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Did dinosaurs really exist? Can we really be certain that dinosaurs actually existed or are the fossils discovered remains of other species? During the Long Gilded Age in the Amerikkkas, which stretched from the end of Reconstruction (1877) to the start of the Great Depression (1900,) financial elites like...

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Фото профиля Michael P. Mahler
Michael P. Mahler5 месяцев назад

Now do “fossil fuels”…. 😆 (They really have been playing us for far too long…!)

Фото профиля Michael Gallegos
Michael Gallegos5 месяцев назад

As a Colorado native this sounds retarded. We have the dinosaur national monument in Western Colorado where you can see bones embedded in the rock from digs. This might be as dumb as the flat earth shit.

Фото профиля Moab Local
Moab Local5 месяцев назад

This is such bull shit. I have found several dinosaur bones here in Utah

Фото профиля 𝙼𝚁. 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚂𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁
𝙼𝚁. 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚂𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁5 месяцев назад

This dude should be committed at this point.

Фото профиля TheToxicAvenger
TheToxicAvenger5 месяцев назад

Not true my dad is a gm at Martin Marietta, I've been in the quarry 100s of times and seen dino fossils with my own eyes, I personally own a fossilized tooth that 6. 3/4" long. Its rare to find a full dino. Dino or not we definitely had mega fauna on this planet with humans

Фото профиля top_szn
top_szn5 месяцев назад

the bible mentions dragons tho.🍻

Фото профиля Charlie
Charlie5 месяцев назад

All those crapping on this dude’s post are the same ones who think they evolved from monkeys-that Charles Darwin spent more than 1 HOUR in the archipelagos… research! Read! FFS! They have LIED to u about EVERYTHING & this is what u will believe… b/c? “I ❤️“Ankylosaurus!”? 🤦🏼‍♀️

Фото профиля TheFishEye
TheFishEye5 месяцев назад

Every engineer also says the Bumblebee can't fly. And they're alp wrong. Also, Elephants are fake and invented by the WWF because their guts would fall out of them.

Фото профиля Martin Awoother
Martin Awoother5 месяцев назад

No one says they're too radioactive to handle or that you should carbon date fossils. Why are you lying?

Фото профиля Högen
Högen5 месяцев назад

He believes in things he likes with zero evidence, Giants, dragons. Hell yeah! What a fucking idiot

Фото профиля 5inchmusic
5inchmusic5 месяцев назад

Also how did they mate? I can't imagine 2 triceritops going doggystyle. Wouldn't the tail be in the way?

Фото профиля Craig
Craig5 месяцев назад

Man, it’s incredible how people can be this stupid and this confident all at the same time. Clearly doesn’t understand how any of this works. Show me the chicken bone farm that created the femur of the Trex

Фото профиля FOOTBALL BROS
FOOTBALL BROS5 месяцев назад

NOT TO MENTION CARBON DATING HAS BEEN VERIFIED TO BE COMPLETELY INACCURATE AND GIVE FALSE DATES.

Фото профиля The Black Tucker Carlson Jr 🇺🇸
The Black Tucker Carlson Jr 🇺🇸5 месяцев назад

I think dinosaurs existed but it wasn’t 200 billion years ago.

Фото профиля AlphaOmega
AlphaOmega5 месяцев назад

Total lie. There are tons in the Permian Basin they find all the time drilling and digging around oil sites.

Фото профиля Phil McCrackin
Phil McCrackin5 месяцев назад

“They could never mate. Their tails are in the way” Idk why she says “both males” as this was a lizard mating video. Maybe it’s some gay lizard shit. But the tail in the way isn’t ever a problem.

Фото профиля Philadelphia Born
Philadelphia Born5 месяцев назад

So you believe a dragon is real but not a dinosaur.. lmafooooooooooooooooooooo wtf???? How ? You mines we’ll call a dragon a Dino and a Dino a dragon. How the dragon guts don’t fall out? Or the elephant or rhino. The bigger the animal the stronger its anatomy. Or biology.

