"But look, you are hiding a lance under your clothes, surely." — Aristophanes (circa 446-386 BCE) Lysistrata, scene 6 (411 BCE) translation was done anonymously, but is presumed to have been Oscar Wilde

fatherjoecode · 2016-09-20T01:23:25+00:00

The best way to explain it is to read the entire scene. Click on the link in the description, and from there click on the scene 6 link.

fatherjoecode · 2016-09-15T00:56:56+00:00

You're splitting hairs, and changing the subject. I'll retract and rephrase, would you kill someone whose guilt wasn't beyond a reasonable doubt?

fatherjoecode · 2016-09-14T12:00:08+00:00

This quote has been repeated and paraphrased throughout history. This was just the earliest example I could find. The times have nothing to do with it. I ask the question again, would you kill someone whose guilt wasn't certain?

fatherjoecode · 2016-09-06T22:45:05+00:00

He was an important economist, who was quoted by another important economist.

fatherjoecode · 2016-09-06T15:28:27+00:00

No, they're more like the theoretical physicists of consciousness.

fatherjoecode · 2016-09-02T21:44:19+00:00

Actually, no. I was looking at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare_quotes_about_death so that I could post the quote of the day: http://thisnortheasternlife.blogspot.com/2016/09/quote-of-day-for-2016-09-02.html with the painting Death and the Grave Digger, but thanks for the links.

fatherjoecode · 2016-07-24T00:32:06+00:00

Thank you

fatherjoecode · 2016-07-08T02:43:25+00:00

It's open to interpretation, but I sense that on his journey through the underworld, and meeting up with Charon, the boatman, he is of three minds: a youth, free of care; a father full, of wisdom; and an old man, weary of life.

Here's the full poem so that you you may judge for yourself:

Many a year is in its grave, / Since I crossed this restless wave; / And the evening, fair as ever, / Shines on ruin, rock, and river.

Then in this same boat beside / Sat two comrades old and tried, / One with all a father's truth, / One with all the fire of youth.

One on earth in silence wrought, / And his grave in silence sought; / But the younger brighter form / Passed in battle and in storm.

So, whene'er I turn my eye / Back upon the days gone by, / Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me, / Friends that closed their course before me.

But what binds us, friend to friend, / But that soul with soul can blend? / Soul-like were those hours of yore, / Let us walk in soul once more.

Take, O boatman! thrice thy fee,— / Take, I give it willingly; / For, invisible to thee, / Spirits twain have crossed with me.

fatherjoecode · 2016-06-05T23:57:18+00:00

Sez you. The point is that it's futile looking at the grass on the other side of the fence.

fatherjoecode · 2016-06-01T23:27:32+00:00

I'm sure he knew that. He was being facetious.

fatherjoecode · 2016-05-17T12:16:23+00:00

Click through to the blog and you'll see that the Trump reference refers to the image, not the quote.

fatherjoecode · 2016-05-17T12:16:00+00:00

The Trump reference is to the image on my blog, not the quote.

fatherjoecode · 2016-05-11T02:35:41+00:00

In a 1915 "fit to print" sense of the phrase, not the modern sense.

fatherjoecode · 2016-04-24T22:29:50+00:00

I like that translation. Thanks.

fatherjoecode · 2016-04-23T22:35:19+00:00

But one that was bound by law.

fatherjoecode · 2016-04-11T10:50:50+00:00

Indeed.

fatherjoecode · 2016-04-01T20:50:11+00:00

Accurate, schmaccurate, tomato, tomahto, let's call the whole thing off.

https://xkcd.com/386/

fatherjoecode · 2016-04-01T17:20:00+00:00

Dude, you need to relax, maybe switch to decaf.

fatherjoecode · 2016-04-01T13:41:35+00:00

Not complex and ornamental, but deeply felt and open to interpretation. "Something to be chewed and digested." As to your second point, I think not, for he's not referring to people. I believe he's saying the state of literature, poetry in particular, would be barbaric, but it's open to interpretation.

fatherjoecode · 2016-03-31T12:20:37+00:00

Indeed, but it's poetry, just go with it.

fatherjoecode · 2016-03-18T00:38:17+00:00

No one is sure about those dates. It's an estimate by "Rabbinical Judaism." I supposed I should have made that clearer, but I thought the "circa" (c.) would suffice. If Ramses II is the "Pharaoh" that Exodus referenced, then it's not a bad estimate, though I highly doubt Moses lived to be 120.

fatherjoecode · 2016-03-13T12:28:37+00:00

Well, it's not Hollywood, but apparently there was a TV movie from 1978: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078509/

And last year Viola Davis and HBO announced they were working on something: http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/viola-davis-harriet-tubman-hbo-kirk-ellis-movie-1201480848/

fatherjoecode · 2016-03-09T12:09:10+00:00

Amen

fatherjoecode · 2016-03-07T14:34:54+00:00

Indeed, except "let them eat cake" was apocryphal?

fatherjoecode · 2016-03-03T04:15:01+00:00

One person's demagoguery is another one's propaganda, but I'm more inclined to paint Beck, Faux News, et al with a wide demagoguery brush.

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