Mann…Smart Guys!
ok so i found this really fun word game called “dropquotes”, where you have to rearrange letters and “drop” them into their appropriate slot to finish a quote (i’ve always loved quotes - and writing quotes is fun too because you can get each LETTER perfect, whereas poems or books are just too long and require too much time to perfect)- and some of the quotes are so cool (well, every one of them is enjoyable), but i’ll make a list of some of my faves…(but only from the game! ha ha)
you can play at: www.dropquotes.com
“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”
- Horace Mann
“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
- Karl Marx
“Man is always looking for someone to boast to, woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.”
- H. L. Mencken
(I liked this one because it succinctly shows how pathetic we are lol.)
“When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad ones you did do, well, that’s memoirs.”
- Will Rogers
(lol i like this guy a lot)
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May 25th, 2008 at 5:57 am
” The oppress can only oppress you , if you give them power to ”
quote ? me :P
May 28th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
You shameless pseudo-pedant, you deserve to be humiliated for quoting something you have absolutely no understanding of. I bet you can’t even tell me which work that came from. Heck, I bet you haven’t even read the ‘Communist Manifesto’. I bet you can’t even tell me what ‘alienation’ is, or what the four kinds of ‘alienation’ are. You don’t even know who the bourgeoisie are, and I bet you can’t even spell it properly. ‘Christian socialism is the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat’. See? That is what happens when you are a true pedant.
Another instance of your pedantry: in one of your posts you conflate Woolf’s ‘feminist’ polemic ‘A Room of One’s Own’ with E.M. Forster’s ‘A Room with a View’.
And will you ever finish reading ‘Mrs Dalloway’?
Only kidding man :D
This blog is great :)
You know, sister, you really have to see someone about your depression. I feel for you dude.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
you know what i never read the communist manifesto, but growing up i never got why it was so “evil” - i mean in theory (besides the whole atheism bent) its simply another social theory and has some good points
dude, virginia woolf did say something like that, and i didnt remember the exact quote! (which i mentioned lol)
i dont think i’ll ever finish reading dalloway - as it is an online version and i HATE scrolling up and down and i always lose my place - i’ve read/re-read it a few times but not finished it yet - i am stuck in jordan with few english books (that dont cost astronomical prices)
about depression, i dont know if you feel the same way but i guess i feel weird getting it solved by anyone but allah - maybe i feel threatened that a pill or a guy in a suit can figure out what’s wrong with me and give me a mundane solution, and that would only show me how mundane i actually am?
speaking of lol - today i am being “set up” on a “date”, with a girl - see, one of my husband’s friends has taken pity on my social isolation (which is mostly self-inflicted) and is forcing me (with the gleeful support of my husband) to “make friends” - so i am meeting them somewhere - and i pretty much already know it “wont work out” lol, based on the few things i already know and well, my general attitude
i think i know what the problem is - i grew up socially awkward, nerdy, and friendless, and at some point i accepted that - and my “friends” were basically music, books, art, etc. and to be honest, NO WAY any “real” person can live up to the amazing characters you come across; so i have a general dissatisfaction with people (i mean, i’m social islamically - if im at the masjid, i will smile at everyone and i try to include everyone since i know what its like to be excluded; ill invite everyone for the ajr lol) but yah, i dont enjoy it for my own sake (and perhaps cant anymore - im almost 33 now)
i just thought of a quote for that well-intentioned matchmaker lol:
“you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” (dunno the source)
May 29th, 2008 at 6:39 am
“its simply another social theory and has some good points”
Yes, it’s very useful as an analytic tool but dude, its implications are radical for every sphere of life/human activity (abolition of religion, ‘the family’, private property, class etc). And you make ’social theory’ sound so less exciting than it actually is!
“i dont think i’ll ever finish reading dalloway”
Woolf is horrible to read, except when you read her in one sitting. You have to be incredibly determined to finish any book of hers- if you leave it for a few days you find you have to start from the beginning again. It isn’t our fault as readers- her style makes it necessary.
“NO WAY any “real” person can live up to the amazing characters you come across”
But remember, even the most out-there character is somehow, however indirectly, derived from ‘life’. That’s a thought I’ve always found consoling.
“…that would only show me how mundane i actually am?”
Boring-ness is very underrated.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:55 am
about characters, you are right and it’s a good point - but of course, if they wrote a book based on every “character” out there, well, i’d hate to read - i mean those people would have to be very well edited! and that’s precisely what’s wrong with “real life” (there was that movie “reality bites” lol - i never saw it but i remember that phrase) - you cant tell someone to shut up (unless its your wife lol) or just relive the “good parts” of them…sigh
actually your point reminds me of the fact that no matter how great a character or piece of art is, allah is the creator of the brilliant author/artist (this doesnt make me like people better lol just allah)
you know what’s interesting is how allah tells us that in jannah there will be no laghw - i mean everyone’s always quoting the virgin thing, but there are so many levels of what eternal bliss is - down to not having to hear worthless speech! subhanallah
May 29th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Reminds me of what George Eliot wrote on the first page of ‘Daniel Deronda’. Art begins ‘in media res’ i.e. ‘in the middle of things’. It arbitrarily cuts a shape out of life and moulds it into a coherent narrative- when ‘life’ is anything but. I mean, how many movies do you see that feature ‘normal’ stuff? I mean, in ‘Die Hard’, for example, how come Bruce Willis doesn’t get nervous and go for a leak somewhere behind a desk?
Problem is, when you do start to include ‘normal’ stuff, breaking down the distinctions between ‘art’ and ‘life’ you get incoherent crap. ‘Tender Buttons’ :)
As for the whole carnal pleasure in jannah thing, I don’t think there’s ever been a woman who has understood/appreciated it. Ask Sas.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:33 am
you know sas - do i know who you are (from his friends)?
you know its funny after the virgin thing i was gonna put “not that there’s anything wrong with that ” (seinfeld)
but no, i think a woman can appreciate it - she probably can’t go around TALKING about it though or she’ll get msn’ed or facebooked or whatnot (by pathetic muslims) lol
May 29th, 2008 at 7:57 am
As for question one, no.
Seinfeld isn’t even funny. I watched one episode (where the eponymous protagonist buys a really expensive jacket)- and it was pure, unadulterated crap. I think the whole Atlantic passage thing must have addled the Pilgrim Fathers’ brains.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:32 am
too good for seinfeld, eh?
btw my “date” got cancelled - yay! lol sas has been making fun of me for being “peer pressured” (first time in like 10 years lol) into a social situation i dont wanna be in (he claims that’s what life is all about); ive been trying to get out of it and now through no fault of my own it got cancelled - back to my goal (when i was 15) to be a hermit lol
May 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Just stay busy :)