Фото профиля Brian Jordan
Brian Jordan5 месяцев назад

With all the highways and buildings and swimming goals we’ve dug on earth, not one dinosaur has ever been found by by accident.

Фото профиля DEWIGHTkSCHRUTE
DEWIGHTkSCHRUTE5 месяцев назад

So he believes that there were dinosaurs, but they breathed fire. What’s the difference between a dragon and a dinosaur?

Фото профиля Michael Ezekiel
Michael Ezekiel5 месяцев назад

Owen Benjamin is a tireless grifter and one of the worst comedians in the world. Do yourself a favor and never post anything this dude says ever again.

Фото профиля ℌ𝔞𝔵𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔠𝔢𝔰𝔰
ℌ𝔞𝔵𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔠𝔢𝔰𝔰5 месяцев назад

They’re not radioactive because of the asteroid, you fucking dumb ass goof 😂 put your tin-foil hat on and enjoy your religious psychosis by yourself! 🤡

Фото профиля SigInt
SigInt5 месяцев назад

Yeah… ok… now explain the dinosaur footprints in the Cretaceous rock record.

Фото профиля Micky Dixon
Micky Dixon5 месяцев назад

Owen man drive your happy ass to vernal utah

Фото профиля MB
MB5 месяцев назад

🤔So you believe that winged, fire breathing lizards were a thing because you seen it on a drama series on HBO max. But you don't believe dinosaurs existed when there are casts of skeletal remains in museums. Ignorance is bliss indeed.

Фото профиля Jürgen Heikamp
Jürgen Heikamp5 месяцев назад

The people who has rights to Jurassic park invented dinosaurs. So they can seek more toys and merch.

Фото профиля Repair Shop Tribute
Repair Shop Tribute5 месяцев назад

Intriguing story from a historical mag.. 1800's. 🧐 I'm going to put a playlist of similar antediluvian, primitive giants and monsters,documented in a variety of old newspaper and historical society magazine articles from that period, courtesy @1_analog_9

Фото профиля Ryan Healy
Ryan Healy5 месяцев назад

"Behemoth" in the Bible seems to describe an elephant. "Leviathan" was a large sea creature, perhaps a whale.

Фото профиля Brandon Craig
Brandon Craig5 месяцев назад

I think they like many reptiles had more cartilage than bone. The scales shapes and dimensions are completely wrong. Imagine soft bone between connections everywhere but the legs bringing ribs together making way skinnier longer armed critters that regenerate like many reptile

Фото профиля 𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕕 𝕍𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕥𝕪 ⚖️
𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕕 𝕍𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕥𝕪 ⚖️5 месяцев назад

But…but…but…d’you mean Ross from Friends was lying to us?!? 😉 They have to tell us, right?

Фото профиля President Elect Jon stanley
President Elect Jon stanley5 месяцев назад

You know, I actually believe you. They've lied to us about literally everything else.

Фото профиля Guns & Butter
Guns & Butter5 месяцев назад

So where do fossil fuels really come from

Фото профиля anunnakihero
anunnakihero5 месяцев назад

The name was invented 1841 The animals are real Leviathan described in the bible is a real one documented Dude is talking doo doo

Фото профиля Paul LeRoy Stringer
Paul LeRoy Stringer5 месяцев назад

And why don’t dinosaurs have genitals?

Фото профиля victor munoz
victor munoz5 месяцев назад

Sheeple will never understand we’ve been lied to.

