Also I sometimes ring up people with the same sirnames as famous but crap peeps. The conversation goes:
Hi, is that mr theakston?
Yes..
Hi, im just calling to find out weather or not your aware that you actually have the same sirname as jamie theakston from tv?
who?
jamie theakston. he used to present saturday morning telly
oh..
you have the same sirname as him
oh right, whats this about then?
its what we do. I work for a company that calls people who have the same sirnames as famous people to let them know.
???
its a free service.
oh, thanks
your welcome. it is a free service but we do rely on donations from charatble people who appreciate being told that they have the same sirnames as someone famous
consider a tree whose seed was swept
across the landscape while it wept
and now
in distant soil is kept to grow
a solitary tree
against rocky shelf of mountainside
or in some cornfield, endless
wide
for it, adversity lasts long
and it must by itself be strong
no forest round to share the sting of angry sun
and pounding rain
it simply cannot take its ease by leaning
against other trees
i should think that from the start
in such a tree there dwells a heart
and soul
that though apart from other trees
finds solace in the beasts and breeze
and that its lonesome tenure yields
beholdeness
from peaks and fields
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Is it just me or is there something of Nietzsche's eternal recurrence in Super Mario Galaxy?
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I like being me sometimes. I read beyond good and evil and then in explaining what I thought he meant used exactly the same metaphor that I later found out that he'd used in Thus Spoke Zarathrustra.
I guess thats kinda expaining why mario keeps on rescuing the princess in a similar but not quite the same way. But I like that. The idea of eternal recurrence but slightly different each time. So the crux of the story and the people would be mostly the same but thered be new dimensions like living in a different house, going to a different university or having better graphics.
I remember when this was on channel 4 late at night.
Alongside the video game program bits and mortal kombat. Me and a friend watched every episode while chatting on the phone and then continued chatting on the phone for most of the night. The problem with this was that the phone at her end was a mobile. I ran up an £800 phone bill doing this. My mum was displeased. We were on incoming calls only for months.
There's nothing to stop you using it as a sig, though animated sigs piss some people off, so it's not advisable.
Avatars have to be stored on this server, your file is 400KB which is way too big. During busy times i.e. the few days before Glasto and ticket day, an avatar of that size used by a regular poster would have a detrimental affect on server performance.
Stick it in your sig if you must, but it'll need to be hosted externally.
If the web space it currently resides on doesn't belong to you, I strongly recommend you move it to somewhere that does belong to you e.g. a Photobucket account, otherwise you risk the owner spotting it in his server logs and changing the image to something that could be embarrassing for you e.g. porn. I had someone hotlink to one of my images in his sig on a Glasgow Rangers forum once, so I changed the image to the Celtic logo. As you can imagine, he received a fair amount of abuse for it
The site its on is a avatar site so its intended for that and linking there should work cos i found it like that on another forum. It says its too big even when linking from another site on here. Not fussed tho if peeps find animations annoying.
damnit I have two essays due in on monday and im barely half way through the first. I work quite fast but do so in stints of about ten mins as the need to watch tv, have a cig or play some video game creeps up. I have no problem with doing something later but doing it in the now is difficult. Ive been known to plan to stay up all night doing an essay when its due in next morning and then mess about putting it off until 5 in the morning and then complain about not getting the marks that I think my intellect deserves.
I dont have this problem with exams tho. I like exams cos its more exillerating. Everyones on edge before you go in and then once your in there you just totally focus on what your doing. Its more of a challenge getting all the stuuf in your head and then spewing it onto the paper than having ages to write about something dull. You know you can do it so the part of you thats so up for the exam fails to see the point.
taking a break from this essay now. got most of it down leaving room for an introduction. *yawn*
if i wernet so clever id have a hell of a time
i start university this year doing marketing since I think id be quite good at the creative and tactical aspects of that. my first choice uni hst got bck to me yet but ive thus far got two unconditionl offers so things are going well
i was gonna do philosophy but figured it might take the fun out of it and that due to there not being so much of a career path at the end of it it would be better to do something that would just be a job that id enjoy and make enough out of to do a philosophy degree if i ever see the need.
Im expecting ill like the anti christ. And ecce homo. Any book that has chapters entitled "why im so clever", "why im so wise" and "why i write such good books" has to be good. Or dishonest, i s'pose..
