I was talking to a Christian friend the other day about her having recently acquired French citizenship. She pointed out that many French values are actually Christian values–though you’d never get a secularist to admit it! Equality, tolerance, welcoming refugees are all things that were so striking to the ancienmt world because they ran against the prevailing culture. (Though welcoming strangers was also a Jewish value.)
I heard that the festive season was all about ‘goodwill to all people’ (deliberate disgendering there).
Therefore if one wants to point out the suffering of refugees, the homeless, the oppressed, those enveloped by war, etc., then it seems like a good time to do so, especially as it happens at the darkest & coldest time of year for many.
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You could rephrase that as ‘many of the best values in the world are actually humanist values - though you’d never get a Christian (other cults are available) to admit it!’
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Let’s see your working for that one!
My proposition is that the Christian values I cited come directly from the Bible.
Your suggestion can’t be true, because humanism is a recent belief-system and post-dates Christianity (by hundreds of years, if not millennia).
That is not to say that humanists, Buddhists, atheists etc cannot live by those good principles, of course.
This is a bit like going to war over whose values came first, which kind of contradicts many of the values being fought over.
Honesty, non-violence, caring for others etc. are simply good human values to live by & have nothing to do with waving a work of fiction around trying to claim that it all started there.
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Sticking with western thought, the Sophists had some useful thoughts on the subject from about 550bce onwards.
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To me you are missing the point. Perhaps it’s because I’ve always thought of the Nativity story starting with Gabriel, Mary and Elisabeth and ending when Mary, Joseph and Jesus end up in Egypt as refugees. I suppose it it’s all about the 25th your argument works but as I’ve said I think you are wrong.
Howlsplann Kernowek, maybe?
An howl is The sun
Kernowek is certainly Cornish
From twitter, when it was twitter:
“Combined with the Cornish word for sun howl. we have howlsplann: sunshine and the phrase yma an howl ow splanna: the sun is shining”
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I have trouble with English. 
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I took a wee interest in the question last night and combined with what I knew and what I gleaned I came up with howlsplann Kernowek. You’re response prompted me to check other sources, two of which seemed to confirm howlsplann.
I’m happy to be corrected by anyone out there who knows better. Perhaps the person with the house so named?
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Or which end of a boiled egg to break 
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’Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof!"
I break both now, of a hard boiled one that is, with @Mik_Bennett’s magic cracker. They come, or are picked, off easily leaving a large belt around the middle. Then pick a narrow little connecting canal, and the rest peels off sometimes in one strip.
Given up on soft boiled for the time being though.
I normally cook 6 at a time in the steamer, but a few days ago 2 had rolled together and mated, still in a lovers’ clinch by a small blob of solid white. Although hated to intrude on such a delicate situation, I shelled both of them while still connected. 
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I made a quick video at breakfast this morning for someone who got a donker as a present because they were a bit baffled (not sure why video is in slow motion)
You haven’t published it for all to view.
Thanks Wozza. I did make it public but Youtube made it into a “short” which doesn’t work on my PC. I changed the URL from /shorts/ to /watch/ as suggested by someone on the 'net and I can now click that URL and watch the video. I guess it only works on my machine. I am hopeless at this stuff, just as I think I have cracked it, someone changes the rules. Perhaps I should head for the Technical Queries thread. It was not a very exciting video anyway. 
EDIT — does this work? https://youtube.com/watch/y9zP6-6kc4M?feature=share
It works technically, but not visually because your left hand blocks everything. You need to switch hands to make the process clear.
Thanks for the confirmation DrH. I only wanted to show a quick demo of what ©David_Spardo called a “magic cracker” . Obviously my cinematography skills fall short of my technical skills which is already a low bar. I do however make a mean soft boiled egg.
