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Travel - What can different cultures teach about boredom? A dozen or so young men wait, some playing cards or chatting around a fire.
It’s a scene from any street in Niger over the past three decades. One, the “tea man”, attends a small metal kettle on hot coals. He is responsible for the long and laborious process of brewing his group’s, or fada’s, gunpowder green tea. It’s the reason they have gathered. The men give their fada a name, which they often paint on the wall by which they gather along with murals of tea pots. In the 1990s, groups of college students began to gather in the street to strike in protest at the government, asking for political reform. [Young Nigerien men say] ‘zaman kashin wando’, which literally means ‘the sitting that kills the pants’ “[Young Nigerien men say] ‘zaman kashin wando’, which literally means ‘the sitting that kills the pants’.
Their aspirations are fairly ordinary: to secure a job; to marry; to start a household. Why we have boredom Curing boredom It is a way of accepting that time is the boss of you. The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate (...Know Thy Logical Fallacies) Looking for an edge so you can win your next big argument?
Learn the 10 Commandments of Rational Debate and use them against your enemy as you obliterate their argument point by point (rationally, of course). Knowing your logical fallacies and how the brain can deceive even the brightest of minds is the first step towards winning an argument. These are 10 of the more popular logical fallacies, but there are many others you need to learn in order to master the art of debate… 1. Though shall not attack the person’s character, but the argument itself. Example: Dave listens to Marilyn Manson, therefore his arguments against certain parts of religion are worthless. 2. Example: After Jimmy said that we should put more money into health and education, Steve responded by saying that he was surprised that Jimmy hates our country so much that he wants to leave it defenceless by cutting military spending. 3. 4. Example: Sheldon: “God must exist.” 5. 6.
Example: You’re either with me, or against me. Petro entregó el colegio número 24. Culture - The 100 stories that shaped the world. “I rarely find someone, really anyone, who doesn’t know some part of this story – the idea of the lost man who can’t get home after the war… the woman at home with the suitors.
Everyone can tell me some version of it, which is to say, it lives in them.” – Tess Taylor, poet, on Homer’s Odyssey In April, BBC Culture polled experts around the world to nominate up to five fictional stories they felt had shaped mindsets or influenced history. We received answers from 108 authors, academics, journalists, critics and translators in 35 countries – their choices took in novels, poems, folk tales and dramas in 33 different languages, including Sumerian, K’iche and Ge’ez. - Why the critics chose the top 10 - Is The Odyssey the greatest story of all time? - Who voted? The most popular authors of the top 100 stories were Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka, with three stories each.
It’s not a definitive list. Top 100 1. More from our Stories That Shaped the World series: - Who voted? Top 100. Log into Facebook. The Machine.
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