Seeing the gretest creative genius of our time return to top form and once again get the appreciation he deserves from the masses was good. Particularly considering the nature of the microsoft behmoth and the contrast between the reasons for the sucsess of each.
i think discovering Nietzsche is probably the best thing to happen in my life ths far. All the ways of thinking ive encountered before present one with a false image of man and convinces one that one must be the one thats different or wrong in some way whereas Nietzsche says thats all bollocks and the pulls apart those ways of seeing things as I once had a good go at doing, only I used fewer words. I endured the thing that got Nietzsche and as Nietzsche claims that indurance is the only thing today that proves the worth of one in a way his philosophy actually places higher value on me than upon himself. Still, what a top guy he was....
and i really like the depth of his work. esp zarathustra out of what ive read thus far. you could read it fifty times and still get a lot out of doing so. its a bottom less well of a text to be pawed over and thaught over endlessly.
Yeah it gives him a very distinctive look dosent it. I wanna see if I can get a t-shirt whith a sort of styleised siloette of him cos theres this chap at college who goes in wearing t-shirt with a sort of stylised siloetee che gueva and all my teachers are marxist feminists and i wanna communicate two fingers in that general direction.
what i wanna know is why i have to study marxism and feminism and then meet these retarded criterea so you could be answering, critically evaluate the new rights view that poor people are poor because theyre stupid so you write something really clever and its wrong because it says in the criteri that you have to talk about feminism. Why? It didnt say that in the fucking question, my answer to witch you dont even understand, mr teacher. Would you like to critically evalute my answer and see if you can debate my points with me? No? Oh.
and who wrote the critera? The marxist feminist course co ordinator! Oh! Mr teacher, you really should have said that when I asked you why it is that no answer to any question can possibly be right unless it talks about marxism and feminism.
Up all night replacing my brilliant ideas with someone elses stupid ones now. I think I'll try to cultivate a more Japanese work ethic. Im so torn on the issues of exessive individualism and egoism between my peer there and the Japanese. On the one hand I like my exessive individualism and egoism. On the other the Japanese have such great porn. I suppose as far as egoism goes I could veil it. Think about what a great genius I am but not talk about what a great genius I am.
Theres a book somewhere, 'Nietzsche and east asian thaght' or something but im so sodding busy ive not even started on the antichrist yet. Probably wont get time till tuesday. May well be my next purchase. I know some Japanese peeps have taken to his ideas and I don't know that its any more at odds with Japanese thaught than it is with the prevailing strain of British morrality thinking. Although that isnt saying much considering it would have to try quite hard to be more at odds with anything than it is with revailing strain of British morrality thinking. But different parts of it would be at odds with each I think and perhaps I think the bits that are at odds with the British are more important than the ones at odds with the Japanese. Anyway its extreemly convinient for me that theres that book.
He certainly had more time for Buddism than christianity, although it still wasnt so much his thing he saw it as more advanced because he saw the no sin = no suffering equation as more retarded than theres suffering lets struggle against it. Certainly he agreed with me that the Japanese are a noble race. His philosophy goes on about being glad of suffering, that it improves the soul, and so forth. He actually says alot of different things about it but the jist of all of them is that suffering is a possitive aspect of life. And evil.. Thats my favourite bit....
He talks about re cristening the worst in one as the best in one and I find that fascinating. I think if everyone did that then everthing would be so much more fun. Ive been using his ideas about how people dropped the filthy lies bout after lives that came with christianity but not the morality in my college work which is all wrong cos im talking about propper philosophy rather than the bollocks that the rabble thinks I should have my head filled with. Although it was my idea seperatly ofcourse. I called neo christian morralty vile all by my self. Its like someone gives you a bomb (beliefs) and some suspect white powder (morrality) and you then find out that the bombs a bomb and get rid but it dosent occour to you that the white powder from the same person might be anthrax. Sodding rabble.
or to put it another way, like a mouse telling a cat that emery boards and glue chewing gum are all the rage among cats and that all the cats will think the cat deeply uncool if it dosent buy emery boards and glue chewing gum from the mouse so the cat buys the emery boards and glue chewing gum. The cat then finds out that emery boards and glue chewing gum arnet all the rage among cats at all but decides to keep them anyway for no apparent reason and starves.
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