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The return on investment benefits contractors and the venue owner. It's decades of loss for the taxpayer.

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And, thank the good Lord my fair city was passed over as one of the venues.

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Rarely a sauvignon blanc dud comes out of Marlborough. Chile produces some very high quality sauvignon blancs as well. A few months ago I had a sb from South Africa that more than held its own. Kim Crawford winery out of Marlborough makes a sb that has a strong grapefruit note that I really like--if you come across it in Poland give it a try. Pair it with salmon and you might combust.

Last week I had a Massaro Del Fondo Apassimento 2019 from the Puglia region in Italy. Primitivo grape was the dominant grape. Had very juicy berry and cherry notes with a certain tanginess I find in many of the apassimentos and governos I've had. Personally, I love Italian wines--especially those using dried grape techniques.

As I'm writing this I'm imbibing, no, poetically drinking a 2019 Domaine Chanson Pere et Fils Chablis. This wine is just damn good. It has the minerality of a champagne and acidity that brings the mouth happily alive. I'm getting a pear and apple note. The texture is full...and the minerality, man oh man, the minerality.

This is one to buy again and again.

Language / A study on how bilingual Polish-English speakers think [86]


Hahaha! That would be funny. Nah, I hit the lottery marrying who I married...in-laws are good people.

I avoid the under 30s when over there anymore. Bunch of brats. Now, the over 30s are as solid a people as there are, IMO. They remind me of my grandparents' generation and my parents' generation (the ones who weren't braiding flowers in their hair).

Language / A study on how bilingual Polish-English speakers think [86]

Jon, GK, Lyzko. Thanks.

Jon your tips are duly noted and sound. Very reasonable. I appreciate it.

GK, the parallel reading thing is a damn good idea. Much appreciate it. Look for your inbox to be full. :)

Pawian, I've got a pair of balls...I don't quit. But, I appreciate your concern for my stress levels. :)

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I would disagree that was the meaning of the last Supper, though. I believe to understand the Last Supper you must view in within the context of the Passover and Good Friday, it's a sacrifice that saves us from death, that is to say a separation from God. It's meaning is that it established a sacrament, the Holy Eucharist.

Certainly from that works of charity and mercy flow, but I don't think that's the meaning of the Last Supper.

But, I do get what you mean. I'm just very guarded in politicizing it--not saying you necessarily are.

I'll have to give Underhill a look-see. The Anglican church has produced some really great spiritual and theological thinkers, and some great converts to Roman Catholicism, John Henry Newman and Chesterton never get old.

Language / A study on how bilingual Polish-English speakers think [86]

Polish, I want to learn Polish. I've been going over to that country for 20 years, and I can barely order a cup of coffee, let alone carry on an intelligent and coherent conversation with my in-laws.

Language / A study on how bilingual Polish-English speakers think [86]

I'm thinking of just hiring GK as a tutor. What's your fee, GK?

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The ineffable is foreverly (I just made that a word...work with it :) ) glimpseable and inexhaustible.

Yes, ithere's overlaps in many religions--I've seen that as a validation of its truth. What sets Christianity apart from non-Christian religions is the ressurection. Without it, Christianity can go fly a kite. But, with it, I'd die for it.

This is a quibbling splitting of hairs tha's not important, really...but: we don't know who wrote Cloud of Unknowing. But, it'sa spiritual masterpiece.

I'm not familiar with Underhill. I've heard of Kempe, but never read her writings--wasn't she from the middle ages or am I mixing her up with someone else?

Language / A study on how bilingual Polish-English speakers think [86]


This is why poetry is an effective literary medium. Probably also why poetry is most readily identified as beautiful amongst all mother literary forms.


I can only imagine how much of a pain in the ass you were when you were in your 40's. :D

Anyhow, I'm...once a-freaking-gain..trying to crack the nut that is the Polish language. Can any of you truly bilingual speakers give any hints or tips to learning this god-forsaken beautiful sounding language?

After using atleast 6 different texts (over the past 20 years) this Sadowska text seems to be the best, so I'm using that. But, any tips how to approach learning Polish from English.. My wife is no help--she has no interest in teaching language and when I try to humor her with some Polish she usually ends up calling me an ass :D.

Language / A study on how bilingual Polish-English speakers think [86]

You may be a crusty buzzard, but you make a good point.

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Yes, it's immeasurable. However, what we have glimpsed through revelation is enough for us to experience God here on Earth and live according to His will...but, it's no doubt a preeminent struggle. Human pride is the most obstinate thing on Earth. To get to the point to where we can emulate John the Baptist's "not my will, but His will be done," is the work of one's life. It's such a struggle, because it's preeminently important and ineffably meaningful. Not to mention very interesting. Self-knowledge is as interesting and beautiful as it is frightening sometimes. If you are inclined or have an interest in such a topic, read St. Teresa of Avila, especially her "Interior Castle" and "Way of Perfection."

