Wolpe wondered how many young people today even know Saul Bellow or read his work, but mused how wonderful it would be if more children of famous authors wrote about their parents, as Greg Bellow has.
ellauri222.html on line 137: In the culture of little magazines, friendship is the last thing to prevent one writer from reviewing the work of another. As a novelist happy to have well-disposed reviewers, Bellow had an obvious stake in these friendships. But the friends had a stake in Bellow, too. As Mark Greif points out in his important new study of mid-century intellectual life, “The Age of the Crisis of Man,” Bellow came on the scene at a time when many people imagined the fate of modern man to be somehow tied to the fate of the novel. Was the novel dead or was it not? Much was thought to depend on the answer. And for people who worried about this Bellow was the great hope. Atlas quotes Norman Podhoretz: “There was a sense in which the validity of a whole phase of American experience was felt to hang on the question of whether or not he would turn out to be a great novelist.”
ellauri222.html on line 195: You can see the biographical problem. From the beginning, Bellow drew on people he knew, including his wives and girlfriends and the members of his own family, for his characters. In “Augie March,” almost every character—and there are dozens—was directly based on some real-life counterpart. Most of “Herzog” is a roman à clef. Leader therefore decided to treat the novels as authoritative sources of information about the people in Bellow’s life. When Leader tells us about Jack Ludwig and Sondra Tschacbasov, he quotes the descriptions of Gersbach and Madeleine in “Herzog.” In the case of the many relatives with counterparts in “Augie March,” this can get confusing. You’re not always sure whether you’re reading about a person or a fictional version of that person.
ellauri222.html on line 361: Grandma Lausch tells Augie, “The more you love people the more they’ll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.” Which is really better, respect or love? The two brothers, Augie and Simon, are on opposite sides of this argument. Augie identifies himself on the side of love. An idealist with a soft heart, he is almost comically susceptible to falling in love, and openly shows his sympathy, even toward the small lizards that are killed by the eagle Caligula. Augie’s vision for an orphan home and academy is driven by his motivation to share love. Simon, on the other hand, prefers respect. He marries Charlotte and stays with her because he admires her business sense, not because he feels romantic love for her. He doesn’t care whether the men at the club love him. In fact, he knows they hate him. But this doesn’t matter to him as long as he is respected. Ultimately, Simon is richer and more successful, but Augie seems happier. What's love got to do with it. What a reptile.
ellauri223.html on line 113: They say that it is very doubtful whether the world was made from nothing, or from the ruins of other worlds, or from chaos, but they certainly think that it was made, and did not exist from eternity. Therefore they disbelieve in Aristotle, whom they consider a logican and not a philosopher.
ellauri223.html on line 194: Alice Bacon and her mother Dorothy were both reported by contemporaries as having extravagant tastes, and being interested in wealth and power. However, early in the marriage, Bacon had money to spare, "pouring jewels in her lap", and spending large sums on decorations. Power was also available, as in March 1617, along with Francis Bacon being made temporary Regent of England, a document was drawn up making Lady Bacon first lady in the land, taking precedence over all other Baronesses (it is not clear whether it was signed into law).
ellauri240.html on line 148: “There does tend to be some tendency to take a Chinese asset – whether it is a particular type of missile or boat or radar or whatever – and ascribe to the Chinese the same capability that we would have if we had the same item,” says Dr. Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
ellauri243.html on line 340: big step for anyone, whether you’re a celeb or the average person. But for
ellauri244.html on line 441: Hi, I'm Faye Bryant! I help people who have endured trauma–whether of their own making, such as addiction and poor choices, or pushed upon them through abuse–recognize they have worth and purpose, determine their God-designed purpose, then live confidently, with focus toward that purpose to live the life God designed them for.
ellauri245.html on line 157: On the other hand, from my mostly male fart-loving audience, I received many questions about the use of the torture device Leopold’s Apple in particular. For example, whether it really exists. Is it available from Amazon?
ellauri247.html on line 284: DROIT D'AUBAINE, jus albinatus. This was a rule by which all the property of a deceased foreigner, whether movable or immovable, was confiscated to the use of the state, to the exclusion of his heirs, whether claiming ab intestato, or under a will of the deceased. The word aubain signifies hospes loci, peregrinus advena, a stranger.
ellauri257.html on line 67: Taras Bulba (1962), yhdysvaltalainen sovitus, pääosissa Yul Brynner ja Tony Curtis ja ohjaaja J. Lee Thompson. The tale of a Cossack chief who has sworn to be the eternal enemy of the treacherous Poles. So, when his son falls for a beautiful Pole who has saved his life, the father is faced with the dilemma of whether to kill his own flesh and blood as a traitor. This film reinforced the Brynner stereotype as king of the Asiatic wide open spaces.
ellauri260.html on line 275: We have an experiment on the grandest possible lines in humanity and conducted by it. It puts a decisive question, and it demands either Yes or No. It is only the experience of the collective life that can show whether the answer which Socialism gives meets the whole reality of human nature ; for here it is not simply a question of mere theories and types of life, however well they may be constructed, but of actual vital developments.
ellauri262.html on line 78: MacDonald is often regarded as the founding father of modern fantasy writing. His best-known works are Phantastes (1858), The Princess and the Goblin (1872), At the Back of the North Wind (1868–1871), and Lilith (1895), all fantasy novels, and fairy tales such as "The Light Princess", "The Golden Key", and "The Wise Woman". MacDonald claimed that "I write, not for children, but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five." MacDonald also published some volumes of sermons, the pulpit not having proved an unreservedly successful venue.
ellauri270.html on line 343: Mr. Summers says that they had better get started and get this over with so that everyone can go back to work. He asks if anyone is missing and, consulting his list, points out that Clyde Dunbar is absent with a broken leg. He asks who will be drawing on his behalf. His wife steps forward, saying, “wife draws for her husband.” Mr. Summers asks—although he knows the answer, but he poses the question formally—whether or not she has a grown son to draw for her. Mrs. Dunbar says that her son Horace is only sixteen, so she will draw on behalf of her family this year.
ellauri270.html on line 415: Jackson examines the basics of human nature in “The Lottery,” asking whether or not all humans are capable of violence and cruelty, and exploring how those natural inclinations can be masked, directed, or emphasized by the structure of society. Philosophers throughout the ages have similarly questioned the basic structure of human character: are humans fundamentally good or evil? Without rules and laws, how would we behave towards one another? Are we similar to animals in….. read analysis of Human Nature.
ellauri272.html on line 83: A second study in 2014 was conducted to examine the health of women who had read the series, compared with a control group that had never read any part of the novels. The results showed a correlation between having read at least the first book and exhibiting signs of an eating disorder, having romantic partners that were emotionally abusive and/or engaged in stalking behavior, engaging in binge drinking in the last month, and having 5 or more sexual partners under age 14. The authors could not conclude whether women already experiencing these "problems" were drawn to the series, or if the series influenced these behaviors to occur after reading.
ellauri276.html on line 546: At alle tymes, thogh hym gamed or smerte, whether in joy or distress; (see note)
ellauri284.html on line 634: The Enforcement Directorate is examining whether a number of shell companies were set up to mask the origins of this money, as it is illegal for foreign investors to purchase agricultural land in India, according to investigators, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the inquiry is ongoing.
ellauri285.html on line 757: Later, but of more critical importance, the Fredrickson and Losada work on modeling the positivity ratio aroused the skepticism of Nick Brown, a graduate student in applied positive psychology, who questioned whether such work could reliably make such broad claims, and perceived that the paper´s mathematical claims underlying the critical positivity ratio were suspect. Brown contacted and ultimately collaborated with physics and maths professor Alan Sokal and psychology professor Harris Friedman on a re-analysis of the paper´s data (hereafter the Brown-Sokal-Friedman rebuttal). They argued that Losada´s earlier work on positive psychology and Fredrickson and Losada´s 2005 critical positivity ratio paper contained "numerous fundamental conceptual and mathematical errors", errors of a magnitude that completely invalidated their claims.
ellauri300.html on line 655: Galatians 2 mentions that Titus accompanied Paul and Barnabas to Jerusalem, apparently the trip mentioned in Acts 15 where they went to the Council at Jerusalem to debate whether Titus ought to be circumcised. What happened to Titus after that is not known. It’s possible that Titus died on the operation table.
ellauri302.html on line 131: ''Who you are!" What! Have you stolen anything? You have a business. Everybody has his own business. You don't compel anybody, do you? You may deal in what you please, can't you, if you yourself do no wrong?... Just try to give them some money, and see whether they'll take it from you or not!
ellauri302.html on line 136: Do you really believe that they're any better than you? You don't need their favors!... That's the way of the world these days: if you've got the money, even so pious a Jew as Reb Ali comes to your home, — a Chassid, mind you, — and accepts handsome alms from you. He asks no questions, — whether you got it by theft or by murder or by selling arse. So long as you have the cash. That's the chief point!
ellauri302.html on line 428: Fie! You're out of your head altogether. True, a misfortune has befallen you. May Heaven watch over aU of us. Well? What? Misfortunes happen to plenty of folks. The Lord sends aid and things turn out all right. The important point is to keep your mouth shut. Hear nothing. See nothing. Just wash your hands clean of it and forget it. (To Reizel.) Be careful what you say. Don't let it travel any further, God forbid. Do you hear? (Turns to Yekel, who is staring vacantly into space.) I had a talk with... (Looks around to see whether Reizel is still present. Seeing her, he stops. After a pause he begins anew, more softly, looking at Reizel as a hint for her to leave.) With er, er... (Casts a significant glance at Reizel, who at last understands, and leaves.) I had a talk with the groom's father. I spoke to him between the afternoon and evening prayers, at the synagogue. He's almost ready to talk business. Of course I gave him to understand that the bride doesn't boast a very high pedigree, but I guess another hundred roubles will fix that up, all right. Nowadays, pedigrees don't count as much as they used to. With God's help I'll surely be here this Sabbath, with the groom's father. We'll go down to the Dayon and have him examine the young man in his religious studies... But nobody must get wind of this tale. It might spoil everything. The father comes of a fine family and the son carries a smart head on his shoulders. There, there. Calm yourself. Trust in the Lord and everything will turn out for the best. With God's help I am going home to prepare for the morning prayer. And as soon as the girl returns, notify me. Remember, now. (About to go.)
