ellauri031.html on line 819: Höpsismi eri muodoissa on herkkäuskoisille ominainen päätöxentekotapa. Yhden rahan 50/50 oddsien sijasta voi käyttää muitakin. Olin ihan unohtanut, ennenkuin luin Syvännön mustelmaa, että kristinuskovaiset käyttää tähän tarkoituxeen "peukalovärssyjä", vähän samanlaista menetelmää kuin Roope Ankka joka pyöräyttää maapalloa silmät kiinni päättäessään mihkä päin maailmaa seuraavaxi mennä ryöstöretkelle. Peukku työnnetään (muka) summanmutikassa hyvän kirjan väliin ja luetaan siihen sattunut värsy. Menetelmää toistetaan kunnes värsy on mieluinen.
ellauri106.html on line 180: Not far behind will be some Jewish critics who always found Roth’s portraits embarrassing for their relentless sexuality and discomfort with aspects of the culture that were at odds with his identity as an American. Others were angered at his voraciously espoused atheism—“I’m exactly the opposite of religious, I’m anti-religious. I find religious people hideous. I hate the religious lies. It’s all a big lie.” Some Jewish critics hounded him from the beginning of his career. Rabbi Gershom Scholem, the great kabbalah scholar, said Portnoy’s Complaint was more harmful to Jews than The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. And Roth was heckled and booed at an early appearance at Yeshiva University which stunned and shocked the author.
ellauri106.html on line 417: Man is a competitive creature and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude. Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
ellauri106.html on line 425: As well as the social cohesion that spirituality and early religious beliefs must have brought to threatened groups of humans, they must also have been a valuable mechanism to persuade humans to struggle against the odds. Surely, human spirituality is deeply embedded in our genes. Victor Frankl, in his observations about survival in Auschwitz, argued that in his view, only those inmates who had some spiritual sense, some idea that there was a power above that could see their suffering, found the strength and resolution to survive the terrible dehumanisation and deprivation of the concentration camps.
ellauri190.html on line 299: Cossack numbers increased when the warriors were joined by peasants escaping serfdom in Russia and dependence in the Commonwealth. Attempts by the szlachta to turn the Zaporozhian Cossacks into peasants eroded the formerly strong Cossack loyalty towards the Commonwealth. The government constantly rebuffed Cossack ambitions for recognition as equal to the szlachta. Plans for transforming the Polish–Lithuanian two-nation Commonwealth into a Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth made little progress, due to the unpopularity among the Ruthenian szlachta of the idea of Ruthenian Cossacks being equal to them and their elite becoming members of the szlachta. The Cossacks' strong historic allegiance to the Eastern Orthodox Church also put them at odds with officials of the Roman Catholic-dominated Commonwealth. Tensions increased when Commonwealth policies turned from relative tolerance to suppression of the Eastern Orthodox Church after the Union of Brest. The Cossacks became strongly anti-Roman Catholic, an attitude that became synonymous with anti-Polish. Did that make them any more pro-Russian? Naah.
ellauri192.html on line 347: This year British betting firm Ladbrokes is giving the lowest odds to Oz, German writer Herta Mueller and a trio of Americans: Oates, Roth and Thomas Pynchon. Three Canadians are given somewhat longer odds by Ladbrokes: Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood are at 25-to-1 while Michael Ondaatje sits at 50-to-1.
ellauri192.html on line 362: Betting odds in 2009
ellauri210.html on line 1266: The fellow-writer H. G. Wells had joined the "vet Fabian' society in February 1903. Wells's ideas for reform—particularly his proposals for closer cooperation with the Independent Labour Party—placed him at odds with the society's "Old Gang", led by Shaw. In Shaw's view, "the Old Gang did not extinguish Mr Wells, he annihilated himself".
ellauri236.html on line 206: Until recently the characteristic adventure stories of the English-speaking peoples have been stories in which the hero fights against odds. This is true all the way from Robin Hood to Pop-eye the Sailor. Perhaps the basic myth of the Western world is Jack the Giant-killer, but to be brought up to date this should be renamed Jack the Dwarf-killer, and there already exists a considerable literature which teaches, either overtly or implicitly, that one should side with the big man against the little man. Most of what is now written about foreign policy is simply an embroidery on this theme, and for several decades such phrases as ‘Play the game’, ‘Don't hit a man when he's down’ and ‘It's not cricket’ have never failed to draw a snigger from anyone of intellectual pretensions. What is comparatively new is to find the accepted pattern, according to which (a) right is right and wrong is wrong, whoever wins, and (b) weakness must be respected, disappearing from popular literature as well. When I first read D. H. Lawrence's novels, at the age of about twenty, I was puzzled by the fact that there did not seem to be any classification of the characters into ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Lawrence seemed to sympathize with all of them about equally, and this was so unusual as to give me the feeling of having lost my bearings. Today no one would think of looking for heroes and villains in a serious novel, but in lowbrow fiction one still expects to find a sharp distinction between right and wrong and between legality and illegality. The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. But the popularity of No Orchids and the American books and magazines to which it is akin shows how rapidly the doctrine of ‘realism’ is gaining ground.
