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clairekreads · 8 months ago
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How To Kill A Guy In Ten Ways by Eve Kellman @avonbooksuk #bookreview #publicationday #howtokillaguyintenways
🎉🎉🎉 Happy Publication Day to Eve Kellman 🎉🎉🎉 How To Kill A Guy In Ten Ways is out today!! Continue reading How To Kill A Guy In Ten Ways by Eve Kellman @avonbooksuk #bookreview #publicationday #howtokillaguyintenways
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ancientcosmicsecrets · 6 months ago
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The Book Of Leviathan
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A Controversial Book of Dark Philosophy and Magic
The Satanic Bible is not a book that you would find in a typical library or bookstore. It is a collection of essays, observations, and rituals that express the worldview and practices of LaVeyan Satanism, a religion founded by Anton LaVey in 1966. LaVeyan Satanism is a form of atheistic Satanism that rejects the existence of supernatural beings and advocates for rational self-interest, individualism, and hedonism.
The Satanic Bible was first published in 1969 by Avon Books and has since sold over one million copies. It is considered the most influential document in modern Satanism and has inspired many other books, groups, and movements that share its philosophy and aesthetics.
The book is divided into four sections, each named after a biblical figure associated with Satan: The Book of Satan, The Book of Lucifer, The Book of Belial, and The Book of Leviathan. Each section contains chapters that cover various topics related to Satanism, such as ethics, psychology, sexuality, magic, and ritual.
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The Book of Satan challenges the traditional moral values of Christianity and Judaism, such as the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. It advocates for a life of indulgence, pleasure, and vengeance rather than abstinence, sacrifice, and forgiveness. It also praises the virtues of pride, strength, and wisdom rather than humility, weakness, and faith.
The Book of Lucifer explains the core principles and beliefs of LaVeyan Satanism in more detail. It discusses love, hate, responsibility, stratification, and aesthetics. It also clarifies some common misconceptions and criticisms about Satanism, such as its relation to crime, violence, drugs, and animal sacrifice.
The Book of Belial deals with the theory and practice of magic and ritual in Satanism. It defines magic as “the change in situations or events by one’s will, which would otherwise not occur.” It distinguishes between two types of magic: more extraordinary and lesser. More fantastic magic is using ritual and ceremony to focus one’s emotional energy on a specific purpose. Lesser magic is manipulating and persuasion to influence others for one’s benefit. The book also provides instructions for three types of rituals: those for sex, compassion, or destruction.
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The Book of Leviathan contains four invocations for different aspects of Satan: lust, compassion, destruction, and the self. It also lists the nineteen Enochian Keys (adapted from John Dee’s Enochian keys), which are supposed to be magical words that can summon demonic forces. The book ends with an epilogue that declares, “Hail Satan!”
The name “Satan” has a long and complex history in various religions and cultures. It originates from the Hebrew word “satan,” which means “adversary” or “accuser.” In the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), it is used to describe anyone who opposes or challenges God or his people. Sometimes, it refers to a specific angel who acts as God’s prosecutor or tester. In other cases, it relates to human enemies or nations that threaten Israel.
In the New Testament (Christian Bible), Satan becomes more personalized and demonized as the ultimate enemy of God and humanity. He is identified with the serpent who tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3), the dragon who fought against Michael and his angels in heaven (Revelation 12), and the beast who will rise from the sea in the end times (Revelation 13).
He is also called by various names, such as Lucifer (Isaiah 14), Beelzebub (Matthew 12), Abaddon (Revelation 9), or Antichrist (1 John 2). He is depicted as a fallen angel who rebelled against God out of pride and envy (Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28), who was cast out of heaven along with his followers (Luke 10; Revelation 12), who rules over the world of darkness and evil (John 12; Ephesians 6), who tempts people to sin (Matthew 4; 1 Peter 5), who accuses them before God (Job 1; Revelation 12), who deceives them with false teachings (2 Corinthians 11; 1 Timothy 4), who torments them with diseases and afflictions (Job 2; Luke 13), who binds them with death and hell (Hebrews 2; Revelation 20), and who will be ultimately defeated by Jesus Christ and thrown into the lake of fire (Matthew 25; Revelation 20).
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In Islam, Satan is also known as Iblis or Shaitan and is considered a jinn (a type of spirit) rather than an angel. He was created from fire, while humans were made from clay. He refused to bow down to Adam, the first human, when God commanded him to, claiming he was superior. As a result, he was expelled from paradise and became the enemy of God and humanity. He vowed to mislead and corrupt them until the Day of Judgment when he will be punished in hell. He is also the leader of the other jinn who followed him in his rebellion. He whispers evil thoughts and suggestions into people’s hearts and tries to make them forget God and his commands. He has no power over those who believe in God and seek his protection.
In Judaism, Satan is not seen as an independent or evil being but as an agent subservient to God, who performs a necessary function in his plan. He is typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or “evil inclination,” which is the natural tendency of humans to pursue their desires and interests, sometimes at the expense of others or God’s will. The yetzer hara is not inherently wrong but can be used for good or evil depending on how it is channeled. It is balanced by the yetzer tov, or “good inclination,” which is the natural tendency of humans to seek God’s approval and follow his laws. The role of Satan is to test and challenge people’s faith and obedience to God and to provide them with opportunities for repentance and growth. Satan has no power over those who resist his temptations and choose to do good.
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The Satanic Bible presents a different perspective on Satan and his role in human history and society. It does not worship Satan as a literal or personal being but as a symbol of rebellion, freedom, individuality, and self-empowerment. It rejects the idea of absolute morality and authority imposed by external forces, such as God, religion, or society. It embraces the concept of relative morality and authority determined by one’s own will, reason, and experience. It celebrates human nature and potential in all its aspects, both light and dark, both constructive and destructive. It advocates for a life of self-fulfillment, pleasure, and mastery over oneself and one’s environment. It practices magic and ritual to express one’s emotions, desires, and goals and influence one’s reality according to one’s will.
The Satanic Bible is a controversial book that has provoked many reactions from different groups and individuals over the years. Some have praised it as a liberating and empowering manifesto that challenges the status quo and offers an alternative way of living. Some have criticized it as a dangerous and immoral document that promotes selfishness, violence, and chaos. Some have dismissed it as a joke or a hoax with no serious value or relevance.
Whatever one’s opinion, The Satanic Bible remains a fascinating and influential work that reflects the views and values of its author and his followers and the cultural and historical context in which it was written. It also raises many questions about the nature and meaning of Satanism, religion, morality, magic, and human existence.
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bookishbethanyerin · 1 year ago
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• ARC Review: Wreck the Halls •
If you like your holiday romances light on festive cheer, heavy on the spice, and full of family drama, then look no further than Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey.
The story follows Beat Dawkins and Melody Gallard, the children of former band members whose group publicly imploded on stage in the early '90s. Thirty years later, their mothers are infamous, one of their songs is topping the charts again, and Beat and Melody are approached for a livestream-based reality show that aims to get their moms to perform together live on Christmas Eve.
Though it sounds like this book could quickly become schlocky and cliché (I mean, the characters *are* named Beat and Melody), the plot never actually ventures there. Instead, Tessa delivers a warm, fun, and slightly angsty tale of two adults who grew up very privileged and largely in the public eye, and the ways they have both learned to cope with the money and attention they did nothing to earn.
And also? It's really hot. Scorching, really.
