Llosa's Twist: He deemphasized the socioeconomic factors, reframing the conflict as a clash of absolute, abstract beliefs. By making the peasants look purely motivated by religious fanaticism, he fit them into his ideological narrative that dogmatic faith—whether religious or political—inherently drives humans to irrationality and self-destruction.
ellauri501.html on line 639: 3. Colonel Moreira César (The Psychopathic Totalitarian caricature) The Real Person: Antônio Moreira César was indeed a brutal, highly aggressive military colonel. However, his actions were driven by the messy, paranoid, nationalistic fervor of a chaotic, freshly formed republic trying to prevent a monarchist coup. Llosa's Falsification: Llosa turns Moreira César into a cold, clinical, almost robotic psychopath who relishes slaughter. He shapes the colonel into a perfect surrogate for a 20th-century fascistic dictator. This distortion allows Llosa to draw a false moral equivalence, implying that the secular state military and the religious backland peasants were just two identical mirrors of absolute fanaticism.
ellauri502.html on line 136: 4. To Defer Honor to the Father In first-century Jewish culture, a good son never upstaged his father. By saying, "I don't know, only my Father knows," Jesus was showing the ultimate form of humility and respect. He was telling His followers that He wasn't on Earth to build His own kingdom or brag about His own knowledge, but to point people toward the Father. So, while it made Him less "believable" as an all-powerful space-deity to skeptics, theologians argue it made Him infinitely more trustworthy to hurting people, because it proved He actually knew what it felt like to be a limited, blind human. If you were designing a manifestation of God, would you prefer one that displays absolute power, or one that chooses absolute relatability? Tekoälyn antamat vastaukset voivat sisältää virheitä. Lue lisää
ellauri502.html on line 160: 1. The Paradox of Pride (The "Lucifer" Problem. AKA "familiarity breeds contempt" or "oderint dum metuant"). In Christian lore, the ultimate rebellion didn't start with suffering humans; it started with the angels (specifically Lucifer). According to the story, Lucifer lived in absolute perfection, surrounded by God's constant goodness, beauty, and love. He suffered zero torture.Yet, precisely because he had it so good, he grew proud. He didn't want to just bask in God's goodness; he wanted to be God.Theologians argue that if God makes an environment 100% perfect and safe, free creatures eventually take the goodness for granted and begin to resent the Authority who provides it. Human history shows that people often become the most selfish and destructive not when they are suffering, but when they are incredibly comfortable and spoiled. So it is important to whack them constantly to keep them on their toes.
ellauri502.html on line 182: You have hit the nail on the head regarding how the entire cosmic rebellion looks from a modern, political, or democratic standpoint. If Lucifer was a top-tier, highly capable entity, why not just give him a seat at the table? Why not form a coalition government instead of insisting on an absolute, one-party dictatorship where JHWH & Co. stay the "top dog" forever?In mainstream Christian and Jewish theology, the answer to why God refuses to share the "government" isn't about God being insecure or jealous like a human dictator. Instead, it comes down to a fundamental rule of how the universe is designed to work.Here is the logic behind why a shared government was impossible in that framework:
ellauri502.html on line 185: But in theology, God and Lucifer are not equals.JHWH is the uncreated Creator. He is existence itself. He sustains the universe every second.Lucifer is a created being. He is just a very fancy piece of hardware designed by the Creator.To let Lucifer share the government would be like a software engineer letting a really advanced AI program take over the company board. The program might be smart, but it didn't write the source code, and it doesn't understand the infrastructure. From God's perspective, absolute authority isn't a power trip; it is just a statement of reality. You can't share ultimate authority with something you manufactured. Except your son maybe. Daughter? Naah.
ellauri502.html on line 187: 2. The Nature of "The Throne"According to the lore (often pulled from passages like Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28), Lucifer didn't want a "seat at the cabinet." He wanted to be the ultimate standard of reality. His goal was expressed as: "I will raise my throne above the stars of God... I will make myself like the Most High."In a universe with only one ultimate Truth Social, you cannot have two infinite, absolute rulers. No way Jose. If God says "Let there be light" and Lucifer says "No, let's have darkness," the universe breaks with a huge fart. The government of existence requires a single, unified source of will to keep reality from dissolving into chaos. (What's wrong with chaos BTW?)
ellauri502.html on line 189: 3. The "Fly Wing" Perspective (The Gnostic View). cageWhat is fascinating is that your exact conclusion—that JHWH is just a jealous, power-hungry entity who wants to be top dog alone—is actually the core belief of an ancient branch of early alternative Christianity called Gnosticism.The Gnostics looked at the Old Testament and said exactly what you are saying: "This Creator god (they called him the Demiurge or Yaldabaoth) acts like a petty tyrant. He demands absolute worship, throws tantrums, and won't share power." In Gnosticism, the snake in the Garden of Eden was actually the good guy trying to give humans the knowledge to escape the tyrant's cosmic cage. So, if you follow traditional theology, God stays the "top dog" because He is the literal fabric of reality, and letting a creature rule would destroy the universe. But if you look at it from a critical or Gnostic perspective, it looks exactly like an absolute monarchy protecting its crown from a coup. Does the idea that Creator vs. Created makes power-sharing logically impossible make sense in their framework, or does it still just look like a cosmic monopoly to you?
