#its just down to properly translating it in context bc

[airxn]

okay made a little romanian slang / terms / swears cheat sheet for future threads! i'd like airin to use them more, and because I'm steadily learning romanian if there's anything wrong I would like to be corrected ^^;

[galaxymagick]

@realvixx

[VIXX 11th Anniversary]

다시 돌아온 524 릴레이 라이브 순서 정하기 방식은⁉️

▶️ https://youtu.be/7Q_Bv00MUrc

5월 24일, VIXX 위버스 채널에서 만나요💙💛

본 영상은 실제 대화 내용으로 제작되었음을 알려드립니다.💫

#빅스 #VIXX #HAPPYVIXXDAY #VIXX11thAnniversary

524 relay live is back The order setting method is ⁉️

See you on VIXX's Weverse channel on May 24th💙💛

Please note that this video was made with actual conversations 💫

video translation and credit under the cut

Relay Live VIXX Convo 

trs cr: @binbingbong_

(only the imp parts because it's too long) 🤖: I'm trying to host a relay live this year, but before that lets under what essentials starlights need to attend a vixx event ?) k: its a mess lol lol N: ID, song download history, album, fanclub membership etc ken: but importantly, an unbroken heart n: unbroken.heart (it's a meme from some Korean TV) ken: hakyeonieee ofc you know what I'm sayin kekekekeej Leo: ah, sorry (just joined) N: jaehwan a~ it's hyung (bc he referred to hakyeon by name💀) ken: daeguniiiiiii~~~ N: daeguni Leo: kekekke n: what are you doing ken: daeguniii what are you doing /image/ our maknongieee where are youuu my lover Leo: hello rovix? k: my everything (referring to hyukie) L: rovix do your work properly ken: laughing N: robic is too slow L: get a grip rovix ken: please laughing Leo: aren't you gonna work (@ rovix) ken : laughing rovix: those are all important (items that hakyeon mentioned) but most important is fast hands! (quick speed) Leo: you're not in sane mind (still scolding rovix) ken: lol not doing work(not paying attention) ken: wdym hand speed (?) (hand power?) N: I think it's taking some time for rovix to process replies N: ahhh, power hands ! k: but why you slow rovix lol N: this jerk (affectionate) N: srsly u K: if it's quick hands it's me! [ t/n 순발력 means ability to make a quick judgement/react quick in an event]   I'm using speedy/power hands because I'm assuming they're talking about catching up to vixx that's why starlights need to have speedy hands but I'm not sure completely hyuk: enter// laughing N: still the same k: you'll be shocked to see my speed h: settle down (?) ken; laugh k: okay we need to have fast hands ... rovix: to test speed it's simple go to form link, answer the questions and submit are you ready for the text agents hyuk: let's do it fast I have lessons rovix: explains the method of submitting a form (what form) ken: rovix ssiiiiiii stop nowwww the youngest has to leave for a lessonnnnn n: seems like copy paste(?) ken: laugh hyuk; talking about how there's still 55 minutes left until form opens and why rovix is already preparing so ahead n and ken talk out of context rovix says they have to wait now ken talks about how he'll go read a book in the meantime hakyeon gets confused at this because hakyeon is in disbelief hakyeon tells him his hobby is reading hakyeon asks what he's been reading (note there is a lot of kekekke in between these I'll skip them) jaehwan says he's reading shin Chan's adventure rovix comes back to say the rule is that whoever submits the form as fast as possible and is the first to submit will be the first to start the relay live on 24 may 8 pm and they will go on order or the submission speed. jaehwan says then he'll surely be the first one to press submit. ken: oh no..I have an appointment on the 24

.....but it's in June lol lol lol hakyeon: jaehwana.... ken: yes hyungnim hakyeon: cute. ken: stickers "I'm stillll babyyyyyy" ken asks where did hyuk and Leo go and calls to Leo as daeguniiiiii

rovix says it'll be back before the form time and Hakyeon scolds him for running away so rovix replies with affirmative that it's running away everyone leaves until the submit time. hyuk asks what if he submits before the 11  time but rovix says it won't count

hyuk says he'll still be the winner hakyeon says something like he's not scared of anyone here he's the scariest around but this sounds so ooc I'm confused lol hyuk shares? croissants? pretzels? in the chat

hyuk says that since he received good energy today, he's already the winner today and hakyeon calls him cute . hyuk also went to Starbucks and hakyeon says that indeed he's the winner . it strikes 11 and then they submit. hakyeon is confident he's the first one and so is ken

the results are announced . because hakyeon submitted one before 11 am his entry is disqualified. hyuk wins first place. rovix announces the winner hakyeon is in disbelief why is he not the first one ken laughs at taekwoon asking if his real name is "Leo" because

Leo submitted it as Leo and not Jung taekwoon like the rest of them. Leo wants to resumits !! rovix says he can do that but he'll still be on last place. Leo resubmits.. rovix says he's in last place. rovix tells hyuk that's he can now decide the order of live. hyuk asks "is the order not the order of the form submission" rovix says no. the winner gets the right to decide the order so hyuk says that the order of form submission is acceptable. (order: Hyuk Ken N Leo)

[i-have-bees-in-my-brain]

