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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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To: GraceG

Oh darn, This is so tragic and atypical of something that would happen in ISIS territory. Wonder what they did to provoke such a response from this peace-loving people?


161 posted on 08/15/2018 6:42:08 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: GraceG

You know...if you really think about it, they were right!


162 posted on 08/15/2018 6:45:17 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: BradyLS
Vegans are pure herbivores.

Thus they are malnourished.

163 posted on 08/15/2018 6:47:59 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: GraceG
"Austin, a vegan, and Geoghegan, a vegetarian,..."

Same thing! And no, I won't argue about it. I'm right. That's that, and I'll repeat it from now on.

[Can't stand trying to pronounce that creepy a$$ word. It's just not healthy.]


164 posted on 08/15/2018 6:51:16 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: fungoking

” ISIS must not have seen the COEXIST bumper sticker on the bike. “


That’s because it was in kafir English.


165 posted on 08/15/2018 6:53:58 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue.)
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To: Newtoidaho

” And... that was the end of them.”


OH ! That is SO bad, I had to laugh..hard.


166 posted on 08/15/2018 6:58:40 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue.)
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To: Pelham

Play stupid games.....


167 posted on 08/15/2018 7:00:59 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: VTenigma

This is what a $60,000 college education will get you.

I hope they both paid off their college loans prior to leaving this world.


168 posted on 08/15/2018 7:01:38 PM PDT by wetgundog (CNN is FAKE NEWS ...Just added NBC.)
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To: Pelham

Play stupid games.....


169 posted on 08/15/2018 7:04:03 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: GraceG
"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..."

"Than?" "Than?" It's from, not "than." Than implies that one thing is greater than another thing. From only states that there is a difference. The idiocy has even made its way into linguistic activism in universities. Morons have been breeding and feeding too much.


170 posted on 08/15/2018 7:04:11 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Fungi

“Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans.”

Yet these kind of people sure don’t hesitate calling Trump and Trump supporters evil racist sexist homophobic fascist bigot pigs.


171 posted on 08/15/2018 7:10:10 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Blueflag

Timothy Snakewells’
Girlfriend was Eaten also.


172 posted on 08/15/2018 7:16:53 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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To: Godebert

” ...Does Tajikistan even have a tourist industry ? ...”


Yes! : Come for the scenic bike rides, stay for the kafir slaying !


173 posted on 08/15/2018 7:17:09 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue.)
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To: Chickensoup

And Vns only eat water.


174 posted on 08/15/2018 7:18:52 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue.)
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To: JoeProBono

b, bu, but, they made such an attractive cou, ...er .. target.


175 posted on 08/15/2018 7:24:49 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue.)
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To: GraceG

Make them take out a $1 million life insurance policy with you as the beneficiary.


176 posted on 08/15/2018 7:25:50 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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To: LeoTDB69

There’s always a few bad apples in every barrel. It’s too bad that it just takes a few folks doing bad things, and all of ISIS get’s painted with a broad brush and makes them all look bad.


177 posted on 08/15/2018 7:26:39 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: GraceG
Austin, a vegan, and Geoghegan, a vegetarian, decided that they're were wasting their lives working.

Hmm. Problem solved.

178 posted on 08/15/2018 7:30:05 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Zathras

Too stupid to be idiots.


179 posted on 08/15/2018 7:30:06 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: GraceG

A liberal guy, and a liberal gal...in a Yugo.

Oh wait, that was last year.


180 posted on 08/15/2018 7:30:39 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Looks like I'll have to buy the White Album again.)
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