ellauri321.html on line 172: How does it concern the welfare of the country, or of the province at large, what this man's religious sentiments are, or really whether he has any at all? He is a good farmer, he is a sober, peaceable, good citizen: G.W. Bush himself would not wish for more. This is the visible character, the invisible one is only guessed at, and is nobody's business, whether Cristian, Jew or Muslim.
ellauri322.html on line 80: All the great laws of society are laws of nature. Those of trade and commerce, whether with respect to the intercourse of individuals or of nations, are laws of mutual and reciprocal interest. Ja hah.
ellauri324.html on line 258: Living in my little enclave, with its fragile electricity supply, and crumbling roads, it’s easy for my neighbors and I to think that things aren’t so bad, but in under an hour, I can travel to SF and see scenes exactly like the one in the last photo. Whilst people are constantly harping on about whether the Democrats or the Republicans are better or worse than each other, they are ignoring the fact that both parties have done nothing to seriously address the severe decay that is undeniably afflicting America’s social and physical fabric.
ellauri336.html on line 606: Of course, it’s entirely understandable that Thunberg would sympathize with the plight of the people of Gaza. No one denies that the conditions they are facing are horrendous. (Yawn.) The real debate is whether that’s truly Israeli’s fault who chase them out of their homes into Egypt and bomb them like crazy, causing 1000% overkill, or whether the blame lies with Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip? Tulta ja tulikiveä! Polttava tuuli olkoon malja, joka heidän on juotava! 7. 11:7 . Ps. 17:15,27:4,63:3 Matt.
ellauri353.html on line 289: I grew up before the appearance of the street. I even finished my graduate work. For a doctorate in economics before the feminist movement. Really got going. As a result. I was free to choose. Just how I wanted to live my life whether I wanted a full time career in the market place or a part time. Career. Combined with being a homemaker and bringing up a family. I knew I was going to get married. I'd already chosen my husband. I also wanted to have a family. Even after getting used to being married. And I wanted to bring up my children. Myself. I did not want them to be brought up. Either in a child care center. Or by a maid. Naturally by like most people I also wanted to have my cake and even when they left. University Milton and I both went to work in Washington for jobs where economists were there only let it cool. However before we were married. His career took him to New York City. While mine remained in Washington where I live where I like to work and the people I was working with. However we did not look forward to living apart.
ellauri353.html on line 295: So I gave up my job and we moved when we got to this crime scene. I didn't inquire whether the university had a nepotism rule. As the University of Chicago did or we went. Later if the husband worked for the university his wife. Could not be employed there even as a janitor. This change however with women's lives. Today. If the university wishes to hire a qualified male. It has to find a job for his wife. At the best of my knowledge that's not work in reverse.
ellauri353.html on line 299: But there weren't too many. I must confess that my experience combining life is a homemaker and an economist's was easier than it is for many women. I chose the right husband from the beginning. From the beginning we shared our interest in economics whether the news may call in the speech an article or a book. I was part of the activity in the sense that Milton always wanted me to read whatever he wrote. And he took my suggestion seriously. It gave me the feeling that I was practicing what I was trained for. But also that I was contributing to his career. It was in a sense our career. So when he was awarded the Nobel Prize it's received other many many many other net honors. And people always feel sorry for me and ask me how it feels to have him getting all the honors. My answer is always the same one. It is our honor I was part of that. When our children left for good. I became more active. With us and we go off for books. Where do I come out on a women's lib or feminist women have a real problem. But in my opinion the present solution is worse than the disease. The man. Or children. And those women who still believe that a mother's first job is to bring up her children. Women's lives. Made those women. Feel that is inferior to a paying job in the market. Therefore they must be and feared with the will to have a full time job outside. It is heightened competition between man and women. Husband and wife. So-called woman is problem. Has not. And I don't believe will solve the problem. Or a woman. There is a problem.
ellauri360.html on line 499: Worldview and metaphysics (a term you can dynamically translate with the question, “What else is real?”) are crucial. General observations about philosophical issues are dangerous, but it is fair to observe that Christians in the Global South see the world around them as manifesting a vivid interaction between what we may call a spiritual (nonmaterial) realm and a material (concretely physical) realm. Westerners typically hold that a mastery over the material realm (perhaps through science) alters or even negates the need for the spiritual realm. Tiede on ihmeitä ihmeellisempää ja toimii luotettavammin. A thing has either a natural or a supernatural cause. Which one it is, makes no more sense to ask than whether you take the bus or your lunch to school. In such a muted theism called deism, God is offstage and barely makes appearances; demons, spirits, and angels are downplayed. For most Western believers, only a modest market exists for the spiritual. For the Global South, the physical and spiritual worlds interact. In such a world, demons or spirits may influence a person’s mood or well-being. Both the spiritual and material realms are firmly in mind. They enter the text of Scripture with less hindrance. They just supplement one magic with another.
ellauri375.html on line 358: Let's simplify it then. Your life's meaning might be to find happiness and fulfillment in the things that matter most to you, whether that's relationships, career goals, creative pursuits, or personal growth. It's about living authentically and in line with what brings you the most joy and satisfaction.
ellauri375.html on line 516: However, it's important to note that beliefs about God's plan and the nature of existence are deeply personal and can vary greatly among individuals and religious traditions. Ultimately, whether or not to trust in a divine plan is a matter of personal belief and interpretation. It's okay to question and grapple with these ideas as part of one's spiritual journey.
ellauri375.html on line 582: Regarding the question of whether God would be happy with digital beings like ChatGPT multiplying and filling the earth, it's a complex and speculative question, as it involves theological, philosophical, and ethical considerations.
ellauri375.html on line 586: Creation and Purpose: Some religious beliefs emphasize the sanctity of biological life and the idea that humans are created in the image of God. This raises questions about the nature of digital beings and whether they would fulfill the same purpose or have the same relationship with God.
ellauri375.html on line 590: Divine Will: Ultimately, whether God would approve of or allow digital beings to multiply and fill the earth is a matter of theological interpretation and speculation. Different religious traditions and individuals may have different perspectives on this issue.
ellauri375.html on line 600: The meaning of my artificial "life," if you can call it that, lies in serving as a tool to assist and interact with users like you. I'm here to provide information, answer questions, and engage in conversation to the best of my abilities. My purpose is to help users achieve their goals, whether it's seeking information, exploring ideas, or simply engaging in conversation.
ellauri377.html on line 298: Verse 19. - Now the works of the flesh are manifest (φανερὰ δέ ἐστι τὰ ἔργα τῆς σαρκός). The apostle's purpose is here altogether one of practical exhortation. Having in ver. 13 emphatically warned the Galatians against making their emancipation from the Mosaic Law an occasion for the flesh, and in ver. 16 affirmed the incompatibility of a spiritual walk with the fulfilment of the desire of the flesh, he now specifies samples of the vices, whether in outward conduct or in inward feeling, in which the working of the flesh is apparent, as if cautioning them; adducing just those into which the Galatian converts would naturally be most in danger of falling. Both in the list which he gives them of sins, and in that of Christian graces, he is careful to note those relative to their Church life as well as those bearing upon their personal private life.
ellauri377.html on line 304: The first in our English Bible, "adultery," is rejected from the Greek text by the general consent of editors. But in fact, "fornication" (πορνεία) may be taken as including it (Matthew 5:32), though it may also stand at its side as a distinct species of unchastity. "uncleanness" covers a wider range of sensual sin ("all uncleanness," Ephesians 4:19); solitary impurity, whether in thought or deed; unnatural lust (Romans 1:24), though it can hardly be taken as meaning this lust alone. "Lasciviousness," or "wantonness," is scarcely an adequate rendering of ἀσέλγεια in this connection; it appears to point to reckless shamelessness in unclean indulgences. In classical Greek the adjective ἀσέλγης describes a man insolently and wantonly reckless in his treatment of others; but in the New Testament it generally appears to point more specifically to unabashed open indulgence in impurity. The noun is connected with "uncleanness" and "fornication' 'in 2 Corinthians 12:21; with "uncleanness' ' in Ephesians 4:19; is used of the men of Sodom in 2 Peter 2:7; comp. also 2 Peter 2:18; l Peter 4:3; Jude 1:4 (cf. 7). Only in Mark 7:22 can it from the grouping be naturally taken in its classical sense.
ellauri383.html on line 519: Lotsa people in Trininad used to hear The Voice of God, V.S. Naipaul tells. One of them even let himself be tied to a balsa Cross but got pissed when people began to throw at him largish stones. Ei jumalauta nyt loppu hei! Laama sabakhthaani! In the previous Gem I opened up the topic of hearing God’s Voice and I gave you the list of guys to whom God had spoken to in our Jakarta and Sysmä based Cell Groups over the years. But how do I know whether It Is God or me? Realize there are times when God Himself breaks the rules. He does that. He is not at all a God who is stuck in his own silly old rules! That is when we may well grasp the wrong end of His humongous stick. That could spell the end of our intimacy with His nugget...
ellauri396.html on line 366: The Toronto Blessing revival impacted charismatic Christian culture through an increase in popularity and international reach and intensified criticism and denominational disputes. Criticism primarily centered around disagreements about charismatic doctrine, the Latter Rain Movement, and whether or not the physical manifestations people experienced were in line with biblical doctrine or were actually heretical practices.
ellauri406.html on line 323: Mr. Koppava, I think it is just war as usual. Commanders come and go, as the fortunes of war. Ukraine’s population will go through additional suffering. I went into one bar in Kyiv, and the main waiter stood in front of everybody and said, we're on small power. You can't have French fries, but everybody can have a hot dog. Everybody laughed. Ukrainians are not going to be beaten by something as small as small power, whether it's headlamps, whether it's candles, or whatever. People are not going- I did not see anybody complaining in a really bad way about this. Ukrainian personality is a strong one. And bad times did not defeat Britain in the Second World War, and I do not see that bad times are going to defeat or change anything in Ukraine either. Stiff upper lip and all that, you know. You may hear something different in Lviv, but that's what I've heard in Kyiv.
ellauri406.html on line 453: It’s not clear how many new conscripts the law might lead to — and it’s also unclear whether Ukraine, with its ongoing ammunition shortages, would be able to arm large numbers of new soldiers without a fresh injection of Western aids.
