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登机牌 [dēng jī pái] - boarding pass

Mandarin

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Bel-esprit - a clever, cultured person

Rote Learning in Hippie Van in CCM’s Lot 3 Parking Lot

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An Early Modern Europe Homework Assignment Attempt/Assay?

What are Erasmus’s main criticisms of monks? 

Erasmus’ main criticism of monks was their phoniness. Erasmus believed the monks were putting on airs e.g “braying out their gospels in church they are making themselves very pleasing and satisfying to God, when in fact they are uttering these psalms as a matter of repetition rather than from their hearts. “ [See: Rote Learning/Parrot-Fashion]

Mr. Cole the character in the British Television series is appeased by being talking about as “a man of unique intelligence who never felt appreciated. He saw poetry and prose as a celebration of life. He saw in literature all the good things courage, fortitude and sacrifice, but in his daily life he saw cowardice selfishness, and a desire for cheap glory. …” Mr Cole felt  “stranded in a heathen world” .  [See: British “Life on Mars” Season 1 Episode 6 36 minutes in or so] . 

A word one hears heaps of times whilst studying “The Catcher & The Rye” in school is the word  phony. Holden Caulfield the protagonist of the book is oftentime caught whinging about Phonies [See: “ Although Holden doesn't directly call Ernie, the piano player, a phony, he senses phoniness and insincerity in his flashy piano-playing style. Holden thinks Ernie is too fine a piano player but no longer plays his music with heart.”] 

What do you think Erasmus hoped to achieve by this satirical attack on monastic practices? 

Erasmus was looking to evince the fussy inflexiblity of the monks. [See”: “ Moreover it is amusing to find that they insist that everything be done in fastidious detail, as if employing the orderliness of mathematics, a small mistake in which would be a great crime”. ] 

How do you think the circulation of many printed copies of such attacks would have affected popular attitudes toward the Catholic Church? 

I believe they may have cause even further splintering of the Catholic Church. 

Well, as a populizer who put the bible into the vulgar tongue I’m sure Erasmus would be happy. Erasmus would be jubilant to get his opinion out there differing from those. I would be happy. I love anything that accelerates the velocity of ideas or helps develop the world. 

“Where then, was the road of salvation? Erasmus agreed with the reformers that the Bible must be studied. He agreed with the practice of private devotion, especially prayer. Man saved himself through knowledge of God, obtained directly, not through the mediation of an institution--History of Christianity by Paul Johnson page 274. In my earlier salad days [I still consider myself in my salad days of credulousness because I’m highly credulous and do not trust my present iteration of myself at all] I attended a reformatory school in Orem, Utah runned by Mormons. I was exposed to many things are things that likely would have been of the Renaissance’s Catholic Churches nightmares. The ultimate splintering of Christianity from its earlier roots. Where in my opinion is where Christianity jumped the shark. Firstly we had Judaism [Spiderman 1], then Christianity [Spiderman 2 or tantamount to an earlier linux distro such as Debain], and finally Mormonism [Spiderman 3, a religion aflunters [in a state of disorder] tantamount to modern art] [i prefer works in the public domain such as Thomas Gainsborough] ]. This mormon place had pleasant sounding rituals that wasted heaps of time [I say this , albeit, I oftentimes masterily waste my own time, but I want to waste my own my time on my own. P.S. I oftentimes mislikes institutions. Innate issues with authority. #contumacy]. The bureaucratic Catholic Churches biggest fear of splintering came back to bite them with heaps of bureaucratic epigones. 

#sanctimonious

#holierthanthou 

#parrotfashion 

#bibliocentric

Citations

I.“Notes on The Catcher in the Rye Themes.” BookRags, BookRags, www.bookrags.com/notes/citr/top4.html#gsc.tab=0.

II. A Smattering of Help from Paul Johnson’s A History of Christianity. 

Image Citations 

Jean, Jean, director. "Kafkaesque"? . Coub, coub.com/view/eytsl.

Adrián, Luis. “Muda, Futile, Ora, Fighting Chant .” Pinterest, Luis Adrián, i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/97/af/fb97af2fa67c246133900c6394466ccf.jpg.

"Pun of the Day: Phony." Comediva. September 14, 2013. Accessed February 26, 2019. http://comediva.com/pun-of-the-day-phony/.

