#Texts

Appreciating the Sahihayn: A Proposition[Thread]The 2 Sahihs have been continuously defended & appreciated in many contexts. However, there are ways that are yet to be thoroughly explored.One of those is
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Bhishma schools Karna. The old man clearly had a measure of the man https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m05/m05169.htm https://twitter.com/pranasutra/status/1247928805529804801 Karna now does an elaborate song-and-dance The old man now tells him to sit
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If you believe parables have only one point; texts have only one big idea; that every text means only what it meant to it’s human author; you dislike systematic theology
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Another distortion by satrangis to insults the vedic gods Varuna & Mitra, this time refering to ‘Satapatha Brahmana 2.4.4.19’. This whole section describes an elaborate vedic ritual called ‘Dakshayana yajna’,
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The historic epic of Scripts and #SanskritLanguageThe history of Sanskrit language is as interesting as the history of its scripts. Today Sanskrit is written in Devanagari script but it was
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Akkadian has a verb nâkum 'to have sex with,' which is cognate to Arabic ناك nāk- 'to fuck.' I can't find any cognates in Aramaic, Ge'ez, or Hebrew, so potentially
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I was seriously upset when I was told to go for 0 screen time, but now I'm understanding why I was told the same, my pains are there and due
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The thing about those Dawn Butler and Diane Abbott texts: MOST BW probs know what it's like to KNOW splinter groups of colleagues are talking shit about you with regards
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THREAD 1/7Yes, 3-cueing is an issue. The bigger issue is the use of leveled text to teach beginning readers. In the kindergarten levels (A-D), the books are predictable. They include
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Thread: organising systems of political education among your comrades and class allies who are interested (by and for MLs) What is a SYSTEM of political education? It is a set
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By deriding and jettisoning close reading as an old-school, formalist hangover - post-colonial and post-modern literary studies have led to a kind of blindness to *text*. People don't read texts
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There are some things we need to clarify about what it is to #DisruptTexts. This is NOT about simply replacing texts. It was never about that. It was never *only*
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A growing body of research shows that there is no ‘strong toggle’ in the brain between fiction and nonfiction. People often incorporate lessons from fictional stories into their beliefs, attitudes
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So IR folks, do any of you use podcasts as texts for your 100 level classes? I'm trying to rethink some readings, bc when classes went online this spring, all
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"Women are lustful, wasteful, vile, degraded woe bringers"- Buddha“The learning found among women forms the conclusion of dharma... one should learn the remaining Dharmas from women and people of all
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if harry styles was your best friend, a thread your sc your texts more texts you were on a call but harry thought he hung up
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