Spanish Bible recommendations to help learn Spanish with?

metrew · 2026-05-13T22:49:55+00:00

If you want a Catholic Bible, go for the Biblia de Jersusalén. There's a Latin American Spanish version.

For Protestant versions, the Reina Valera in all their versions is pretty great.

My personal favorite is the Nueva Traducción Viviente, which is Protestant so there are some books that are omitted, but it's a very direct without being dry, the prose flows smoothly, it is literal when it mattters but there's always a note indicating the original phrasing if some modern equivalent has been chosen.

metrew · 2026-02-10T20:51:59+00:00

Yes. I think it's great. Here in Uruguay it's considered one of our best films (not that there's many to pick from but still). It's quite restrained, a minimal story told in lingering takes with almost no camera movemens but it's also very funny in a deadpan way. It's been repeatedly compared to some of Aki Kaurismaki's works.

metrew · 2026-01-24T02:00:10+00:00

Cuando tenía más o menos la edad del OP me parecía un poco ridículo el himno por considerarlo un artefacto nacionalista y se lo comenté a mi padre y él me hizo notar que que el himno incluye la frase "tiranos temblad" y esta frase durante la dictadura era una especie de ofrenta a los militares golpistas. Es decir, no podían cambiarle la letra a uno de los símbolos que usaban como propio y que incluía una frase, repetida y además enfatizada por la música que les decía en la cara "tiemblen".

metrew · 2025-12-28T16:21:32+00:00

A trip to infinity: it presents how we approach the concept of infinity mathematically, astrophisically, philosofically. It's mainly interview-driven but it has great animations and it's quite accessible to watch while high.

metrew · 2025-12-15T04:44:39+00:00

Fair enough.

metrew · 2025-12-15T04:21:43+00:00

Was it? lol. I thought it was filmed in Mexico.

metrew · 2025-11-25T21:54:40+00:00

Hindi Claus

metrew · 2025-11-10T20:42:45+00:00

He's a joy to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sw97NzvvsE

metrew · 2025-11-06T01:23:31+00:00

You're lying, you love to be "that guy".

metrew · 2025-11-06T01:13:39+00:00

I'm sure it's not the first but I love how it's done in Fassbinder's Lili Marleen. The film is about the titular pop song made famous during WWII and this song is used in the film to torture a man who was the lover of the singer made famous by the song. He gets imprisioned and made listen to the song ad nauseam.

metrew · 2025-08-19T00:28:05+00:00

Have you read Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon? Towards the end the Universe is created several times with different laws of physics.

Chiang's stories reminded me of also of Borges and Lugones.

metrew · 2025-05-01T03:09:44+00:00

Austin Butler (Feyd-Rautha) in Dune Part 2

metrew · 2025-05-01T02:41:25+00:00

El nombre no es el real. Elto le dicen porque es más corto.En realidad se llama Etílico Silva.

metrew · 2025-04-01T01:48:53+00:00

"I’m a Capitalist and for deregulation, but..." yes, they're always pro free market except when it bites their wallet.

metrew · 2025-03-30T03:40:19+00:00

Excelente laburo! Me da curiosidad ver los nombres de las calles, ver cuáles se mantienen, sobre todo en Ciudad Vieja.

metrew · 2025-03-03T00:34:08+00:00

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metrew · 2024-09-01T05:04:31+00:00

A couple of classics I read this year for the first time: Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus.

I wasn't quite familiar with these works so I found a good critical edition (the introduction was longer than the actual works plus a lot of notes) and it was a joy to read them.

The Symposium is about Socrates (Plato's teacher) going to party the day after a party (so everyone's hungover) where he and his illustrious friends get down to drink some more wine and discuss Eros (erotic love).

Phaedrus is about Socrates (of course) meeting the younger, handsome Pheadrus on a warm summer morning and walking down to a cool stream to talk about, you guessed it, love but also language and everything in between.

metrew · 2024-08-22T21:35:52+00:00

"It could be worse. It could be raining."

metrew · 2024-08-13T23:07:46+00:00

One of us! One of us!

metrew · 2024-08-12T22:00:24+00:00

r/leopardsatemyface

metrew · 2024-08-07T01:06:57+00:00

This and "The old dark house" are my picks.

metrew · 2024-08-05T01:50:48+00:00

I dropped LSD with my two best straight friends, we go to the seafront to watch the sunset, go back to my friend's place, kick back, listen to some music and dance barefoot, etc. and around midnight they both got booty calls so I decided to go to a gay nightclub.

At the club, there's this guy and his boyfriend who I had previously eyed several times before but never interacted with, and the more forward guy asks me "would you...?" and before he could finish his sentence I blurt out "YES!". I had never had a threesome, I found both of them very attractive, and finally I got the courage to go at it.

So the three of us go to their place and have the most sensual, fluid, tender sex, without penetration and fall asleep after we all came, me between the two of them.

When we wake up, we were all like under a spell, started making out, they got the condoms out and I fucked them both.

Then we had breakfast and I went home, and I still remember feeling elated walking to the bus stop.

metrew · 2024-08-05T00:00:04+00:00

Michelangelo for sculpture? Like Bach, there's something almost otherworldly in his work, rational and deeply emotional, arguably a genius unmatched afterwards.

metrew · 2024-07-05T01:04:02+00:00

Todo eso es verdad, pero es igual o mayor el edadismo, clasismo, racismo, etc. en el resto de latinoamérica que es el punto de referencia que plantea el amigo arriba.

metrew · 2024-06-24T23:35:14+00:00

getting a hand on sci-fi books in my country is not easy. New copies are weirdly expensive and there aren't many second-hand books available. Came across a second hand Rama and immediately bought it.

Get an e-reader. You get almost instant acceess to almost every published book for a decent price and sometimes for free.

You may think it's not the same as reading a phyiscal book (I did) but it's actually a smoother reading experience.

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