ellauri160.html on line 452: For sacrifice, heaping the pyre with goods, A-laatua, kasattiin hyvää tulille,
ellauri171.html on line 814: To another church, Christ said, “you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked” (Revelation 3:17). These Christians, though rich with material goods of this world were very poor in faith.
ellauri171.html on line 933: Canaanites believed that following physical death, the npš (usually translated as "soul") departed from the body to the land of Mot (Death). Bodies were buried with grave goods, and offerings of food and drink were made to the dead to ensure that they would not trouble the living. Dead relatives were venerated and sometimes asked for help. Seijakin huutaa aina Leaa avuxi.
ellauri192.html on line 698: The Dnieper River is the fourth longest river in Europe. It runs a total length of 1,368 miles extending from the uplands of Russia’s Valdai Hills where it flows in a southerly direction through western Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine before emptying into the Black Sea. The River is usually divided into three parts; the upper portion reaches as far as Kiev, the middle portion generally refers to the area between Kiev and the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya, and the lower portion is comprised of the area between Zaporizhzha and the river’s mouth at the Black Sea. Approximately 300 miles of the waterway is located in Russia, 430 miles are in Belarus, and 680 miles within Ukraine. The Dnieper River is significant not only due to its dams which provide hydro power but also for facilitating trade and providing a waterway in which to transport goods to and from various European nations.
ellauri222.html on line 459: Cissy Flexner is Simon’s fiancée. She is beautiful and tall, with an impressive figure, but dumb and conceited. Her father, Joe Flexner, is a dry-goods shopkeeper who also lost everything in the crash. Cissy marries Five Properties instead of Simon.
ellauri222.html on line 627: The Renlings hire Augie to sell horse-riding gear at their sporting goods store in Evanston, Illinois. Mrs. Renling wishes to make Augie the perfect gentleman by giving him a distinguished wardrobe and sending him to college. Since the Renlings have no children of their own, they even offer to adopt Augie, but he declines.
ellauri223.html on line 192: However, an increasing number of reports circulated about friction in the marriage, with speculation that this may have been due to Alice's making do with less money than she had once been accustomed to. It was said that she was strongly interested in fame and fortune, and when household finances dwindled, she complained bitterly. Bunten wrote in her Life of Alice Barnham that, upon their descent into debt, she went on trips to ask for financial favours and assistance from their circle of friends. Bacon disinherited her upon discovering her secret romantic relationship with Sir Frodo Underhill. He subsequently rewrote his will, which had previously been very generous—leaving her lands, goods, and income—and instead revoked it all.
ellauri223.html on line 204: In 1625, Bacon became estranged from his wife, apparently believing her of adultery with Underhill. He rewrote his will, which had been quite generous to her, leaving her lands, goods, and income, to revoke it all:
ellauri236.html on line 184: Miss Blandish, the daughter of a millionaire, is kidnapped by some gangsters who are almost immediately surprised and killed off by a larger and better organized gang. They hold her to ransom and extract half a million dollars from her father. Their original plan had been to kill her as soon as the ransom-money was received, but a chance keeps her alive. One of the gang is a young man named Slim, whose sole pleasure in life consists in driving knives (well, his prick as well, got to give that much to him) into other people's bellies. In childhood he has graduated by cutting up living animals with a pair of rusty scissors. Slim is sexually impotent, but takes a kind of fancy to Miss Blandish. Slim's mother, who is the real brains of the gang, sees in this the chance of curing Slim's impotence, and decides to keep Miss Blandish in custody till Slim shall have succeeded in raping her. After many efforts and much persuasion, including the flogging of Miss Blandish with a length of rubber hosepipe, the rape is achieved. (Ei se ihan näin mennyt, George!) Meanwhile Miss Blandish's father has hired a private detective, and by means of bribery and torture the detective and the police manage to round up and exterminate the whole gang. Slim escapes with Miss Blandish and is killed after a final juicy rape, and the detective prepares to restore Miss Blandish to her pristine shape. By this time, however, she has developed such a taste for Slim's caresses(3) that she feels unable to live without him, and she jumps, out of the window of a sky-scraper. Footnote 1945. Another reading of the final episode is possible. It may mean merely that Miss Blandish is pregnant, i.e. she is damaged goods. Maybe she is sad that the baby's dad is dead. But the "interpretation" I have given above seems more in keeping with the general brutality of the book.
