@Eridiongido hahaha we can agree that it doesn't compete! i do like the interior sunken floor though ...
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@ArgosNiko That's exactly why it was so controversial
But the cool thing about the glass is that instead of competing with the beautiful old stonework, it actually reflects it. It’s meant to be a modern frame for the historic space, rather than trying to imitate it.
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From eerie 1930 boat rides to a glowing 2022 masterpiece .... Basilica Cistern’s timeless magic.
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@Joachim1428561 I have never read it! I know it's very highly regarded though...
My understanding is the translator was a philosophy specialist rather than a language specialist. I'd be very interested to read it with an eye to that. What do you think?
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@Eridiongido it sacrifices the entire aesthetic of the space, while also being cheap and artificial by comparison
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@GilbertCTweets its not from thermotita (θερμότητα). that's Modern Greek. it's from thermos (θερμός) "warm, hot, boiling, glowing"
Thermodynamics don't apply. God is transcendent (transcends natural laws) and immaterial. Man is a created, mortal, finite being. Thermo (from the Greek thermótita) means "heat". Dynamics (from the Greek dunamikós) means power. The power of heat.
NOTHING to do with the infinite.
Bobby🥛@ybobbjr
In 1847, German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz formalized the 1st Law of Thermodynamics mathematically, establishing it as a universal principle. Matter cannot be created, or destroyed. This law to me has always echoed the unique, often divisive, doctrine of Latter-Day Saint theology that man was in the beginning with God, and that intelligence, as well as matter, are eternal elements of the universe. I noticed studying this evening that the revelation in Doctrine & Covenants 93 was given to Joseph Smith from our Lord Jesus Christ in 1833, 14 years prior to the formalization of the first law of thermodynamics. I would say that is prophetic.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.
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Waterhouse’s ‘Narcissus’ references the flower named after the Greek myth.
In the Greek myth Narcissus, a beautiful youth, fell deeply in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. He became completely entranced and could not tear himself away.
He eventually wasted away and died on the spot from starvation and exhaustion. In some versions (e.g., Ovid’s Metamorphoses), the gods transformed his body into the narcissus flower (daffodil) where he died, as a memorial to his self-obsession. In others, the flower simply sprang up from the earth at the place of his death.
The bloom thus symbolizes vanity, self-love, and unrequited desire.
John William Waterhouse@waterhouse_art
Narcissus #artbots #waterhouse
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@GeorgeGunner424 @doctor_rahmeh what do the Greek Cypriots do with the land of the Turkish Cypriots?
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@doctor_rahmeh Stolen Properties of Greek Cypriots have been sold for the last 50 years, any care to mention ? i thought not.
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LONDON EVENT INFILTRATED 🔥
Edgware United Synagogue is selling stolen Palestinian land RIGHT NOW. Anti-zionist jewish protestor managed to get inside and protest.
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Dr Rahmeh Aladwan@doctor_rahmeh
Shame on Edgware United Synagogue for selling STOLEN Palestinian land today. The terrorist IOF and jewish settlers cleared the land of the native Muslim and Christian Palestinians by force. PROTEST NOW UNTIL 16:30: The intersection of Edgware Way and Broadhurst Avenue, HA8 8TL
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If a man is unversed in Latin & Greek, he is, in the strict sense of the term (do look it up), an ILLITERATE. I say that not in any spirit of moral judgment, but as a matter of accurate classification.
He may be clever, or even wise, but he remains an uneducated barbarian.
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@LordIxabert ..but i think you actually said Greek and Latin. oops.
also conventional usage does not 'strictly' determine a word's meaning. etymology is better for this. as im sure you know, the word literate most literally means lettered, without reference to a specific language
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@Pastpassport there is so much wrong here. im comforted knowing it was written by ai
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Homer wrote nothing.
His epics lived in the mouths of performers for centuries before anyone wrote them down.
Byzantine scholars in Constantinople kept copying them when the entire West had forgotten Greek existed.
No copies. No Keats. No Odyssey film opening July 17.
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Everyone thinks Rome's fall destroyed the ancient world's great books.
Wrong.
Most were already gone before a single barbarian crossed the border.
Nine survived because of people you've never heard of. 🧵
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@johnhboyer if you are getting your texts from Perseus, just be aware that they claim copyright on them as digital assets
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Please check out the Aristotle Reader Project v. 0.5 johnhboyer-sys.github.io/nicomachean-et…
Going to expand corpus offerings. Suggestions and bug reports in replies please!
If you like it, please RT!
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@BBHerodotus pretty sure most universities have the Harvard Classics and the Bible. along with thousands of other resources. you could literally learn the languages the Harvard Classics translate from. ill take the 10 years please
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I’m of the opinion that a young man could lock himself away in a tower for a year with the five foot shelf of Harvard Classics and a good Bible, and would re-emerge a better man than had he spent a decade in a modern university.
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Tourism doesn’t lift countries out of poverty. It never has.
All it does is keep them trapped in a loop of mediocrity, low-value activities and chronic inability to produce anything of value. It also reduces housing availability, making it more expensive for native populations.
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn@GunterFehlinger
Yes to high quality tourism development for Albania This is the way to lift Albania from poverty to EU prosperity
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