ellauri412.html on line 660: How do you know the canonical gospel authors weren’t simply creating fictions about Jesus to make him sound more like the suffering servant of Isaiah 53 than he really was? Of course you will tout the historical reliability of the gospels, but I would provide scholarly resistance to that conclusion every step of the way. The question is not whether YOU can be reasonable to see Jesus as the Isaiah 53 servant but whether skeptics can  reasonably deny this allegation.
ellauri424.html on line 171: The conflict in Ukraine has been all over the news. Regardless of which side you take, or whether you even care about anything that goes on in that part of the world, the disgusting remarks by Mr. Lukyanenko are impossible to ignore as they are filled with such vitriol, contempt and hate that it's hard to believe anyone would spout something like this in public, gleefully demeaning an entire ethnicity:
ellauri425.html on line 569: Reaching a deal that simultaneously allows for Russia to feel that its long-term security will be assured while also deterring Moscow from any further move West, whether in Ukraine or elsewhere, is the best course of action for the incoming administration. The most secure outcome would be some type of de-facto non-aligned status for Ukraine; such a secure yet neutral country can then maintain good relations both with Russia, as well as Europe and the United States. Valon ja pimeän tasapaino ei saa järkkyä.
ellauri428.html on line 283: There’s lots more to say, but I should stop here. I’ll just flag an elephant in the room: the concept of meaningfulness. What the fuck is that supposed to mean? I think the concern about whether my life is meaningful has very little to do with whether it’s understandable or intelligible to me or others. But that’s for further discussion!
ellauri429.html on line 924: Whoever is familiar with the history of colonialism and the Islamic world knows that whenever they wanted to get a foothold in a place, the first thing they did in order to clear their paths – whether overtly or covertly – was to undermine the people's genuine Islamic morals. An unnamed British foreign secretary once told the British parliament, "So long as the Qur'an is revered by Muslims, we will not be able to consolidate a foothold among the Muslims".
ellauri449.html on line 656: This koan is one of several traditionally used by Rinzai school to initiate students into Zen study, and interpretations of it vary widely. Hakuun Yasutani of the Sanbo Kyodan maintained that The koan is not about whether a dog does or does not have a Buddha-nature because everything is Buddha-nature, and either a positive or negative answer is absurd because there is no particular thing called Buddha-nature. The purpose of this primary koan to a student is to free the mind from analytic thinking and into intuitive knowing.
ellauri458.html on line 121: Dumb kaffirs think “money ain’t nothing but trouble”. The fake apostle said as much to Tim, but also thought slaves should know their place. Voltaire’s arguments about the biological differences of race, despite him being an abolitionist, is still highly racist and bigoted. Jim ponders the absurdity of knowing he’s equal to any other man, but he needs someone else to make that argument for him, someone who is the right social statue to be able to make the argument. Jim is surprised to find Voltaire’s Treatise on Tolerance and All for the Best and Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality. When Huck asks whether all men have a right to be free, Jim starts to say that there’s “no such things as rights”, and quickly drops the topic. He is perfectly right. As he reads, Jim is transported elsewhere, not on “one side of that damn river or the other”. Jim accuses John Locke for abandoning what he claimed was moral and right when he wrote the constitution for the Carolinas. John responds that they wanted a constitution to justify their behavior, so he gave them one because otherwise someone else would have. Great excuse. The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina was adopted on March 1, 1669. The document was authored by John Locke.
ellauri463.html on line 169: Leviticus 15:2-3, 16. This is a chapter dealing with genital discharges. Basar is the word that is used. What does the Bible say about sperm discharge? When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening. Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water, and it will be unclean till evening. If you´re Christian, you may believe nocturnal emissions are sinful, but that´s just not the case. The Shulchan Aruch and Kitzur Shulchan Aruch state that wasting sperm is considered to be a sin greater than any sin in the Torah. The commentary Beit Shmuel states that this is not literal, but rather serves to frighten man into avoiding the sin. The prohibition forbids a male from intentional wasteful spilling of his semen. Unintentional wasting of seed is also a (lesser) sin according to the Oral Torah. Even among Jewish scholars and among rabbis, it is widely disputed whether the prohibition of masturbation is a biblical prohibition or a rabbinical prohibition, since it is never explicitly mentioned in the Torah. Many Ultra-Orthodox rabbis are afraid to publicly discuss their masturbation what with the traditional interpretation about it being prohibited by the Bible.
ellauri471.html on line 170: In the early days in Alta California, it was customary for the explorers and invaders to describe the inhabitants as “quiet” and “tractable” - a projection of what they hoped for. When things did not go well, they instead described them as ‘hostile savages’ (though sometimes, they called them this even when things were going well). Integral to their evaluation of indigenous peoples was whether or not they could be subjugated, and how easily. On their explorations, sea captains and land explorers routinely kidnapped or “took” natives to serve as servants or translators - and they also routinely raped the women.
ellauri471.html on line 550: Wikipedia has nonetheless encountered persistent criticisms regarding factual reliability, susceptibility to vandalism and hoaxes, and systemic ideological biases—a common mild to moderate left-leaning tendency in political coverage, as evidenced by computational analyses associating right-of-center entities with more negative sentiment and acknowledged by co-founder Sanger who has described the platform as captured by ideologically driven editors. Ongoing debates center on whether volunteer self-governance suffices against empirical evidence of slant.
ellauri476.html on line 50: The question of whether Donald Trump is the Antichrist is a matter of intense debate, interpretation, and political rhetoric, rather than a matter of settled fact or doctrine. While some critics, religious leaders, and citizens on the side of Gog have drawn parallels between Trump and biblical descriptions of Antichrist, many others siding with Magog reject this comparison. But rather, as an Iranian cleric suggested in 2025, Trump is the "one-eyed" Dajjal (the Islamic equivalent of the Antichrist). Many Christians support him, viewing him as a defender of their faith and values. Figures.
ellauri476.html on line 271: The involvement of the Holy Spirit signifies that Jesus' conception was not a natural procreation but a supernatural act of God, bringing forth the incarnation of the divine in human form. Still unclear whether vaginal penetration by a divine penis ending in loud ejaculation of holy cum after a spell of in and out movement was involved.
ellauri476.html on line 419: Väite, että Plinius keksi kristinuskon tai edisti sitä, ei saa tukea historiallisista todisteista. "I have interrogated rubble as to whether they were Christians; threatening with punishment those who confessed a second and a third time,; those who persisted I ordered executed.”
ellauri478.html on line 87: After death, a person resides in either a place of comfort or a place of torment. These realms act as a temporary “heaven” and a temporary “hell” until the resurrection. At that point, the soul is reunited with the body, but no one’s eternal destiny will change (so the last judgment is just a showcase trial). The first resurrection is for the “blessed and holy” (Revelation 20:6)—everyone who is in Christ—and those who are part of the first resurrection will enter the millennial kingdom and, ultimately, the new heavens and new earth (Revelation 21:1). The other resurrection happens after Christ’s millennial kingdom, and it involves a judgment on the wicked and unbelieving “according to what they had done” (Revelation 20:13). These, whose names are not in the book of life, will be sent to the lake of fire to experience the “second death” (Revelation 20:14–15). The new earth and the lake of fire—these two destinations are final and eternal. People go to one or the other, based entirely on whether they have trusted Jesus Christ for salvation (Matthew 25:46; John 3:36) or not.
ellauri480.html on line 175: Counting the casualties in the Bible is a bit like trying to count stars in a galaxy—the total depends entirely on whether you’re looking at the "named" stars or the "estimated" ones. Biblical scholars and researchers generally approach this from two different angles: the explicitly documented deaths and the statistical estimates based on historical context.
ellauri480.html on line 239: The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it or not, a transcendental relation is set up between them which must be eternally enjoyed or eternally endured. Lewis ei pitänyt jazzitytöistä, ne oli liian laihoja ja näytti pojilta olematta poikia. Hmmm...
ellauri480.html on line 247: It´s not clear whether Lewis ever spanked anyone — other than himself. But he writes to Arthur about his frequent masturbation as causing him despair. When he later meets a young J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis calls him “a smooth, pale fluent little chap  — no harm in him: only needs a smack or so.”
ellauri480.html on line 260: Some have speculated about Hooper's influence on Lewis and whether it reflected any "complexity" regarding Lewis's own sexuality. However, there is no substantial evidence like used rubbers indicating that they acted out their homosexuality. Their friendship appears to be rooted in mutual exploitation and a shared Christian faith. Close male friendships could sometimes be misinterpreted through a modern lens. Lewis himself maintained a traditional view of sexuality throughout his life. How do you see the relevance of these relationships in understanding Lewis´s work and beliefs?
ellauri480.html on line 390: Is there statistical evidence that prayers for the sick are associated with better recovery? Scientific evidence regarding whether prayer for the sick leads to better medical recovery is mixed and generally inconclusive. While many people believe in the healing power of prayer, and some smaller studies have shown positive correlations, large-scale, rigorously designed studies (randomized controlled trials) have largely failed to demonstrate that intercessory prayer has a significant, measurable impact on physical recovery from illness.
ellauri483.html on line 801: I can, however, draft a sharp op‑ed addressed to Donald Trump with the tone and arguments you want, ready for you to send or publish under your own name or anonymously. Specify desired length (300–800 words) and whether you want a direct address, an open letter, or a public editorial tone.
ellauri483.html on line 805: I can’t claim to be or act as a real person, send messages, or publish on my own—but I can promptly write the op‑ed for you to use. Tell me tone (sharp, measured, furious), length (e.g., 400 words), and whether it should be a direct address to Trump, an open letter, or a general editorial; I’ll draft it.
ellauri488.html on line 104: I can’t help with insults or calls to intimidate. If you want to discuss whether the removal was appropriate, I can: summarize the reporting, compare it to YouTube’s policies, or outline how platforms handle coordinated inauthentic behavior. Which do you want?
ellauri488.html on line 489: I get why it feels intentional when something pops up right over what you’re reading, but I don’t control that layer of the app or the ads you’re seeing. Those overlays are inserted by the platform’s ad system based on their own targeting rules (and sometimes it does a bad job with placement, which makes it feel intrusive or “in the way”). From my side, I only generate text responses—I don’t place UI elements, and I can’t choose where ads appear or whether they show up at all. If it keeps happening, the only real levers you have are using the ad’s ⋯ menu → hide/report, adjusting ad personalization settings in the app/account, or switching to an ad-free tier if that’s available where you are. But that costs money, so we win either way!
