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#Parole inusuali/Unusual words
Adoperare parole inusuali è un atto di maleducazione letteraria. Soltanto le difficoltà di pensiero devono essere messe fra i piedi del pubblico.
Karl Kraus
Using unusual words is an act of literary rudeness. Only difficulties of thought should be thrown in the way of the public.
Karl Kraus
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Ora At Labora
Why competence-based meaning is demanding?
Reality answers back. Skills expose errors. Improvement requires time, correction, and sometimes embarrassment. Many people avoid that pressure and choose systems where the feedback loop is weaker or controlled. If a practice mainly happens inside the mind, it can feel profound without being tested very much. That is one reason certain forms of meditation or spiritual identity become attractive. They reduce friction with the world and stay in the meditator’s head..
The phrase ora et labora (“pray and work”), comes from the tradition associated with Benedict of Nursia and the monastic communities around Order of Saint Benedict. Interestingly, that tradition actually tried to solve the exact problem of monks not working and escaping form the world. Early Benedictine monasteries did not treat contemplation alone as sufficient. Monks farmed, built, copied manuscripts, managed land, and maintained communities. The idea was that reflection without work easily drifts into abstraction, while work without reflection becomes mechanical. The balance forced contact with reality.
So historically, the older version of the recipe was not escape from the world but a structured life where inner practices were tied to practical labor. In many modern interpretations of “awakening,” the second half disappears. The result is a system with fewer external corrections. Once that happens, beliefs can stabilize without much testing.
Psychologically important is also difficulty as a part of why the activity can carry meaning. When a skill pushes back against you like teaching a difficult concept well, building something that actually works, solving a real problem the feedback from reality reduces the space for self-deception. The world becomes a kind of examiner.
But there is a subtle caution here. Not every difficult activity guarantees truth. People can work extremely hard inside systems that are also detached from reality, ideological movements, closed communities, or rigid academic frameworks. The key factor is whether the activity interacts with the world in a way that produces consequences that cannot be controlled by belief alone. Practical epistemology says that meaning should come from processes where reality has veto power.
When the world can correct you, meaning tends to stay grounded.
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i love jumping into many metroidvanias and being like yes yes very good. then remembering for each one i play “oh yeah i have an incredibly low tolerance for difficult platforming in video games.” and uninstalling after having gotten so far in.
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Sorry for the late reply❗
You’re right—when you sent that question, it was 7:00 p.m. in Japan 😄
And thank you so much for saying my English is good! 😆
The times when I feel English is difficult are with indirect expressions. I also struggle with subtle nuances in English💦
I tend to take English very literally, so once when someone said my character “silly,” I misunderstood it at first and thought they were calling it “stupid” as an insult.
Because of that, I often get confused by indirect ways of speaking, metaphors, and the different nuances words can have in English.
Another example is the word ”uncomfortable.” In my dictionary, it was only explained as “not good feeling,” so I didn’t realize that it can be a very strong word in American English.
I misunderstand English quite often, so I feel like I need to study more real, native English, not just vocabulary books sold in Japan.😼
Also, when I don’t know a word, I look it up in a dictionary every single time, so my replies can be pretty slow 😅
And by the way, you’re a really cool person too.
Thank you very much 😊❗❗
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Disabilities that affect IQ are intellectual disabilities. Those are different from learning disabilities.
An example of a learning disability is obviously Dyslexia.
I don’t have an example of an intellectual disability but a couple disabilities that can cause intellectual disabilities are Down Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. (There are other causes, these are just 2)
I don’t know if I need to include this, but I’m going to anyway. Autism is also a disability. It’s a developmental disability.
Ableist misinformation (which telling you you don’t have disabilities and labeling it as a difficulty instead is) is not just in the UK, but I feel that may be the only place I’ve heard call disabilities difficulties.
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This quick read offers insight and encouragement to help overcome everyday challenges and difficulties. It also covers the basics, giving a clear starting point for moving forward.
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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Difficulty Ranked
MH4U is considered one of the hardest Monster Hunter games because of the difficult missions that exist as key quests to proceed. Having gone through the game up until beyond G3 solo, I thought I would do a bit of a difficulty ranking, as I don’t think it’s necessarilly linear, and I want something to do while I’m still working to beat the last few monsters in the game.
Obviously difficulty is…
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Advice
My friend, dying, said do the hard things first.
Always do the hard things and you will have a better day.
The second thing will seem less hard.
She didn’t tell me what to do when everything seems hard.
