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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
it's wild to me that people will live their lives guided by their reading of a *translation* of a document without ever engaging with the original language or any of the details of the translation process
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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rereading my favorite thing @RomeoStevens76 has ever written, "(mis)Translating the Buddha" "This is a good example of how Buddhism has been transmitted to the west. It's worse than not helpful, it's actively anti-helpful. As in it obscures actual understanding."
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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i won't be able to find it but awhile ago
@jonathandubin
linked to an author making some radical claims that the bible has been badly mistranslated and lots of important passages don't mean anything like what they sound like they mean in, say, the KJV translation
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
and regardless of whether that particular author's claims about what the translation should be are right or not, i don't see how any practicing christian could be confident this sort of thing *wasn't* going on, without studying the original bible or finding someone who has
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
oh nice this is actually pretty close to what i remember the excerpts from prayer of the cosmos were saying
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RomeoStevens
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In this view, 'accepting Jesus into your heart' is probably the same as taking heart-centered, somatic metta as your meditation object. The deep okayness that is a result of stream entry here is given a gloss of being about the afterlife.
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Bask ⚡️
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I would argue society very-often relies on modern interpretation/translations of foundational texts, and that it is typically net-good. As time passes: - Theories are refined - The most 'important' examples change - What is signified by a given word/signifier changes Ex:
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Bask ⚡️
@heybask
On The Origin of Species does not discussed: - DNA - Mito/Mieosis - Epigenetics Principia Mathematica was written in Latin. If a 'bad translation' is allowed to persist, it says more about a lack of rigor in the discipline than about 'consulting translations' as a failure mode
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Sarah Constantin
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yeah... i mean, Not Every Religion makes reading scripture a big thing, people who rely on IRL community to get their understanding are sometimes doing a different thing, not doing a bad job, but still. aaaaaa. it bugs me so much.
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Hormeze ❤️‍🔥🥲
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yeah this always confused me as an ortho jew this was literally what i did most of the day get veeery particular about how to translate in the original language god. wrote. us. a book. so yeah we just argue all day about why he used two words when one could do tricketc
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