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So on May 4, 1859, ten Flemish and French nuns [1] from the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary arrived in Honolulu and established a boarding school on July 9, 1859 and a day school later on (these were the precursor of Sacred Hearts Academy). What were the names of these nuns and their final fate (did they remain in Hawaii or return to Europe)? KAVEBEAR ( talk) 05:05, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I am not quite sure myself if this question is going to make sense but, I will ask anyway. I apologize beforehand if the following comes across as confusing in any way. Around two and half years ago, I asked on here a logic question about double standard and hypocrisy and the main reason I asked was the argument that Kosovo is unique and thus does not establish a precedent that got often brought up by most Western governments as a response to whataboutism from Russia and proponents of other cases of separatist secessions. While there were useful answers, I was not exactly satisfied and so, I will ask it more directly this time around.
Does the argument that Kosovo is sui generis and thus is is not a double standard to treat it differently from other cases of unilateral secession such as Catalonia makes logical sense? If it does, could you use the fact that every situation is inherently unique to a certain extent in term of context and situation to prove that all accusations of hypocrisy or any fallacious whataboutisms are inherently opinions? Or is the aforementioned argument just mental gymnastics to just metaphorically say "hurr durr The West is always right. Kosovo is unique and different because we say so and we are always right, why won't you get it? smh" since there is a huge gap in logic between "Kosovo is unique" and "We should treat it differently from other cases of secession"? 70.95.44.93 ( talk) 17:40, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
70.95.44.93 -- For good or bad, " Operation Horseshoe" was the final straw in influencing many NATO and/or western nations to arrive at the conclusion that Serbia could not be trusted with control of Kosovo, and did not deserve to rule over Kosovo. There has been no Operation Horseshoe in Catalonia. A situation somewhat parallel to Kosovo could be Nagorno-Karabakh. The vast majority of ethnic Armenians have a strong aversion to being ruled over by an Azerbaijani-run government, and would not have the slightest degree of confidence or trust in an Azerbaijani-run government's good intentions toward themselves -- and vice-versa for the vast majority of ethnic Azerbaijanis with respect to an Armenian-run government, of course. The international community has not formally recognized any special status for Nagorno-Karabakh, but it has also not strongly pushed for restoring the situation as of the breakup of the Soviet Union, since under current circumstances that would mean a violent ethnic cleansing of Armenians from the territory... AnonMoos ( talk) 21:43, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I recently was frauded by a company in the UK. It is odd that it is a real company and is still opened. They have no phone number or way to contact them except by e-mail which they do not respond to. I am not sure who I would report this to in the UK police/coppers/etc. I am out 14.000 that was wired to the persons bank account. The other thing is the place is still opened and has the same name Proceed Shipping LTD in Maidstone Kent. Would you please tell me who I should get ahold of with a phone number and a # for the police if able. Thanks 68.8.19.164 ( talk) 22:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I have a question about the AD calendar system--the people who originally created it wanted the first year after Jesus's alleged birth to be year 1, the second year after Jesus's alleged birth to be year 2, and so forth, correct? However, wouldn't that be wrong from a purely mathematical notation perspective? Please let me elaborate on what I mean here:
If, purely hypothetically, Jesus was born on January 1, 1 AD, then the year 1 would have been the first year of his life, but he would have still had an age of between 0.00 and 0.99 years throughout the entirety of year 1. Ditto for the year 2 AD, where Jesus would have had an age of between 1.00 and 1.99 years throughout the entirety of year 2. And so forth. So, if we actually want a system that measured the amount of time since a hypothetical birth of Jesus on January 1, AD 1, shouldn't we transform the year AD 1 into the year 0 instead? That way, whereas Jesus would have previously turned 1 year old at the start of the year 2 AD in this hypothetical scenario, he would have now turned 1 year old at the start of the year 1 AD in this hypothetical scenario due to the years on this calendar being moved backwards by one year. This would seem much simpler to follow, no? So, using such a system, the year 1900 would become the year 1899 since at the start of the year 1900 in this scenario, there would have only passed 1899 years since Jesus's hypothetical birth. So, if we actually want to graph and plot the distance between Jesus's hypothetical birth in this scenario and a particular event, shouldn't we graph and plot Jesus's hypothetical birth date as 0.00 and then add whatever number of years we want to increase to it? In this case 0.00 + 1899.00 = 1899, thus changing the year 1900 into the year 1899? The same, of course, would also work in regards to moving time backwards--as in, subtracting years before Jesus's alleged birth date in this scenario.
