@SpicyMarshal @NoContextCounty I consider the Ranji Trophy, and to a lesser extent the Vijay Hazare Trophy, to be cricket worth aspiring to. IPL is tamasha that sucks the wind out of the sails of genuine cricket.
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@madish2000 @NoContextCounty You are a fake account with a fake Hindu name that was created to badmouth India and India’s politicians for your sadistic pleasure. That’s sad and silly!
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The IPL is a nice warm up act for the real cricket starting on Friday
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@madish2000 @ghostowlredux Mark Smith's stuff is good; ironically for the present purposes, he does use the term "monotheism", but makes it clear he means it as a sort of rhetorical strategy rather than as a philosophical statement on the part of HB writers.
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There is (basically) no monotheism in the Hebrew Bible (in fact, the term is more or less meaningless).
Linguistic reconstruction is not in any way "problematic" (if done with methodological rigor).
The Hebrew Bible makes zero sense without reading it in its NWS context.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray
What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
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@OlaWikander @ghostowlredux What would you recommend reading on this?
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@madish2000 @ghostowlredux Well, on this point, his position is very much not mainstream. You do find ideas like this here and there in biblical studies (not just him), but it's getting rarer and rarer.
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@harsh8848 They don’t even have production lines for these anymore. Would be funny to see the US try and sweep potential F22 loses under the rug when all of these are both literally irreplaceable and utterly outmoded in the era of drones and ballistic missiles.
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F-22 the lethal killer of Chinese weather balloon.
U.S. Central Command@CENTCOM
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor takes off from a base in the Middle East during Operation Epic Fury. The Raptor is unmatched by any known or projected fighter aircraft.
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@daisychristo @si_rubinstein CP Snow and Gellner’s writings are pretty good on this. I find it interesting that per David Edgerton, this deficit in technical education and its downstream effects were pretty much corrected by the 60s and 70s. Maybe that was a moment a healthy modus vivendi had been attained
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I've been working on a long article about British elites and the role classics played in their education.
I am an edu-trad and believe in the best that has been known & thought.
But you can have too much of a good thing, and in the 19th C I think Britain overdosed on Classics!
EG, in 1900, a donor offered to found a school of naval architecture at Cambridge University, but withdrew the offer when the university insisted the students would all have to qualify in Greek.
Boris is a hangover from that era, when elegant translations of the Melian dialogue were seen as the best preparation for anything life would throw at you.
In lockdown I think some leaked WhatsApps showed him struggling with basic percentages.
It's a throwback to big educational debates in the early 20th C, when reformers wanted more maths and science on the curriculum, and the trad public schools wanted to stick with Greek & Latin.
Christopher Kratovil@chris_kratovil
It’s not every day that one gets to listen to a former British Prime Minister recite from memory the opening passages of The Iliad in Ancient Greek, with no notes, in response to a random question from an undergraduate—and all while wearing what appear to be Thomas The Tank Engine socks. But today was one such day. My thanks to my good friend Brad LaMorgese for the opportunity to see the colorful and comic Boris Johnson speak tonight at the University of Dallas.
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@invertedspear22 Isshin was generally a decent father. He and Ichigo had a pretty healthy relationship where Ichigo accepts his father has his reasons while his father comes in clutch at his low points to pick him up like after Zangetsu broke
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@vajrayudha11 If not for the same foreign indologist, you would be calling Ashoka's pillar as 'Bhim ki Lathi' even today.
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King of Magadha is the appropriate translation. And it designates title and not the Magadhi pride. Just like Modi is MLA of Kashi but it doesn’t make him Banarasi
Pushkar Chaudhary@Yaayaavara
"The Magadhan King Priyadarsin(Ashoka) having saluted the Samgha hopes they are both well and comfortable" - Minor Rock edict number 3, Bairat
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@IndoKatholic @Hayavadana3 Yeah, it’s just that the richness of the Christian liturgical calendar, with its many saint’s days and feast days, not really translating well to modernity gives people a skewed image of how involved that active sort of communal worship is for Christians.
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@Hayavadana3 That's what Sunday Mass and daily Bible reading is for :)
We don't need a festival to worship God
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If Muslims and Christians don't celebrate the glory of God every other day it is not our fault
Indo Catholic🇻🇦♱@IndoKatholic
There are a grand total of 2 Christian holidays a year(Christmas and Good Friday), and 3 Muslims ones. There is a Hindu holiday/festival every month, and sometimes multiple times a month. Don't know which part of India you live in where Janmashtami is not a holiday lol
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“DRAKE FORCED COLE TO GO ON THOSE INTERVIEWS?!?! HES DONE!!!”
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@dmcb__ punch will tweet a laughing emoji Joe Budden podcast will somehow make it about Drake Scru will make a 45 minute video and have his tongue out in the thumbnail we are all tired man
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@harsh8848 Barak spent 2 years trying to convince the world that Biden had finally had enough of Netanyahu and that ‘terse words’ were exchanged and ‘angry shouting’ was had. They basically use him to give the narrative they need out there to cover the skins the appearance of a leak.
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Vance has a hotline to hell? His couch is special.
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷VP Vance told Netanyahu in a "difficult" call on Monday that several of Netanyahu's predictions about the war had proved far too optimistic, like the prospects of a popular uprising to topple the regime. @MarcACaputo & I write for @axios axios.com/2026/03/27/van…
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@madish2000 domum here is indeed a case of accusative marking the direction of movement. domī is the locative you're talking about
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It always bugs me that there is an error here. ‹domum› in ‹rōmānī īte domum› is accusative, not locative. Indo-European accusatives also mark direction of movement (Sanskrit ‹dámam ihí›).
Cozy@cosyposter
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@harsh8848 A bombing campaign of Delhi would be good for something at least. Can remake it as a planned city the way most Warsaw pact cities were remade after ww2 to remove the squalor and give dignity to all. Netanyahu should go ahead with the false flag nuke if he has his eye on NCR
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Delhi looks worse than bombed places in war.
Amitabh Dubey@dubeyamitabh
People lined up right now waiting for LPG gas cylinders in Vasant Kunj, Delhi.
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@NoContextCounty 48-49 seems realistic. He’ll go down as an ATG for England if he manages that. Presuming franchise hell hasn’t destroyed what is left of cricket by then of course.
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Harry Brook currently has a test average of 54.8, what will this be by the time he retires?
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@SamuelADodge @samhaselby Arthur Marwick’s book on history? The one time I got to deliver a lecture on method at a local college, I tried to bring E. H. Carr, Collingwood, and a few others into conversation to get at the provisional and epiphenomenal nature of history contra “the past”, and that was fun
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Historian friends,cI am teaching an introductory historical methods course for the first time this coming year. I am wondering what books or ideas for the course you could recommend (either for preparation or to assign). I am just trying to brainstorm right now.
Thanks in advance
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Can someone please explain to me what "dalal" means? Is it a hindi slang abuse term?
IndiaToday@IndiaToday
India cannot act as a “dalal nation” in global geopolitics, External Affairs Minister @DrSJaishankar said at the all-party meet on West Asia crisis on Wednesday. The minister's remarks came when Opposition raised concerns over Pakistan mediating talks between United States and Iran amid the ongoing conflict, sources told India Today. indiatoday.in/india/story/we…
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