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Abdhyius
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Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
American Gods, one of my favourite books that I've nearly read asunder has been finally made into a series. We should watch it. Maybe also read it yet again.
No man, proclaimed Donne, is an island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other’s tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes – forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There’s not a chance you’d mistake one for another, after a minute’s close inspection), but still unique.
Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, ‘casualties may rise to a million.’ With individual stories, the statistics become people — but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless. Look, see the child’s swollen, swollen belly, and the flies that crawl at the corners of his eyes, his skeletal limbs: will it make it easier for you to know his name, his age, his dreams, his fears? To see him from the inside? And if it does, are we not doing a disservice to his sister, who lies in the searing dust beside him, a distorted, distended caricature of a human child? And there, if we feel for them, are they now more important to us than a thousand other children touched by the same famine, a thousand other young lives who will soon be food for the flies’ own myriad squirming children?
We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearllike, from our souls without real pain.
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.
A life like that is, like any other, unlike any other.
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WILL BE GREAT AGAIN
WILL BE THE FIRMEST AND FATTEST AND LARGEST AND TIGHTEST BUTTS AROUND
ITS GONNA BE GREAT
Drove the Chevy to the levee but the levee was buttes
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
now the day is taking foreverrrrrrr
I like big butts... I will not lie.
There's a joke about Lawyers having a bedtime of 3pm here
I WANT TO KNOW
it started to deflate
the show must go on
deflated pikachu however
straight into the meatgrinder
He refused to give up his seat on United.
Turned into Pokeburgers.
if pikachu is shown to be weak then the people will know the truth
Team Rocket
They tried to fix it but the pikachu started deflating again with it tried to return near the end of the video.
if you didn't enjoy the book i don't even know how to communicate with you in a meaningful way because you clearly come from some alien race whose entire concept of language and its use is inconceivable to me
i dunno rugged temba, his arms wide
nice
I told him in quite blunt terms in overwatch over voice chat that literally everyone in the world disagreed with him and that he was objectively wrong
I don't think they are going to deviate quite so much from the source like TWD has.
5/10
pretty sure I'll check the series out if I can get to it (not sure what channel or service it's on)
i've seen hotter
How much time have you dedicated to figuring out Odos dick situation
That should complement my constant Simpsons references nicely.
I think you can buy it on Amazon Prime?
looked like a child to me. high school.
he looks like he's like 13 years old
why are you even rating him
I just read Harry Potter books recently. I know how you feel.
It's weird that the movies didn't do much for me, but the books are good.
it felt medium and left very little impression. I liked the one midwestern town where
but that's about all I can remember of it.
i mean mechanically it seems pretty simple
he basically demonstrated it when he was showing bashir how he can make it look like he's drinking from the glass and then refilling it
my real question is
what kind of length and girth did he go for
he's a no-nonsense kind of fella, but takes pride in his work, so i would assume just slightly above average, you know, just enough to be noteworthy, but not ostentatious