Religion is much easier to understand if you replace ‘I believe’ by ‘I really really wish’.
I really really wish
March 3rd, 2010Goldsmith on Descartes
February 22nd, 2010Servicio de Orientación y Planificación Profesional
February 15th, 2010Si tu trabajo no te llena, hazte cocinero.
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Fake antithesis
February 6th, 2010Building on yesterday’s post, what about the following figure?
The supporting actor let me down
There’s an antithesis on the figurative plane (’supportive’, ‘let down’), but not on the thematic plane (disappointing actor).
Thus, there’s also an antithesis of sorts between the two planes, and a certain symmetry to the figure.
Nueva figura lógica
February 5th, 2010Para completar el oxímoron, cohabitación, paradoja y antítesis, necesitamos una figura de falsa antítesis, esto es, dos conceptos que fintan un choque, pero en el último momento se apartan. Por ejemplo:
El actor de reparto acaparó todos los premios.
Insomniac
February 3rd, 2010Although the diagnosis wasn’t obvious for a long time, it seems that insomnia was what kept me from finding the woman of my dreams.
The Wicker Man (1973)
January 27th, 2010The Wicker Man (1973) is not so much a horror film as a thriller with an appealing subtext critical of religion.
Sergeant Howie: What religion can they possibly be learning jumping over bonfires?
Lord Summerisle: Parthenogenesis.
Sergeant Howie: What?
Lord Summerisle: Literally, as Miss Rose would doubtless say in her assiduous way, reproduction without sexual union.
Sergeant Howie: Oh, what is all this? I mean, you’ve got fake biology, fake religion… Sir, have these children never heard of Jesus?
Lord Summerisle: Himself the son of a virgin, impregnated, I believe, by a ghost…
Nowhere is now here
January 26th, 2010Searching for the nowhere domain, it turns out that www.nowhere.com points to www.NowHere.de.
Sweeping statements
January 25th, 2010It’s very difficult to criticise sweeping statements.
