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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Chasing Collateral Beauty

10 comments:

Franco Aragosta said...

BEEEE-YOOTY?

More iike PHEEEEEEW-TY! if you ask me.

UGH!

Franco Aragosta said...

O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust.

Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

... Psalm 7 - KJV

Joe Conservative said...

....Still grumpy, I see.

Franco Aragosta said...

Rotten music has that effect on me. Sorry!

Franco Aragosta said...

This might affect you more favorably:


Why the Left Is So Afraid of Jordan Peterson

The Atlantic, by Caitlin Flanagan

Two years ago, I walked downstairs and saw one of my teenage sons watching a strange YouTube video on the television. “What is that?” I asked. He turned to me earnestly and explained, “It’s a psychology professor at the University of Toronto talking about Canadian law.” “Huh?” I said, but he had already turned back to the screen. I figured he had finally gotten to the end of the internet, and this was the very last thing on it. That night, my son tried to explain the thing to me, but it was a buzzing in my ear, and I wanted to talk about ...

Franco Aragosta said...

MORE BAD NEWS to TITLLATE YOUR APPETITE for HORROR and GORE:

Tick Species Sweeping US Drains Animals Dry of Blood and Reproduces Without Mating

Independent [UK],

by Hairy Cockburn

An east-Asian species of tick capable of swarming animals and sucking their blood so fast they die has established itself in the US, with eight states on the eastern seaboard reporting the presence of the pest. Public health officials have said they are concerned about the growing presence of the Asian longhorned tick, (Haemaphysalis longicornis), which carries and transmits unpleasant diseases in its homeland. (Snip) In Asia, however, the species carries a virus that has been known to have a fatality rate of up to 30 per cent. Though the invasive species has already spread to the densely populated New York suburbs ...

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I can't help but wonder how long it will be before the ENEMEDIA, the DNC and the RINOS start to find "evidence" that blames this worry on President TRUMP.

You can see it coming, can't you?

And WE the PEOPLE are still stupidly preoccupied with Savonrola Mueller's illegitimate persecution of the president.

Mueller is still ruthlessly wasting OUR precious dollars searching for evidence of a nonexistent CRIME to hang on our duly-elected president in order to give grounds for a totally unwarranted IMPEACHMENT.

If the ASIAN TICK takes over and presents us with a latter-day version of The BLACK DEATH, , our moronic society will richly DESERVE it.

Speedy G said...

Has the time for "close fighting" begun yet?

Plato, Republic"

Observe, Glaucon, that there will be no injustice in compelling our philosophers to have a care and providence of others; we shall explain to them that in other States, men of their class are not obliged to share in the toils of politics: and this is reasonable, for they grow up at their own sweet will, and the government would rather not have them. Being self-taught, they cannot be expected to show any gratitude for a culture which they have never received. But we have brought you into the world to be rulers of the hive, kings of yourselves and of the other citizens, and have educated you far better and more perfectly than they have been educated, and you are better able to share in the double duty. Wherefore each of you, when his turn comes, must go down to the general underground abode, and get the habit of seeing in the dark. When you have acquired the habit, you will see ten thousand times better than the inhabitants of the den, and you will know what the several images are, and what they represent, because you have seen the beautiful and just and good in their truth. And thus our State which is also yours will be a reality, and not a dream only, and will be administered in a spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in their eyes is a great good. Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

Quite true, he replied.

And will our pupils, when they hear this, refuse to take their turn at the toils of State, when they are allowed to spend the greater part of their time with one another in the heavenly light?

Impossible, he answered; for they are just men, and the commands which we impose upon them are just; there can be no doubt that every one of them will take office as a stern necessity, and not after the fashion of our present rulers of State.

Yes, my friend, I said; and there lies the point. You must contrive for your future rulers another and a better life than that of a ruler, and then you may have a well-ordered State; for only in the State which offers this, will they rule who are truly rich, not in silver and gold, but in virtue and wisdom, which are the true blessings of life. Whereas if they go to the administration of public affairs, poor and hungering after the' own private advantage, thinking that hence they are to snatch the chief good, order there can never be; for they will be fighting about office, and the civil and domestic broils which thus arise will be the ruin of the rulers themselves and of the whole State.

Most true, he replied.

And the only life which looks down upon the life of political ambition is that of true philosophy. Do you know of any other?

Indeed, I do not, he said.

And those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight.

No question.

Who then are those whom we shall compel to be guardians? Surely they will be the men who are wisest about affairs of State, and by whom the State is best administered, and who at the same time have other honours and another and a better life than that of politics?

They are the men, and I will choose them, he replied.

And now shall we consider in what way such guardians will be produced, and how they are to be brought from darkness to light,—as some are said to have ascended from the world below to the gods?

By all means, he replied.

Franco Aragosta said...

TIME to RETURN to the TOPIC of the THREAD

And here's to you, Tommy Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you could know,
God bless you please, Tommy Robinson
Heaven holds a place for you who commits acts
And doesn’t just waste time passing out tracts.

We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you in your efforts to stay free
Look around you, our support is all all you see
Stroll around the grounds, and walk a mile
Everybody here just loves your style.

So here's to you, Tommy Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you could know.
God bless you please, Tommy Robinson
Heaven holds a place for you who commits acts
And doesn’t just waste time passing out tracts.

Proudly speak your piece in public spaces
Tell the world it’s bad to mix the races
Make no secret of your Anglo-Celtic pride
As muticuluralism you deride

So here's to you, Tommy Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you could know,
God bless you please, Tommy Robinson
Heaven holds a place for you who commits acts
And doesn’t just waste time passing out tracts.

Standing in the road in an irate atmosphere
Mocking how the candidates debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
And if it’s martyrdom you choose,
Even if they kill you you can’t lose

Hats off to you, Tommy Robinson
Standing for my right just to be me
A nation turns its helpless eyes to you
And prays for you, Tommy Robinson.
We hope you make progressives go away
And rue the day they met you, dear Tommy Robinson.
In gratitude to you we’ll always pray.


... Simone A. Carbuncle

Franco Aragosta said...

WRONG THREAD for Tommy.

SORRY, but the gentle parody may yet amuse the broad-munded and those with a taste for wit.

Franco Aragosta said...

MEANWHILE, let us examine PROVERBS 17 from the Bible –– a timeless, inexhaustible, unsurpassable source of distilled wisdom
and eternal truth

1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [1] with strife.

2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.

4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. [2]

6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

7 Excellent [3] speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

8 A gift is as a precious [4] stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh [5] love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

10 A reproof entereth [6] more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.

16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

18 A man void of understanding [7] striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

19 He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

20 He that hath a froward [8] heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man [9] of understanding is of an excellent spirit. 28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.