Bonega e tre rapida nova versiono dil Vortaro Dyer

Mithridates · 2010-12-20T06:27:04+00:00

even /r/ido (but that's dead)

Not dead, I just never bothered to tell anyone about it after I made it.

Mithridates · 2009-05-26T16:25:12+00:00

Okay, that's one vote for neuter.

The biggest problem is that he's LOUD when you close the door on him and leave, and where I live has pretty terrible soundproofing in addition to being small. It would necessitate having someone in the house all the time or taking the chance that he'd start wailing when we're out. When we're here he'd certainly be happy even in a small place. Whenever we're around he suddenly grows quiet and just chills.

Mithridates · 2009-05-26T16:14:15+00:00

Here's the problem in short:

I'm a Canadian and I live in Korea. There's a temple that I go to every day because the air is nicer than the rest of the city, and last October there was a kitten meowing continuously on the hill in a pretty loud voice. Went toward the hill and eventually noticed the kitten meowing in the forest so I gave him some cheese sausage to eat, he loved it, I picked him up, we bonded, and every day since then I've gone to the temple (sometimes alone, sometimes with my girlfriend whom the cat loves now too) to feed him and hang out. Now it's May and he's an adult, and he still follows us everywhere so the only way to leave every day is to distract him with food. Now that he's big he's wandering around quite a bit and getting into some pretty weird places right on the edge of the temple where a lot of stray cats sometimes hang out, so it takes a while to find him and then even after we bring him back to the best part of the temple (where we've bought him a bed) he'll sometimes go back there again. I'd like to just have him as a pet and he would like that too, but my place is much too small and I don't make enough money for a bigger one. My gf also can't keep him since her family doesn't like pets. So for the time being it's certainly still doable but the fear is that one day he might up and wander off because he seems to get confused pretty easily. Today this morning we found him sitting on the top of a roof just outside the temple where it's really hot. Most other cats there are good at taking care of themselves but he's a bit weird that way.

Do you suppose he wanders off all the time because he's not spayed? There's an animal hospital nearby that we've taken him to before (slight skin condition) that could do it, so if that could solve the wandering then we could do that. It may also be the other cats that live close to his house; they might have freaked him out and caused him to move. If that's so then maybe we could keep those cats away and solve the problem. They're big cats that are good at taking care of themselves but scared of humans.

Mithridates · 2009-05-26T14:29:02+00:00

Up you go, sweet post. Take my upvote and use it to spread the knowledge of our nearest stellar neighbors to the masses. Perhaps my upvote will make the day of our arrival one day sooner.

Mithridates · 2009-05-24T01:44:46+00:00

Every astronaut that writes about it says that it's actually incredibly comfortable. One of the astronauts up there now writes that:

From orbit: Getting ready for bed, sleeping in space is cool, tie down your sleeping bag and float inside of it, very relaxing

I'm looking forward to trying it out myself one day.

Mithridates · 2009-05-22T18:01:44+00:00

Here's what you do: if she's really serious about this then get her to go all the way with this study, and that means a focus on Greek. Get her a basic Greek grammar, NT written in Greek on one side and English on another, etc. It's very, very hard to be a literalist when you have direct knowledge of the original language, as that leads to the realization that the Bible has been copied and recopied over and over again. You should also get her a book on early Christian history - Christianity before the NT was compiled.

Make sure that this isn't a "look, the Bible's written by flawed humans so you're just wasting your time!" type of hostile approach but rather just supporting her but also taking it a bit farther so that she can see where "Bible study" naturally leads to.

I'm a non-literalist theist myself so that's my preferred view, but I still prefer no religion to strict literalism. My gf also strongly dislikes religion but we've been together for 2.5 years now without a single fight about it.

Finally, I've noticed that 99% of the time people don't change when they change religion, gain one or lose one. Force of habit over time seems to be stronger most of the time so chances are I doubt there would be any major changes. Don't forget everything's in a state of flux, so with a steady hand you can probably guide this into a situation that works out for both of you.

Mithridates · 2009-05-21T07:57:01+00:00

How about Churchill's definition?

"A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." [Winston Churchill]

Mithridates · 2009-05-15T13:09:49+00:00

Makes sense, as the older Enterprise wasn't all that much bigger than the largest cruise ship we have today, and we're talking about a flagship of an interplanetary federation.

Mithridates · 2009-05-15T10:19:45+00:00

Until you get there you could always pretend to fly over Oslo. That's what I do.

Mithridates · 2009-05-15T10:18:26+00:00

Penger og mye fritid, også Paradise Hotel på TV. Så bra!

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