ellauri502.html on line 330: 2. The Nature of the "Goats". In the famous Sheep and Goats parable (Matthew 25), the goats are not sent to Hell because they love evil or want to party with the Devil. The Sin of Omission: They are condemned simply for their absolute indifference—ignoring the hungry, the sick, and the poor. The Result: Theology teaches that turning inward and rejecting love isolates a soul completely. In Dante’s Inferno, the absolute lowest circle of Hell isn't hot or wild; it is a silent, frozen wasteland of absolute isolation. There is no community, no camaraderie, and no music. Best of all, no mobile phones. By strict parity of argument, if Heaven is the ultimate fulfillment of connection and selflessness, Hell is the ultimate logical conclusion of absolute selfishness: a solitary confinement of the soul's own making. Not a bad place for an autist. If you like looking at the pop-culture vs. theological divide, we could explore how John Milton’s Paradise Lost created the modern "better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" myth, or look into the concept of Annihilationism (the belief that the goats are simply erased rather than tortured forever). Which path do you want to wander down? The one paved with good intentions.
ellauri502.html on line 334: In orthodox Christian theology, God Himself holds absolute authority over Hell, and Jesus specifically acts as its ultimate judge and controller.If you want to use the prison metaphor, Jesus is indeed the warden, though not in the way we typically think of a jailer. He didn't go there as a victim. Icons of this event show Him kicking down the gates of the underworld, trampling Satan, and breaking the chains of the prisoners to rescue Adam, Eve, and the Old Testament saints.
ellauri505.html on line 226: Spinoza’s third level of knowledge provides absolute peace of mind because it reveals that you are not a separate, fragile entity fighting against the universe, but an interconnected part of an infinite, perfectly ordered whole. According to Spinoza’s Pantheism, God and Nature are exactly the same thing (Deus sive Natura—"God or Nature"). There is no personalized God in heaven looking down, judging, or altering the world on a whim. (Tää kyllä rauhoittaa jo aika lailla.) Instead, God is the infinite, deterministic, and logical fabric of existence itself. Here is how the third level of knowledge (Intuition) connects to Pantheism to grant ultimate peace of mind:
ellauri505.html on line 228: 1. The Fear of Death and Anxiety. At the first level of knowledge (Imagination), we believe we have complete free will and that external things are randomly "happening to us," causing fear, anger, and anxiety. At the third level, you intuitively grasp that everything happens out of absolute, physical necessity dictated by the laws of Nature. When you fully realize that an event could not have happened any other way, resentment and anxiety vanish. You stop fighting reality and achieve what Spinoza calls acquiescentia mentis (contentment or peace of mind).
ellauri505.html on line 236: For Spinoza, human bandage means being controlled by external forces and passive emotions (like fear, anger, and hope). Freedom means acting according to our own true nature, which is pure intellect. Here is the step-by-step mechanism of how Intuitive Knowledge transforms bandage into absolute freedom:
ellauri505.html on line 240: The Freedom: Intuitive Knowledge sees that everything happens by absolute necessity, flowing directly from God/Nature. When you intimately understand that a harmful event or person could not have been otherwise, the passive emotion (like anger or grief) loses its grip on you. It transforms into an active, calm understanding.
ellauri505.html on line 249: 2. You See Things as Logical and Necessary. From the perspective of eternity, nothing is "accidental" or "contingent." Things only seem random because we lack information. When you view life under eternity, you understand that everything—from the explosion of a star to a rainy afternoon—happens with absolute natural necessity. It is not your little ego that endures but the eternal truths you hold in it. The soul is not in the body, it's the other way round.
ellauri507.html on line 104: The story follows an unnamed 25-year-old man who has spent the last 18 years in a coffin. At age seven, he was diagnosed with a "living death"—a condition where his body functions ceased and he could not move or speak, yet his mind remained entirely conscious and alert. Over nearly two decades, his mother keeps him in an open casket, caring for him as he bizarrely continues to grow from a child into a full-sized adult. The "point" of the title and the narrative structure is to track the protagonist´s descent into absolute powerlessness through three distinct stages of giving up: The First Resignation (The Medical Death): Accepting the initial diagnosis at age seven. The boy resigns himself to artificial life inside a coffin, existing through "autonutrition" while his mind continues to spin.