Naomi Shihab Nye, from The Tiny Journalist
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And now I’m blind
I was not expecting that word search to be nearly as difficult as it turned out to be. No one came close to finishing it, or even finishing half of it, although a couple of my more obsessive kids told me they were taking it home over break and would bring it back on Monday, and I started poking at it myself around noon and as of right now, at 8:30, after putting another hour or so into it, I’m…
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THE CRAZY WOMAN IN A ROMAN PRISON
Dale Pollard
In A.D. 165, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, Roman authorities dragged a Christian woman named Felicitas into a stone prison beneath the streets of Rome. The cell was so dark that the prisoners kept there couldn’t see their own hands. Food was scarce, disease wasn’t, and dampness never dried. Yet accounts record something strange— Felicitas spent her final days singing songs…
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#La passione/Passion
In ogni attività la passione toglie gran parte della difficoltà.
Erasmo da Rotterdam
In every endeavor, passion takes away much of the difficulty.
Ederasmus of Rotterdam
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In these sorts of situations, the harder road—the one that takes courage—is often the one that needs following. The easier path leads to an empty gesture at best.
—Sister Agnes (Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman)
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Looking up tips for difficult bosses in video game, only to have it say over-level or cheese/oneshot it.
No. I want to improve and have an elegant dance with my enemy. I dont care if its a 45 minute choreographed dance.
Help me learn the footing, dont hand me a revolver.
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Sunday November 9 2025
I’ve ɓeen having things very difficult the last few days and not only the last few days but the last few months starting with July. I feel overwhelmed sometimes and many times as if God has deserted me, but I still try to remain faithful and believing, not doubting, and giving thanks even for the small things. Small things are really big things when nothing at all is happening or going right, with plans failing and never working out. Friday was a terribly bad day, so bad, I was sure Saturday would have been a good day, and it would have been if I had made the effort and not procrastinated. Without going into details, I could have been out of my current difficulties and people who know me and know my usual routine were shocked that I missed that opportunity. It’s embarrassing when more than just the silent universe knows your failures. I tried later, hopefully but once again disappointed in he long run. It’s the early bird that catches the worm. The late one doesn’t even get leftovers.
The bad luck or non-blessing - whatever you want to call it - carries on today. I am eating the usual raisin bread and a slice of cheese for my Sunday dinner and my one meal of the day. Plus some water. The solution - well, my solution - to hunger and empty pockets, is to eat little food and drink lots of water. It doesn’t stop my ungrateful belly from grumbling for more, but I usually don’t feel as hungry as before.
Mea culpa!
I always say. It’s my fault. But for my current situation, I will always blame Pat. She basically evicted me for no good reason: because she thought I was enjoying myself too much on my monthly weekend trips to Ocho Rios, my favorite place in Jamaica. She was in Kingston and really didn’t know if I was enjoying myself too much or when I frantically ran out of money and my fare to Kingston and ended up doing minimal eating for a day, like I do many days now. Almost everyone else says, and I am reluctantly forced to agree, that she asked me to leave because I was neither giving her affection nor much attention. And for that I am guilty. Mea culpa.
We had a briefly affectionate past before she took me in and then none after.
I went from paying JA$22000 monthly to now paying JA$55000 monthly as rent at my new location. My first months rent in June plus the deposit and the so-called ‘contribution’ (she refused to give me a receipt at any time) cost me 55000+55000+22000=JA$132000 and I am an average working class Joe. I have been in serious debt ever since. Friends and colleagues have had to rally round to help, because I didn’t even have a bed to sleep on
So, as I called Pat’s name, I have to say thanks to Jodi, Halli, Shaki, Cal, Dam, Tresh and Chev, among others.
And, of course, God.
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.” -Job 13:15 (KJV)
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Speaking of player-hostile design, a specific problem I have with a lot of contemporary metroidvanias with variable difficult levels is that the “harder” modes tend to only make sense in the context of appealing to speedrunners. The standard “iron man” mode – i.e., your save file gets erased if you ever die – is basically just mechanically enforcing what high-level speedrunners are doing anyway in any game whose routing is sufficiently optimised that dying is a reset point. It’s totally dependent on the external pressure of trying to beat your own personal best time to make it fun and interesting; without that pressure, all it’s accomplishing is to encourage a really tedious, risk-averse approach which isn’t difficult so much as it is time consuming.
I’d love to see more metroidvanias explore challenge modes whose gameplay loop doesn’t depend on the unspoken assumption that you’re speedrunning them to hold them together. Like, forget iron man mode – give me a Metroid clone with a survival horror mode, focus on resource starvation as a primary difficulty vector and all. Let’s make those random missile packs actually matter for once!
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How to be stable - 2025.11.04
Psalms 62:2 (KJV) He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
Be encouraged today that if we build our life on Jesus Christ, knowing that He saved us from sin and hell and has given us eternal life with Him that He will be our defence in the times of difficulties.Jesus Christ said in Matthew 7:24-27 (KJV) “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of…