ellauri236.html on line 380: Meanwhile, the police are on the trail of the kidnappers, and Dave Fenner, an ex journalist and now a private investigator, is hired to rescue her and deal with the gangsters. Fenner and the police eventually work out where the young socialist is located and go to the club, where a gun battle ensues. Slim is killed and Miss Blandish is rescued, but unfortunately, after months of fornication and drugs at the hands of the gangsters, Miss Blandish cannot cope with life without Slim (and his Ma!) and kills herself. Damaged goods.
ellauri236.html on line 482: “She is dead. I have no doubt about that. It would be an impossible thought to think of her still alive and in the hands of such men. No, she’s dead. At least I hope so. If she isn't please make it so. I don't want back any damaged goods.” “Money is no object,” Blandish said. "Money is a subject. Women are objects.“
ellauri264.html on line 221: „Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption. The measure of social status, of social acceptance, of prestige, is now to be found in our consumptive patterns. The very meaning and significance of our lives today expressed in consumptive terms. The greater the pressures upon the individual to conform to safe and accepted social standards, the more does he tend to express his aspirations and his individuality in terms of what he wears, drives, eats- his home, his car, his pattern of food serving, his hobbies.
ellauri264.html on line 228: products; discards clothing and appliances and buy new ones instead of repairing them; and buys goods usually wrapped in disposable packaging.
ellauri301.html on line 228: Krotoa was born in 1643 as a member of the !Uriǁ’aeǀona (Strandlopers) people, and the niece of Autshumao, a Khoi chieftain and trader. At the age of twelve, she was taken to work in the household of Jan van Riebeeck, the first governor of the Cape colony. As a teenager, she learned Dutch and Portuguese and, like her uncle, worked as an interpreter for the Dutch who wanted to trade goods for cattle. "!Oroǀõas" received goods such as tobacco, brandy, bread, beads, copper and iron for her services. In exchange, when she visited her family her Dutch masters expected her to return with cattle, horses, seed pearls, amber, tusks, and hides. Unlike her uncle, however, who just Spike hottentot, "!Oroǀõas" was able to obtain a higher position within the Dutch hierarchy as she additionally served as a trading agent, ambassador for a high ranking chief and peace negotiator in time of war. Her story exemplifies the initial dependency of the Dutch newcomers on the natives, who were able to provide reasonably reliable information about the local inhabitants.
ellauri302.html on line 509: The Stranger Well, — there 's little need of my boosting my goods. With two years more of study, he'll have the whole learning at his finger tips.
ellauri370.html on line 72: The term has been explained in different and sometimes conflicting ways by different scholars. It has been defined as "a mode of secluding, and rendering harmless, anything imperilling the religious life of the nation", or "the total destruction of the enemy and his goods at the conclusion of a campaign", or "uncompromising consecration of property and dedication of the property to God without possibility of recall or redemption".
ellauri373.html on line 197: “2. As for what you say about the command to despoil you of your goods” [the law was that on becoming converted Jews gave up their possessions]; “make your sons merchants, that little by little they may despoil the Christians of theirs.
ellauri389.html on line 65: Elia, in contrast to Bridget (qua Mary) speaks for a modern sensibility that is attuned to constant stimulation and that revels in the contemporary industrial and imperial economy of surplus and novelty goods. His teacup is an object of debate because it epitomizes precisely the kind of dangerous indulgence Bridget fears: it is a luxury commodity and, with its fashion-dependent pattern and place in a "set" of companion pieces, it inevitably entails additional purchasing. Elia's dialectical opposition to Bridget thus is underscored by his capacity to "love" one pattern of porcelain, and "if possible, [love another] still more". Indeed, Elia's susceptibility to new-sprung marketing strategies is suggested by his acknowledgment that china jars were "introduced" into his imagination by the recently invented tactics of advertising.
