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  • Well, it’s not a matter of just knowing some arbitrarily chosen Asian languages… it’s a matter of knowing:

    • The languages of the original texts
    • The languages spoken by the majority of scholars
    • The languages spoken by the majority of actual practitioners.

    Imagine a Christianity scholar who couldn’t tell you the difference between ἀγάπη, ἔρως, or φιλία. That would be pathetic. Imagine an Islam scholar who doesn’t understand the difference between Salah and Dhikr. That’s also pathetic.

    I don’t think a scholar necessarily needs complete mastery over these languages… but they should be proficient enough to get information from the source material when they have questions.





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    18 days ago

    I’m still confused. I thought the Snack situation was,

    1. You’re hungry,

    2. The chips are ready to eat,

    3. You eat the chips.

    So if there are no chips, you have to make something to eat instead, which becomes de facto Dinner. So the No Snack situation is

    1. You’re hungry,

    2a. There is no food ready to eat,

    2b. You make food to eat,

    1. You eat the food.

    I might be off base here, but I don’t snack, and I actually don’t understand.