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Probably a majority of those persons who became active Zionists and sought to emigrate to Palestine were born within the confines of Czarist Russia, and it was only natural for Soviet Prime Minister Andrei Gromyko to deplore, as he did in 1948, in the 299th meeting of the Security Council, the act by Israel’s neighbors of “sending troops into Palestine and carrying out military operations aimed” — in Mr. Gromyko’s words — at the suppression of the national liberation movement in Palestine.” Now it was the singular nature — if, I am not mistaken, it was the unique nature — of this national liberation movement that in contrast with the movements that preceded it, those of that time, and those that have come since, it defined its members in terms not of birth, but of belief. That is to say, it was not a movement of the Irish to free Ireland, or of the Polish to free Poland, not a movement of the Algerians to free Algeria, nor of Indians to free India. It was not a movement of persons connected by historic membership to a genetic pool of the kind that enables us to speak loosely but not meaninglessly, say, of the Chinese people, nor yet of diverse groups occupying the same territory which enables us to speak if the American people with no greater indignity to truth. To the contrary, Zionists defined themselves merely as Jews, and declared to be Jewish anyone born of a Jewish mother or — and this is the absolutely crucial fact — anyone who converted to Judaism. Which is to say, in terms of International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by the 20th General Assembly, anyone — regardless of “race, colour, descent, or nationally or ethnic origin …..” The state of Israel, which in time was the creation of the Zionist Movement, has been extraordinary in nothing so much as the range of “racial stocks” from which it Orient and Jew from the West. Most such persons could be said to have been “born” Jewish, just as most Presbyterians and most Hindus are “born” to their faith, but there are many Jews who are just converts. With a consistency in the matter which surely attests to the importance of this issue to that religions and political culture, Israeli courts have held that a Jew who converts to another religion is no longer a Jew. In the meantime the population of Israel also includes large numbers of non-Jews, among them Arabs of both the Muslim and Christian religions and Christians of other national origins. Many of these persons are citizens of Israel, and those who are not can become citizens by legal procedures very much like those which obtain in a typical nation of Western Europe. Now I should wish to be understood that I am here making one point, and one point only, which is that whatever else Zionism may be, it is not and cannot be “a form of racism.” In logic, the State of Israel could be, or could become, many things, theoretically, including many things undesirable, but it could not be and could not become racism unless it ceased to be Zionist. Indeed, the idea that Jews are a “race” was invented not by Jews but by those who hated Jews. The idea of Jews as a race was invented by nineteenth century anti-semites such as Houston Steward Chamberlain and Edouard Drumont, who saw that in an increasingly secular age, which is to say an age made for fewer distinctions between people, the old religions grounds for anti-semitism were losing force. New justifications were needed for excluding and persecuting Jews, and so the new idea of Jews as a race — rather than as a religion — was born. It was a contemptible idea at the beginning, and no civilized person would be associated with it. To think that it is an idea now endorsed by the United Nations is to reflect on what civilization has come to. It is precisely a concern for civilization, for civilized values that are or should be precious to all mankind, that arouses us at this moment to such special passion. What we have at stake here is not merely the honor and the legitimacy of the State of Israel — although a challenge to the legitimacy of any member nation ought always to arouse the vigilance of all members of the United Nations. For a yet more important matter is at issue, which is the integrity of the whole body of moral and legal precepts which we know as human rights. The terrible lie that has been told here today will have terrible consequences. Not only will people begin to say, indeed they have already begun to say that the United Nations is a place where lies are told, but far more serious, grave and perhaps irreparable harm will be done to the cause of human rights itself. The harm will arise first because it will strip from racism the precise and abhorrent meaning that it still precariously holds today. How will the people of the world feel about racism and the need to struggle against it, when they are told that it is an idea as broad as to include the Jewish national liberation movement? As the lie spreads, it will do harm in a second way. Many of the members of the United Nations owe their independence in no small part to the notion of human rights, as it has spread from the domestic sphere to the international sphere exercised its influence over the old colonial powers. We are now coming into a time when that independence is likely to be threatened again. There will be new forces, some of them arising now, new prophets and new despots, who will justify their actions with the help of just such distortions of words as we have sanctioned here today. Today we have drained the word “racism” of its meaning. Tomorrow, terms like “national self-determination” and “national honor” will be perverted in the same way to serve the purposes of conquest and exploitation. And when these claims begin to be made — as they already have begun to be made — it is the small nations of the world whose integrity will suffer. And how will the small nations of the world defend themselves, on what grounds will others be moved to defend and protect them, when the language of human rights, the only language by which the small can be defended, is no longer believed and no longer has a power of its own? There is this danger, and then a final danger that is the most serious of all. Which is that the damage we now do to the idea of human rights and the language of human rights could well be irreversible. The idea of human rights as we know it today is not an idea which has always existed in human affairs, it is an idea which appeared at a specific time in the world, and under very special circumstances. It appeared when European philosophers of the seventeenth century began to argue that man was a being whose existence was independent from that of the State, that he need join a political community only if he did not lose by that association more than he gained. From this very specific political philosophy stemmed the idea of political rights, of claims that the individual could justly make against the state; it was because the individual was seen as so separate from the State that he could make legitimate demands upon it. That was the philosophy from which the idea of domestic and international rights sprang. But most of the world does not hold with that philosophy now. Most of the world believes in newer modes of political thought, in philosophies that do not accept the individual as distinct from and prior to the State, in philosophies that therefore do not provide any justification for the idea of human rights and philosophies that have no words by which to explain their value. If we destroy the words that were given to us by past centuries, we will not have words to replace them, for philosophy today has no such words. But there are those of us who have not forsaken these older words, still so new to much of the world. Not forsaken them now, not here, not anywhere, not ever. The United States of America declares that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.”