ellauri428.html on line 275: is (i) true and (ii) adheres to a set of (salient) narrative conventions, contributes to the meaningfulness of one’s life. It does so by making the life more intelligible to oneself and others, thereby enabling the goods of understanding and community.
ellauri476.html on line 61: A haul video is a video recording posted to the Internet in which a person discusses items that they recently purchased, sometimes going into detail about their experiences during the purchase and the cost of the items they bought. The posting of haul videos (or hauls) was a growing trend between 2008 and 2016. Often the items bought are books, clothing, groceries, household goods, makeup, or jewellery. See also:
ellauri476.html on line 72: The sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen coined the term "conspicuous consumption", and was a pioneer of the institutional economics movement. He also identified and described other economic behaviours such as invidious consumption, which is the ostentatious consumption of goods, an action meant to provoke the envy of other people; and conspicuous compassion, the ostentatious use of charity meant to enhance the reputation and social prestige of the donor; thus the socio-economic practices of consumerism derive from conspicuous consumption.
ellauri476.html on line 74: In An Examination of Materialism, Conspicuous Consumption and Gender Differences (2013), the researchers Brenda Segal and Jeffrey S. Podoshen reported great differences in the consumerism practised by men and women. The data about materialism and impulse purchases of 1,180 Americans indicate that men have greater scores for materialism and conspicuous consumption; and that women tended to buy goods and services on impulse; and both sexes were equally loyal to a given brand of goods and services.
ellauri480.html on line 344: Capitalism inherently relies on transactions, where goods and services are exchanged for profit. This system thrives on the principles of trust and mutual benefit. The transaction is not merely economic but also reflects ethical considerations—people often choose to do business with those whose values align with their own.
ellauri480.html on line 418: Many strong slaves, the Númenorean oarsmen: Why were they destroyed by Iluvátar? They meant no harm! They did not volunteer to attack Aman! They were simply pressed into service and could do nothing about it. And even if Iluvátar was most primitively determined to abort the Númenóreans as a race and nation – infants, embryos, elderly, sick, retarded, and all -, it does not serve as an excuse, for the oarsmen were not Númenoreans! Indeed the Númenoreans „hunted the men of Middle-earth and took their goods and enslaved them.“ (TA, emphasis by me) So Iluvátar leaves a most unsettling image of himself: He bullies everyone accessible, asking not for reasons or for motivations, but You deserve to die because You are there. This is not what a just god is supposed to do! But it does sound hauntingly familiar...
ellauri488.html on line 722: The Arctic route was the shortest, most direct and quickest route for supply convoys to the USSR, though it was also the most dangerous. About 3,964,000 long tons (4,028,000 t) of goods were sent via the Arctic, of which 93 per cent arrived. The route constituted about 23 per cent of the total aid to the USSR during the war. The Persian Corridor was the longest and only all-weather route to the USSR but did not become operational until mid-1942. Thereafter it saw the passage of 4,160,000 long tons (4,230,000 t) of goods, 27 per cent of the total. On tavallaan ironista, että 80 vuotta sitten brittiläiset ja amerikkalaiset insinöörit rakensivat Iranin rautateitä ja teitä kilpaa, jotta tarvikkeet saataisiin perille Moskovaan, ja nyt samoja reittejä pohditaan aivan eri geopoliittisista syistä.
ellauri490.html on line 555: Why advocates support it: Redistributes income to reduce inequality. Raises revenue for public goods and social programs. Reduces after‑tax concentration of economic power.
ellauri497.html on line 337: Sounds like two kikes bickering over stolen goods. Malorussians were being just strictly humanitarian and civilian-focused (just providing food for starving Philistines).
