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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

21 posted on 08/15/2018 4:36:40 PM PDT by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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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.”

Well, gee whiz....didn't they explain this to the five terrorists who jumped out of the car and came after them?

22 posted on 08/15/2018 4:36:48 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: irishjuggler

Exactly. I KNOW some millenials who are as ignorant as this couple. Fortunately, so far, they are plugged in to the real world of making a living and raising a family....and have not ditched it all. Hopefully such efforts will make a deep impression on their psyche and they will get over their pie in the sky viewpoint about the mon-reality of evil.


23 posted on 08/15/2018 4:38:18 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: GraceG

Last paragraph - quoted


Corrina Mehiel

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/white_social_justice_warrior_dies_at_hands_of_black_killer_.html

“Just a few days after she was photographed with Nancy Pelosi grinning in approval, friends found Mehiel tied up, stabbed, tortured, and ultimately dead at the hands of El Hadji Alpha Madiou Toure, a black man arrested driving her car and using her debit card.

He said he didn’t do it.”

“Her belief in black victimization came, she said, at an early age when her mother read to her the book that would change her life: It Takes a Village, by Hillary Rodham Clinton.”


David Ruenzel

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/black_crime_claims_life_of_apologist_for_black_crime.html

“Some liberals, most of which are ego-soaked, look for ways to support their self-perceived importance so they champion imaginary causes for that purpose,” Newburn said. “They are adult-children who feel free to construct fantasies about their greatness. Their narcissism in part functions to blind them to inconvenient realities. So to compensate, they idealize the targets of their misdirected and pathological ‘caring.’”


24 posted on 08/15/2018 4:38:39 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: HiTech RedNeck
Others post on FR.


25 posted on 08/15/2018 4:38:55 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: jetson
I wonder what the Islamic word is for “ TOTAL DUMB SH*T’S “

Wait a sec........I'll check the Koran.

26 posted on 08/15/2018 4:38:59 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: BEJ

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


Yes you have to spend that per year to be truly stupid.


27 posted on 08/15/2018 4:39:31 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: GraceG
There is no saving some people. 5000 years ago they would have tried to pet the nice leopard and gotten eaten.
28 posted on 08/15/2018 4:40:09 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: Fungi

Many! And I sincerely hope they ALL take a bike trip through the Mid East very, very soon.

Millennials are the most ignorant, self absorbed people on the planet, hands down.


29 posted on 08/15/2018 4:40:09 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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To: GraceG

Just cleaning out the gene pool.


30 posted on 08/15/2018 4:40:37 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: GraceG

Sometimes ones highest and best use is to serve as a warning to others.


31 posted on 08/15/2018 4:40:53 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: GraceG

The experiment proved the hypothesis to be incorrect.


32 posted on 08/15/2018 4:40:59 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: GraceG
"Millennial Couple Bikes Through ISIS Territory to Prove ‘Humans Are Kind’ and Gets Killed"

Well then, sadly, I would say that theory has been disproven.

33 posted on 08/15/2018 4:41:14 PM PDT by Joe Brower (Those with intellect bear the burden of thought.)
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To: GraceG
Victims of living inside a liberal bubble


34 posted on 08/15/2018 4:43:15 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

LMAO!

Hippies, man, damn.


35 posted on 08/15/2018 4:43:35 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: GraceG

a finer example of Darwin’s Law one could not find, than someone who trusts Muslim killers


36 posted on 08/15/2018 4:43:37 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( "Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: 50mm

This story is a joke,,right?


37 posted on 08/15/2018 4:44:03 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: GraceG

Sounds like the process of natural selection again.


38 posted on 08/15/2018 4:44:56 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: GraceG

Common Sense, they had, none


39 posted on 08/15/2018 4:45:21 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SaveFerris

“...Austin, a vegan, and Geoghegan, a vegetarian...”

What’s the difference in a “vegan” and a “vegetarian”???

The spelling???


40 posted on 08/15/2018 4:45:52 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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