u/honkycronky

Hello. I will be visint Taiwan very soon and I will spend most of my time in Taipei. I love thrifting so I thought about trying it out in Taiwan. I have some questions:

1. Would any of you share some thrifting spots with me? lol
2. Is it generally acceptable to walk up to young people and ask them to hang out? I don't want to share my age but I am below the age of 24 and traveling solo, so I would like to spend some time with people who know the city.

Hello! I will be visiting Taiwan very soon and I am an avid thrifter here in Europe. How is thrifting culture in Taiwan? Where can I find the best thrift stores? Are any locals willing to DM me some nice places (I am aware that thrifters don't like to share their spots lol)?

Hello, I would love to buy some books in Ladino, preferably old ones that were read by people. I already collect books in Yiddish so I thought that adding a Ladino book to my collection would be interesting. Any recommendations on where to buy them?

Hello,
I will be visiting Pristina soon and I have a peculiar hobby, I collect uncommon books. I mostly focus on religious texts. I would love to buy both the Quran and the Bible in Albanian, I am also interested in the Kanun of Leke. Any recommendations? I have no problem with the books being used or old, even better lol.

I bought these very short shorts as I dig the vintage style and they are about 25cm when it comes to length, which is fine to me, looks fun. The only issue is that my bulge is very prominent, like sex-offender worthy prominent. How do I minimize this effect?

What I mean by patchwork books are books that change over time. If you pick up the earliest possible version of the Bible we have it's going to be different from the Bible we use nowadays. We most likely lost some chapters, modified some, added some and so on and so on. It also applies to other ancient texts like the Iliad.
Also, do these "creatures" form nowadays too? I think that it could be much harder for it to form as now we have more reliable sources about authorship and we have more data to base our reasoning on.

Hey,
I feel quite ashamed because of the recent situation between me and my college friends. We were sitting and listening to some random music and Creed started playing.

Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking
"Maybe six feet ain't so far down"

I started visualizing this whole scenario and in my head it was just some dude 6 feet away from a literal edge, cliff-like thing, but the drop was only 6 feet tall so he was not that scared of it. I started questioning the meaning behind the lyrics and all of my friends just looked at me like I was mental. Then they explained that both the edge and the depth are not literal and I feel like a total dumbass.

I struggle with my intelligence level because I often read books and I don't see anything special in them, same with movies. Like I can watch a movie that is supposedly very deep and to me it's just a cool story until I read an interpretation of it online.
I got diagnosed when I was 11 and on my diagnosis it said "below average intelligence" and it just stuck to me and it haunts me to this day. I aced my finals and got the best results in my school, TOP1% of my country and got accepted to all of the universities I applied to. Now I study medicine and despite not having any issues academically I still feel really stupid whenever I talk to someone about culture or media, simply because I feel like art comprehension is completely out of my reach. I feel like a literal chimp trying to understand these concepts, I cannot see past the literal meaning. Can I somehow fix it?

Hey!
I will be heading to Taiwan this September and I have a DJI OSMO Pocket 3 camera, so I decided to take it with me to try it out. I have never used it before and today I finally got myself to sit down and watch a tutorial. I have the creator package or whatever it's called and it all looks quite nice. The only issue is the SD card. The only one I have is apparently too slow and weak for the camera.

In Taiwan I want to just record some videos for my family, like just my daily shenanigans, nothing really special but at the same time I will spend a little more than two weeks there so I would like to have the comfort to record some stuff. I also won't be taking my laptop or any other form of computer other than my phone if it's important and relevant at all.

What would you recommend in my situation? I know nothing about SD cards and I would like to get some knowledge from experienced people.

