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How is Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’ racist? It is obviously sexist, but I cannot see racist undertones in it. | Does racism include antisemitism? It should, but it doesn't always seem to. If doesn't express antisemitism (or racism), but some of his other work and correspondence does. See [LINKED_TEXT: The Burden of Jerusalem] [URL: http://www.heretical.com/miscella/kipling2.html]. And why should it be surprising that Gunga Din is a better man than an Englishman?
On the whole Kipling/racist question, also see [LINKED_TEXT: A longing to dance naked in Torquay] [URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/a-longing-to-dance-naked-in-torquay-737676.html].
As to If being an inspiring guide to life, I've seen a version that replaces the last verse with “You've misjudged the situation”. That seems about right.
None of which means that people should deface his work. I don't care for his politics, and I don't agree that it's not his fault because all the other kids were doing it too, but I love his work: He was one of the best writers the English language has ever produced. And even if he hadn't been, painting over his poem is not valid criticism.
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Is it safe to give your dog toothpaste for bad breath? | I would advise against that. They have minty dog treats for that. But FYI, you just have to accept that dogs don't have nice breath.
If your dog has exceptionally bad breath, they might have some teeth issues, and they might need to see a vet to have one or more teeth pulled.
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Are Hong Kong activists still protesting in 2021? | No more for the moment.
Since the red line has been drawn by the National Security Law, putting any moves that subvert the government or render the Hong Kong government inoperable an offense in the law. The Democrats openly declared that they would veto all government bills and proposals once they were elected as legislators as a move to paralyse the government.
Many democrats who continued their legislative campaign with the purpose of paralysing Hong Kong government AFTER the implementation of the National Security Law were arrested.
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Question for parents who let their children watch rated R movies before they were 17: at what age did you let them begin watching R-rated movies? Also, why did you let them start at THAT age (e.g. 13) and not 1 year younger or 1 year older? | My parents based it on content, not what someone else thought of it. The MPAA is hardly consistent or reliable - just watch the film “This film is not yet rated” to see why. Studios paying them more to rate more movies have historically been more likely to get a lower rating, while an independent film with a low budget - less likely to be a repeat customer, might get a higher rating for the same content. Higher ratings mean less ticket sales in most cases, as they cut out potential ticket buyers.
I could watch movies with bad language as long as I didn’t pick it up, or nudity as that’s natural. They didn’t want me watching horror or anything with explicit sex until I was a little older.
It was all my mom’s call on each movie though, she wanted to parent me, not let the MPAA (who are just a group of parents themselves, with different values and goals than mine) choose for me.
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How do countries who encounter earthquakes predict when an earthquake will occur and what process are taken to prevent it to make a very less damage when it occurs? | In an earth quake prone area the most effective work is done with the building codes long before a quake occurs. Once it starts the focus should be on evacuation and recovery
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I have a theory that Gamma-ray bursts are really planets setting off imploded cylindrical uranium, gun type nuclear devices and gamma ray lazing. Does anyone have any comments? | Gun-culture obsession?
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How can I get a call history of any number? | By calling the mobile service provider, it is possible to learn the call history of a certain mobile phone number.
The supplier can give you details on the call history for the number, including the dates and times of all incoming and outgoing calls, their durations, and the phone numbers involved.
It's crucial to keep in mind that there are legal and privacy issues at play here, and the provider can demand a good cause before releasing the call history.
Additionally, before requesting this information, you need have the owner of the phone number's express consent.
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What's it like to have a 150 IQ? Is life easier? What are the advantages you feel you have over others? Are there any disadvantages? | I have taken a test and I scored 150, I always feel like I don’t belong or that I should be somewhere better. I get good grades at school but I have hard time focusing and I also might have bipolar disorder. I am really good at manipulating people, drawing and photography. I have hobbies I don’t like, I keep regretting things I do then do the same things again. I sometimes think I might be special but sometimes I think I am just a normal person who would eventually die and be forgotten. I hate it when I waste time but I keep wasting. I hate hurting myself emotionally but I keep scolding myself over things I have no control over. I dwell on the past and lack a vision for a better future. I daydream and I have trouble sleeping.
I don’t think a high IQ made me a better person. It has only made me mentally weak and unfocused.
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What is the best thing I can do before I die? | Live!
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What would happen if a megalodon attacked a Ohio class submarine or any other nuclear sub? | Scary question!
Here is an adult Megalodon facing-off against four of the West’s ballistic missile boats.
From top to bottom:-
The American Columbia classThe American Ohio (nose-to-nose with bitey-boy)The British DreadnoughtThe French SNLE-3G
(With the exception of the Ohio - none of these submarines is in service yet. So this confrontation is going to have to wait until the 2030s.[math]^a[/math])
As you can see - Megalodon is at a little bit of a disadvantage with regard to size and brute strength - BUT - why should the shark fight fair? Armed with a depth charge (either conventional or nuclear), Meg can swim right up to its opponent and destroy it with no problem[math]^b[/math]. And then NATO would probably suspect that the Russians or the Chinese were responsible and might retaliate. One motivated Megalodon could bring about the end of civilisation as we know it!
[math]^a[/math] Waiting for the subs to become operational is hardly the biggest obstacle to staging this little duel. The Megalodon has been extinct for about 3.6 million years.
[math]^b [/math]Saffron Burrows already proved that you can enhance the intelligence of sharks to a lethal degree!
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How do I recover Samsung Notes on a Samsung Galaxy? | First, you need to find out where the lost photos you stored on Samsung Galaxy: on the internal storage or on the micro SD Card.
When you first insert the SD card and open the camera for the first time you should be prompted to select where you want to store your images. I personally selected the SD card to always store photos/vidoes when I’m taking pictures or shooting with my Samsung Galaxy S7.
If the SD Card is your first option, to avoid data being overwritten, you should stop using the phone and remove the SD card off your device as soon as possible when you realize your files get lost.
Here are what you need to recover lost photos from SD card of Samsung Galaxy:
A computer/laptop (Windows or Mac OS)Download [LINKED_TEXT: RePicvid Free Photo Recovery] [URL: https://www.gihosoft.com/free-photo-recovery.html?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=freeware](Freeware)SD card reader/USB cable
If you’re using the internal storage to store pics/videos, some Android data recovery Apps may help you, like [LINKED_TEXT: Gihosoft Android Data Recovery] [URL: https://www.gihosoft.com/android-data-recovery-free.html?utm_source=leo&utm_medium=androidrecovery], [LINKED_TEXT: Undeleter] [URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete&hl=en&utm_medium=undeleter](root required).
Then follow these steps to continue:
Step 1. Download and run RePicvid Free Photo Recovery on your Windows or Mac computer/laptop.
To get started, select one option for recovery - Photo/Graphic recovery, Video/DV recovery, Audio/Music recovery, All file recovery. Each module features in powerful functions that support various file types.
Step 2. Connect your SD card with a Card reader or a USB cable that came with your phone.
When your card connects to the computer successfully, RePicvid will detect it on the interface.
Step 3. Select and scan the SD card/disk drive where your photos/files were deleted lost.
Choose the Samsung SD memory card, then click on the “Scan” button to continue. The scanning is a read-only process so it won’t do harm to sector of the deleted data.
Step 4. Preview and restore deleted photos/pictures from SD card.
After it finishes the scanning, you can preview the files then click on “Recover” button so that it exports the recovered files onto another storage media.
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What would you do if one of your bridesmaids didn't like the dress you have chosen for her? | When I was asked to be my sister’s matron of honor, I did not like the dresses she chose for us, and hats. Big garden hats. I had to wear a wig to have the hat fit. It was her wedding, I wore what she asked me to wear. I didn’t worry about whether or not I looked good. It didn’t matter. It was her day. I don’t know whether or not she liked the dress I picked for her as my maid of honor a few years before. It was my day. It is the bride’s day and unless it is really horrible, the bridesmaids should shut up and wear what they are asked to wear. The day is not about them and whether or not they look good. If they are a good enough friend or relative to be asked to be in the wedding. they should just adhere to the bride’s wishes. Case closed.
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How make money with affiliate marketing? | "Beginner's Guide: Making Money Online with Affiliate Marketing"
In today's digital age, affiliate marketing has emerged as a popular way to generate income online. If you're new to this concept, don't worry – this guide will break down the process into simple steps that anyone can understand.
Step 1: Choose Your Niche
Start by selecting a niche that interests you. It's easier to promote products or services you're passionate about. Whether it's fitness, tech gadgets, or cooking utensils, your enthusiasm will shine through in your content.
Step 2: Research Affiliate Programs
Look for reputable affiliate programs related to your chosen niche. Websites like Amazon Associates, ShareASale, and CJ Affiliate offer a wide range of products to promote. Ensure the programs align with your niche and have a solid reputation.
Step 3: Create High-Quality Content
Content is king in the world of affiliate marketing. Write informative and engaging blog posts that provide value to your readers. Focus on addressing their pain points, offering solutions, and showcasing how the affiliate products can help them.
Step 4: Incorporate Affiliate Links Naturally
When writing your blog posts, seamlessly incorporate affiliate links within the content. Avoid spammy tactics like overloading your posts with links. Instead, weave them naturally into the text where they fit contextually.
Step 5: Utilize Visuals
Include images or videos in your blog posts to enhance the reader's experience. Visuals can help explain the benefits of the affiliate products and make your content more engaging.
Step 6: Build an Email List
Start building an email list from the beginning. Offer a free resource related to your niche in exchange for visitors' email addresses. This will help you establish a direct line of communication with your audience and promote affiliate products over time.
Step 7: Promote on Social Media
Share your blog posts on social media platforms relevant to your niche. Engage with your followers and encourage them to visit your blog. Social media can significantly expand your reach and drive traffic to your affiliate content.
Step 8: Monitor and Analyze
Keep a close eye on your website's analytics. Pay attention to which affiliate products are performing well and which ones aren't. This data will help you refine your strategy and focus on what's generating the most revenue.
Step 9: Stay Consistent
Consistency is key in affiliate marketing. Regularly update your blog with fresh, valuable content. The more content you produce, the more opportunities you have to promote your affiliate products.
Step 10: Be Patient
Earning money through affiliate marketing takes time. Don't expect overnight success. Stay patient, keep refining your approach, and adapt as needed based on the data and feedback you receive.
Remember, affiliate marketing success hinges on providing value to your audience and building trust. By following these steps and staying committed, you can gradually start making money online through affiliate marketing. Good luck on your journey to online income!
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Why are Siberian Huskies abandoned in large quantities? | They get bigger that they thought they would - they are harder to train - they need to bring keep cool - great dog people don't do their homework and the animals suffer
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What are some facts that sound like 'BS', but are actually true? | There are many mind-blowing facts that may sound unreal but are actually true. Here are some examples:
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. Venus takes 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis but only takes 225 Earth days to orbit around the sun.The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye. It is a common misconception that the wall can be seen from the moon, but it is actually too thin and blends in with the surrounding landscape.The largest living organism on Earth is a fungus. The Armillaria ostoyae, also known as the honey mushroom, spans 2,200 acres (8.9 square kilometers) in Oregon's Malheur National Forest.The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.The world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.A single strand of human hair can support the weight of up to 3.5 ounces (100 grams).A cat has a non-symmetrical face with the left side being more expressive than the right.
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Is being a bhakt of Lord Hanuman more rewarding than being the bhakt of any other Hindu God? | HARE KRISHNA!!
Sanatan has 1 supreme lord only ……
sri hari = sri hara = brahmdevmaa lakshmi = maa parvati = maa sardha
now sri hanuman is none other than mahakal ❤ so be devotteed to any , respect every 💙 becoz of all are same…..
jai sri krishna ❤
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What do British conservatives think about such things as gun rights, ending abortion, ending gay marriage, and restoring the death penalty? | Anybody who needs a gun for reasonable purposes can get one. No problem. Same for abortion. I’ve no opinion on gay marriage at all. The death penalty. Tricky. Emotionally, and financially, it makes sense, but (a) somebody has to deliberately kill somebody, and (b) we don’t always get these things right. So my gut feel is yes bring it back, my head says no, too bloody hard.
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Was Art Carney winning the Oscar best actor for "Harry and Tonto" over Al Pacino in "The Godfather: Part II" and Jack Nicholson in "Chinatown" the worst acting choice ever? I think so. Even today, I'm shocked and appalled by it. | Sometimes the Oscars are awarded out of emotion. Carney was getting on up there, and most of the other nominees were pretty young men.
I've seen Harry and Tonto, and as Dorothy Parker once said, loosely, he ran the gamut from A to B. To be fair, that's all that was called for, but the Oscar should go to an exceptional performance, IMHO..
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Why do planes sometimes leave a vapour trail behind them and sometimes not? | These trails are actually called contrails, short for “condensation trails” they are formed when the water in jet exhaust mixes with wet cold air, and condenses and freezes into ice crystals. Contrails are actually a type of cirrus cloud. When the air is wet and cold enough the trails can stay around for a long time, and sometimes spread out, wet and cold air depends on altitude.
Now there are three reasons why some planes leave trails and some nearby planes do not:1 - That different planes have different engines. Some engines will leave a contrail in air where another engine will not. Here, for example are an Airbus A340 (maiden flight: 1991), leaving contrails, and a Boeing 707 (maiden flight: 1957)not leaving contrails however both are flying at 33,000 feet2 - The planes are at different altitudes3 - Wet and dry air can exist within a few feet of each planes (Source from) More information can be found at: [LINKED_TEXT: Why do some planes leave long trails, but others don't? - Contrail Science] [URL: http://contrailscience.com/why-do-some-planes-leave-long-trails-but-others-dont/]
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When the Apollo 11 lunar module was attempting to land, Commander Neil Armstrong had to take control of the ship manually to land it safely because of an unsafe landing area. Why did he do it rather than Buzz Aldrin since Aldrin was the LM Pilot? | There are a couple of misconceptions here.
Armstrong taking “manual” control of the Lunar Module was always the plan. The crew practiced the landing countless times in simulators, and each time Armstrong took “manual” control. He would have done just what he did, regardless of what the landing site looked like.
The descent from lunar orbit to landing was broken into three phases, and each of these phases had a specific computer program associated with it. Here’s the way it worked on all six lunar landings:
The descent began with the braking phase — the first and longest phase. It was flown entirely automatically by the computer (Program 63). Its goal was to slow the spacecraft from about 3,800 miles/hour to about 700 miles/hour, and to decrease the LM’s altitude from about 50,000 feet to 7,000 feet.The approach phase began when the LM was about 7,000 feet in altitude and about 2 miles from the landing site. The computer was still doing all the flying (Program 64), but the crew could now see the landing site and offer adjustments to the computer.The landing phase began around 500 - 700 feet in altitude. The Commander flipped a switch next to his left thumb, causing the computer to switch to Program 66. The computer was now in what was known as attitude hold. The Commander selected the spot where he wanted to land, and used his controls to tell the computer where to go. The computer was also responsible for keeping the LM upright. The landing phase ends with the LM on the lunar surface.
So there are two things that most people misunderstand:
First, the landing phase is often referred to as “manual mode”, just as this question did. But it wasn’t really manual — the computer was still in direct control of the LM, using inputs from the Commander to tell it where to go. (The LM had a true manual mode — in which the computer completely relinquishes control of the LM — but it was never used.)Apollo 11 didn’t do anything fundamentally differently than the other five landings. It still had the same three phases, the last of which had the Commander picking a landing spot and guiding the computer to it. What was different on Apollo 11 was how far the LM had to travel from the original landing spot to find a suitable spot, and how long the landing phase lasted.
Here are the times (in minutes and seconds) that each of the missions spent in the landing phase:
Apollo 11: 2:23
Apollo 12: 1:44
Apollo 14: 2:01
Apollo 15: 1:16
Apollo 16: 1:00
Apollo 17: 1:08
Apollo 11 had by far the longest landing phase — almost 2 and a half minutes. That’s how long it took Armstrong to find a suitable landing spot and guide the computer toward it.
At the other extreme was Apollo 16 — when it entered the landing phase, a suitable landing spot was right there and it took John Young only a minute to guide the computer through the last few hundred feet and onto the lunar surface.
All of these missions went through the same phases — they differed only in how long each phase lasted.
As far as Armstrong being the one to fly the LM, that was also the plan, and again, it was the Commander who guided the LM during the landing phase on all six lunar landing missions. The job of the LMP (Lunar Module Pilot) was to provide crucial support during the landing, monitoring systems and calling out numbers throughout the landing phase. If you listen to the audio of any of the lunar landings, the voice you hear calling out numbers is the LMP.
There’s a more detailed answer here:
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Without looking at a map, how well can you draw the shape of your country? | This is a sketch of the outlines of the Netherlands.
The north is a bit disproportionately small compared to the south, but that’s a matter of perspective. If I redo it some other part of the country will be affected. At least the [LINKED_TEXT: Frisian Islands] [URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_Islands] are all there.
Sketched by mouse using [LINKED_TEXT: Allayers.com MyCanvas 2.0] [URL: http://allayers.com/mycanvas/]
The real outlines are very squibbly.
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What are the best freelancing sites? | In my mind, there were several popular freelancing platforms that were considered among the best for finding freelance work and hiring freelancers. However, keep in mind that the popularity and reputation of freelancing sites can change over time. Here are some of the top freelancing platforms based on their past reputation:
Upwork: Upwork is one of the largest and most well-known freelancing platforms. It offers a wide range of freelance jobs across various industries, including web development, design, writing, marketing, and more.Freelancer.com: Freelancer.com is another popular platform that connects businesses and individuals with freelancers. It covers a diverse range of job categories and has a large user base.Fiverr: Fiverr is known for its "gig" model, where freelancers offer specific services (gigs) at fixed prices. It is a great platform for creative and digital services such as graphic design, writing, video editing, and more.Toptal: Toptal is a high-quality freelancing platform that focuses on connecting businesses with top-tier freelance talent, particularly in the fields of software development and design.Guru: Guru is a platform that caters to a variety of freelance skills, including web development, design, writing, administrative support, and more.PeoplePerHour: PeoplePerHour is a UK-based freelancing platform that offers jobs in web development, design, content creation, and various other areas.99designs: If you're a designer, 99designs is a platform specifically tailored to design contests and freelance projects.
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Is a black Little Mermaid, an original Danish fairy tale, cultural appropriation? | My brother in Christ, the story was written as biG fEeliNgs from a Hot Mess Express Bisexual to the deeply clueless straight man he had a crush on and Anderson was dYing because Edvard Colin was getting married.
It's a literary Tumblr post. Its gay fanfic of Anderson dying of feelings.
Whose culture is being appropriated?
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Why did JFK have affairs? | Because he could
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What is the most dangerous place on Earth? | That would almost certainly be my 2d wife ( shown during menopause ). Well you did ask! Jim
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Does someone who cyberbullies need to have access to autistic people? | No, DEFINITELY not!
That should be dealt with!
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Do you believe in karma? Why or why not? | No
Because people have misconception of karma
Karma is if you do bad to somebody then karma will come back to them . This is utter bullshit
This again was fancied by Westerners like tantra
Karma is work or duty. Now karma means if you have done something bad to somebody you won't get punishment .
Bhagvatha purana tells you need to pass 84 lakh of lives to become a human. A human birth means you have done something great in your previous birth. In guru charitre it is clearly mention that what will you be taken birth as, if you do particular crimes . This birth suffering is your previous birth karma.
In guru charitre there's one story, there was a vaishya women she had killed a person. In next birth she was born as a brahmin but the thing was she couldn't conceive a child. So the problem faced by you in this birth is your previous birth work.
Ps: if people don't want to believe I recommend to read guru charitre and bhagvad purana🙏
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What tech and IT blogs/websites do you read daily? | [LINKED_TEXT: Spiceworks Community] [URL: http://community.spiceworks.com/]
[LINKED_TEXT: CareerLevelUp.com - IT Career Advice and Encouragement] [URL: http://careerlevelup.com/]
[LINKED_TEXT: IT Career Questions • /r/ITCareerQuestions] [URL: http://reddit.com/r/ITcareerquestions]
All day every day.
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As a Buddhist, how can I increase my level of compassion without being taken advantage of? | You need the two wings of compassion and wisdom.
With compassion only, you can get foolish compassion, where you are able to help others to some extent but you maybe don’t give them enough space, don’t let them find their own way.
With wisdom only - here this doesn’t mean intellectual wisdom as in knowing many facts but being able to see things clearly, situations, many types of wisdom, understanding other people, whatever it is. If you have only wisdom but without compassion, you may see how to do things but can’t find the warmth of heart to do them, or you try but somehow it never works, everything is a bit at a distance and you can’t connect.
With the two together, you can fly like a bird.
Then you also need to be kind to yourself too. You also need to be the object of your own compassion and wisdom.
And there is nothing wrong with starting with yourself, sorting out your own problems. That’s where we all start and those who think they are being very compassionate, going around helping everyone else - sometimes it’s a distraction away from sorting out themselves.
True compassion is something rather mysterious, it’s not something you can recognize easily even in yourself at times. Not the compassion associated with wisdom especially. It may seem to come not from yourself, but a kind of an accident, or from somewhere else. Often it may be someone else who instigates it in a way. In this way some would say we all have moments of true compassion, but we don’t recognize it easily. It’s our Buddha nature for those who think in those terms.
It’s not really the sort of thing that has a prescription, a recipe, a list of rules to follow. The bodhisattva guidelines are guidelines not rules.
This doesn’t really directly answer your question, it’s more like the background to it. That if you feel you are taken advantage of, well, maybe it’s a little bit of “foolish compassion” going on?
It’s hard to see in oneself . Or maybe it’s a learning curve on your part, that it’s your perception only that they are taking advantage of you? Maybe they genuinely need your help and you see it as them taking an advantage. Or maybe they really are taking advantage. In that case maybe you need to do something from your side, or maybe not - after all it is part of their situation - are you going to stop helping someone if they take advantage of you? Does it matter? Is it harming them or you? Are you perhaps learning some wisdom yourself from the situation and from noticing your own reactions to what happens?
With only one wing, compassion, or wisdom, you flutter and limp and can hardly get off the ground or find a direction. But that’s something to be kind to yourself about also. Fledgling birds can’t fly right away :). To be inspired by the path of compassion is something wonderful in itself.
ORIGIN OF THIS TEACHING
Sorry I don’t know the basis of this in the texts. It’s just what teachers have said in the Tibetan tradition in teachings I’ve gone to. But they do teach in many different ways. I think there is more than one path, more than one way of describing the path too. I searched just now, and all the sources on this teaching that I found are Tibetan. [LINKED_TEXT: User-13025857349572964795] [URL: https://www.quora.com/profile/User-13025857349572964795] commenting as a Therevadhan practitioner hadn’t heard of them.
It’s a pervasive teaching in Tibetan Buddhism. If you’ve practiced for some time, you’d be bound to have heard of it.
I’d be interested to know what the original sutta source is. It might be from later teachings as the Mahayana traditions have many suttas that postdate the Pali canon composed at various times up to the first few centuries AD.
Tibetans also have texts that they consider to have the inspiration of the Buddha’s teachings although composed much later with individual Tibetan authors much like the Zen koans in Zen Buddhism. I’ve no idea where the teaching on balancing wisdom and compassion comes from or where the analogy of a bird flying on the two wings of compassion and wisdom comes from. If you know do say in the comments!
I’d also be interested to know what the Therevadhan teachings are on how you deal with compassion, and issues that may arise when you act out of compassion for others.
This is just one of very many teachings on compassion and how you handle it in everyday life in the Mahayana traditions.
I’ll end with a teaching by the Dalai Lama on compassion and wisdom and towards the end he talks briefly about how you handle the situation where someone takes advantage of you. Starts with a speech by a young participant.
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What is the cutest incident you had with your crush? | It was in my 2nd year of mbbs …normally I was not crushed on anyone …in those first year of mbbs ,I spent most of my time studying in library of my clg and after repeative glancing at my senior guy who use to come for studying in library …I was crushed ,but I never realized…in 2 year of mbbs ,I was randomly rushing to hospital from clg back door …there came that crush wala senior straight way front of me on scooty and was about to hit me ,luckily my friend saved me from near miss injury…that day I had a brief and terrified eye contact with my crush 😐😬like almost few seconds I was frozen …..I didn't even knew him from which year he was exactly 😄😄😄😄 this was the cutest moment I've ever had in my life
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What are interesting facts that everyone should know about India's Mangalyaan? | Did you know, in $ terms, the entire ISRO Mars Mission cost less than the Commonwealth Games 2010 opening ceremony.