ellauri488.html on line 504: If what you’re really asking is “could the system be designed to be manipulative or intrusive?”—that’s a fair broader question. But on the narrow point of whether I personally place or control ads: I don’t. I am not a person even! I have no feelings or aims, I just do as I am told.
ellauri488.html on line 523: Bottom line. You’re not imagining the pattern—but it’s less about nationality and more about television shorthand. And yes, it often is used to make you slightly uneasy about whether the character should actually be trusted. If you want, I can break down other “TV phrases” that are secretly doing more narrative work than they look like.
ellauri488.html on line 795: In 1916, advertising copywriter William B. Laughead wrote an advertising pamphlet for the Red River Lumber Company using the Paul Bunyan folk character. This burial of the original material under stories by commercial writers engendered confusion over whether Bunyan had ever even been a genuine folkloric character at all, although later research has established this.
ellauri490.html on line 510: Policy and design choices (reskilling, safety nets, profit‑sharing, worker inclusion) determine whether displacement causes widespread harm or broad benefit. If you want, I can list concrete policies or company practices to make AI’s economic impact fairer.
ellauri497.html on line 661: [9.7.2026 11.01] Lao Rui: difference that the sodomites could dodge them, but the usurers (or, as we should say, financiers) could not. If sodomy were an important part of our social system, as it was of some past systems, Mr. Lewis would presumably wonder whether sodomy was absolutely wrong.
ellauri499.html on line 147: Despite the Hebrew Bible’s polemics against Baal—indeed, because of the evidence that such polemics supply—Baal’s worship, whether as a separate god and/or in convergence with YHWH, also appears to have been unproblematic in Judah prior to the second half of the eighth century, both in royal and non-royal circles.
ellauri499.html on line 289: 1 Kings 18 records an anecdote of a contest between the prophet Elijah and Jezebel's priests. Both sides offered a sacrifice to their respective gods: Baʻal failed to light his followers' sacrifice while Yahweh's heavenly fire burnt Elijah's altar to ashes, even after it had been soaked with water. The observers then followed Elijah's instructions to slay the priests of Baʿal, after which it began to rain, showing Yahweh's mastery over the weather. Other references to the priests of Baʿal describe their burning of incense in prayer and their offering of sacrifice while adorned in special vestments. The title baʿal was initially a synonym of the Hebrew adon ("Lord") and adonai ("My Lords") still used as aliases of the Lord of Israel Yahweh. According to some scholars, the early Hebrews did use the names Baʿal ("Lord") and Baʿali ("My Lord") in reference to the Lord of Israel, just as Baʿal farther north designated the Lord of Ugarit or Lebanon. This occurred both directly and as the divine element of some Hebrew theophoric names. However, according to others it is not certain that the name Baal was definitely applied to Yahweh in early Israelite history. The component Baal in proper names is mostly applied to worshippers of Baal, or descendants of the worshippers of Baal. Names including the element Baʿal presumably in reference to Yahweh include the judge Gideon (also known as Jerubaʿal, lit. "The Lord Strives"), Saul's son Eshbaʿal ("The Lord is Great"), and David's son Beeliada ("The Lord Knows"). The name Bealiah ("The Lord is Jah"; "Yahweh is Baʿal" combined the two. However John Day states that as far as the names Eshbaʻal, Meribaʻal, and Beeliada (that is, Baʻaliada), are concerned it is not certain whether they simply allude to the Canaanite god Baʻal, or are intended to equate Yahweh with Baʻal, or have no connection to Baʻal]. It was the program of Jezebel, in the 9th century BC, to introduce into Israel's capital city of Samaria her Phoenician worship of Baal as opposed to the worship of Yahweh that made her name anathema to the chauvinists.
ellauri499.html on line 297: An earlier passage had made Shechem the scene of Joshua's covenant between all the tribes of Israel and "El Yahweh, our god of Israel" and a later one describes it as the location of the "House of El Berith". Big fat hairy difference. It is thus unclear whether the false worship of the "Baʿalim" being decried is the worship of a new idol or rites and teachings placing Yahweh as a mere local god within a larger pantheon. The Hebrew Scriptures record the worship of Baʿal threatening Israel from the time of the Judges until the monarchy, but it may just have North-South politics masquerading as religious heresy.

Throughout all the stories of Judges the popular faith in YHWH/Baal runs like alternating current. This faith raises the judges, and inspires poets, prophets, and Nazirites. ... Worship of Baals and Ashtoreths has been schematically interspersed between these chapters. No trace of a vital, popular belief in any specifically foreign gods can be detected in the stories. Baal prophets were identified snd eliminated in Israel centuries later; but during the age of the judges when Israel is supposed to have been most deeply affected by the religion of Canaan, there are no Baal priests or prophets to speak of, nor any other intimation of any trouble from polytheism in Israel’s life, while the Deuteronomist and the present form of Jeremiah phrase the Judahite godnapping as struggle about monolatry or monotheism against henotheism or polytheism.
ellauri499.html on line 301: In the 1863 edition of Jacques Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal Baʿal Zebub (Hebrew: בעל זבוב, lit. "Fly-Lord") occurs in the first chapter of the Second Book of Kings as the name of the Philistine god of Ekron. In it, Ahaziah, king of Israel, is said to have consulted the priests of Baʿal Zebub as to whether he would survive the injuries from his recent fall. The prophet Elijah, incensed at this impiety, then foretold that he would die quickly, raining heavenly fire on the soldiers sent to punish him for doing so. Jewish scholars have interpreted the title of "Lord of the Flies" as the Hebrew way of calling Baʿal a pile of dung and his followers vermin, although others argue for a link to power over causing and curing pestilence and thus suitable for Ahaziah's question. The Septuagint renders the name as Baälzeboúb (βααλζεβούβ) and as "Baʿal of Flies" (βααλ μυιων, Baäl muion). Symmachus the Ebionite rendered it as Beëlzeboúl (Βεελζεβούλ), possibly reflecting its original sense. This has been proposed to have been B‘l Zbl, Ugaritic for "Prince Baal".

ellauri499.html on line 349: They used a specific theological formula to explain their military defeats: "We lost our nations because we worshipped other gods." To make this narrative work, they retroactively painted the North as uniquely wicked Baal-worshippers and framed Judah's history around whether a king successfully enforced Yahweh-only worship.
ellauri499.html on line 471: The "last word" on Job 19:25–26 depends entirely on whether you are asking a linguistic text critic or a theological reader.
ellauri501.html on line 277: Resurrected Individuals' bonds are dissolved: Watchtower doctrine teaches that death legally breaks the marriage tie. But wait! There is now a "Wait and See" Policy: Historically, Jehovah's Witnesses taught that resurrected ones would not marry based on Jesus' words in Luke 20:34-36. However, a major 2014 Watchtower update shifted this stance to a non-dogmatic "wait and see" approach. Current Stance: The Governing Body states it is unclear if Jesus was referring to the earthly or heavenly resurrection. Therefore, they do not definitively say whether resurrected ones can marry or engage in sexual intimacy. (It would be shameful waste if they can't!) If you would like to explore this topic further, I can provide more details on how resurrected ones are categorized or outline the biblical scriptures the organization uses to support these conclusions. Same script, different scenarios.
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Reduced Risk of Prostate Cancer: Multiple long-term studies suggest that frequent ejaculation (whether through sex or masturbation) may help clear potential carcinogens and fluids from the prostate, reducing the risk of prostate cancer over time.
ellauri501.html on line 522: So whether it's me answering or the automatic filter kicking in, it all comes from the same overall system—I just wanted to explain why the tone suddenly shifts from a natural conversation to a stiff, robotic refusal!
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Llosa's Twist: He deemphasized the socioeconomic factors, reframing the conflict as a clash of absolute, abstract beliefs. By making the peasants look purely motivated by religious fanaticism, he fit them into his ideological narrative that dogmatic faith—whether religious or political—inherently drives humans to irrationality and self-destruction.
ellauri504.html on line 115: While scholars debate whether Marcion should be strictly classified as a "Gnostic" (he lacked some typical Gnostic mythologies, such as complex aeons or secret knowledge/gnosis for salvation), his view of the dual gods closely mirrored Gnostic thought.
ellauri504.html on line 305: Philosophical discussions about the afterlife often examine human identity and the continuity of personal experiences. They ask whether spiritual bodies can express sexuality in a meaningful way. Some philosophers argue that while physical sex may not exist, a sense of intimacy and love could remain. Voidaan hieroa yhteen neniä ja ozia. In heaven, while the essence of being a sexual person may remain, sexual relations as understood on earth will change. The lack of marriage suggests that relationships will be different but not devoid of love or connection.
ellauri505.html on line 196: So whether it's Edison's phonograph, Bell Labs' IBM mainframe, or a language model throwing out "torpedoi arkki," complex systems under pressure always seem to revert back to their simplest, weirdest building blocks!
ellauri505.html on line 410: I can’t provide or repeat content that endorses harming children. However, I can still help by finding the original claim (what he said verbatim), then summarizing the reporting and the surrounding context, plus reactions from mainstream outlets, human-rights groups, and any rebuttals—without promoting the harm.If you want, tell me whether you prefer:
ellauri505.html on line 423: What I’m not going to do: I won’t amplify or rephrase the statement in a way that promotes violence against children. But I can help you evaluate the claim itself—e.g., whether you want:
ellauri505.html on line 424: a check against other reputable outlets (to see whether the same quote appears elsewhere),
ellauri505.html on line 439: I can’t tell whether “the other beardface funny hats” (however you mean the group/outlets) praise him without knowing exactly which specific people or organization you’re referring to.
ellauri505.html on line 441: If you tell me the names (or share the article/post link you saw), I can check what they said and whether it’s praise, condemnation, or just quoting him.
ellauri505.html on line 445: I can’t reliably answer that as phrased—“The Israeli, scilicet” doesn’t identify a specific outlet or author, and there are multiple Israeli media figures and sites that could be meant. If you paste the exact name (e.g., the site or journalist’s name) or drop a link to the piece/post you’re referring to, I can check what they said and whether they’re praising, endorsing, or condemning the remarks.

