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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • No worries, a lot of people don’t know this, but I am always happy to teach.

    In the original text, “stranger” which was introduced/standardized in the KJV English version the word is גר or גרים plural, or sometimes נכרי. In the Greek, it’s ξένος, ἀλλογενής, or παροικέω (NT). The Septuagint shows that this was understood as the same. Fun fact, the Greek word is also where we get the English word Xenophobia - fear of foreigners/immigrants.

    The first use is in Gen 15:13: God said to Abram, “Know surely that your descendants will be גר in a land that is not theirs…” The modern English word for living in a land that is not one’s own is “immigrant.”

    It goes on. Ex 12:49 specifies that There shall be one Law for [both] the native-born and for the גר הגר among you. Again, the modern English word for someone who lives in a place where they are not born - “immigrant.” The same is echoed in Num 15:16. Ruth, upon leaving her homeland and becoming a sharecropper in Judah exclaimed to the native-born Boaz: “How have I come to find grace in your eyes, when I am a נכריה?” Is that not the iconic immigrant story?

    In all, the word occurs in some form over 100 times in the Hebrew Bible. In truth, the semantic range is a little broader than I portrayed it in my original comment. It can, depending on context, also mean “foreign,” “convert,” or even “traveler.” Regardless, it is surely silly to translate it as “stranger,” which in modern English generally means anyone who is not acquainted to you. But that’s how is was translated a few centuries ago when English was quite different, so it seems like we are stuck with it.




  • They don’t usually do questions with such obvious answers. I didn’t watch it, but I’m guessing it’s something to be effect of “Yes. And you can stop the sun from setting completely if you travel at a few hundred mph, depending on your latitude.”

    Just one question. Did he end up finding a paved road far enough north that you can do it in an ordinary car at legal speeds? I’m guessing somewhere in Russia or Canada?

    Edit: Okay, I watched it, and I have to admit a north-south driving path was not obvious and would not have occurred to me.












  • Well, you won’t like it. If you have very fast internet and a managed downloader, then you may be able to get all of the files. Google seems to throttle the speeds to make large takeouts almost impossible to download in the limited time allowed.

    For this size of download, your best option is to get a subscription to a compatible service (Dropbox, etc.) To transfer the files, which will happen much more quickly than downloading yourself. Then download the files from that service at your leisure, and then cancel the service.

    It’s pretty backwards, but it’s really the best option for large takeouts (over 5 gigs or so).



  • I’ve found radicale more stable in my implementation, but both are very good and are pretty similar to use.

    If you already have NextCloud/OwnCloud it would be a good to use the Calendar that is already built in, but it doesn’t make sense to install those for a calendar when there are better options available.