those young people look so mature and accomplished, Keira Knithley for example i thought she is already around 30
i have this 'theory' of mine like why in history there were made like very abrupt progresses in technology or political thought or arts etc
which involves mass reincarnations, so there were 3-4 or more very great cataclisms which resulted in that, coz violent death may lead to that, premature departure of 'soul' and reincarnation and result in very prematurely mature and accomplished souls producing geniuses or just the general level of consciousness gets more like self-aware or purposeful
like after the Black death there was Renaissance or after wwii f.e computer era etc
if one dies peacefully reincarnations still could like occur but it'd be just ordinary reincarnations with forgetting everything in the previous life and getting all rewards or punishments according to one's karma
When I was a freshman at NYU I used that Portrait of an Artist quote as the epigraph to a sundry essay about James Baldwin and racial identity.
For reasons still unclear to me the TA insisted on mocking me for it in front of the entire class. To this day I can't read the word "smithy" without being overcome by shame.
Similarly the phrase "agenbite of inwit" sends shivers down my spine.
#20, Saoirse (pronounced "George")
I think you'll find it's pronounced "Sadhbh", except when it's "Ailbhe" or possibly "Caoilfhionn", "Ealadha" or "Maeleachlainn".
What Gonerill doesn't mention is that all of those are also pronounced "George".
Iarfhlaith, Toirdhealbhach and Muircheartach are also regional variants.
Well, my telephone rang it would not stop,
It's President Kennedy callin' me up.
He said, "My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?"
I said, "My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot"
Iarfhlaith, Toirdhealbhach and Muircheartach are also regional variants.
These would be the regions where the Elder Gods hold sway, then?
I know an Iarfhlaith and a Muircheartach, as it happens. Toirdhealbhach is these days only seen, if at all, in its Anglicization "Turlough".
"Saoirse", by the way, is not traditionally a name at all but instead means "Freedom", which immediately makes me suspicious of the parents.
Something about this post reads, to me, as somewhat Holbonian. Someday such ghostwriting will be the downfall of Ben's nascent political career.
What the hell? Wasn't Dakota Fanning just, like, 5, a year or two ago?
8: I've heard of Saoirse being used by Irish-American* attempts to be more traditional/ethnic. ("What, like Mary and Angela?" "Shhh.")
*in the green beer sense
They mean "hot" as in "hot property", surely? Even if not, I'm more disturbed that Keira Knightley is still under-25.
10: See Baseball's Herbage Directive # 1.
link direct
Link directly, young Ben.
And 1 is the best argument for genocide I've ever heard.
Link directly, young Ben.
I wrote what I wrote on purpose.
re: 9
Do you suspect they have watched that film with Mel Gibson in the blue face paint once too often? The one filmed in Ireland but set ... elsewhere?
had been copped from Laurence Cooper's fine mind.
Another lazy sunday afternoon troll?
I still haven't read it--the Commentary piece, I mean--but if it's anything like its representation in die Welt it probably isn't worth the time.
To help make sense of the Die Welt article, I actually read the Commentary article [*], so let me translate:
"Dude! That was the greatest shit evar. OMFG! I smoked that shit... Whoa. Dizzy. And wow, I was in a coma for three months... but dig it! This is the best part: I'm still high! I'm so very very very very very... Huh? Umm... yeah. Really high! Um... wheee! Clowns! Ceiling! I turned on Fox and there's still an election! How cool is... huh... so like they wanted ME to write SOMETHING, and I'm all like, 'I'm high! I'm so very high!'
So uh, basically, like McCain is totally this war hero dude, like his ghostwriter says, and like... IF he was president, and like Godzilla came... DUDE! GODZILLA! so like Godzilla is all STOMPITY-STOMPITY and McCain would totally like, go down to Tokyo Stompers, Ltd. and get all up in the G-dude's corporate face and then like, rip his heart out WITH HIS BARE HANDS! Awesome. No, Godzilla's heart! But I bet McCain would rip his own... WOW. HIGH... rip his own heart with his bare hands because uh, Georgia! FREEBIRD! WOOOOOO!
So... like... um, wait is it over? No. Yeah, so still electiondinging. I mean, McCain is like Plato. He's like just this one thing. And this other guy, the black guy, if Godzilla came over to his house and raped his wife. Godzilla's wife. No, wait wait! Oh, so AWESOMELY HIGH! Godzilla. House. The black dude's. House. If he. Godzilla! Came over and raped THE BLACK DUDE'S wife, the black dude, would all be all unity and, he would like hug him and squeeze him and call him George.
Godzilla. George Godzilla. Of the Jungle. Man, I loved that show. Can you imagine swinging through trees like that? And it wouldn't hurt if you got like really really high first! The drawers dude, they should totally get George some grass. So like this black dude is pretty cool, I mean besides BEING TOTALLY WRONG about Berlin. You know. Berlin. Hitler. Dude. They totally airlifted Hitler out of Berlin. Seriously! YES! He's like in Argentina. And he's probably getting high RIGHT NOW, just like me! So cool! I smoked Hitler!
Well. I would smoke him. Wouldn't you smoke Hitler? Then you could tell everyone you smoked Hitler. DUDE! So like the Obama would totally unify Hitler and dope, which would be really cool. Heh. Uh, but not as cool as .... uh... hrmmm... not as hot as this Fox chick man. Yeah, so McCain would like smoke Hitler and then rip Godzilla's heart out, but... Ohama? Alabama? FREEBYRD! Whooooooooooooooo! FRRRREEEEEEEBIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRDDDDDDD! So it's uh, Osama, yeah, that's the black dude's name! Osama would like negotiate with Godzilla. Hopefully for some free weed, but probably not.
