Dialogue. Normally, dialogue is great and really lifts a story, but if you don't have any idea about the characters who are talking, it won't work. One line of speech can work. For instance "All cars proceed immediately to Main Street. Major riot in progress." establishes the setting and gives a lot of hints about the MC. What Main Character? This MUST be some tv watching imbecile who can't handle more than one face at a time. And why those fucking patrol cars again?
Luther puts this clearly: “The spirit consists in the use, not the object”. Luther reached his theological breakthrough when he realized that theological language consists fundamentally of speech acts and linguistic action. Augustinuxen show-and-tell semantiikka ei kata mysteerien pragmatiikkaa: ei kuivassa näkkärissä ole sielua, vaan se pujahtaa siihen joteskin kun näkki pannaan kielelle ja sanotaan oikeat taikasanat. Hizi empä arvannut poikasena kielitieteen kurssilla miten läheltä Luther siinä liippasi, hyvä ettei tukka heilahtanut.
Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan man caves, and men dream God—I am hallowed; my elongated body part touched the wife of that sod.
Salman Rushdie on kenties nykyajan tärkein kirjailija. Kenties ei. Kaikki tyypit kirjassa on Salmanin omia avataareja kuin kärpäsen verkkosilmiä. I shall explore briefly how the book, in its depiction of the characters as they grapple with language - conception, speech, writing - embodies a form of courage. Tai sitten ei. Kenties se on pelkkää narsismia taas. "Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true".(281) . Paskan marjat Rushdie, turpa kii tai se turpoo kii. Gibreel, Shaitan, Salman, Baal, kaikki on Rushdieita eri housuissa. Pamela ja Allie on sen ensimmäisiä anglosaxi vaimoja.
ellauri429.html on line 844: After stabbing of Salman in Dipoli Rushdie's son Zafar wrote "Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." There were also feeble calls by Muslim activists to condemn the attacker, rather than Islam or Muslims in general.
ellauri429.html on line 902: Khomeini's fatwa was condemned across the Western world by governments on the grounds that it violated the universal human rights of free speech, freedom of religion, and that Khomeini had no right to condemn to death a citizen of another country living in that country. The twelve members of the European Economic Community removed their ambassadors from Tehran for whole three weeks. But soon every official started to condemn the book in one way or another. When they realised that Iran's reaction, its breaking of diplomatic relations with London, could also include them, they quickly sent back their ambassadors to Tehran to prevent further Iranian reaction".
ellauri429.html on line 1188: If we are to accept that we live in a neoliberal world order currently, the case of Rushdie becomes clearer. Salman Rushdie is both a warrior of freedom of speech and a popularly desired outlet that can stand against Islam in a legitimate manner.
ellauri430.html on line 271: Free hate speech, I fear, is in retreat and in the interests of comedy, my friends, but also in the interest of truth, I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe, but from within my own country, where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation. Misinformation, like, for example, the idea that coronavirus had likely leaped from leaked from a laboratory in China., or that a bunch of diabolic Jews secretly hold the ropes behind Trump's berserk rampage. Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth.
ellauri432.html on line 218: Some of the terms that are getting flagged are particularly eyebrow-raising in light of the Nazi salutes that Trump supporters have been giving since he took office. For example, the term “hate speech” will get a paper at NSF flagged for further review. Redefining terms like “hate speech” is obviously part of the fascist project.
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ellauri432.html on line 342: "Forbidden keywords that initiate a review at NSF" "Nasa ordered to remove anything about 'Women in Leadership' from it's websites". Party of Free Speech live in action.