Personal rant or some shit bc i just wanna get this out rn. yeeeee this will be long

So today i had a vit of a stressful day with uni n all bc ive been sick and admittedly lazy over the last week up til like tuesday and i had to turn in an Interpretation/essay tonight and prepare a group presentation for tmr (saturday seminars should b illegal but ok i literally chose this). N e way so ive been procrastinating like hell up until this morning so i didnt rly eat before showing up to seminar at 12am and afterwards i had to check with my one remaining presentation groupmember and finish the interpretation and tgen i had swordfighting class at 5. I didnt Really gave time for it but its fun and im very behind bc i misses several lessons already and am generally. Not good at it lol. n e way i turn up to swords and we peactice some routines ig and heres where the peoblem rly starts. Basically i am a huge crybaby, always have been (im older than firestar btw for context), esp when i feel criticized or yknow. Make mistakes or anything and since i was a sports h8er with 2 left feet n hands all my life n cried often during school pe bc i kept messing up n git embarrassed, it was an important step for me to sign up for this uni extracurricular swords class bc. Doing sth sporty in front of others tgat. Isnt very easy and i gotta learn from scratch is a bit out of my comfort zone. But normally its all v fun, im not good/easily the worst in class but thats ok i learn and move my body and talk to ppl! Proud of myself! Well today not so kuch, i noticed i was getting tense bc of not understanding how to do a movement and everyone (3 experienced fighters bc the main teacher was sick plus 2 other beginners that r learning faster than me) lookimg at me and trying to give helpful pointers and me still doing it wrong... H8 dis feeling bc i kinda freeze up instead of being able to take the tips n try again. Its hard for me to translate input like verbal instructions and demonstsations into my own movements as is. In this state i cant do anything properly and i feel the cryings abt to start while wanting nothing more than to MOVE ON NORMALLY. Well my eye started to get itxhy n teary so i excused myself to "take care of my contacts" (lie) (why am i even so ashamed that i feel i have to lie/make up excuses?? Bro???? That just made the situation Actually cringe?????? Im normally not an ashamed person and cryings just a state/expression but idk) so it was better for a bit until it wasnt. Then i full on cried in class while 2 ppl were actively showing me things/helping me do em right n everyone else kimda watched, kimda practiced. They did ask if i was ok and i said yes like a liar. So at the end of class i normally take the bus home with one of the other new guys but i today just didnt feel able to keep talking to him. So he also asked if i was ok/why i cried and i said i just do that under stress and why i am stressed (uni) so that was also a bit of a lie but only kinda. I said i was gonna go to the livrary instead (another lie, was gonna call my bf to calm me down abit n then take the next bus) so i did tgat n it kinda worked and this genius asked if i had eaten. Bruhhh of fuckin course im sensitive ive only had 3 baked goods all day and hadnt even noticed!!!!!! So then it all made sense, mans gotta get some freakin noursishment to keep their composure in swords class! So i went to another bus stop than normally bc i needed sth from the store and bruh the guy i normally take a DIFFERENT bus with is there (awkwardly votta tell hik i changed my mimd abt the library) and we talk a bit (i feel like i talk to him wayy too much in comparison to him, like we dont know each other that well at all, idek his real name and yknow. If he actually enjoys talking to me) and yea

So now everyone in the 14th century peasant larp class knows my terrible terrible secret:))):)

[venusmages]

THAT BEING SAID, heres my list of criticisms for CP2077 so far because i’m not just blindly praising it. under a readmore for a few spoilers, one major character spoiler so if you’re playing don’t read this until youre finished with act 1

this isnt bringing into the account of the criticisms console players are talking about bc im on PC, but i completely agree with frustrated console players about launch being a mess.

the fact that they cut you being able to take jackie with you to go meet with meredith is really frustrating. i wonder if they lost time and it broke something because it was in the gameplay demo from a while back.

on the same vein, t-bugs ‘death’ was so sudden and fast that i didn’t even register it as her supposedly dying until v brings it up later in the level. i thought she had just gotten hurt and booted from the program. if she’s actually dead i’m going to be incredibly disappointed and its going to be one of my few genuine sour notes on the game.

the romances are laughably inserted and shouldn’t have even been part of marketing in my opinion. from my understanding it looks like they’re all sidequests and there’s only like four of them total anyways. dont bother if your v isnt into one of the two options they have and just pretend youre kissin whoever you want lol

takemuras introduction was amazing but i feel like i missed a dialog somewhere that explained why he ended up getting chased by arasaka so fast after the events of act 1. i know his motivation but am a little confused about whats going on.

in the same vein, some optional dialog choices don’t actually feel optional if you don’t want to feel like you’re missing context for whats going on. i don’t mean this in a lore way, i mean this in a basic narrative way. 

i like that v clearly has their own personality that you kinda tweak and manipulate through your own actions, like with geralt in the witcher series. however i completely understand if people were lead to believe they’d be getting COMPLETE FREEDOM and are let down by the reality of V being a slightly less mailable character. as someone who likes witcher and the dragon age and mass effect series i’m okay with my oc having a pre-ordained personality but marketing could easily have misled people to believe otherwise and thats a totally valid complaint.

