CULTURAL QA 01202414A
Q1 Do you know a joke about Jerusalem?
KR An Old Joke and the New Jerusalem
I found this version of an old joke that you’ve probably heard before:
A man arrives at the gates of heaven. St. Peter asks, “Religion?” The man
says, “Methodist.” St. Peter looks down his list, and says, “Go to room
24, but be very quiet as you pass room 8.”
Another man arrives at the gates of heaven. “Religion?” “Lutheran.” “Go
to room 18, but be very quiet as you pass room 8.”
A third man arrives at the gates. “Religion?” “Presbyterian.” “Go to room
11, but be very quiet as you pass room 8.”
The man says, “I can understand there being different rooms for different
denominations, but why must I be quiet when I pass room 8?”
St. Peter tells him, “Well the Baptists are in room 8, and they think
they’re the only ones here.”
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Thinking about that joke I remembered a passage from the Book of
Revelation, where the new Jerusalem comes down out of heaven “adorned as a
bride for her husband” (21:3). A little later in the passage John tells
us: “It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and [each gate was made
of a single pearl]…. There were three gates on the east, three on the
north, three on the south and three on the west” (vss. 12-13). And I
smiled, wondering if there was a sign on each of those pearly gates, one
that said “Methodists,” one that said “Lutherans,” one that said
“Presbyterians,” one that said, “Baptists,” and so forth, all around the
wall.
The joke, I thought, would be on all of us, when we dutifully entered
through our respective gates and discovered that we were (in fact) all in
the same place. I hope we would only stare at each other for a moment
before we all burst out laughing and said, “Good one, God!”
You know what’s funny? In that passage there are actually names on the
gates of the New Jerusalem. “On the gates were written the names of the
twelve tribes of Israel” (vs. 12). It makes me wonder if those twelve
tribes sometimes had trouble getting along, if the tribe of Benjamin
occasionally turned up its nose at the tribe of Dan, for example. Would
the twelve tribes be surprised when they came through their respective
gates and found that they were (in fact) all in the same place? Would they
stare at each other for a long moment before they all burst out laughing?
It doesn’t seem to be God’s intention to keep us separated. He seems to
want to bring his big, scattered family together in one place. One of my
favorite parts of this passage comes a few verses later, where John tells
us that there wasn’t a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty
and the Lamb are its temple; and it didn’t need the sun or the moon,
because the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp; and the
nations will walk by that light and the kings of the earth will bring their
splendor into that place, and the gates will be open by day, and there is
no night there (vss. 22-25).
Did you catch that last part? The “nations” will walk by that light (the
word in Greek is the same one used for “Gentiles”). The kings of the earth
will bring their splendor into the New Jerusalem. It doesn’t sound like
it’s only going to be a place for God’s chosen people; it sounds like it’s
going to be a place for all of God’s people. And the gates will be open by
day, and there is no night there, which means, of course, that the gates of
that city will never be closed.
The New Jerusalem will always be open.
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Q4 Can you tell Some of the most mind-blowing facts?
1.Banana is one of the three most consumed fruits in the world.
KR Banana fever again
2. The richest dog in the world is Gunther IV with a net worth of more than
370 million dollars.
KR Taylor Swift's cat, Olivia Benson, is the world's
third-richest pet with $97 million net worth. The list of the richest pets
in the world was released.
Our runner-up in this list is not our highest-earning
influencer, but rather our premium cat food owner, Nala Cat, with a net
worth of $100 million. Jiffpom, our highest-earning canine pet influencer,
is still a long way from catching up to our richest feline influencer, some
$75 million behind, securing him a spot at number five on our Ultimate Pet
Rich List.
4 Sadie, Sunny, Lauren, Layla, and Luke Dogs $30 million
5 j i f f p o m Dog Earned $25 million
6 Choupette Cat Inherited $13 million
7 Pontiac Dog Inherited $5 million
8 Doug the Pug Dog Earned $1.5 million
9 Tucker Dog Earned $1.5 million
10 Marutaro Dog Earned $1.5 million
There are a few mad people in the world.
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3. China produces almost 50% of the world’s apples.
KR After covid stat changed now.