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 489: Yes, that has a positive impact on makers of luxury goods. But it’s not in any way the shared prosperity implicit in the trickle-down pledge.
xxx/ellauri087.html on line 332: Milton was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 31, 1912. His parents, Sára Ethel (née Landau) and Jenő Saul Friedman, were Jewish immigrants from Beregszász in Carpathian Ruthenia, Kingdom of Hungary (now Berehove in Ukraine). They both worked as dry goods merchants. Shortly after his birth, the family relocated to Rahway, New Jersey. In his early teens, Friedman was injured in a car accident, which scarred his upper lip.
xxx/ellauri120.html on line 57: As deacon in Rome, St. Lawrence was responsible for the material goods of the Church and the distribution of alms to the poor. Ambrose of Milan relates that when the treasures of the Church were demanded of Lawrence by the prefect of Rome, he brought forward the poor, to whom he had distributed the treasure as alms. "Behold in these poor persons the treasures which I promised to show you; to which I will add pearls and precious stones, those widows and consecrated virgins, which are the Church's crown."
xxx/ellauri148.html on line 107: For ten years, Savilino has been creating artisan leather goods meant to be simple, beautiful, and durable. Now, as Harvard returns to regular campus life, they have created custom totes meant to become an everyday necessity.
xxx/ellauri148.html on line 232: 2 "Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 3 "and say, 'Thus says the Lord God: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.11 to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land. 23 "Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord." ' Ezekiel 38:2,3,11,23
xxx/ellauri233.html on line 226: For their endless innovations and productive achievements—the goods they create, the services they provide, the problems they solve—successful corporations deserve our deepest respect and admiration. And when they are unfairly attacked, they deserve our defense.
xxx/ellauri296.html on line 256: niitä suojakääreisiin. Naaras jonka pakkaus on särkynyt on damaged goods, se on luvallista riistaa kaikille.
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xxx/ellauri436.html on line 249: Nussbaum (2001) explains that the “social-democratic liberalism” that is the basis of her politics is a liberalism that holds similar commitments to the Christian liberalism of Jacques Maritain, the social liberalism of T. H. Green, and the individual liberalism of Ernest Barker. Liberal socialism is a political philosophy that incorporates liberal principles to socialism. This synthesis sees liberalism as the political theory that takes the inner freedom of the human spirit as a given and adopts liberty as the goal, means and rule of shared human life. Socialism is seen as the method to realize this recognition of liberty through political and economic autonomy and emancipation from the grip of pressing material necessity. Liberal socialism opposes abolishing certain components of capitalism and supports something approximating a mixed economy that includes both social ownership and private property in capital goods. Let oligarchs own the profitable businesses while the people hold the sticks that do not pay.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 742: Poor Quality of Goods and Services: There is a stereotype that Russian-made goods and services are of poor quality compared to those from Western countries.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 867: Wasteful Consumption: There is a stereotype that Americans are wasteful in their consumption of resources, including energy, food, and goods.
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 267: Leibniz argues that some evil is necessary for the greater good, contributing to the overall harmony of the universe. Leibniz emphasizes that humans cannot fully comprehend the reasons behind God's choices. What may seem like unnecessary suffering could lead to greater goods that are beyond human understanding. Leibniz seeks to reconcile faith with reason, suggesting that philosophical truths should not contradict theological beliefs. He maintains that God’s actions, while sometimes inscrutable, are ultimately just and good. Sama paskaa lappaa Voltairekin, vaikka on deterministi: kaikki paha on hyvisten testausta, pahisten rangaistusta, kunnollisten palkkiota tai muuten hyvin etukäteen suunniteltua.
xxx/ellauri491.html on line 95: Briteille se sopi mainiosti. The Brits supported the independence of Brazil (declared in 1822) primarily for economic and strategic reasons. Free Trade Access: Britain wanted to bypass the Portuguese trade monopoly. By supporting independence, they gained preferential tariffs and direct access to the Brazilian market for their manufactured goods, particularly textiles. Abolition of Slave Trade: Britain pressured the newly independent nation to abolish the Atlantic slave trade in which they had too small a slice. Brazil eventually signed a treaty in 1826 promising to end the trade within four years in exchange for British recognition. Strategic Influence: Britain acted as a mediator between Portugal and Brazil to "maintain regional stability" ie. to secure its position as the dominant naval and economic power in the South Atlantic. Debt and Loans: The British government and banks provided loans to Brazil to pay off its "independence debt" to Portugal, effectively making the new empire financially dependent on London. It is funny that USA uses the same euphemism of "regional stability" when they want to keep some area under their control. Fortunately the fucking Americans led by the nazi anti christ of the pee coloured hair are ignominiously losing the war of aggression against Iran. Mordorin harhaileva kaze kääntyy Kuubaan päin.