I loved that Tessa kept this out of instalove territory with Beat and Melody's meet-cute actually occurring twelve years earlier, when they were both teenagers, and revisits how that moment affected both characters throughout the book. And I also loved that Tessa gives us two women rockstars who partied hard and have legacies like their male counterparts, and who are both a bit of a mess – albeit in very, very different ways.
Though at first I was dubious about the live-streaming aspect, Tessa handles it in a way that feels both realistic (I mean, mostly) and fun as Beat (he will make you swoon and also sweat) and Melody (she works in book restoration and is extremely punny, you will absolutely adore her) become social media sensations who have captured the attention of the entire world.
Set against the backdrop of Christmas in New York City but not all too heavy on all things Christmas, this book is perfect for kicking off your holiday TBR: it's funny, steamy, and sweet – and also there's a *really great* Stevie Nicks reference.
4.25🌟
2.75🌶️
🎄A massive thank you to Avon Books for the opportunity to read and review an advanced copy!❤️
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pedanther · 2 years ago
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Some differences between the translations in Chapter 96.
Reminding us of the conversation in the phaeton at Auteuil adds an extra complication to an already complicated sentence, but it’s a nice bit of foreshadowing for where this chapter ends up:
... l’élégant phaéton avec lequel nous avons déjà plusieurs fois fait connaissance, et notamment pendant la soirée d’Auteuil, vint tourner rapidement l’angle de la porte d’entrée, et lança plutôt qu’il ne déposa sur les degrés du perron M. Andrea Cavalcanti ...
... the elegant phaeton with which we are familiar rapidly turned the angle of the entrance–gate, and cast out on the doorsteps M. Andrea Cavalcanti ...
... the elegant phaeton which we have already had occasion to meet several times, particularly during the eveing at Auteuil, swung rapidly round the gatehouse and ejected (rather than deposited) on the steps leading up to the house Monsieur Andrea Cavalcanti ...
The older translation likes things a bit less cynical...
—Sans compter, ajouta Monte-Cristo, qu’il est à la veille d’entrer dans un genre de spéculation déjà un peu usé aux États-Unis et en Angleterre, mais tout à fait neuf en France.
“Without reckoning,” added Monte Cristo, “that he is on the eve of entering into a sort of speculation already in vogue in the United States and in England, but quite novel in France.”
“Besides which,” Monte Cristo added, “he is on the point of engaging in a form of speculation that is already a bit overdone in the United States and in England, but quite new in France.”
...a bit less strongly worded...
—Les trois millions sont en route, selon toute probabilité. —Je les toucherai donc réellement? —Mais dame! reprit le comte, il me semble que jusqu’à présent, monsieur, l’argent ne vous a pas fait faute!»
“The three millions are probably on the road.” “Then I shall really have them?” “Oh, well,” said the count, “I do not think you have yet known the want of money.”
“In all probability the three million are on their way.” “So I shall really have them?” “Dammit!” the count said. “It doesn’t seem to me, Monsieur, that you have lacked for money so far!”
...and I’m enjoying imagining the Look that Mlle. Eugénie would give the translator if she knew how her opinion had been soft-pedaled here:
Seulement on pouvait lire que dans ses yeux cette assurance parfaite destinée à démentir ce que cette candide toilette avait de vulgairement virginal à ses propres yeux.
Her eyes, however, betrayed that perfect confidence which contradicted the girlish simplicity of this modest attire.
Yet her eyes shone with perfect self-assurance, contradicting what she saw as the vulgarly virginal significance of this outfit.
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parfumieren · 1 year ago
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Garden Lace (Princess Livia)
I found it in a display case at a local ladies' consignment shop: a slender tablet of transparent pale-green glass surmounted by a milky celadon cap.  Though unfamiliar with the brand, I could tell from the white Madonna lily imprinted on its face that it was grade-A bridal material.
I prepared to be bored off my tits.
"Lily white florals envelop you like a veil of delicate lace..."  So runs the descriptive text offered by Princess Livia's parent company, the Chicago-based beauty corporation Cosmetíque.  I'm sure the symbolic import of the color white carried a different weight back when brides actually were virgins, their innocence enforced by the twin authorities of God and Good Breeding.  But these are obsolete standards to which few modern women subscribe.  What does "lily white" mean today?
In Garden Lace, it means green, green, green.  Green is the color of growth and fertility, and I admire the makers of Garden Lace for choosing the spectrum's most fecund hue over the predictable purity of white.  A woman is not a pillar of cloud, after all; rather, she's far better off emulating the primitive Eve described by Stella Gibbons in Cold Comfort Farm: "as close to the earth as a bloomy greengage". In a similar spirit, Garden Lace's green is fresh, sappy, and slightly bittersweet, like the sticky juice produced by broken flower stalks.  I'm not certain it's bona fide galbanum -- there's something a little too tinny and synthetic about it -- but it acquits itself honorably as the dark, shady background against which this sweet spring floral can pop.
Speaking of flowers, I'd say there's more lilac than lily in Garden Lace-- but again, this is not a drawback.  Lilac plays well with others, particularly muguet. Here, the two friends mingle with a subtle spice dimension that further erodes the vision of bridal purity.  I only wish they'd been given more playmates, in the form of one or two anchoring resins.  (Styrax or benzoin leap to mind-- lighter than amber or labdanum, and powdery enough to counterbalance that sticky sap element.)  The drydown is a mild, lactonic thing as opaquely milky-minty as that plastic cap.
Not bad for an Avon wannabe priced at $1.50!
Scent Elements: Lily, muguet, violet, lilac, peony, jasmine, rose
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basmathgirl · 10 months ago
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On my who knows how many at this point rewatch of Ten and I always laugh when Rose says “and this is the story of how I died” in Doomsday and “you’re gonna die” to Donna in Turn Left. Why are you being dramatic? You didn’t die and neither did Donna. Although Rose should’ve died because it was basically her fault for what happened to Donna. And if you think about it, if The Doctor wanted Rose back so badly he would’ve found a way because that’s just who Ten was. If he really wanted her, he would e let her stay with him after Journey’s End. But he clearly didn’t. He wanted to stay with Donna. Also, TimePetals as a ship name just sounds bad. Like it sounds kinda cute at first but after a while I’m kinda like 🤨 nah. Sounds almost like a disease or a drug. Wanna buy some TimePetals? 😂
Hello kind Anon
I think Rose was being dramatic at the beginning of Doomsday because her age - despite RTD getting the maths of this in a complete tangle - being 19 by the time the programme aired in 2006. According to a Doctor Who annual, she was born in April 1987. Which means that when the Doctor visits her New Years Eve 2004 (and probably in Hendricks 2005, S1) when she was only 17. More than a a little bit pervy, as far as I'm concerned; and definitely classed as a child.
Other people disagree with this, and that is their prerogative.
Let's be honest, we all knew RTD loved Rose too much to ever kill her off; so I never fully believed that line. Turns out she was classed as "missing, presumed dead" anyway. I won't say what I mutter when Rose appears during Turn Left, as this is a family blog... 😉 (I say far worse things when listening to the DVD commentary, btw)
I totally agree with you. Where there's a will, there's a way. Especially in Doctor Who. But the Doctor chose Donna; and I will never accept that load of bull about Rose being his soulmate. The whole thing makes me shudder. Now I feel that Jackie should have hit him even harder for being a dirty old man. But that's another gripe.
For some reason the title TimePetals always makes me think of those Pretty Peach toiletries little girls were given as gifts, back when I was a child. My mum was an Avon lady for a while, and I would help package them up.
