Are we True or simply Cultural believers in God?

[pmccarthy]

Day? I don't know whether this should go here, or in the immigration thread. When I was small and we lived in Northmead, Sydney, a shopkeeper had a sign that read "shop now, before the day goes".

[onetrack]

Did the shopkeeper actually mean to write, "shop now, before the Dago's"?

[spacesailor]

The original " DAY " CAN/ COULD. have been the time between All those ' blackholes ' colliding , then , " let there be light " .

One day !, " From here to ' eternity  '  " Such is life  " .

spacesailor

 

[old man emu]

On "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" What's a Greek Urn?

 

Building Contractor contestant: "Award rate, just like the rest of the bludgers working for me."

[pmccarthy]

4 hours ago, onetrack said:

Did the shopkeeper actually mean to write, "shop now, before the Dago's"?

Yes but it wasn’t written that way. Even then it would have been provocative. Mum thought it was clever.

[Bruce Tuncks]

My maternal grandmother was very intolerant of Italians, I remember her saying that she would be good n dead before one got to be prime minister. But I personally like Albanese, and I think Grandma was silly. Now, returning to the Bible, if they are using the word "day " then they have used a bloody awfully confusing "translation" if they actually meant " a long but unknown period of time".

If you can do this, you can do anything as your words can be made to suit anything you choose.

But how do they weasel out of the "firmament stuff...  do I need to be careful in my Jabiru or not? The thing is pretty solid if it is going to "separate the waters above from the waters below", and it is below freezing level for the same reason.

[facthunter]

There would certainly be many biblical verses that one could well believe have been lost in the translation. Virgin and "young girl" as an example are "possibles " for one word.. Nev

[spacesailor]

Like saying all Lesbian's come from " Lesbos Island " Turkey.  ( also called Lesvos Island ) ..

spacesailor

[Jerry_Atrick]

I'm a Lesbian, but have never been to Lesbos Island...

[nomadpete]

9 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

I'm a Lesbian, but have never been to Lesbos Island...

Do you have to actually visit the Isle of Lesbos to become a lesbosian? Maybe it is contagious, or is it something in the water?

 

 

[nomadpete]

9 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

I'm a Lesbian, but have never been to Lesbos Island...

BTW we all know THAT joke......

[old man emu]

Before the mid-19th century,[12] the word lesbian referred to things associated with the island of Lesbos, including a type of wine. That's the same as Sardinian, Cretan, Sicilian and so on. Use of the word lesbianism to describe erotic relationships between women had been documented in 1870.

[nomadpete]

5 hours ago, old man emu said:

That's the same as Sardinian, Cretan, Sicilian and so on. 

By this logic, are our cretins all Cretan?

[facthunter]

You can't tan a tin but Trump gets HIS tan  from a tin.   Nev

[spacesailor]

And , what do you call those from  " Nigar "  Africa .

spacesa8lor

[Jerry_Atrick]

It's Niger, and pronounced Ny-shjer

Edited October 2, 2023 by Jerry_Atrick

[old man emu]

51 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

It's Niger, and pronounced Ny-shjer

The name comes from the Niger River which flows through the west of the country. The origin of the river's name is uncertain. Alexandrian geographer Ptolemy wrote descriptions of the wadi Gir (in neighbouring modern Algeria) and the Ni-Gir ("Lower Gir") to the south, possibly referring to the Niger River. The modern spelling Niger was first recorded by Berber scholar Leo Africanus in 1550, possibly derived from the Tuareg phrase gher-n-gheren meaning "river of rivers". There is broad consensus among linguists that it does not derive from the Latin niger ("black") as was first erroneously believed

[Jerry_Atrick]

12 hours ago, nomadpete said:

BTW we all know THAT joke......

Hey, it's a new one to me 😉

 

[nomadpete]

I punch line is.......

 

I Used to think I was a real pilot, but I just found out that  I've really always been a Lesbian.

[spacesailor]

Over my head ? .

Were is that ' joke ' .

spacesailor

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, spacesailor said:

Were is that ' joke ' .

Over in the Quickies thread.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Some of us are just wannabe lesbians.

[facthunter]

Costs more to be a real Pilot.  Nev

[onetrack]

 I was surprised to find the association between Lesbos and lesbians is a lot more murky than we have been told. As with so much ancient culture, there's a lot lost in the translation and in ensuing individual opinions.

 

https://greekreporter.com/2023/06/09/greek-island-lesbos-word-lesbian/#:~:text=The etymology of “lesbian” and,of Lesbos' most famous inhabitants.

[Jerry_Atrick]

OK.. .back to topic...

 

I found this mildly amusing, as it did show how conditioned we are whether we like to admit it or not.