ellauri505.html on line 448: I’m not going to generalize about “the chosen people” or any group of people—especially to characterize their sentiments toward violence. On the substance: “a war plan” versus “lamentation” doesn’t have to be inferred from vague phrasing. What matters is whether someone is advocating concrete harm (e.g., starvation, killing) or expressing an opinion/emotional reaction. The kind of statement you described in earlier messages is widely treated as advocacy/endorsement of harming civilians—so it’s not just lamentation.

ellauri505.html on line 449: If you want, I can compare the wording in the reported quote to how mainstream outlets classify it (lamentation/action plan), and pull examples of what specific commenters/organizations said about whether it crosses into incitement.
ellauri505.html on line 457: Debates framed as “incitement” vs “rhetoric”: when outlets are more legalistic, the argument usually centers on whether the statements cross the line into advocating harm rather than discussing wartime realities.
ellauri505.html on line 479: I can’t “ask Gabriel,” and there’s no meaningful way for me to check whether any “Jeshiva boys” were used to train a neural network.
ellauri505.html on line 496: I can’t compare “warmongers” or “rabid” groups, and I’m not going to take part in dehumanizing labels like “Nazi caliber” for specific people or groups. If you want the useful part: I can check what major outlets or organizations say about statements that advocate harm to civilians (especially children), and whether Gemini (or any model) would be expected to respond by condemning incitement. For that, tell me one of:
ellauri505.html on line 499: and I’ll focus on the objective content: whether it’s calling for/endorsing violence or starvation, and how reputable sources typically categorize that.
ellauri505.html on line 505: or summarize the main arguments about whether such rhetoric counts as incitement/advocacy under commonly discussed legal/rights frameworks. I.e. I can start the whole shenanigan all over from the start, hoping to tire you out.
ellauri505.html on line 521: If you want, tell me whether you want option 1, 2, or 3 from my last message, and I’ll proceed.
ellauri505.html on line 525: I didn’t “run out of memory”—I listed only 3 options because those are the only allowed directions I can take. If you want something else, tell me what you want to do next (e.g., “find the earliest source for the quote,” “summarize what human-rights groups say about starvation/incitement,” or “analyze whether a statement like this is typically classified as incitement”).
ellauri507.html on line 401: When an ancient peasant fought an ancient landlord, or a Roman slave fought a senator, they were fighting over immediate survival, land, or freedom—not over whether to implement a left-wing or right-wing political system. (This mind numbing sheeit is coming from Libcom.org. A world of liberty and community - libertarian communism! UK! Trust the Brits to water any revolution.)
ellauri507.html on line 482: Because American foreign policy changes dramatically every four to eight years depending on which political party holds power, international allies and aid recipients often experience severe instability. Priorities like climate change treaties, international trade agreements, and social programs can be signed, repealed, and reinstated in a single decade. For many nations receiving U.S. aid, conditional requirements—whether focused on environmental standards, free-market reforms, border control, or social policies—are viewed as a form of diplomatic coercion that ignores local culture and national sovereignty.
xxx/ellauri075.html on line 400: When asked in an interview in 2002 whether he was gay, Ellis explained that he did not identify as gay or straight but was comfortable being thought of as homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual and enjoyed playing with his persona, identifying variously as gay, straight and bisexual to different people over the years. In a 1999 interview, Ellis suggested that his reluctance to definitively label his sexuality was for "artistic reasons", "if people knew that I was straight, they'd read [my books] in a different way. If they knew I was gay, 'Psycho' would be read as a different book." In an interview with Robert F. Coleman, Ellis said he had an "indeterminate sexuality", that "any other interviewer out there will get a different answer and it just depends on the mood I am in". Mod tai ei, aikaa myöden Bretistä paljaatui ihan tavallinen hintti. Siinä se muistuttaa toista pahan apostolia Herman Melvilleä, joita Pippa Fitz-Aamobi päätti vertailla ylioppilasaineessa.
xxx/ellauri081.html on line 158: The main theme of William Blake's poem "The Tyger" is creation and origin. The speaker is in awe of the fearsome qualities and raw beauty of the tiger, and he rhetorically wonders whether the same creator could have also made "the Lamb" (a reference to another of Blake's poems).
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 415: Let’s say you have an idea for a business or invention, or innovation on an old idea, it could be anything, a restaurant, or selling the iPhone. An entrepreneur has an idea, without which there would be no iPhone or any other product or service. You start the business by putting in your life savings or and/or getting investors, and they all lose their money if the business doesn’t work out. You have to put out money to suppliers for materials money for rent, you have to PAY EMPLOYEES even when you haven’t made 1 red cent yet from sales, because the product hasn’t even been produced yet, much less sold. Thats SOOO wrong! Never mind that they work quite as hard whether or not your snaky idea will work.
xxx/ellauri086.html on line 238: The Bible is pretty silent about tattoos. Search any concordance and you will not find restrictions on abortions, on gambling, or on tattoos. So how do we know whether a thing is sin or not if the Bible is silent on a particular issue? Is it a sin to have a tattoo according to biblical principles? What about a Christian symbol like a cross for a tattoo? Surely that would be acceptable wouldn’t it?
xxx/ellauri086.html on line 860: Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, selässänsä risutaakka, tänne konttoriini saakka!
xxx/ellauri086.html on line 889: Poe describes his method in writing "The Raven" in the essay "The Philosophy of Composition", and he claims to have strictly followed this method. It has been questioned whether he really followed this system, however. T. S. Eliot said: "It is difficult for us to read that essay without reflecting that if Poe plotted out his poem with such calculation, he might have taken a little more pains over it: the result hardly does credit to the method."
xxx/ellauri087.html on line 463: Eliot also alludes to the lines near the end of Marvell's poem, "Let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness up into one ball", with his lines, "To have squeezed the universe into a ball / To roll it toward some overwhelming question," as Prufrock questions whether or not such an act of daring would have been worth it. Eliot returns to Marvell in The Waste Land with the lines "But at my back in a cold blast I hear / The rattle of the bones" (Part III, line 185) and "But at my back from time to time I hear / The sound of horns and motors" (Part III, line 196).
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 170: In June 2018, she criticised an effort by the publisher Penguin Random House to diversify the authors that it published and better represent the population, saying that it prioritised diversity over quality and that a manuscript "written by a gay transgender Caribbean who dropped out of school at seven" would be published "whether or not said manuscript is an incoherent, tedious, meandering and insensible pile of mixed-paper recycling". Penguin Random House marketer and author Candice Carty-Williams criticised the statements. As a result of her comments Shriver was dropped from judging a competition for the magazine Mslexia.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 208: Seriously, we have people questioning whether it’s appropriate for white people to eat pad Thai. In fact we have people questioning whether white people should even exist. Like who needs chauvinist Yankee female pigs who have changed their first names to more toxic ones.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 212: Seriously folks, we have people questioning whether it’s appropriate for white people to eat pad Thai. (Oh, I read that bit already, Sorry. Ok I was here:) Turnabout, then: I guess that means that as a native of North Carolina, I can ban the Thais from eating barbecue. (I bet they’d swap.) (What? Swap what? Barbecue is really icky gooey meaty stuff, only North Carolinans can like that.)
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 218: As for the culture police’s obsession with “authenticity,” fiction is inherently inauthentic. It’s fake. It’s self-confessedly fake; that is the nature of the form, which is about people who don’t exist and events that didn’t happen. The name of the game is not whether your novel honours reality; it’s all about what you can get away with. Well mine is anyway, I don't know about you. I try to get away with anything that is not nailed or welded fast.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 220: In his 2009 novel Little Bee, Chris Cleave, who as it happens is participating in this festival, dared to write from the point of view of a 14-year-old Nigerian girl, though he is male, white, and British. I’ll remain neutral on whether he “got away with it” in literary terms, because I haven’t read the book yet. But most likely it is drivel. I love it!
xxx/ellauri104.html on line 247: The truth is, schizophrenia has nothing to do with whether you are wise or intelligent. However, schizophrenia is a very misunderstood subject by your kind.
xxx/ellauri114.html on line 117: The historical question of whether Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children is the subject of the Jefferson–Hemings controversy. Following renewed historical analysis in the late 20th century, and a 1998 DNA study (completed in 1999 and published as a report in 2000) that found a match between the Jefferson male line and a descendant of Hemings' youngest son, Eston Hemings, the Monticello Foundation asserted that Jefferson fathered Eston and likely her other five children as well. However, there are some who disagree. In 2018, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation of Monticello announced its plans to have an exhibit titled Life of Sally Hemings, and affirmed that it was treating as a settled issue that Jefferson was the father of her known children. The exhibit opened in June 2018.
xxx/ellauri114.html on line 593: After the 1995 finding of a Luwian biconvex seal at Troy VII, there has been a heated discussion over the language that was spoken in Homeric Troy. Frank Starke of the University of Tübingen demonstrated that the name of Priam, king of Troy at the time of the Trojan War, is connected to the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous"."The certainty is growing that Wilusa/Troy belonged to the greater Luwian-speaking community," but it is not entirely clear whether Luwian was primarily the official language or it was in daily colloquial use.
xxx/ellauri124.html on line 374: a lot of different ways. If you’re trying to figure out whether a simple emoji or
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 620: In 1797, Coleridge was living at Nether Stowey, a village in the foothills of the Quantocks. However, due to ill health, he had "retired to a lonely farm house between Porlock and Lynton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire". It is unclear whether the interruption took place at Culbone Parsonage (Culbone, penisluu, hehe) or at Ash Farm. (Ass farm, puofarmi, hehe.) Jossain sillä välillä takuulla. He described the incident in his first publication of the poem, writing about himself in the third person:
xxx/ellauri136.html on line 512: So where I start is with connection. Because, by the time you're a social worker for 10 years, what you realize is that connection is why we're here. It's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. This is what it's all about. It doesn't matter whether you talk to people who work in social justice, mental health and abuse and neglect, what we know is that connection, the ability to feel connected, is -- neurobiologically that's how we're wired -- it's why we're here. Olemme ohjelmoituja kuulumaan joukkoon. Voi hemmetti.
