Since this site and its journal is bilingual, or at least most of the posts are often in both Italian and English, I added this new category to post about English-Italian oddities, idioms, false friends and everything else.

Even though I love English language and I’m studying it since a long time, unfortunately it is still quite ugly, that’s why I decided to translate almost each post of this bilingual journal, to force me in practicing a bit more.
The main source of my improving intent is the WordReference English-Italian Forum: natives of both language open topics to ask about tricky or colloquial sentences hard to translate using a dictionary. I rarely open threads but even discussing a topic reveals to be a powerful way to improve the language knowledge.

In my Language category I’ll try to post in both languages:
in the italian version I’ll show how an english sentence would sound in italian and the same vice-versa in the english one. So obviously in this case it wouldn’t be a literal translation as I’m used to do in usual posts.

Of course comments are definitely welcome!

Enjoy

Inventing personal spiritual concepts.

Tastes differ: some prefer to adopt a Religion, solid and well promising, a few others choose to follow personal spiritual paths, more demanding but it will probably lead to something that really fits your mind.
This is usually given a negative connotation: do-it-yourself religion.
Following a predefined scheme of what you must believe seems to be far better than trying to imagine Life and what’s beyond by yourself, with concepts you can actually understand. Is it really that better?

If each exsisting Religion would be “open-source”, completely understandable, one could modify the grey parts, dogmas, etc… but in the end, would it be worth it?
So what about starting from scratch a new one? Hmm too hard. Let’s “simply” build up some basic principles of how the Cosmos could work, what/who the Infinite/God is, who is You and what is around you.

The trick to go on is thinking about very simple basic principles: if you’re thinking about something, try to think about its root. Root concepts will keep you from getting lost into thousands of useless frills.

This kind of religion obviously will not like to those who pray their gods to obtain benefits or who wants his/her wishes to be fulfilled. In such cases I’d rather prefer atheists.