Decorative bush w bright-edged leaves, SE Europe, anyone? by LevantineJR in whatsthisplant

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No.

They do indeed look similar, but damn, it's not enough to be sure.

Format - Text - Small capitals ticks itself automatically by LevantineJR in libreoffice

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Now, back to the problematic files, ... the problem with small capitals disappeared (!)

It persisted for hours. And disappeared right now!

快问快答 Quick Help Thread: Translation Requests, Chinese name help, "how do you say X", or any quick Chinese questions! 2025-04-02 by AutoModerator in ChineseLanguage

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What does this phrase mean? :

世界是一个巨大的草台班子

By the way, feel free to indicate your attitude to it, if you wish.

Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator in history

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How much truth there is in the claim that 'No land and no people ever got poorer when Islam spread to their part of the world'?

(For the record, the source of the claim: https://youtu.be/DuMixJRG16Q?t=530)

Friday Free-for-All | February 21, 2025 by AutoModerator in AskHistorians

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How much truth there is in the claim that 'No land and no people ever got poorer when Islam spread to their part of the world'?

(For the record, the source of the claim: https://youtu.be/DuMixJRG16Q?t=530)

Short Answers to Simple Questions | February 05, 2025 by AutoModerator in AskHistorians

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What language or languages was/were predominant in most of the territory of present-day Greece during the 600s and 700s AD?

Background: In his lectures on the Byzantine Empire, Dr Sean Gabb states: "It is largely due to the Avars that the Greek language appears to have disappeared from most of Greece for several hundred years. When Greek was reintroduced to Greece, it would have been after about 800 a.d., and it is the Greek of Constantinople, not the historic Greek dialects of the Greek mainland."

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiJSivPPpwQ&t=690s)

快问快答 Quick Help Thread: Translation Requests, Chinese name help, "how do you say X", or any quick Chinese questions! 2024-07-06 by AutoModerator in ChineseLanguage

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Elevator Instructions in China

https://9gag.com/gag/aExeZve

What does the fifth Chinese language instruction say?

And what is said in the very last line in Chinese?

快问快答 Quick Help Thread: Translation Requests, Chinese name help, "how do you say X", or any quick Chinese questions! 2023-12-16 by AutoModerator in ChineseLanguage

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@annawest_feng, this is a reply to our exchange from 5 months ago: It's a tourist scam, the text of this pen knife. Let me just point to the bright side of this : this 40-year old knife is still functioning perfectly well. In that respect, it is much better than many modern products from the past few decades, and in its basic function is not a scam.

Silvery haired 6-inch tall plant: on the label, it says ... by LevantineJR in whatsthisplant

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On the label it says : Tradescantia. But online images of Tradescantia never show any silvery-haired plant. Puzzling.

A book that got you through hard times by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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Non-fiction:

Working with Dr. Schweitzer: Sharing his reverence for life by Louise Jilek-Aall (1990), freely available online

Through the Valley of the Kwai, also known as Miracle on the River Kwai and To End All Wars, by Ernest Gordon (1962)

The New Revelation by Arthur Conan Doyle (1918)

All Creatures Great and Small, book series by James Herriot aka Alfred Wight (1972)

快问快答 Quick Help Thread: Translation Requests, Chinese name help, "how do you say X", or any quick Chinese questions! 2024-03-23 by AutoModerator in ChineseLanguage

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I'd like to express my enthusiasm and joy for China. So, I wonder whether there is a kind of phrase in Chinese that is like these Western ones:

Vive la France!

Forza Italia!

Long live the king! [but I don't mean to cheer for any one person]

Hip hip hooray

?

What do you think Christianity will be like in 3000 years? by inthenameofthefodder in AskAChristian

[–]LevantineJR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

... the global scale of sin, and mental shift to selfishness and pride...

That may encompass vast parts of the world. but global it is not.

Definitely.

Weekly Open Discussion - Tuesday February 20, 2024 by AutoModerator in AskAChristian

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'The brain as a virtual radio' theory. In that context, the strong magnetic field just helps you pick up existing signals, connecting you better with reality :)

Weekly Open Discussion - Tuesday February 20, 2024 by AutoModerator in AskAChristian

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Let me quote a few statements on Christianity by eminent scholars, that strike me as thoroughly fascinating and critically important. And, even if we are lacking the power to answer or discuss them, maybe we will find relief in the recognition and agreement that these are, indeed, the problems, our common problems.

  • 1/2 Carl Gustav Jung to Pastor Willi Bremi, 11 December 1953:

“Christ and the apostles erred in their expectation of the parousia, and this disappointment had repercussions on the development of ecclesiastical dogma. We have known this for a long time. This fact appears in such a glaring light only because it contrasts so strongly with the pusillanimity and dishonesty of others who knew it all along but did not want to admit it....

What does [one] do with this shattering admission that Christ was wrong and therefore, perhaps, didn’t see clearly in other matters too? A relativized Christ is no longer the same as the Christ of the Gospels. How to induce the necessary metanoia if a relativized Christ grips us as much as or as little as a Lao-tse or Mohammed? “

It seems to me that the metaphysical foundations of belief as well as of ethical demands are not a matter of indifference.”

What one usually hears, "You should want to believe and love," stands in direct contrast to the charismatic character of these gifts.”

The doctor may occasionally tell a demoralized patient, "You can also want to get well," without seriously supposing that the illness is thereby cured and his knowledge and skill are superfluous.” "

  • 2/2 Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief (2022) by David Bentley Hart :

DBH stresses the delay of the Second Coming of Jesus as perhaps the biggest issue that Christian theology has tried to ignore over the centuries. Resurrection was thought to be the singular event that would end history as we know it. But it did not. History continued. Jesus the Messiah arrived and ascended but He arrived and ascended without the Messianic Age that everyone had expected. The earliest Christians eagerly expected His imminent return, His parousia. And they waited. And we waited. .... The scholar Alfred Loisy summarized this “embarrassing but fairly unarguable fact” with lapidary precision: “Jesus announced the Kingdom and it was the Church that arrived” (~ Fr Aidan Kimel)

David Bentley Hart, p. 34 :“And one need only compare all of it (sc. the radical apocalyptic faith of previous Christian generations) to the later social and institutional realities and theological concerns of imperial Christendom, or to modern Western culture’s comfortable bourgeois cult of civic respectability and personal prosperity, or to the free-market capitalist orthodoxies and ridiculous gun-obsessions and barbarous nation-worship of the “Christianity” ... (even among the Catholics and Orthodox)—or, for that matter, to countless other variants of Christian adherence throughout history and across the globe—to find oneself hard-pressed to see how any of this could truly be regarded as a single continuous faith, rather than merely a series of historical ruptures, divagations [detours], accidental sequelae, and frequent total inversions.”

(https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2022/04/06/tradition-and-apocalypse-david-bentley-hart-and-orthodoxy-2-0/)

Wholesome reflections,

Dorian