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  1. Tamino

    Let's discuss VIRTUES

    Industriousness? I would not see that as a virtue either. It's a means to an end, no more. You need to do your job and fulfill your obligations in life. But otherwise? Make yourself a good day, forget worry. (From the dispute of a man with his Ba) By the way... If I remember correctly, studies...
  2. Tamino

    Let's discuss VIRTUES

    In that case, lemme quote Ptah-Hotep at you again: "Follow your heart as long as you live And do no more than is your share Do not shorten the time of following-the-heart - such would be an abomination to your Ka-soul" ... That's what I call Work-Life-Balance, 2200BCE
  3. Tamino

    Let's discuss VIRTUES

    Self-reliance That is not really a virtue in my tradition. Self-care, yes. Balancing work and pleasure, yes. There are instructions to manage your property with care and strive for a stable position. But non of those are about self-reliance in the sense of trying to manage on your own. The...
  4. Tamino

    Let's discuss VIRTUES

    That's a good summary of Aristotle's view, right? Wasn't he all about the good balance and moderation?
  5. Tamino

    Let's discuss VIRTUES

    Ok, I have edited my post - I thought the idea was to add each culture's most important virtues. So, perseverance? In the Ancient Egyptian military, the greatest honor was a solid golden medal in the shape of a fly. Because a fly is like a good soldier: always in your face, yet difficult to...
  6. Tamino

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    I think the original campaign was 20 years ago, and the "Geiz-ist-Geil Mentalität" sparked some discussion and controversy in the media. Feels recent to me, but I guess I am just getting old
  7. Tamino

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    There you go. You finally found out what we've been trying to tell you all along: the German word "Geist" has several meanings, depending on context. No, you missed the joke entirely. We had this wide-spread and annoying ad campaign in Germany featuring the slogan "Geiz ist geil"... More like...
  8. Tamino

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    I was referring to 1Kings 9, 9-15 ... I has a story of Elijah meeting his god. First, there are violent natural phenomena, and the first expected representation of the God is a storm wind - but the voice of god finally reveals itself in a quiet whisper. In Exodus it's the burning bush and...
  9. Tamino

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    I don't know. It has its etymological root in the association with breath I don't see that, honestly. German has plenty of idioms, I never thought to count if they are less used than in English. Perhaps your dad has a point, it just doesn't feel like it to me. I personally think that German and...
  10. Tamino

    How embarrassed and shameful would Biden and the Democrats be if a felon beat them in the election for POTUS?

    The ones who should be embarrassed are those who vote for the felon, not those who stand against him.
  11. Tamino

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    Never heard of it before. :) I'd rather go with: "it is to writings that you must set your mind (...). I shall make you love books more than your mother, and I shall place their excellence before you. " (From the Instruction of Kheti)
  12. Tamino

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    Oh, wow, those are unexpected. is the 'spøgelse' related to 'Spuk' perhaps? And for 'Ånden' I cannot think of a similarity with any language I know, but according to Wiki it's from an old Germanic root with the meaning of "breath" (ånd - Wiktionary, the free dictionary) , which seems an apt...
  13. Tamino

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    Ok, let me put this into the context of a different modern language, then. German. German still owes a lot of its modern uniform expression to Martin Luther and his 16th century bible translation. In German, it's "Heiliger Geist" . It was translated like this by Luther and there is still no...
  14. Tamino

    Misogynistic and Selfish, Edinburgh's Rape Crisis Centre's CEO is a trans-woman, i.e. a man !

    Whether the conduct of the Center management was alright or not... Let's just take a moment to consider that the CEO who is "legally male" looks like this:
  15. Tamino

    Ask me about ancient Egypt

    Obviously, the "place" of sunrise and sunset is relative to your position. Technically, the sun isn't rising and setting at all - the planet is spinning. For a stationary observer on planet earth, they will observe sunrise east of their position and sunset west of their position. It's entirely...
  16. Tamino

    why doesn't there exist a modern neoplatonism movement?

    I'm pretty sure that half of the deistic people who believe in a vaguely Christian but mostly distant and uninvolved Creator are pretty much neo-platonists. And most of the Esoteric folk that talk about destined eternal souls, laws of attraction, manifesting happiness and such things... If you...
  17. Tamino

    What has happened to Protestantism?

    Johann Sebastian Bach was a Lutheran Protestant. I think his Music feels plenty "sacred"
  18. Tamino

    If God Created Man...

    Is that so? Evidence appears to disagree... https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/10/2960
  19. Tamino

    Dogs and cats

    Dogs might be what made our species what it is today. (See Pat Shipman, The Invaders) or Cats, on the other hand, just regular pets, aren't they? I'd talk more about cats, but you need to excuse me, my lord demands that I do my monkey job and pick the ticks from his fur and then serve dinner...
  20. Tamino

    Another Rare Roman Dodecahedron Found in England Baffles Archaeologists

    Well, it would certainly improve your motivation of not being hit
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