The name would fit those drugs they tried to sell Martha on New New/whatever Earth 😂 "Rediscover your youthfulness by taking it", no doubt; especially as they had a thing about dressing Rose up in S2 as a little girl in a tiny pinafore, with matching pigtails. As you can tell, I really detested them changing her into some sort of Lolita object as "something for the dads" Ugh!!
Other than that, I totally avoid anything labelled as TimePetals. It's safer that way.
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bonheurportatif · 1 year ago
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En juillet, j'ai quitté tumblr (1)
1er juillet J'ai entendu le premier chant d'oiseau dans ce qui devait être l'aube. J'ai pris un café sur le port avec Benjamine. Elle m'a fait réaliser que j'étais moi aussi un Benjamin, ce que je ne m'étais jamais formulé. Emmanuel nous a trouvé un challenge : trouver à faire imprimer une affiche en ville. Le temps dont nous disposions confortablement avec Benjamine s'est mué en course contre la montre. Nous avons réussi. Nous avons gagné haut la main le quiz parent-enfant du dernier atelier d'anglais de Benjamine. (J'ai consacré une partie de l'après-midi à la rédaction de mon pensum délibératif mensuel.) Je suis allé à vélo jusqu'au magasin bio. J'ai cuisiné mon petit tofu aux lentilles, avec un verre ou deux de Pinot noir. J'ai lu Aux voleurs, de Bruno Gibert. 2 juillet J'ai acheté deux douzaines d'huîtres. Ma carte n'a pas fonctionné et Emmanuel a payé. Nous avons été les trois derniers à pouvoir entrer pour la séance de cinéma, complète. Nous avons eu trois places éparses. J'ai pris une glace au chocolat mousseux (?). La carte de ma chérie n'a pas fonctionné et Emmanuel a payé. J'ai lu Je me souviens donc j'invente, de Duarte Da Silva Cerqueira. Nous avons regretté le visionnage de la suite du film vu cet après-midi. 3 juillet J'ai bravé la plaie des porteurs de lunettes : la petite pluie fine. J'ai pris un premier mini-croissant au buffet. J'ai pris grand soin d'enregistrer toutes les communications scientifiques. J'ai pris un deuxième, puis un troisième mini-croissant à la pause. J'ai connu quelques petits moments de solitude dans l'assemblée. Je suis passé devant une devanture annonçant l'ouverture d'un "spa capillaire", ce qui m'a laissé perplexe. J'ai salué Xavier et je me suis pris un vent. J'ai salué Alice. Le libraire a ajouté un cinquième livre offert aux quatre achetés. J'ai salué Pascale, j'ai salué Marie. (On m'a annoncé des vagues de visites sur les prochaines semaines.) J'ai séché sur deux délibérations de mon pensum délibératif mensuel. J'ai lu Mes nuits avec une intelligence artificielle, de Stéphane Rose. 4 juillet J'ai rechargé en vain la page de résultats d'exam de Cadette. J'ai reçu son mail enthousiaste, mention Très bien, 18 en philo, 20 au Grand oral. J'ai découvert cet acronyme inédit en rédigeant mon pensum délibératif mensuel : le PAPA, Périmètre d'Attente pour un Projet d'Aménagement. Emmanuel nous a offert un original de ses superpositions. (J'ai avancé très laborieusement sur mes différentes tâches.) J'ai salué Alain et Eve, Éric et Mariane, et Antoine. J'ai retrouvé un vieux copain. J'ai bu du kombucha pour la première fois, puis de la bière, puis du vin. J'ai cuisiné un repas express à 23h. J'ai rebu du vin. 5 juillet (Je me suis réveillé dans la nuit, soucieux de savoir si Junior allait se lever.) J'ai envoyé mon pensum délibératif mensuel. J'ai fait une lessive de blanc. J'ai envoyé les textes de la newsletter. J'ai étendu ma lessive. J'ai mangé dehors avec Junior et Cadette. J'ai envoyé l'interview pour le blog. J'ai envoyé mes factures pour les travaux du mois précédent. Je me suis senti plus léger. J'ai lu Mille et une bornes de Tony Durand. La marchande de la supérette m'a fait une réduction de la moitié du prix sur son filet de patates un peu germées. J'ai fait deux salades presque grecques. J'ai plié le blanc. J'ai vu le soleil se coucher dans la mer. 6 juillet L'infirmière m'a appelé. J'ai compris pendant son coup de fil que je n'allais pas passer la journée que j'envisageais. J'ai appelé ma mère. J'ai essayé d'appeler la tutrice. J'ai rappelé ma mère. J'ai précipité le passage au magasin d'ameublement. J'ai failli renverser une horloge avec mon paquet. J'ai chargé la voiture, déchargé la voiture, rechargé la voiture. J'ai à nouveau essayé d'appeler la tutrice. J'ai à nouveau déchargé la voiture. La tutrice m'a appelé. J'ai à nouveau rechargé la voiture. J'ai déchargé une dernière fois la voiture. Je suis allé me baigner. J'ai mangé des tomates farcies.
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villingen2023 · 1 year ago
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Aujourd'hui nous nous sommes réveillés sous la pluie .
On a préparé nos sandwichs on a pris le car pour aller voir le lac de Constance à Meerburg.
Apres 1 pique-nique devant 1 panorama magnifique : lac et île de Mainau, on a visité le musée zeppelin ou nous avons reçu1 accueil fantastique.
Puis on a eu un quartier libre en ville .
Nous avons goûté et nous sommes rentrés au camp où chacun a fait l'activité de son choix .
Après,nous avons mangé des crudités,steak, petit pois.
Ce soir c'est une  veillé musicale.
Puis tout le monde ira  se coucher avec nos nouveau  voisins scouts qui font beaucoup de bruit...
Partie 1
LILY,LILI,SALOMÉ,ALICE,EVE
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pollonegro666 · 1 year ago
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2023/06/02 Antes de volver a casa, pasamos por la playa. Es la continuación de la que tenemos muy cerca de casa.
Before going home, we stopped by the beach. It is the continuation of the one we have very close to home.
Google Translation into French: Avant de rentrer chez nous, nous nous sommes arrêtés à la plage. C'est la continuation de celle que nous avons tout près de chez nous.
Google translation into Italian: Prima di tornare a casa, ci siamo fermati in spiaggia. È la continuazione di quella che abbiamo molto vicino a casa.
Google Translation into Portuguese: Antes de voltar para casa, paramos na praia. É a continuação daquele que temos bem perto de casa.
Google Translation into German: Bevor wir uns auf den Heimweg machten, machten wir noch einen Halt am Strand. Es ist die Fortsetzung dessen, was wir ganz in der Nähe unserer Heimat haben.
Google Translation into Albanisch: Para se të ktheheshim në shtëpi, ndaluam në plazh. Është vazhdimi i asaj që kemi shumë afër shtëpisë.
Google Translation into Armenian: Նախքան տուն գնալը, մենք կանգ առանք ծովափին։ Դա շարունակությունն է այն ամենի, ինչ մենք շատ մոտ ունենք։
Google Translation into Bulgarian: Преди да се приберем, спряхме на плажа. Това е продължение на това, което имаме много близо до дома.
Google Translation into Czech: Než jsme vyrazili domů, zastavili jsme se na pláži. Je to pokračování toho, co máme velmi blízko domova.
Google Translation into Croatian: Prije nego što smo krenuli kući, zaustavili smo se na plaži. To je nastavak onoga što imamo vrlo blizu kuće.
