Quotes

“Il pleure dans mon coeur comme il pleure sur la ville”

-Paul Verlaine

does any one have any favorite lines or poems theyd like to share?

All Faith is false, all Faith is true:

Truth is the shattered mirror strown

In myriad bits; while each believes

His little bit the whole to own.

-Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (Richard Burton)

The term Candomblé is a combination of two words from the Central African Kikongo language: Ka and ndonbé, together meaning “custom of the black people.” The drums play an essential and dominant role in Candomblé ceremonies. The master drummer plays the rum, which improvises intricate variations. The rumpi and lé play relatively unchanging patterns as they repeat one steady rhythm. The master drummer or alabê (Yoruba alá agbè) always has overall control of the ceremony, so it is important that drummers never go into a trance.”

-Gerard Taylor (Capoeira: The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace)

I highly recomend this book to anyone who finds african culture interesting.

heres a quick deviation from volume 1 of capoeira to a short storie from volume 2.

“…the argument over the blow, said to be illegal, angered people who’d bet against Mestre Bimba. One of them, Mr. Lúcio de Tal, nicknamed Barra Preta, was so furious about the “injustice” (and the money he’d lost) that he organized an ambush at Engenho  Velho by the Ladeira da Vila América. Mestre Bimba was returningfrom a liason with a local beauty late one dark night in the area of the Ciriaco Candomblé house when he was attacked by seven me, including Mr. Lúcio (carrying a gun, and no less than six police officers armed with sabers. He dumped Lúcio into a garbage container after disarming him, and knocked all the soldiers senseless. According to Angelo Decâni, Mestre Bimba cooly collected the various weapons and hopped on his streetcar, without dropping the straw hat he’d had under his arm.”

-Gerard Taylor (Capoeira: The jogo de angola from luanda to cyberspace Vol. 2)

Translating the heading: “The ship turned over, in the depths of the sea there is treasure.”

This traditional folkloric capoeira song is an apt metaphorical lyric to represent Kongolese religious ideas that have been described by T.J. Desch Obi. He explains that the counter-clockwise roda, or elola, was essential to central African cosmology, which “linked human combat to the interplay of spiritual forces from across the kalunga, or the threshold between the lands of the living and the dead.”

Kalunga in Central Africa, in N’Bunda language, meant the sea. The word also means rivers and the kingdom of the ancestors. In Kongolese cosmology, the counter-clockwise circle represents a solar cycle. If a cross were drawn within the circle, the horizontal east-to-west line is the kalunga. The kalunga divides the material world from the spirit world or afterlife. East represented birth, north was the peak of strength, west was death at the intersection with the kalunga line, and regeneration came at the southern extreme of the cross.”

-Gerard Taylor (Capoeira: The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace)

more will come tomorrow on this theory

so i guess yesterday i sorta got my liscence. im not all that excited lol… i havent even driven since then. on a lighter note do u like turtles?:

Generic Idealistic College Activist Group
Type:
Common Interest - Beliefs & Causes
Description:
There are a lot of bad things in the world: AIDS, poverty, famine, Republicans. We, the bright-eyed bushy tailed college students of America, will be the ones to fix them!!!! We realize that the problems of which we speak are infinitely more complicated than our Introductory Sociology reading syllabi could ever have anticipated, and that scores and scores of the world’s leading “progressive” thinkers have tried and failed to use other pipe-dream solutions to make the world a better place (as we define it). But never you mind!!! We’re college students. We know things. Who needs real-world experience and common sense when we have petitions, bumper stickers, and Noam Chomsky?

The mission of this group is nothing less than revolutionary, and the ideas expressed in it are fresh and innovative! The mission includes:

1. Social justice, social tolerance, social freedom, social rights, social society, and social studies

2. Universal education, universal healthcare, universal health insurance, universal housing, universal employment, and universal happiness!!

3. An end to war, poverty, hunger, AIDS, hate, discrimination, genocide, famine, disease, intolerance, racism, sexism, classism, nationalism, heterosexism, religionism, ethno-centrism, socio-eco-classo-sexo-nationalism, unilateralism, quadrilateralism, pollution, inequality, terrorism, crime, bad weather, anger, fear, sadness, heartache, death, fatigue, general human disatisfaction, disagreement, uncertainty, meanness, pain, and inconvenience!!

4. Peace in the Middle East!! This can be a reality, people. Jimmy Carter has a book about it, and the suicide bombers WILL sit down and read it!!

5. A return to international law and the United Nations!! Specifically, we’d like global peace and prosperity, and the UN is the only conceivable way to achieve it!!

6. More foreign aid!! We’ve given billions to third world nations already, but for some reason, the citizens of those nations never see it (because we’re not giving enough!). Thankfully, however, the leaders of those countries have reminded us that we need to send more - and it is our duty to do so, and their right to our money!!

7. Fair and free elections in Disputed Northeastern Congo Section 17-B

8. Free Mumia (we’re not sure what he did but according to various Web sites which we’re predisposed to agree with anyway, he’s innocent!)

