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Month: August 2017

What day of the week are sad songs associated with in your culture, and why?

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Posted in categories: Culture

I’m OP, and this question comes from a discussion I had with Evangelos Lolos at https://www.quora.com/What-are-t… For Greek, it seems to be Sunday. Cloudy Sunday (Συννεφιασμένη Κυριακή), the #1 sad song for the postwar generation. I want it to be a Sunday (on the day I die) (Θέλω να είναι Κυριακή). Hammer and Anvil (Σφυρί […]

What were you doing on September 11th, 2001?

By: | Post date: August 1, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
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I was living in Orange County, and I’d already decided to quit my job; I was leaving to come back to Australia in two months. It was a hermetic, unpleasant work environment, and I was already not on speaking terms with my colleagues—over some inconceivably unreal pique. I tended to sleep in; I still do. […]

If you had to pray to any saint right now, to which would you pray?

By: | Post date: August 1, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Culture

Normally I wouldn’t wade in to such a question, but there are eight answers here, and none of them are by people who accept the premiss of the question, the Intercession of saints. Thank you for volunteering the opinion that all Catholic and Orthodox Christians are idolaters, Protestant and Muslim respondents, but clearly that’s not […]

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