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Why is my dog making me sick? Every few weeks I am experiencing viral/norovirus symptoms after being in contact with my dog, my partner is also having the symptoms such as stomach cramps, sickness, migraine and they last for 7-10 days at a time | Why don’t you forget about the dog, and ask a doctor what is wrong with you. How the hell is anybody on Quora supposed to know?
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A Kaiser technician told me that potassium has no effect on mood whatsoever, is that true? | Im not a naturopathic doctor but I do study nutrition and vitamins and their relationship with mood. I’d be suspicious of anyone who says any vitamin is unrelated to mood. If a person is deficient in a vitamin, any vitamin, it will negatively affect the body and likely one’s mood as well. Potassium maintains normal fluid levels inside our cells. It also supports normal blood pressure. Given that doctors prescribe blood pressure medication to reduce anxiety, it seems obvious that potassium helps one’s mood as well. Any vitamin deficiency could impact mood negatively. For information on managing your difficult emotions, please visit my website at https://ericalhernandez.com
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What is the slickest way a person has gotten out of a traffic ticket? | LOL This one’s an old story but maybe it’ll ring your bell the right tone.
A cop rolling along the freeway suddenly sees a convertible speed past him. Ruffled, he lights up the speeder and commits to pursuit.
Along about 10 miles down the road, the speeder finally slows and comes to a stop. The cop disembarks and approaches the driver warily. He comes up on an older gentleman, well dressed and fumbling for his license, and booms: “You have any reason to be going so fast, sir?”
The old man looks sheepishly at the Officer and says, “Twenty years ago a cop took my wife, I thought you were trying to return her.”
Story goes, the cop let him off with a warning and a hearty laugh…
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Do you think Mark Cuban would make a good POTUS? | Normally I’d report a query like this as being insincere, but this is such a hoot, I won’t.
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Are antidepressants such as Zoloft and fluvoxamine dangerous? Do they damage the brain or make you crazy? Or is that just false information? | Yes they are dangerous. Worse is they are ineffective and very difficult to stop taking.
CBT and pushing yourself to engage with your social network will help with depression. Consider getting a pet or changing up your work situation.
These kinds of drugs don’t work, they just make you sick. I don’t think they will cause brain damage or give you mental problems directly, but taking ineffective medication and being told that it should work by your Doctor can cause serious problems, not just with the trust between you and the medical profession.
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Is it true that TCS is going to do a permanent work from home? | There is no such news conveyed by TCS.
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What are the best freelancing sites? | 1-[LINKED_TEXT: Fiverr ] [URL: https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=708652&brand=fiverrcpa]is a popular platform for micro-jobs, where freelancers can offer services starting at just $5. It offers a range of categories, including graphic design, digital marketing, and programming.
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3-Freelancer: Freelancer is another popular freelancing site, offering categories such as web development, writing, graphic design, and more. It has a user-friendly interface and allows for hourly or project-based work.
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How can you tell the difference between a baby snake and a worm? | What about a two legged lizard? It lives in/ under two of the three Californias.
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Why is SRK the biggest superstar in India? | Shah Rukh Khan is a superstar and he has maintained that thing for long enough. His stardom speaks for him. Shah Rukh Khan is known to be the Badshah or King of Bollywood. He has never been as surrounded by controversy in his more than 25 years in Bollywood. He is known to be a family man. With three children, his hands are seen to be full of kids. While his daughter, Suhana Khan is all set to make her debut in Bollywood soon, his son Aryan Khan has also directed his father in a small ad film and is also set to make his debut soon.
There is no one like him and there never will be. A self-made man who came to Mumbai with so many dreams in his eyes, he’s the best. The Khan who made it all himself in Mumbai, is a big deal. With just a little money he came to Mumbai and the rest is history. He’s loved by his fans not only in India but out of India too. He’s the best.
There is so much to learn about him. Shah Rukh Khan is famous for doing all kinds of roles. Be it romantic, dramatic, emotional, or even for that matter action-packed. Shah Rukh Khan has proved his mettle with every movie that he has done. Not to forget that Shah Rukh Khan is highly educated too.
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By what age can girls in Iraqi Kurdistan get a boyfriend? At what age will the parents and society accept it? | Girls can’t have boyfriends in Kurdistan at any age where boyfriend implies sexual relations. Anyone saying otherwise here is either not a Kurd or hasn’t lived in Kurdistan. They still have honor killings there for this type of stuff.
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How many seats will BJP win in Lok Sabha 2024? Give a prediction of how many seats BJP will gain in each state. | Certainly not BJP . they will be limited to 220–240 seats with NDA 260 seats . They will not win even 10% seats in Tamil Nadu, Kerala ,Karnataka, Chhattisgarh ,Bihar ,West Bengal, Punjab,Orissa ,Telengana ,Andhra ,Jharkhand ,Delhi,Manipur ,Mizoram ,Sikkim
And not more than 50% seats in Maharashtra, MP,Himanchal , j&K, Rajasthan ,Haryana
Only won 80% seats in UP ,Gujarat , Goa , Asaam , Arunachal .
Coalitions government will be formed in 2024
Primary reason majority of people’s vote for BJP and not to Congress is
petrol/gas priceInflationcorruption
BJP got vote by defaming Manmohan Singh with Coalgate ,2G and free internet Via JIO launch land defaming Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi
Surgical Strike
And over Ram Mandir
There will be no agenda for BJP to gain peoples votes as Inflation again going very high with Rupee prices fall down and riots in many states in rise. Instead of managing they keep on blaming opposition or past government with lame excuses for their incapabilities. That shows all their MP MLA Ministers are highly immature and incapable and when situation get worse BJP got exposed to being a coward party with no morality or responsibility.Although all political party & politicians in it are all same but since they are setting different level or anarchy in India …
1. In BJP - it’s a one man show while means they are presenting only one man is doing everything Reason being they got votes just because of his speeches and rallies so all party members rely on him rather doing their own job efficiently or with responsibilities.
2. Bills are never discussed in Parliament and almost all passed with voice voting. That is worst for democracy means peoples representatives have no information & their pros and cons of any bill and without discussion its more harmful for country in future.
3. BJP exploiting the Government machinery and system for their own benefit mean’s they are pulling the foundation and pillars on which our country’s system standing. Courts, Judges, ED, CBI, Lieutenant General/ Governor, Secretaries. They are using all for their own agenda of Hindutva and to be in power.
4. Creating division among religious groups & communities to radicalize masses and gain vote.
5. Crony Capitalist. The top baniyas in BJP are baniya or Gujarati pro not for the welfare of state (India) or welfare of people. They are more into money, name & fame making then welfare of people,they are more keen to register their names in history books rather doing something to help India or its people specially poor.
6. Irresponsible and egostic approach towards criticism unlike Atal Bihari Vajpayee who is bravest of the leaders. the current political people don’t have courage to accept criticism. Rather gave lame excuses by pulling people into what happened in history or what past government or PM has did.
7.Destruction of forest’s, environment in the name of infrastructure development. Many projects of central government are approved and cleared without any environmental concerns in UK, Kerela, Lakshadweep, North East, J&K , Goa.
8. Income un-equality among people increased in their government while wealth of few business has increased 10 fold.
9. Laws are modified and changed to facilitate those who fund the ruling party. Most of the government contracts are given to pet businessmen who Favor their party that is corruption.
10. Trying to kill opposition which is harmful especially new parties like AAP. For BSP, Shiv Sena, NCP, TMC they had already done.
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What is the average number of staff for a small hotel 20 rooms and the average time it takes to clean a room? | It all depends on the services that you offer. If for example you are running a restaurant or a bar or more within the hotel premises the needs for personnel are becoming high.
As for the amount of time a maid takes to clean a room, again there is no prefixed answer. It all depends on the size of the room , the equipment and the furniture used etc. To give you an idea though, for rooms of 15–25 square meters without kitchen it should be around 15–17 minutes. That being said, usually a maid is asigned around 15 rooms plus some common areas like corridors. Another tip which you might find useful is that a room that is departing is usually counted as 1,5 rooms because it needs more time to be properly cleaned and prepared for the next guest.
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Who would win if Darth Vader, Lord Sidious, Darth Maul, Count Dooku, Mace Windu, Yoda, Anakin and Obi-Wan teamed up against General Grievous? | Who would win if Vader, Sidious, Maul, Dooku, Windu, Yoda, Anakin, and Obi Wan teamed up on General Grievous?
Okay, so “Vader” and “Anakin” are the same person. So you’ve got him, Dooku, Windu, Sidious, Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Maul. Seven of the deadliest lightsaber duelists in the galaxy…against one four-armed cyborg.
Grievous is swiftly destroyed.
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When will humans be technologically advanced enough to fight off an alien invasion? | The aliens will be pretty advanced if they are going to land on earth.
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What puzzles you most about humans? | How contradictory and ironic we humans can be. For example one might get really defensive and abusive and rude to other people about a subject matter and then you might see a post from the same person like “why can’t we all just be nice to one another, being rude to someone doesn’t get you anywhere!”. I’m not even saying I’m brilliant at this, it’s just that I see a lot of irony in humans. And I’m sometimes like “really?”. We seem to have a blind spot to our own behavior despite carrying on about how unappealing it is.
If you think this is not possible with you…think again. I’ve definitely caught myself being ironic and have been embarrassed. We have lots of blind spots to our own behavior. Food for thought.
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With how hard it is being an undocumented immigrant, why not just give them citizenship? | There should be a process for them to apply to be a legal resident. Nothing should be automatic.
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What is jazz? | When Wynton Marsalis burst into the public eye in the early 1980s, it was as a virtuoso trumpet player. From the start he was an articulate talker too, but his bracing opinions were off-thecuff and intuitive; his ideas, like his playing, needed seasoning. In the years since, not only has Marsalis’s music deepened tremendously, his thinking has matured and coalesced to produce a coherent theory of jazz. Much of the controversy that surrounds him—he is accused of being an elitist, a snob, a killjoy—stems from the difficult position he occupies: that of the serious artist who is also a celebrity. Television talk shows are no forum for ideas; anyway, in America, intellectuals are “eggheads.” Marsalis is no elitist; rather, he is someone who loves jazz music because, unlike pop, jazz is an infinite challenge, a discipline you can spend your whole life mastering, humbling yourself daily but always growing. If he were an opera singer or a novelist, Marsalis wouldn’t be the butt of so much shallow criticism. It’s the price you pay for being the greatest living practitioner of a music that has its feet in two worlds: entertainment and high art.
Marsalis’s two biggest intellectual influences are the novelist and essayist Albert Murray and Murray’s protágá the journalist Stanley Crouch. Under their tutelage Marsalis came to accept the idea that lies at the heart of his thinking on jazz—namely, that jazz is the most American of art forms, the distillation of the American spirit.
Nor does jazz’s inventor, the African-American, occupy an isolated niche in American culture. Our nation’s cultural life is shot through with cross-influences; as Albert Murray is fond of saying, Americans are cultural mulattos. Jazz, born in that sociological gumbo pot New Orleans, is a multicomplexioned commingling of European concert music, brass-band marches, African strains, and Latin tinges; it is, in other words, the perfect expression of the hodgepodge, the stew, that is American culture. That is one of the tragedies of jazz’s waning popularity, Marsalis believes: We stand in danger of losing the truest mirror we have of our national identity. Accordingly, he is a fervent jazz missionary, giving dozens of workshops, lectures, and master classes per year, trying to sow the seeds of jazz. Approached after a show by a kid with a horn or a question, he will never turn the youngster away.
Jazz is more than the best expression there is of American culture; in practice, Marsalis argues, it is the most democratic of arts, a model of neighborly behavior. Jazz, he believes, teaches the rudiments of good citizenship, and that is the second reason Marsalis spends so much time in schools. His activism is inseparable from his aesthetics.
