fredag 15. april 2011

TRUTH

Truth
 
 
Bramha, Allah, Jevovah, Vishnu, Ahuramazda, Shiva...  
 
What’s in a name?  
A way to identify the same,  
Geography, language is mainly to blame.  
 
Your glory is such,  
Man asks for too much.  
 
Meditation or one pointed concentration is the key,  
But who says there is no fee?  
 
Day to dawn makes no sense,  
What does? We call nonsense.  
 
Who am I and why am I here?  
Has just become my greatest fear.  
 
Is justice to be done with the strength in my hands?  
Or by sweet words maybe written in the sand?  
 
When will you set me free?  
So that I can be with thee.  
 
How am I to live in bliss?  
When I stop myself from giving all a kiss.  
 
Why do I write I do not know?  
It is only ink on paper to show. 

 

IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK

If these walls could talk,
you'd know my body is dead,
my mind has been taken over,
that's why I am so scared,
I can't control it,
anger is making me blind,
I've been left here on my own
chained to a hate of some kind.
If these walls could talk.

If these walls could talk,
you'd know about my fears,
about all those nights I screamed for help,
about all my fallen tears.
You'd know about the demons
haunting me at night,
you'd be able to help me
keep my fire alight,
if these walls could talk.

If these walls could talk
they would say that it's all right,
God sends His angels
to look over me at night.
They'd encourage me,
say though I am alone
it doesn't mean Im on my own.
He watches me, from above
and showers me with all His love,
if only these walls could talk.

Niccolò Machiavelli


Niccolò Machiavelli’s best-known book, Il Principe, contains a number of maxims concerning politics, but rather than the more traditional subject of a hereditary prince, it concentrates on the possibility of a "new prince". To retain power, the hereditary prince must carefully maintain the socio-political institutions to which the people are accustomed; whereas a new prince has the more difficult task in ruling, since he must first stabilize his new-found power in order to build an enduring political structure. That requires the prince being concerned with reputation but also being willing to act immorally. As a political scientist, Machiavelli emphasises the occasional need for the methodical exercise of brute force, deceit, and so on.
Notwithstanding some mitigating themes, the Catholic Church proscribed The Prince, registering it to the Index Librorum Prohibiturum, and humanists also viewed the book negatively, among them,Erasmus of Rotterdam. As a treatise, its primary intellectual contribution to the history of political thought is the fundamental break between political Realism and political Idealism — thus, The Prince is a manual to acquiring and keeping political power. In contrast with Plato and Aristotle, Machiavelli insisted that an imaginary ideal society is not the model for a prince to orient himself by.
Concerning the differences and similarities in Machiavelli's advice to ruthless and tyrannical princes in The Prince and his more republican exhortations in Discourses on Livy, many have concluded that The Prince although written in the form of advice for a monarchical prince, contains arguments for the superiority of republican regimes, similar to those found in the Discourses. In the 18th century the work was even called a satire, for example by Jean-Jacques Roussau. More recently, commentators such as Leo Strauss and Harvey Mansfield have agreed that the Prince can be read as having a deliberate comical irony. Other commentators have not seen the irony as deliberate comedy, but most commentators agree that the Prince is republican to some extent.
Antonio Gramsci argued that Machiavelli's audience for this work was not even the ruling class but the common people because the rulers already knew these methods through their education.

UTOPIA

                             Thomas More
Thomas More sketched out his best known and most controversial work, UTOPIA.It was completed and published in 1516, a novel in Latin.

In it a traveller, Raphael Hythlodeaus (in Greek, his name and surname allude to archangel Raphael, purveyor of truth, and mean "speaker of nonsense"), describes the political arrangements of the imaginary island country of Utopia (Greek pun on ou-topos [no place], eu-topos [good place]) to himself and to Pieter Gillis.

At the time, most literate people could understand the actual meaning of the word "utopia" because of the relatively widespread knowledge of the Greek language.

This novel describes the city of Amaurote by saying, "Of them all this is the worthiest and of most dignity".
Utopia contrasts the contentious social life of European states with the perfectly orderly, reasonable social arrangements of Utopia and its environs (Tallstoria, Nolandia, and Aircastle). In Utopia, with communal ownership of land, private property does not exist, men and women are educated alike, and there is almost complete religious toleration.

Some take the novel's principal message to be the social need for order and discipline rather than liberty. The country of Utopia tolerates different religious practices but does not tolerate atheists. Hythlodeaus theorizes that if a man did not believe in a god or in an afterlife he could never be trusted, because he would not acknowledge any authority or principle outside himself.

More used the novel describing an imaginary nation as a means of freely discussing contemporary controversial matters; speculatively, he based Utopia on monastic communalism, based upon the Biblical communalism in the Acts of the apostels.

