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| Cristina wrote: | | Do you believe in faith? |
Do you mean faith or fate?
| Cristina wrote: | Do you think every single thing we do in this life is written somewhere else?
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I won't go on too much about that, because it's a whole complicated theological question. I can say that at times when I think about how I've survived a lot of my own stupid risks and mistakes when I was younger, it makes me feel that I have to use my present and future for some beneficial (and benevolent) purpose, as if I have some mission on earth. The trouble is that I don't know what the mission is.  |
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| Tue May 30, 2006 9:28 am Do you have any regrets about things you've done? |
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Hi!
My opinion is that everything is written in the past. If you are capable to read the past and add the today?s circumstances and characters you were able to predict the future. But I dread that?s more than my personal skills allow me.
The same question for me were: How long lasts the eternity? 
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| Tue May 30, 2006 14:58 pm Do you have any regrets about things you've done? |
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| Fan of Arabian horses wrote: | | My opinion is that everything is written in the past. If you are capable to read the past and add the today?s circumstances and characters you were able to predict the future. |
That reminds me of being older and having a much younger girlfriend. You see her getting ready to make some mistake, and you KNOW it's going to be a mistake, but you can't tell her, because she doesn't have enough life experience to believe you. You're predicting the outcome of her mistake based on the past, and she doesn't have as much of a past to look back to. All you can do is let her make the mistake, then listen to what she says she's learned, and you can't say, "I could have told you that would happen."
I once heard an interview with some French actress who is known for her love of classic literature. Some people tell her it's a waste of time, but she says that reading old novels actually saves you time. According to her, every mistake or predicament possible is contained in those old novels, and so when something happens to you, you're already prepared for it. |
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| Tue May 30, 2006 18:05 pm Do you have any regrets about things you've done? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | That reminds me of being older and having a much younger girlfriend. You see her getting ready to make some mistake, and you KNOW it's going to be a mistake, but you can't tell her, because she doesn't have enough life experience to believe you. You're predicting the outcome of her mistake based on the past, and she doesn't have as much of a past to look back to. All you can do is let her make the mistake, then listen to what she says she's learned, and you can't say, "I could have told you that would happen." |
Jamie, I don?t know what mistake your girlfriend is going to make and I appreciate that you let her make her mistake without intention to shout her later "I could have told you that would happen." For you that might be a mistake, for her it is experience perhaps.
I myself remember being a handball coach training a youth team in the age of 12-14 years. The team played a very good handball and had been my calling card for an area trainer. But often, when I saw them playing in a match I thought by myself "I could have told them that would have happened what had happened" in special situations. I never shouted them but I always spoke to them about that special situations later and often had the success that the team in similar situations anticipated what would happen and was prepared not to make the same mistake again. I think that is what the word proficience means, not my skills as a coach but that of the team.
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| Wed May 31, 2006 4:51 am Hi Jamie |
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Hi Jamie,hi flock of red indians,hi everybody ,thanks for the correction I meant fate instead of faith :oops talking about this topic...
I believe in fate,I think everything happens the way God wants to happen and all, even bad things happens for something, that maybe in the beginning we don't understand but are absolutely necessary for better things to happen
All of us are here for one special reason,like angels passing
to help God ....
Thanks for your relplies,Cris
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| Wed May 31, 2006 5:05 am Hi Jamie |
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| Cristina wrote: | | I believe in fate,I think everything happens the way God wants to happen and all, even bad things happens for something, that maybe in the beginning we don't understand but are absolutely necessary for better things to happen |
I would ensnarl you in a debate over predestination versus free will, but that never gets anywhere.  |
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| Wed May 31, 2006 6:24 am Do you have any regrets about things you've done? |
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Hi everybody,
I think Conditional III sounds like an excuse to me. I agree with Mr. Torsen that Conditional I is much more important. We can't bring back the past history, but we can change it in the future, for the better.