i love jackie to DEATH and hes one of the most likable videogame characters ever. however i do wonder sometimes if he suffers from ‘bilingual people don’t talk like that’ syndrome. it can get kinda muddy given how translators work in this universe.

in the same vein i think some of the calls for the game being transphobic or misogynist are overblown but i feel like part of it is the game might not be properly relaying that the overly sexual, violent, objectifying advertisements in 2077 is actually part of the lore and not CD trying to be cheeky ala Saints Row. Its a crit on consumerism and how desensitized the populace of the future gets to hatred, violence, and sex that it has to be overblown to the point of ludicracy. it might not translate for someone who hasn’t taken the time to look into the lore or familarize themselves with the vibe of the series before picking up the game. YES it is incredibly gritty and dark, but thats the point. However I think that fact needed to be communicated better because it just won’t be palatable for some people. Its stuff like this that makes me think we really need content warnings ALA fanfic for... all media, really. its a good idea. i could see the ‘fuckable piece of meat’ line being genuinely terrifying for some people and it comes out of nowhere. I like dark media and content but i don’t know if the game properly conveys beforehand that this is a BLEAK. world. BLEAK. 

i also think, unfortunately, its clear the team was crunched and ran out of time for a lot of things they wanted to add into the game. i feel like tying gender to v’s voice was the most elegant solution they had considering all of the voicelines in game. not saying it’s the best solution, but i’m glad they did that rather than tie it to body type or genetalia.

that being said i wish you could have a biotic pussy or dick in this game just bc that would be some cool transhumanism. same in general i wish you could replace limbs or eventually get more cyberware options that changed how you look.

I’m glad they’re gonna fix the epilepsy trigger but I’m also surprised and disappointed no one caught that might be a problem earlier on. I wonder what play testing was like.

Also glad the dev team isnt going to be treated like the new vegas team and they’re getting their bonus regardless of the game’s review score. that’s some stupid bullshit but every publisher does that shit unfortunately.

the fact you cant change your makeup, cybernetics, or hair after the start is dumb and i hope they fix that.

the c key being for crouching AND skipping dialogue is inelegant to say the least. you can fix it in settings for skipping dialogue to be ‘hold c’ but it shouldn’t have been an issue in the first place.

ai definitely wasnt finished and it shows. largely in how theres clearly no AI driving and how cops feel half-implimented.

managing stash is CONFUSING. so is the hacking minigame until you get used to it.

it is a LITTLE apparent that you’re going to go into Cutscene Time because characters tell you to sit somewhere specific. However once you’re in those locked scenes the game is still super immersive and beautiful so it’s not too bad.

i don’t understand why youd buy a car when you have one already and a motorcycle but i’ll still probably shop around for funsies

combat definitely feels floaty but ive played bethesda games and nothing can be as bad as those so its fine for me.

i know there’s more but thats what i have so far. I’m having a great time but those are my Thots.

[agapaic]

25! But I suppose your answer could be spoilery if it's in a fic I haven't read yet. Nah, it'll just be even more impactful in context. Answer away!

ahhh, thank you, carson! ❤️

25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of

i think there are a few things bc i don’t have a distinct fav?

the one-day drabble from tianshan week

hubris drabble

from rising upside down ch. 2: 

It was just a fucking kiss, he thought, some rational part of his mind trying to scream at him to calm the fuck down. Not even that. You know what it’s like to be kissed properly.

And then an explosion: memory crawling through the walls of his brain, shooting like gunfire, kisses stolen from the corners of his mouth, lips full and swollen between his, a nose digging into the juncture of his hips, hot cigarette breath over the column of his throat, a tongue burning across his wrists. He remembered every touch dragged across his skin like creeping ivy, like wisteria, like the slow roll of a storm cloud. Knew what it was like to be kissed properly.

But the desperate realisation shuddered through him still, jagged and awful, nausea spilling over: if it had been He Tian for She Li, a second time unwilling, their ruined first kiss on repeat, Guan Shan knew he would have let him.

two parts of the lancelot fic:

He hears the creak of leather, Lotor’s silences as loud and pervasive as ever. Lotor says, long and slow, ‘What benefit would I derive from telling a human boy of my predicaments?’

Language is a strange thing.

Once, humans would have had to learn, rote-by-rote, how the tongue of another person wrapped its way around sound. Once, humans would have had to rely on poor generators that provided a mimicry of the true thing.

Lance knows that now, on this ship, the language filters detect every nuance, every particular inflection, every singular vibration of a vocal cord, and transmits it in its exact and original form.

Lance knows that when the words sting, and bite, and bruise, that it is not because the translator has made an error, that some sentiment has been lost. He knows that Lotor’s words sting, and bite, and bruise—because they are meant to.

Maybe, he thinks, wheedling, it wasn’t meant to be an insult. Maybe Galrans have a different threshold for what they can take.

Lance says, ‘I’m sorry.’

Lotor says, ‘Is that how an apology works?’

and

He thinks of Lance, erratic and small and human and breakable, a split-mouth grin and a low-lashed gaze. He thinks of rolling Spanish on the curl of Lance’s tongue, of pressing a mouth, a nose, against the column of Lance’s throat, the nape of his neck, crowding solemnly against the tender span of a brown wrist like he’s making a benediction, body an oblation on Lotor’s foreign altar—of breathing in.

