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Comment I used to live there! (Score 1) 360

I lived on Tarawa for a couple of years in my childhood. The islands are overpopulated and very fragile. A popular picnic destination when I was there was the island of Bikeman. Here's what is looked like in 1975. The Japanese built a causeway in the 1990s, which altered currents around the atoll. Here's Bikeman now, although that story falsely attributes the loss to rising sea levels. If that had been the case, the entire island chain would have disappeared. Bikeman was just a large sandbank that got washed away.

J Maarten Troost's book The Sex Lives Of Cannibals is a humorous yet insightful story of life on the islands, and is well worth a read.

Comment Rob Parsons (Score 1) 1146

Get a copy of The Sixty Minute Marriage by Rob Parsons. Although aimed at Christians (you don't say if that applies), the large majority of the advice applies to anyone. Highly recommended: Parsons' line of thinking is very clear and logical.

Comment Re:wow (Score 3, Insightful) 844

Seconded. I'm a Christian, a bit closer to Java than PHP, and am used to getting a bit of a slapping from ignorami spouting bigoted claptrap only lightly based on truth (yeah, and I know that's what most of you lot think of us...). This article made me smile: very clever, knowledgable of the nuances of the different faiths, and no unfounded digs at any of the (major) ones.

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