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| Thu Jul 06, 2006 14:01 pm Do you have any regrets about things you've done? |
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| Alan wrote: | | I would write maths and the only use of math |
I would like to know if Math or Maths could be written with a small letter!
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| Thu Jul 06, 2006 16:22 pm Capitalisation |
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Since Tom has brought up the subject of capitalisation, I thought the quote below could be interesting. Here again, as in so many other points, there are differences between AE and BE. There even seems to be a kind of battle on between Americans and non-Americans in this matter.
| Quote: | 1. Capitalisation rules seem to differ between American English and British English (or rather American English and all forms of english other than AE). Whereas the former seems nowadays to be following a 'minimal use of caps' policy, non-AE english uses caps far more often.
2. This issue has caused considerable problems with American students who come to Europe for summer courses. Europeans see the non-use of caps as 'semi-literate' and regularly dock students marks for it. Americans see non AE use of caps as 'ludicrous' and over the top. (I know from personal experience that the few caps english of AE users has caused bitter anger in my university, where lecturers 'hit the roof' at AE users' insistence of lower-casing names of organisations, electoral processes, governmental offices, etc.)
3. Within many academic areas, a major battle has been waged on this issue. To the resentment of non-AE users, AE capitalisation rules increasingly tend to be followed. The reason is purely economic. Publishers see the US as their biggest market, and so publish books in AE or in non-AE but following some of the characteristics of AE in areas like capitalisation. (This has infuriated many non AE-using authors. Last week, one British English author threatened to sue her publisher for 'rewriting' her textbook in AE when it was aimed at a UK market. She accused them of 'dumbing down english to suit Americans'. Some authors, according to the publisher I was talking to, have insisted in their contracts that their books /not/ be rewritten in AE, even when an edition is launched in the US. (American authors may well equally have insisted that their books not be turned into non-AE. As the publisher I was speaking to is British she has no knowledge of such contracts if they exist in the US).
If this is the case (and both the publisher and academic said so, while both expressing their dislike of AE capitalisation trends and what the latter called the 'wholescale manging of non-AE to suit publishers' profits by trampling over the language use of everyone who isn't American') that does explain the rows over capitalisation on wiki, and how it is AE users like Ec, Mav and Zoe who are so 'anti' capitalisation while it is users of other forms of english other than AE (Tannin, myself, etc) who want it. For if Mav, Ec etc were taught one set of rules on capitalisation usage, we were taught a different one and are infuriated by what, going by what we were taught, seems to be wiki's insistence on wrong use of capitals and non-use of capitals where they should be used.
In the circumstances, we should apply to the same policy as we apply in general to American english versus British english, ie, respect difference and allow users to set the policy in an individual article, based on /their/ usage of capitals in /their/ version of english. As most of the capitals issue involves AE users changing capitalisation applied by non AE users like Tannin in articles the non AE users have written (like on birds), it suggests that that process should stop and the rules on capitalisation should be amended accordingly. The issue is already causing enough rows outside wiki, with the increasing application of AE rules by publishing houses and style books causing major anger (the publisher said one author called it 'American linguistic imperialism', with AE rules being applied even though they conflict with all the grammar books used outside the US.) The best solution is not to enforce AE capitalisation rules but simply to recognise that different english users worldwide use different rules on this issue and to leave it to users, depending on their linguistic culture, to decide on capitalisation just as they decide on spelling in American English, British English or the various subsets of the latter (Hiberno English, Australian English, etc.) |
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| Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:01 am Do you have any regrets about things you've done? |
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| Conchita, where did you get this article, and why does this shmuck repeatedly violate American AND British capitalization rules by not capitalizing the word English? |
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| Fri Jul 07, 2006 13:09 pm Do you have any regrets about things you've done? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | Conchita, where did you get this article, and why does this shmuck repeatedly violate American AND British capitalization rules by not capitalizing the word English? |
The article is from a Wikipedia discussion page. Its author is Australian. Maybe that explains his 'eccentric' capitalisation  !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tannin/030715 |
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