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@Arkhairo
Philosophy. Anthropology. Archaeology. Mythology. Folklore. Pop-culture. Tolkien * PhD * Lecturer * Cicerone * An account for my Intelectual adventures.
Wandering Katılım Ağustos 2016
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Participo como ponente en este interesante Curso de Verano
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@EarendilBright Nolan can be a really good narrator, so I share your hopes! What weighs against it is that, in addition to the trailer, the films about Greek mythology that I've watched in recent decades have all been about disenchantment, so I'm already preconsciously wary against it.
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@Arkhairo The trailer left me quite cold as well, and I agree about the tagline. I still want to hope that the actual treatment of these them in the movie won’t be so simplistic. The first teaser did open with Eumaeus (I believe) complaining about “Zeus’ law smashed to pieces” in Ithaca.
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I will wait to see the movie to have a strong opinion, but looking at it so far I concede that it takes a lot of talent to make The Odyssey, of all stories, look disenchanted.
("Defy the Gods" is still a stupid tagline in the whole horizon of Greek mythology)
The Odyssey Movie@odysseymovie
Defy the Gods. Watch the New Trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and experience the film in theaters 7 17 26.
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@AaronIrber - implicit (such as with Galadriel's redemption or Aragorn's restraint at showing off rank or flashing Andúril).
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@AaronIrber I had the chance to talk a bit about that at the last Holy Moot but there's a theme of self-limitation and incompleteness as a divine mandate and condition of good transversal to the Legendarium. Sometimes is explicitly formulated (such as in the case of the Istari) or +
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Is there a reason why both Gandalf and Aragorn (in the books) seem to be unable or unwilling to use their full power?
Gandalf the White is not shown, in my memory, to go “all out” on the villains. I also don’t recall Aragorn being shown using Anduril in battle. He brings Anduril into battle, but is not depicted using it.
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Ok, now I get why most of the USA people I meet at work are so fixated in asking about Spain's "z" sound.
John Carter@martianwyrdlord
If your name includes a dental fricative - e.g. Anthony, Theodore, Nathaniel, Samantha, Elizabeth, Catherine, etc. - native speakers of the overwhelming majority of the world's languages cannot pronounce your name properly. If you're living or traveling outside of the Anglosphere you learn to adapt to this, accepting whatever the most common local mispronunciation happens to be, because the alternative of lecturing every single person you encounter on the finer points of English phonetics is actually insane.
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@Tr3baL4 AUTENTICOS trajes de charro en España.
Es el traje folclórico de la zona de Salamanca.
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"Cinco preguntas basadas en el método socrático para mejorar tu pensamiento:
5-¿Qué haría falta para cambiar tu opinión? Sé específico.
4-Si tu mejor razón para creer eso fuera falsa, ¿seguirías creyéndolo? (Eso se llama una “verificación de la razón real”.)
3-¿Cuál es el argumento más fuerte contra tu posición? Refuérzalo al máximo (haz el steelman).
2-Si sintieras que tu creencia es verdadera pero la evidencia estuviera abrumadoramente en contra, ¿seguirías creyéndolo?
1-Si tu creencia fuera falsa, ¿eso te convertiría en una peor persona?"
Peter Boghossian@peterboghossian
Five Socratic-based questions to improve your thinking. 1/2 5. What would it take to change your mind? Be specific. 4. If your best reason for believing that was false, would you still believe? (That's called a "real reason check".)
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The first surviving book which described the rules of chess in which the queen is the most powerful piece as it is today was published by Luis Ramírez de Lucena around 1497, a Spanish chess player who was fond of queen Isabella and called the new rules "queen's chess".
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Centaura amamantando.
Capitel románico ,en el patio de armas del castillo de Frías (Burgos).
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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!
“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”
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This is very interesting, yes.
Dr Francis Young@DrFrancisYoung
The question of when ritual is 'religion' in East Asia (and when it isn't) has been debated since the arrival of Catholic missionaries in the 16th century, since ritual in the region didn't map in any straightforward way onto European preconceptions
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