Hi Thomas, Monday, January 19, 2009, 7:51:47 AM, you wrote:
> Yes, spirit and ghost is the same word in German (Geist). Maybe "meine > Brueder und Schwestern im Geiste" would come close to what you mean. The machine translation shows that to be very close to what I meant: "my brothers and sisters in the spirit." BR>> Perhaps a "Poltergeist" guided my hands on the keyboard with the first BR>> English being submitted to the translating software. > Interestingly enough, poltergeist ist one of the German words that > made it into the English language (we use many English words when > speaking German and call them Anglizismen), along with kindergarten > and the philosophical zeitgeist. Yes, I had known that about Poltergeist - "mischievous ghost" or something like that? And kindergarten, yes (although, as you know, in English we don't automatically put a capital letter at the beginning of the names of nouns. A good philosophical German term is "Weltanschauung." Another very practical German term to me is "Schadenfreude," a practice which by definition is harmful (although we have all done it at times before we began to reflect upon how to live more holistically with love, unfortunately). > Hm. I don't really think that they have internet in the afterworld. No, not physically, I am sure. The afterlife is all a great mystery, I believe, but I also believe that it is most important to focus upon finding our true connection to one another and the Divine in this life as best we can, and then live in that Light. "Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven" is the teaching, I believe. From that place in the heart/mind, one would know one's connection and would lose most or all fear about life itself. The Buddhists and others know of this "center" as well, but might use much difference language to express the meaning. I think it is all related to the concept of "know yourself," because by definition our true Self (not the little ego self) is all-encompassing. BR>> am sure that a major effort is (or will be) coming to improve/rebuild BR>> TB's IMAP function. > Yes, in order to avoid flying fish, I absolutely agree with you. I didn't understand your expression, there. Is that like George Bush avoiding "flying shoes"? > I have never used IMAP, I don't even like the concept of keeping the > mails on the server and not being able to search for earlier > business mails (those containing quotations, for example) when for > some reason I don't have access to the internet. The internet > connection in this hotel's business center was down, and this guy > next to me who had to access an old mail couldn't, because IMAP was > company policy - no problem with my POP mails in Voyager. But each > to his own. ;-) I understand what you say, of course. And it makes much sense. A POP system requires that one have a good backup system. For me, it used to be CD-R's or CD-RW's, but with IMAP, I don't fear losing the data. But as you say, the data on the server wouldn't be available if one wasn't online. I do use the TB backup, also, to a USB-2 external hard drive. I appreciate your informative replies about the German expressions. Thank you. I hope you'll have some chance to watch some of President Obama's inauguration tomorrow. -- Take Care, Bob Riley -- Using The Bat! 4.1.9.3 Windows XP 5.1 build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.1.9.3 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
