(my comments on the thread “Probably gonna catch some hate for this. Religion and Mythology and its place in fiction.” on Reddit by RhysThornbery; edited for this blog)
The question is about the role of religion [1] in the HP universe, and it is very interesting one. I am a …
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Read More(my comments on “Terms of Matrimony” by Galad Estel)
First of all, this story has broken link on Fanfiction.net, so I have had to look up and down all over the Internet to find that only working copy known to me is at ff2ebook.com link shown above. Even …
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Read MoreFor some inexplicable reasons vim-editorconfig stopped working with my latest build of neovim. I am not sure why and I haven’t have enough time to debug it properly. As a workaround I have temporarily (?) switched to editorconfig-vim. The former plugin is all written in VimL, so it was not …
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Read More(my comments on “A magical love affair” by charmed9292)
I have to admit reading of this story was an exercise in frustration for me. I think the general idea of Petunia and Severus crying over one another’s shoulder is a great. Both of them are nicely complicated and somehow …
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Read MoreAristotle in the seventh and eighth chapter of his Poetics writes:
Now, according to our definition, Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is complete, and whole, and of a certain magnitude … As therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one when the object imitated is one …
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Read More(review of Must Have Changed A Lot)
This certainly works as a one-shot, but as many (most?) fanfics it is necessary to distinguish between exposition and story. There are zillion fanfics with at least interesting exposition (OK, so not only "what if Harry was a girl/has a sister"), but …
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Read More(kázání pronesené ve sboru ČCE Praha-Braník, 29. července 2018)
Po Janově uvěznění přišel Ježíš do Galileje a hlásal evangelium Boží. A říkal: „Naplnil se čas a přiblížilo se Boží království; čiňte pokání a věřte evangeliu.“
—Marek 1:14-15
Když se zeptám křesťanů na to, co je evangelium, většinou dostanu celkem …
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Read MoreI have tried to suggest update of Migration Guide for RHEL7→CentOS7 migration, but apparently after CentOS was bought by Red Hat, there is not enough desire to document such migration, ehm ehm. So, just recording this for posteriority:
URLBASE=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages cd …
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Read MoreMovie “Loving Vincent” is certainly an experience worthy of the tickets to go to the cinema. The main idea of it is to make “animated” film by painting endless number of quality oil paintings in the style of Vincent van Gogh about the painter himself. I have been warned that …
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Read More(odpověď v interním dotazníku KDÚ-ČSL)
Podle mého „na jednání o naší případné účasti ve vládě přistoupit“. Zde je můj komentář (který se do formuláře nevešel).
Zároveň zcela souhlasím s tím, že lidovci (a každá politická strana) vstupovala do voleb s tím, že jsou ochotni se zasazovat o správu věcí veřejných …
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Read More(komentář k diskusi na Facebooku k včerejší diskusi prezidentských kandidátů panů Drahoše a Zemana)
Byl jsem z té včerejší diskuse upřímně nešťastný (tedy z pěti minut, které jsem vydržel sledovat).
Ne, proto, že by novinář Primy byl neschopný minimální novinářské práce a jenom se snažil přivést diváctvo co nejvíce do …
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Read More(a comment to the blogpost by Robert O’Callahan)
I think the truthfulness among Christians is overrated. Here, I said it.
OK, before saying anything else, I have to say that being honest is very important, and I know what I am talking about. I had my brush with an …
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Read MoreThis is to prove for Disqus case ID: 524317 that I control this website.
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Read More(z emailové diskuse)
K obavám z roztříštěnosti:
Pokud v prvním kole bude mít Zeman více než 50% hlasů, bude zvolen. Pak je úplně jedno, kolik hlasů dostane Drahoš a Fišer. Pokud v prvním kole nedostane více než 50%, a předpokládejme, že do druhého kola se dostane, pak záleží na kandidátovi …
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Read More(Update later: this review was written in December 2017, when the latter story was somewhere around chapter 24; it would be probably too self-centric to think, that the author read my review, but the fact is that the later chapters of the story seem to address some of my objections …
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Read More(originally written as a comment on the blogpost by Gregory Szorc)
Some comments:
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Read MoreAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to document any possible ideas, which could be salvaged from the Acme text editor of Plan9 fame, and reuse in vim.
When I have seen for the first time Cox (2012) presenting Acme, modular text editor from Plan9, I was intriguied by its …
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Read More(somebody asked me in email about my opinions on vim v. IDE for Python programming, I think it could be worthy of being available to others as well)
Obviously you are interested in Python and Vim. Therefore I'd like to ask you whether you use a Python IDE. If so …
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Read MoreCo jsem napsal dnes ráno jednomu kamarádovi na IM:
Tak já Ti nevím. Jsem hodně nešťastnej z té včerejší post-volební diskuse předesedů vítězných stran. Kromě toho, že jsou morálně radikální názory dost neuctivé k milionu a půl našich spoluobčanů, tak efektivně dotlačili Bureše k tomu, že v této chvíli jediná …
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Read More(Comment to the article by Dave Schmelzer on a Christian and politics)
Hi, Dave,
let me add couple of comments from this side of The Pond.
First of all, of course, I blame completely confused American terminology, especially in the political matters. Here Socialists are not afraid to call themselves …
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Read More(This has been comment on the episode of EconTalk)
It seems to me that however this interview was awesome (and it was) it is still in the danger of being the same kind as the prediction about colourful faxes.
I think we are standing on the edge of the end …
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Read More(written originally as yet another comment to the blogpost “How Many Theologians Does it Take To Define Infallibility?” by Melinda Selyms)
First of all: thank you, these are very good questions, which actually made me think (doesn’t happen that often on blog comments).
Certainly, some rules are necessary even …
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Read More(written originally as a comment to the blogpost “How Many Theologians Does it Take To Define Infallibility?” by Melinda Selyms)
I am a Protestant, so I am not entitled to bring much to this discussion, but we were yesterday with my wife in Wittenberg, so I cannot resist to add …
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Read MoreRecord of my comment to another nice article by Melinda Selmys.
This is one of those sad places where I am afraid my voice will be completely ignored, because exactly the people who will most dogmatically insist on NFP will be the ones who will be the least likely to …
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Read MoreSome thoughts on the fan fiction Aftershocks.
We need to know without a shadow of a doubt that Padma did not kill Parvati before we can move on.
I am extremely confused about this whole work. On the one hand there are some parts which are really trully excellent. Whole …
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