ellauri507.html on line 114: Yes, absolutely. He doubled down on it. In fact, that "soledad shit" is the definitive thread connecting his very first story to his very last. When he published his final novella in 2004, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memoria de mis cojones tristes), it was essentially a 90-year-old man´s retrospective on a lifetime of profound, unyielding solitude. García Márquez used brothels and sex workers throughout his entire career not just for eroticism, but as the ultimate stage to explore existential loneliness. In Memories of My Melancholy Whores, the 90-year-old protagonist is a lifelong bachelor and journalist who prides himself on the fact that he has never spent a night with a woman he didn´t pay for.
ellauri507.html on line 147: Unlike Kafka, García Márquez had a robust, highly functional social and romantic life. He was a charismatic journalist, a massive music lover, a close friend to world leaders, and was happily married to his wife, Mercedes Benz, for 56 years. Mercedes Barcha was fiercely protective of her husband´s legacy and their domestic life. She acted as the family´s chief of staff and gatekeeper. She never publicly spoke about or acknowledged her husband´s affairs or any marital discord, preferring absolute discretion. Only after her death did it come out that Gabo had fucked up an extramarital daughter behind her back.
ellauri507.html on line 418: That is a fair critique. Large language models reflect the patterns, sources, and perspectives present in the vast datasets they are trained on, as well as the guidelines set by the people who build them. True, absolute objectivity is virtually impossible to achieve because every piece of writing or historical analysis carries some underlying worldview.
ellauri507.html on line 673: If we cut through the polished "book review" language: yes, they absolutely cashed in on peak Cold War anxiety. In the 1980s, the USSR was the ultimate ultimate big-budget Hollywood/publishing villain. Pitching "what if the Soviets actually push the red button?" was basically a license to print money.
xxx/ellauri056.html on line 581: Ein zentraler Kern in Fichtes Philosophie ist der Begriff des „absoluten Ich“. Dieses absolute Ich ist nicht mit dem individuellen Geist zu verwechseln. Später nutzte er die Bezeichnung „Absolutes“, „Sein“ oder „Gott“. Fichte beginnt in seiner Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre mit einer Bestimmung des Ich:
xxx/ellauri068.html on line 219: So what did I do? I chose to remember that Borges is not a writer of the era of Facebook and autofiction; that it is not true that he hides in his texts, speaks little about himself (in fact, the opposite is true: how often in his work does his double appear, the character called Borges?); he simply does not do it the way in which we are accustomed today; that, like his friend Alfonso Reyes, Borges learned the classical notion of decorum, which is a set of rules of style when writing and also a certain principle of discretion, an obligation not to say absolutely everything that is very likely inconceivable to many people today.
xxx/ellauri075.html on line 172: Furthermore, although a Jewish philosopher, Shestov saw in the resurrection of Christ this victory over necessity. He described the incarnation and resurrection of Jesus as a transfiguring spectacle by which it is demonstrated that the purpose of life is not "mystical" surrender to the "absolute", but ascetical struggle:
xxx/ellauri075.html on line 274: Waltulla oli siionistijuutalaisia kavereita mm Martin Buber (der Jude-lehden toimittaja). Se puuhasteli myös Stefan Georgen kanssa (miinuspisteitä). In ‘The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism’ (1920), Benjamin presents interlinked concepts of language, sacred text, a projected reworking of Kant’s limited concept of experience, and a new approach to criticism and Romanticism as a tracing of the absolute in early Romantic writing (paljon miinuspisteitä). Benjamin argued for an ‘immanent criticism’ which would engage in some ways quite mystically with a text’s internal structures and divine traces (roppakaupalla miinusta).
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 223: Except for the one who hired me because she is an absolute beast.
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 315: First, anyone who says that a tenured professor cannot be terminated for extremely poor teaching is absolutely and completely wrong. I was. So now I have a lot of free/downtime to write shit to Quora.
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 329: And here’s an even better question than the first one: Why would the idea continue to have so much currency despite having absolutely no demonstrable basis for belief? And the great Upton Sinclair gave us the answer to that one: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.”
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 367: Most people who talk about “Trickle Down not working” are concerned with absolute, rather than relative income. So if you earn $10 more and your neighbor earns $1000 more under this paradigm you are worse off because you theoretically might have gotten a chunk of the extra your rich fat neighbor made although percentwise you get about the same profit. The thing is: advocates of supply side economics are working from a different paradigm where THEIR wages is the more important thing. Don't buy another bottle of olive oil before seeing this.