Anyway, what do all of you think about this?
For the record, this question is kind of random but it originated because someone on a particular forum insisted that the 19th century should end in the year 1899 instead of 1900 and that astronomically has already made a correction in regards to this by creating a year zero. My rejoinder to this, of course, was that if the people who created our current calendar would have actually believed in the concept of a year zero, then they would have labelled year 1 AD year zero instead, labelled year 2 AD year 1 AD instead, and so forth ... up to the point of labeling year 1900 AD year 1899 AD instead.
So, year, what are your own thoughts on all of this? Futurist110 ( talk) 23:32, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Nonaginta quinque igitur annorum hunc cyclum, studio que valuimus expedire contendimus, ultimum eiusdem beati Cyrilli, id est quintum cyclum, quia sex adhuc ex eo anni superant, in nostro hoc opere praeferentes;
[Ninety five therefore of years this cycle; it is with zeal that we hastened to strive to put in order the last of these of blessed Cyril, that is the fifth cycle, because six now from this year show, in this our work presented;]
In his table the last year of Martyrs was 247, followed by year 532 of Christ; the cycle was unbroken allowing for the fact that the year of Martyrs began on 30 August of the preceding year. After the change, the discrepancy between lunar and solar years in the first year of the cycle continued to be zero - Dionysius entered this as nulla in his table alongside all the other numbers - the first use of zero in the west. His table continued to the year 626. The attraction of extending in 95-year increments is that usually (though not always) the date of Easter repeats every 95 years.
His reasoning then is as good as it is now:
sed magis eligimus ab incarnatione Domini nostri Jesu Christi annorum tempora praenotare, quatenus exordium spei nostrae notius nobis existeret, et causa reparationis humanae, id est, passio Redemptoris nostri, evidentius eluceret. [but rather we elect to account the times of years from the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the beginning of our knowable hope might exist for us, and the cause of human reparation, that is, the passion of our Redeemer, might clearly shine forth.] -- 13:11, 27 April 2020 89.243.10.133
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So on May 4, 1859, ten Flemish and French nuns [1] from the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary arrived in Honolulu and established a boarding school on July 9, 1859 and a day school later on (these were the precursor of Sacred Hearts Academy). What were the names of these nuns and their final fate (did they remain in Hawaii or return to Europe)? KAVEBEAR ( talk) 05:05, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I am not quite sure myself if this question is going to make sense but, I will ask anyway. I apologize beforehand if the following comes across as confusing in any way. Around two and half years ago, I asked on here a logic question about double standard and hypocrisy and the main reason I asked was the argument that Kosovo is unique and thus does not establish a precedent that got often brought up by most Western governments as a response to whataboutism from Russia and proponents of other cases of separatist secessions. While there were useful answers, I was not exactly satisfied and so, I will ask it more directly this time around.
Does the argument that Kosovo is sui generis and thus is is not a double standard to treat it differently from other cases of unilateral secession such as Catalonia makes logical sense? If it does, could you use the fact that every situation is inherently unique to a certain extent in term of context and situation to prove that all accusations of hypocrisy or any fallacious whataboutisms are inherently opinions? Or is the aforementioned argument just mental gymnastics to just metaphorically say "hurr durr The West is always right. Kosovo is unique and different because we say so and we are always right, why won't you get it? smh" since there is a huge gap in logic between "Kosovo is unique" and "We should treat it differently from other cases of secession"? 70.95.44.93 ( talk) 17:40, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
70.95.44.93 -- For good or bad, " Operation Horseshoe" was the final straw in influencing many NATO and/or western nations to arrive at the conclusion that Serbia could not be trusted with control of Kosovo, and did not deserve to rule over Kosovo. There has been no Operation Horseshoe in Catalonia. A situation somewhat parallel to Kosovo could be Nagorno-Karabakh. The vast majority of ethnic Armenians have a strong aversion to being ruled over by an Azerbaijani-run government, and would not have the slightest degree of confidence or trust in an Azerbaijani-run government's good intentions toward themselves -- and vice-versa for the vast majority of ethnic Azerbaijanis with respect to an Armenian-run government, of course. The international community has not formally recognized any special status for Nagorno-Karabakh, but it has