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Philosophy for Gardeners: a review
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That's interesting about the Epicureans.
Is there any extant indications or surviving information as to what plants that garden included?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/01/2024
Lord of the World: a review
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That's interesting about Jesus Christ in Middle-East "dream time" ;-D.
Might the fact that such dreams muster no air-wave attention or doctrinal assimilations mean that their written accounts never make it to the Vatican ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/01/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
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That's a bit disappointing to latch onto something that looks like a lone-tree candidate and to learn that it only lives elsewhere in the Hebrides.
But I like your rowan tree bird-dispersed (all the way from where?) best ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/01/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
Possibly. The hazel husks were discovered in the archaeological excavation of middens in the inner Hebrides. Taransay is Outer Hebrides and no Midden has been found
frankbeswick, on 03/01/2024
Lord of the World: a review
Jesus has sometimes appeared in dreams, as I have heard is happening in the Middle East. The Catholic Church takes great care to study these cases, but bit does not promote them over the airwaves and doesnnotbtreat them as doctrine.
frankbeswick, on 03/01/2024
Philosophy for Gardeners: a review
That is an idea that as far as I know no one has thought of. The Epicureans met in a pleasant garden in Athens. I cannot think of any others.
frankbeswick, on 03/01/2024
Carl Offterdinger and his vintage illustrations
If I remember corectly he was very disappointed by their ignorance. After all, they included his fairy tale into their first edition and his first succes in the field of literature for kids was titled German Fairy Tales (not Danish). On the ...
Tolovaj, on 02/29/2024
Carl Offterdinger and his vintage illustrations
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It's quite humorous and quite intriguing to imagine how little Hans Christian Andersen perhaps liked not being known by two such makers and shakers as the Brothers Grimm in his fairy-tale corner of the literary world!
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/29/2024
Carl Offterdinger and his vintage illustrations
Well, brothers lived and worked together for the most of their lives. I am not sure if they ever encountered Carl Offterdinger. But I know they had no idea who was H. C. Andersen, when they were introduced to each other.
Tolovaj, on 02/29/2024
Philosophy for Gardeners: a review
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Some Unitedstatesians have meditation gardens, particularly with Buddhism- or Christianity-associated plants, and spiritual, spirituality gardens, such as Marian gardens.
But is there such a thing as a philosophy garden?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/29/2024
Lord of the World: a review
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The Second Coming for me associates with the comforting promise by Jesus Christ, in Matthew 28:20, that "I will be with you always, even until the end of the world."
His appearances between Resurrection and Ascension must have been ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/29/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
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The second paragraph to the first subheading, Historical background, considers that "There is one tree on the island, though there seems to have been trees on several Hebridean isles in the Mesolithic period, when soil samples ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/29/2024
Saint Valentine and Valentine's Day
Some online sources associate pink- and red-colored attire to a formal get-together for St. Valentine's Day.
They attribute mint-green and yellow attire to an informal get-together.
Is this an option always around or just recently?
(If a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/29/2024
What Are Curses?
Online sources appear to associate animal cursedness with (all? some?) snakes.
They cite for serpentine cursedness Genesis 3:14-15, "So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/29/2024
Grief and Bereavement
Thank you for all the analyses, observations and suggestions.
The first action under the fifth subheading, Help ease the pain of grief, concerns "Roadside Memorials - A controversial subject."
Just down the road, at a grassy island, a teenaged ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/29/2024