Utopia is a forerunner of the utopian literary genre, wherein ideal societies and perfect cities are detailed. Although Utopianism is typically a Renaissance movement, combining the classical concepts of perfect societies of Plato and Aristotle with Roman rhetorical finesse, it continued into the Enlightenment.  

Utopia's original edition included the symmetrical "Utopian alphabet" that was omitted from later editions; it is a notable, early attempt at cryptography that might have influenced the development of shorthand.

 Utopia ironically points out, through Raphael, More's ultimate conflict between his beliefs as a humanist and a servant of the King at court. More tries to illustrate how he can try and influence courtly figures including the king to the humanist way of thinking but as Raphael points out, one day they will come into conflict with the political reality.

THE MEANING OF THE WORK;

One of the most troublesome questions about Utopia is Thomas More's reason for writing it. Some of the ideas in it, such as the ease of divorce, euthanasia and both married priests and female priests, seem to be polar opposites of his beliefs and those expected of the devout Catholic that he was. The concept of religious toleration seems to jar particularly with the information we have about him as Lord Chancellor, that he was a keen opponent of Protestants. Similarly, the criticism of lawyers comes from a writer who, as Lord Chancellor, was arguably the most influential lawyer in England.
Also the communistis life style of a Utopian shows the value that More placed on a simpler communal life, reflecting his longing for monastic duties. This in obvious juxtaposition to his city life in London. However some see it as reflecting his pride in public service and working for a common cause.
Utopia is often seen as a satire and there are many jokes and satirical asides such as how honest people are in Europe, but these are usually contrasted with the simple, uncomplicated society of the Utopians.
The second option is that More agreed with the ideas he was propounding. The method of making a story about an imaginary place told by an imaginary man has the effect of distancing More from his radical political thoughts. Apart from Utopia meaning "Noplace" several other lands are mentioned: Achora meaning "Nolandia", Polyleritae meaning "Muchnonsense", Macarenses meaning "Happiland" and the river Anydrus meaning "Nowater". These names are designed to emphasise the illusory nature of the work and Raphael's last name, Hythlodaeus meaning "dispenser of nonsense" helps to discredit his words among those who get the joke.
The name Raphael, though, may have been chosen by More to remind his readers of the archangel Raphael who is mentioned in the Book of Tobit. In that book the angel guides Tobias and later cures his father of his blindness. While Hythloday may suggest his words are not to be trusted, Raphael meaning "God has healed" suggests that Raphael may be opening the eyes of the reader to what is true. The suggestion that More may have agreed with the views of Raphael is given weight by the way he dressed; with "his cloak was hanging carelessly about him"; a style which Roger Ascham reports that More himself was wont to adopt. Furthermore, more recent criticism has questioned the reliability of both Gile's annotations and the character of "More" in the text itself. Claims that the book only subverts Utopia and Hythloday are possibly oversimplistic.

CHARLES DICKENS & BOBBY LONG !!

He would make a lovely corpse, but I won't make a contribution to it!

Salvador Dali

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels; it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant." 


WHATS WRONG WITH PEOPLE??

I JUST had a blog up here, which i temporarely had to remove (and believe you me, it WILL be back) all because of my "monster-in-law". 

I only wrote the truth about what this person has DONE the last couple of days, what she had done to me and espescially that this made me want to involve the POLICE!! Can you believe it??!! She's the one who breaks the law by calling officials and lying about her firstborne, so that she can CLAIM controll over him (you see, he is SO fed up over her manipulation that he wants nothing to do with her at the moment, so now she tries EVERYTHING to enter our appartenment , or our lives in any way necessary! Even if it means breaking the law... But it is me, who blogs the truth thats getting threatened with the police etc....

Well, I called the cops myself today, and as I suspected, she is the one who should be reported  because of her "pain in the ass" behaviour, or herv *"abusive behaviour" as the policewoman called it!!

Thank God we have the law on our side!! I will write SO much more about this, but for now I'll let her be anonymous, only because I don't want to see her lying, backstabbing face ever again, and after a good long while, I will be telling it all! 

I have read all the guidelines and rules for this blog and I know with 100% certainty that I am in accordance with every law here! I HAVE BROKEN NO LAW!! Also; what is the justice in the fact that a person can slander and bully me all that she wants, but when I carefully try to defend myself and tell some truths about whats really going on, she starts threatening me??

This is an old woman, and she isn't excactly very "wordly" but is that an excuse to do whatever she wants, just because she decides so?

To be totally honest I am terrified of her. I am afraid of my life, I am afraid she will try to harm or hurt me, or in worst case; kill me. She has even hinted to this before, that she would kill if she had to!!

All I've EVER done to and for her is to try to be her friend, to be nice to her, and to learn from her, but she only seems to hate me. I can NEVER do anything right in her eyes. Never has she told me that I have done anything right, it's ALWAYS critisism :(

Never, ever, EVER have I met such a devious person! NEVER :(