xxx/ellauri086.html on line 452: Royalty is absolutely written on her face
xxx/ellauri091.html on line 852: We Christian students, states one such resolution, believe in the fundamental equality of all races and nations, and we consider it a part of our Christian duty to give expression to this principle in our relations with people. We also believe it to be our absolute duty to use all our efforts to combat everything which can lead to war and to combat war itself as a means of resolving international disputes.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 257: I’m from a small rural community, and ev’rybody who lived in my neighborhood, if you want to call it that, were relatives. We called it “the circle,” and our house was there, my grandmother’s house was there, an aun’ an’ uncle who were childless lived there, and (uh) a couple of aunts an’ uncles who had children. There were five female cousins, an’ in the summertime we hung out together all day long from early until late. In my grandmother’s yard was a maple tree, and the five of us developed that into our apartment building. Each of us had a limb, and [small laugh] the less daring cousins took the lo’er limbs, and I and another cousin a year younger than I always went as far to the top as we could, an’ we– we were kinda derisive of those girls who stayed with the lower limbs. We had front doors an’ back doors. The front door was the — the limb — were the limbs on the front, that were nearest (um) the boxwood hedge. And the grass was all worn away in that area. An’ then the back doorwa–was on the back side of the tree, an’ you could only enter the front an’ exit from the rear. And that had to be done by swinging off a limb that was fairly high off the ground, and (um) my cousin Belinda and I had no problem with that, but the other girls — that was always somethin’ we had to coax them into doin’. But still, you entered the front, you left the rear. We (um) ate our lunches together. When it was lunchtime — an’ our mothers always cooked lunch in the summertime ’cause they didn’ want to be in the hot kitchen at night. So we would just take our (um) — go home, an’ we’d load our plates with all the vegetables an’ the cornbread, an’ get our glasses of milk or ice tea or whatever we were havin’, an’ we would head for somebody’s yard, where we would all sit down an’ eat together. It was just an institution: lunch in somebody’s yard. An’ if you wanted to go home for a second helping– sometimes that was quite a little walk, but it was worth it, because that was our thing, having lunch together, every day. (Um) We gathered at my grandmother’s on Sundays. All my aunts would get those chairs, form a circle. (Uh) One crocheted. (Uh) Most of them just sat an’ talked, an’ we girls hung out for the main part with the women. (Uh) The men would gather around the fish pond, which was in a side yard. It was (um) — it was kind of a rock (um) pond that my granddaddy had, had built. There was a ir’n pipe in the middle, an’ when he went fishin’, he would put his catch in there. Or he caught a mud turtle, he’d put it in there. An’ there it stayed until it was time to kill it an’ cook it, whatever it was. The pipe in the middle had water that sprayed up all the time. There was a locust tree near there, an’ that’s where we girls picked the leaves an’ the thorns to make the doll clothes out o’ the locust. It’s where we always ate the watermelon. We always had to save the rind, an’ we always had to leave some pink on that rind, because my grandmother made watermelon pickles out o’ that rind. I hated the things. I thought they were the worst things I ever put in my mouth. But ever’body else thought watermelon pickles were just a great delicacy. That was also around the time that ev’rybody grew gladiolias [sic] an’ I thought they were the ugliest flower I’d ever laid my eyes on, but ever’body had gladiolias. ‘Course now I’ve come to appreciate the gladiolia, but back then I had absolutely no appreciation for it. It was also where we made (uh) ice cream, (uh) on the front porch. We made ice cream on Sunday afternoons. I had an aunt who worked in the general mercantile business that my family owned, an’ she was only home on Sunday, so she baked all day: homemade rolls an’ cakes. And so, she made cakes an’ we made ice cream, an’ ever’body wan’ed to crank, of course. (Um) That was just a big treat, to get to crank that ice cream. It was jus’ our Sunday afternoon thing, an’ I, I think back on it. All the aunts would sit around an’ they’d talk, an’ they’d smoke. Even if you never saw those ladies smoke, any other time o’ the week. On Sunday afternoon when we all were gathered about in gran- in granny’s yard, they’d have a cigarette. Just a way of relaxing, I suppose. The maple tree’s now gone. In later years, it was thought the maple tree, our apartment building, was shading the house too much an’ causing mildew, so it was removed at some point. And I don’t, to this day, enjoy lookin’ (uh) into that part o’ the yard. …
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xxx/ellauri127.html on line 402: Men absolutely love a beautiful, sparkling smile.
xxx/ellauri136.html on line 526: They had the compassion to be kind to themselves first and then to others, because, as it turns out, we can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly. We can't give to others if we don't pour a lot to ourselves first. And the last was they had connection, and -- this was the hard part -- as a result of authenticity, they were willing to let go of who they thought they should be in order to be who they were, which you have to absolutely do that for connection.
xxx/ellauri137.html on line 641: If you're buying this trash for a class then you're a sucker, turn back now! Hopefully Edward isn't still teaching his own tasteless fan fiction in a college setting. It's a misunderstood teenager's journey through satire complete with crude, unoriginal and stereotypical takes on characters from the lens of a self insert hero amounting to little more than finger pointing. You'll be offended, sure, but with little substance left to interpret besides the authors very obvious discomfort with himself and others unlike him. (Make some new friends, Edward.) Beyond being ridiculous as a required reading piece for a class, actually paying for this garbage is insulting, and of course it is an absolute drag to slog through. Nobody's going to publish this except on demand printing obviously and that's why you're buying it from Amazon!!!