6. The Hawaiian alphabet contains only 12 letters: a, e, i, o, u, h, k, l,
m, n, p and w. Every word ends in a vowel.
KR Not exactly; writing is just 200 years old invented by the west;
since Hawa is wind air; Indian languages know Hawa. So words are based on
sound like music; so a kind of musical notes were invented in 1800 AD
Hawaiians had no written language prior to Western contact, except for
petroglyph symbols. The modern Hawaiian alphabet, ka pīʻāpā Hawaiʻi, is
based on the Latin script. Hawaiian words end only in vowels, and every
consonant must be followed by a vowel. The Hawaiian alphabetical order has
all of the vowels before the consonants, as in the following chart.
Aa Ee Ii Oo Uu Hh Kk Ll Mm Nn
Pp Ww ʻ
/a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/ /h/ /k~t/ /l/ /m/
/n/ /p/ /v~w/ /ʔ/
This writing system was developed by American Protestant missionaries
during 1820–1826. It was the first thing they ever printed in Hawaiʻi, on
January 7, 1822, and it originally included the consonants B, D, R, T, and
V, in addition to the current ones (H, K, L, M, N, P, W), and it had F, G,
S, Y and Z for "spelling foreign words". The initial printing also showed
the five vowel letters (A, E, I, O, U) and seven of the short diphthongs
(AE, AI, AO, AU, EI, EU, OU)
In 1826, the developers voted to eliminate some of the letters which
represented functionally redundant allophones (called "interchangeable
letters"), enabling the Hawaiian alphabet to approach the ideal state of
one-symbol-one-phoneme, and thereby optimizing the ease with which people
could teach and learn the reading and writing of Hawaiian.For example,
instead of spelling one and the same word as pule, bule, pure, and bure
(because of interchangeable p/b and l/r), the word is spelled only as pule.
Interchangeable B/P. B was dropped, P was kept.
Interchangeable L/R. R and D were dropped, L was kept.
Interchangeable K/T. T was dropped, K was kept.
Interchangeable V/W. V was dropped, W was kept.
However, hundreds of words were very rapidly borrowed into Hawaiian from
English, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Syriac. Although these loan words were
necessarily Hawaiianized, they often retained some of their "non-Hawaiian
letters" in their published forms. For example, Brazil fully Hawaiianized
is Palakila, but retaining "foreign letters" it is Barazila Another example
is Gibraltar, written as Kipalaleka or Gibaraleta. While [z] and [ɡ] are
not regarded as Hawaiian sounds, [b], [ɹ], and [t] were represented in the
original alphabet, so the letters (b, r, and t) for the latter are not
truly "non-Hawaiian" or "foreign", even though their post-1826 use in
published matter generally marked words of foreign origin.
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15. Women need an average of 20 minutes more sleep than men each night, and
those who get enough sleep will feel healthier and live longer than men.
KR No sir; women can sleep less and still live longer than men. It
is unscientific.
Q5 Why should North Indians learn South Indian languages when
they are only migrating to South India for only making money?