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God and His design. How this is manifested in the created world is too voluminous to list, but it can be summed up as Natural Law.

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That should be the goal. Life isn't static, we're going forward or backward. Forward to a life lived in Absolute Truth is the path toward fulfillment and happiness.


God bless you, ptak!

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I'm not sure there is such a thing as a fake Christian or Muslim or Buddhist or whatever. Bad and scandalous ones for sure, but I'm not so sure fake is a correct term.

You seem to be intimating that to be a good Christian means you must be perfect. That's wrong. It is about striving toward perfection, which is nothing other than spiritual communion with Christ. We do this through humility and obedience to Christ's will as found in His teachings.

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What do you mean?

As far as what makes one a Christian: generally speaking 1) Christian baptism and 2) accepting Christ as the Son of God who was sent to redeem man by His passion, death, and resurrection into communion with God and accepting His teachings as Truth and striving to live in accord with His teachings.

I could probably do better defining a Christian, but I'm dragging arse right now.

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If I were you, I'd contact a Polish lawyer or Polish consulate/embassy in US to get answers to these questions.

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What do you mean by criticizing?

We all have our foibles and licentiousness we need to overcome. Having them and professing to be a Christian doesn't make one fake. Calling licentiousness what it is isn't being fake.

Being a scoundrel and claiming to be a Christian isn't even necessarily fake-just makes one a bad Christian that causes great scandal.

Life is a spiritual battle with victories and defeats. To my mind, the key is engaging this battle with humility, which is a struggle in and of itself.

So, just because someone isn't living a life in complete alignment with Christ's will doesn't make him a fake Christian. I think "fake Christian" is a misguided term. The real question to be asked, IMO, isn't whether someone is a fake Christian, but rather is that person striving towards sanctity or not-and within that is realizing one's own sinfulness and need of mercy and that each of us are no better or worse than the sinner across from any of us; however, that doesn't mitigate or equivocate the sin itself and the need to acknowledge the sin and work to amend sinfulness.

Which, reminds me, I need to get to confession.

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@Novichok

I am sure you do. :)

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@jon357

Yes, I do. That's why I said it

My question was, though, what do you mean by a fake Christian?

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What makes one a fake Christian? I hear that term thrown around a lot (ironically, oftentimes by non-practicing Christians), and I'm not really sure what is meant by it.

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@RussianAntiPutin

See post #2268. There is a difference between natural causes of death and willfully causing death.

Yes women are precious, motherhood is precious.

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@Crow

True Sarmatian, horse -loving tsar-call him what you may, I call him a total badass on the hardwood. He's pretty much the perfect mold for today's NBA.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

@Lenka

I'm not so sure its not big biz in Europe. I'd have to look at that. Euros are flowing into the pockets of abortionists.

@Lyzko

When does life begin is easy: conception. Embryology makes that clear. What is life? Are you talking about the biological ohenomenon, metaphysical, etc?

Anyhow, you all take care...and love all life that is developing in the wombs of women across the globe🙂

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Maybe you need to edit that, because you just said you need to terminate X before it becomes X. If X doesn't already exist, why would you need to terminate X.

As far as pregnancy, a woman becomes pregnant at the moment at conception. Hell, the actual official date of pregnancy can occur before conception-look it up, it has to do with measuring menstrual cycles.

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A choice to do what? To perform a particular action, which is the termination of the human being developing inside her womb. It's not choice for the sake of choice. If that's the case why doesn't Schumer support the school choice? Or the choice to wear a mask or not? Or the choice to take a sh!t on the good Senator's lap?

@Novichok
Right on, human being killing in the womb is a lucrative biz!

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To decide to abort a human being.


No, that is a human being. The moment of personhood can be debated, but regardless it's still about a stage of development, the person (or potential person) always is from conception a human being.


I'll take that as a typical Euro swipe at American capital punishment, which is not germane to this discussion because capital punishment is about a form of justice-punishment of a murderer- not an innocent human being, such as a human child in the womb.

But, do you advocate judicial killing?

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Says you who will not have the opportunity to decide.


And where it's illegal extant people kill (soon to be non) extant people. May as well follow that logic and decriminalize and protect the right to murder.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

It's still the termination of a human being, that's not what I call elegance for any side. It's more in the line of obfuscation and sloganeering, IMO.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Lenka, those cells are never not human. The ovum is a human cell, the sperm is a human cell, when they meet they create human cells that belong to a unique human being. All the DNA that human being ever needs is there at the moment of conception. There is not a possibility but an absolute certainty, no, put even better, an actuality of humanness of those cells.