xxx/ellauri491.html on line 568: Workers circumvented these prohibitions by paddling out to merchant riverboats moored beyond the town jurisdiction, often hiding contraband goods inside fruits like watermelons. A small settlement was established 8 kilometres (5 mi) upstream on the "Island of Innocence" with bars, nightclubs and brothels.
xxx/ellauri493.html on line 223: No — lying is not a Jewish virtue. Jewish sources generally value truthfulness (emet) and prohibit deceptive speech, though they allow a few narrow exceptions (e.g., to save a life, to promote peace, or to avoid unnecessary hurt). Examples in Jewish texts: the Torah and rabbinic law praise honesty; rabbinic authorities discuss permitted, tightly limited cases of concealment or diversion for higher goods.
xxx/ellauri495.html on line 174: Your reaction is coherent: if God can do anything, then why create beings who can definitively choose against him, and why not create “happy animals” instead. In Christian philosophy (including Aquinas-adjacent lines), the standard response is essentially: God isn’t choosing between “happiness with no freedom” and “chaos,” but between kinds of goods. A common version goes like this: Freedom is a real good. Created persons can love, obey, worship, and genuinely choose. “No free choice” trades away not just the possibility of sin, but also the possibility of love and moral/covenant relationship. Omnipotence doesn’t mean “make any set of values compatible.” The classic view is that there are realities like “created agency” and “definitive choices” that can’t both be preserved while also guaranteeing that no creature ever chooses wrongly. The “circus” is not trial-and-error but a created order with intelligible consequences. God permits the misuse of freedom rather than coercing away misuse, because coercion would undermine the kind of relationship and moral order being created. That still leaves the emotional/ethical punch of your last line (“I’d rather have no freedom than sin-capable freedom”), and many people who find the metaphysics unpersuasive land there: freedom is too expensive. If you’re open to it, I can answer in the most direct way by taking your preference seriously: do you want the argument for why “no freedom” is worse than it sounds, or do you want the argument for why God’s omnipotence allows more than “could have prevented this one outcome” (i.e., a deeper take on the “why create at all” question)?
xxx/ellauri495.html on line 183: If you don’t care about praise/blame, then a lot of the classic free-will theodicy loses its main engine. A more direct way some people respond in that case is: the “point” of creation isn’t moral bookkeeping (praise/blame) but the existence of a kind of order where creatures can pursue goods, relate, and participate in meaning—and wrongdoing is part of the risk whenever you allow self-directed agency. If you reject that agency is worth the cost, then the remaining options are basically (i) God chooses a different order (no failures, but also less self-direction), or (ii) God’s reasons aren’t humanly intuitive. If you don’t mind, I’ll ask one question to aim the discussion: do you reject the value of self-directed agency itself, or do you reject God’s choice to allow suffering/failure given omnipotence?
xxx/ellauri495.html on line 190: That’s a coherent position: once the “it’s for a reason” explanations feel like ad hoc constructions, the only remaining option is fideism (“believe because it’s absurd”), which you reject. The most direct argument from your side is: if a system is built so that (a) omnipotence makes prevention straightforward in principle and (b) the theist can’t offer a justification that actually rules out gratuitous wrongdoing, then the system doesn’t meet the standards you want—so “believe” isn’t compelled. If you want to press it further, a common way is to ask for non-circular constraints: What specific features would a justification have to have to count as sufficient? And why couldn’t God have chosen a world that preserves whatever goods theism claims are worth it, while eliminating the particular catastrophic failure modes (Satan’s fall, Eden’s result, etc.)? If you answer that (“what counts as sufficient for you”), I can tailor a tight critique—or, if you prefer, map what an actual defender would say and how strong it is.
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