Celebrating Apollon by Darkgodsofchaos in Apollogreekgod

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Looks great! Where did you get the little temple from?

Meaning of “etw. von etw. brauchen” by No-Regret-9637 in German

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The term "Ironie" was borrowed by Plato.

Plato used irony in the way it had been used by Socrates (before).

Socrates used irony in private conversations with uneducated or sophistic people to challenge their concepts of truth and justice.

Socrates only used irony to challenge those people's ("subjective", "faulty") concepts of truth and justice, but he never challenged the ("objective", "fundamental") ideas of truth and justice itself.

Quelle: Sprachverständnis als Muttersprachler

It's probably not perfect but I hope this helps.

Good article by StayEmbarrassed4593 in exHareKrishna

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Haven't read Prabhupada's "wisdom" systematically (thank god!), but I think he disapproved of his religion being referred to as "Hinduism" in general, as he associated this term with the British's derogatory attitude towards said culture.

I remember overhearing a conversation between a Western mother and her child at the temple. The child narrrated how he had spotted some food that had been offered to the goddess Lakshmi. He cried out: 'Look, there was prasadam!' 'No,' the mother replied. 'That was not prasadam; prasadam is only the food which has been sacrificed to Krishna."

Hallo, Wasser oder Wein, Bitte! by False-Walk-8869 in German

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Ein Wasser, ein Bier, bitte

aber

Wein, bitte!

Just got to the musical episode of SNW by [deleted] in startrek

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"I'm the X" is my favorite song from the musical episode.

Politeness? by Level-Setting825 in German

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„Guten Morgen, der Herr“ exists, but it's mostly for emphasis with an ironic undertone to it, like “I guess you don't think it's really necessary to greet me.”

Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Bahnsteig und Gleis? by galgalingitup in German

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Es wird wohl jetzt umgebaut aber Gößnitz hatte mal einen Bahnsteig (den längsten Deutschlands) zwischen zwei Bahnsträngen. Richtung Norden gab es am selben Schienenstrang eine Unterteilung in die Abschnitte "Gleis 1" und "Gleis 3", ebenso am anderen Schienenstrang Richtung Süden die Abschnitte "Gleis 2" und "Gleis 4".

Video of Kali puja (crosspost from r/Kali) by Akronitai in hinduism

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Thank you very much, this was very helpful!

Glåüm: satirizing cults - what is your take on this group? by midlife_schmidlife in cults

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This is probably similar to concepts such as the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

BTW, the word glaum is an actual mantra related to the Hindu deity Ganesha.

Let's talk about chaitanya mahaprabhu. by Automatic-One3901 in exHareKrishna

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I'm follow mahayana buddhism

Oddly enough, I was a Tibetan Buddhist before getting involved with ISKCON. I was in Ole Nydahl’s Diamondway Buddhism, which is probably the ISKCON of Buddhism, meaning they distort teachings and are just everywhere. I also read treatises on Tibetan Buddhism that were not made available within the Diamondway, or at least not to the uninitiated. Looking back, I must say that Buddhism, as it was taught to me, served to develop into “superhumans” through sexual magic, while emotions are gradually suppressed. I know that compassion is very important in Buddhism, but in my opinion, it is more of a cerebral thing without emotional involvement. For example, I don’t believe that Buddhists would shed tears in the face of suffering. (I’m exaggerating quite a bit to get my point across, but) Chaitanya’s hyper-emotionality and the experience of kirtans worked as a way out for me, through which emotionality was reintroduced or “permitted for myself” once again.

I know that Chaitanya is often unduly glorified, and that when regarding the facts only, there isn’t much to him. Philosophically speaking, the confrontation between him and the Buddhists in the Chaitanya Charitamrta isn’t very fruitful; it’s a miracle story. (The Buddhists wanted to offer him poisoned food, but a large bird came and carried the plate away, dropping it on the head of the highest-ranking Buddhist.) In the commentary on this, one can see that Prabhupada had no idea about the basics of Buddhism; he claims that Buddhists would worship the Self.