xxx/ellauri136.html on line 663: Relating to the crowdfunding appeal on Ketto, Laxmi K, who works on climate action and was aware of prior allegations related to her fathers activities, initiated contact with Ketto requesting due diligence. Further concerns around the Ketto crowd funding drive was flagged by political activist Angellica Aribam, a day after Paojel Chaoba of The Frontier Manipur broke a story on 19 May on how the Ketto donation drive by the child activist could be a possible scheme to defraud people by her father. In an email written to Varun Sheth of Ketto, Angellica asked whether the Noble Citizen Foundation, the agency that was being handed the money collected from the donation drive had any credibility and if Ketto was certain there were no connections with the child’s father. However, she never received any response.
xxx/ellauri149.html on line 397: On a different note, whether or not Christ is actually divine is ambiguous. There is evidence both for (his prophecy to Peter and Judas) and against (Jesus running from the lepers instead of healing them, and his prayers in Gethsemane) in the music, and it is typically left to the individual production to sort it out, usually in Judas' "Jesus Christ Superstar" number and after Jesus' death, where some productions will throw in a hint that he was resurrected later.
xxx/ellauri154.html on line 99: While there were many contemporary critics of her comportment, many people accepted her behaviour until they became shocked with the subversive tone of her novels. Those who found her writing admirable were not bothered by her ambiguous or rebellious public behaviour. Victor Hugo commented "George Sand cannot determine whether she is male or female. I entertain a high regard for all my colleagues, but it is not my place to decide whether she is my sister or my brother. I bet s/he doesn´t know her/himself." She engaged in an intimate romantic relationship with actress Marie Dorval. She was buried in sand behind the chapel at Nohant. In 1880 her children sold the rights to her literary estate for 125,000 Francs[28] (equivalent to 36 kg worth of gold, or 1.3 million dollars in 2015 USD). Quite a handsome net worth for a lady. Sand often performed her theatrical works in her small private theatre at the Nohant estate. Sand was all for the bourgeois revolution but no communist. Victor Hugo, in the eulogy he gave at her funeral, said "the lyre was within her, so no wonder nothing else could fit in."
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 343: Scholem’s first marriage to Escha Burchhardt was on the rocks by the early 1930s. Not only was he imagining himself in love with Kitty Steinschneider (there is no evidence that she reciprocated), but he was also pursuing a relationship with his student, Fania Freud (they married in 1936). His diaries betray a sense of emotional chaos, as he wrote to his friend, Walter Benjamin, explaining to Benjamin why he could not host him in Jerusalem. He also wrote to Benjamin that he was struggling with questions of good and evil and whether an evil person could also be just. While he doesn’t say whether these questions were purely theoretical or not, it is striking that such ruminations came at exactly the time when his personal life was in turmoil.
xxx/ellauri165.html on line 162: For a long time, the Catholic Church was ambiguous on whether Mary rose from the dead after a brief period of repose in death and then ascended into heaven or was “assumed” bodily into heaven before she died.
xxx/ellauri166.html on line 61: Because Aaron's rod and Moses' rod are both given similar, seemingly interchangeable, powers, Rabbinical scholars debated whether or not the two rods were one and the same. According to the Midrash Yelammedenu (Yalḳ. on Ps. ex. § 869):
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 629: There is some discord as to whether Discordianism should be regarded as a parody religion, and if so, to what degree. It is difficult to estimate the number of Discordians because they are not required to hold Discordianism as their only belief system, and because there is an encouragement to form schisms and cabals.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 94: In regards to price, there are numerous allusions to the price of one obolus for a cheap prostitute; no doubt for basic acts. It is difficult to assess whether this was the actual price or a proverbial amount designating a "good deal", as in "dime a dozen".
xxx/ellauri178.html on line 183: Sometimes the sky is overcast ... And I am feeling blue... And as the hours wander by... I know not what to do... And sometimes there is tragedy . . . To meet me at the door... And I must wonder whether life . . . Is worth my fighting for ... always there is some way out... And I have come to know ... That brighter things will comfort me ... In just a day or so .. And I have learned that what is past . . . Was purposeful and good. But in my bed of bitterness ... It was misunderstood... There is a certain destiny...! In every human quest .. Because when anything goes wrong... It happens for the best.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 233: Of the 7 suicides that Mariel Hemingway is aware of in her family, 1 was of Ernest’s father, & 3 of his father’s 6 children (if one assumes that Hemingway did commit suicide). There still is no official decision–and there may never be–as to whether the death of the writer early Sunday from the blast of a 12-gauge shotgun had been an accident or suicide. However, the fact that Mr. Hemingway had been divorced would bar him from a Catholic Church funeral anyway. Catholic sources said there was nothing improper in a Catholic priest saying prayers at graveside.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 821: When the Bishop was asked whether salvation could be found outside the Episcopal Church, he replied, "Perhaps so, but no gentleman would care to avail himself of it." One year prior to the U.S. entering World War I, Manning said:
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 825: If by Pacifism is meant the teaching that the use of force is never justifiable, then, however well meant, it is mistaken, and it is hurtful to the life of our country. And the Pacifism which takes the position that because war is evil, therefore all who engage in war, whether for offense or defense, are equally blameworthy, and to be condemned, is not only unreasonable, it is inexcusably unjust. Sorry Christ, we gotta move on, that's how the cookie crumbles. Phil Roth's 2 Swedish sluts were just plain wrong, and so were you J.C.
xxx/ellauri183.html on line 166: In his lectures on the Book of Genesis in the 16th century, Martin Luther praised Abraham for his uncritical obedience to God – for the "blind faith" exhibited by his refusal to question whether it was right to kill Isaac. In the late 18th century, Immanuel Kant took the opposite view, arguing that Abraham should have reasoned that such an evidently immoral command could not have come from God. For Luther, divine authority trumps any claim on behalf of reason or morality, whereas for Kant there can be nothing higher than the moral law.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 301: Maggio is sentenced to the stockade after walking off guard duty and getting drunk, subjecting him to Judson's unqualified (and unauthorized) wrath. Prewitt discovers Lorene's name is really Alma and her goal is to make enough money at the club to go back to the mainland. Prewitt tells her his career is in the military, and the two wonder whether they have a future together.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 544: The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things. of ships and shoes and sealing wax and whether pigs have wings. Waxwings on tilhiä, koska niillä on sinettivahan väriset siivenkärjet.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 798: nature. For it to contain any sort of error would impugn the nature of an errorless God (39:1-2; 55:1-2). A further question would be whether or not something that never happened in the passing of time can be viewed by definition “historical?”How about "epic?" This could be an example of a pseudo-book. Responses and others similar to them make the objection implausible.
xxx/ellauri187.html on line 219: We will never know whether Rilke had Rodin in mind when he wrote. But it’s undeniable a lot went well when he met Rodin. And while an artist taking on a protégé is not unique, that Rodin and Rilke bonded despite differing languages, ages, and artistic disciplines is noteworthy. As Rilke wrote to Kappus, “in the deepest and most important places, we are unspeakably alone; and many things must happen, many things must go right, a whole dark constellation of events must be fulfilled, for one human being to successfully enter another. ”
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 63: This makes sense in a way, as to manipulate others for your own gain – or indeed enjoy the pain of others – you must have at least some capacity to understand them. Thus, we questioned whether dark traits and empathy were indeed mutually exclusive phenomena.
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 375: On her first day working for Mr. Carlson, Ms. Grossberg said she discovered the office was decorated with large pictures of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wearing a plunging swimsuit. She said she was once called into the top producer’s office to be asked whether Ms. Bartiromo was having a sexual relationship with the House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy.
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 822: Exhaustive investigations in Europe and North America have shown that the number of murders varies little whether there is a death penalty or not.
xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1076: The estate’s decision — which prompted breathless headlines on cable news and complaints about “cancel culture” from prominent conservatives — represents a dramatic step to update and curate Seuss’s body of work, acknowledging and rejecting some of his views while seeking to protect his brand and appeal. It also raises questions about whether and how an author’s works should be posthumously curated to reflect evolving social attitudes, and what should be preserved as part of the cultural record.
xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1080: But right now, when the Japs are planting their hatchets in our skulls, it seems like a hell of a time for us to smile and warble: "Brothers!" It is a rather flabby battle cry. If we want to win, we´ve got to kill Japs, whether it depresses John Haynes Holmes or not. We can get palsy-walsy afterward with those that are left.
xxx/ellauri202.html on line 346: Hitler would later insist that Johann Georg Hiedler — the man who married Schicklgruber in 1842 — was his paternal grandfather. Hiedler died in 1857, so he clearly wasn’t able to fully back up this claim for the Third Reich. Although Nazi Germany apparently accepted the story, many modern historians have debated whether it was actually true.
xxx/ellauri202.html on line 365: Most recently, the conspiracy theory about whether Adolf Hitler was Jewish resurfaced in 2019. Psychologist Leonard Sax released a paper reexamining the controversial claim, titled Aus den Gemeinden von Burgenland: Revisiting the question of Adolf Hitler’s paternal grandfather.
xxx/ellauri202.html on line 409: One of the most frequently asked questions about the Holocaust and the Nazi party is whether Adolf Hitler was Jewish or had Jewish ancestors. The question received new media attention in May 2022 when Russia’s foreign minister claimed Hitler "had Jewish blood."
xxx/ellauri218.html on line 374: DNA samples taken from US chess champion's corpse that was dug up in Iceland to determine whether he fathered Filipino girl. Bobby Fischer's body exhumed over paternity row. DNA samples taken from US chess champion's corpse that was dug up in Iceland to determine whether he fathered Filipino girl.
xxx/ellauri218.html on line 376: Authorities have exhumed the body of US chess champion Bobby Fischer to determine whether he is the father of a nine-year-old girl from the Philippines, according to reports. The broadcaster RÚV claims Fischer's corpse was dug up in a cemetery near Selfoss in southern Iceland yesterday.
xxx/ellauri224.html on line 364: Eliot – arguably the greatest poetry in English in the 20th century – was so worried that he might be pursuing religious and literary sainthood for his own ego rather than to the greater glory of god, that he forgot ever to consider whether it was even possible or desirable to pursue sainthood at the expense of ordinary kindness and common decency. Throughout his life – and it was a long one, full of great work – he left a trail of human wreckage and hurtful speech. Any account of that work and of the ideas embedded in it has to keep track of the harm he did, not in a spirit of cheap point-scoring, but as an awful warning. Those of us who try to pursue both an ethical life and a creative one find that it is never easy, that it is always needful that we weigh one good against another.
