

In colloquial language the terms are basically synonyms.
Software Developer from a germanic region in south Brazil.
I may occasionally post about #software, #dotnet, #csharp, #fsharp, #politics, #theology, #christianity
Politically leaning towards #ChristianAnarchism
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In colloquial language the terms are basically synonyms.
I cut it with a fork against the side of the pot to check if it’s done.
Not a good joke. It’s an annoying stereotype, although unfortunately some around here make it sort of deserved 😮💨
Yes, there are many Germanic colonies around here, last year we did celebrate 200 years of immigration. Fun fact: the wife of the first Brazilian emperor was an Austrian Habsburg.
My city was founded in 1850, before Germany was even a single country.
While I don’t know when exactly my family came here I know it was way before WW2.
I come from a Germanic colony in Brazil, and while the language has been mostly genocided out, people still sometimes drop random German words in the middle of Portuguese, or mix Portuguese words with some German grammar.
My mother when younger visited Germany and got confused looks from the family hosting her by asking where was the “lixolatte” (“lata de lixo” is the Portuguese for garbage can)


Satan means “Accuser”, in the book of Job he is trying to convince God that humans are too wicked and corrupt to deserve all the gifts God gives us, and and that people only pretend to love God because we expect something in return.


In the book of Apocalypse/Revelation that’s 2 places, there’s the Land of the Dead, and the Lake of Fire; it tells the former will be thrown into the latter at the very end of things, after the Land of the Dead has been emptied.


And even on Dante’s Inferno Satan is just another prisoner, not a ruler.
Are philosophers even capable of living together in harmony?
Not remembering childhood is not necessarily an ADHD thing. The puberty hormones tell the brain to prune older memories, IIRC it’s called “childhood amnesia”.
Nero didn’t pretend to care about Christians or for their support; although if there were MAGA-like “Christians” in the Roman Empire he maybe might have liked them?
The idea of “Rapture” is very recent; and based on a very problematic pseudo-theology.
But for your idea, something more theologically solid relates to the idea that God is the source of all good, a world where God is entirely absent would be only evil and suffering, Hell.
They do support an Antichrist…
A problem is that people are both very stupid and very smart, just not about the same things.


Makes me wonder what they are doing to reach these figures.
Because I can run many models at home and it wouldn’t require me to be pouring bottles of water on my PC, nor it would show on my electricity bill.
The greatest argument against “solving” old-age: if 80 years old Conservatives controlling the world is bad, imagine 800 years old Conservatives controlling the world.


At this point the best for them would be if they managed to peacefully balkanize.
Was this word choice intentional for the current context?
The name Palestine comes from Philistine.


Yes, he deserves it, and more for all the other crimes he committed that are not on trial; but the reason may face any consequence at all is that he did one of the things he was elected to do, fight the extremely corrupt Supreme Court.
Also, the Brazilian Constitution only protects speech if it’s not anonymous.