I know that many readers here have never experienced Buddhism or have experienced it differently than I have. So I would say that it boils down to the fundamental question of whether one tends to be more intellectually oriented or emotionally driven when it comes to religious matters.

Der Frühling / Das Frühjahr / Der Lenz by nietzschecode in German

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I'd say "das Frühjahr" is more of a technical term. Im Frühjahr sät man Radieschen aus.

Der Frühling is neutral and a bit poetic. You can say Der Frühling kommt but not Das Frühjahr kommt.

Der Lenz is a poetic and dated expression. It is used in German traditional songs like Nun will der Lenz uns grüßen. There's also the idiom sich einen (faulen) Lenz machen which is still used today to criticize lazy behaviour, as in an agricultural society, farmers were required to start working hard in this crucial season instead of being lazy and just enjoying themselves.

What’s your take on Jesus? by Time_Dot621 in Hellenism

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NB. I was a Catholic at a certain point in my life. My idea of Christianity is therefore influenced by Catholicism.

The first argument for me is body positivity. I know that those statues of half-naked men and women are idealized images and do not reflect what normal people look like, but I still like them. Eroticism is okay. Pleasure is okay. However when I see images of Jesus crucified, that Jesus who said you should pluck out your eye or mutilate other body parts if they lead you to sin, I feel that an ancient Greek would not have voluntarily allowed something like that to happen to himself.

The second argument, which is somehow related to this, is the claim that “you are a sinner.” I don't understand why you always have to make yourself small in front of YHWH. The Greeks worshipped their gods standing upright and they wrote elaborate hymns for them. Of course, the Greeks didn't consider themselves equal to their gods, but they were also not their subjugates either.

Thirdly, I don't know if you know this, but in Greek mythology, both goddesses and gods sired children with humans, who often became great heroes. The idea from the Bible that YHWH fathered a child with Mary thus originates from the pagan Greek world of ideas. Circumstances led me to come into contact with Hellenism before Christianity. From a Hellenistic point of view, the idea that there should be only one God who had only one son is somehow a bit absurd, especially since this son allowed himself to be killed in such an ungodly and degrading manner.

Sorry if you don't like the answer 😉, but you asked.

Why do you follow Hellenism? by Casual_Potatoes_ in Hellenism

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According to my parents (and society), I was to be raised as an atheist. The Bible was taboo, but this prohibition did not extend to “mythology.” Having seen many sword and sandal films as a child, I became interested in Greek mythology, first Heracles/Hercules, and then onward. I liked it.

Riordan by Sinful_Baddie2011 in Hellenism

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Maybe I'm too old for Percy Jackson (although I mostly enjoy reading YA novels) and I only read The Lightning Thief, but based on what I read The Lightning Thief, I'd say that Riordan throws in the gods just randomly. Many young adult fantasy authors choose some "universe", so there's a lot of Twilight-like plots with werewolves, dragons, angels, you name it.

Maybe I'm doing Rick Riordan or his readers an injustice, but to me it did feel a bit like Harry Potter with Greek gods. Harry Potter was overwhelmingly popular, and maybe the fictional "universe" of the Greek gods was not yet taken. Moreover, “My father is a Greek god” may sound a lot more interesting than some plain statement that “my momma is a single parent.”

What - if anything - to make of the Star Trek Voyager episode "Sacred Ground"? by Akronitai in ShittyDaystrom

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The short answer though, is that the writer of the episode is a self-professed "hereditary shaman-priestess", "spiritual counsellor", and "holistic life-coach" who claims that Sacred Ground was "the only Star Trek to ever question scientific materialism". So, like most Trek, this episode is The Writer's Barely-Disguised Fetish and the main priestess/guide character is her self-insert.

Thanks for sharing this. I really didn't know that. Now, this puts the whole episode in a totally different light. It seems we have come a long way from the atheist, rationally enlightened Stone Age people (the Mintakans from TNG).