How did that go? Do I even need to ask?
Another huge failure from the fireplace flogger. 2/10
Our inability to introduce remote learning during a global pandemic is a social problem.
A decade of austerity has left families without the means to own adequate devices, and some can’t even afford broadband.
Scoff all you like, but it is reality I’m afraid. 1/10
How did that go? Do I even need to ask?
Another huge failure from the fireplace flogger. 2/10
I’ll stick my neck out here and call that bullshit. Utter hogwash.
“Whatever it takes to ensure our friends get HUUUUGE PPE contracts” - that would be accurate. 3/10
I understand the difficulties, but as I say, this is a failure of government.
Life preservation has to come first.
My child isn’t a guinea pig. 4/10
@michaelgove is confident schools will stay open.
He might not like experts, but SAGE disagree. 5/10
We are told a mutant strain of the virus is tearing through the country, and it really doesn’t like younger people.
Education is vital. Health is vital. A balance is needed 7/10
The Labour Party are nowhere on this, AGAIN.
As I said in August, we send children back now at our peril. 8/10
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i wonder if you can make a thread bout witchcraft in malaysia.. or list of our own local gods/deites..
— r a y a \U0001f319 (@lcvelylilith) February 20, 2020
Before I begin, it might be worth explaining the Malay conception of the spirit world. At its deepest level, Malay religious belief is animist. All living beings and even certain objects are said to have a soul. Natural phenomena are either controlled by or personified as spirits
Although these beings had to be respected, not all of them were powerful enough to be considered gods. Offerings would be made to the spirits that had greater influence on human life. Spells and incantations would invoke their
Animist ceremonies of a religious or magical nature were normally held for the purpose of divination or making a request. This would either be done at a keramat or at a shrine similar to the Thai spirit houses or Chinese roadside shrines pic.twitter.com/I1hliyi0x3
— \u2745\u1710\u170b\u1713\u170e (@uglyluhan) June 16, 2019
Two known examples of such elemental spirits that had god-like status are Raja Angin (king of the wind) and Mambang Tali Arus (spirit of river currents). There were undoubtedly many more which have been lost to time
Contact with ancient India brought the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism to SEA. What we now call Hinduism similarly developed in India out of native animism and the more formal Vedic tradition. This can be seen in the multitude of sacred animals and location-specific Hindu gods