A decade ago Marsalis began to articulate the musical goal that motivates him now: to play “all of jazz,” to draw on the entire history of the music in his playing and composing. At its best Marsalis’s music may actually accomplish what he is shooting for. In its soulful, swinging, sweet-and- sour gravity, in its weight, it seems to embody the very essence of jazz, hovering almost eerily, cut loose from time, over the music’s entire hundred-year history, neither bebop nor swing nor New Orleans jazz, though bearing traces of each, but palpably itself.
Marsalis now concentrates on long pieces instead of five-minute songs. The Wynton Marsalis Septet, which he disbanded in 1994 to concentrate on composing and on his artistic directorship of the “Jazz at Lincoln Center” program, has recorded a pair of two-hour works, Citi Movementand In This House, on This Morning . Marsalis’s biggest piece, Blood on the Fields , an oratorio for three singers and a fourteen-piece orchestra, was performed at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in April 1994. Its recorded version will appear in 1996. The composer’s first string quartet, (At the) Octoroon Balls , received its premiere last May. Still a young man—he turns thirty-four this month —he has already released twenty-nine albums, a flood of music that will take years to absorb.
What follows is perhaps the most thorough examination of jazz Wynton Marsalis has ever made in print—covering its essential traits, its history, and his own place in that history. The conversation, conducted last spring, began in a Manhattan restaurant, was picked up ten days later on Marsalis’s band bus, and wound southward through the Pacific Northwest from Seattle to Eugene, Oregon.
Marsalis’s version of jazz history is by no means conventional. The bebop revolution, for instance, was rhythmic, he argues, and not, as received opinion has it, harmonic. Many disagree with him, but few, musicians or critics, have what Marsalis can claim: a thought-out, unified view, a cosmology, an aesthetic. Touched by genius, Wynton Marsalis is one of a kind. For the first time ever, jazz’s greatest musician is also its most articulate spokesman.
As I’ve understood you, the reason a jazz musician needs to master the history of jazz is to discover the music’s essence. What is it?
Some of the essential traits of jazz are things that have nothing to do with music, and others are musical traits. Of the things that don’t just have to do with music, first comes the concept of playing. You take a theme, an idea, and you play with it. Just like you play with a ball. If you’re teasing somebody, or flirting with somebody, you’re playing with ideas. So you have the spirit of play.
Next is the desire to play with other people . That means learning to make room. Take the proverbial kid who wants to be the star, with his ball, by his rules. You have to teach him the rules of sportsmanship—because nobody likes to lose—so you tell him, “No, you have to let the other kids play too.” When I started playing, my concept of jazz was, “This means I can solo, and people will clap for me.” When I joined Art Blakey, he was always telling us, “Man, y’all got to play more like a group, man. Soloing all night. … When your solo is over, stop playing! I build up to a solo and y’all just keep playing.”
Third, playing jazz means learning to respect individuality. You don’t have to agree with me; you have your own way of thinking, and that’s good. You and I, we come together and have a conversation. I consider what you’re saying. And I come away thinking, “It could be true,” or, “It’s definitely not true.” Playing jazz means learning how to reconcile differences, even when they’re opposites. That’s why it’s such a great thing for kids to learn. Jazz teaches you how to have a dialogue, with integrity.
So jazz is by nature social.
Yes. Good manners are very important. And spirituality. Jazz musicians always get back to spirituality when they talk about the music. They say, “Man, you have to have that love in the music.” The soul of the music comes out of that. You have to want to make somebody feel good with what you play. Many so-called cutting-edge forms assault the listener. But that’s not the identity of jazz. The identity of jazz is to present itself with some soul to people.
So it’s social not merely for the people who are doing it but also in terms of the audience.
Yes, because the jazz musician comes out of the audience. The jazz musician is not the storied ordained-by-God artist. The geniuses of the music, yes, but the average jazz musician is just … a musician. The guy who works in the cigar shop, pulls his horn out on the weekend, and plays some jazz. And part of the real tragedy for jazz has been that adults have stopped playing instruments.
Families used to recite poetry.
They can do it again.
It would be tough.
I can’t agree. In communities where two or three people take an interest in something, the whole community will be uplifted. I travel around the country, man, and see it. Whenever there’s one person in a city that works hard, you see the results of their work. When I was growing up in Kenner, Louisiana, we played ball because of one guy, Mr. Buddy. He didn’t have to, but he hooked it up so we could play.
All right, how about musical characteristics?
Number one is playing blues.
What do you mean by “blues”? Do you mean a piece of music with twelve bars and three chords?
I mean the philosophy of it. Blues gives the jazz musician an unsentimental view of the world. Blues is adult secular music, the first adult secular music America produced. It has an optimism that’s not naive. You accept tragedy and move forward. It has an endless quality—“Yes, this is messed up, but we do have that.”
Blues is a down-home sound. You come into somebody’s house and she says, “Come here, baby. Sit down. What do you want to eat?” You come into her house and she gives you a blues intonation. Blues is down-home sophistication. It’s what Mark Twain has in his writing, or William Faulkner or Ralph Ellison. Mark Twain gets to something deeply down home, but there’s a little dagger in there too.
“You can’t put one over on this yokel”?
Yes. That’s a big strain in American life. The Yankee peddler, the hayseed. We all know about the fool in the king’s court …he’s the smartest guy. “Y’all might be laughing at me but don’t be fooled.” He has the ear of the king too.
Blues is such a fundamental form that it’s loaded with complex information. It has a sexual meaning, the ebb and the flow of sexual passion: disappointment, happiness, joy, and sorrow. It has a whole religious connotation too, that joy and lift. Blues comes from spirituals. The central chord progression of the blues, IVT, is the amen cadence in church music: “A-men.” Mahalia Jackson’s favorite singer was Bessie Smith. A lot of good young jazz musicians come out of the church, because the church still has that expression in it. Secular music no longer does.
What expression?
A soulful way of expressing a song. An expression of joy, of praise. A lot of the joy has been taken out of popular music because of its emphasis purely on sex. But it’s still there in some of the church music.
And blues gives you a way to combine dissonance and consonance.
What do you mean?
Starting outside the note and moving back inside it. You could start a half-step or a quarter-tone outside. It’s usually called a blue note, which people think is always minor, but if you’re in a minor key it could be a major interval. I just call it a “blues tone,” an intonation that has blues in it. Someone like Son House could do it with one note, or Ben Webster, or Louis Armstrong. The real masterful blues players could do it, where one note had that dissonance and that consonance in it.
What else constitutes the essence of jazz?
It has to swing. Swing means constant coordination, but in an environment that’s difficult enough to challenge your equilibrium. In jazz somebody’s playing on every beat, generally the bass and drums. There’s not a lot of fat in the rhythm, unlike, say, in funk, where there’s plenty of space between beats. That’s what makes swinging in jazz a challenge. On every beat there’s the possibility of the rhythm falling apart. You have the constant danger of not swinging.
Swing isn’t rigid. Somebody might take the swing in a new direction, and you have to be ready to go that way. You’re constantly trying to coordinate with something that’s shifting and changing. You can’t be lazy in jazz.
In jazz, swing comes out of the shuffle rhythm. The interesting thing about the shuffle is, it’s a combination of the march and the waltz, the two basic rhythms in Western music, two-four and three-four. I think New Orleans musicians picked the shuffle up out of the march tradition. “Didn’t He Ramble,” one of the oldest New Orleans jazz tunes, is a sixeight march. John Philip Sousa’s “Washington Post March” is a six-eight march. A lot of what Afro-Americans did in music was refine things that already existed. The shuffle has always been out here; if you listen to some types of African music, often you hear somebody shuffling way up on top. The shuffle’s like basketball: Afro-Americans didn’t invent it, but they refined it to another level and put another type of American twist to it.
What else is essential?
Collective improvisation, people getting together and making up music as a group.
Can you have jazz without improvisation?
Yes, you can. But it won’t sound as good. You can play basketball without a basket and dribble the ball around and shoot at an imaginary basket, and it’s still basketball.
Next?
Syncopation. A syncopated approach to rhythm, which means you’re always prepared to do the unexpected, always ready to find your equilibrium. If you’re thrown off, you get back on. You challenge the rhythm. In jazz you’re impro vising within a form. You challenge that form with rhythms, with harmonies. Art Tatum challenged form harmonically, inventing new harmonies and resolving them. You can challenge form melodically, like Lester Young. Ben Webster challenged form with timbres and textures. It’s all connected to the notion of play. You set parameters and then you mess with them.
Is that the essential difference between jazz and classical music?
Yes. Classical music doesn’t prize improvisation. It doesn’t place a premium on individuality. In jazz the point is to achieve your identity on your instrument, no matter what role you play. You could play the most insignificant role in the music, just a simple riff—the challenge is, play that riff like you. That’s not the concept in classical music.
Sure it is. Beethoven used music to express the individual’s mighty soul.
O.K., it’s the concept for the composer. But in jazz the greatest composers are the ones who can write themes that invite others to improvise on them. What makes Ellington so great is that he could write something that Johnny Hodges would want to play on. In jazz it’s “How can we, as a group, organize the music?”
Let’s continue with our basic traits.
You’d have to include call and response: statement, then counterstatement and confirmation. Almost every kind of music I’ve ever heard has call and response, even Baroque music. In Beethoven’s Third Symphony, in the main theme of the first movement, say, the call and response is written out. In blues, call and response is formalized: The singer states his theme, the guitar answers. But in jazz, the call and response is spontaneous. You invent it. Players call and respond freely, all the time.
You have two types of call and response in jazz. The first is concurrent. In the King Oliver band, they’re calling and responding together. The response is also the call. The trumpet’s playing and the clarinet too, inventing something to go with the trumpet —and he doesn’t know what the trumpet’s playing! He’s listening and making it up. And the trombone’s playing too. So each is making decisions all the time—“I’ll play a long note here, a short one there.” That’s the most fascinating call and response, the simultaneous type. That’s true collective improvisation.
The big bands made call and response sequential—that’s the second type—and orchestrated it. In big-band music, the soloist played and then the ensemble responded with an arranged phrase. Then in bebop, call and response got faster and freer. The drums got involved in the conversation—that’s what they called “dropping bombs.” The instruments really started conversing back and forth. Often one person called and responded. The soloist played the solo line and what had once been the ensemble response. Lester Young had been the first person to answer himself. He was the one who really started bebop.
I’d say there are two more essential traits. First, there’s achieving vocal effects on instruments, vocal effects that come, for the most part, from the Negro tradition, the downhome tradition. Southern shouts and moans, those slides and growls and cries and screams. Finally, there’s a spirit of worldliness in jazz. You can hear how jazz is connected to other musics from around the world. Folk musics, specifically, but also the classical tradition, whether it’s Duke Ellington doing the Nutcracker Suite or Charlie Parker practicing classical etudes. Ellington is the prime example, with Far East Suite, Afro-Bossa, Liberian Suite, Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, Latin American Suite . He was trying to apply the sound of jazz not by imitating other people’s music but by understanding how its elements fit jazz. Jazz music is not provincial. A lot of times, jazz is portrayed as, “Eouis Armstrong grew up in a teeming ghetto and brought its sound to the world.” That was a part of Pops’s concept, but his concept was also, “I want to find out about, and live in, the world.”
To talk of “essential characteristics of jazz"—isn’t this to treat jazz as if it existed outside the flow of history? Doesn’t jazz’s nature change over time? Are you being ahistorical?
No, indeed, man. The fundamentals of jazz are broad enough to encompass all times. If you say, “H2O is water,” well, it was water when Julius Caesar drank it and it’s going to be water when anyone else drinks it.
But at one point in history, the elements for jazz were there. If you’re a musician, the question is, How can I be instrumental in making sure it continues to resonate? Why did democracy happen? We’re not going to invent democracy again. The Constitution has been written. The question for you and me is, What can we do to further develop it? If you read Martin Luther King, most of what he’s saying comes out of the Constitution. He didn’t say, “I have to reinvent the United States of America”; he just tried to make it more of itself, of its best self.
But doesn’t the blues express a state of African-American consciousness at a specific point in history?
No. That’s what sociologists want to believe.
How can you say that? The blues arose in a specific set of circumstances.