His gaze hardens, breathing slows, fists clench. He thinks of the bridge this will build between their disparate waters, how his lips on the dimpled small of Lance’s back will prompt Paladin secrets from his guarded wellspring of loyalty. How his hand on the shadowed hollow between Lance’s thighs will turn the lock on a guarded gate of Voltron duty. What truths Lotor will be able to spin between his fingers when they spill from Lance’s lips as he shudders, hums, writhes in the throes of some untapped pleasure, flesh on display. The confessions, after, that Lance will bare between them when the sweat cools and a hot, sinful sun rises over arid Hedonian wasteland, thighs and stomachs and voices trembling from quiet, penitent little deaths.

Lotor breathes slowly. He focuses on the screen.

hope you’re having a good day! ❤️

[chemicalbrew]

??? some messy thoughts from yesterday kinda

man, that Zelda and Philosophy book was such a pleasant read back in the day!! it’s a shame I can’t remember the exact name now but I should have it saved somewhere on my laptop. maybe one day i’ll print it all out and read it before going to bed or smth. a person can dream.... (there wasa chapter dealing w/ game overs in zelda games from an extremely interesting point but i can’t remember anything other than it being interesting. just... check it out pls *ok hand emoji*) (UPD: it’s called The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy: I Link Therefore I Am, if you’re interested!! I def recommend this book, it’s so Good)

I think that one of my best experiences with loz and its community was during the e3 2014 reveal omf. i still remember it so fondly?? and it’s been almost 3 yrs too, what the fuck!?! i’ll never stop talking abt how awesome it was, if ur tired of it, just Deal With It

ONE DAY I’LL FIND A COOL ZELDA MANGA WITH HIGH-QUALITY SCANS AND I’LL JUST. find a local translating group or two in vk and randomly pop in like ‘can we collaborate on this or smth; i’ll do the translation and u’ll do the editing stuff?? pls for the love of hylia make it happen i’ve been dreaming abt this shit for years, it’s practically the only way i can help my smol fandom out‘ plus it’d be an awesome experience overall. ideally, a win-win. i’m......

seriously. helping out w/ editing hyrule historia back in the day (like 3.5 yrs ago??) made me feel so proud. esp since HH was the very first book I’ve read from start to finish in english. i still remember how i was switching between the tablet w/ the pdf open and the big dictionary that my friend gave me as a gift every 15 seconds, lmfao. it was So Worth It though!! ...yeah I just want to relive the experience

also, speaking of manga, why the fuck is History of Hyrule down?!? :cccc I’m so upset.... why couldn’t I have just/// visited it earlier. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to find a better resource for LoZ manga now, tbh.

and don’t even get me started on the corrupted SD card with all of that cool music, I’m still crying because of the loss deep inside! Of course, some of it was recovered last October but... it’s just not the same!! + I can’t really listen to it properly bc not only does my player not have enough space, it’s also got a broken headphone jack and I also broke the USB port on my laptop because I suck. tl;dr there’s basically no way for me to enjoy it properly aaaaaAAAAA

a part of me wishes I could play the song of time to teleport back to 2014 or smth...........

also, can we talk abt that one book called Agramont?? it’s a funny story... not the book itself, obviously, it’s fucking awful. but y’know?? the context of its release feels funny to me. basically, there was that one girl and her name was Valerie. and it’s said that she’s always been dreaming of being a famous writer so one day she sat down and wrote ‘these vivid images’ that appeared in her head. she ‘was so inspired’ that she finished writing the book in abt 1.5 weeks or so and then she told her family smth like ‘look at this story, guys, i wrote it and i feel inspired and proud and blessed, we should try publishing it!!‘ everyone in her family was naturally v proud and stuff, so they searched for a publication that was willing to release Valerie’s writing and they found it. (if you’re wondering what does all of this has to do w/ zelda, you’ll find out soon) it was published under the name ‘Agramont‘ and iirc it received a ton of positive reviews (esp since Valerie was like 14 when she wrote it, so everyone was praising her even more for her talent developing at such a young age), so everything was going super well for her family. that is, until a Gamer(tm) read it and rightfully debunked it.... because it’s LITERALLY THE PLOT OF OCARINA OF TIME RETOLD ALMOST WORD-FOR-WORD (except all of the names were changed, obviously — i.e. Link became Alin and Saria became Salia. ew.) I’ve tried reading it, Goddesses know I did. I don't think I was ever able to reach the 30th page, I just straight up died of disgust on the spot. however, a few months ago I found an old 2010 magazine that had featured Valerie in one of the articles and iirc she said smth like ‘I do not understand the gamers’ outrage, no matter what, it’s still a book I wrote myself. also I’m planning a sequel‘ ...good thing that sequel never saw the light of day then. I bet it’d be abt MM if it did... I’ve heard of something similar happening with a book called The Silent Hero somewhere in America and I’m kiiiinda curious to see how that went down but at the same time??? just no.