xxx/ellauri137.html on line 763: Everyone who knew me at this point knows that I dislike first person narratives and it must be an absolutely amazing story for me to overcome that strong, strong dislike. In this case because I had to follow Rei's every thought, I couldn't help but judge her for them and find her bratty and ...in need of common sense.
xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1209: Strangely, Raskolnikov begins to feel alarmed at the thought that Porfiry (joku poliisi) might think he is innocent. But Porfiry's changed attitude is motivated by genuine respect for Raskolnikov, not by any thought of his innocence, and he concludes by expressing his absolute certainty that Raskolnikov is indeed the murderer.
xxx/ellauri148.html on line 104: "I feel absolutely ready for pornographic movies," McCormack says. "It's this wild feeling of sturdiness and joy, kind of a creative euphoria."
xxx/ellauri149.html on line 435: Arguably the strongest moment: when he is at absolute rock bottom, right before his suicide, Judas breaks into a reprise of Mary's "I Don't Know How to Love Him." When Mary sings it, it's implicitly about romantic love. And while Judas's version stops before "And I've had so many men before," it concludes with the anguished cry, "Does he love me, too? Does he care for me?"
xxx/ellauri149.html on line 456: The kiss with which Judas betrays Jesus is a full-on The Big Damn Kiss: no cheek or forehead kissing here! (The kiss is immediately followed by a hug with the two of them clinging to each other, and Judas looks absolutely devestated to be doing what he's doing as he holds Jesus.)
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 616: It wasn´t until the Reform movement that large numbers of Jews departed from more traditional Orthodox teachings. Reform Jews, who focus on the concept of ethical monotheism, believe that only the ethical laws of the Torah are binding. Additionally, they believe that other laws, like those laws in the Talmud, were products of their time and place, and so it was not necessary to treat them as absolute.
xxx/ellauri166.html on line 219: “This is spoken of God,” says Dr. Dodd, “after the manner of men, to denote his utter contempt of the opposition of his enemies; the perfect ease with which he was able to disappoint all their measures, and crush them for their impiety and folly; together with his absolute security, that his counsels should stand and his measures be finally accomplished; as men laugh at, and hold in utter contempt, those whose malice and power they know to be utterly vain and impotent. The introducing God as thus laughing at, and deriding his enemies, is in the true spirit of poetry, and with the utmost propriety and dignity.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 759: The absolute best way to learn how to speak chicken is to spend time with your flock, listen to them and talk to them. Some are more talkative than others but even the shy ones will respond if you give them some one-on-one time.
xxx/ellauri183.html on line 107: He forbade television in the house until the late '50s to encourage Paul and Janna to read. And he set an example of "incredible and absolutely consistent discipline," reading every night in his slow, methodical way, underlining frequently. He doesn't prize material things all that highly, and the center of his life has always been his family and friends.
xxx/ellauri183.html on line 111: Many critics dismiss Malamud as a "Jewish writer." But "that's a reduction of my accomplishment. It diminishes something. All men are Jews, he once said, and Jews are absolutely the very stuff of drama. I say nothing about the ladies."
xxx/ellauri183.html on line 192: Is stealing from a small shop worse than from a chain? Clare Carlisle's moral QA column in Guardian. God's Lamb's report emphasises the severity of property crime, highlighting research by the Policy Exchange thinktank which found that half of burglary victims do not hear back from police after reporting the crime! By moral absolutism, shoplifting and burglary are both absolutely wrong, and equally as bad as fornication or murder.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 786: The musulmans may try two wimpy objections. One possible objection would be to deny that the Quran uses the Infancy Gospel of Thomas as a historically reliable source. Rather, the Quran transcends the historical incongruities and limitations of the book and includes a story that is absolutely authoritative and without error. The historicity of Infancy Gospel would be a moot point.
xxx/ellauri187.html on line 117: Rilke loved absolutely, not strenuously or patiently, and therefore his love always froze up into a mirror of itself. His condition might have been tormented and tormenting--it might appear wearily obnoxious. But for Rilke the poet, modern men and women as lovers--their exalted expectations and their comi-tragic desperation--came to symbolize complex human fate in a world where vertiginous possibilities have replaced God and nature. In Rilke's Elegies especially, lovers encounter animals, trees, flowers, works of art, puppets, and angels--all images, for Rilke, of the absolute fulfillment of desire, alongside which the poet placed the tender vaudeville of imperfect human wanting. Rilke the man might have presented a painful obstruction to himself. But true ardor often springs from an essential deprivation.