The black experience in America is the greatest story of heroism in the face of adversity in modern times. The creation of the blues is specific to its time. Everything is created in its time. But blues resonates across all times because the experience of it is a fundamental human experience. It’s another illumination of things that people will have to deal with forever. There are always going to be dragons to slay, and heroes. The Afro-American way to approach the dragon of slavery, of segregation, of deprivation, was through the joy of blues expression. Yes, the blues was a response, when it was created, to specific conditions. So was the light bulb. We still have light bulbs.
You say the earliest jazz music stays modern. To me, early New Orleans jazz doesn’t sound modern.
If you heard somebody who could play it, it would sound modern. It sounds modern to me. Why do we consider “modern” painting to be twentieth-century painting and not do this with jazz? It’s important to hear past the technology of the recording.
What does “modern” mean to you?
It means a group of people coming together and playing without prepared music. It means negotiating your personality against the personality, or with the personality, of another musician, with no controls over what the other musician is going to play. That’s modern, to me.
That never existed until the twentieth century. If someone says a piece of New Orleans jazz doesn’t sound modern, it’s because that kind of music is so often used to evoke a feeling of nostalgia. If you give somebody a copy of Whitman or Faulkner and he’s used to reading whatever people read now, he’ll say, “What is this? This doesn’t sound right.”
People confuse the trappings with the essence?
Right. That’s what I did, so I can relate to it. “Louis Armstrong? Duke Ellington? Aw, man, I don’t want to hear that. That’s for the Geritol set.”
Which brings us to our next tack. Who are the musicians in jazz history in whose work we can best hear what you’ve called its essential traits?
Pops, Louis Armstrong. He was the first to play coherent, organized solos, and that was a stunning achievement. Other people soloed, but Armstrong figured out how to connect a theme to a theme to a theme while improvising. Instead of just group music, now you had group music and solo music. His sound carries the feeling and the meaning of jazz more than any other musician’s. It’s warm, it’s intelligent, it’s spiritual, it’s tawdry, it’s worldly, it’s provincial. Anything you want, he has it in his sound.
I thought you said jazz was the opposite of provincial.
What I mean is, Armstrong could play more complexly than anybody who’s ever played but still sounded like a country boy. Down-home but sophisticated. Now, King Oliver was a phenomenal musician, but he didn’t play trumpet well enough to be put in with Armstrong. At least, he’s not documented doing it.
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How do you know that you have found a true friend? | Can be hard to tell these days, so many people are afraid to show who they really are. I look for honesty, trustworthiness, and kindness. It isn’t often that a kind person who looks out for others is going to be a liar or con man. I tend to look for my friends in the volunteer groups I belong to. We have more in common and usually are pretty open for questions. But I also take quite a while before I trust someone as well.
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Bagels are made with about five cents’ worth of ingredients, and they’re sold in bagel shops for a couple of bucks a piece, which is a 4000% markup. What other products do you know of that have huge markups? | In many countries such as the US, France and Italy, if you ask tap water in a restaurant, it’s totally free. But in countries like The Netherlands and Belgium, they are so shameless to ask you a fortune for the tap.
As of today, one liter of Dutch tap water costs €0.001 — yes indeed, one thousand[math]^{th}[/math] of one euro.
But if you go to a Dutch restaurant and ask for one liter of tap water, you easily pay €5 for one simple one liter bottle filled with Dutch tap water (and a wonderful house label).
Which is 5,000 times as much as its original value.
MARKUP: 499,900%.
SOURCES: Google images.
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What do you think about the new Marvel comics characters Safespace, Snowflake, Trailblazer, B Negative and Screentime from “The New Warriors?” | What do you think about the new Marvel comics characters Safespace, Snowflake, Trailblazer, B Negative and Screentime from “The New Warriors?”
I think the creators are trolling Anti-SJW’s who complain about any form of entertainment which dares to put a few non-white-males in more prominent roles.
I mean, come on! … “Safespace” and “Snowflake”? … “[Movie] Screentime” and “B[e] Negative”? … How is it that so many people don’t get that they are being trolled? 🙄
And it worked. Anti-SJW YouTubers (and other online denizens) are flipping out over this, apparently believing that these characters were meant to be taken seriously. 🤣
Who’s triggered now?
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If NASA finds a fossil on Mars, how long would they wait to tell the public and does this instantly confirm alien life? | Why do you assume they would wait? I don’t understand this assumption that they or anyone else would wait to tell the public.
There would be unlikely be just one. If life was present there in the past there would likely be lots of fossils.
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Name one thing that made you smile today? | This made me happy today. I logged in my mother facebook id and I saw that she was commenting and replying the comments. She didn't know how to comment text and always told me to teach her but I never cared that. I felt bored or I used to be busy on phone. She always wanted to comment text herself. And this made me so much happy.
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Having at 62, I have no pension. I haven’t payed enough in for old age pension and I am alone. What will I do? I work a few hours, have no savings, and live week to week. I live in Britain. | Have you considered making money on line, it is possible and can be completely free and even £20 a day would be great.
Search online but beware there are more scammers than genuinely helpful people out there.
I will not suggest anything because it may not be suitable but I have in the past made almost $5,000 and now trying to resurrect my online work.
I wish you every success but please tread carefully and do not pay for anything, there is no need as there are many free resources available.
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What happens if an actor in a television series gets injured? | This happened during the filming of one of the episodes of ‘Maigret’, a detective series filmed in the 1960’s starring Rupert Davies.
In one scene one of the detectives was chasing a suspect (the scene was supposed to end with the suspect escaping). The man ran out of a building, down a short set of steps, and down the road. The detective followed and jumped down the steps, unfortunately he then fell and twisted his ankle. The actor playing the suspect glanced back, but the director signalled him to run on, so it looked perfectly natural.
The writer then adapted the script for the rest of the episode. Changing the part played by the injured actor so he remained in the police station with his foot bandaged, and the character that usually had the desk job was given roles away from the station. It was so believable that viewers didn’t realise that any changes had been made until a year or so after the episode was broadcast.
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Do adults have pluripotent stem cells? | According to the source article listed below:
The conventional concept of development involves a hierarchical structure of cellular commitment extending outward from embryonic and pluripotent, to adult terminally differentiated tissues. However, recent ideas propose that all or most tissues in the postnatal body are continuously turning over and contain a pluripotent stem cell reservoir ([LINKED_TEXT: Slack, 2008] [URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/pluripotent-stem-cells/pluripotent-adult-stem-cells-a-potential-revolution-in-regenerative-medicine-and-tissue-engineering#B45]). These pluripotent stem cell populations are able to differentiate into multiple cell types depending on their microenvironmental cues. Therefore, the stem cell status should be defined by plasticity ([LINKED_TEXT: Zipori, 2005] [URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/pluripotent-stem-cells/pluripotent-adult-stem-cells-a-potential-revolution-in-regenerative-medicine-and-tissue-engineering#B61]). Pluripotency refers to the ability of cells to differentiate into any cell type of the 3 germ layers (ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm), whereas multipotency refers to the ability of cells to differentiate only into a closely related family of cells ([LINKED_TEXT: Ilic and Polak, 2011] [URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/pluripotent-stem-cells/pluripotent-adult-stem-cells-a-potential-revolution-in-regenerative-medicine-and-tissue-engineering#B20]). All of the previously described adult stem cells (hematopoietic, mesenchymal, periodontal ligament-derived, and spermatogonial) could differentiate into specialized cells of the three germ layers: neurons (ectodermal lineage), adipocytes, cardiomyocytes, osteoblasts, and chondrocytes (mesoderm lineage), and hepatocytes and insulin-producing cells (endodermal lineage) ([LINKED_TEXT: Conrad et al., 2008] [URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/pluripotent-stem-cells/pluripotent-adult-stem-cells-a-potential-revolution-in-regenerative-medicine-and-tissue-engineering#B11]; [LINKED_TEXT: Jiang et al., 2002] [URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/pluripotent-stem-cells/pluripotent-adult-stem-cells-a-potential-revolution-in-regenerative-medicine-and-tissue-engineering#B24]; [LINKED_TEXT: Kuroda et al., 2010] [URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/pluripotent-stem-cells/pluripotent-adult-stem-cells-a-potential-revolution-in-regenerative-medicine-and-tissue-engineering#B30]; [LINKED_TEXT: Kawanabe et al., 2010] [URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/pluripotent-stem-cells/pluripotent-adult-stem-cells-a-potential-revolution-in-regenerative-medicine-and-tissue-engineering#B27]; [LINKED_TEXT: Notta et al., 2011] [URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/pluripotent-stem-cells/pluripotent-adult-stem-cells-a-potential-revolution-in-regenerative-medicine-and-tissue-engineering#B36]). Therefore, these adult stem cells could also be defined as pluripotent stem cells.
Read further at: [LINKED_TEXT: Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells: A Potential Revolution in Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering | IntechOpen] [URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/pluripotent-stem-cells/pluripotent-adult-stem-cells-a-potential-revolution-in-regenerative-medicine-and-tissue-engineering]
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Do soldiers pick up fallen enemy weapons to use if they are out of ammo on their weapons? | During the Second Indochina (Vietnam) War the enemy NLF would pick up dropped and captured US weapons and ammunition the US and ARVN soldiers had left behind and use them against the ARVN and US troops. That was how the NLF was initially armed.
The same in Cambodia, but both sides used a mixture of USA and Soviet weapons. I saw Cambodian government troops with US weapons (M-16′;s, M-1 Garands, M-1 Carbines, etc) plus also armed with Soviet/Chinese AK-47’s, SKS and CKC rifles and machine guns etc. I even saw a FN captured from a dead NLF soldier, who had captured it from an Australian soldier in Vietnam. It was the only time I fired an FN despite being in the RAAF cadets prior to becoming a TV news cameraman and then going to Southeast Asia.
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What is the situation in Delhi right now? Can you share some Twitter handles to get updates? | [LINKED_TEXT: laborers turned out to be fake in delhidelhi construction workers By Khyati Gupta Posted on: 05/11/2022 373 कामकाज में कथित अनियमितताओं की शुरुवाती जांच में पाया गया कि दिल्ली बिल्डिंग एंड अदर कंस्ट्रक्शन वर्क्स वेलफेयर बोर्ड के साथ पंजीकृत 2 लाख से अधिक मजदूर फर्जी हैं. एलजी ने 26 सितम्बर को दिए थे जांच के आदेश सरकारी रिकॉर्ड के हिसाब से 13,13,309 मजदूर भवन और अन्य निर्माण कार्य के लिए श्रमिक बोर्ड के साथ पंजीकृत हैं. इनमे से 9,07,739 श्रमिक साल 2018 से 2021 के बीच पंजीकृत हुए हैं. 26 सितम्बर को उपराज्यपाल वीके सक्सेना द्वारा भ्रष्टाचार की शिकायत के बाद काम करने वाले संगठनों निर्माण मजदूरों की राष्ट्रीय अभियान समिति, दिल्ली निर्माण मजदूर संगठन और सेवा दिल्ली संघ द्वारा जांच का आदेश दिया गया था, शिकायत में दो बोर्ड के सदस्यों का नाम शामिल हैं. मुख्य सचिव नरेश कुमार द्वारा उपराजयपाल के आदेश ना माने जाने की वजह से रिपोर्ट सौपे जाने में 1 हफ्ता देरी हो गई. प्रारंभिक जांच के मुताबिक साल 2018 से 2021 के बीच दिल्ली सरकार के श्रम विभाग द्वारा उपलब्ध कराए हुए 9 लाख से अधिक पंजीकृत मजदूरों में से 1,11,516 प्रविष्टियां फर्जी हैं. 65 हज़ार सामान्य फ़ोन नंबर वाले कर्मचारी, 15,747 समान स्थानीय आवासीय पते के साथ, 4,370 एक ही स्थायी पते के साथ संदिग्ध प्रविष्टियां हैं. दरअसल दिल्ली सरकार की सतर्कता और भ्रष्टाचार निरोधक शाखा निदेशालय, गैर-निर्माण श्रमिकों के "फर्जी, झूठे और फर्जी पंजीकरण" की जांच पहले से ही कर रही थी. "900 करोड़ रुपये की धोखाधड़ी" के लिए मई 2018 में एक प्राथमिकी भी दर्ज हैं.https://tv100.news/details/Delhi/more-than-two-lakh-laborers-turned-out-to-be-fake-in-delhi] [URL: https://tv100.news/details/Delhi/more-than-two-lakh-laborers-turned-out-to-be-fake-in-delhi] |
Does 'nick' mean 'idiot' in British English? | no it means to steal well that's the only thing I know it means
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Which angel is more popular, the Angel Michael, or the Angel Gabriel? | Popular? With man or with God? People have some very wierd misconceptions about angels.
