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I saw an interesting tv show when I was in Australia (not sure if it would have been shown in Ireland).
It looked at the idea of Jesus surviving the crucifixion and fleeing to India.
Supposedly there is a village in Kashmir where there is a legend of a prophet form the Middle East who was called Iosa who came there to study Buddhism when he was a teenager for a number of years (a period of Jesus' life that really isn't covered in the bible).
This person is supposedly buried there and there is a carving of his feet which has marks of what looks like stigmata.
One of the areas it looked at was show a lot of Jesus' teaching of turn the other cheek etc was very different from Old Testament teaching and similar to Buddhism.
It also referenced the three magi and the fact they came from the East and possible links to Buddhism.
Anyway I found it interesting and would file it under the category of could be true. But as with a lot of things when you start googling, there is a mountain of nonsense to wade through.
The theory is that Jesus, as son of a carpenter would have spent some time as a wandering apprentice. he would have travelled for a few years and learnt various techniques and methods from the areas where he travelled through. You usually worked for bed , board and enough to buy a meal and about 2 pints of wine once a week.
This form of apprenticeship is where the term "Journeyman" comes from. Whilst it has largely died out in these islands it is still especially common in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
There are a number of rules, which vary from guild to guild, such as you not being allowed to come within 50 km of your home for the 3 years of the Walz and leaving and returning with no more than €5. You coukld have no responsibilities before you leave like being married, having kids or a debt and you needed to keep a diary of what you learned.
They are recognised by their clothing, this is a picture of them, I often picked hem up hitchhiking when I lived in Germany. They only carry their tools and a change of clothes with them.
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During the end of Ophelia the UK was covered by red dust coming from the desert, which also accounted for the eery light during the day.
It actually came down in the rain in the southeast of Ireland too from Ophelia.
Cars were covered in the dust.
During the summer last year a smoke haze covered Ireland for a day or so.
That haze came from wildfires over in the U.S. of A.
Edit: That smoke haze that originated from America showed up in Ireland on the 6th of September 2017. Just to be precise.
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A very interesting way of looking at languages and translation....
https://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/12/differences-among-languagesROMAN JAKOBSON, a linguist, is credited with the notion that languages differ not so much in what they can express as what they must express. The common trope that language X has no word for Y is usually useless (it usually means language X uses several words instead of one for Y). But languages do differ significantly in what they force speakers to express, something Lera Boroditsky talks about often in support of the "linguistic relativity" hypothesis.
I was thinking of this today when on the subway, I saw a young man whose shoulder bag bore six red buttons, with "I am loved" written in white, identical except that each was in a different language. They look like this. (I later learned that this is an old campaign that began with the Helzberg Diamond company.)
What struck me was that three of the buttons identified him as female: soy amada (Spanish), io sono amata (Italian) and sou amada (Portuguese). In each, the past participle of "to love" (amar/amare) must agree with the loved thing, and the -a is a feminine ending. The young chap should have had soy amado etc. The poor button-makers had to pick one or the other, and chose feminine.
The German forced no such choice: a man or a woman can say Ich bin geliebt, as the young commuter's pin did. And Russian doesn't require it either, but the translation is menya lyubyat, "they love me".
And Russian (more than most languages) forces a bunch of other distinctions on English speakers. The average verb of motion requires you to express whether you're going by vehicle or foot, one-direction or multidirectionally, and in the past tense, makes you include an ending for your own gender. So "I went" would, in one Russian word (khodila, say), express "I [a female] went [by foot] [and I came back]." If you don't want to express all of that, tough luck. You have to. Jakobson himself was Russian. Perhaps his native language led him to the insight above; learning the English verb go might have had the Russian wondering "that's it? By what means? There and back, or what? We would never put up with this in Russian."
When most people tell you some very unusual word "can't be translated", they usually mean words like these "Relationship words that aren't translatable into English": shockingly specific single words in other languages like mamihlapinatapei, which is apparently Yagan for "the wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start." But of course mamihlapinatapei is translatable into English. It's "the wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start." Needing several words for one isn't the same as untranslatability.
What really can't be translated properly is "go" into Russian, or "loved" into Spanish, not because the English words are too specific but because they're too vague. Those languages force you to say much more, meaning the poor Helzberg Diamond people can't make a single button reading "I am loved" in Spanish for both men and women. The traditional idea of "can't be translated" has the facts exactly backwards. Who knew that the truly untranslatable words were those that say the least?0 -
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In ye olden days soft silver and gold coins would be clipped (a bit cut off the edge) or shaken in a bag to get silver/gold dust off them. The clippings or dust would be melted and sold on in bars or used to make counterfeit coins.
I have one like the below, Edward the 1st, you can see the clipping clearly. But my coin also has an additional method of cunning silver extraction on it. A small hole in one quadrant where a small bit of silver was punched out.
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I saw an interesting tv show when I was in Australia (not sure if it would have been shown in Ireland).
It looked at the idea of Jesus surviving the crucifixion and fleeing to India.
Supposedly there is a village in Kashmir where there is a legend of a prophet form the Middle East who was called Iosa who came there to study Buddhism when he was a teenager for a number of years (a period of Jesus' life that really isn't covered in the bible).
This person is supposedly buried there and there is a carving of his feet which has marks of what looks like stigmata.
One of the areas it looked at was show a lot of Jesus' teaching of turn the other cheek etc was very different from Old Testament teaching and similar to Buddhism.
It also referenced the three magi and the fact they came from the East and possible links to Buddhism.
Anyway I found it interesting and would file it under the category of could be true. But as with a lot of things when you start googling, there is a mountain of nonsense to wade through.
It's Japanese Jesus territory again
I've read about this, the tomb in Srinagar is inside the Rozabal shrine which was already considered sacred as the tomb of a very holy Muslim Iman, then it was said to also house Jesus's remains. It's a story that only goes back as far as the 19th Century and it was heavily promoted when the tourist potential was realized, and the tourist influx has been good to the area since.
Jesus is alleged to have been all over the place, but the evidence for the historicity of Jesus outside of religious texts is very poor (nary a mention, aside from the Roman historian Tacitus mentioning a Christus suffering crucifixion in the approximate time frame). There are stories of Jesus being in Ethiopia and Somalia for years or decades, but again they're relatively new.
Ethiopia also claims (or is one of the claimants) to be home to the Ark of The Covenant, kept hidden from view and under constant guard in a church in Axom, but since no one is allowed see it it's hard to ascertain what it is that actually have. The priest in charge announced he was going to unveil it about ten years ago, but changed his mind at the last minute. The Ark is claimed to be in dozens of places, from Rome to South Africa to England to the Hill of Tara, but like Jesus, evidence for the historicity of the Ark outside of religious writings is hard to find.
Of course absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence so I don't mean any of that to sound dismissive or insulting to people of faith.0 -
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