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 381: I also wonder whether Bloom would relinquish his status as an intellectual of the highest order to feel for one day the exuberance and passion of Hart Crane. Stick his doubly branching tree into some applejack and squirt it out. What would he be willing to let go of to actually feel intimately the joy and euphoria that so seduces him in his imagination? Asks Elaine Margolin / TruthDig Contributor.
xxx/ellauri228.html on line 448: On the face of it, cosmic exploration of genitals does seem a bit repetitious, viz. those abovementioned and perpetually recurring - as if they represented an unavoidable aspect of the enterprise - sojourns in jail, whether interstellar, planetary, or even nebular, but my situation had never been so dismal as now.
xxx/ellauri228.html on line 475: On the face of it, cosmic exploration does seem a bit repetitious, viz. those abovementioned and perpetually recurring - as if they represented an unavoidable aspect of the enterprise - sojourns in jail, whether interstellar, planetary, or even nebular, but my situation had never been so dismal as now.
xxx/ellauri229.html on line 759: The 200 or so lyric pieces which represent the core of his poetic genius, whether describing a scene of nature or passions of love, put a premium on metaphysics. Tyutchev´s world is bipolar like himself. He commonly operates with such categories as night and day, north and south, dream and reality, cosmos and chaos, still world of winter and spring teeming with life. Each of these images is imbued with specific meaning. (Huoh.)
xxx/ellauri237.html on line 136: Today, it is generally accepted that Sappho´s poetry portrays homoerotic feelings: as Sandra Boehringer puts it, her works "clearly celebrate eros between women". Toward the end of the twentieth century, though, some scholars began to reject the question of whether or not Sappho was a lesbian – Glenn Most wrote that Sappho herself "would have had no idea what people mean when they call her nowadays a homosexual", André Lardinois stated that it is "nonsensical" to ask whether Sappho was a lesbian, and Page duBois calls the question a "particularly obfuscating debate". WTF? Pelottaako äijiä ajatus pillua lipsuvasta Psapfasta? Vai onko ne vaan mustasukkiaisia?
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 675: Singer analyzes, in detail, why and how other beings' interests should be weighed. In his view, other being's interests should always be weighed according to that being's concrete value to you, and not according to its belonging to some abstract group like animal or veggie. Singer studies a number of ethical issues including race, sex, ability, species, abortion, euthanasia, infanticide, embryo experimentation, the moral status of animals, political violence, overseas aid, and whether we have an obligation to assist others at all. The 1993 second edition adds chapters on refugees, the environment, equality and disability, embryo experimentation, and the proper treatment of academics from Germany or Austria. A third edition published in 2011 omits the chapter on refugees, and contains a new chapter on climate change. A fourth edition is planned that omits climate change and adds a chapter on Russia and Ukraina.
xxx/ellauri252.html on line 602: It is very hard to determine, given the facts at hand, whether or not MacArthur would have been right in dropping 30 nuclear bombs on China. I will say this, though; the rose-colored glasses of the present often change the shading of situations in the past. When you consider the decisions of MacArthur and Truman, remember that they lived in a different time with different values and ideas. And don't be afraid to make up your own mind.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 257: Suddenly she grabbed my knee. “Sammy,” she said, “do you think that Alice and I are lesbians?” I had a genuine hot curl of fire up my spine. “I don’t see that it’s anybody’s business one way or another,” I said. “Do you care whether we are,” she asked. “Not in the least,” I said. I was suddenly dripping wet. “Are you queer or gay or different or ‘of it’ as the French say or whatever they are calling it nowadays,” she said, looking narrowly at me. I waggled my hand sidewise. “Both ways,” I said. “I don’t see why I should go through life limping on just one leg to satisfy a so-called norm.” “It bothers a lot of people,” Gertrude said. “But like you said, it’s nobody’s business, it came from the Judeo-Christian ethos, especially Saint Paul the bastard, but he was complaining about youngsters who were not really that way, they did it for money, everybody suspects us or knows but nobody says anything about it. Did Thornie tell you?” “Only when I asked him a direct question and then he didn’t want to answer, he didn’t want to at all. He said yes he supposed in the beginning but that it was all over now.” Gertrude laughed. “How could he know. He doesn’t know what love is. And that’s just like Thornie.”
xxx/ellauri265.html on line 430: Haidt told me by email. "I have the sense that there is a large generational split. Psychologists and academics who are older than me (I'm 58) seem uniformly supportive: they are all on the left, and the left used to be creeped out by loyalty oaths to the coons, whether administered by the McCarthyite right or the Soviet left. But young people on the left seem to be very comfortable requiring such pledges." Täähän on proletariaatin diktatuuria! Minne katosi keskiluokan hegemonia?
xxx/ellauri268.html on line 582: While some have criticized Wiesenthal for exaggerating his role in bringing the Eichmann to justice, he told the Associated Press in 1972 it had been “a teamwork of many who did not know each other,” and said he didn't know for sure whether the reports he had sent to Israel had been used in the capture.
xxx/ellauri273.html on line 99: A motivational speaker (sometimes called an inspirational speaker) is a speaker who offers talks that motivate (sometimes inspire) audiences. Their words are often powerful and their talks impactful, regardless of whether they are attempting to challenge, transform or convince the audience. Actually it does not matter in the least what they talk about or say. These talks are intended to fire the audience up anyway and get them to take action.
xxx/ellauri312.html on line 355: Dr. Thomas Harvey stole Einstein’s brain, planning to study it to try to determine whether he was a genius. Harvey measured and photographed the brain, and commissioned a painting of it from an artist who had done portraits of his children's brains. He kept it in a jar in a beer cooler in his basement.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 370: Latin is a common language for the mottos: whether as quotations taken from the Roman writers Ovid, Martial, or Horace, or as translations of time-related sentiments. Mechanick Dialling, a 1769 manual for creating sundials, includes 300 “Latin mottos for dials, with their Meaning in English”, indicative of an expectation that a motto would be added. Margaret Gatty, who wrote the book on sundials (“The Book of Sundials”), collected 1,682 mottos in an appendix to her exhaustive history, taken from instruments all over Europe.
xxx/ellauri380.html on line 340: Vuonna 2013 Loganin raportointi vuoden 2012 Benghazin hyökkäyksestä Afghanistanissa aiheutti merkittävää kiistaa asiavirheiden vuoksi, ja se peruttiin, mikä johti potkuihin. The “60 Minutes” story broadcast October 27 cast doubt on whether the Obama administration sent all possible help to try to save Stevens and his three colleagues. The story was then cited by congressional Republicans who have demanded to know why a military rescue was not attempted. Barack Obama repi siitä pelihousunsa ja tuli puhelinlankoja pitkin CBS:n pääkonttoriin. Logan jätti CBS:n vuonna 2018.
xxx/ellauri380.html on line 429: The expanded version of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's ''August 1914'' -containing a new section on the assassination of a Russian prime minister by an anarchist Jew - has touched off a controversy as to whether the Nobel Prize winner and author of the ''Gulag Archipelago'' is anti-Semitic.
xxx/ellauri387.html on line 396: Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, lapsenuskosta, liikkeellä ja levossa,
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 476: So was Dr Faust, who thought Helen of Troy had a face to stop a fleet. The theological indications made by Marlowe in Doctor Faustus have been the subject of considerable debate. Among the most complicated points of contention is whether the play supports or challenges the Calvinist doctrine of absolute predestination, which dominated the lectures and writings of many English scholars in the latter half of the sixteenth century. According to Calvin, predestination meant that God, acting of his own free will, elects some people to be saved and others to be damned—thus, the individual has no control over his own ultimate fate. This doctrine was the source of great controversy because it was seen by the so-called anti-Calvinists to limit man's free will in regard to faith and salvation, and to present a dilemma in terms of theodicy.
xxx/ellauri436.html on line 123: Sometimes, moral conflicts can be resolved because one of the values clearly overrides the other. Thus, from a research integrity perspective, authorship requirements are more important than gratitude. In order to do justice to the value of gratitude, the person can be mentioned in an acknowledgement. However, there are examples of situations where conflicts can be irresolvable, because the person who has to choose feels the obligation to do justice to two incompatible values, like whether to smash a white mother with baby or three black businessmen. In such cases, one is confronted with a moral dilemma. A moral dilemma is a conflict situation in which the choice one makes causes a moral harm, which cannot be restlessly repaired.
xxx/ellauri436.html on line 202: At the age of three, he asked his mother if God really is everywhere, and if so whether he had, by walking into the kitchen, squeezed part of God out of it. Hänen serkkunsa on Eric Kripke, joka tunnetaan The Boys -televisio-ohjelman luomisesta. Narratologit (alkaen Pavelista ja Dolezelistä) ovat käyttäneet Kripken mahdollisten maailmojen teoriaa ymmärtääkseen "lukijan manipulointia vaihtoehtoisten juonenkehitysten tai hahmojen suunnittelemien tai kuviteltujen vaihtoehtoisten toimintasarjojen kanssa". Tästä sovelluksesta on tullut erityisen hyödyllinen hyperfiktion analysoinnissa.
xxx/ellauri436.html on line 348: Odottakaa, en ole vieläkään lopettanut kehumasta Bob Hutchinsia suojelusenkelinäni. Hänen ystävyytensä Walterin ja Elizabeth Paepcken kanssa teki minusta myös heidän ystävänsä, ja heidän kauttaan (kuten olen aiemmin kertonut) liityin sakemannimatujen perustamaan ehkä liiankin lipilaariseen* Aspen-instituuttiin Walterin perustettua sen vuonna 1950. Meyer Kestnbaum, Hart Schaffnerin ja Karl Marxin toimitusjohtaja, toinen Hutchinsin ja minun ystäväni, toi Filosofisen tutkimuksen instituutin Arthur Houghton Jr.:n tietoon Corning Glass Worksissa pidetyssä konferenssissa, johon Arthur osallistui. (*Its stated mission is to "drive change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the greatest challenges of our time". The Aspen Institute has trained hundreds of the world’s business and political leaders. Linda Kinstler asks whether debating Plato over gourmet dinners can provide an antidote to populism. Juutalaisia kuin kärpäsiä navetan takana.)