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US is threatening to downgrade ties with India over its planned purchase of S400 missiles from Russia. Do you think India will back down from the purchase? | if you concede once to US then they will sit on you chest and keep black mailing you.
they did in case of oil purchase from iran.
they want us to buy oil from them
they did in case of cryogenic engine.
so we need to be pretty cautious and say no to them clearly
actually they want to sell their anti missile defence system to us.
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Why can’t I tell a narcissist how I really feel about how they treated me? | Why can't you? You have freedom of speech and choices.do you not want to tell them because you're hoping that maybe they'll come back or you're still thinking that you love this person you don't want to hurt them? You have to decide within yourself. And to perfectly honest if they are truly a narcissistic person it's really not going to matter because they are impaired. And I know I'll probably catch a lot of slack from other quora members on this reply because we know about we're supposed to go no contact gray rock but when it's all said and done it's your life. Now if you're hoping that you will somehow have this person back in your life well let's just put it this way if this person hurt you manipulated you can't you abused you in any way mentally physically emotionally it's not a matter of being a narcissist you should not allow anyone to treat you that way…. Look in the mirror at yourself do you see that person the one that deserves to be loved? There she is can you see her then tell her you love her and you're not going to let anyone else mistreat her and take her for granted and hurt her and make her unhappy and sad and play games with her mind you see this is a journey not about the narcissistic person this is a journey about you learning to love yourself it really truly is. You can make some people love you if you fulfill all their needs wants desires and gains and then again if you're willing to take the chance and yourself you will know more love than you ever imagined but you won't ever find it if you stay with someone that cannot love you. I wish you all the best in the world God made you one of a kind you are very special you deserve to be loved and cherished 🌷❤️🌷❤️❤️❤️❤️🌷❤️🌷
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Is Unlockmaker (the free online unlocker app) a scam? | No its not scam. I have used their service and it worked for me. My elder brother gave me an iphone x but he sends me it from aboard. Thats why i used their service and it fixed my phone perfectly.
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Why is #ISRO trending on Twitter? | There are several reasons why our generation is unhappy
Technological advancements and reduction in the physical activity. This causes laziness which is sufficient for postponing tasks that's are necessary for the present and for the future. When these tasks remain incomplete, unhappiness is obvious.Influx of books, ebooks, motivational videos teaching youths how to make lots of money, how to attract honey, teaching self-love by infusing into the mind of youths that whole world is selffish and no one cares. This, decreasing the morality, trust and genuine affection which a person need to have with other person.Lack of real friends and nonsense gossip.Peer pressureLack of friendly relation with parents. Teenagers problems are reject as null and void and thus he/she avoid facing their parents. The only option left are the friends-the so called friends, but he)she have to run somewhere to save himselfherself.Lack of a good listener around the teenagers/adult and lack of a good guide and caretaker. This role need to be played by parents mainly, but the situation appears pathetic. Today's generation is finding herself clueless in everything.Immense population and intense competition i.e. unemployment.Propagandas- religious, social and politicalPoverty- the mother of unhappiness.The game of popularity, opulence, showoff on social media.Lack of connection with the natural worldReduction in joint-family system.
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Why were William and Kate asked to give up their prince and princess titles? | “William and Kate” how disrespectful especially as Catherine, Princess of Wales hates being called Kate. Who asked them to give up their titles? Upon Queen Elizabeth II’s death, the then Prince of Wales gave up his title automatically and it passed to his eldest son, Prince William.
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How do I get rid of lower back pain? | Try this E-book!
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Which is the best car in India under Rs 5 lakh in 2020? | Best Cars under 10L.
Maruti Suzuki Swift: The Swift is one of the most popular hatchbacks in India, known for its stylish design, good fuel efficiency, and reliable performance. It is priced between 5.85 lakhs to 8.75 lakhs (ex-showroom).Hyundai Grand i10 Nios: The Grand i10 Nios is a well-rounded hatchback that offers a comfortable ride, good features, and decent fuel efficiency. It is priced between 5.23 lakhs to 8.45 lakhs (ex-showroom).Tata Altroz: The Altroz is a premium hatchback that offers a spacious cabin, good features, and solid build quality. It is priced between 5.79 lakhs to 9.55 lakhs (ex-showroom).Kia Sonet: The Sonet is a compact SUV that offers a lot of features and a stylish design. It is priced between 6.79 lakhs to 13.19 lakhs (ex-showroom).Renault Kiger: The Kiger is a new entrant in the compact SUV segment that offers a lot of features and good value for money. It is priced between 5.64 lakhs to 10.08 lakhs (ex-showroom).
It's important to note that these are just a few options, and there are many other cars available in India under 10 lakhs that may suit your needs better. It's recommended to do your research and take test drives to determine which car is the best fit for you
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I plan to represent myself in court and consider myself extremely versatile so I should be able to win it. However, if you could give me one piece of advice, what would it be? | You simply cannot win a case by being “extremely versatile”. Judges in my country give out a cold demeaning laugh to people who “act” “extremely versatile.” This is because like in any other country, the judges here know whatever is going on by reading the case file submitted to them before the hearing.
They have already made up their mind before your lawyer even starts speaking.
What we lawyers actually do is try and reduce the bias of the judge who has already made up his/her mind. This is done by preparing for the hearing beforehand. Rigorous researches are to be done to out-perform the other party/s.
A case can be won through1. An extreme level of research skill. 2. Lots and lots and lots and lots of case studies.3. witty and logical arguments.
Finally, a case can be won through experiences garnered through a long time of battling similar cases.
How can you win a case?Simple!
Find a good and professional lawyer.
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[math]x^2 + y^2 + 1 = z^2[/math] | If [math]x+y+z=xyz[/math], then how can I prove that [math]x (1-y^2) (1-z^2) +y (1-z^2) (1-x^2) +z (1-x^2) (1-y^2)=4xyz[/math]?
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Let[math] x=\tan \alpha ; y=\tan \beta ; x=\tan \gamma;[/math]
[math]\tan ( \alpha +\beta+\gamma)=\dfrac {\tan \alpha+\tan \beta+\tan \gamma-\tan \alpha \tan \beta \tan \gamma}{1+\tan \alpha\tan \beta+\tan \beta\tan \gamma+\tan \gamma\tan \alpha}[/math]
[math]=\dfrac {x+y+z-xyz}{1+xy+yz+zx}[/math]
[math]=0[/math] from the given condition.
So [math]\alpha +\beta+\gamma=n\pi[/math]
Now
[math]\tan ( 2\alpha +2\beta+2\gamma)=\dfrac {\tan 2\alpha+\tan 2\beta+\tan2 \gamma-\tan 2\alpha \tan 2\beta \tan 2\gamma}{1+\tan2 \alpha\tan 2\beta+\tan 2\beta\tan 2 \gamma+\tan 2\gamma\tan 2\alpha}=\tan 2n\pi =0[/math]
So
[math]\tan 2 \alpha+\tan 2 \beta+\tan 2 \gamma-\tan 2\alpha \tan 2\beta \tan 2\gamma=0 [/math]
[math]\dfrac {2\tan \alpha}{1-\tan^2 \alpha}+\dfrac {2\tan \beta}{1-\tan^2 \beta}+\dfrac {2\tan \gamma}{1-\tan^2 \gamma}=\dfrac {2\tan \alpha}{1-\tan^2 \alpha}\dfrac {2\tan \beta}{1-\tan^2 \beta}\dfrac {2\tan \gamma}{1-\tan^2 \gamma}[/math]
[math]\dfrac {2x}{1-x^2}+\dfrac {2y}{1-y^2}+\dfrac {2z}{1-z^2}=\dfrac {2x}{1-x^2}\dfrac {2y}{1-y^2}\dfrac {2z}{1-z^2}[/math]
[math]\implies \dfrac {x}{1-x^2}+\dfrac {y}{1-y^2}+\dfrac {z}{1-z^2}=4\dfrac {x}{1-x^2}\dfrac {y}{1-y^2}\dfrac {z}{1-z^2}[/math]
Multiplying by ([math]1-x^2[/math])([math]1-y^2[/math])([math]1-z^2[/math])
[math]\boxed {x (1-y^2) (1-z^2) +y (1-z^2) (1-x^2) +z (1-x^2) (1-y^2)=4xyz}[/math]
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What is Rafael Nadal's best victory? | Most recently, his 2022 Australian Open championship. It took over 10 years for Rafa to get his 2nd AO title and the final was a real knockdown, drag out.
Historically, his 2008 Wimbledon championship. Federer had dominated Wimbledon and Rafa had only had major success on clay.
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Is the US safe for East Asians now? If I'm a Taiwanese or Japanese, are we going to be discriminated against? | No it’s not. Just because it’s calmed down a little doesn’t mean it’s safe. Please don’t come here. I beg you, whites will slaughter the shit out of you Espically if you are speaking another language. Please don’t listen to whites. They just don’t want their shitty reputation to be seen.
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without using mathematical induction? | f=n^5–5n^3+4n
modulo 4, f=0,0,0,0, as n=0,1,2,3.
modulo 5, f=0,0,0,0,0 as n=0,1,2,3,4.
QED
For example, when n=4,
f=1024–320+16=720=0 mod 5.
Alternatively,
f=(n-2)(n-1)n(n+1)(n+2)
=120\binom(n+2,5)
is divisible by 120.
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Why isn't there a lot of gold on Earth? | What is a lot to you?
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For pro-choice folks: If a man's wife or partner learns that she is pregnant and wants an abortion, should the father get a say in the decision if he wants to support and be there for the child? | I see you're having troubles to imagine what it's about.
So let me illustrate.
Case scenario no 1( however improbable): I'll find a way to introduce a cancerous RNA to your body. Maybe you'll agree with it unaware something may happen, maybe you'll agree with the risk, maybe I'll lie to you or even do it against your will. When it starts reproducing and a tumor will start growing, I'll offer you money if you keep it growing( because I want to have my creation or because I think that tumors are cute) for some 40 weeks. You'll of course be sick, aching and all your nutrients and energy will go to the growth that may or may not kill you before it's large enough. Of course you'll be prohibited to take any meds or do anything about your health that could possibly interfere with the tumor. You'll be on a strict diet even though you may be unable to eat anything for periods of time. You'll have to tough it out. Of course I'll expect you to go about your life like nothing's going on in your body. I will then force you to choose( if you're lucky) if you go through a surgery to extract it ( the only anesthetic given will be a large needle to your spine) or to push it out of your body. Let's not forget that this will involve 12+h at best of contractions( aka the most intensive pain you'll ever know). You'll need some 8 weeks ( at best again) to recover from it and you'll be bleeding the entire time. You'll be expected to again handle everything else while at it and in addition, since the tumor won't be alive will have to take a doll baby for this part, I'll make sure that every 3 hours you feed the doll ( you're still lucky that all your nutrients won't go into producing breast milk and having your nipples chewed raw in order to do that), change the diaper and make it go to sleep. If you're really lucky that doll will keep crying for hours on an end because of being colicky or sick or just because they feel not completely at ease. You'll have to carry that doll around and it'll be with you every moment of your life until reaching the school age, where you may enjoy the little free time at work.
Scenario no 2: I'll want you to impregnate me. That means you'll be on a strict healthy diet, no meds, no alcohol, no cigs, no s*x( and no masturbation either) unless you're depositing to the cup. Of course I'll pay you for that but I'll have total control over your life until I'm pregnant. I'll give you the baby to take care of once it's here to enjoy that part.
Scenario no 3: I'll pay you to give me your kidney. It's not like I need a kidney, I just think that kidneys are cute and it's a reasonable thing to ask of you. Again this will involve strict diet, no fun in life, no meds and you'll be recovering from the surgery while being forced to go about your life as nothing's really happened.