ellauri434.html on line 197: Fond experiences like these, often transmitted uncritically by those of us who teach and write about Russian literature, could explain why Bulgakov’s English readers were surprised when, in 2022, his high school removed his blue plaque and the Ukrainian Writers’ Union proposed the closure of the Bulgakov Museum. The words of the dashing hero of The White Guard who describes Ukrainian as a “vile language that does not exist” were frequently quoted. Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians alike had questions: should one hold an author responsible for the speech of his fictional characters? What had Bulgakov got to do with Putin? The museum’s directors, in an irony-laden and deliberately anachronistic demand of their own, asked the Writer’s Union to first expel Bulgakov from their ranks for “anti-Soviet activity”. But, given Russia’s deliberate policy of destroying places of cultural significance to Ukraine, and having read “Kiev — town” which is voiced by the author rather than a fictional character, I found myself in sympathy with victimless and limited actions to ‘cancel’ Bulgakov. I remembered how antisemitism is exclusively reserved for Ukrainian characters in The Day of the Turbins; how in Upton’s version Ukrainians celebrate victories with “a huge, ugly, violent cheer” while the Turbin family make lyrical toasts and sing. Bulgakov’s Ukrainians are the fictional predecessors of the fictional enemy imagined today by the Russian government, media, and its audiences: a Ukrainian population of antisemites and fascists. In fact, Bulgakov’s actual Ukrainian contemporaries, who are not represented in The Day of the Turbins, were both eloquent and courageous in speaking truth to power. A transcript exists of a conversation in 1929 between Stalin and a delegation of Ukrainian writers who requested The Day of the Turbins be cancelled due to its dangerous propagation of Great-Russian chauvinism. Stalin did not disagree with their interpretation of the play but reasoned that the Ukrainians’ concerns were insignificant given its potential to convince proletarian audiences that even the most reactionary White Guards (and authors) could become Bolsheviks. The most basic material needs of Ukrainians were concurrently to be deemed insignificant with Stalin’s genocidal policies of collectivisation and the largely fictive Holodomor.
ellauri445.html on line 284: Other oligarchs said his consort Aspasia of Miletus taught him how to speak and wrote his speeches for him for he was an ENFJ personality. Perikles kirjoitetaan yleisimmin nimellä ENFJ (Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging). Tämä viittaa siihen, että Perikles on empaattinen visionääri, korkea tunneäly, näkee potentiaalia, herättää kasvua ja tasapainottaa logiikkaa ja tunteita.
ellauri445.html on line 305: In one speech (written by Aspasia) Pericles praises posthumously the soldiers who fell in battle, the bravery of their Athenian ancestors, the families who sacrificed loved ones for the city, and encourages survivors to honor the memory of the fallen. His primary focus, however, is the glory of Athens and how unique it is among all the other cities of the world.
ellauri445.html on line 309: The speech, recorded on tape by Thucydides, highlights how Athenian democracy encourages personal freedom and sets the city apart from the rest as an example to all. The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbor for doing what he likes, or even to indulge in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no positive penalty.
ellauri464.html on line 178: Putin is believed to have backed protests by Muslims in Russia against Charlie Hebdo and the West. In China, the state-run Xinhua advocated limiting freedom of speech, while another state-run newspaper, Global Times, said the attack was "payback" for Western colonialism. In Los Angeles, the Jewish Journal weekly changed its masthead that week to Jewish Hebdo and published the offending Muhammad cartoons. American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky views the popularisation of the Je suis Charlie slogan by politicians and media in the West as hypocritical, comparing the situation to the NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters in 1999, when 16 employees were killed. Other incidents by US military forces have caused higher civilian death tolls, without leading to intensive reactions.
ellauri466.html on line 91: Awards and recognition: Oriana Fallaci Free Speech Award in 2009, Nominated for Sakharov Prize in 2010, Dutch Politician of the Year 2010 2013 2015 2016 2024, The Hungarian Order of Merit in 2022.
ellauri476.html on line 417: “As we examine Pliny’s letters, we find several items which are predominant throughout them. And one of those being that he appears to have a very high regard for “fame.” Not just (b) the kind of fame that one may have during their lifetime, but (a) “immortal fame.” And one of the means by which he displays his intent to achieve that kind of fame is to be the source of any number of “catch phrases” or cliché’s. He shares this in common, in fact, with Suetonius. Pliny calls these “figures of speech” or "memes".
ellauri480.html on line 229: C.S. Lewis was indeed known for his sense of humor, which often manifested in his writings and public speeches. His wit could be both sharp and whimsical, allowing him to address complex theological and philosophical subjects in a way that was accessible and engaging.
ellauri481.html on line 222: - What Bible verse did you post Dr. Rsn that got you accused of war crime and crime against humanity in Finland? - Uh it was Romans 1:24 where Paul says that same sex sex is sinful and shameful. I said how can the church take part on Pride events which are Shame events according to Paul? - Well as a pastor of 30 years standing I must say that this coming from a friendly NATO country is deeply worrying. Our God-given freedom of speech is threatened. Bless you for sharing with us Dr. Rsn, never mind that you are just a foreign lady that can't even pronounce English right.
ellauri481.html on line 453: As we have seen, the Israelis have long specialized in false flags that are blamed on Arabs. We have seen that the Mossad controlled Abu Nidal to neutralize the PLO. As Congressmen Ron Paul explained in one of his excellent floor speeches, Israel also created Hamas to counter the PLO.
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