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Atheists & Agnostics

DFW

(58,550 posts)

3. It's a new version of an old story, and it keeps getting repeated because established theory tolerates no deviation

Reply to Ranting Randy (Original post)

Sun Jun 8, 2025, 11:02 AM

Jun 8

In 1793, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison traveled to Long Island to try to preserve a dying indigenous language. By the time they got there, there was only one native speaker of the Unkechaug language left. I have heard no reference to it in decades.

That Everett has been so punished by both his family and the Brazilian government is sickening. Cruelty seems to find new ways of manifesting itself as long as there are people who fear their theories and their orthodoxies being challenged.