The boy who came into the world a short time ago in Bosnia to such international acclaim will be sharing a birthday with a few hundred thousand people and in the next year another eighty million will be joining him on the planet. The earth’s population has doubled since 1960 and with m...
[Lila: My previous post reported on thewidespread use in current Tamil Nadu TV (Sun TV serials) of occult symbols drawn from mother- goddess (Amma) worship,accompanied by imagery of lamias and snakes and references to divination, seances, and black magic. Was this intended to reinforce the ...
not an ethnic group—they’re going to sort on something like “looking Arab,” whatever that ends up meaning.) Then, you’re going to have to analyze the resulting security system. How does
The fact that the King George I was a ‘Protestant’ and first in the Hanover line succeeding Catholic Stuart’s is moot as George I was Prince-Elector of Hanover, meaning he was part of the electoral college that elected Holy Roman Emperors & descended from them & crowned by Pope. Toby...
Islamophobic resentment that had long brewed across the U.K. came to the surface. According to U.K. government data from 2023, no religious group has faced more hate crimes linked to faith than Britain’s Muslims. In the year ending March 2023, more than 4 in 10 of all rec...
If we really think out the meaning of Genesis 3:22 “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad and now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually take also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite… if they had eaten from the...
German, Norwegian, Irish Gaelic, Korean, and perhaps a dozen others. I’m far from perfect in these languages, and I’m terrible at some, but I can converse in quite a few with no problems whatsoever—just ask the MIT students who came up to me last night and spok...
There is a saying in Marathi (बाळ रडल्याशिवाय आईसुद्धा दूध पाजत नाही), meaning of which is –even mother would not feed milk to her child unless and until he cries. So, cry, cry ...
The literal meaning o Darshan is a “look,” a “view”; and generally re ers to the process o going up to a “sage,” teacher, guru, etc., to receive a blessing as a way to pierce through this illusion, which is made o consciousness. To have a “look” (Darshan) behind or ...
[Credit: I’ve been meaning to do this post for a while but was reminded by Chinayouren’srecent poston reading speed, in which Julen faults word parsing for slowing down the non-native speaker. Again, my guess is that it slows down the native speaker too, but that would be pretty ...