blaue_Fledermaus

joined 4 years ago

Not a good joke. It's an annoying stereotype, although unfortunately some around here make it sort of deserved ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

Yes, there are many Germanic colonies around here, last year we did celebrate 200 years of immigration. Fun fact: the wife of the first Brazilian emperor was an Austrian Habsburg.

[โ€“] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My city was founded in 1850, before Germany was even a single country.

While I don't know when exactly my family came here I know it was way before WW2.

[โ€“] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 4 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I come from a Germanic colony in Brazil, and while the language has been mostly genocided out, people still sometimes drop random German words in the middle of Portuguese, or mix Portuguese words with some German grammar.
My mother when younger visited Germany and got confused looks from the family hosting her by asking where was the "lixolatte" ("lata de lixo" is the Portuguese for garbage can)

I think I only heard/read it once or twice, but yes, I think most shorten it to just cavalos

[โ€“] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 8 points 5 days ago (6 children)

In Portuguese it's called steam-horse (cavalo-vapor)

Satan means "Accuser", in the book of Job he is trying to convince God that humans are too wicked and corrupt to deserve all the gifts God gives us, and and that people only pretend to love God because we expect something in return.

[โ€“] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In the book of Apocalypse/Revelation that's 2 places, there's the Land of the Dead, and the Lake of Fire; it tells the former will be thrown into the latter at the very end of things, after the Land of the Dead has been emptied.

[โ€“] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 41 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And even on Dante's Inferno Satan is just another prisoner, not a ruler.

[โ€“] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know how widespread this theory is, but in school my teacher told that one of the reasons for the war was that Paraguay was building an economy independent from the English market, and England fearing it would be a "bad influence" on the neighbours, pushed them into attacking (or provoking) Paraguay.

(I'm from Brazil)

Nero didn't pretend to care about Christians or for their support; although if there were MAGA-like "Christians" in the Roman Empire he maybe might have liked them?

Every time I make a comment similar to this someone replies with this link ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The idea of "Rapture" is very recent; and based on a very problematic pseudo-theology.

But for your idea, something more theologically solid relates to the idea that God is the source of all good, a world where God is entirely absent would be only evil and suffering, Hell.

view more: next โ€บ