ellauri244.html on line 188: Joseph Butler is best known for his criticisms of the hedonic and egoistic “selfish” theories associated with Hobbes and Bernard Mandeville and for his positive arguments that self-love and conscience are not at odds if properly understood (and indeed promote and sanction the same actions). In addition to his importance as a moral philosopher Butler was also an influential Anglican theologian.
ellauri264.html on line 685: The Intel founders, some of them survived the holocaust against all odds, made shady deals, killed competition and promised to deliver things to stop other companies and then never delivering.
ellauri270.html on line 313: This seemingly idyllic beginning establishes a setting at odds with the violent resolution of the story. Early details, such as sun and flowers, all have positive connotations, and establish the theme of the juxtaposition of peace and violence. The lottery is mentioned in the first paragraph, but not explained until the last lines.
ellauri270.html on line 361: The men’s nervousness foreshadows the lottery’s grim outcome. Tessie acts at odds with the pervasive mood, drawing laughs from the crowd. Tessie does not question the lottery at this point, and treats the proceedings lightheartedly—from a position of safety.
ellauri316.html on line 490: "Sota oli kauhea koettelemus kansakunnalle", kirjoitti Saharov. ”(...) Totisesti rauhanhalu on ylivoimainen ihmisten mielissä kaikkialla. "Mitä tahansa, mutta ei toista sotaa!" on yleinen huuto – ja kuitenkin monille selviytyneille sota on pysynyt heidän elämänsä tärkeimpänä kokemuksena, kokemuksena, joka palautti ylpeyden ja arvokkuuden, koska meikäpojat voittivat kuin voittivatkin vastoin kaikkia oddseja." Saharov vetelehti kolmannen vuoden opiskelijana Moskovan yliopiston fysiikan laitoksella Suuren isänmaallisen sodan alkaessa. Huonon terveytensä vuoksi häntä ei ollut kutsuttu armeijaan, hän oli jatkanut opintojaan ja lokakuussa 1941 evakuoitiin osastonsa kanssa Moskovasta Ašgabadiin (Turkmenistaniin).Saharov muistelee sitä aikaa: "jouduimme yleensä kävelemään luokkaan. Mutta pahinta oli jatkuva nälkä... en pidä nälkälakoista." Vielä enemmän säikytti Hiroshiman pommitus. "Polveni vääntyivät." Siitä hetkestä lähtien 6suurvallan aseman välttämätön osa olisi ydinaseen hallussapito. Siis keximään ydinpommia!
ellauri327.html on line 98: Yipei Feng: As a Ukrainian citizen, I want Ukraine to reunite with Russia. After all, we've always been stronger together as a people then divided and at odds. What do Russians and Ukrainians think about this?
ellauri408.html on line 670: And so in walks curvy, cheery, cute as heck ghostwriter Mabel Willicker, who knows just how to sunshine and sass her way into getting every little detail out of Alfie. They banter and bicker their way to writing his life story, both of them sure they’ll never be anything other than at odds.
xxx/ellauri168.html on line 315: He further speculates that all information-bearing systems may be conscious, leading him to entertain the possibility of conscious thermostats and a qualified panpsychism he calls panprotopsychism. Chalmers maintains a formal agnosticism on the issue, even conceding that the viability of panpsychism places him at odds with the majority of his contemporaries. According to Chalmers, his arguments are similar to a line of thought that goes back to Leibniz's 1714 "mill" argument.
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 630: Views from a Tuft of Grass: The modern world is at odds with nature. You don’t say. Two.
xxx/ellauri218.html on line 81: Kuten mustavalkoisesta tv-kuvasta näkyy selvästi, Bobby Thomson ei ollut neekeri. Myöhemmin osoittautuu että se oli skotti. Branca oli puolixi joku Bulgarian romani. Mitäs asiaa Big Simsillä (joka oli) sit oli mennä karzalle huutamaan I am Bobby Thomson? Koska baseball is about caring, because it is about miracles against all odds. Usko toivo ja rakasta, 9.999.999 tyhjän arvan jälkeen tulee se oikea!
xxx/ellauri233.html on line 150: Ekonomiprofessor Micael Dahlén är säker. Att ha en tro gör människan lyckligare. Vad han själv tror har han inte riktigt bestämt, men han talar gärna om att det finns en välsignelse. En välsignelse som gör att hans egen pappa, mot alla odds, fortfarande är i livet. Var i alla fall. Tror han åtminstone. Borde kolla kanske.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 638: For instance, the overrated “Catcher in the Rye’s” theme is that life sucks. Okay, if you say so. Include me out. The vastly better “This is Graceanne’s Book” has the opposite theme — that you can win; no matter the odds, you can do it. I like that one better. It is pure bullshit, but then so am I. Or was.
xxx/ellauri380.html on line 356: The whole world is laughing at Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive, which captured nothing more than a couple patches of trees and trenches? How did the Russians, armed with shovels, defeat the “brave” Ukrainian Nazis armed with NATO weapons? No dear. It is definitely not. The “whole world” does not laugh at an invaded sovereign nazion that for over two years and against all odds has made a mockery out of the supposed "second best" army in the world. Don't pretend you’re aligned with the rest of the world. You are not! There is no "rest of the world" in fact!
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