also not strongly pushed for restoring the situation as of the breakup of the Soviet Union, since under current circumstances that would mean a violent ethnic cleansing of Armenians from the territory... AnonMoos ( talk) 21:43, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I recently was frauded by a company in the UK. It is odd that it is a real company and is still opened. They have no phone number or way to contact them except by e-mail which they do not respond to. I am not sure who I would report this to in the UK police/coppers/etc. I am out 14.000 that was wired to the persons bank account. The other thing is the place is still opened and has the same name Proceed Shipping LTD in Maidstone Kent. Would you please tell me who I should get ahold of with a phone number and a # for the police if able. Thanks 68.8.19.164 ( talk) 22:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I have a question about the AD calendar system--the people who originally created it wanted the first year after Jesus's alleged birth to be year 1, the second year after Jesus's alleged birth to be year 2, and so forth, correct? However, wouldn't that be wrong from a purely mathematical notation perspective? Please let me elaborate on what I mean here:
If, purely hypothetically, Jesus was born on January 1, 1 AD, then the year 1 would have been the first year of his life, but he would have still had an age of between 0.00 and 0.99 years throughout the entirety of year 1. Ditto for the year 2 AD, where Jesus would have had an age of between 1.00 and 1.99 years throughout the entirety of year 2. And so forth. So, if we actually want a system that measured the amount of time since a hypothetical birth of Jesus on January 1, AD 1, shouldn't we transform the year AD 1 into the year 0 instead? That way, whereas Jesus would have previously turned 1 year old at the start of the year 2 AD in this hypothetical scenario, he would have now turned 1 year old at the start of the year 1 AD in this hypothetical scenario due to the years on this calendar being moved backwards by one year. This would seem much simpler to follow, no? So, using such a system, the year 1900 would become the year 1899 since at the start of the year 1900 in this scenario, there would have only passed 1899 years since Jesus's hypothetical birth. So, if we actually want to graph and plot the distance between Jesus's hypothetical birth in this scenario and a particular event, shouldn't we graph and plot Jesus's hypothetical birth date as 0.00 and then add whatever number of years we want to increase to it? In this case 0.00 + 1899.00 = 1899, thus changing the year 1900 into the year 1899? The same, of course, would also work in regards to moving time backwards--as in, subtracting years before Jesus's alleged birth date in this scenario.
Anyway, what do all of you think about this?
For the record, this question is kind of random but it originated because someone on a particular forum insisted that the 19th century should end in the year 1899 instead of 1900 and that astronomically has already made a correction in regards to this by creating a year zero. My rejoinder to this, of course, was that if the people who created our current calendar would have actually believed in the concept of a year zero, then they would have labelled year 1 AD year zero instead, labelled year 2 AD year 1 AD instead, and so forth ... up to the point of labeling year 1900 AD year 1899 AD instead.
So, year, what are your own thoughts on all of this? Futurist110 ( talk) 23:32, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Nonaginta quinque igitur annorum hunc cyclum, studio que valuimus expedire contendimus, ultimum eiusdem beati Cyrilli, id est quintum cyclum, quia sex adhuc ex eo anni superant, in nostro hoc opere praeferentes;
[Ninety five therefore of years this cycle; it is with zeal that we hastened to strive to put in order the last of these of blessed Cyril, that is the fifth cycle, because six now from this year show, in this our work presented;]
In his table the last year of Martyrs was 247, followed by year 532 of Christ; the cycle was unbroken allowing for the fact that the year of Martyrs began on 30 August of the preceding year. After the change, the discrepancy between lunar and solar years in the first year of the cycle continued to be zero - Dionysius entered this as nulla in his table alongside all the other numbers - the first use of zero in the west. His table continued to the year 626. The attraction of extending in 95-year increments is that usually (though not always) the date of Easter repeats every 95 years.
His reasoning then is as good as it is now:
sed magis eligimus ab incarnatione Domini nostri Jesu Christi annorum tempora praenotare, quatenus exordium spei nostrae notius nobis existeret, et causa reparationis humanae, id est, passio Redemptoris nostri, evidentius eluceret. [but rather we elect to account the times of years from the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the beginning of our knowable hope might exist for us, and the cause of human reparation, that is, the passion of our Redeemer, might clearly shine forth.] -- 13:11, 27 April 2020 89.243.10.133