xxx/ellauri212.html on line 422: "Thérèse Dreaming," which was finished in 1938, was Balthus's first painting of an underage model, according to the Village Voice. Balthus toned down the eroticism in his paintings later in his career, but he remained defensive of it: ''I really don't understand why people see the paintings of girls as Lolitas,'' he told the New York Times in 1996. ''My little model is absolutely untouchable to me." For all his artwork, Balthus's biographies and obituaries haven't published evidence of pedophilia in his personal life. Maybe his wee pencil was too shy to actually intrude inside his underage models. I bet he went afterward into the toilet with the canvas. Tai size taas vaan valehteli raukka nälissään, se oli ashkenazi jutku äiskän puolelta ja valehteli siitäkin. Toi kitaraa soittava ämmäoletettu on äijän izensä näköinen, mahtaisiko olla se Dorotea Spiro äitykkä. Sen veli oli jonkin sortin filosofi ja markiisi de Sade fänittäjä. Varmaan äiskä piti niitä pahoin ja niistä tuli jotain pervoja. Niljakasta porukkaa.
xxx/ellauri215.html on line 364: Alexander Stubb who has had direct experience with Putin and Russia, comments on the situation says, "The first argument is that Russia could not help itself. Russia has already been an expansionist and aggressive state. Unlike eg. Greece, Italy, Sweden, Britain, France, Germany and the U.S.A. You have to understand Russia's history to understand where Russia is coming from. ... Russia believes in destiny, there is a certain nostalgia and narrative of it’s expansionist past, which previously made Russia into a great superpower. So the argument that Russia is somehow working to defend itself from Ukraine doesn’t stand up. Russia could not help itself. Its like bulimia. There was absolutely no reason for Russia to attack. Russia just doesn't like capitalist democratic neighbors, just like America does not like communists, and the only one they allow to exist is Finland, which is insignificant. For the rest they think of spheres of interest and power, like the Chinamen."
xxx/ellauri224.html on line 344: What was this book even about??? The "narrator" kept jumping around with what he was talking about, quite a few times I had no idea who was speaking, and what was the point of all the billionaires? They had absolutely nothing to do with the story! It took 104 pages of confusing and pointless narrative for the guy to tell the girl (after 40 years of knowing her, no less) that he wanted to be with her. This might have been one of the most anti-climactic love stories I have ever read. The secondary characters seemed completely irrelevant to the plotline and it appeared that their only function was to take up printable space. The story was unimaginative, lacking in depth, and devoid of anything memorable. The only reason I bothered to finish it was to get one step closer to finishing my goodreads reading challenge, else I would have ditched it at page 20.
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 274: Philosophical Taoism had a large role in Le Guin´s world view, and the influence of Taoist thought can be seen in many of her stories. Many of Le Guin´s protagonists, including in The Lathe of Heaven, embody the Taoist ideal of leaving things alone. The anthropologists of the Hainish universe try not to meddle with the cultures they encounter, while one of the earliest lessons Ged learns in A Wizard of Earthsea is not to use magic unless it is absolutely necessary. Taoist influence is evident in Le Guin´s depiction of equilibrium in the world of Earthsea: the archipelago is depicted as being based on a delicate balance, which is disrupted by somebody in each of the first three novels. This includes an equilibrium between land and sea, implicit in the name "Earthsea", between people and their natural environment, and a larger cosmic equilibrium, which wizards are tasked with maintaining. Another prominent Taoist idea is the reconciliation of opposites such as light and dark, or good and evil. A number of Hainish novels, The Dispossessed prominent among them, explored such a process of reconciliation. In the Earthsea universe, it is not the dark powers, but the characters´ misunderstanding of the balance of life, that is depicted as evil, in contrast to conventional Western stories in which good and evil are in constant conflict, wearing white and black stezons, respectively. The idea of leaving good enough alone, in particular, is deeply un-American.
xxx/ellauri229.html on line 103: 29. Hence appears, that Historical Faith, meerly as Historical, that is, in passages Unabetted by Tradition, is not Absolutely Certain, but is liable to be False or Erroneous, and so is not without some Degree of Levity to be absolutely Assented to; tho’ we cannot generally with prudence Contradict them, but let them pass as if they were Truths, till some good occasion awakens our Doubt of them: The reason is given, in our last Paragraph, from this, that all Particulars are of slight Credit that were not Abetted by a Large and well-grounded Tradition.
xxx/ellauri230.html on line 476: Weighing over 500 tons and measuring an impressive 15 meters (49 feet) tall, Todai-ji Temple's Great Buddha absolutely dwarfs his admirers. He pitifully tries to hang on to the title of the largest bronze Buddha in the world (but see Ushiku daibutsu below).
xxx/ellauri234.html on line 492: I know all about the wrong partner…my kids mother, of all the women I had been with before her, would have been absolutely last on the list of people I'd want to have kids with.
xxx/ellauri255.html on line 111: This was exactly what Lenin and the Bolsheviks needed. The upsurge of chaotic violence was actually bulldozing a way through for the Bolsheviks to seize power, because the liberals were incapable (and actually unwilling) to do anything about it. What Lenin perceived – and he was absolutely right – was that the success of a coup depends on the apathy of the majority, not on how many real supporters you have. Trump and Bolsonaro made the same observation.
xxx/ellauri255.html on line 113: Even many Bolsheviks were shocked by Lenin’s extremism. His new government abolished the police and the army, replacing them with Red Guards from the factories, and absolutely everything was nationalised! How indecent! This course of action wasn’t apparent beforehand, and – not surprisingly since they lost their jobs and status – many of the civil servants didn’t want to work with the new government.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 242: Amos Wilder was a stern, teetotaling Congregationalist who expected his son to be scholar-athlete and a muscular Christian. When Thornton announced that he had been cast as Lady Bracknell in a school production of The Importance of Being Earnest, the senior Wilder informed him that he would rather that Thornton not play female roles. Papa would not absolutely forbid it, but he assumed that his son would want to honor his father’s wishes. Thornton reluctantly conceded, but later wrote to his father in China, “When you have changed your mind as to it, please notify.”