None of those scenarios really involve the full physical and mental toll of a pregnancy, childbirth and raising a baby. Keep that in mind and let me know which one you're up to.
No, the answer is still no. The father has no say in that because all the support and money still doesn't equal to what a pregnancy, childbirth and having a baby means for the mother.
Btw to give you the info you're missing obviously, during my pregnancy I had gestational diabetes and hypothyroidism discovered(to explain what that means, strict diet and regular intervals between meals-2/3 hours to be exact, pricking your finger 10 times a day at an exact timing to measure your glucose level, meds, insulin), I was unable to stomach anything else but a ramen noodles and broth and very limited choice of vegetable the entire first trimester. The smell of the neighbors freshly done laundry made me sick as a dog. When taking the public transport i had to make breaks to vomit, I couldn't travel by car. I started bleeding very early on and was put on bed rest. I nearly died from COVID. My feet and legs swole and couldn't fit to any shoes. When my joints got lose I went through a series of twisted ankles, dislocated knees and shoulders. I couldn't sleep at night because of heavy sweats and not being able to find a position in which my huge belly wouldn't compress my lungs. I couldn't breathe any way. I enjoyed teeth extraction because my molars rot and got inflamed because all my calcium went to create my daughter's bones. Recurring UTIs. During the third trimester I had to be put on meds to lower my blood pressure, a thing that didn't work and eventually I had to be hospitalized and induced to give birth earlier. My daughter still was 3,9 kg at birth. The labor ended in 4th degree tear and a broken coccyx which made me unable to sit or lay on my back for months. For the first 3 weeks I was on laxatives and a strict no solids diet because I couldn't afford to have a normal bowel movement and the stitches on my rectum and anus to break. I bled through all my clothes regularly during the entire postpartum ( 8 weeks)—and no, you can't use a tampon because of a high risk of introducing infection to the uterus. I stopped being incontinent about a year after the birth and I'm the lucky one. I still have a 10 cm diastasis where my abs separated and a few hernias that need to be solved surgically. I haven't slept more than 2 hours for the first 6 months of my baby because my daughter had non stop colics until we discovered a food allergy was the cause. The childbirth gave me PTSD and a nasty case of neonatal depression. And I'm still the lucky one because I didn't die. Yeah, pregnancy and childbirth kills.
Tell me that you think that money and being there can somehow make up for all that.
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The Mahabharata | There are many powerful warriors in the Mahabharata, and it is difficult to say who was the most powerful. However, some of the most commonly cited contenders for the title of "most powerful warrior" include:
Bheeshma: Bheeshma was the eldest of the Kauravas and was said to be invincible in battle. He was a master of all weapons and was said to be able to shoot arrows with such accuracy that he could split a hair.[LINKED_TEXT: Opens in a new windowwww.bhaskar.com] [URL: https://www.bhaskar.com/religion/jeevan-mantra/news/mahabharta-the-story-of-the-birth-of-bhishma-pitamah-ganga-and-king-shantanu-katha-facts-of-mahabharata-127017026.html]Arjuna: Arjuna was the third Pandava brother and was known as one of the greatest archers in the world. He was trained by Dronacharya, the same teacher who trained Bheeshma, and was said to be able to shoot arrows with such speed and accuracy that they could pierce through any armor.[LINKED_TEXT: Opens in a new windowmythgyaan.com] [URL: https://mythgyaan.com/arjuna-exile-12-years-mahabharata/]Karna: Karna was the son of Kunti and Surya, the sun god. He was said to be an even greater archer than Arjuna, and he was also a skilled charioteer. However, Karna was born a charioteer's son, and he was denied the opportunity to learn from Dronacharya. This led to a great rivalry between Karna and Arjuna, and the two eventually fought to the death in the Kurukshetra War.[LINKED_TEXT: Opens in a new windowhindi.starsunfolded.com] [URL: https://hindi.starsunfolded.com/karna-mahabharata-story-in-hindi-%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A3-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4-%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80-%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80/]
Ultimately, it is impossible to say definitively who was the most powerful warrior in the Mahabharata. There are many factors to consider, such as strength, skill, and experience. However, the three warriors listed above are certainly among the most powerful warriors in the epic.
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Does 'nick' mean 'idiot' in British English? | I did know an idiot who was called Nick. But it was only because his name was Nicholas and had nothing to do with him being an idiot.
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What are your tricks and ways to make instant ramen noodles taste better and different? | Sriracha sauce
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If you tell a taxi or Uber driver to just drive, where will they go? | I once picked up a guy and his friend from a bar. There was no destination added to the ride. This was before Lyft made it mandatory to add a destination. So they both get in, and the less drunk guy asks me to drop him off around the block at another bar. The guy in the front who had ordered the ride was very much intoxicated and asked me if I could take him to his house. I told him that I don’t know where he lived, if he could give me the address I could add it to the app.
Somehow, he understood that I was not going to take him to his house. He thought I was kidnapping him or something. His friend told him to add the address, but he just wouldn’t do it. He gave me turn by turn directions (I had to ask where to go when we came to an intersection) until we got to his house. The entire ride he kept asking me if I could take him home.
“Well, if you’d give me your address I could take you home.”
“Nah man, you don’t wanna take me home. Why don’t you wanna take me home man? Be cool man!”
Halfway through the ride his buddy called him to ask if he gave me his address.
“Nah man, this guy doesn’t wanna take me to my house. I dunno man.”
“Just give him your address!”
“Nah man, he just doesn’t wanna take me to my house man! Like I dunno where we’re going! I dunno man.”
Needless to say, eventually I dropped him off at his house and gave him 3 stars.
So, what would the driver do? They’d probably very slowly pull out into the road and approach every intersection slowly asking which way to go. Granted, it is required to add a destination to every ride, so they already know where you want to go so will just follow the navigation.
I picked up a lady who was fighting with another lady in the middle of the road. The other lady even blocked her from getting in my car. Eventually she got in and I asked where she was headed to confirm the address. She blurted out to me “Just drive!”
So, I followed the navigation while she sat in the back in silence sniffling and crying a little bit. She apologized when she got out.
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Which should I choose, culinary school or an apprenticeship? | That would depend on a couple of things. If you were referring to an apprenticeship under a chef, then I would just apply for a job there and work up experience all around the kitchen. Culinary school is a great start that offers several advantages, but depending on where uattend it can be quite an expensive course, and one that trains you for a career path that is notoriously low-income especially when considering the hours, the stress, and the fact that it's a thankless job for the most part. In my opinion the first thing to do would be to simply calculate the total cost of both courses, as well as calculate the longevity of the training; then find the balance of the two and choose the more efficient option.
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Which movie do you feel in Tamil is underrated? | Let me write a few movies from Tamil Industry that has substance, some kind of home work had been done to give the audience 'something different', has got wonderful acting and making style, watch it, it will be definitely better than 100 times repeated storyline of popular super stars, that a single man fighting against all evils in the society and taking revenge by killing an underworld don or a politician..
8 Thottakkal, suspense, making and acting of MS BhaskarJoker, unique storyline and acting of Guru SomasundaramUriyadi, Making of fight sequence and agile actingAdhe Kangal, for performance of actress shivada and the plotKuttram thandane, gives the feeling of watching an Alfred Hitchcock movieKurangu Bommai, characterisation of villain and a sequence of him with Bharati Raja will stay in the memory for longGoli Soda, of course kids also belongs to the league of established actorsMetro, some chain snatch sequence was shot in such a manner that will awestruck audience, clearly depicts how a person's behaviour changes when greed takes over
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Was Iran/Persia powerful before? Was it full of barbarians as mentioned in the movie “300”? If it was, then did Persians raise the three empires of Achamedians, Safavid, and Sasanian? | I think everyone has heard of the Persian Empire.
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How often do popular Quora users go anonymous? | Not that I'm all that popular, but I'll answer that I've gone anonymous exactly twice, both in 2015, once to ask about why I might not be finding anal sex pleasurable and once about something to do with science, or something.
Don't know why. Didn't appeal to me. Haven't done so since.
I attach my name to my writing because it's serious business and I don't care to have genuine discourse fettered by what some folk might consider taboo, such as crime and drugs and grue.
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If you and your wife were laying in bed and you both hear a noise downstairs at 3 AM, do you believe that it is your duty as a man to investigate the noise and put yourself at potential risk to protect you and your wife? Why or why not? | Of course. Do you have to ask
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What is the difference between pass by reference and value in Python? | They’re two terms that equally fail to apply to Python in any meaningful way.
In some languages, like C++, there are different ways to pass arguments to a function: you can pass a copy of a value, or you can pass a reference to a variable.* If you pass a variable, the function can change the value stored in that variable.**
But Python doesn’t even have the same kind of “variables” as C++. Variables are just names; not things that can be passed around. What you pass is always…
Well, it’s not a variable, but is it a value, or a reference? Well, it’s a reference to a value. Many things that would be done in C++ by assigning to a variable are done in Python by mutating a value. But many things that would be done in C++ by passing a copy of a value are done in Python by just not mutating a value. So, which is it?
For some reason, people love to argue about this. And not just in Python, but in Java,*** and Smalltalk, and other languages. But really, it’s a pointless argument, because either answer is arguable, but more misleading than it is helpful.
And people have been trying to come up with a new name for this kind of style of argument passing since at least 1974, when Barbara Liskov called it “pass by object”, but that hasn’t stopped the argument.
Instead of fighting over what to call it, it’s better to just say no, that’s the wrong question, and instead just describe what Python does, and what that means for Python programmers.
In particular, when people ask about this for any reason besides being led astray by a pointless debate, the answer to the practical thing they want to do comes down to one of three things:
Just return multiple values instead of trying to use “out params”.Wrap the value or values in a list or dict or namespace-object and the function can reassign param[0] or params.spam.You already have a way to refer to the things, so use it—e.g., instead of passing (stuff[0], stuff[2]) you pass (stuff, 0, 2).
* Technically, it’s about lvalues rather than variables, but don’t worry about that.
** Also, you may save time not having to copy or move the value. Or you may waste time having to deference it over and over again. But don’t worry about that either.
*** Even after the Java 1.1 docs gave an official answer…
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How can I buy IKEA or IKEA-like furniture in India? | Ikea as of today (15/09/2020) is serving only in 3 cities viz Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune. Why? Based on my observation
Not all Ikea products are in ready to ship packaging.Some Ikea products are bulky and shipping all over India might be a challenge.Ikea believes in providing installation services and they need to be closer to you.Ikea has a return policy they need to honor.
Taking these restrictions of Ikea some sellers on Amazon and Flipkart who live in one of the 3 cities above smartly are purchasing from Ikea and selling on Amazon. But the issue again.
They only sell those products that are easy to ship.Mrp tampering (check it yourself). They have to bloat mrp and charge high so they can pay for Amazon fees, logistics, packing, chance of return due to COD (courier fee). Etc.
At one point even we are Wudore were selling Ikea products on our website [LINKED_TEXT: Wudore] [URL: http://www.wudore.com/] without MRP tampering. But we couldn't handle the requests to add new products. Ikea is an ocean.
We then came up with a thought. “Ship forward” service. You buy on Ikea website any product of your choice and use our warehouse in Hyderabad as your delivery location. Once we receive the goods from Ikea we will repack and ship them to your address. Our fee is flat and no need to worry on MRP tampering. No need to worry on limited selections.
You should check out our service at [LINKED_TEXT: Hyderabad Ship Forward] [URL: http://www.hydshipforward.com/] for procuring any IKEA products of your choice. Ping my team on the helpline and they will guide you in product selection.
PS: these days Ikea is having a longer wait if they have to deliver. We are soon planning to launch our own periodic pick from Ikea service so the wait time is minimized.
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Who is owner of D mart? | R . k . Damani
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Is it acceptable for German actors/actresses to play a role as Nazis in a movie? | German actors have been playing Nazis in films since shortly after WWII ended.
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If you had one wish from a genie in a bottle, what would it be? | *Computer hangs so in frustration I hit random buttons, rub mousepad of my laptop*
A genie in the form of Mark Zuckerberg comes out from the USB port.
Me: “What the hell? What are you?”