KR It is not north and south; all over the world all must learn
languages, so mind opens up. If people after serving in a place , did not
learn that area language , then that person may be called a jihadi. There
are now 51 language learning from a CD KR IRS 15 1 24
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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 at 19:26
Subject: [iyer123] CULTURAL QA 01-2024-14A
To: Patty Thatha <[email protected]>, Iyer <
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*CULTURAL QA 01-2024-14A*
*All the BELOW QA are from Quora digest to me on 14-01-2024.*
* Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers *
*.Compiled* *and posted by R. Gopala krishnan, on 14-01-2024*
*Q1 Do you know a joke about Jerusalem?*
*A1 Andras Lu,Sep 9*
*In Jerusalem, a female journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who
had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a
long, long time. So she went to check it out.*
*She went to the Western Wall and there he was!*
*She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave,
she approached him for an interview.*
* “Sir, how long have you been coming to the Wall and praying?”*
*“Since 1967, for about 55 years.”*
*“55 years! That’s amazing! What do you pray for?”*
*“I pray for peace. I pray for all the hatred to stop and I pray for all
our children to grow up in safety and friendship.”*
*“How do you feel after doing this for more than 50 years?”*
*“Like I’m talking to a wall!”*
*Q2 What is the funniest joke you've been told that you still
think about to this day?*
*A2 Kevin Killian Cureton,21h*
*A man goes on vacation and asks his brother to look in on their mother and
his cat. After a few days he calls his brother to get a report.*
* “How are things?” he asks.*
* “The cat died,” his brother answers.*
* “That’s not how you give someone bad news!” he says.*
* “How should I tell you?” his brother asks.*
* “You could say the cat went out on the roof. You crawled out after it,
but it jumped to a tree. You called the fire department, and they brought a
hook and ladder and went up after the cat. But the cat jumped and fell to
the ground. You took the cat to the vet, and they did everything they
could, but the cat died. That’s how you give someone bad news.”*
* “I’ll keep that in mind,” his brother said.*
* “So how’s Mom?” the man asks.*
* “She’s on the roof.”*
*Q3 Who is the most badass scientist that has ever lived?*
*A3 Gary Meaney, passionate fan of all things animal4y*
*In my opinion, Alfred Russell Wallace would be up there.*
*Born in 1823, in Wales, this Englishman is one of the most famous
naturalists in history**. He co-invented the idea of natural selection
along with Darwin, and discovered the biogeographical border now known as
the Wallace Line. A whole region of Indonesia, Wallacea, is named after
him.*
*In 1848, he decided to embark on an expedition to the then-mysterious
Amazon rainforest, with nobody else except for his friend Henry Walter
Bates, later discoverer of Batesian mimicry. This was extremely daring, and
yet Wallace survived a full four years collecting specimens in the Amazon -
Bates spent a further seven before returning to England.*
*During the last year of his trip, Alfred’s brother Edward joined the two
friends in the Amazon. Tragically, they both caught yellow fever - Edward
died, but Wallace recovered and soldiered on.*
*On the voyage home, in 1852, Wallace was aboard the brig Helen. After 26
days at sea, the ship caught fire, and sank. Not only was this a terrifying
near-death experience for him, but the vast majority of his most
interesting and valuable specimens were lost.*
*In a letter to his friend, Richard Spruce, he describes poignantly the
losses:*
*My collections however were in the hold and were irrevocably lost. And now
I begin to think, that almost all the reward of my four years of privation
and danger were lost**. What I had hitherto sent home had little more than
paid my expenses and what I had in the “Helen” I calculated would realise
near £500 [nearly $40,000]. But even all this might have gone with little
regret had not far the richest part of my own private collection gone also.
All my private collection of insects and birds since I left Pará was with
me, and contained hundreds of new and beautiful species which would have
rendered (I had fondly hoped) my cabinet, as far regards American species,
one of the finest in Europe.*
*You’d think that such a catastrophe, the ruin of one’s entire life work,
would be pretty demotivating for a man. **Not so for Wallace; in that same
letter, written just two months after the shipwreck, he considers going to
the Andes next, or the Philippines.*
*Eventually, he settled on Indonesia and the surrounding regions** - one of
the least-explored places in the world at the time. During this expedition,
which started in 1854, Wallace was incredibly prolific, collecting:*
* 110,000 insects 7,500 shells 8,050 bird skins 410 mammals and
reptiles*
*Not only this, but he is credited with the discovery of over 5,000
species!! That’s got to be a world record. In any case, the conditions on
the trip were, as you’d imagine, far from luxurious. Most of the time,
Wallace slept in tiny wooden huts, and ate what the natives did - including
fruit bat.*
*One time, he and several local friends had to altercate with a huge python
which entered Wallace’s hut. It was allegedly over 4 metres in length, and
he described it as being “well capable of swallowing a dog or a child.”
