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Millennial Couple Bikes Through ISIS Territory to Prove ‘Humans Are Kind’ and Gets Killed
Pluralist ^
| 15 Aug 2018
| Michael Sinkewicz
Posted on 08/15/2018 4:27:40 PM PDT by GraceG
"Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans."
A progressive young American couple was killed in an Islamic State-claimed terrorist attack last month while on a bike trip around the world.
Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, who were both in their late 20s, quit their jobs in 2017 to embark on a trip around the world. Austin, a vegan, and Geoghegan, a vegetarian, decided that they're were wasting their lives working.
"I’ve grown tired of spending the best hours of my day in front of a glowing rectangle, of coloring the best years of my life in swaths of grey and beige,” Austin wrote on his blog before he quit. “I’ve missed too many sunsets while my back was turned. Too many thunderstorms went unwatched, too many gentle breezes unnoticed.”
The couple documented their year-long journey on social media until it came to a tragic and gruesome end in Tajikistan, a country with a known terrorist presence.
(Excerpt) Read more at pluralist.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: austin; bicycle; bicycles; bicycling; bike; bikes; bloggers; cycling; darwinaward; geoghegan; jay; jayaustin; lauren; laurengeoghegan; lemmings; loonyleft; vegan; wellbye
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Well.... BYE!
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:27:40 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: GraceG
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:29:05 PM PDT
by
GraceG
("Q is not a Cult, you can safely leave at any time, unlike Islam")
To: GraceG
"Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans." Well.
There you have it.
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:29:23 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Yankeefa, cleansing America one statue at a time.)
To: GraceG
They provided two new jobs for the lucky taker’s.
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:30:28 PM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is what I read in the papers.)
To: GraceG
“Stupid is as Stupid does”
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:30:52 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: GraceG
Timothy Treadwell did the same thing.
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:30:55 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Consensus isn't science.)
To: Pelham
I wonder what the Islamic word is for “ TOTAL DUMB SH*T’S “
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:31:54 PM PDT
by
jetson
(TOTAL)
To: GraceG
Liberals never learn. Like that one woman who wanted to prove Muslim men weren’t violent by hitch hiking through the ME. She was raped and murdered in Turkey.
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:32:01 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
To: GraceG
Stupidity is a bottomless pit.
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:32:14 PM PDT
by
Equine1952
(Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
To: GraceG
Let’s hope they had no offspring. Darwin rules.
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:33:01 PM PDT
by
50mm
(-.. .-. .. -. -.- / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. . /)
To: GraceG
Humans who believe in a mean God aren’t kind. ISIS is some of them. Others post on FR.
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:33:10 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: GraceG
I don’t usually laugh at horrific misfortunes of others, but in this case... HAHAAA!
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:33:43 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
To: GraceG
“You read the papers and you’re led to believe that the world is a big, scary place," Austin wrote. “People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil." “I don’t buy it," he continued. "Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own... By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind.”
To paraphrase Trotsky, you may not be interested in evil, but evil is interested in you.
To: Blood of Tyrants
Or that judge in New Mexico
To: Blood of Tyrants
Or that judge in New Mexico
To: GraceG
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:36:03 PM PDT
by
FLT-bird
To: GraceG
“Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans.”
This is what a $60,000 college education will get you.
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:36:07 PM PDT
by
BEJ
To: GraceG
“Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans.” I guess they never read the Bible, but we will never know. The real question is, how many other brain dead millennials are like them?
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posted on
08/15/2018 4:36:27 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: ImJustAnotherOkie; NFHale; ZULU; null and void; vette6387; sheik yerbouty; Kaslin; Jane Long; ...
Too bad all the brave Antifa goons didn’t join these too Liberal idiots where they could all try their protests and tactics out on ISIS.
To: GraceG
Some liberals, for their part, might view Austin and Geoghegan as martyrs in the struggle for a better world, or simply as unfortunate. No, "unfortunate" is when you don't bring it on yourself. Try "stupid".
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