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| Paul Joseph |
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PhD Alumni Posts: 4414 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Location: United Kingdom | sorry if I came over as 'teaching'/patronising | ||
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| Aquarius |
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UMS Guest Posts: 1938 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Location: United Kingdom | Your comments didn't come across to me as preaching, Paul; they were very interesting, the way they usually are. Know that love is eternal; Whatever you leave behind unfinished in this lifetime Edited by Aquarius 2/2/2009 11:06 AM | ||
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| mruppert |
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Expert Posts: 2118 ![]() ![]() Location: The Heart of Space | Darn it AckWah....I can never read your text.....'cause it translates so big with the font that you use!!!!!! Ist furchtbar schwierig....es macht nichts....habe keine ahnung... Ja ja.....don't laugh....it is obvious that I am way beyond remembering tense for verbs and even recalling basic vocabulary, I haven't spoken a word of Deutsch since I was a little kid and then not so much.....the language of the old folks in da'Hood was Yid. What amazes me is that in Sammys Roumanian Style Restaurant (in NYC...Manhattan, right across the Brooklyn Bridge) the people can speak Yiddish, German, and Hebrew; but they....nary a one....can speak Romanian, the language of the Holy Roman Empire. The language of France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and of it's derivative, ancient latin vulgaris. But I love when I am able to play for a captive audience, the film of the reading of Beowulf, by Bagby....as he does it in the way that it was most likely done; and speaks English..yet, we cannot understand a word except for one or two. If we are so dense as to not understand our own language, though it might have been a bit ancient to us.....how can we ever hope to understand other languages of the past, present or future. How can we hope to communicate with aliens, since all of our thoughts are earthbound....and all of our ethereal thoughts are heavenly tied to earthbound considerations. How can we speak to things that are not like us....since we can barely speak to oursleves? P&L, Marty and Wunderkatzen, Luckylee, Poppyhead, und SissyGirl | ||
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| Paul Joseph |
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PhD Alumni Posts: 4414 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Location: United Kingdom | Thanks as always and ever Aquarius | ||
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| Paul Joseph |
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PhD Alumni Posts: 4414 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Location: United Kingdom | The old Sufi teaching story of the blind men and the elephant comes to mind | ||
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| Ophiucus |
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Forum Administrator Posts: 462 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | And some former reflections on Prayer, echoing Aquarius' posting today (I thought I recognised J.M. Cagodevilla, please see page 2 for a partial rendering of the longer version posted today) | ||
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