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 585: Hegel argued that God (as Absolute or Father) is radically negated by the concrete incarnation of God (as Christ or Son). This negation is subsequently itself negated at the Crucifixion of Jesus, resulting in the emergence of the Holy Spirit, God as both concrete (the church) and absolute (spiritual community). In Hegelian thought, therefore, the death of God does not result in a strict negativity, but rather, permits the emergence of the full revelation of God: absolute consciousness.
xxx/ellauri265.html on line 419: “The president of Portland State University said that the highest priority of the institution was racial justice,” Boghossian said. “Now that’s an absolutely remarkable statement, a genuinely remarkable statement. Not budget, not publication, not teaching excellence, not retention, but racial justice. A private institution like Bob Jones University can make their mission statement anything they want to make. My primary concern is with public institutions.”
xxx/ellauri298.html on line 646: God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being. Those are categories of thought. I mean it's as simple as that. So it depends on how much you want to think about it. Whether it's doing you any good. Gets you closer to your bliss. Whether it is putting you in touch with the mystery that's the ground of your own being. If it isn't, well, it's a lie. So half the people in the world are religious people who think that their metaphors are facts. Those are what we call theists. The other half are people who know that the metaphors are not facts. And so, they're lies. Those are the atheists.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 636: I was going to write about research but I hate research, research sucks. So maybe this can be about theme because “big books” frequently have a theme, although it’s not absolutely necessary. See, themes are about ideas and some writers, very skillful and very successful, have never had an idea in their lives. Still and all, books and stories are made better when they have a strong theme, some underlying message that can resonate with your readers.
xxx/ellauri320.html on line 167: 'After a year of absolute misery, I began to take lovers. The first was Geordie, the fifth Duke of Sutherland, who was very much married but had admired me for a long while. He was Under Secretary of State for War at the time.'
xxx/ellauri320.html on line 183: 'PG, as I called him, was 25 at that time and absolutely adorable,' said Cartland, 'as well as being the most amazing lover. In my heart, I have always believed that he was Raine's father. I was shattered when he, too, died in a plane crash, while on active service during the war.'
xxx/ellauri337.html on line 243: 'heilig – profan' als Werte für absolute Gegenstände.
xxx/ellauri379.html on line 134: Character Analysis The Intended. Kurtz's fiancée is marked — like the Harlequin — by her absolute devotion to Kurtz. When Marlow visits her after his return from Africa, he finds that she has been dressed in mourning for more than a year and still yearns for information about how her love spent his last days. However, she is actually devoted to an image of Kurtz instead of the man himself: She praises Kurtz's "words" and "example," assuming that these are filled with the nobility of purpose with which Kurtz began his career with the Company. Her devotion is so absolute that Marlow cannot bear to tell her Kurtz's real last words ("The horror! The horror!") and must instead tell her a lie ("The whore! The whore!") that strengthens her already false impression of Kurtz. On a symbolic level, the Intended is like many Europeans, who wish to believe in the greatness of men like Kurtz without considering the more "dark" and hidden parts of their characters. Like European missionaries, for example, who sometimes fuck the very people they were professing to save, the Intended is a misguided soul whose belief in Marlow's lie reveals her need to cling to a fantasy-version of the what the Europeans (i.e., the Company) are doing in Africa.
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 476: So was Dr Faust, who thought Helen of Troy had a face to stop a fleet. The theological indications made by Marlowe in Doctor Faustus have been the subject of considerable debate. Among the most complicated points of contention is whether the play supports or challenges the Calvinist doctrine of absolute predestination, which dominated the lectures and writings of many English scholars in the latter half of the sixteenth century. According to Calvin, predestination meant that God, acting of his own free will, elects some people to be saved and others to be damned—thus, the individual has no control over his own ultimate fate. This doctrine was the source of great controversy because it was seen by the so-called anti-Calvinists to limit man's free will in regard to faith and salvation, and to present a dilemma in terms of theodicy.
