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A selection in no particular order:
Namiste is Nepali for both hello and goodbye.
Hindus have over 330 million deities
On the other hand, Hindus are pantheists/monists, so really they have but one god who also happens to be everything....
When the world is cold, dark, lonely, hostile, and cruel, sometimes all you can do is cry.
Crying can be cathartic.
Trusting God when stupid, little things happen is possible--it is just very hard.
Only lower-class English people have gnomes. And eccentrics.
St. John Chrysostom was born in AD 349, seven years before St. Augustine of Hippo.
The last Western saint canonised by the Eastern Orthodox Church was a Viking king named Olaf (alt. sp: Olav) who died in 1046.
If God were omnipresent but had substance, then elephants would be more full of him and small people would be at a disadvantage.
Explaining the Gospel to Hindus with limited English is very difficult.
Hindus have a totally different set of boundaries from Westerners as well as a totally different way of thinking.
Explaining the word "self-perpetuating" is also hard.
A little bit of Jesus' love into a lonely life can do a lot.
Travelling expands your mind.
Even if you aren't racist, you have your own ways of judging--money, class, intelligence, education, personal interests.
Nepal was the last Hindu kingdom before it became a secularist state.
Constantine Palaeologos was the last Byzantine Emperor.
Only 1 million people live in Cyprus.
30 million live in Cairo.
Snails are fun to watch but unpleasant to eat.
Latvian food is simple but deeelish.
Latvia has beavers and otters.
Finns like hockey.
Thai people make curry.
How to meditate on God's Word, just as the Psalmist says.
A couple of Taize chants.
In Eastern cultures, feet are bad.
The Bible isn't necessarily the book of answers, but it is the book of Truth.
People think Canada is a Christian nation.
P G Wodehouse is FUNNY.
How to play snooker.
"Eimai apo tin Kanatha. Apo pou eisai?" "Me lene Mathiou. Pos se lene?" "Ya sas."
And much much more...
