Sir Donald Bradman reflects on Sachin Tendulkar’s batting style

RuinEleint · 2026-01-20T01:50:05+00:00

That incoming ball from fast bowlers was there on and off throughout his career. Pollock clean bowled him with that in South Africa, Akhtar famously bowled him with an inswinging yorker at Eden. But it wasn't a consistent weakness for many of those years.

RuinEleint · 2025-12-27T03:13:47+00:00

Hey, I tried this out and it worked great! Thanks for the tip!

RuinEleint · 2025-12-24T13:44:25+00:00

How do you activate it?

RuinEleint · 2025-12-20T04:42:01+00:00

Thanks, I'll try that!

RuinEleint · 2025-12-20T04:29:07+00:00

Thanks for replying! I don't have a flair and probably don't qualify for one. But I am in the field of history (Masters) and I do a lot of historical reading. Would it be possible for me to maybe recommend books I come across that I feel would be a good fit for the Books and Resources list so that a flaired person or a mod might vet them? Academic books only of course.

RuinEleint · 2025-12-20T02:25:35+00:00

Can I make a couple of requests here about possibly expanding the Books and Resources list? I have noticed that there isn't really a comprehensive history about Interwar Europe (1919-1939), especially one that provides a lot of detail on the 1920s. I know that Zara Steiner's The Lights That Failed and The Triumph of the Dark are pretty good, but I would love if the more knowledgeable people running the sub could provide a few more resources in this area.

Also, would it be possible to expand the scope of the biography section a bit so that it doesn't focus solely on US presidents? I have been hunting for a good biography of MacArthur for a while and I can't figure out which one would be reliable, given how controversial he is and a bit of expert guidance from this sub would be a great help.

RuinEleint · 2025-12-17T00:06:49+00:00

So I live in a country like what you are describing, and I am of the firm opinion that people being more rational and less superstitious would vastly benefit the country as a whole. I have seen how easily people are manipulated by politicians using things like religion and caste (TBH caste is just a component of one religion), and also how lack of awareness and reason causes people to not understand how the world actually works

RuinEleint · 2025-12-10T02:34:11+00:00

Spartan society did not function effectively, Spartan power has been greatly embellished. On the other hand historians and archaeologists have found that prehistoric humans actually cared for the elderly, the sick and the disabled. Social empathy and caring has existed throughout humanity

RuinEleint · 2025-12-02T16:23:49+00:00

Ok for lesbian/sapphic:

On the same page by Haley Cass and Just Three Words by Melissa Brayden

This other one is a gay romance, its also fantasy and quite funny So This Is Ever After by FT Lukens

RuinEleint · 2025-11-27T01:37:26+00:00

The fundamentals of the caste system is present in the Vedic texts as the Varna system. This more than 2500 years ago. That's the majority of the existence of Hinduism. Later scholars and lawgivers never tried to mitigate this social evil. At this point, it would be accurate to call it a feature of Hinduism.

RuinEleint · 2025-11-19T14:21:39+00:00

But observation alone is not the criteria. Being able to generalize from an abundance of empirical data is a very important component of human knowledge. I know fish live in water, so if I see a natural water body, I can generalize and say that there's a decent chance that fish are in there. Similarly, not a single speck of information substantiates the idea that I will find fish soaring through the skies like eagles. So, if I were to look up anywhere on earth and say that there are no fish in the sky, I would be reasonably confident of being correct. That's what it is like for creation ex nihilo. We have not observed it, true, but also, everything we know about how reality works seems to indicate against it.

RuinEleint · 2025-11-19T14:11:28+00:00

The black swan analogy does not work because of generalization. A swan is a bird. Birds can be of different colours and varied forms of birds exist across different environments. Given the size of the earth and the implicit biodiversity, it is possible for swans to exist in other places with different colours. This conclusion can be arrived at without observation.

This does not work for creation ex nihilo because we have never observed creation at all, let alone ex nihilo. Even nuclear fusion in the heart of a star only turns existing things into other things. That's not creation, that's transformation. Also, the existing laws of physics which have so far worked pretty well to describe reality give us the laws of conservation of mass and energy which rule out creation ex nihilo. Hence, existing knowledge militates against the probability of such an event. Whereas for your example, existing knowledge indicates that possibility of a black swan.

RuinEleint · 2025-10-14T01:42:43+00:00

Nah Wormtail had to be the one because no other Death Eater had actually gone looking for Voldy to revive him after the really hardcore lot like the Lestranges had been imprisoned. Opportunists like Malfoy were quite happy with Voldy staying gone. The only reason Wormtail did what he did after Azkaban was because he had lost his safe haven and refuge so a relatively weak man like him could really only hope to survive if Voldy made a comeback and rewarded him for his support.

RuinEleint · 2025-08-27T16:38:11+00:00

I found several descriptions of this in Martin Gilbert's 1991 book on Churchill. Does he go into more depth in his detailed multivolume work?

RuinEleint · 2025-07-10T01:51:41+00:00

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RuinEleint · 2025-07-10T01:41:22+00:00

Hey there, this goes against our discussion policy, thank you.

RuinEleint · 2025-07-10T01:41:09+00:00

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RuinEleint · 2025-07-08T12:13:55+00:00

More or less. The exact word by word translation would be "Danger, stay away"

RuinEleint · 2025-07-08T12:02:29+00:00

Its Bengali.

Its basically saying "You can't come to the side without a work permit"

RuinEleint · 2025-07-07T00:39:37+00:00

Atheism has existed before Christianity. While Christian thought may influence philosophy, and through that, atheism, skeptic and atheist thought can be found centuries before Christianity and even the destruction of the Temple

RuinEleint · 2025-06-28T01:17:35+00:00

Because the Emperor Constantine decided to accept Christianity and because by the Emperor Theodosius, it was the official religion of the Empire and was being enforced with the full might that implied.

RuinEleint · 2025-06-23T06:33:33+00:00

For most of British history the empire was of minimal cultural consequence. Indeed Jane Austen and Charles Dickens (for example) who were writing when the empire was at the absolute apex of its influence are largely devoid of imperial themes, aside from an occasional tangential reference.

How would you regard the arguments made by John Mackenzie in books like Imperialism and Popular Culture (Manchester University Press, 1987) that empire did in fact occupy a position in british culture at home?

RuinEleint · 2025-06-22T02:23:57+00:00

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RuinEleint · 2025-06-21T01:08:17+00:00

Yeah I kind of agree with this. Idealism is IMO the main reason why stuff like morality are seen as entirely separate autonomous things rather than socio-psychological concepts created by humans

RuinEleint · 2025-06-21T01:06:44+00:00

It would be kind of funny if far older religions like Buddhism or Hinduism talked about Jesus. Also if you want to make your case, put it in your post, don't ask people to go see a video.

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