[rjhamster]

The Berean - Hosea 10:1-2 NKJV (1) Israel empties his vine;He brings forth fruit for himself. According to the multitude of his fruit He has increased the altars; According to the bounty of his land They have embellished his sacred pillars. (2) Their heart is divided; Now they are held guilty. He will break down their altars; He will ruin their sacred pillars. New King James Version   Change your email Bible version Hosea exposes the problem between God and Israel. He describes Israel as a luxuriant grape vine sending runners in every direction, indicating a bountiful crop. It indeed produces great material prosperity, but it is consumed through self-indulgent gorging. This is God's way of showing that Israel abused its prosperity: It used its prosperity for the purposes of idolatry. Its prosperity played a part in corrupting the Israelites' hearts, which is why Hosea mentions the divided or disloyal heart in context with its bountiful fruit. A large part of this world's appeal is its offer of financial security. However, God shows there is a possible harmful, secondary effect: As people become financially secure, their attention is diverted from His purpose to vain and unimportant things. In other words, prosperity turns people's heads. There is no doubt that prosperity is good, but unless one is properly focused and disciplined, it can also be a demanding master because of its power to distract one into idolatry. Recall God's prophecy in Deuteronomy 32:15, predicting that when Israel prospered, then it would rebel. This connects with the curse of Laodiceanism because God shows in the Laodiceans what can happen spiritually as people increase materially. Because such people are drunk through riches' deceptive promise, their judgment is in danger of being radically altered. The Laodicean evaluates himself, saying, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing" (Revelation 3:17). He is deceived into thinking that his material prosperity proves that God approves of his conduct and attitudes. His overall conduct may not be too bad, but his poor self-analysis persuades him that he has no urgent need to seek God any further. He then merely floats, going through the motions, even feeling good about himself as he neglects so great salvation (Hebrews 2:3). His opinion of his holiness as compared with God's judgment is so far off base, it causes Jesus Christ to regurgitate him from His body. Recall the mention in Hosea 10:1 of increasing and embellishing altars just before Israel fell to Assyria. One would think that, if altars increase during this period of prosperity, then religion is flourishing. Indeed, religion flourished, as Amos, Hosea's contemporary, clearly reports (see Amos 5:21-27). However, it was not the religion God gave through Moses, but idolatry that flourished! It was a corruption of that religion, for the Israelites syncretized that holy way with Baalism and other idolatries. In Hosea 10:2, God charges Israel with having a divided heart. Commentaries are at odds over what the Hebrew word translated divided means. Most modern translations use "false," "deceitful," or "faithless," and none of these are wrong, including "divided." The Hebrew word suggests "smoothness" or "flattering," describing people who "talk the talk" but do not "walk the walk." Isaiah 29:13 clarifies what God means: "Therefore the LORD said: 'Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men.'" Their reverence for Him was mere intellectual accommodation intended to appease Him. They used the name of God frequently, saying they trusted Him, but they filled the nation with stealing, lying, and murder. II Kings 17:33 illustrates their worship: "They feared the LORD, yet served their own gods - according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away." This describes to a T what Israel did then and their descendants are continuing to do today. Moffatt renders this, "They worshipped the Eternal, and they also served their own gods." This chapter reports on the behavior of the people placed in Israel after Israel's conquest and deportation by Assyria between 722-720 BC. These people, who became known as the Samaritans, feared the Lord but worshipped their own gods. They were afraid of God, but they did not really change their way of life. Thus, they developed a syncretic religious system, a blending of the truth of God and outright paganism. The Jews of Christ's day clearly recognized this putrid blend and despised the Samaritans for it. What is so interesting is that, by verse 36, God is no longer reporting on the Samaritans but is addressing Israel. In other words, God is saying that He was driven to defeat and scatter Israel because they were guilty of exactly the same sin as the Samaritans! They too had blended the worship of the true God with outright paganism, utterly corrupting the relationship He had established with them. It is urgent that we understand what is involved here because it reveals the cause of God's anger that led to Israel's defeat and scattering. We must understand that our god is not what we say we worship but what we serve. Our god is what we give our lives over to. Theoretically, the Israelites did not believe in idols, but in reality, they did. They believed in a Creator God, but they worshipped Him at the shrines they erected to the Baals. While they gave lip service to the Creator, they adopted most of the Canaanitish religion with its lewd immorality, and in actual practice, patterned their life after it. In daily life, they conformed to and reflected the Babylonish system just as Israel does today. This is exactly what God warns us to flee, and the only way to come out of it is by developing and maturing in our relationship with God. — John W. Ritenbaugh

[christsbride]