Google Translation into Danish Inden vi tog hjem, stoppede vi ved stranden. Det er en fortsættelse af det, vi har meget tæt på hjemmet.
Google Translation into Slovak: Než sme sa vybrali domov, zastavili sme sa na pláži. Je to pokračovanie toho, čo máme veľmi blízko domova.
Google Translation into Slovenian: Preden smo se odpravili domov, smo se ustavili na plaži. Je nadaljevanje tega, kar imamo zelo blizu doma.
Google Translation into Estonian: Enne koju suundumist tegime peatuse rannas. See on jätk sellele, mis meil kodule väga lähedal on.
Google Translation into Suomi: Ennen kuin suuntasimme kotiin, pysähdyimme rannalla. Se on jatkoa sille, mitä meillä on hyvin lähellä kotia.
Google Translation into Georgian: ს��ნამ სახლში მივიდოდით, სანაპიროზე გავჩერდით. ეს არის იმის გაგრძელება, რაც სახლთან ძალიან ახლოს გვაქვს.
Google Translation into Greek: Πριν πάμε σπίτι, σταματήσαμε στην παραλία. Είναι η συνέχεια αυτού που έχουμε πολύ κοντά στο σπίτι.
Google Translation into Dutch: Voordat we naar huis gingen, stopten we bij het strand. Het is de voortzetting van wat we heel dicht bij huis hebben.
Google Translation into Norwegian: Før vi dro hjem, stoppet vi på stranden. Det er fortsettelsen av det vi har veldig nært hjemmet.
Google Translation into Polish: Zanim wróciliśmy do domu, zatrzymaliśmy się na plaży. To kontynuacja tego, co mamy bardzo blisko domu.
Google Translation into Romanian: Înainte de a merge acasă, ne-am oprit la plajă. Este continuarea a ceea ce avem foarte aproape de casă.
Google Translation into Russian: Прежде чем мы отправились домой, мы остановились на пляже. Это продолжение того, что у нас очень близко к дому.
Google Translation into Serbian: Пре него што смо кренули кући, зауставили смо се на плажи. То је наставак онога што имамо веома близу куће.
Google Translation into Swedish: Innan vi åkte hem stannade vi till vid stranden. Det är fortsättningen på det vi har väldigt nära hemmet.
Google Translation into Turkish: Eve gitmeden önce sahilde durduk. Eve çok yakın olanlarımızın devamıdır.
Google Translation into Ukrainian: Перед тим, як поїхати додому, ми зупинилися на пляжі. Це продовження того, що ми маємо дуже близько до дому.
Google Translation into Arabic: قبل أن نتوجه إلى المنزل ، توقفنا عند الشاطئ. إنه استمرار لما لدينا قريب جدًا من الوطن.
Google Translation into Bengali: বাড়ি যাওয়ার আগে আমরা সমুদ্র সৈকতে থামলাম। এটি আমাদের বাড়ির খুব কাছাকাছি যা আছে তারই ধারাবাহিকতা।
Google Translation into Simplified Chinese: 在我们回家之前,我们在海滩停了下来。 这是我们离家很近的东西的延续。
Google Translation into Korean: 집으로 향하기 전에 우리는 해변에 들렀다. 그것은 우리가 집에 아주 가까이 가지고 있는 것의 연속입니다.
Google Translation into Hebrew: לפני שהלכנו הביתה, עצרנו בחוף הים. זה ההמשך של מה שיש לנו מאוד קרוב לבית.
Google Translation into Hindi: घर जाने से पहले हम समुद्र तट पर रुक गए। यह उसी की निरंतरता है जो हमारे पास घर के बहुत करीब है।
Google Translation into Indonesian: Sebelum kami pulang, kami berhenti di pantai. Ini adalah kelanjutan dari apa yang kita miliki sangat dekat dengan rumah.
Google Translation into Japanese: 家に帰る前に、私たちはビーチに立ち寄りました。 それは私たちの身近なものの続きです。
Google Translation into Kyrgyz: Үйгө барар алдында пляжга токтодук. Бул биздин үйгө абдан жакын болгон нерсенин уландысы.
Google Translation into Malay: Sebelum pulang, kami singgah di pantai. Ia adalah kesinambungan daripada apa yang kita ada sangat dekat dengan rumah.
Google Translation into Mongolian: Гэртээ харихаасаа өмнө бид далайн эрэг дээр зогсов. Энэ бол бидний гэрт маш ойрхон байгаа зүйлийн үргэлжлэл юм.
Google Translation into Nepali: हामी घर जानु अघि, हामी समुद्र तटमा रोक्यौं। यो हाम्रो घरको धेरै नजिक रहेको कुराको निरन्तरता हो।
Google Translation into Panjabi: ਘਰ ਜਾਣ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ, ਅਸੀਂ ਬੀਚ 'ਤੇ ਰੁਕ ਗਏ। ਇਹ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਨਿਰੰਤਰਤਾ ਹੈ ਜੋ ਸਾਡੇ ਕੋਲ ਘਰ ਦੇ ਬਹੁਤ ਨੇੜੇ ਹੈ.
Google Translation into Pashtun: مخکې له دې چې موږ کور ته لاړ شو، موږ په ساحل کې ودریږو. دا د هغه څه تسلسل دی چې موږ کور ته ډیر نږدې یو.
Google Translation into Persian: قبل از رفتن به خانه، در ساحل توقف کردیم. این تداوم چیزی است که ما به خانه بسیار نزدیک داریم.
Google Translation into Sundanese: Sateuacan urang balik ka imah, urang eureun di pantai. Éta mangrupikeun tuluyan tina naon anu urang caket pisan ka bumi.
Google Translation into Tagalog: Bago kami umuwi ay huminto muna kami sa dalampasigan. Ito ay ang pagpapatuloy ng kung ano ang mayroon kaming napakalapit sa bahay.
Google Translation into Thai: ก่อนกลับบ้านเราแวะที่ชายหาด มันเป็นความต่อเนื่องของสิ่งที่เรามีใกล้บ้าน
Google Translation into Urdu: گھر جانے سے پہلے ہم ساحل پر رک گئے۔ یہ اس کا تسلسل ہے جو ہمارے گھر کے بہت قریب ہے۔
Google Translation into Uzbek: Uyga borishdan oldin biz plyajda to'xtadik. Bu bizning uyimizga juda yaqin bo'lgan narsaning davomi.
Google Translation into Vietnamese: Trước khi về nhà, chúng tôi dừng lại ở bãi biển. Đó là sự tiếp nối của những gì chúng ta có rất gần nhà.
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dabacahin · 2 years ago
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Snowfall and scissorhands
[I wrote this little memory piece on Christmas Eve ten years ago. Obviously, the world has changed a lot since 2012. My ways of looking at this world have changed, too. But some things remain bittersweetly the same. So here I am again revisiting places in my mind, memories in this blog. Here’s a slightly revised version of that piece for these changed and changing times.]
Edward Scissorhands will always be my Christmas movie, my winter’s tale. It begins on a snowy evening with a little girl being put to bed by her grandmother. She asks, “Why is it snowing, Grandma? Where does it come from?” And the old woman tells her the story of how a strange, lonely creature continues to do his thing—making the most of his solitude by creating ice sculptures, letting the crystal shavings fly out the windows of his castle, showering the world with magic that eventually melts.