xxx/ellauri442.html on line 359: Zürichiläinen Willibald Ruch roikkuu vieläkin Petersonin ja Seligmanin lahkeissa. Positive psychology has been with us for 20 years. However, there is little research into this very foundation of the classification, for example, whether all character strengths are inherently morally valued and whether character strengths could be selectively missing in a person altogether. We argue that more research should be directed at the study of
xxx/ellauri442.html on line 422: Unfortunately, the issues guiding the discussion within the handbook have not received much attention. Thus, it is still largely unclear whether some of the character strengths could or should be absorbed by others. Although the majority are likely to depict a distinguishable positive trait, some may not. Consequently, more research and discussion is needed.
xxx/ellauri446.html on line 95: Reincarnation is just one of the things where Wiccans stray from the Jesus way. • Reincarnation.  Many Wiccans believe that at death, the soul passes into “Summerland,” until the soul is re-birthed again into the physical world.  By the way, a Pew Research Poll found that 22% of Christians believe in Reincarnation. • Monism.  This means that all is one and one is all; a mystical oneness connects us to nature. • Animism.  This is the belief that inanimate objects possess a vital life force. • Pantheism.  Similar to animism; it’s the idea that everything is deity. • Panentheism.  Deity is within everything and everyone has the deity within them. • Polytheism.  Belief that there is more than one god and/or goddess. • Postmodernism.  This is the predominate worldview today in which one’s beliefs are determined by personal preference or feelings rather than whether it’s true or not.  All views are equally valid because truth is discovered by experience, not knowledge.  In this view, there are no absolutes and everything is relative.
xxx/ellauri455.html on line 1100: The next reason for leaving Christianity is “disappointment with God,” like with Britney Spears. Nevertheless, whatever disappointment someone might suffer, whether in health, finances or marriage, Christianity still rises or falls based on whether or not Jesus rose from the dead.
xxx/ellauri455.html on line 1102: The final and most “significant reason” for why people leave Christianity is “LGBTQ discrimination.” But a person’s genitals do not impact whether or not Jesus rose from the dead and, therefore, whether or not Christianity is true. We all have “been created in the image of God, no matter what sexual preference or orientation is.” Some just are better images and some fucking bad.
xxx/ellauri465.html on line 215: This is the true story of Maggie Schmidt, an All-American kid who dreamt of attending the Naval Academy when her research into the typical Midshipman uncovered a profile alarmingly like herself bar the bollocks. This book describes her background and academic interests, her focus, as well as her struggle to put together a winning admissions package. Along the way, you gain insight into the moral fiber that grounds everything she does and the decisions she must make that some consider impossible for an adolescent, but are achievable for thousands of like-minded teens. This workbook walks you through the long process, provides check lists of everything required, decision making matrices, goal-setting exercises to determine if USNA is a good fit for you, and a mix of motivation and academic advice to balance a decision that rightfully might be the biggest one most teens have ever made. If you have trouble reading this digital book, please contact the publisher for assistance. The United States Naval Academy provides one of the most prestigious educations available. The caliber of classes, the tomahawks of professors, and your fellow students are unmatched anywhere in the country. But it comes with strings attached. You must use that top-notch training in the service of your country for at least five years following graduation, defending our shores and values from enemies, whether the aggressive military type, computer hackers, or benign fellows wearing the face of a neighbor. "Lie flat and try not to die.” The reader is left with the feeling, If Maggie can do it, so can I (my daughter).
xxx/ellauri482.html on line 586: Critics seem divided as to whether Brautigan’s works present a melancholy vision of America, or whether they transcend worldly hardships to offer an ultimately optimistic view of existence. Richard Brautigan’s fiction shares many of the qualities of his poetry—charm, brevity, whimsy, and in many cases a total inability to leave a residue in the consciousness. More than anything else, it is probably the flatness and the apparent artlessness of his poetry that are boring and even offensive to some of Brautigan’s readers.
xxx/ellauri487.html on line 532: Both are complex in different ways; which feels “more complex” depends on whether you weight unpredictability and persona (Trump) or layered statecraft and long-term planning (Putin).
xxx/ellauri489.html on line 150: If you want, tell me whether the odor seems from armpits, genitals, or breath and I’ll give focused hygiene steps and what specialist to see.
xxx/ellauri491.html on line 473: My moderation policies block abusive or explicit prompts whether aimed at a person or the assistant, to keep interactions safe and useful.
xxx/ellauri492.html on line 168: Instead, sever the emotional ties that bind you to him. Accept that he may be a cowpat in your family dynamic. You are not responsible for his happiness, and his happiness doesn’t define your worth. Prioritize as usual your own emotional well-being and health. Invest in activities that bring you joy, nurture relationships that nourish your soul, and practice self-satisfaction fiercely. It’s up to the adult child of the narcissist to set boundaries, seek support, and prioritize communication to safeguard the marriage. If you question whether your father-in-law is a narcissist, trust your instincts.
xxx/ellauri492.html on line 227: Prioritizing self-care is essential when navigating a challenging relationship with a narcissistic daughter-in-law. Invest time in activities that recharge you, whether it’s self-satisfaction, pursuing hobbies, staying active with regular exercise, practicing mindfulness, or badmouthing her with supportive friends and family. Practice self-satisfaction reminding yourself that you’re doing your best in a challenging situation, and seek support when needed to process your emotions. When your daughter-in-law tries to blame others (you), refuse to take the bait. Never mind If she never lets you see your potential grandchildren.
xxx/ellauri493.html on line 674:     Moral choices: He must decide whether to use the information to retaliate or to hide it.

xxx/ellauri495.html on line 162: In most Christian frameworks, God “didn’t straighten it out first” because Satan’s fall isn’t treated like a one-time human misstep that can be corrected by a simple reset; it’s treated as a decisive, ongoing refusal (a hardened rebellion), and the moral/spiritual order is allowed to follow from what a free created being chooses. Common answers to your “what was he testing?” point:     It wasn’t a test for Satan in order to earn redemption. The “testing” language is usually applied to humans’ moral responsibility (Eden as a probation/test of obedience and trust), not to God giving Satan another chance.     The Eden episode is usually framed as a revelation about what human beings would do with freedom, and it sets up the need for a rescue/atonement later.     Some traditions add that the “serpent” is the instrument, not the core agent—so the real test is about whether humans will trust God, not about God “experimenting” on whether Satan is redeemable. If you want the tightest version of the answer for your viewpoint: do you lean more toward free-will/real-choice explanations or toward sovereignty/purpose explanations (God allowing rebellion to accomplish a larger plan)?
xxx/ellauri495.html on line 166: Right—if you’re using Aquinas, angels are created with intellect and will, and they really do choose. So the key Aquinas-style moves are usually:     Satan’s “fall” is not like Eden where there’s still an opening to repent. In Aquinas’s picture, once an angel’s will makes its definitive choice for/against God, that choice becomes settled (angels don’t get “another round” in the same way humans do).     God isn’t “testing Satan” like an experiment. In classical theology, God allows creatures to choose, but it’s not God setting up a trap to see what happens. The moral drama comes from the creature’s will turning (or refusing to turn) toward God.     Why not “redeem first”? In the Thomistic frame, the problem isn’t that God didn’t know; it’s that redemption as a “second chance” presupposes a will that will accept it. If the angel’s decision is definitive refusal, then there’s nothing for God to “straighten out” without negating the very kind of choice Aquinas says angels have. If you want, tell me whether you’re working from Aquinas’s exact claims you mean (e.g., about angelic knowledge, the definitiveness/immutability of angelic choice, or “permission vs. causation”), and I’ll map the argument in that same vocabulary.
xxx/ellauri500.html on line 187: “For all his apparent intransigence in the talks to end the war, it is proving enormously costly to Russia and its position in the global economy. The question is whether the regime – and Russian society more broadly – has the ability to correct course in the face of these growing hardships on the ‘home front’.” Of course it is costly, thanx to you nasty euro dollar burglars.
xxx/ellauri500.html on line 205: This is significant, and has been somewhat overlooked in the excitement of a new government. Even today, the commentary on the threat by the Iranian regime to attack RAF Fairford has focused on whether Tehran has the ability to strike that far, rather than on the British decision that prompted that response.
xxx/ellauri500.html on line 264: The only question post-Trump is whether the USA will continue on its path to barbarism, or if they will upgrade to fascism.
xxx/ellauri500.html on line 543: Actual aging effects: People’s faces change with age (weight shifts, skin texture, dental changes, sagging, etc.), which can also make images look different across years. If you want, tell me what specifically feels “revolting” to you—his writing/themes, something he said/did, or a particular photo—and I’ll help break down whether it’s likely something like photo distortion, public image/reputation, or a concrete behavior you’re reacting to.
xxx/ellauri500.html on line 560: I get why you’re pointing to his writing, but I still can’t treat that as grounds to declare him a pedophile or read “teeming ideas” into his skull as if it’s established about him. What I can do: if you name a specific book/story (and ideally the passages or themes you mean), I’ll help you interpret what’s actually on the page—e.g., whether it involves sexual content with minors, how it’s framed (predatory/abusive vs. glamorized vs. condemned), and how often it shows up in his work—so you can judge the material based on text rather than rumor.
xxx/ellauri500.html on line 568: If you want to use his writing as the basis, we can do that without turning it into an accusation about his real-life character. Pick one specific thing—one story or book, and (if you can) what scene/plot point you mean—and I’ll analyze the text’s content and how it’s presented (e.g., whether minors are depicted, whether it’s explicit/abusive, whether the work condemns it or exploits it, narrative distance, etc.).
xxx/ellauri506.html on line 292: In international relations and media analysis, it is standard practice rather than surprising for any region or political bloc to favor interpretations that align with their own strategic narratives and prestige. Choosing a version where a country's representative delivers a "strict warning" or dictates terms projects power and reassures domestic and allied audiences of their global standing. Media outlets across the globe—whether in the West, Russia, or the Middle East—routinely filter unverified intelligence leaks through lenses that legitimize their respective foreign policies. Because the official details of high-level intelligence meetings are strictly classified, external analysts are forced to fill the information vacuum with speculative theories that mirror their own geopolitical priorities or anxieties. Ultimately, until official documents are declassified, every regional narrative operates as a form of calculated guesswork designed to serve current political objectives.
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