9. A more equitable and just distribution of the wealth!! We have to make free market capitalism work by shackling it with suffocating and arbitrary laws, regulations, activist judges, centralized state control and ownership of all means of production, and think tank policy papers

10. Gay rights, women’s rights, black rights, workers’ rights, disability rights, immigrant rights, foreigners’ rights, intergalactic aliens’ rights, atheist rights, poor people’s rights, homeless rights, and one-armed Alaskan battery dealers’ rights

11. Fairness, equality, love, peace, and brother/sister/non-gender-specific-hood, forever and ever, non-religion-specific Amen!!

We are the world, be the change you wish to see, and other motivational slogans!!

today im going to post 5 of my favorite engrish photos (expect plenty more). for those of you not familiar with the concept of engrish check out engrish.com. hope you enjoy!

be sure to click the thumbnail and read them.

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”

“it is said that what is called ‘the spirit of an age’ is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the worlds coming to an end. In the same way, a single year does have just spring or summer. A single day, too, is the same.

   For this reason, although one would like to change today’s world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. This is the mistake of people who are attached to past generations. They have no understanding of this point.

   On the other hand, people who only know the disposition of the present day and dislike the ways of the past are too lax.”

- Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure (the book of the samurai)

 

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“They say: ‘Become Jews or Christians if you would be guided (to salvation).’ You say: ‘Nay! (i would rather) the Religion of Abraham the True, and he joined not gods with Allah.’ You say: “We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma’il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord: and we bow to Allah (in Islam)*”

-the Qur’an, Surah 2:135-136

*islam means submission

Eu não sou daqui
Marinheiro só
Eu não tenho amor
Marinheiro só
Eu sou da Bahia
Marinheiro só
De São Salvador
Marinheiro só

Marinheiro, marinheiro,
Marinheiro só
Quem te ensinou a nadar
Marinheiro só
Foi o tombo do navio
Marinheiro só
Ou foi o balanço do mar
Marinheiro só

La vem, la vem,
Marinheiro só
Como ele vem façeiro
Marinheiro só
Como todo de branco
Marinheiro só
Com seu bonezinho
Marinheiro só

I am not from here
Lonely sailor
I don’t have a lover
Lonely sailor
I am from Bahia
Lonely sailor
I am from São Salvador
Lonely sailor

Sailor, sailor
Lonely sailor
Who taught you how to swim?
Lonely sailor
Was it the tumbling of the ship?
Lonely sailor
Or was it the rolling of the sea
Lonely sailor

There he comes, there he comes
Lonely sailor
How he comes so pleasant
Lonely sailor
All in white
Lonely sailor
With his little hat
Lonely sailor

One Love

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“Your mind is filled with new ideas make use of them”

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“L’Amour est un oiseau rebelle”

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“You will have many friends
when u need them”
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To ride abroad redressing human wrongs,
To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it,
To honor his own word as if his god’s,
To lead sweet lives in purest chastity,
To love one maiden only […]
And worship her by years of noble deeds….

– credo of the Knights of the Round Table
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the definition of religion:

“[to] care for orphans and widows in their troubles”

this defines our relationship and attitude to others, for the follower of christ this is namely, one of servanthood.

“and [to] refuse to let the world corrupt us”

this defines our relationship and attitude to ourselves and god. for the follower of christ this is manifests itself as:
to ourselves: self-denial, piety, discipline.
to god: subjection, sincerity, to not let the world corrupt us means to dwell in him and him in us. otherwise we have no hope and we will be overcome
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“Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone’s here
Everyone’s here
Everybody’s watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
Tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before”
-Switchfoot

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i published this on my other site last year so here it is again:
Happy Valentines Day everyone! here they are 30 love quotes. I could have posted a thousand more but I decided to stop here. I hope you learn as much from reading these as I did from collecting them. I could probably speak for all these quotes but I’ll spare you the comments. which r ur favorites of these I list? well here they are:

1) Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall’d, unsent. Oh, tell me where Love goeth! That was not Love that went.
Author: Unattributed Author

2) Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give–which is everything.
Author: Vittorio Alfieri

3)I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Author: Philip James Bailey

4) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Author: Philip James Bailey

5) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Author: Bible

6) Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
Author: Anonymous

7) Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.
Author: Anonymous

Love conquers all, and let us yield to it. �Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori
Author: Publius Vergilius Maro Vergil, Virgil

9) Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness (then).
Author: Anthony Hopkins

10) Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God’s gift is divine.
Author: Unknown

11) There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.
Author: François de La Rochefoucauld

12) If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
Author: Anonymous

13) To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

14) A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi

15) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton

16) We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

17) Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Author: H. L. Mencken

18) Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

19) Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
Author: Albert Einstein

20) The one who loves least controls the relationship.
Author: Anonymous.

21) ‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Author: Miguel de Cervantes

22) Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Author: Erica Jong

23) Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Author: William Shakespeare

24) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Author: Madame De Staël

25) ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Author: Lord Tennyson

26) Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Author: Marianne Williamson

27) A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
Author: Woodrow Wyatt

28) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Author: Sam Keen

29) It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you’ve fallen in love with.
Author: Clark Gable

30) If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
Author: Christopher Morley

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a thought i had from watching narnia for the second time (with french subtitles). when the kids all go
to narnia together and meet the beavers, mrs. beaver says “i never thought id live to see the day!” and isnt that the case for most christians (and probably jews before christ), we dont think well see the day, but we really have to be like the beavers, living with hope and believe that actually, its happening right now. god is working his will in the world this very moment.
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