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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: JBW1949
What’s the difference

Only a slight craziness level.

101 posted on 08/15/2018 5:24:16 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: null and void

“They proved ISIS is kind,...”

I guess it was a mercy killing.

LOL !


102 posted on 08/15/2018 5:25:02 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot. And I approve this message.)
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To: DesertRhino

“The experiment proved the hypothesis to be incorrect.”

Some folks get their funding yanked by the government.
Others get their card stamped by the terrorists.

At least now we won’t have to read about “...initial findings are promising, with the entire report out in the spring of 2019.”


103 posted on 08/15/2018 5:26:13 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: JBW1949

A vegetarian just doesn’t eat meat. A vegan won’t wear leather or use any type of animal products that might be found in cosmetics, etc.


104 posted on 08/15/2018 5:28:45 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: fwdude

These terrorists just needed good paying jobs...according to leftist/holdovers.


105 posted on 08/15/2018 5:29:33 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: GraceG

Wonder if they admitted they were wrong before evil wiped them out.

My gut says no.


106 posted on 08/15/2018 5:29:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: GraceG

I believe there should be a Leftist campaign to pick-up where the last two blew-up good. SHOW the rest ‘how it’s done’.

And keep it up ‘til the journey is complete.

*One can wish, no?*


107 posted on 08/15/2018 5:31:07 PM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: All

Thanks, folks....


108 posted on 08/15/2018 5:31:12 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: GraceG

Well, they sure showed us.

Prayers for two misguided souls.


109 posted on 08/15/2018 5:31:35 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: GreenHornet
By and large, humans are kind.

Well, yes, in over 60 years of life here in the middle if the USA, I find that to be true also, BUT, it is still necessary to watch out carefully for the rather significant minority of humans who are not so nice.

For most of us this is somewhat like being a 4" bluegill in an average pond: maybe 80% of the rest of the fish in that pond are not a threat (especially if you stay clear of spawning beds and such.) But, that other 20 %...

THESE fools, however, decided they'd be little bluegills and go visit a lake full of gar...

110 posted on 08/15/2018 5:32:14 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: GraceG

Reminds one of the Rush Limbaugh classic, “In a Yugo.”


111 posted on 08/15/2018 5:33:31 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Blue Jays

I’ve worn aviator framed sunglasses for 45 years. Don’t give a damn if they are in or out of “style”.


112 posted on 08/15/2018 5:33:57 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Lee25

“Something seriously wrong with west civilization. The way these young couple was the result of living in west civilization. You can argue liberalism is the cause. But liberalism is part of west civilization”

Western civilization without the Bible is as futile as any other failed system of “learning”.

All of their fantasies: people are naturally good, evil is a construct to explain away diversity... all absolute folly !

Proverbs 22:
The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.


113 posted on 08/15/2018 5:35:01 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot. And I approve this message.)
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To: Reverend Wright

agreed


114 posted on 08/15/2018 5:38:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: GraceG

Play stupid games....win stupid prizes.


115 posted on 08/15/2018 5:38:37 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: GraceG
They were libtards. What a shame.
116 posted on 08/15/2018 5:41:09 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: GraceG

My tag line.


117 posted on 08/15/2018 5:41:58 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: GraceG
Hold my Mocha Latte and watch this.
118 posted on 08/15/2018 5:42:59 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: GraceG

Well that’s one way to get red-pilled.


119 posted on 08/15/2018 5:44:16 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: SaveFerris

Looks like Janine Garofalo and Pauly Shore.


120 posted on 08/15/2018 5:44:22 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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