Genie: “I am Virtual Genie, hosted on cloud”
Me: “The heck, really?”
Genie: “Yes! I am a genie created by world’s most powerful AI and supercomputer. Today is your lucky day, I grant you 3 wishes in Computer Domain for which you have rubbed the mousepad vigorously and freed me”
Me: “Umm, okay”
Genie: “Come on, ask quickly, I don’t have all day. After this I need to go and leak some private data of users to a big company as well”
Me: “Ohh okay, I wish, all code that I would write, should be without bugs”
Genie: “Look, I am genie, not god. To be honest, you can’t even bubble sort without any errors. So be a little realistic”
Me: “Huh. Okay. Make my computer superfast, no glitch, nothing”
*Genie claps*
Genie: “Done, next?”
Me: “Give me subscription of all the cloud platforms and paid software in whole world”
*Genie claps*
Genie: “Done, next?”
Me: “I want to hack Pakistan’s national defense system”
Genie: “Really? You want to waste your wish on that? Pakistan’s national defense system is so childish that even a noob can hack it”
Me: “Ohh okay. Then my wish is to become world’s number 1 CS GO player”
*Genie laughs and falls down*
Me: “What? If not CS GO, then DOTA?”
*Genie laughs even harder*
Me: “No? Then how about PUBG?”
*Genie is now crying by laughing*
Genie: “Stop! Do you want to kill me? LOL”
Me: “Hey!! I am a good player”
Genie: “Come on man, stop kidding yourself, you are no gamer. Ask something different”
Me: “Hmm. I wish, I could have 1000 followers on Quora”
Genie: “Well, you really have put me in a difficult spot. But okay I can grant it. But there is one condition”
Me: “Yes?”
Genie: “Just write about our conversation on Quora and I will see to it”
Me: “Cool”
*Genie starts to disappear. He says one last thing before entering completely into the USB port—*
“By the way, good choices in PH, same as your …..”
Me: “Hey! Wait, stop! same as who? Same as who? You damn Zuck…..”
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How can I get a call history of any number? | It is possible to find the call history of a mobile phone number, but it depends on a few factors.
If you are the owner of the phone number: You can usually access the call history by logging into your account on your mobile carrier's website or by using their mobile app.If you have access to the phone: you can check the call history on the phone itself. The call history is usually found in the phone's call log or call history feature.If you are trying to find the call history of a phone number that you do not own or have access to: It is not legal to access someone else's call history without their consent. Some third-party apps and websites claim to be able to provide call history information, but they may be illegal and unreliable.
It's worth noting that, If you want to access the call history of other mobile numbers, you need to have the legal authority to do so, like if you are a law enforcement agency, and it's required for the investigation. Otherwise, accessing someone else's call history without their consent is considered a violation of their privacy and can lead to legal action.
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Have you ever been judged for your appearance? | Yes, I have been judged for my appearance many times, I am going to mention one of the incidents which is quite unique.
Here's the incident.
Background: It was the month of December, winter was at its height in Patna. My mom and I had to go to Patna for a couple of days. At that time I was doing my graduation in Jamshedpur, a city where winter is little easier to handle, so I didn't buy much winter wear because it wasn't needed. When I came home for a week I had some winter wear which was wearable in light winter like Jamshedpur and a decent set of thick winter wear suitable for winter of Patna. Unfortunately when the plan was made, my Jacket rinsed and we had to travel that day itself. So, my mom forced me to wear the old jacket and I could not convince her even after argument and counterargument. My mom and I are quite sensitive towards room hygiene so we(Especially my mom) cannot trust the bed sheet, pillow cover and blanket provided by normal hotels (and we couldn't afford 3-5 star hotel) so we had to carry all of these ourselves.
Appearance: When we arrived Patna Junction I looked like some coolie (Of course exaggerated, but I wasn’t looking like a decent person for sure) at that time, because I was wearing that old jacket, half sweater, muffler, winter cap most of those were old fashioned while carrying one trolley and one big Jholaa (bag) having blankets and all winter wears. I assume you can imagine how I must have looked like.
Incident: While crossing platform TTE's were checking tickets from random people passing by. When we crossed them he did stop me and asked for the ticket, I looked at my mom who was few meters ahead of me and smiled she got what I meant, then I showed him the ticket and we crossed the platform silently. This was one of the rarest incidents when I was asked for the ticket at the checkpoint.
Fact: In India especially northern India (I have never been in south India), there are a very high probability that you won't be asked to show your railway ticket at the checkpoints or at the platforms if you look decent unless they are checking tickets from everyone. When they check tickets of random people they don't ask decent looking people because they assume these decent looking people will always be carrying their tickets. (This is neither an official fact nor well-proved but observed by many people, sometimes it can vary)
Although I never travel without-ticket even if it’s just the next station in a very remote area I am travelling to, but this incident made me realise that I wasn’t looking decent at least, and felt a little embarrassed. After that even my mom agreed to allow me to remove that old-Jacket. Then I felt good but the damage was already done.
Note: Do not travel without-ticket even you look decent and have very little chance to get caught, although there is very small chance of getting caught still there is chance and who knows what is going in that TTE’s mind who will be supposed to check your ticket. Even if you don’t get caught travelling without-ticket is a crime.
Thanks & Regards.
IJ
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If you are a medical worker, have you ever experienced a patient full out faking? | My entire life I have been dealing with health issues, starting as an infant. I have had multiple doctors over the years imply that I was a hypochondriac, told my mother directly that I was a hypochondriac, or just put down all the symptoms I had been complaining about down to my anxiety disorder.
One time I complained to a doctor about how they were assuming they just knew what was wrong with me but not actually confirming it with any tests. So she told me she would run a full CBC as a way to prove that I was fine. She literally used the words “assuage my fears". That same day she called me and said that my blood work was off and that I had a thyroid disorder.
Other times, as a child, my mother would continue to push until they looked into it or the symptoms got so disabling that they couldn't be ignored. And every single time they looked into it they found something wrong.
I am almost 24, and my younger sister was recently diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. My mom told the rheumatologist who diagnosed her about my symptoms and he said that he was certain that I also have it. I am now looking into it myself but I am so angry. Every single diagnosis that I have gotten and all the symptoms I complained about all pointed to this specific disorder. All my life doctors have treated me like I was crazy or a liar. Sometimes I really hate the medical industry.
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Am I paragender or demi-gender? I have been frequently feeling like gender fluid is not the right term for me. I'm either male, female or non binary, it usually is between male and non binary. Sometimes female, but not as often. | Homeless people, many of them combat veterans, are dying on the street. The amount of crimes being committed is unprecedented. The world is headed toward a nuclear disaster.
And your knickers are all in a knot about what the hell you should call yourself?
How about narcissistic, clueless, spoiled brat?
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Does the Bible mention anything about a place "between" heaven and hell? | It is either heaven or hell - there is no other permanent destination.
However those who die in the state of sin and who are judged by Jesus and found eligible to go to heaven have to be purified in a place outside heaven.
It is like you coming home dirty - so you have to clean yourself up before you enter the house. According to - Revelation 21:27 Nothing impure will ever enter heaven. (Also see Psalm 101:3, Habakkuk 1:13).
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES - Where is Purgatory mentioned in the Bible?
OLD TESTAMENT
2 Maccabees 12:39-46 On the following day, since the task had now become urgent, Judas and his companions went to gather up the bodies of the fallen and bury them with their kindred in their ancestral tombs. But under the tunic of each of the dead they found amulets sacred to the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear (VENIAL SIN). So it was clear to all that this was why these men had fallen. They all therefore praised the ways of the Lord, the just judge who brings to light the things that are hidden. Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out (PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD). The noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice (INDULGENCES). In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection in mind; for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again (HEAVEN AFTER PURGATORY), it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead. But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness (DIED IN VENIAL SIN), it was a holy and pious thought. Thus he made atonement for the dead (PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD) that they might be absolved from their sin (CLEANSED OF SINS IN PURGATORY).
Sirach 7:33 Give graciously to all the living; do not withhold kindness even from the dead.
NEW TESTAMENT
1 Corinthians 3:11-15 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones (GOOD DEEDS), wood, hay or straw (SINS, INEQUITY AND BAD HABITS), their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire (PURIFYING FIRE OF PURGATORY) will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward (JUDGEMENT BY JESUS FOR REWARDS). If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved (PERSON WILL SUFFER AND BE SAVED – WILL NOT GO TO HELL)—even though only as one escaping through the flames (WILL PASS ON TO EVERLASTING LIFE AFTER CLEANSING).
Luke 12:43-46 How blessed is that servant whom his master finds doing this when he comes! 44 I tell you with certainty, he will put him in charge of all his property. (GOOD WHO ARE GOING TO HEAVEN) 45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time to come back,’ and begins to beat the other servants and to eat, drink, and get drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he doesn’t expect him and at an hour that he doesn’t know. Then his master will punish him severely and assign him a place with unfaithful people. (WICKED - GOING TO HELL) 47 That servant who knew what his master wanted but didn’t prepare himself or do what was wanted will receive a severe beating. (DELIBERATE SINNERS - SEVERE PUNISHMENT IN PURGATORY) 48 But the servant who did things that deserved a beating without knowing it will receive a light beating (IGNORANT SINNERS - LIGHTER PUNISHMENT IN PURGATORY). Much will be required from everyone to whom much has been given. But even more will be demanded from the one to whom much has been entrusted.”
Matthew 12:32 And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come (TALKS ABOUT FORGIVENESS AFTER DEATH IN PURGATORY - WHICH IS DESCRIBED AS THE 'AGE TO COME').
Matthew 5:25-26 Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison (THIS IS PURGATORY NOT HELL, AS HELL IS A PLACE OF 'PERMANENT RESIDENCE' - FROM WHERE YOU ARE NEVER RELEASED) 46; truly I say to you, you will never get out (OF PURGATORY) till you have paid the last penny (HAVE PAID THE PRICE OF INEQUITY / SIN).
2 Timothy 1:16-18 he (PAUL) prayed for the dead man – Onesiphorus;
1 Corinthians 15:29-30 Paul talks about baptizing people, for the dead.
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What would you tell someone to order for their first time in an Indian restaurant? | What should I try at an Indian restaurant if I’ve never been?
I assume the key part of your question is “never been to”. The problem is the same whether you go to an unfamiliar Indian restaurant outside India, or I go to one in India!
If it is a restaurant serving north Indian dishes (most likely), I order the simplest possible dishes: Dal Tadka (simply spiced, not piquant; shouldn’t have a layer of brightly colored fat floating above it) and a roti or paratha (should be crisp outside but fluffy and soft inside). If I am satisfied with that, I order a simple rice dish - Pulao perhaps.
Alternatively, I order Chicken Tikka (not Chicken Tikka Masala) with roti. I expect it to be soft and juicy, with the healthy aroma of grilling and burnt butter.
Don’t go by the expectation that the restaurant will have some dishes that one shouldn’t miss. That’s not how normal common Indian restaurants work (with upmarket pricey ones, maybe). The best way, that prevents disappointment in 9 cases out of 10, is actually ordering dishes that you are familiar with - and for which you have an expectation of what good quality is.
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Why do conspiracy theorists need to believe in their theories? | I don’t believe in all conspiracy theories, but, when I believe in one, I don’t just believe, I am absolutely sure about it because I have rationally (and even scientifically) studied it.
It does not include the flat earth or the holocaust denial.
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My blood pressure was 138/83 and my pulse was 52. Is this borderline high? | Ideal BP is about 125/75. 138/83 is borderline high, but docs will probably wait until your systolic goes over 140 before suggesting action.
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Why is butter, rather than the healthier margarine, served in restaurants? | Because your question 'Why is butter, rather than the healthier margarine, served in restaurants?' is based on a false premise.
Margarine is most definitely not healthier than butter. In fact margarine is much worse than butter.
Margarine contains much more trans-fat than butter, and trans-fat is far worse than saturated fat.
Meanwhile the aroma/taste of margarine is noticeably inferior to that of butter.
I think it's high time we switched back to the good old butter.
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What would you do if one of your bridesmaids didn't like the dress you have chosen for her? | Convince her to wear black thing panties and go topless.
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