the queen's gambit is a 7 episode netflix miniseries about a female chess prodigy in the 1950's and 60's.. the story chronicles the life of the fictitious character, elizabeth harmon (anja taylor-joy) from the time she learns the game as an orphan clear up to the point where she defeats russian grand master, vasily borgov (marcin dorociński) to become the world champion.. female grandmasters are a rarity, so i was afraid the series was going to morph into an anti-male screed.
(it easily could have).
nearly every male character in the series, from the gruff but kindly william shaibel, the custodian at the orphanage who taught her the basics of the game and fronted her the money for her first tournament to vasily borgov himself is gracious and clearly delighted to play against a woman so talented in a sport dominated by men.. two notable exceptions were her pos adopted father who didn't care about her or his wife and a russian player who got a little salty when she kicked his butt in 21 moves.
@Dropoffyourkey - yes, I was thinking something similar.
To be a top pro chess player, you have to basically live, breathe and sleep chess.
Men are more likely to go in for high risk/high reward behaviour.
Women typically tend to be more sensible and have different life balances, e.g. having children and child-rearing.
Feminists won't like to hear it but the average woman has XX chromosomes, is fertile, and wants children at some point.
"cullors, who originates from los angeles, came out as queer at age 16 and was kicked out from her home, where she was raised in the jehovah’s witness religion.
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article here.
No real surprise, I guess.
She couldn't think independently when she was a JW; she can't think independently now.
She's gone from one cult to another, lol.
the queen's gambit is a 7 episode netflix miniseries about a female chess prodigy in the 1950's and 60's.. the story chronicles the life of the fictitious character, elizabeth harmon (anja taylor-joy) from the time she learns the game as an orphan clear up to the point where she defeats russian grand master, vasily borgov (marcin dorociński) to become the world champion.. female grandmasters are a rarity, so i was afraid the series was going to morph into an anti-male screed.
(it easily could have).
nearly every male character in the series, from the gruff but kindly william shaibel, the custodian at the orphanage who taught her the basics of the game and fronted her the money for her first tournament to vasily borgov himself is gracious and clearly delighted to play against a woman so talented in a sport dominated by men.. two notable exceptions were her pos adopted father who didn't care about her or his wife and a russian player who got a little salty when she kicked his butt in 21 moves.
Good OP.
I haven't seen it yet, I'll have to wait for it to come out on DVD.
I liked Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch (2015).
I used to play chess a little when I was younger, but I kinda stopped at 15 and have never wanted to start playing again.
I also think it's slightly weird that professional chess is so dominated by men because it's a non-physical sport in that men's natural advantages of strength and speed mean nothing.
billions of people around the world beleive in a god of some sort or other who exerts some power or influence to some degree or other in lifes affairs .. i don`t think there would be anywhere near that figure that would entertain the possability of extra terrestial life elsewhere in the universe.. and i find that curious .. the ancients didn`t know that their were other humans on other continents on this planet until they ventured out and found them .. we live somewhere in the milky way galaxy with millions of suns and planets that orbit them.. our galaxy is only one of trillions if not zillions of galaxys in the known universe.. look at the diversity of life on just this one planet earth ,what possabilitys could exist elsewhere ?
on alien worastronomers can use the hubble space telescope to view galaxies near the edge of the observable universe (the region of space from which light has had a chance to reach us within the last 13.77 billion years).
by examining a very tiny portion of the sky, counting up the number of visible galaxies in the universe in that specific region, and then multiplying that number to account for all the regions of the sky, astronomers estimate the number of galaxies in the universe.
Since there are approximately 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Planets in the universe - Exoplanets have been discovered but we have no hard evidence to support your claim. All we can go on at the moment is extrapolation/speculation.
BTW - I agree that ET life is more likely than 'God'.
to be a witness you had to accept whatever spiritual food was being dished out.
even if it didn’t make any sense, we were expected to believe.
now that we are out of the cult, do you find yourself a person who doesn’t just accept the status quo?
Do You Still Easily Believe Everything? - no.
I have my own BS detector, plus this site has helped me somewhat.
Uni also helped me. Studying Biology helped me because in science, you have to justify your statements, reference others , and support your statements with data.
apparently, a rape victim of the asian grooming gangs has wrote to the home office after breaking down the hate crime unit's statistics on hate crimes in the uk.. apparently, the guy who ran over a muslim outside finsbury park mosque committed a hate crime, but the islamist who ran people over and stabbed people on london bridge did not, according to the hate crime unit within the home office.. very interesting video detailing dodgy presentation of statistics ….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi4pdojpc1c.
@Jeffro
Ok, so you didn't watch the whole video.
apparently, a rape victim of the asian grooming gangs has wrote to the home office after breaking down the hate crime unit's statistics on hate crimes in the uk.. apparently, the guy who ran over a muslim outside finsbury park mosque committed a hate crime, but the islamist who ran people over and stabbed people on london bridge did not, according to the hate crime unit within the home office.. very interesting video detailing dodgy presentation of statistics ….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi4pdojpc1c.
Nothing to see here - did you check out the way the Hate Crime Unit breaks down stats by race and presents these?
It's almost as if they have a secret agenda.
Interesting ...
i’ve noticed a change in family attitude recently, like there is just something extra on their mind.
i even had to call my brother to check if he was dying and too scared to tell me.
anyway, i saw a video last night my saying jws think we only have 12 months left before armageddon so thought maybe this is the reason for changes attitude.
i found this experience on reddit today.
disfellowshipping never really bothered me.
i always thought it was just another way of getting rid of members that weren't welcome anymore.. but i've changed my mind.
It depends on the circumstances, I guess.
I was lucky - me and my dad both left at the same time, and I have no other family members in.
But I hear what point you and others are making. Shunning is a practice that is meant to cause damage. Otherwise the Watchtower wouldn't do it.
apparently, a rape victim of the asian grooming gangs has wrote to the home office after breaking down the hate crime unit's statistics on hate crimes in the uk.. apparently, the guy who ran over a muslim outside finsbury park mosque committed a hate crime, but the islamist who ran people over and stabbed people on london bridge did not, according to the hate crime unit within the home office.. very interesting video detailing dodgy presentation of statistics ….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi4pdojpc1c.
Apparently, a rape victim of the Asian grooming gangs has wrote to the Home Office after breaking down the Hate Crime Unit's statistics on hate crimes in the UK.
Apparently, the guy who ran over a Muslim outside Finsbury Park Mosque committed a hate crime, but the Islamist who ran people over and stabbed people on London Bridge did not, according to the Hate Crime Unit within the Home Office.
Very interesting video detailing dodgy presentation of statistics …
