Often, deactivated accounts are deactivated only temporarily; even if not, deactivation only means you are declining to engage with Quora any more, not that you are removing your content. If you want to truly decamp from Quora, you *delete* your account, which is a different thing.
If I deactivate my account on Quora, does it delete all the content I produced?
Untrue assumption about the Greek words for love:
There are four Greek words for love that are important for Christians to understand. They are agape, phileo, storge, and eros. Three of them appear in the Bible.
The linked page gives examples of each. Unsurprisingly, the one that does not appear is eros.
The noun agapē first arises in Koine. (In fact, the first attestations, other than as a proper name, are in the Septuagint.) But the related verb agapaō was used for 800 years before Christ, both agapē and agapaō have been used for 2000 years since Christ, and there’s nothing intrinsically Christian about agapē.
In fact, the Church definition of agapē as “self-denying, divine love” is, well, it’s an eisegesis. In reality, agapē is just unmarked love; and philia was likely the more unmarked term in Classical times. Look at ἀγάπη, DGE Diccionario Griego-Español, the latest big Greek dictionary:
May or not be a comment; but to elaborate on Peter Flom’s answer.
In Byzantium, there was no comparable ban on interest. So Jews were not the money lenders in Orthodox Christian Europe. Jews were driven to do different shit-work that Christians there wouldn’t touch.
Literally shit-work. Jews were predominantly tanners in Byzantium. Before the industrial revolution, tanning involved the use of animal dung to soften animal hides.
Hence the references in 14th century Greek vernacular poems:
Cf. Benjamin of Tudela, a Jewish traveller who visited Byzantium in the 12th century. He may have gotten a bit mixed up:
For their condition is very low, and there is much hatred against them, which is fostered by the tanners, who throw out their dirty water in the streets before the doors of the Jewish houses and defile the Jews’ quarter. So the Greeks hate the Jews, good and bad alike, and subject them to great oppression, and beat them in the streets, and in every way treat them with rigour. Yet the Jews are rich and good, kindly and charitable, and bear their lot with cheerfulness.
The tanners fostering the hatred are in fact Jewish.
Much more in Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy, and several other sources.
Critical insight with the four-way classification of love in Koine Greek (Greek words for love): do not assume that the Greek classification was that clear cut. These are theologically useful idealisations. Like I already pointed out in Nick Nicholas’ answer to Why isn’t there a non religious equivalent of agape love?, the Diccionario Griego–Español’s definitions of agapē are:
- Sexual love, with a link to Song of Songs thank you very much. (Inb4 “no, no, there’s no sex in the Song of Songs, it’s all metaphor.)
- General sense: love, affection
- Religious sense: love between god and humanity; Christian love, charity
- a favour; alms
- agape, communal feast; funeral feast; church, community
English certainly makes a distinction between erōs and agapē, without using the word “sex”: it’s the distinction between love and “being in love”. Modern Greek speakers would translate storgē as “caring” for a child, and would just as readily speak of agapē for a child. And while Aristotle defined philia carefully as a kind of love-as-loyalty, in ancient usage it overlaps with storgē, and lovers can feel it too (hence the –philia words in English.)
Greek:
The colour of sex is pink. Actually, it’s roz, a borrowing from French rose.
The colour of freshness and youth is not green, but pale green, khloros.
Sky blue, galanos, is the colour of calm. (There’s been some etymological conflation there.)
You go yellow with fear, not cowardice.
With monographs, you’re pretty much selling to university libraries. And the books are priced to match: north of $150.
If you still 300 copies, you’re doing well.
It’s already changed the culture significantly, of course. It has had a change in what kinds of sex teenagers expect to have, since that’s become a primary source of information on sex for them; but I’m not sure that counts as a cultural change. It’s better addressed in a question like What Is the effect of pornography on young teens? , although there’s curiously few responses there; there are statistics around on that question.
For broader cultural changes, I’ll venture:
I wrote a poem about this scenario. In my teens, which is the right time to be pondering such a scenario.
The final verse of said poem is:
Ni iris — laborejen. Malkontraŭ la malbeno.
We went — to the office. Un-against the un-blessing.
I’d like to think that’s still my answer. But it’s not.
At this stage of my life, there are worse things to be doing than spending 10 hours cuddling my honey.