So there you go. McCain. Isama. Two guys. Two not-high guys. I mean, they aren't high, so something will happen. And... And... one of them will.... WHOA. YEAH! One of them will be the one to negotiate if Godzilla shows up, but McCain totally won't. But uh... I'm not sure what's going to happen, except, FU---CUK, I have got to get me some more of this shit. OOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo. Jeez. This magazine is just so awesome when I'm high. So, yeah. I gotta say something about... I forgot. Shut up, man, I'm trying to concentrate and finish this. I was gonna say something... all dizzy and shit. So. McCain. Osama. McCain. Osama. Not much difference there, except one of them is a war hero and the other guy is black. Oh, shit. Unity! That's it! Unity. So like, Osama is all saying how he's going to have unity and free dope, but if he wins, McCain is going to go up there and rip Osama's heart out when he tries to negotiate with Godzilla, so like, you know... it's a WIN-WIN! Yay! All done! Cooooolllll.
Whew. So so so so so so... so so so so so so so... so so so so... .... ... so .... .... .... .... high."
max
['Do not pass go, do not collect 200$.']
[*] Stupid, I know. A mistake. It's Commentary. I'm old, I should know better.
I see that you have a fine mind as well, max.
I always thought that "Saoirse" as a name smacked a bit too much of Sinn Feinism but I think it has now become one of the standard yuppie names.
Presumably ben is actually referring obliquely to the fact that the name Seoirse is an actual traditional-ish name and is the Irish translation for George.
I always thought that "Saoirse" as a name smacked a bit too much of Sinn Feinism but I think it has now become one of the standard yuppie names.
Presumably ben is actually referring obliquely to the fact that the name Seoirse is an actual traditional-ish name and is the Irish translation for George.
Genghis Khan had a Christian grandson named George.
Help-Chalk or anyone else in Ohio, has anybody seen the conservative group's Rev. Wright ad?
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" is the only true statement about history ever uttered. Marx' "The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living" is also true, but clearly a special case of the first quote.
Sen. Inouye (supposedly Democrat) of Hawaii endorsed Ted Stevens which prompted Harry Reid to say that he'd be expelled.
Help-Chalk or anyone else in Ohio, has anybody seen the conservative group's Rev. Wright ad?
Not I, but we're not the most plugged in ad audience ever, in this house.
"Hi, I'm George Khan. I fucking dare you to say something."
I think of history as a horrible reality that won't let me sleep soundly.
"Hi, I'm George Khan. Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus?"
You couldn't link to an account of Bardot's comments in French, could you?
BG You mean that Reid said that Stevens will be expelled no matter what, yes?
I don't know French, BG. If you do, you're probably in a better position than I am to find such an account.
I hope that's not an Ayn Rand quote on Megan Fox's shoulder.
33: So says the HuffPo, but then that might mean that Stevens would get re-elected so that the Republican Governor can appoint his successor. Can you imagine if Palin were to appoint herself?
26: isn't it the other way 'round? Trying to awaken from the nightmare is a specialization of simply having it.
37: You've declared War on Metaphor, haven't you.
I was just rereading the 18th Brumaire, and it saddens me to report that Marx is not completely politically correct: "Nations and women are not forgiven the unguarded hour in which the first adventurer who came along could violate them."
Nor curfews: a curfew violated is [something something something mumble mumble.....]
+g
can't say anything silly, sigh
not for genocide, just one like possible explanation of great leaps in history kind of silly thought
i think i read before about wealth accumulation, or more free time allocation etc in that sense
but maybe i used the 'mass reincarnation' concept like for the first time in history :) coz google did not show anything with those words going together
i'm glad
sure whether reincarnations are possible is unknown and very questionable of course just i'm kinda suspicious of young prodigies how their brains get developed that quickly
or f.e i imagine 'souls' to be something like aromas with neurotransmitter properties where all the chemical components are like chained invisibly together into some unique essences for every soul and the brain entered gets like an instant stimulation for that, full functioning, sci-fiishly
36: IIRC the replacement is chosen by special election and not by appointment in Alaska.
42: Would Gov. Palin run? Also: who's lined up to replace Obama in Illinois?
43: The supposed front-runner is Jesse Jackson Jr.
44: I hope Alan Keyes maintains Illinois residency. That could be a fun one!
one of the so-called 25 hottest stars under 25 is all of fourteen years old
Two of them, actually.
Emerson's 30 is clearly better and more accurate than the original, ballyhooed "history is a nightmare" quote, which rests on the silly conceit that the natural, waking state of man is peaceful and untroubled.
Yet Emerson will get no credit and never be widely quoted, providing yet another small bit of evidence that reality sucks and we'd be better off sleeping through it.
Wrong again, PGD. You're a recidivist.
25: Help-Chalk or anyone else in Ohio, has anybody seen the conservative group's Rev. Wright ad?
Don't know if it is the one you are talking about but just got a Rev. Wright one here in Western PA a few minutes ago. I can't recall the group exactly, "GOP" was in it's title.
Wrong again, PGD. You're a recidivist.
you mean I'm wrong that Emerson will never be widely quoted?
I know an Iarfhlaith and a Muircheartach
pronounced "awfully" and "muckety" respectively.
Even your interpretation of why you are wrong is wrong. I have no choice now but to cast my vote for John McCain.