Hillel Neuer

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Roughly 2,5 hours into the apostolic visit to France, Pope Leo delivered a defining message on the protection of every life. Reminding the French that for centuries they were the ones drafting and defending human rights, he said: "With the great thinkers of the Renaissance, and later of the Grand Siècle, succeeded by those of the Enlightenment, France was responsible for significant advances in our world, including the recognition of human rights grounded in the nature of the human person, particularly religious freedom. This constant focus on the dignity inherent in every person is echoed in your national motto. Liberty, equality and fraternity are not simply words emblazoned on the front of your public buildings; they refer to universal ethical imperatives that also find in the Gospel message an inexhaustible source of inspiration and fulfillment." Recalling "the apostolic works of Saint Vincent de Paul," and "those many Catholic institutions where caregivers accompany our brothers and sisters in their sufferings," he said -- "these examples of care and concern serve as a true lesson in humanity." Saying "they show the grandeur of compassion and are a powerful reminder of the unique and irreplaceable worth of every human being," he stressed: "They are also a summons to a renewed sense of fraternity, which teaches us to welcome life unconditionally, to support frailty with loving care, to accompany every stage of life with respect and mutual trust, and to defend with courage and compassion those unable to make their voices heard and those who feel ignored or overlooked. That is why I 'firmly reiterate that the protection of the right to life constitutes the indispensable foundation of every other human right.'" "Nowadays there is a temptation to expect science to eliminate or alleviate every form of suffering. This often brings the risk of self-delusion. For when science and technology are not guided by a deeper wisdom, they can offer immediate solutions that apparently address people’s wishes and their pain, but can seriously divert them from the greater good to which they aspire." "I am concerned at times by those trends in society that risk turning science and technology into profit-driven ventures promoting genetic manipulation, surrogacy, the trade in human organs or the possibility of arranging one’s own death. Let us not forget that mutual respect and the protection of every human life is a duty incumbent upon each and every one of us. It is a duty that begins with the conversion of our minds and hearts, and requires a sincere and selfless commitment to the good of our brothers and sisters." Here, the pope explained that within the frame of French laicite, Catholics have a right to their views, to influence society and to teach kids in Catholic schools. "How can we fail to see such a commitment as an expression of the authentic 'secularity' (laïcité) of the earthly city? A Christian engaged in public service and ... guided by the light of his or her conscience illumined by faith, cannot be considered a proselytizer or a threat to the unity of the nation. Indeed, authentic secularity does not exclude religion but is capable of valuing it as an educational resource." "That is precisely why Catholic schools have a rightful place in the educational landscape of a country like France. This is part of a broader issue essential to any dialogue, in schools and in society as a whole: learning to know and love ourselves, in order to be able to encounter others with respect and openness (cf. ibid.). An authentic secularity, then, consists not in excluding religion from the public sphere or from education, but in striving to ensure that the State and religious institutions maintain dialogue and join forces in the service of the common good, that the world may have life." Video: Vatican Media

Paulina Guzik

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