The Son of God and sons of God

Throughout the Bible, various persons are stated as being sons of God or as God but what makes Jesus more unique than all them?  We must first properly understand what scripture means when it calls Jesus and others a son of God.  This helps us properly understand the uniqueness of Jesus. sons of God First let us understand who sons of God are.   Rulers and kings are refereed to as gods (Ps 81:6) but are they literally gods?  Of course not, there is only one God (Isa 46:9).  So to properly reconcile the passages and correctly understand them together, the kings and rulers were god in the sense they had the ruling authority and power like God but in their own role and position in the world.  Just like how Moses is described in Exodus 4:16, he was "as God" and not The God.  Therefore we can see that men being gods is referring to their position and status in the world as being like God. God himself adopts men (and women) to become his children (Ephesians 1:5).  The children of wealthy parents are heirs to the wealth of the father.  Thus, those who are adopted by God have the God given rights to his Christ's inheritance (Ephesians 1:11; Colossians 3:24; Hebrews 9:15) which is the total sum of eternal salvation.  And thus, sons (children) of God (Romans 8:14) are heirs to a divine inheritance which in a worldly sense was typically passed down to the first born male in that culture (Romans 8:16–17).   Then who are the sons of God in Genesis 6:2-5? This takes more discernment and inclusion of more passages to help interpret.  Sons of God can relate to angels (Job 2:1,1 38:7, Psalm 29:1, 89:7). We also need to understand that angels are spiritual beings (Hebrews 1:14), they can appear in human form (Mark 16:5). The men of Sodom and Gomorrah wanted to have sex with the two angels, in the form of men, who were with Lot (Genesis 19:1-5) but this does not say they are literally IN physical bodies.   A point made in Gen 6 is that these sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of men.  BUT Jesus declares heavenly angels do not marry (Matt 22:30) and marriage includes becoming one flesh (Gen 2:24).  The idea it seems that angels (sons of God) had sexual relations of women.  This is present in The Book of Enoch 15.  This book was written between 300 and 100 BC but was not seen by Ancient Israel as a book written by God.  But this seems to also be supported in 1 Peter 3:19-20 and Jude 6-7.  How can angels marry and become one flesh with daughters of men?  We see throughout the Bible instances of Demonic possession (Matthew 4:24, 10:1; John 7:21, 8:48; Mark 1:25-27, 5:15; Luke 4:51-56; Acts 8:7).  In light of the sum of all these passages we can see that fallen angels did not need their own literal physical bodies but could possess men, and then be capable to have sexual relations with women; for the purpose of sin and leading women and the people of the days of Noah away from God.  Their unique offspring are named Nephilim.  Which also explains why they are in the post-flood era (Numbers 13:33).  The offspring, being unique, and empowered by their parental figure, a fallen angel, explains why they were "mighty men who were of old, men of renown".  Because they had the support of supernatural beings.  Demons were worshiped in ancient cultures (Deuteronomy 32:16-17).   These angels were sons of God in the sense they were directly created by God and did not have an earthly father.  Their beginning is from God but their rebellious sinful acts is out of themselves.  Like Eve, they saw something they desired and chose to take it for themselves (Gen 3:6, 6:2).   So what makes Jesus' claim of being The Son of God different? Jesus is the “Son of David” because He is the fulfillment of God’s promise that David would always have a descendant on the throne (2 Samuel 7:10–13). In these cases, Abraham and David become more than people or patriarchs; they become the embodiment of an idea—specifically, God’s work in humanity. To be a son is to partake in the grand purpose of another’s life (Matthew 13:38; Luke 6:35).  But Jesus did not have an earthly father.   Luke 1:35 declares, “The angel answered, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.’” Son can also refer to a person’s character or identity. A “son of Aaron” was a priest, a “son of Asaph” was a musician and songwriter (2 Chronicles 35:14–15), and a “son of the prophets” was a prophet (2 Kings 2:3). “Son of” was also used metaphorically to identify one’s nature or a personality trait.  John 17:12 where Judas is described as the “son of perdition.” John 6:71 tells us that Judas was the son of Simon. What does John 17:12 mean by describing Judas as the “son of perdition”? The word perdition means “destruction, ruin, waste.” Judas was not the literal son of “ruin, destruction, and waste,” but those things were the identity of Judas' life. Judas was a manifestation of perdition. In this same way, Jesus is the Son of God. The Son of God is God. Jesus is God made manifest (John 1:1, 14).   Hebrews 1:3 expresses this very clearly, “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being.”  Jesus is God’s Son in the sense that He is God made manifest in human form (John 1:1, 14).  The Jewish leaders understood exactly what Jesus meant by the phrase “Son of God.” To be the Son of God is to be of the same nature as God (John 19:7;  Matthew 26:63-64).    But does Psalm 2:6-7 mean The Son of God is created by God alone? John 3:16, which reads in the King James Version as, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The phrase "only begotten" translates the Greek word monogenes. This word is variously translated into English as "only," "one and only," and "only begotten."  So what does monogenes mean? According to the Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (BAGD, 3rd Edition), monogenes has two primary definitions. The first definition is "pertaining to being the only one of its kind within a specific relationship." This is its meaning in Hebrews 11:17 when the writer refers to Isaac as Abraham's "only begotten son" (KJV). Abraham had more than one son, but Isaac was the only son he had by Sarah and the only son of the covenant. Therefore, it is the uniqueness of Isaac among the other sons that allows for the use of monogenes in that context.  So if angels are called sons of God, and believers in Christ are adopted and become children of God, what then makes Jesus, as the Son of God one of a kind with a specific relationship?   What does Jesus have that no other can offer?  He is not only sinless and only acceptable sacrifice for sin for all time but he is also the only one that existed before creation with God the Father, came down in the form of man, but is the embodiment and exact likeness of God in nature.  John 14:7 and John 10:30 are literal just as Hebrews 1:3, Colossians 2:9 and Ephesians 3:19 point out.  This unique specific relational position that only Jesus Christ possesses is "the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature" which "all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form".  Jesus was with God equally glorified before the creation of the world (John 17:5) and not only with God but was God (John 1:1).  This is THE Son of God.  More than just a child that will inherit the wealth and authority of the father.  More than being simply like God or acting as God in this world.  He is OF God in glory, nature, and deity.  And there is only ONE God that is glorious and divine; thus, the unique sonship of Christ is God incarnate.   If you have any questions or comments about this article please contact us or join our discussion forms

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Do You Have to Know Chinese in the China Market?

