These were the first words of all
the Goddesses spoke to me –
“You shepherds of the Wilderness, poor fools,
nothing but bellies,
We know how to say many false things
that seem like true sayings,
But we know also how to Speak the Truth
when We wish to.”
- Hesiod
Tags: poetry
February 9, 2008 at 8:33 pm |
Hey nice to see this! And I get to leave the first comment!
Now you can consider another “theme” under “presentation.” (You can sample them live without actually switching.) There are other little details to attend to, but each, individually, is a simple thing, such as your name – under “users.” Just tinker around in your dashboard. Good luck!
February 9, 2008 at 10:58 pm |
Thank you, John.
And yeah: you seem to understand that I’m absolutely new to this, and perfectly green as that. When it comes to the technicalities involved in the act of blogging, I will certainly be in need of help, advice, directions, suggestions, you name it.
February 10, 2008 at 2:32 am |
Hungry ghosts have “mouths the size of a needle’s eye and a stomach the size of a mountain” and are “a metaphor for people futilely attempting to fulfill their illusory physical desires.” They can’t get enough through their tiny mouths to satisfy their hunger.
Good luck with the blog, mulig.
February 10, 2008 at 11:19 am |
Well, according to western folklore zombies very often have their mouths sown up.
February 11, 2008 at 5:50 pm |
Saturday, November 25, 2006, 10:00 am. Meeting point at Christ Church square – Promenades de la Cathédrale
« What are they doing? Why are they coming here? »
« It’s a kind of… instinct. Memory… of what they used to do. This was an important place for them… »
« They are us. That’s all. When there is no more room in hell, the dead shall go shopping ».
They are back! Zombies have invaded Montreal’s commercial core. Dumbfounded Shoppers are terror-stricken! Here and there, the undead are moaning, tripping over themselves and aimlessly dragging their sorry carcasses. A few lonely ghouls just a moment ago, they seem to be multiplying; dozens of famished creatures now roam the plaza. They are hungry! But they can’t find anything, not a single brain around to satisfy their freakish appetite! The consumer trance has rotted away their usual feed. The horror! The horror! Nothing can distinguish de dead from the living! Such a sad spectacle: the living dead stumbling through the flashy splendour and kitsch décor of a falsely happy Christmas. This will all end badly… It is the Shopping Spree of the Dead!
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! — And this might actually be the way the brand new age of significantly lowered consumption rates starts? I mean: from the fact that the millions and billions strong horde of zombie consumers, for some magical reason, no longer seem to find anything to satisfy their unbelievably freakish appetite. In terms of modern civilization theory, a very sad case. But very good news to the splendid minds of birds, who usually tend to care about nothing other than a natural environment that can sustain normal bird life for an infinite period of time. And the air they’re flying around and breathing in, well, I’m sorry. — It sure doesn’t smell too well, if you know what I’m saying?
What I am trying to say, is that the changing of the world to a better place for all of the creatures of nature and society, would simply have to depend on the slow but steady development of a low consumption global culture. Consumerism must retreat and then vanish into the black hole of ancient history. It is decisively essential that westernized humanity learns to appreciate the difference between wants and needs, and take on a new attitude towards what might otherwise is known as pure greed.
February 14, 2008 at 4:26 am |
Okay, here are two quick blog tips:
1) Click the title of the first sample post titled, “Hello World!” It’s at the bottom of your current front page. After clicking that, you’ll see at the top of the page and “Edit post” link. Click that and you’ll be in the editing area for the post. Near the bottom somewhere is a “delete this post” button. Unless you want to keep it as a kind of souvenir, that’s where you can delete it.
2) in your dashboard (where you write posts etc.) go to options > general (which is the first page that come up under options anyway). There you will quickly see where to delete or revise the subtitle under your blog name which currently reads, “just another wordpress weblog.” At least I think it should work that way. Some of these things vary a bit from theme to theme (and you can find themes under “presentation.” Onward!
February 14, 2008 at 8:21 am |
Okay. Thanks, John.
Problem is: as things are turning out now, I’m not too sure about whether my starting a blog of my own is a wise move or not. For the moment, I’m thinking about this whole thing as something like a test. — I’m just testing here. And plenty of things are “possible”.