I think atheism and anti-theism smells like books, old and new.
Was zahlste? Und welches Sächsisch willst du haben? Dresdnerisch? Leipzsch? Chemnitz?
At first I thought the problem is he has nobody doing the ironing for him, than I learned that he actually ironed his shirt while wearing it? Lel.
Those people are just clueless and need to be pitied. I can't really imagine that it is true, as McDonalds is pretty much the same there as over here. I can't imagine that those were "a lot" of tourists, or they were very young. When I went to Texas the last time I went to 5 different Barbecue places. We even waited in line. It was always excellent and something you can't really get often in Germany. We also went to eat steak and for Mexican and TexMex food. We also ate very good seafood.
The only thing I can imagine why your guests react like that is because they want to save money. McD is comparatively cheap.
I really hate the supposed justice system in which terrible criminals get away with the worst things with pretty much a slap on the wrists. Rapists, robbers, etc., they can laugh about the soft state, it's a joke really.
If you use the search function, you'll find that this discussion is repeated on this sub every few weeks. I'll mention this because you might find more and different answers in those threads. For now I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned Douglas Murray with others violently disagreeing about him.
I for one think that CH was one of a kind. A better question would be "As someone who appreciates CH, which public intellectuals do you follow, which columnists do you read?"
Blasewitz und Plauen sind beide sehr schöne Stadtteile, ein wenig gehobener als wo sonst Studenten wohnen, bzw. in Blasewitz leben eher die Medizinstudenten, da dort deren Campus ist. Definitiv sicher. Blasewitz ist an den Elbwiesen, da ist es sehr grün.
Ich habe als Student in der Neustadt und in Löbtau gewohnt. Die äußere Neustadt war im Nachhinein nicht so zu empfehlen, laut und viel Ablenkung. Ist heute auch eher Kriminalitätsschwerpunkt, gerade nachts. Löbtau war preiswert und recht ruhig, und mit Fahrrad oder Bus 61 gut angebunden an die Uni. Ist auch recht sicher, denke ich. Ich empfehle dir, bei Googlemaps zu schauen wie die Distanzen zur Uni sind (wenn du Medizin studierst halt zum Campus in Blasewitz am Uniklinikum, ansonsten zum Hörsaalzentrum oder zur SLUB je nach deinem Studiengang) und Streetview zu benützen um eine Idee über die Gegend zu bekommen. Da siehst du auch wo das Grün ist.
Well, yes, literally. This is from 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7tsvIEYVSc
Das weiß ich leider nicht. Vielleicht solltest du mit der Studienberatung in Leipzig und Dresden reden.
Ich denke für Physik und anliegende Themen hat Dresden eine sehr gute Uni, die einzige Exzellenzuniversität in Ostdeutschland. Das heißt, es fließen hohe Bundesmittel in die Forschung hier. Als Student hast du da Gelegenheiten die du an anderen Unis nicht hast. Schau mal rein: https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/profil/exzellenz
Ein Exzellenzcluster heißt "Physik des Lebens". Da geht es um physikalische Prozesse in Zellen usw.
This is the challenge "kid or mentally ill", which is the question one always should ask when reading something like that.
Seriously. How to take it back? I'm sick of something awesome from my student time being soiled by Nazis like that.
Interesting, an Italian knowing about "Schwabacher Judenletter"? I'm impressed. How do you know this story? This is even quite obscure lore in Germany.
It's quite stupid, yes, but that is the time we live in. We live in the age of memes. The Nazis wont sing their slogans when the song is not played, as they need it as a meme to band together. Therefore it is not played in order not to prompt them. Problem not solved, but swept under the rug. As the problem itself is unsolvable. Organizers want to avoid fights, so this is what they do. You can of course start playing the song and look at a brawl between drunk youngsters and security people if you like your event interrupted like that. But I understand that this is not the optimal solution of that problem.
