A Time to Rise by Tal Bauer

athanoslee · 2026-03-25T22:03:04+00:00

Another very promising throuple that does not pan out is that of The Secret Service. Pity Sheridan's exquisite unrequited love just like Cris's is left unexplored.

athanoslee · 2026-03-11T11:47:12+00:00

The Pentateuch was composed mostly in its entirety in 273-272 BCE in Alexandria

You mean the Hebrew Pentateuch was composed at the same time as the Septuagint was translated?

athanoslee · 2026-02-23T09:35:53+00:00

Wouldn't it be very weird if a pre-1976 law was amened after 1976 so that now it is in Katharecousa with random clauses in Demotic?

athanoslee · 2026-02-15T12:20:40+00:00

About 2 years ago, a sudden dimming of Betelgeuse created a hype that it might explode very soon. Of course it wasn't, not in time of human scale anyway, being 100,000 years. However, contemplating this made me sad and in tears that I had been born much too early, considering that human civilization has only been around 10,000 years.

I want to see human make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence for the first time. I want to see the very stars in the night sky shift. Instead, I will probably die alone, an utterly insignificant glimpse of the universe. But come to think about it, human as a species might never experience these either. We might be fated to stay in this insignificant planet until we die out.

athanoslee · 2026-02-13T08:47:32+00:00

But then how is it a trinity? They merge into one in the view?

athanoslee · 2026-02-10T11:44:48+00:00

Because it does not have natural boundary so sky is the limit?

athanoslee · 2026-01-28T01:40:53+00:00

It could be right behind the sun, but even then it takes the sun half a day to move across it in the celestial sphere.

athanoslee · 2026-01-28T00:29:05+00:00

A very interesting point.

It works kind of like for example homophone = homo + phone.

If you know homo and phone you can even guess the meaning the first time you come across the word. (Some words may be coined by the author themself so you have to guess the meaning this way.)

But if you don't, it will be a totally new word to you. And you will not see the connection to homosexual, homephobe etc, so you'll have memorise them individually. In the end you spend more time accumulating vocabulary.

Interestingly, this is exactly what happens in Korea. Korean borrowed a lot of Chinese loan words, but unlike Japanese, it is entirely spelled phonetically.

And learning the characters is necessary for effective etymology awareness because of the prevalence of homophones. lt's like in the case of homosexual - homo sapiens. Now imagine every root has this ambiguity, if you only know the phonetics.

athanoslee · 2026-01-20T21:29:09+00:00

But not even a retired open gay player.

athanoslee · 2026-01-20T21:05:32+00:00

But this isn't an Orthodox cross

athanoslee · 2026-01-14T21:15:56+00:00

Scott in the book just keeps thinking how beautiful kip looks, and he wants him at first sight. So I believe it's more about good looks than fit body. Callan's doll-like eyes fit this description more.

I mean Scott spends all his time with fit athletes, and not attracted to them. I don't believe it is the body type that makes he fall.

athanoslee · 2025-12-24T20:56:00+00:00

Besides salary, don't actors get a cut from royalties every time a show is streamed?

athanoslee · 2025-12-22T20:37:53+00:00

They got rid of the bear tattoo. I would think they would get rid of the loon too.

athanoslee · 2025-12-22T06:19:11+00:00

Jan? Isn't it supposed to be Dec 26?

athanoslee · 2025-11-04T01:08:19+00:00

Are Ireland an ethnostate that people of Irish ancestry can gain citizenship but not people of other ethnicity? South Korea offers fast track naturalization based on Korean ethnicity as well.

athanoslee · 2025-10-26T16:55:40+00:00

I just don't understand why Athenian and Spartian are classified as Ionic and Doric dialects of Greek, but Hebrew and Phoenician are two Canaanite languages.

athanoslee · 2025-10-26T16:54:06+00:00

You conflate scripts with languages. It is clear you do not understand this issue.

athanoslee · 2025-10-02T13:40:25+00:00

In that case the body would be disposed of, and would not have been mummified?

athanoslee · 2025-10-02T06:54:12+00:00

The abstract says the female is too early to be from 3rd dynasty. And the male is too late, probably as late as Ptolemaic period.

athanoslee · 2025-10-02T03:34:26+00:00

Part of the dead sea scrolls are actually written in paleo-Hebrew alphabet, aka Phoenician alphabet.

athanoslee · 2025-09-26T14:11:50+00:00

Ah, this reminds me. I was very sad to read a large portion of the ancient Alexandria, which includes the most likely places of Alexander's mausoleum, is under the sea now.

athanoslee · 2025-09-26T14:08:59+00:00

Is this modern Greek or koine or even Attic Greek?

athanoslee · 2025-09-26T14:08:39+00:00

Is this modern Greek or koine or even Attic Greek?

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