair to me....

Quran Academy Live - Dawkins and the Flying Horse

Quran Academy Live — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:13:01 +0000

. This is why Mehdi prevaricates before ultimately deciding that with (his version of) God all things are possible and that nothing is therefore ridiculous. http://quranacademylive.com/

john vorobeva - Kate, William and the royal baby conspiracy

john vorobeva — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:31:49 +0000

you are correct katie did lose the baby due to malaria injections in october 2013 , the baby was born but very severally disabled and then put to sleep , a new baby was found in ukraine or russia and after a rather large payment to katie and her parents they signed a secrecy agreement . If any one can ever get a true dna test done they will find out the baby is slavic and no links to the british monarchy . The baby was at least 4-6 weeks old and she wore a fake belly when she left the hospital.

TESTINATE 250 - George Galloway has a point

TESTINATE 250 — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:47:40 +0000

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Skimmer - Breast is best

Skimmer — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:06:44 +0000

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