Poland never abandoned Catholicism, most Poles also during Communism stayed fierce believers. This has to do with their history and their national identity that is bound up with Catholicism. In east Germany in turn, Protestantism was on the way out, it was discredited as having been allied with the elites during two world wars, that were lost and brought chaos and destruction. It had never really been part of a national identity as Germans were of different denominations and Germaness defined differently. The German workers movement, Communists and Social Democrats were politically secular and traditionally anti-church since their inception, Stalin had nothing to do with that.
The Communists now streamlined the education system and created incentives for people to abandon the faith. This also happened in Poland, but was seen there as an imposition from the outside and directed against Poland and the Polish spirit. In east Germany there was no such feeling, it felt to the people largely like modernization. People abandoned the church because it was inconvenient and old fashioned and possibly bad for their career (this was relevant for jobs like teachers, bureaucrats, state employees etc.). It had its niche, there for example was a "Christian democratic party", part of the official parties, that also had newspapers and institutions. But their version of Christianity was far from appealing to people, as it was "official" and "socialist", where you would rather take the original than a Christian version from Wish. With the crumbling of the Socialist economy and failure of their vision, the churches regained some of their importance and critical voices here grew (against militarization, ecological voices etc.), but while during the time of 1989 they became focal points for the regime change protests, membership in the churches stayed small, as the belief in god itself was simply gone.
With the unification of Germany there were attempts to re-missionize the Ossis. But they all failed. In the main political parties there are Protestant and Catholic networks that try to keep the traditional close German church-politics alive- the churches have their fingers in the social and education sectors and gets huge subsidies from the state - but this is basically a tiny but powerful minority. I also know of some people who joined the church in the 1990s because they thought this is good for their career. I find that as disgusting as leaving the church for the same reason during Communism, and now it was done voluntarily and not under duress. But those were very few people.
The culture nowadays is fine I think. We have many well maintained (thanks to public funds) Protestant and Catholic churches, when they are used as concert venues they are full. I personally like renditions of baroque music and go to concerts whenever I can, I can enjoy the music without believing in god. And the churches see many people on Christmas, otherwise they are quite empty. The 80% East-German non-religious people get their meaning elsewhere, but they enjoy life just as well. Interestingly the trend also in the West points towards more secularization, both Protestant and Catholic churches are haemorrhaging members, especially young people don't see the point in those churches anymore. I hope this will lead to a situation where we will finally get a serious division between church and state (as was already promised in the 1919 constitution), not that corrupt enmeshment that we currently have. I think this might even be good for the churches as they would turn from quasi-state institutions into civil actors with motivation to actually work on their messaging.
I completely see your point, and I would love for reality to be like that, however it is not. And organizers of events don't want to "kick the Nazis out" in the sense to send security there, if they can avoid that by a simple song not being played. In case of football hooligans sending security to kick out Nazis from a stadium, it might become a riot. And what honestly would you do if people next to you in a crowd would start to sing that? What really can you do? Start a fight? Most people wont and I also don't see the point in possibly getting hurt by some assholes who think "foreigners out, Germany for the Germans" is either the right or a funny thing to sing. They are obviously not people you can reason with.
We live in strange times for sure. They took L'Amour toujours from us, by soiling it with their cretinous slogan. I'm angry and sad.
He is not a Commie, I doubt this is relevant here.
That's unfortunately not how it works. Organizers want to prevent ugly eventualities. Like with the snobs on Sylt, some who sing it are enough to turn everything radioactive around. People film it, put it on the internet and boom, the scandal is there. The Nazis now managed to literally cover this song with shit. I've to check my random Youtube playlists to not include it, so that my neighbours don't think I'm a racist. It was included by accident just now (because I had listened to it a while ago innocently), that is how I discovered that Gigi has turned off the comments to it.
It's a cool and catchy tune and played on every village disco. Also people know it already for years. It has a huge memetic potential.
Reminds on that classic Monty Python bit: SPLINTERS!
heartwarming: the two worst people you know are fighting ☺️
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