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Thread: How to Wish in Turkish

4331.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 05 Aug 2010 Thu 08:43 pm

 

Quoting sonunda

 

 

I think if it´s an expression of regret like your example meaning also ´if only´ you use keşke+the past conditional.

keşke olsaydım=If only/I wish I were...........

(I think you use dilemek when you wish someone a nice day or of course özür dilerim-lit. I wish pardon=I apologize)

 

My try-hope it helps.

 

 keşke gelse : If only she comes

 keşke gelseydi : if only she would come

gelmesini diliyorum: I wish her to come

 



Thread: pls translate

4332.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 05 Aug 2010 Thu 12:27 pm

 

Quoting canimarab

The type of behaviours you condone I dont. We have different views and opinions. In my culture it is certainly not acceptable for the man or the woman to be unfaithful if they  are in a relationship. Your views worry me, within your culture it seems quite acceptable for a man to be in a relationship/ engaged but sleep with other women until he marries his darling.

 Senin göz yumduğun davranışlara ben göz yummam. Bizim farklı görüşlerimiz ve fikirlerimiz var. Benim kültürümde bir erkeğin veya kadının eğer bir ilişki içindelerse sadakatsiz olması kabul edilemez. Senin görüşlerin beni üzüyor/endişelendiriyor. Sizin kültürde bir ilişki içinde ya da nişanlı olan bir erkeğin sevgilisyle evlenene kadar başka biriyle yatması oldukça kabul edilebilir gibi görünüyor.

 



Thread: E - T (poem)

4333.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 05 Aug 2010 Thu 12:00 pm

I finished at last I made some modifications too. It is a very good  poem and very sad. See you.



Edited (8/5/2010) by gokuyum



Thread: Humans : Are they good or evil?

4334.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 05 Aug 2010 Thu 09:34 am

 

Quoting peacetrain

So ...  are these philanthropists selfish if they keep their billions or selfish if they give half of it away?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/04/us-billionaires-half-fortune-gates

 

Seeing this news item made me ponder other questions.  How much money does one human being need in order to be happy? Do people with billions, or just simply more money than they would ever need, feel they have nothing left to work towards in business? Is this why some turn to philanthropy? A new focus.

An interesting thread Gok

 

 

 

 Answer: God complex



Thread: Humans : Are they good or evil?

4335.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 05 Aug 2010 Thu 09:07 am

 

Quoting barba_mama

Jesus helped other people, so he must have been a totally selfish egoist right?

 

 

 

Here is an example with no comments:

For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him [Jesus—KB], and she came and fell at His feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” And she answered and said to Him, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.” Then He said to her, “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed (7:25-30; see also Matthew 15:21-28).

 

 



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Thread: Humans : Are they good or evil?

4336.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 04 Aug 2010 Wed 02:12 pm

 

Quoting barba_mama

I think this is also a debate about definitions. I think "selfish" means that you put your own joy above that of everybody else, and you only care about if YOU are happy. Your happiness can even come to the expence of other peoples happiness, you don´t care! Therefor, helping somebody else is 99% of the times not selfish. A truly selfish person will not get any joy from helping somebody else, because a selfish person will not get any joy from seeing somebody else happy.

Egoism is slightly different. I guess egoism is more about thinking that you are the centre of the universe, and having the utmost interest for yourself. Perhaps helping can be a part of egoism, if part of the egoistic ideal somebody has for him/herself is "the hero who helps others".

 i dont agree. i told my reasons.

 



Thread: Humans : Are they good or evil?

4337.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 04 Aug 2010 Wed 09:59 am

 

Quoting barba_mama

 I cut a bit in the following quote:

 

 1) I said I do not feel joy seeing the smile on his face, confessing the MURDER of children. There are different smiles And I would not find joy in his smile after he would not be convicted for example, because of a technical error. This is a smile of injustice, that doesn´t give me joy. I do get a fuzzy feeling from smiles of criminals who work with street-dogs. (Just saw the documentary on discovery )

2+3) In my opinion Freud was a bit of a quack, especially during his last years (quackery is şarlatanlık). Okay, quack is a bit overstated. I think 80% of his ideas were totally crazy. When I first started to study psychology I thought "wow, interesting, I never realised that" with what I read from his work. Most people quote Freud, so I thought he MUST be right. But as I started to read more and more of his work, and learned about his life, I started to totally disagree with his views. The guy was a total nutcase (with a deadly fear of the number 62), and connected almost every single problem a person could have with sexuality.

 As much as i know Freud is an important man.He is the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry. Freud thought human is a puppet of his brutal and sexual wills. He thought human is a destructive animal. So he called humans evil. But i don´t agree with him. I don´t think humans are always destructive. He defends there are only two motives under our behaviors: sex and brutality. Maybe he thinks all kinds of pleasures(being proud, feeling good) are some kind of sexual emotions. I am not sure. But i think there is one motive too it is "to know". People always wanted to know more along the history. And they didn´t care whether others condemn them or not. The will of knowing generally makes people creative and constructive. But not always. The will of knowing whether the atom would break up or not caused atom bombs to be made.

I think the important question here why people always want to know more? Because people are egoist creatures. We always want to have more. More money, more women, more dignity and more knowledge. We can never satisfy our wills for a long time. Always the new ones will show up. Maybe Freud thought this would cause destruction in the society in the end. But we also help more people to satisfy ourselves more. So wanting something more is not always destructive. Wanting to know more is the motive of scientists. And thanks to it, we live these comfortable lives.

 

So egoism is not always bad



Edited (8/4/2010) by gokuyum



Thread: Humans : Are they good or evil?

4338.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 04 Aug 2010 Wed 09:28 am

 

Quoting lemon

 

 

Alameda, you are so humanist. All humans are equally evil, including you alameda.

 I think all humans are evil according to common ethics. But they are not equally evil. Not everybody is a Hitler or Stalin. I call them negative egoists. Because their egoism is destructive.

I defend only one thing all humans are egoists.

 



Thread: Humans : Are they good or evil?

4339.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 03 Aug 2010 Tue 12:20 pm

 

Quoting zeytinne

 

 

 "bad" is not the same with "evil" ..maybe in Turkish you dont have the difference between these 2 words but in English you have !

 then forgive my ignorance.

 



Thread: Humans : Are they good or evil?

4340.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 03 Aug 2010 Tue 12:11 pm

 

Quoting zeytinne

What made you choose "evil" instead of "bad" ? "Evil" sounds on my ears like "demonic". How can you use such a word as opposite of "good" ? {#emotions_dlg.you_crazy}. You must bare too much hate in your soul... Geçmiş olsun!

 You can use bad instead of evil.

 



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