But I’m telling this tale the wrong way. I’m loading it with my usual baggage. Loneliness, solitude, impermanence, hmm . . . Let me put it this way instead. Once there was a great inventor who lived alone in a castle on top of a mountain. His grandest design would have been a human being to stand tall among his cookie-cutters, his other gadgets and gizmos. Two hands (you know, those things with fingers, palms, and wrists) would have been his Christmas gifts to Edward, his work in progress. Sadly, before Edward is completed, his maker dies. From then on, the poor unfinished creation has to fend for himself, with crucial parts missing. He is stuck with scissorhands, which can create art and inflict pain.
Nah. That’s not it, either. Director Tim Burton and screenwriter Caroline Thompson would stab me with scissors (or pins or icepicks or whatever comes in handy) to deflate all this so-full-of-myself babble. The truth is, I’m so full of fond memories of this film. Memories of the kind Avon lady (Dianne Wiest) rescuing Edward (Johnny Depp) from that dark castle and taking him home to her family and her neighborhood of gossipy wives and bored husbands. Memories of Edward as a Goth-inspired Charlie Chaplinesque man-child, landscape gardener, hairstylist, sex object, TV celebrity, and town scapegoat. Memories of him as the ultimate Rorschach inkblot test—a blank screen onto which a whole town can project its hopes and fears, ambiguities and contradictions. He’s pure innocence and/or a double-edged sword. He’s a Christ figure and/or the scourge of Satan. He’s Frankenstein’s monster and/or a portrait of the artist as an ageless semi-human.
I’m fond of that scene in which Kim (Winona Ryder), the Avon lady’s teenage daughter, takes a break from decorating the Christmas tree and goes out into the yard to find Edward high up on a ladder, sculpting a huge ice angel. She is thrilled to look up, her arms lifted and palms open to the falling swirls and specks of ice shavings. She dances under this momentary fountain. In Danny Elfman’s glorious music, I hear a chorus of lost souls lamenting all the things that are fleeting. But I also let some of the rapture overflow into my head. Until, as in Edward’s case, it’s time to run back to the dark castle, where I can continue to do my thing—chiseling my way through the cold, hard truths.
Like Edward, we all just want to be loved despite our bad-hair days, our ugly scars, and these hands that can both caress and cut. “You can’t touch anything without destroying it,” Kim’s jealous boyfriend (Anthony Michael Hall) snarls at Edward. Sounds like nature accusing us humans. Or like any self-blaming person looking in the mirror. Like Edward, we sometimes feel like parts of us are missing—we’re incomplete. We yearn for things we never had. Or we’re nostalgic for parts of us we used to have. I know these are not exactly the kind of Christmas sentiments we need right now. I really have to find a better way of telling this story. Or maybe sometimes there is no story to tell. Snow falls, ice melts, the world spins. Time passes, that’s all.
Meanwhile, I think of Edward up there alone. I imagine him still alive, snipping away at chunks of ice to perfect his sculptures or trimming leaves and twigs to shape his topiaries. It’s enough to make me want to open my arms and hold out my hands for remains of ice. Yes, true story: even I have learned to live with what sometimes feels like endless snowfall. As Grandma says in the end, “Sometimes you can still catch me dancing in it.”
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michaelgruberfan · 2 years ago
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Timeline of Michael’s shows/ work up to 2013 will add more as I get the time (Taken from the Michaelgruber Angelfire website but will be updated by me at a later date (ill rb it then))
2012-2013 -- Bye Bye Birdie Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Chanhassen, MN 2012 -- Roman Holiday The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN 2011-2012 -- Hairspray Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Chanhassen, MN 2011 -- Jesus Christ Superstar Chanhassen Dinner Theatre, Chanhassen, MN 2010 -- Hairspray TUTS, Houston, TX 2010 -- Hits from The Music Man, Seattle Symphony, conducted by Marvin Hamlisch Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA 2009 -- White Christmas 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle, WA 2009 -- A Chorus Line National and International Tours 2009 -- Singin' In The Rain Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN 2009 -- Grey Gardens Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN 2008 -- White Christmas Theatre Under The Stars, Houston 2008 -- A Chorus Line National Tour 2007-2008 -- A Chorus Line Schoenfeld Theatre, New York City 2007 -- Stairway To Paradise - 50 Years of Revue in Review An Original Encores! Production, New York City Center 2007 -- Irving Berlin's Easter Parade - World Premier Chanhassen Theatres, Chanhassen, MN 2006-2007 -- Irving Berlin's White Christmas 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle and California Musical Theatre, Sacramento 2006 -- My One and Only Reprise Concert Series, Freud Playhouse, Westwood, CA 2006 -- Godspell Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia 2006 -- Applause for the Golden Boy: The Music of Charles Strouse - benefit tribute - New York Historical Society, New York City 2006 -- Guys and Dolls Maltz Jupiter Theatre, FL 2005 -- Irving Berlin's White Christmas Wang Center Theatre, Boston 2005 -- And Then I Wrote... The Songs of Steve Marzullo - concert Birdland Jazz Club, New York City 2005 -- What A Glorious Feeling - World Premiere Production Mason Street Warehouse, MI Dec. 2004 - Mar. 2005 -- Singin' in the Rain - tour Houston TUTS Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre Sacramento's California Musical Theatre 2004 -- Anything Goes Avon Theatre - Stratford, ON 2003 -- A Manhattan Christmas - cabaret King Kong Room, New York City 2003 -- Laughing Room Only Brooks Atkins Theatre, New York City 2003 -- Wizard of Oz Lyric Theatre, Oklahoma City 2003 -- Crazy For You Marian Theatre and Solvang Festival, CA 2003 -- Anything Goes Riverside Theatre, FL 2003 -- Taboo - reading New York City 2002 -- Ain't That a Kick in the Head - workshop The New 42nd Street Studios, New York City 2002 - Smokey Joe's Cafe California Musical Theatre 2002 -- Dames at Sea Goodspeed Opera House 2001 -- Red Hot and Blue Paper Mill Playhouse 2001 -- Kiss Me, Kate Martin Beck Theatre, New York City 2000 -- Anything Goes 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle 2000 -- Rags Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia 2000 -- Singin' in the Rain Music Theatre of Wichita 2000 -- Symposium on theatre at SUNY's Stony Brook campus 2000 -- 14th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City 1999 - 2000 -- Swing! St. James Theatre, New York City 1999 -- Floyd's Follies - Benefit Paper Mill Playhouse 1999 -- Tommy - concert tour 1998 -- History of Sex Golden Nugget Casino, Las Vegas 1998 -- Follies Paper Mill Playhouse 1997 -- filming of Cats video Adelphi Theatre, London 1997 -- Wizard of Oz The Theatre at Madison Square Garden 1996 -- Angela Lansbury - A Celebration - benefit tribute Majestic Theatre, New York City 1996 -- Dodsworth Douglas Fairbanks and John Houseman Theatres, New York City 1996 - 1999 -- Cats Winter Garden Theatre, New York City 1995 -- New Year's Eve Celebration Paper Mill Playhouse 1995 -- West Side Story The Muny Theatre, St. Louis 1995 -- Oklahoma! Arizona Theatre Company, Tucson and Phoenix 1995 -- Little By Little Eighty-eights Club, New York City 1994 -- Harvest of Stars - ArtsPower Benefit Paper Mill Playhouse 1994 -- Songbook Arts and Artists at St. Paul's/National Music Theater Network, New York City 1994 -- Singin' in the Rain Paper Mill Playhouse 1994 -- West Side Story Music Theatre of Wichita 1994 -- Kiss Me, Kate Goodspeed Opera House 1993 -- Little Me Birmingham Theatre, Birmingham, MI 1993 -- Falsettos Alliance Theatre, Atlanta 1993 -- Anything Goes Music Theatre of Wichita 1993 -- Good News! Music Theatre of Wichita 1993 -- Singin' in the Rain California Musical Theatre 1993 -- 7th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition Broadway Theatre, New York City 1993 -- Assisted with choreography of Singin' in the Rain Indian Hill (OH) High School 1993 -- Songs of Unlikely Lovers - A Valentine's Day Review Music Theatre of Wichita 1993 -- My Favorite Year Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City 1992 -- Singin' in the Rain Music Theatre of Wichita 1991 - 1994 -- Miss Saigon - original company Broadway Theatre, New York City 1990 -- West Side Story - national tour 1989 - 1990 -- A Chorus Line - final company Shubert Theatre, New York City 1988 -- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Alaska Light Opera, Anchorage 1988 -- Dreamgirls Elmsford (NY) Dinner Theatre 1988 -- West Side Story - European Tour 1987 -- My One and Only Paper Mill Playhouse
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mediaevalmusereads · 2 years ago
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How the Dukes Stole Christmas. By Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, Sophie Jordan, and Joanna Shupe. Avon, 2019.