Erasmus wanted to juxtapose the idea genuine piety to the monks’ affectations [See: “ Many of them work so hard at protocol and at traditional fastidiousness that they think one heaven hardly suitable reward for their labors; never recalling, however, that the time will come when Christ will demand reckoning of that which he had prescribed namely charity and the he will hold their deeds of little account”.] 

Erasmus was one of those bibliocentric folk who prefered private devotion to the bible, in lieu of a mechanical type parrot fashion-esque  devoted learning taught at an institution where one learns to says the prayers in fancy ‘smarty pants people’ latin and whatnot, generally missing the big picture of bible.Erasmus took shots at heaps of Christians for their affectations 

“For Erasmus, as for all reformers, the Bible then was at the centre of Christian understanding, when presented in its authentic form. And he was at one with them in rejecting mechanical Christianity virtually in toto: indulgences, pilgrimages, special privileges, masses for the dead, the whole business of winning salvation by ‘merit’ artificially acquired, usually by money”…Thou art utterly deceived,’Who had done the deceiving? Chiefly the papacy =. And no wonder: the papacy was corrupt and desperately in need of reform.…” 

sanctimonious monks

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中国有小量宗教。

Zhōngguó yǒu xiǎo liàng zōngjiào.

China has a small amount of religion.

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美国是有点多种。

Měiguó shì yǒudiǎn duō zhǒng.

The United States is a bit more diverse.

中国是不很多种。      ??????

Zhōngguó shì bù hěnduō zhǒng.    ???????

China is not very diverse.         ???????

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美国是太宗教的。

Měiguó shì tài zōngjiào de.

The United States is too religious.

看见宗教里面中国。

Kànjiàn zōngjiào lǐmiàn zhōngguó.

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中国❤️ 进化论 

Zhōngguó ❤️ jìnhuàlùn

Chinese country heart Evolution theory

多人里面美国相信神创论。

Duō rén lǐmiàn měiguó xiāngxìn shén chuàng lùn.

Many people in the United States believe in creationism.

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中国人更多的是一组集体的

Zhōngguó rén gèng duō de shì yī zǔ jítǐ de

Chinese people are more of a collective

美国人很个人主义的。

Měiguó rén hěn gèrén zhǔyì de.

Americans are very individualistic.

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美国甜点经常太甜。

Měiguó tiándiǎn jīngcháng tài tián.

American desserts are often too sweet.

中国甜点经常不太甜。

Zhōngguó tiándiǎn jīngcháng bù tài tián.

Chinese desserts are often not too sweet.

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美国人有太枪支。

Měiguó rén yǒu tài qiāngzhī.

Americans have too many guns.

中国人有更少的枪支。

Zhōngguó rén yǒu gèng shǎo de qiāngzhī.

The Chinese have fewer guns.

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里美国一杯可乐太大。(Lǐ měiguó yībēi kělè tài dà.) - A cup of cola in the United States is too big.

里中国一杯喝正常的。(Lǐ zhōngguó yībēi hē zhèngcháng de.) - A cup of Chinese drink is normal.

An attempt of a google slides for a chinese versus usa culture slideshow project.

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我爱在里面一个体育馆躲避球玩。

Wǒ ài zài lǐmiàn yīgè tǐyùguǎn duǒbì qiú wán.

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I’m having trouble with this sentence “I was more skilled/better than my former chinese teacher “Jerry” in Badminton.

Attempt I - 我比我以前的中国老师"Jerry"好在羽毛球.

Attempt II -我是在羽毛球几比几我以前的中文老师更有技巧.

This phrase looks useful “几比几” does it mean “compared to”?

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我的沙特阿拉伯朋友人和我。我们是排球神，但我们的团队才不呢 好.

Wǒ de shātè ālābó péngyǒu rén hé wǒ. Wǒmen shì páiqiú shén, dàn wǒmen de tuánduì cái bù ne hǎo.

My Saudi Arabian friend and me. We are volleyball gods, but our team is not good.

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九十二 [きゅうじゅうに] - 92

Elementary Japanese 

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多美国人是胖的。

Duō měiguó rén shì pàng de.

Many Americans are fat.

多中国人不是胖的。

Duō zhōngguó rén bùshì pàng de.

Many Chinese are not fat.