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The Lord's Prayer in Biblical Czech (bibličtina), based on spoken Czech of the 16th century. I copied this from my great-great-grandmother's Bible printed in 1863.

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There is an overwhelming sense of freedom after realizing you will never live the kind of life you wanted.

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Unlike the Americans, when we in Europe pronounce croissant following our native languages' pronunciation rules, we don't acknowledge the discontent of the French. They can't pronounce any of our words right even on the very rare occasion that they're nice enough to try.

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If you idolize the past, remember:

Nothing that has happened has prevented the present from being what it is.

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My Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic handwriting after about a year of practice three years ago. I haven't written anything since then as I moved to studying East Asian languages.

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I think most of Tumblr's attempts at world building religion are absolutely terrible because:

1. They think that only stupid people are faithful, anyone who's 'enlightened' won't be religious

2. Religions are some sort of centuries long con/conspiracy used to manipulate people (therefore no religion is real ever)

3. Are trying to make pantheon ala Greek/Roman mythology, but their knowledge is exclusively from Percy Jackson and the Tumblr-ified/woobified versions online

4. Legitimately believe that religion is just an accessory, (ie. A person is a Christian if they wear a cross, a person is Muslim if they wear a head covering)

5. They have an inability to engage with or write from the perspective of someone who's different from them

And the sad thing is that this could be so easily resolved if they were just willing to research (and do it on a place that isn't Tumblr or another social media platform)

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OK I FINISHED THE COMIC

You know, that classic Brennan Lee Mulligan monologue.

I'm sorry the first panel is so heavy I couldn't figure out how to split that sentence.

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It’s not the religion that is evil,

it’s evil people in that religion that are evil,

but some of these evil people will try to introduce new ideas into the religion to turn other people in that religion evil too,

but maybe this has already happened centuries ago.

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Christ in Limbo - Jan Brueghel The Elder, 1593.

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There’s also something the Red Queen said to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass:

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Except this applies just as well to nature and society.

People who are trying to take control of the world are really happy that you’re all exhausted.

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French erasing Occitan.

Russian erasing Ukrainian.

Mandarin erasing Cantonese.

Why is it that ugly, cacophonic languages always try to eradicate the beautiful, euphonic ones? It's the same pattern everywhere in the world. Perennial linguistic enshitification.

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