Blue Truck, Red State: Talk Like an Egyptian

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Talk Like an Egyptian

A fascinating animated video of numerous handsome men speaking ancient languages, including ancient Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Etruscan, Phoenician, and others you never heard of. Pretty interesting, although various commenters say the pronunciations are not always quite correct.

All the speakers are using the same ancient text, which is well known to some people today. I'll let you see if you can figure out what it is. If not, the answer is here.

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2 comments:

Davis said...: I looked and I was right... Fascinating.; October 28, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Russ Manley said...: Very good - go to the head of the class!; October 29, 2023 at 5:14 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu