What he talking about willis?
I love shit like this. If this were talking about Miami Beach, we'd have to say my opinion would be biased, -COME ON- I was born there. Now, far from being a local, on the subject of San Francisco- my opinion is one of an observer.
So here it is, my 2 cents:
•When visiting NYC, I've stayed & had fun in Manhattan & with bridge & tunnelers, but I've never heard anyone use "bridge & tunnelers" here. In fact, 2 friends from the bay area asked about the term.
•The "burners" do go on about the fest much, (wo!) but I won't talk to much shit, because I haven't been yet.
•The "summer" is ....a hard subject for someone from Miami to even talk about. You do see goofy peeps in shorts, but hey, wasn't Mark twain from the south? The quote is not that far off.
•I use Frisco all the time, Whatev-!
•I've caught myself saying "hella" more than once, & internally giggled my but off.
•I live @ the end of the christmas line, I love being so close 2 the ocean, but the "Noel" line, is no joke.
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Inferno's champagne room vip?
I love Biographies. Always have. I don't really even like reading fiction too much, and reading an interesting person's life story can be great nonfiction. I love reading a interesting personal quote thats unexpected. Recently while using the biography channel as background noise, I heard of Bobby Kennedy's favorite quote being from Dante's inferno. Something about "the deepest depths of hell & neutrality". I tossed my ibook aside & listened for more. Unfortunately, all I got was an inspiring story about how b.Kennedy suddenly took on the civil rights cause after tragedy was befallen on 2 him after a life of privilege.
Is being neutral or open minded a bad thing? As a kid, my summer's were spent in a 3rd world country, been to both the Caribbean & Europe more than once. I was even the only American girl in my 5 girl dorm apartment, the 1st time I went to college. I always subconsciously felt that 2 enjoy alot of these experiences, you had 2 personally own a little open mindedness. Looking at it again though, maybe it just might be the other way around.
I'm not against reviewing opinions in life that i hold or have held. I'm not a republican, so you can't scare me with the flip-flop tagline. Was this a trait I should not be so proud of as a start 2 mature intellectually? hhuumm... Well, 1st things first, you know, -maybe I'm not so bad. So the first stupid quiz regarding the matter I saw, I took. This was my result:
You Are 84% Open Minded
You are so open minded that your brain may have fallen out!
Well, not really. But you may be confused on where you stand.
You don't have a judgmental bone in your body, and you're very accepting.
You enjoy the best of every life philosophy, even if you sometimes
contradict yourself.
How open-minded are you?
Pretty funny stuff huh? Well, I could have let that get to me, if I gave a shit, but instead I looked up the original quote that started this. It said this:
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri
See that,.. it said "neutrality in times of moral crisis" that's not me,
I'm totally in the clear ....At least for that! ha
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1st of all, I'm gonna kill this we shit... WE WHAT?
So, I come in right about where there's talk about both things being true. Although, I have yet to see secular terrorist?
·Terrorist= Care about some shit ~a whole lot!
·Secular= Don't give a shit 'bout nuthin'!
It was a good one though.
It hurts me 2 say my man mighty Mos, needs to read up on the period of Muslim rule.
- In 622 C.E., Muhammad makes the journey from Mecca to Medina, known as Hegira, marks the foundation of Islam.
- In 638 C.E The Arabs, belonging to the new Islamic religion and led by the Caliph Omar, capture Jerusalem, ushering in a four-hundred-and-fifty-year period of Muslim rule.
- In 685 The Caliph Abd el-Malik commissions the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. This shrine commemorates the spot from which, according to the Koran, Muhammad was carried on his magical horse to the "farthest place," from which he visited Allah in heaven. Muslim tradition says that the "farthest place" was Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Mosque, opposite the Dome of the Rock, is built for prayer at the beginning of the eighth century.
- In 900s-1000s C.E. A number of Muslim groups fight for control of the city.
- In 1099 The Crusaders, Western Christians led by Godfrey Bouillon, capture Jerusalem from the Muslims in the First Crusade. Pope Urban II had called upon Christians to recapture the holy city. The Crusaders massacre both Muslims and Jews alike, and forbid their settlement in the city.
- In 1187 Muslims recapture the city under Sultan Saladin and Muslims and Jews return to the city in large numbers, reinstating Muslim control. Churches are converted into mosques and Muslim shrines are restored.
- In 1228 The Crusaders return and, through a treaty, the Muslims surrender Jerusalem to Frederick II, who crowns himself King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
So back to the we shit, There's enough blame to go around history a couple of times. Pardon the pun, but wouldn't it be the bomb if we were different.
WE WHAT?
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Machiavellian Monk?
Main Entry: Cunning
Part of Speech: Adjective
- Definition: Devious
- Synonyms: Machiavellian, acute, artful, astute, cagey, canny, crafty, deep, fancy footwork, foxy, guileful, insidious, keen, knowing, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, sly boots,smart, smarts, smooth, streetwise, subtle, tricky, wary, wily
- Antonyms: artless, gullible, honest, ingenuous, naive, sincere
2) characterized by subtle or unscrupulous cunning, deception, expediency, or dishonesty:
He resorted to Machiavellian tactics in order to get ahead.
I'm at this weird place right now,
emotionally speaking.
(times a curse).
current mood, I end up feeling stumped.
~2 be a true mystic.
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The Philosophy of the Beat Generation
"The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way-
-a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word 'beat' spoken on street corners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown city night of postwar America--beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction--We'd even heard old 1910 Daddy Hipsters of the streets speak the word that way, with a melancholy sneer--It never meant juvenile delinquents, it meant characters of a special spirituality who didn't gang up but were solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization--the subterraneans heroes who'd finally turned from the 'freedom' machine of the West and were taking drugs, digging bop, having flashes of insight, experiencing the 'derangement of the senses,' talking strange, being poor and glad, prophesying a new style for American culture, a new style (we thought), a new incantation-
-The same thing was almost going on in the postwar France of Sartre and Genet and what's more we knew about it- -But as to the actual existence of a Beat Generation, chances are it was really just an idea in our minds-- We'd stay up 24 hours drinking cup after cup of black coffee, playing record after record of Wardell Gray, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Willie Jackson, Lennie Tristano and all the rest, talking madly about that holy new feeling out there in the streets-
-We'd write stories about some strange beatific Negro hepcat saint with goatee hitchhiking across Iowa with taped up horn bringing the secret message of blowing to other coasts, other cities, like a veritable Walter the Penniless leading an invisible First Crusade- -We had our mystic heroes and wrote, nay sung novels about them, erected long poems celebrating the new 'angels' of the American underground--In actuality there was only a handful of real hip swinging cats and what there was vanished mightily swiftly during the Korean War when (and after) a sinister new kind of efficiency appeared in America, maybe it was the result of the universalization of Television and nothing else (the Polite Total Police Control of Dragnet's 'peace' officers) but the beat characters after 1950 vanished into jails and madhouses, or were shamed into silent conformity, the generation itself was shortlived and small in number."
Jack KerouacI have always been in love with the beat generation.
Their ideas, hopes, dreams, smarts, adventures, ect.
Living so close to their birthplace kinda inspires me in a way that I didn't expect.
I'm like a dork when around the city lights book store.
Anyway, I recently read Jack Kerouac's
Philosophy of the Beat Generation in what would have been a older esquire mag article.
The man's mind is beautiful.
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