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Genre: historical romance, anthology
Part of a Series? No
Summary: From the ballrooms of London, to abandoned Scottish castles, to the snowy streets of Gilded Age New York, four bestselling authors whip up unforgettable Christmas romance.
***Full review under the cut.***
Content Warnings: graphic sexual content
Overview: My foray into holiday romance continues with this collection of 4 novellas written by some heavy-hitters in the romance world. Because this is an anthology, my review will be structured a little different than normal.
"Meet Me in Mayfair” by Tessa Dare
"Meet Me in Mayfair" follows Louisa Ward, the eldest daughter of the Ward family. The Wards have been living in their London home for more than a decade after borrowing money from the Duke of Thorndale. Their father's friendship with the duke has meant that the debt has been forgiven, but when the Duke dies, the new Duke calls in the debt (plus interest). To keep their home past New Year's, Louisa must marry a wealthy gentleman, but when she stumbles into that very Duke - James - at a Christmas ball and he takes a liking to her, things get... complicated, to say the least.
What I liked about this story was the appropriate pace and scope. Dare didn't go for a whirlwind romance with improbable outcomes, but kept the focus on the scope of one night. As a result, this story felt more emotionally and mentally intimate, and the small, "mundane" moments felt heavier and more important than bigger shows of love or attraction. The only thing I didn't like was the epilogue; I felt like the story ended in a natural place at the close of the last chapter, and the epilogue felt inserted in order to bring some hot, sexy times to a story that frankly didn't really need it. Still, this story was a pleasant read with a couple that had a relationship built on mutual respect, and I enjoyed the experience.
"The Duke of Christmas Present” by Sarah MacLean
This story follows Eben, Duke of Allryd, who is awakened in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve by Jaqueline "Jack" Mosby. Jack is Eben's childhood friend (and later lover) who left him and disappeared for 12 years; now, she has come back for a mere 2 days - to spend Christnas with him before she leaves for Scotland. Eben is too hurt to want anything to do with her, but when a massive snowstorm prevents either of them from leaving the house, they confront must their pasts and examine their feelings towards one another.
This story was a very angsty romance that didn't go too far into sad boy territory. The 12 year absence meant that the angst felt well-earned, and I liked that MacLean didn't push it aside too readily. I also think that MacLean did a good job flashing between past and present, which helped give depth to the couple's past and emotions, and Eben's arc had some nice development. The side characters were also pretty fun, and I don't think I can identify much that I thought could be improved.
"Heiress Alone" by Sophie Jordan
This story follows Annis, the second eldest daughter of the Ballister family. When her parents and 4 boisterous sisters accidentally leave her behind in the Scottish Highlands, Annis is left to spend the winter in the company of her two elderly servants and her neighbor - the surly Duke of Sinclair.
This is my first time reading a Sophie Jordan story, and unfortunately, it wasn't to my taste. For one thing, the Duke embodied all the stereotypes I dislike most about Highlander romance heroes - bad Scots dialect, random antagonism with the English, and a bossy, grumpy demeanor that made me wonder why the heroine found him attractive. The romance also didn't feel very organic, and it was based more on physical attraction than emotional intimacy. If you like old school romances where the hero and heroine are thrown together in scenarios where sexual tension is palpable, you might like this story. But personally, I found it dull.
"Christmas in Central Park" by Joanna Shupe
Rose Walker is a popular advice columnist for a New York City newspaper, posing as a wealthy married woman and dispensing tips for cleaning, baking, decorating, and all sorts of household improvements. But when the owner of the paper - Duke Havermeyer - insists that she host a Christmas party at her home to charm the paper's board of trustees, she must pull off the ultimate deception in order to keep her job.
I'm off mixed opinions regarding this story. I really enjoyed the premise, and I think Shupe did a good job setting up the stakes. However, I also think this story would have worked better as a full length novel. There were a lot of themes and emotions to unpack, and while the pace wasn't bad, I also felt like I needed more time to process all that was going on. The extra time would have also allowed Shupe to show rather than tell a bit more, but even so, this was an interesting story and I liked the ideas she was playing with.
TL;DR: In my opinion, three out of the four novellas make this collection a worthwhile read. While I could nitpick each of the stories, they are light and enjoyable enough for the holidays, and I would recommend this set to any historical romance reader.
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pykestowatchoutfor · 2 years ago
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“Sky Command”Sucks!: A Note on Art and History on the Margins of the High Republic
This is an expansion of some thoughts I brought up in the wonderful Cerebro discord so credit to my interlocutors over there for bouncing some of this stuff back and forth!
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I’m in the middle of catching up on phase one of The High Republic, and finding myself really more engaged than I expected with these younger-reader novels. I’ve found that the distinction between the main novels and the YA novels is very thin, and seemingly predicated more on where the books’ senses of scale fall than on differing degrees of sophistication (the YA novels being a bit more interested in close studies of a smaller cast of characters and their difficulties with the contradictions of their milieus versus the larger scale ensemble stuff in the adult novels), and while the junior books are definitely very much pitched towards a younger audience, they still feel substantial and interesting enough to justify a read, particularly since they breeze by.
Anyway, I was struck by this brief scene from Chapter Nine of Justina Ireland’s Mission to Disaster. Avon Starros, a precocious young genius held captive by the Nihil, is with a bunch of other kids when their captors drop off a little treat:
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So-- narratively, this is important because Avon, being a precocious young genius, is able to cobble these shitty old video game consoles into a means to have the ship’s doors and gain temporary freedom. But it struck me-- throughout the High Republic material, we’re told with some frequency about stuff people do for fun, and more tellingly, pieces of mass media that they enjoy. Holochron movies and serials, musical recordings, and here, even video games with enough cultural cachet that even a century on this disparate grab-bag of young hostages recognize them! 
It occurred to me that the original trilogy is very much a product of its time in terms of the horizons it imagined for telecommunication, mass media, and entertainment in a sci-fi universe with otherwise fantastic technology. Off the top of my dome, peoples’ pleasures are mostly low-tech, local, and non-professionalized. In the first six movies, and again I’m making no pretense to rigor here, people fill their spare time with:
1. Shooting rats in the desert 2. Shooting the shit at Tosche Station 3. Drinking 4. Listening to jizz wailers 5. Playing space rock ‘em sock ‘em robots 6. Fine dining 7. Bloodsports 8. Watching dancers 9. Yacht ride 10. Podracing 11. Fucking 12. Death sticks 13. Whatever strange opera Sheev and Anakin go to 14. Oh, I forgot sabacc! 
