Chess, of late... and I completely suck  ;D

Thanks!

Azul à vaes fratreux es sorors in Iesu C'hríost,

Just thought I'd stick my head through the door of our little chapel and see what's going on. How are you all? What's going on in your lives? Belated greetings for Christmastide.  :)

I posted about Talossan translations of prayers like the Lord's Prayer in the language forum, but I thought I'd repeat the question here. Is there a document containing that stuff, like in the archives? Is there a Talossan translation of the Bible?

God be praised. You are all miraculous creatures of God and I love you dearly.

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Azul, O my countrymen,

The first few words of the Pater Noster in Talossan are referenced in that old Wired article, which got me wondering whether there's a treasury of Christian prayers like the Lord's Prayer or the Apostle's Creed translated into Talossan? If there is, could someone point me to it?

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I fear that if the beacon of liberty goes out in the United States, it will go out everywhere else, including in my own country. The people of the United States, my family among them, are in my prayers.

What scares me about these riots is the distrust in law they represent. Without laws, justly instituted and exercised, we are no better than animals, fodder for tyrants. If we do away with the law, we may discover it can't be regained easily or quickly. The law is our most sacred and precious heritage as human beings. In Exodus chapter 18, Jethro says to Moses:

'You should represent the people before God, and you should bring their cases before God; teach them the statutes and instructions and make known to them the way they are to go and the things they are to do. You should also look for able men among all the people, men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain; set such men over them as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you, but decide every minor case themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. If you do this, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will go to their home in peace.' (My emphasis.)

If we have law, then we have our freedom and our peace.

Munditenens, I join you in your condemnation of this despicable intimidation, which represents a total rejection of democratic, constitutional governance on the part of its participants.

Quote from: Ián S.G. Txaglh on January 04, 2021, 05:20:50 AM
:o there is this one thing which puzzles me, how would we know any relevant data from PRC? e.g. recent WHO research tells, that at least in wuhan, official numbers (infected, deceased) are at least one order lower than they, high probably, were. i lived in bolshevik country, i lived in the time of chernobyl (i was 16), so i would not believe any PRC official in regard to anything regime-sensitive even he tells me he has nose in-between his eyes ;)

You make an excellent point. We must of course exercise caution when taking data from the horse's mouth. I certainly wouldn't want to give the impression that I admire the containment strategy of the PRC. But, as a one-party state, they are 'playing on easy mode', for lack of a more sensitive term. It must be somewhat easier to contain an outbreak when you can simply ban people from going where they please under threat of force. I wish that some of my Australian countrymen were less inclined to fawn over the PRC's draconian measures as though they were worthy of emulation.

Anyway, if there's one COVID record we can all be proud of, it's Talossa's!

Admittedly my own pride was a little touched by your declaration that Australians are 'dumbed down' conspiracy theorists. This pandemic has brought out a lot of hasty talk about national traits and shortcomings, i.e. Açafat's quickdraw invocation of fascism, which confuses but doesn't surprise me. There are plenty of benign social-democracies that are currently being hammered by COVID. Conversely, the People's Republic of China, a contemporary gulag archipelago, has contained its own outbreaks remarkably well. I don't see how ideology and epidemiological efficacy correlate at all.

But, to quickly draw things to a characteristically Andrinesconian (read: sappy) conclusion, see Ephesians 2:19: 'Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.' I'm sorry I let my pride sweep me away. We should all try to be happy for each other's progress, and also hopeful for the amelioration of each other's pitfalls.

If an elective monarchy, or indeed a republic, be the will of the people, it must be valid. But a permanently empty throne seems to me—though inspired and interesting in a Game of Thrones kind of way—slightly absurd. The throne itself is just a piece of (digital) furniture. Without a person sitting it, it doesn't retain much symbolic meaning. It's comparable to having a permanently empty parliament. It sounds ghostly, like a memorial for an institution with no life left in it. If that's the case—as the more iconoclastic republicans among us would have us believe—then they should go the full distance and advocate for its full abolition. All these semantic compromises strike me as the staging grounds for a later move against the entire monarchy and its vestiges, such as the peerage. We're in the process of cobbling together some kind of new monarchical system in the wake of our Bastille. If and when the supporters of our monarchy attempt to flee to Varennes, as it were, there won't be any further need for compromise.

(Apologies in advance if this is a slippery slope fallacy. Indeed, sometimes history abides by very illogical and fallacious rules. Cf. Tolstoy, War and Peace, Epilogue. Also, for a biblical perspective on our current troubles, see 1 Samuel 8, especially verse 18: 'And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the LORD will not answer you in that day.' I would prefer a true monarchy, or no monarchy at all.)

Ahem... Czechia...

We still have 11 more years to make Talossa 2031 a reality, folks

Felt like sharing that I had my first confession in 12 years yesterday (1 Nov, All Saints' Day)—the last time I confessed was for my first reconciliation, I must have been 11 or 12 at the time. So I feel very full of kháris at the moment. God bless you all and God bless Talossa.

Manna from heaven? Tastes like chicken!

Quote from: Açafat del Val on October 14, 2020, 01:46:59 PM
The same thing applies to AD, by the way, who started this thread in the first place: put up or shut up.

I am going to beat that drum until my dying breath. If you want change, get involved or be quiet.

Careful what you wish for...

How do you say 'bruh' in Talossan?