  When you travel to a brand new united states of America, on occasion you have got enough time and guidance to get well-versed in its language and from time to time you do not. Often, humans make do with symbolic equivalents or interpretation guides to assist them thru. It is in any case, just about a vacation that you may drift with the aid of.

But journeying to a brand new marketplace, like China, is not a holiday. As a minimum no longer at the initial ranges. What you want is a good Chinese language translation service. If you are introducing your product to a new, yet a humongous market like China, you can not ignore the perils of non-translation. Your internet site or app could need to get draped in the fabric of this neighborhood way of life, language and colloquial alignment. In case you need your product and communique to paintings seamlessly, there’s no need to learn Chinese language from the scratch.

However, that does not mean you do not need to localize for the Chinese language marketplace.

You need an expert who knows this marketplace and a bouquet of services that can cope with this task with a rich inventory of translation experts who are adept in each the languages – the supplied language of your u. S . A . and the target language of the new marketplace.

Store your logo from the dragon fire. China, in particular, is a market wherein brands tiptoe with more caution and care. Entrepreneurs are wary of wrong steps round polysemy i.E. words that have numerous meanings in addition to synonymy i.E. distinct words which have comparable meanings. A few important and international ruling manufacturers have Frequently paid a huge charge in terms of emblem equity and resistance in this marketplace due to the fact they jumped the identical taglines, slogans, and coaching manuals that they had in source market, without ascertaining how they sounded in a Chinese context. The language right here may additionally have an extraordinary vocabulary and Some phrases, seemingly harmless or astonishing, can sound completely exceptional and risk in a Chinese language translation.

For this reason, brands and communication experts have a tendency to stroll on eggshells to ward off semantic dangers of antonymy, hyponymy or hypernymy as nicely.

nearby language gets higher eyeballs It is now not the simplest cause to take assist from a professional language provider. International, a large variety of clients have proven in diverse research that they prefer to shop for merchandise whose facts is to be had in their very own neighborhood language. The chance of purchasers leaning to buy a product online that has data of their very own language will increase with the aid of several notches.

Which one to pick out: Mandarin or Cantonese About 850 million people in China talk Mandarin Chinese language in comparison to Approximately eighty-five million Cantonese Chinese. But, the hinterlands of China are nevertheless dominated by using Cantonese. In terms of places like Hong Kong, you can nevertheless see the domination of Cantonese. You should pick out the sort of Chinese language for use primarily based on the target market and the capability reach.

Therefore, draping a website or other essential product facts in the neighborhood language, beneath the professional eye and keyboard of a domestically-savvy translator is critical for a smart marketer. China is bursting with new opportunities But one small step inside the wrong lane can cost a lot. So, ensure you choose someone who can translate English to the Chinese language, is aware of the market and who has the services, resources, expertise and the imaginative and prescient to navigate the peculiarities of language in such markets.

there is no manner you need the dragon to respire fire because of translation gaps.

History and Clothing in Ancient Japan

  Eastern records consist of alternating durations of isolation and modern effects from the relaxation of the sector. As early as the Jomon period from approximately 14000BC to three hundred BC, Japan had a hunter-gatherer lifestyle; wooden stilt houses, pit residing, and agriculture. Weaving changed into nevertheless unknown and the historical Eastern clothing consisted of four. However, the number of the world’s oldest pottery is determined in Japan, along with daggers, jade, combs made shape shell and clay figures.

The length thereafter to 250 BC noticed the inflow of new practices like weaving, rice sowing, iron and bronze making stimulated through china and Korea. Chinese language vacationers describe the men ‘with braided hair, tattooing, and women with big, unmarried-piece apparel.’ Initially, historic Jap garb consisted of single piece apparel. The historic and classical Japan starts from the middle of the third century to 710. A sophisticated agricultural and militaristic culture defines this era. via 645, Japan rapidly followed Chinese language practices and reorganized its penal code.

The height length of historical Japan and its imperial court is from 794 to 1185. Art, poetry, literature and alternate expeditions endured with vigor. Warlords and effective local families ruled historical Japan from 1185 to 1333 and the emperor becomes just a parent head. by using the Japanese center Ages, Portugal had added firearms by means of a danger touchdown in their ship at Japanese coast; samurai charging ranks have been cut down; exchange with Netherlands, England and Spain had unfolded new avenues. Several missionaries had entered Japan as properly.

