It took me a little time to get this, then it reminded me of something I never really got from the film That Thing You Do.
Does "1" actually sound like "wun" to American ears? As in with a "u" vowel, not an "o" vowel?
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Also, at the time, in the west, Al Qaida were a largely unknown terrorist cell operating in far-away third-world countries. It seemed incredible that such a devastating attack could be carried out on US soil by a small group most people had never heard of.
So you honestly believe that if executive compensation was more modest, they would simply shut down their companies?
And if that did happen, that nobody else would jump into the gap in the market?
You could find solace in hard determinism.
This was always going to be the way it happened.
Your actions were determined by your biology and life experience up to that point. Likewise, the other person acted how they did according to their biology and experience.
The gears of the universe turned in the only way they were going to turn, and the outcome you got was the only one that was ever going to happen.
It doesn't mean that you can't now act upon it moving forward, but hopefully there's some calm to be had in knowing that what has already happened was always going to happen. It's just a tiny artifact of the vast and intricate clockwork of the universe.
You've have some examples, but in case they are not clear enough:
If [you have AIDS] then [you are unwell]
[You are unwell] if and only if [you have AIDS]
The first one is not the same as the second. Why? There are plenty of ways to be unwell, without necessary developing AIDS.
The first statement only defines one possible path to B, not all of them.
I'm really lucky in that I learned "what goes around comes around" at a relatively early age.
When I was 16/17, the main bully from my secondary school died. He'd taken a car to go joyriding and lost control when being chased by the police.
As I've gotten older, I've learnt that, while it can sometimes take a long time, people who treat other people badly get what's coming to them more often than not.
absorbing
adjective
UK /əbˈzɔː.bɪŋ/ US /əbˈzɔːr.bɪŋ/
Something that is absorbing is very interesting and keeps your attention:
I read her last novel and found it very absorbing.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/absorbing
Yikes - and I thought I overanalyzed my text messages
This is what I do too. For double letters draw a tidgy little circle on the key - that should be enough to let the text recognition know what you want. It's a useful movement just to have as part of your swipe-typing technique.
This. It's less to do with religion, and everything to do with human nature.
From Ancient Egyptian Priests and Medieval Christianity, to Donald Trump and Boris Johnson - when in times of uncertainty, people will turn to anyone claiming to have all the answers.
"Us Vs Them" is the oldest tactic when it comes to gaining and consolidating power.
I'm English (northern), and "one" rhymes with "on", not "un".
Honestly, I've never noticed any British accents that pronounce it differently than that, but I guess it's not Impossible.