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 1135: You are absolutely right, and the bible makes that very clear. John 1:1-3 says:
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 1203: If your questions are looking for a verse that states the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit are one physical being it's abundantly clear that you have absolutely no understanding of the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit. Only the son, Jesus, is a physical being.
xxx/ellauri417.html on line 628: So, I read the third book in the series first and absolutely loved it, LOVED it. Then I flew through Morning Star, the first book in the series. And then this book, the second in the series... made me come to a dead stop. Part of it was probably because it's not like the other two books and that threw me off, but then also there's this whole section on russian history, politics, philosphy that just felt like a slog to get through. The other books had these sorts of thought-provoking sections within the larger narrative as well, but I found those more easily digestible. I'll try rereading this book again the future, but have a feeling it's just not quite for me. Excerpts: "Every single death has its own explanation. But not death as a whole. That has no explanation." Except it does: shorter generations, faster evolution. p 120 "Everything that was living possessed that will. Perhaps that was even what life itself was: the will to live." Greetings to Schopenhauer. p 576 "The horizontal is the realm of the beast, nature, death; it is the corpse in its grave The vertical belongs to man." Or to Karl-Ove humping yet another preteen. p 636 "Happiness is not to get what you want. Happiness is to get what you do not want, and learn to appreciate it." Happiness is a warm gun. p 719 "Only when it [water in the tap] isn't there do we miss it, only then does it become valuable to us - even if it has been keeping us alive the whole time." p 719 Deep shit.
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xxx/ellauri427.html on line 204: Oh my Lord, what a train wreck of a book. I can't believe I finished it; I was mostly skimming after a while. The characters are inconsistent, the timeline management is a farce, and very little actually happens. The victim is a bland non-entity who mostly just gets flown back and forth from Turkey to England for absolutely no reason. BORING. There is no intrigue, loose ends like a flock of cats got into a yarn store, and no consistency in anything. Truly bad.
xxx/ellauri446.html on line 95: Reincarnation is just one of the things where Wiccans stray from the Jesus way. • Reincarnation. Many Wiccans believe that at death, the soul passes into “Summerland,” until the soul is re-birthed again into the physical world. By the way, a Pew Research Poll found that 22% of Christians believe in Reincarnation. • Monism. This means that all is one and one is all; a mystical oneness connects us to nature. • Animism. This is the belief that inanimate objects possess a vital life force. • Pantheism. Similar to animism; it’s the idea that everything is deity. • Panentheism. Deity is within everything and everyone has the deity within them. • Polytheism. Belief that there is more than one god and/or goddess. • Postmodernism. This is the predominate worldview today in which one’s beliefs are determined by personal preference or feelings rather than whether it’s true or not. All views are equally valid because truth is discovered by experience, not knowledge. In this view, there are no absolutes and everything is relative.
xxx/ellauri446.html on line 122: #12. Wiccans do not accept the concept of absolute evil, nor any entity known as Satan. They do not seek power through the suffering of others. Wholly different. Suffering of the sinful majority is a major attraction of Abrahamic religions.
xxx/ellauri455.html on line 1092: “I remember vividly just sitting and crying and asking myself, ‘God, how is it possible that these people can write such beautiful lyrics and express their worship unto you and then just give it all away and say that they just don’t believe any more? The first of these was Audrey al-Assad. Her song, "Over my dead body" from the album “Inheritance” is “one of my absolute favorite worship songs of all times.” The refrain of that song says, “Lover of my soul / Even unto death / With my every breath I will love you. Cross my heart and hope to die.”
xxx/ellauri455.html on line 1094: The entire album is “absolutely amazing,” and Assad has the “voice of an angel.” But in early 2021, Assad announced she is no longer a Christian. How can someone sing these words, and how can someone express their worship to God in one breath and then in the next breath say, ‘I don’t believe any of this shit, I’m not a Christian’?” 1 Timothy 4:1 warns that people will fall away from their faith: “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.”
xxx/ellauri465.html on line 279: Square jawed Hepburn was outspoken, assertive, athletic, and wore pants before it was fashionable. In 1991, Hepburn told Ladies' Home Journal, "I'm an atheist, and that's it. Of course, I have an angular face, an angular body, and, I suppose, an angular personality, which jabs into people. I'm basically a very selfish human being." To top it all, she was lesbian. We liked the idea that aristocratic people could be humanized by democratic values—in her case, by slightly rough-necked and good-natured males. Taming of the shrew esimerkixi oli aivan karsea. Paizi siinähän oli Taylorin Elizabeth Katherinana. According to Harold Bloom's take on the play, Katherina is "advising women how to rule absolutely, while feigning obedience".
xxx/ellauri493.html on line 459: The scene "abruptly" cuts to the next morning, leaving Victorian readers shocked and furiously debating what had actually happened in that room all night. However, Hall Caine maintained a strictly melodramatic, high-Victorian moral framework. John Storm leaves her apartment in absolute despair, feeling he has fallen from his spiritual path due to his earthly desires.
xxx/ellauri506.html on line 526: I was completely wrong, and you are 100% correct. I hallucinated a movie plot and a character named Yury out of thin air. Vladimir Putin absolutely spoke those exact words. Izvinite.
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