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  • Yeah sadly she counts as a royal, but the civilian in the picture is her sister in laws son pre marriage into the royal family. So technically not a royal, but might as well be.

    Most people in Norway like the king and the queen, and the crown Prince and the crown princess, and their children (together), they used to like this guy too before he got caught doing all this illegal shit



  • I’m surprised Philippines isn’t regarded as over 90% in Asia they are second only to Singapore which indeed has a blue dot.

    I think it depends on how strict a definition you put on it. According to pna.gov.ph less than 9% of adults dont use English at all. And I guess this doesn’t include taglish, because I dont think they mean mixing the word shorts into the language is using English

    So I guess its a matter of definition, if you can afford to go to school nearly everyone can speak English, if you can’t go to school English proficiency drops but over 90% at least use English sometimes. As from 4th grade they primarily use English to teach in school for most subjects

    At least in Norway and Iceland (yes nearly other European countries as well) translate Disney movies to their local language. The Philippines doesn’t, they serve English as English is one of the two official languages and has been since it was US territory.

    I was surprised when sitting in the back of the class of first grade in Norway that most kids wasn’t able to use English conversationally (yet), but that is just my ignorance, and rather I should be surprised to see most kids knew basic words in English instead. But its hard to have perspective when my multilingual daughter had conversational English from 2 years






  • Good point, lucifer is a word used in some translations of the bible though, this book Isaiah was originally written in Hebrew and the word was heilel, and this was translated to latin as lucifer. It was referring to a Babylonian king, not the devil, or the fallen angel, likely Nebuchadnezzar. Some translation use this or similar wording.

    Lucifer is latin and means light bringer, lux means light, ferre means bringer.

    The serpent was cursed to live as an animal on it’s belly. So not the same person as Nebuchadnezzar.

    Different devils (from the ancient Greek word diabolos) also not the same person, or one person


  • I know that the serpent that suggested eating the appel wasn’t meant by the author to be the devil, but the audacity of modern Christians to make their antagonist be anti knowledge…

    Of course the serpent isn’t satan, because he was cursed to live as an animal on his belly. Which, keep in mind the original authors didn’t intend for the plethora of devil and satan figures to be the same recurring character, and to be the same character as the serpent or lucifer. But none of these other characters slither on their belly, so either hes a different character or god isn’t Almighty.

    So what about other character modern Christians conflate with Satan? Well what about the devil who tempted Jesus to eat in the dessert. Sounds like an act of charity to me. There are numerous health benefits to fasting, but let me check my notes, 40 days? And the reason to be obedient? Imagine if your significant other wanted you to torture your self like that for obedience. Stockholm syndrome much? Who tried to give Jesus food? Assuming hes not just hallucinating, this was written in a type of ancient Greek language often referer to today as koine greek and the character was referred to as diabolos.

    Anyway, I became an atheist, while sitting in church, at around 11ish I dont remember, at least before I learned the word atheist, and the reason is I didn’t see (putting words on this as an adult, I wasn’t able to use these words at 11) I didn’t see how if god was not part of the natural world then hes not part of our world.

    First time I read the word atheist and it’s definition, I remember thinking that this describes me. But after that I was able to read more about in and about the Bible, and at the time as intended in modern Christianity conflating all these devils and lucifer and the serpent, the only thing this conflated super character does anything wrong is in the book of Job, and then god encouraged and allowed him to do that. Still not saying killing someone’s family is good, but yes

    The invented character that is conflated with the multiple devils and lucifer and the serpent is the good character

    And god tortured and kills everyone, and gets them to obey…

    I mean wtf

    Oh, and my beliefs didn’t get any more Christian when YouTube came out haha







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    I’m out of the loop on this one? A Swedish using a Polish WM, and you call them Nazis?

    I know that the hyprland dev has strong political opinions, but I genuinely dont know what they are because I don’t care, and I use another WM. Are they really both Nazis? I dont know because I dont follow these guys. I dont want this word to be misused when actual Nazis are trying to take over the free world again