This plate shows the python being unceremoniously extracted from the roof
of the hut.*
*The python’s skin is preserved today in a museum owned by the Linnean
Society**. The skins collected by Wallace and his loyal sidekick Ali (who
later voluntarily adopted the surname Wallace) were under constant threat
of loss. Many rotted, and on some islands they were plagued by ravenous
stray dogs in the night who stole their specimens.*
*Small animals were a big problem too. In 1858, four years into his trip,
Wallace fell terribly ill with an attack of malarial fever. The illness was
severely debilitating and he was confined to lie in his hut on a remote
Indonesian isle for some time.*
*And, believe it or not, it was during this time - of all times - that
Wallace conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection, completely
independent of Darwin!** He wrote about it to Charles Darwin, who -
unbeknownst to Wallace - **had long been developing the same hypothesis in
secret, for fear of ridicule.*
*The two naturalists corresponded for years, and later became friends, or
at least pen pals**. Eventually, after a staggering 8 years in what was
then a godforsaken, unexplored corner of the world, Alfred Russell Wallace
decided to return to England in 1862, having become a rich man from selling
his prized specimens.*
*Seven years after coming home, Wallace wrote his world-famous book,
perhaps the greatest of all the great Victorian travelogues - The Malay
Archipelago**. I myself have read it, and strongly recommend it. The book
was enormously popular when it was published and is one of the only books
which has never gone out of print, at least for anything like 150 years.*
*Again, his remarkable prolificness is clear - he, up until his death,
wrote over 1,000 articles and 22 books; many of them defending the theory
of natural selection from creationist skeptics. Many of his books are also
still available today.*
*Although he was not quite done travelling through wildernesses (he later
explored the Rocky Mountains in Colorado), Wallace largely settled down
after the end of his eight-year adventure. He died in 1913, at the age of
90, of natural causes.*
*I think it’s clear to see that Alfred Russel Wallace was a man of many
virtues** - courageous, determined, optimistic, modest and above all very
hard-working. His brushes with death in remote jungles make him, for me,
one of history’s most badass scientists.*
*Q4 Can you tell Some of the most mind-blowing facts?*
*A4 Jai Narayan,22h*
*HERE I AM SHARING SOME OF THE BEST AND SOUNDS UNREAL FACTS, BUT TRUST ME
GUYS IT IS REAL:*
*1.Banana is one of the three most consumed fruits in the world.*
*2. The richest dog in the world is Gunther IV with a net worth of more
than 370 million dollars.*
*3. China produces almost 50% of the world’s apples.*
*4. The only bird that can fly backward is the hummingbird.*
*5. The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid**,
a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and
the voice box. Its function is to support the language and its muscles.*
*6. The Hawaiian alphabet contains only 12 letters: a, e, i, o,** u, h, k,
l, m, n, p and w. Every word ends in a vowel.*
*7. Lake Bosomtwe in Ghana was formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.*
*8. A massive underground river runs underneath the Amazon, with the same
length as the river above but not** the same quantity.*
*9. Tourism is the world’s biggest industry, affecting over 240 million
jobs.*
*10. The palace of the Sultan of Brunei, the Istana Nurul Iman has 1788
rooms but is not the largest in the world. That honor goes to the Forbidden
City in Beijing, China.*
*11. The world’s largest recorded gathering of people was at a Hindu
religious festival. About 150 million people attended it.**(My note-
Kumbhamela might be the destival)*
*12. Abraham Lincoln went to school for less than a year. He taught himself
to read and write.*
*13. The longest recorded swim was 5268 kilometers down the Amazon River by
a Slovenian, Martin Strel. The swim lasted 66 days.*
*14. Humans are no match for some animals. The rhinoceros beetle can carry
850 times its weight on its back. The emperor moth can detect smells more
than 10 kilometers away.*
*15. Women need an average of 20 minutes more sleep than men each night,
and those who get enough sleep will feel healthier and live longer than
men.*
*16. On average, men make at least 12 full-body twists and turns once
asleep. They move or twitch more than 70 times a night.*
*Q5 Why should North Indians learn South Indian languages when
they are only migrating to South India for only making money?*
*A5 Prasanna Bhalerao, M. Sc. in Electronics & Physics,
Fergusson College, Pune1h*
*If someone wishes to migrate somewhere, they must learn the local
language. There are no if’s and but’s about it.* *Period. North Indians
cannot expect local South Indians to change for them - you made a change in
your life - this is another change you must bring into you. Time duration
is not the issue. This applies everywhere and vice-versa also (South to
North). An Indian migrating for a job to France or Germany or Italy must
learn French, German or Italian. The only exception is if this is for a
very short duration, say up to three months.*
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