With the exception of the opera and the Boonta Eve Classic these largely seem to be provisional, unsanctioned affairs done by people who momentarily find themselves with nothing super urgent to attend to. We don’t know if Max Rebo is the best musician in the galaxy or just the guy who can blow jizz better than anybody else immediately on hand. We don’t know if kids on Tatooine and kids on Alderaan are reading the same books, hearing the same fairy tales, listening to the same music, etc., and it seems eminently plausible to me that most people live in pretty tightly circumscribed spheres in the world imagined by the original trilogy to the extent that people could become quite hazy on what the jedi order was like in the space of a generation. So much of A New Hope is about the perils and precarity of getting information from one place to another-- Vader choking Ozzel through the screen in Empire Strikes Back is as much about the unworldly miracle of video conferencing as it is about the unworldly miracle of the Force.
So it’s interesting to me that in the “golden age” of the High Republic there does seem to be not only more consistent and widespread galactic-scale communication technology, but also more (and more widely disseminated) culture. Avon and Petri and their fellow prisoners are from a grab bag of planets and a grab bag of species but they all find a common distaste for the tacky, outdated games dropped at their feet by their captors.
I think that’s a cool little way of telling me something about the world these kids live in-- what they can afford to take for granted, what common cultural coin they hold in common.
 And what’s more-- that they can appreciably manage to assess and dismiss this game for being old and out of style is extraordinary. One of my little qualms with KOTOR and SWTOR-- games which to me range from a fun enough MMO to a masterpiece of the medium-- is that despite taking place thousands and thousands of years before the movies, fashion, architecture, and engineering design seem frozen in time. The bad guys wear chic black and grey-tone Hugo Boss-ish numbers, the jedi wear their demure brown tunics and cowls, regular joes and josephines run around in their dusty, well-worn flight suits-- same as it ever was, same as it ever was. And I get the utility of this-- it communicates to a casual player “hey, this is Star Wars!” with a ruthless efficiency, AND it suggests something about cyclicality and repetition on the visual level that is reinforced and challenged by turn in the script. But all this only makes sense to me on the level of myth-- in the real world, of course, art changes, fads come and go, taste mutates and meanders along. A videogame from a century ago would be demode to a little kid, no less than a videogame from a mere decade ago might turn off a child in the real world. This feels so beautifully in keeping with the OT’s lived-in, patch-work look-- it implies a kind of relationship between people and their objects that is subject to change, and suggests that we can learn about the people by observing the changes closely enough. Time doesn’t stand still, and people rush to keep up with it-- our machines break down, our hip new kitchen remodels gradually fade into kitsch, and no shit Petri does NOT want to play FUCKING Sky Command!!!!
We see this quite a bit in the High Republic stuff really! People talk about cheesy holovids and compare their real life experiences to the fiction they grew up consuming, Bell and Burryaga help defuse their fear creeping through the dark underbelly of Starlight by cracking jokes about  “fright holos” (I imagine Claudia Gray and I are on the same page about “horror holos” being a mouthful). There’s a ruefulness to this-- these are all suggested to be kids’ stuff, fantasies that act as a contrast to the all-too-serious situations the characters find themselves in. They outgrow art on a personal trajectory too-- or expect that they should-- but keep calling back to these really tangible cultural touchstones-- a tension that feels kind of rich and delicious as a grown-ass woman reading Star Wars novels and finding them frequently delightful. Just as much as the gleaming, pristine temple garments and the spectacle of the Starlight Station itself, this sense of a wide-spread, easily accessible, and historically mobile aesthetic culture does so much to convey that something between here and the Prequels was lost, something which did meaningfully bind people across the galaxy together.
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christophe76460 · 5 days ago
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Comment chanter pour Dieu ?
Quand nous étions pasteurs au Texas, au début de notre ministère, nos jeunes adultes aimaient chanter et nous faisions souvent des réunions dans les maisons de retraite. Les personnes âgées aimaient les chants et rattrapaient le retard sur leur sieste pendant que je prêchais.
Pendant six ans et probablement plus de 75 réunions, j’ai toujours eu de l’aide. Mais un dimanche, je me suis retrouvé tout seul.
Ce jour-là est resté gravé dans ma mémoire.
Tous les pianistes étaient pris ailleurs et je me trouvais devant un petit groupe, essayant de ressembler à Chris Tomlin ( avant qu’il ne devienne LE Christ Tomlin ). Une vieille dame était assise juste devant moi et chantait faux. DE TOUT SON COEUR !
J’ai lutté pour garder la note, mais tandis qu’elle gazouillait avec ardeur, la note et moi-même avons complètement déraillé. Ça a été l’un de nos plus courts moments de chant. J’ai décidé que le message ne pourrait pas être pire que les chants. Je suis resté majoritairement sur les rails, en tout cas.
Les chansons préférées en maisons de retraite
En parlant des réunions chez les personnes âgées, il y avait un chant qu’elles aimaient beaucoup et que je détestais. « Compte tes bénédictions. Nomme les une par une. Cooooooooooooooompte tes bénédictions, etc. » Cette chanson me faisait penser à de l’aspirine et à du Synthol.
Enfin, jusqu’à ce que Dieu me parle un jour de l’importance de la reconnaissance. Je l’ai chanté sans le moindre problème avec les vieilles personnes depuis. Voilà comment cela s’est passé.
Je lisais le premier chapitre de l’épître aux Romains et j’étais scandalisé par tous les péchés décrits à la fin du chapitre. « Quels gens horribles ! »
Le Seigneur m’a dit : « Regarde le début de la liste. Regarde quel est le péché qui ouvre la porte à tous les autres. »
« puisque ayant connu Dieu, ils ne l'ont point glorifié comme Dieu, et ne lui ont point rendu grâces; mais ils se sont égarés dans leurs pensées, et leur coeur sans intelligence a été plongé dans les ténèbres. Se vantant d'être sages, ils sont devenus fous ; et ils ont changé la gloire du Dieu incorruptible en images représentant l'homme corruptible, des oiseaux, des quadrupèdes, et des reptiles. » Romains 1:21-23
Ils n’étaient pas reconnaissants ! Je crois vraiment que Dieu m’a montré que le manque de reconnaissance avait ouvert la porte à tous ces péchés que j’étais en train de condamner.
Manquer de reconnaissance ? J’ai fait cela… souvent ! Je suis bien meilleur pour râler et rappeler à Dieu qu’Il n’a pas encore répondu à ma prière actuelle. Cela ouvre la porte à ces autres attitudes et à ces autres actions qui sont de plus en plus affreuses au fur et à mesure que l’on avance dans les versets.
Je ferais mieux de me ressaisir.
Les premières choses d’abord.
La reconnaissance ne commence pas avec une liste de choses que Dieu a faites pour toi, même si cela viendra. Elle commence en se rappelant et en reconnaissant qui est Dieu et ce qu’Il est. « Puisque ayant connu Dieu, ils ne l’ont point glorifié comme Dieu, et ne lui ont point rendu grâces... »
Le Psaume 100 le dit comme cela :
« Entrez dans ses portes avec des louanges, Dans ses parvis avec des cantiques ! Célébrez-le, bénissez son nom ! Car l’Éternel est bon ; sa bonté dure toujours, Et sa fidélité de génération en génération. »
D’abord, tu Le remercies pour ce qu’Il est : « bon ! » « Sa bonté dure toujours ! » « Sa fidélité de génération en génération ! »
Merci Seigneur parce que Tu ES bon.
