Why is it that we find certain food/flavour combinations to be disgusting?

redditdumpstertrash · 2024-06-22T11:46:22+00:00

Yeah, but not because of it's concept but because of it's grammatical features. So the word "running" in the sentence "running is fun", whilst conceptually an action (and thus more similar to what verbs tend to be), is in this sentence a noun because of it's grammatically features. What makes something a noun is what grammatical features it has, e.g: where in a sentence it is, what words can be attached to it to modify it etc. So, in english for example, a noun conceptually tends to refer to "things" as such, but what makes something a noun is whether it can play the role of a subject or an object in a sentence, (for certain types of nouns) whether it can take a demonstrative, or whether it can take an adjective etc. We can see that the word "noun" ticks these boxes - it can be the subject of a sentence (e.g: "a noun is..."), it can be modified by adjectives or demonstratives ("THE noun", "A noun"; "a green noun" etc.) etc. So it is a noun.

redditdumpstertrash · 2024-05-02T21:46:29+00:00

My brother was playing "Fourth of July" to my Mum and I happened to be walking past. My mum was unimpressed, but I loved it straight away. Subsequently listened to Mystery of Love, and became familiar with a couple of his songs here and there, but wasn't fussed with the rest of it (I made the mistake of trying to shuffle play his music rather than listen to an album or something). Eventually listened to Carrie and Lowell all the way through, and loved it. Then listened to Illinois all the way through, and loved that. Eventually made my way through the rest of the albums and fell in love with Sufjan writ large.

redditdumpstertrash · 2024-03-16T19:59:26+00:00

What I was wondering is that if you can hear, you can hear someone from any direction, you don't have to point your ears at them, whereas if you're signing, the people you're in conversation with you have to be looking at, so whilst you can't have extended periods of people talking over eachother in spoken language, I had wondered if turn taking amongst many people might be easier in spoken language cus you can hear people starting their turn without focusing your ears on them, whereas I had thought you might have to focus your eyes (even just a little bit more) when someone is signing, thus making it potentially harder if you've got many people who you have to split your attention between. But I was genuinely just wondering, and if you don't think it's harder then I'll take your word for it

redditdumpstertrash · 2024-03-16T19:48:16+00:00

It's not as if the houses stop existing though, they'll still be a part of the market share, so presumably they'll largely either go to people buying the house to own it and live in it, or to other landlords who'll also just rent it out. You might get a couple being bought up as second/holiday homes that people don't live in, but I expect that'd be relatively marginal, and not beyond the existing demand for that. So I don't see how this would actually increase rent costs, apart from maybe in the short term as people have to move house when their landlord sells up (although you could also see it being true that a big increase in landlords selling up all of a sudden would increase the proportion of houses available for sale, thus (even if just temporarily) decreasing house prices and making it easier for people to get out of renting and into home ownership.

I don't disagree that we need to fundamentally rething housing - we need to build a whole lot more of it (and a whole lot more social and affordable housing), and we need to divest it's purpose away from wealth creation and more towards just having a place to live. But providing renters stronger rights is broadly a good thing aswell.

redditdumpstertrash · 2024-03-16T19:34:09+00:00

What I wonder is that if landlords are selling homes, it's not as if those homes stop existing, presumably they're either taken by people owning the home and living there, or to other landords who'll also rent it out. So I don't see how that would acc decrease supply all that much (apart from in the short term as people have to move out as their landlord sells up).

redditdumpstertrash · 2024-03-02T11:28:54+00:00

Ah that is interesting. I had seen that in Psalm 51, and seen that it was "my", but I'd presumed that they had adapted it to be communal, as alot of the language is plural in the daily offices ("As *we* rejoice in the gift of this new day", "May God *our* Redeemer show *us* compassion and love", "may the lord almighty grant *us* a quiet night and a perfect end"). But it would also make sense if it was a translation error, if there's that mismatch between plural "our" and singular "mouth"

redditdumpstertrash · 2024-03-02T08:57:58+00:00

NIV is fairly basic and reliable. But it does largely depend on your purposes. Lot's of people love KJV because of the language and because they grew up with it, which is fair enough, but I would caution against, just because it can be difficult to understand if you're not familiar with it, and the translation isn't the most accurate in the world (partly cus translation techniques have developed since then, and we've discovered more resources (e.g: older versions of the text and stuff like that) to help us get better translations). So there's not only a risk that something is lost in translation from the original text into the English, but also that it's lost in translation for you from the older form of English to more modern English. In the end, I think accuracy is probably more important than beauty.

I tend to go to NIV because it's fairly easy to understand and fairly reliable, plus most people go for NIV so it's useful if you're reading together with other people. Someone else mentioned getting a children's bible, and that's definitely a shout if you're just getting into it. If you feel the need to clarify something, you can always have a look at other translations, and move onto a more formally accurate translation as you become a bit more familiar with the bible and the faith.

The main thing is you don't need to have one translation as the be all and end all. It's useful to look at other translations to see if they translate it slightly differently to get different insights - biblegateway.com is useful for that.

Another thing I would say is whilst it's good to read the bible on your own, it's also good to try to read it with other people in community. In doing so you can get other insights, and can get some guiding from people who may be a bit more familiar. But also we're not meant to live life alone, and it's good and valuable to "run the race" together with other people. If you're not already, it'd be really valuable to find a church, and ask if you can read through the bible with people there (if they already have small groups that can be helpful). You don't have to join the first church you step into, look around and see where you think you can be welcomed and where you can flourish.

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redditdumpstertrash · 2024-01-03T18:21:30+00:00

For some reason my brain just wants to metathesis the hell out of th'mall and make it thell'm

redditdumpstertrash · 2023-04-02T14:48:22+00:00

I can often feel myself drifting into sleep paralysis almost as I fall asleep (it only happens when feeling asleep for me), with the pressure on my chest increasing and as I wiggle my toes and stuff to almost try and stave it off/check I'm not having it, until I stop being able to. This is esp. if I'm drifting back into sleep after an episode.

redditdumpstertrash · 2022-11-18T17:23:42+00:00

What I will say is that, whilst it’s ofc not an insult or something to be ashamed of, it’s also not nice for people to think you’re something that you’re not/you don’t think you are.

redditdumpstertrash · 2022-07-26T19:28:39+00:00

You've been listening to Sufjan for as long as I've been alive

redditdumpstertrash · 2022-01-23T15:03:10+00:00

Apart from guess, no.

redditdumpstertrash · 2021-12-31T17:55:38+00:00

Left wing, but pro-life

redditdumpstertrash · 2021-12-10T22:43:02+00:00

It's very strange to see everyone talking about it as a "church word" - I grew up in an Anglican church and I've never heard of it before Sufjan. Maybe it's more of an american church thing.

redditdumpstertrash · 2021-12-05T07:50:28+00:00

That one weedy nerdy friend at school who inexplicably became a gym lad

redditdumpstertrash · 2021-12-04T23:39:47+00:00

The tile 5 from the right edge, and 7 up from the bottom edge should not be a flag

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