Hello,
I have been trying to add my Miles&Smiles account to my flight for about a week now. When I enter the My Flights tab in the app it says that if I link my account there I will receive 5000+ miles or something to use later on, then I press on the button to link the account and I type in my TK number, they send me some SMS or E-Mail code and I enter it there. After that I guess it is supposed to be linked, but nothing really happens and it asks me to do it again as if I have never done it before (I believe that I have done it about 50 times by now). Google says to check my name in both the Turkish Airlines account and the Miles&Smiles account, but they seem to match. I am quite lost lol

Hello,
I have been trying to add my Miles&Smiles account to my flight for about a week now. When I enter the My Flights tab in the app it says that if I link my account there I will receive 5000+ miles or something to use later on, then I press on the button to link the account and I type in my TK number, they send me some SMS or E-Mail code and I enter it there. After that I guess it is supposed to be linked, but nothing really happens and it asks me to do it again as if I have never done it before (I believe that I have done it about 50 times by now). Google says to check my name in both the Turkish Airlines account and the Miles&Smiles account, but they seem to match. I am quite lost lol

Hey, I have just finished watching Dan McClellan's video where he criticizes some random dude who made a statement that Jesus is YHWH. I can hear what Dan says, but I struggle with understanding it. I am not Christian myself but I was raised in a Catholic household, and inside my little head I had this kind of reasoning:
There is one God and he is divided into 3 parts (apparently it's a heresy, lol). If the Father is God and Jesus (the Son) is God, then logically I would like to say that Father = Son, and whether you define YHWH as Father or as the whole trinity it doesn't really matter, because still Son would equal YHWH.
I know that my reasoning is completely wrong and I have read that this whole ordeal is basically impossible to fully grasp due to God being infinite. Could you please explain what exactly YHWH is and why isn't Jesus YHWH?

Hey, I have just finished watching Dan McClellan's video where he criticizes some random dude who made a statement that Jesus is YHWH. I can hear what Dan says, but I struggle with understanding it. I am not Christian myself but I was raised in a Catholic household, and inside my little head I had this kind of reasoning:
There is one God and he is divided into 3 parts (apparently it's a heresy, lol). If the Father is God and Jesus (the Son) is God, then logically I would like to say that Father = Son, and whether you define YHWH as Father or as the whole trinity it doesn't really matter, because still Son would equal YHWH.
I know that my reasoning is completely wrong and I have read that this whole ordeal is basically impossible to fully grasp due to God being infinite. Could you please explain what exactly YHWH is and why isn't Jesus YHWH?

Hey, I will be heading to Taiwan in September and as a European who lives very far from any sea where big cetaceans reside I would love to go whale spotting there. I have read that Hualien is a nice place to do so, has anyone been there? Has anyone gone whale spotting in Taiwan in general? Do I need to book it now, and if so, what companies?

Hey, I will be heading to Taiwan in September and as a European who lives very far from any sea where big cetaceans reside I would love to go whale spotting there. I have read that Hualien is a nice place to do so, has anyone been there? Has anyone gone whale spotting in Taiwan in general? Do I need to book it now, and if so, what companies?

Hello,
I am Polish and yesterday was the anniversary of the Jedwabne pogrom. Many people complain about the lack of exhumations and that they should be conducted, but others state that running exhumations would be against the Jewish laws regarding burial.
I don't know much about the Jewish law so I would love to learn which position is closer to the truth.

Hey,
I will be going to Taiwan this September so I decided that a powerbank would be useful. I am not planning on taking my laptop or any other "bigger" devices so I would only really charge my phone (Samsung S24 if it's important).
Any recommendations?

08.09 - Fly out from Europe to Singapore
09.09 - 12.09 - spend time in Singapore
12.09 - Fly to Sarawak (Kuching?)
13.09 - 14.09 - Bako national park
15.09 - flight/ride to Brunei
15.09- - 17.09 - Brunei
17.09 - Flight to Sabakh
17.09 - 21.09 - river safari in Sabakh
21.09 - Here I am not sure, either flight to Kuala Lumpur or to Kota Kinabalu
21.09 - 24.09 - time there
24.09 or 25.09 - back to Europe

Is this realistic? Any tips?

Hey, I told myself that if I passed every single exam this year I would go to India in September. I am still waiting for 1 more result but I think that I am going to pass so I started thinking about the trip.
I am European and my budget is about $2500.
I don't know if I am ready to go to the most congested parts of India that everyone visits (Delhi, Mumbai etc.) so I thought about either visiting the northeastern part (Darjeeling) or the south (Kerala).
I don't know how much time is needed, I have the whole month off so technically it could take me a month but I'd rather spend about 2-2,5 weeks there.
I am into nature, various religions and I don't eat meat if it's important.

tl;dr, first time in India - Kerala or Darjeeling?