Piffka--
A provoking thought--adventursome and nettlesome.
Hi Noddy! Good call -- nettlesome. Happy Mother's Day to you!!!
Mr.P offers up a little Biblical quote for all Mothers everywhere:
"The Lord says, 'As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels. You will be as proud of them as a bride is of her jewels.'"
Isaiah 49:18
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ooooo Piffka where is your sig from???
*wonders if its true*
I think it is come to think of it, you can't see colors in moonlight...how metaphysically PROFOUND that is....
WHO IS IT WHO IS IT WHO WROTE IT??!!
(Patience is not my long suit......which is why message boards KILL ME...)
Sorry, Shuny.... didn't mean to make you wait but I've been struggling for the past 24 hours ... Lost my darn specs and am forced to write while wearing my prescription sunglasses. Ugh. Just call me forgetful.
I'm glad you liked that signature line, it is a good one, I think (and goes so nicely with my current avatar, too. I do like to have things match.)
That quote, which will soon be gone as I am not only forgetful, but flighty, is from the Moody Blues:
Cold Hearted Orb by Graeme Edge (Moody Blues)
'Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white,
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion?
Pinprick holes in a colorless sky,
Let insipid figures of light pass by,
The mighty light of ten thousand suns,
Challenges infinity and is soon gone.
Night time, to some a brief interlude,
To others the fear of solitude.
Brave helios wake up your steeds,
Bring the warmth the countryside needs.
Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
Watch lights fade from every room.
Bedsitter people look back and lament,
Another day's useless energy spent.
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one,
Lonely man cries for love and has none.
New mother picks up and suckles her son,
Senior citizens wish they were young.
'Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white,
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion?
"Sand that once was rock becomes rock once again as it slowly sediments and compresses into layers of sandstone, which, in turn, transmute into sand."
Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker, The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth
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Oh thank you thank you...I may even have the old record...have to look at home...
I do SO LOVE all that "pop music" ...how profound, how utterly profound nearly all of it is...highly sensitive people...seeing more, feeling more, unable to tell us..and so they hide their meaning in "pop music"...
Whereas in the past the visionaries just talked to one another...but the "pop stars" have compassion for the whole human race...
James Hetfield my hero, Metallica...but probably I appreciate him so much because he was "new" to me...I was out of the pop loop for 25 years, lol...
And now I realize all those other people had a lot to say too...but I was just too hormone driven to listen...there's a time for every purpose under heaven...the Byrds..my faves back in the day...
Moody Blues...were too "soft" for me, lolol...
I'm so funny!!!!!
Who would have thought you'd be a heavy metal chick?? heeheee
Yeah, I guess the Moody Blues were soft "pop". Never thought of them that way... just moody and with lots of orchestral embellishments.
I had a friend who loved (LOVED) listening to them while lying flat on his back, stoned out of his "gourd" as we used to say and with all the lights off and the music quite loud. <grin> He'd come back from Viet Nam and needed peace. Or else, he learned this listening method there... I dunno.
Still having a hard time seeing the computer screen... those glasses have not turned up. Akkkk.
"If you talk about the entire span of written human history, half of it is Mesopotamian, and the other half is everyone else."
Paul Zimansky
"If the US did not actually invent modern political Islam, for over half a century it has encouraged it, promoted it, funded it, trained it, armed it, and furnished it with a political rationale for its existence."
Dave Stratman, Inventing the Enemy
Mark Twain on evolution and man -
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; & anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would. I dunno.
- "Was the World Made for Man?"
Great! Love that. I'm imagining that Eiffel Tower... standing along the river and that self-important paint on the knob with the good view.
That's a totally new Twain quote and book (essay?) to me. Good to see you Pan... it's been a while.
"The suicide bomber - an almost unparalleled phenomenon in Islamic history - shows that some Muslims are convinced that they are pitted against hopeless odds."
Karen Armstrong (1945- ), Islam: a Short History
"I'd like to throw up but the room is too small."
Richard Pryor (1940- )
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Here's one for Friday the 13th:
"He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good"
The only source I know is "Russian Proverb", I got it ThinkExist.com, a very nice quote site.
But Solzhenitsen is really big on "folk wisdom" and Russian proverbs...they are pretty good usually...
And you're not a mr you sneak...not that it matters too much on the net...
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And you're not a mr you sneak...not that it matters too much on the net...
?? I showed you a photo of him & me together. Didn't you understand? I am sorry, Shunammite, but I certainly wasn't trying to confuse you.
<Uhhhh... Now I am laughing.
Have you been thinking *I* was Mr. Piffka as I posted? But that would make me be talking about myself in the third-person all this time!! "Mr Piffka says this", "Mr. Piffka wrote that........."
Heeeheee. That's funny and would be so annoyingly pompous on my part. <grin>
No. I'm not Mr.P. He is my long-suffering husband. See fella with white hair in photos a few pages back. :wink: >
"What?
There are not enough enlistees for the military? How can that be with terrorism looming greater every day? This shouldn't be a problem. I'm sure most of the 51 percent who voted for this president, and even some who didn't, supported this war. That's enough to more than triple our military enrollment. C'mon guys, with all that patriotic fervor you've displayed up till now, I'm sure you wouldn't want to send others to do the dirty work. So get out there, sign up, and show the world you're people of action. Where'd they all go? Oh, that's right. They all went shopping for car magnets and lapel pins."
William S. McQuaid
letter to the editor, Seattle P-I, 4/13/2005
(Ed. note:...and gasoline...)
Yes, indeed!
Now how on earth could there be a shortage of volunteers for the army with all that enthusiastic support from voters? Beats me!
Hi Olga! Yeah... and the worst of it is my card-carrying-member-of-the-ACLU son feels it is his duty to serve. Grrrrrrr
For today:
"In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds -- that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous."
Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954)
"If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers."
Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
