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This made my day today.

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Torco wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:58 am do as the vikings did and supplement vitamin D with cod. if you start getting ideas about raiding monasteries, consult your GP again.

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A better question is whether Germanic, Slavic, Baltic, or Finnic paganism could have survived (and all things considered, Baltic paganism survived to a surprisingly late date). I think what happened within the limes was key. The Germans were keen to imitate everything Roman, so adopting some form o...

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As I recall, Zarathustra is very misogynistic. I'm inclined to think that's a huge flaw; Nietzsche basically ignored half (if not more) of human experience. Too put it very loosely, Nietzsche was an early example of an incel, drawing from the fact that the woman he desired didn't want him the concl...

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I get your point! The idea though, would be not to have Christianity disappear entirely, but it coexisting with other religions (some of them deriving from paganism). So you'd have multiple cults/religions occupying diverse niches. I don't know if Christianity could have gotten the "monopolist...

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How about something happening sometime during the reign of Diocletian, or Constantine not converting after all? I think Constantine not converting isn't particularly unlikely -- as far as I know, he was an opportunist; another idea I'm toying with is Diocletian dying before the Persecution. I hope ...

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I'm not sure whether Roman paganism could have survived, but I'm quite sure that by Julian's time it was too late to save it. I'm curious as to why you think that :) I don't know if Christianity would have gotten a monopoly, so to speak, without Imperial sanction. And Julian hypothetically living t...

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Gute Besserung!

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fusijui wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:32 pm Victoria police will still be involved in public drunkenness cases after decriminalisation, documents say

Cheers!

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I'm not sure whether Roman paganism could have survived, but I'm quite sure that by Julian's time it was too late to save it.

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TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:35 pm
masako wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:33 pm Kenamoya abugida – A decorative script for Kala centered on a circular design.
Impressive so far, both esthetically, and linguistically, IMHO!

Well said!

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And Putin has talked about how we're shortly before World War 3 again. Is it it this time? My father would have said "Yes, it is. Will you stop fretting about that now?" He could be mean like that. ;-) As this is one of the ways I've decided not to be like my father, here's what I think. ...

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"Zelenskiy says that there is no evil which Putin will not commit, in order to stay in power." Without you pointing it out, I also wouldn't have guessed that reading. It would have been much easier if they had left out the quotation marks, or put them around the entire clause before "...

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Mes félicitations!

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Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:57 am I am a gardener, therefore I am a supervillain?

Der Mörder ist immer der Gärtner

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masako wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:25 am next: example

Tautisca boringly has a Latin loan here: essemplun
next: to sprout

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As they say, the past is a different country... and we're not who we used to be. It was even weirder in the late 70s / early 80s, when when many progressives in Germany actually were of the opinion that sex with children was something good (supposedly it was one of the many forms of sexuality suppre...

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What are the chances that the languages spoken in Europe before IE arrival were Afro Asiatic? We simply don't know. The only Afro-Asiatic languages attested in Europe were brought by settlers / conquerors / immigrants from the Middle East in historical times (Phoenician and Hebrew in Antiquity, Ara...

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This makes me wonder, in parallel... do all countries produce soaps? I only know of one German daily soap, it has the very original title Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten ("Good Times - Bad Times") and runs since over 30 years on the private TV station RTL. I watched some episodes when my g...

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Ares Land wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:04 am
Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:09 am Ares Land, you're reminding me of this, which I found on social media:

Wonderful!

Yes, that hilarious! Now we know that spice is White Russian

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