Ton amour et Ta miséricorde ne cessent jamais.
Tu seras fidèle et juste envers mes enfants et mes petits-enfants tout comme Tu as été fidèle envers moi, mon père et son père.
Remercier Dieu est à l’opposé de ce que Eve a fait quand Satan l’a tentée. Au lieu d’être reconnaissante pour Son amour et Sa bonté envers elle, elle a accepté d’écouter les calomnies du diable envers Dieu.
« [Le serpent] dit à la femme : Dieu a-t-il réellement dit : Vous ne mangerez pas de tous les arbres du jardin ? » Le Menteur insinuait : « Comment un Dieu BON peut-il t’empêcher de goûter à cela ? »
Ensuite, il a remis en question l’honnêteté de Dieu et Ses motivations quand Eve lui a dit que Dieu les avait prévenus qu’ils mourraient s’ils mangeaient du fruit. « Vous ne mourrez point ; mais Dieu sait que, le jour où vous en mangerez, vos yeux s’ouvriront, et que vous serez comme des dieux, connaissant le bien et le mal. »
Et Eve a mordu à l’hameçon comme un gros poisson-chat avalant tout rond un appétissant morceau de foie dissimulant un crochet acéré.
Et ensuite ?
Après L’avoir remercié pour qui Il est ? Eh bien ( je le dis en marmonnant ), je me suis surpris moi-même à chanter à plusieurs reprises « Compte tes bénédictions. » Mais ce n’est pas un effet de l’âge, je te l’assure !
C’est simplement vrai. Je fais de mon mieux pour Le remercier pour Qui Il est ET pour ce qu’Il fait chaque jour pour moi. Quand je compte mes bénédictions, ma vie commence à chanter juste. Quand je boude à cause de ce que je n’ai pas… c’est la misère ! Quand je suis reconnaissant pour les millions de bénédictions qu’Il m’accorde… c’est la joie !
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avoneworl · 2 months ago
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Electric Scooters: The Best Choice for Students?
Introduction
More cars are getting on Indian roads every year. Fuel and maintenance costs have substantially increased. Carbon emissions from cars have also damaged the environment. For these reasons, commuters and other travellers are relying on electric vehicles in greater numbers. Students especially need economical and climate-friendly options to travel to college, among other places. The electric scooter, or e-bike, have become especially popular with students.
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The range and battery life on electric scooters has improved considerably thanks to better technology being developed. They are proper competition to gas-powered scooters. All these factors have made electric scooters much more accessible to the general public.
Avon offers a selection of electric scooters that offer all the financial and environmental benefits of electric vehicles. The models are offered at various price points and offer many features based on the model.
Benefits of Electric Scooters for Students
Electric scooters offer several benefits that make them a more attractive choice for students. They not only provide a way for students to travel faster, but cost less than gas-powered scooters, have low maintenance costs and emit no carbon emissions. These benefits will be examined further below.
1.               Affordability:
A battery scooty is very affordable to purchase and run. Electricity rates are a fraction of fuel costs, and the electric scooters’ lighter build makes them much more energy efficient. This all means that students will not only have to pay much cheaper rates for refueling, but won’t have to refuel as often.
Students can have either a lithium ion battery or a lead acid battery in their Avon electric scooter. Lithium ion batters are almost twice as efficient as lead acid, and take about half the time to charge. They are costlier than lead acid, though, so students should enquire about prices with Avon before buying.
2.               Low Maintenance Costs:
Students can easy their financial burden greatly by switching to an electric e scooter. An electric batter doesn't have the same parts as a gas-powered engine. There is no complicated engine with a multitude of moving parts to watch over, or to refuel multiple times a month. All it takes is to charge the battery based on how much the scooter is used. Maintenance costs on electric scooters become a fraction of what they could be with a traditional scooter.
3.               Climate-Friendly:
EV batteries don't produce carbon emissions. This makes them much better for the climate. Students today don't want to invest in vehicles that pollute the air and damage the climate. Electric scooters become an obvious choice thanks to their electric batteries.
4.               Easier Travel:
Electric scooters are much lighter due to not having a large gas-powered engine. The reduced weight makes them much easier to accelerate and maneuver. Students will find the electric scooter easy to get used to, especially if they have limited experience riding.
Conclusion
The EV scooter offers a highly affordable and morally sound option for students who need a vehicle to travel to college and other places. Students know electric scooters to be financially beneficial, easy to use and maintain, and friendly to the environment. These benefits all contribute towards making electric scooters the top choice for students who need to travel.
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thetulipchildren · 2 months ago
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🌹Spirit
Je m'incarne David. Juste pour deux ligne. Pardon le tanak.et le Tehelim
Tu me dis
Ou alors je te dis d'abord ma version
Mais sache que tu me crée un espace
Rien avant Adam et Eve
.Même si ce n'est pas comme ça que l'on écrit leur nom
.Béni soit leurs âmes
Que avant Adam et Eve aussi derrière eux
Dans le sens de la métaphore ce qui les maintient
Moi ma version c'est de te dire
Qu'il ont notre dieu de la Judée
Qui a créé Adam et Eve
Mais si j'avais
L'écoute
Que j'ai là maintenant
De Darwin
Son voyage
Son schéma
.
Tu me dis que
Qu'il y a un espace
Dans la création de ce que nous avons
.
C'est là que sans hypocrisie je trouve que c'est très intéressant
.
.
Et que cet espace du supra
.
Parce que c'est du supra
.
Comme nous de d'autres choses
.
Il y avait les animaux
.
Et avant les animaux le Big Bang
.
Qui peut être aussi
Interpréter comme un pouvoir
. De l'Éternel
Puisque la science moin
Mais
Et la recherche
Accepte d'y revenir
Puisque ce sont des explications
Tout à fait clair
La création du Big Bang
Du moins pour certains
.
.
Donc si je m'incarne David
.
De ce que je ne suis pas
Et de ce que c'est trop tôt de le dire
.
Cet espace
Ne déjoue pas le modèle de la création
.
Mais au contraire
Agrandi mon espace
Permet l'étalement de mon espace
À celui de ma pensée
.
Même si je reste sur les 7 jours de la création
Ça étale
Ma position
.
Donc si
Je me répète
Le Big Bang
Comme l'ouverture du monde
Sa création
Sauf que là on dit big bang
.
Et que des animaux
Nous sommes devenus des hommes
.
C'est du supra
.
Puisque des animaux
Fut arrivais les hommes
.
Et Adam et Eve fut choisis
L'autre version
Courante
Adam et Eve fut arrivé
Créé
Et ainsi il y a eu des peuples
.
Donc entre l'étalement
Et les 7 jours de la création
.
Les 7 jours de la création
Ce sont des métaphores
Ce sont déjà des métaphores
.
Mais là de cet espacement
Ça rajoute au sens dissimulé
Des 7 jours de la création
.
Sans rien retirer
.
Tu vois ça devient complexe
.
On pourrait dire que c'est un rajout
Non parce que c'est du supra
.
.
Donc c'est rajouter de dire
.
Mais ce n'est rien rajouter parce que ça reste du supra
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