Awesome features of the lifestyle, historic Eastern apparel and women are hard to decipher for the easy purpose that it is notable-imposed by means of the Chinese lifestyle. historical Japan simply followed other cultures and practices and most of its very own subculture is misplaced amongst those adaptations.

historical Japanese garb becomes ordinarily unisex, with variations being in shades, length, and sleeves. A Kimono tied with an Obi or a sash across the waist was the overall garb and with the appearance of western garb are actually primarily worn at domestic or special activities. girls’ obi in historic Jap clothing would broadly speak be tricky and ornamental. Some might be so long as 4meters and tied as a flower or a butterfly. Even though a Yukata means a ‘bath apparel’, those have been often worn in the summers as morning and nightgowns. ancient Japanese clothing consisted of men and ladies sporting Haiti or slim paneled jacket for special occasions which include marriages and feasts. those are worn over a kimono and tied with strings on the breast level.

The maximum exciting piece of historic Japanese clothing is the Ju-ni-hit or the ‘twelve layers’ adorned with the aid of girls at the imperial courtroom. it’s far multi-layered and really heavy and worn on an everyday basis for hundreds of years! The simplest change would be the thickness of the fabric and the range of players relying on the season on. Princesses nevertheless put on these on weddings.

Because the Jap human beings do not wear footwear inner their houses, the tab is still worn. those are break up -toe socks are woven out of non-stretch materials with thick soles. Clogs have been worn for centuries in ancient Japan and have been known as Geta. those were fabricated from wood with straps and had been unisexual. Zori becomes footwear product of softer materials like straw and cloth with a flat sole.

ancient Jap garments, the way of life and shoes are slowly regaining their popularity with the western world. There is a sincere interest in knowing greater, carrying kimonos or using silk fabrics with stunning floral prints from the ‘land of the rising solar’.

Christopher Schwebius is an entrepreneur who seeks out sharply described, specially targeted topics to research. Upon completing his studies he affords applicable, unbiased records to his readers based on his discoveries and/or personal stories.

Types and Examples of Leasing

  Leasing is an antique approach of financing that’s now gaining popularity nearly in whole international. Legally, the lease agreement isn’t always a sale of the item, but rather a sale of the usufruct (the proper to use the object) for a detailed time period. Underneath it, there are parties one is the proprietor or lesser of the asset and different is the lessee or the celebration that takes the asset on rent. The lessee takes the asset to be used for a targeted time period and makes condominium bills. The ownership of the asset rests with the lesser but it’s far in the possession of lessee and right of use is likewise transferred to the lessee.

It has following are different sorts. The 2 basic types of leasing are: Finance hires and Operating rent. Those are explained under:

(1) Finance hire: Under the finance lease, all risks and rewards of ownership of the asset are transferred to the lessee. The possession or identity can also or may not be transferred China and Japan.

A finance lease is relatively like a hire by the settlement. Under finance rent, the lessee after paying agreed wide variety of installments is entitled to work out an option to emerge as the proprietor of an asset.

Instance:

Assume the AB organization takes a new car on lease for three years. Also, expect that at the stop of 3 years the AB employer may be known as to take the ownership of automobile at no more value. Right here now not simplest the automobile is taken on hire but Also the AB organization is the usage of the lease settlement as a method of financing the auto. This kind is called capital rent or finance rent.

(2) Operating hire: In line with Worldwide Accounting Preferred (IAS-17) the Working rent is one that isn’t a finance rent. Beneath Operating rent, the lessor gives the right to a lessee to use the asset or assets for a unique time period, however, risks and rewards of ownership are retained by means of the lesser.

Example:

Let up Think that MY firms own a complete sixth ground in Eden Tower, a multi-story building. Further count on that MY businesses give a few rooms of this ground on hire to XY company.

Now if the fee of this constructing increase because of true business interest then the lessor i.E., MY companies can take the benefit of this increase by either selling out the rooms or by means of increasing the apartment quantity. Then again if the constructing decreases in cost than Additionally the MY organizations could be the sufferer of loss. This type of leasing is called Running hire.

Besides These major kinds, a few different forms of leasing are defined below:

(three) Sale and lease Lower back: Beneath sale and hire Back settlement, an asset is first brought to the economic institution. The sale is made at the real market cost. After that, the asset is taken Returned on a lease. This kind of leasing is tremendous for the one’s businesses which do not want to expose high debt balances in their financial assertion.

(4) Capital rent: This kind of leasing is ruled by way of the economic Fashionable board which is not applicable in Pakistan. Beneath this type, whilst lessee acquires an asset on the lease, he concurrently acknowledges it as a legal responsibility inside the monetary announcement.

(five) Leveraged hire: This sort of leasing entails three events which include a lender, a lessor, and a lessee. The lender and lessor be a part of palms to accumulate budget to shop for the asset. The asset purchased is then given at the rent to a lessee. The lessee makes periodic payments to the lessor who in turn makes the price to the lender.

(6) Pass Border Leasing: It method to operate lease agreement in different countries. Such kind of leasing may be very difficult in gift instances. The reasons being that different accounting treatment, tax costs and incidental standards be triumphant in foreign nations. Additionally, the tax guidelines range from us to united states of America. So a big hassle arises as a way to gift such lease settlement in an economic assertion.

But, as with recent trends, the accounting remedies are being made comparable for every item all-around the world by using International Accounting Requirements and its miles hoped that Go border leasing will unexpectedly flourish in close to destiny.