tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post8465491257632830165..comments2024-03-29T07:28:45.936-05:00Comments on Althouse: "What’s done is done," "What will be will be" — these "tautophrases" "preserve and burnish the established order."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16474456344954730352019-05-30T21:51:08.337-05:002019-05-30T21:51:08.337-05:00The literal translation of what God says is "...<i>The literal translation of what God says is "I will be what I will be".</i><br /><br />"People don't think I be like I is, but I do."stutefishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11652736633374020671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3356798225706864672019-05-30T19:44:44.509-05:002019-05-30T19:44:44.509-05:00Doesn't the wicked wiccan mantra (Thelema?) be...Doesn't the wicked wiccan mantra (Thelema?) begin "And it harm no-one, do what thou wilt [etc whatever]"? Might be a later interpolation, or I'm more confused than usual . . .<br /><br />Guess who got a lot out of Emerson. <br /><br />Narr<br />Rhymes with preachyNarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14043247682000851606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2565756626322109632019-05-30T19:41:51.126-05:002019-05-30T19:41:51.126-05:00Fernandistein,
I was thinking about Popeye’s tag ...Fernandistein,<br /><br />I was thinking about Popeye’s tag line, while offline. Glad to see someone else noticed its relevanceSDalyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16687303670864926453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37187582230538210602019-05-30T19:32:25.825-05:002019-05-30T19:32:25.825-05:00Que sera seraQue sera seraAmbrosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12186326715874648232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34431025196885370712019-05-30T19:10:23.650-05:002019-05-30T19:10:23.650-05:00Once upon a time, it was: It is what it is.
But t...Once upon a time, it was: It is what it is. <br />But then, somebody said: It depends on what the meaning of is, is.<br />And some people were ok with that.<br />And that was that.D 2https://www.blogger.com/profile/06176569163582096697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34370622537635278922019-05-30T19:06:06.066-05:002019-05-30T19:06:06.066-05:00Mrs Gump told Forrest, “ stupid is as stupid does....Mrs Gump told Forrest, “ stupid is as stupid does.” That about sums it up.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382148890891751329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43276720135669352112019-05-30T18:23:21.735-05:002019-05-30T18:23:21.735-05:00don't forget the most important!
When Frodo ...don't forget the most important!<br /><br /> When Frodo asks Goldberry just who Tom Bombadil is, she responds simply by saying "He is"<br />gilbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949243924046064880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5227376436497399592019-05-30T17:47:37.467-05:002019-05-30T17:47:37.467-05:00"He who will not governed by the rudder, will..."He who will not governed by the rudder, will be governed by the rock." <br />attributed to anonMarcus Aureliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06461008318526872434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-58338863369040021352019-05-30T17:31:35.567-05:002019-05-30T17:31:35.567-05:00I will be what I will be sounds like in independen...I will be what I will be sounds like in independent mind. If that mind also wrote the scriptures they must bend towards valuing freedom. Yet the Law of Moses can cause a submissiveness bondage that only the New Covenant can set men free from.<br /><br />Thank a God for picking the intellectual Saul, later named Paul, to clear it up.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382148890891751329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21285464363834918082019-05-30T17:29:33.618-05:002019-05-30T17:29:33.618-05:00The Gospel According to Popeye
"And you didn...<a href="http://alifeworthy.net/the-gospel-according-to-popeye/" rel="nofollow">The Gospel According to Popeye</a><br /><br />"And you didn’t even realize that Popeye the Sailor Man was a believer, did you?<br /><br />Popeye’s verse—I’m assuming his life verse, went like this:<br /><br />“I yam what I yam and that’s all what I yam.”<br /><br />I’m sure you recognize this as a slightly, uh, personalized form of 1 Corinthians 15:10a, which reads, 'But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect.'<br /><br />This verse has been popping into my head a lot recently."<br />Fernandinandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11253225431705407699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72148220465852741892019-05-30T17:16:46.227-05:002019-05-30T17:16:46.227-05:00One reason to excuse mischief is to avoid compulsi...One reason to excuse mischief is to avoid compulsion.<br /><br />One of the great benefits of fatalism -- what will be will be -- is that it avoids the lie of certainty.<br /><br />Our current established order does not believe in mischief or fate. It believes in certainty and embraces compulsion as its consequence.<br /><br />The Irish poet Padraig O Tuama writes:<br /><br />"[Reconciliation] is an exercise in the art of compromise, and compromise, for many, is like death. But death happens anyway."Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14520113896946845614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52248218812691800462019-05-30T17:15:08.356-05:002019-05-30T17:15:08.356-05:00cutting your lawn
I like to have two or three mar...<i>cutting your lawn</i><br /><br />I like to have two or three margaritas and smoke some hash before cutting the lawn because then I know that lawn is getting what's coming to it. That's as an individual, of course, not as a former taxpayer and honey-producing member of the <a href="https://www.theonion.com/ask-a-bee-1819583411" rel="nofollow">hive</a>.Fernandinandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11253225431705407699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8719453940426077772019-05-30T17:10:27.025-05:002019-05-30T17:10:27.025-05:00Ok Obama, you do you and HRC whom you silenced by ...Ok Obama, you do you and HRC whom you silenced by making her SOS, will toss your fecklessness into the trash heap. We got Trump and our betters in the media can't hide their bias. Good job Mr. Mom Jeanssteverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14887097979016145264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5139634831059290442019-05-30T17:07:43.387-05:002019-05-30T17:07:43.387-05:00Not to be too too pedantic (just pedantic enough!)...Not to be too too pedantic (just pedantic enough!):<br /><br />In Hebrew there is no present tense of the verb 'to be' which of course leads to all sorts of poetical sounding pronouncements. ['The guy is red' and 'The red guy'] can be translated exactly the same. <br /><br />The literal translation of what God says is "I will be what I will be".<br /><br /> Or maybe "imma be like imma be"Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04473544561657298071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13311588477079723802019-05-30T17:00:03.157-05:002019-05-30T17:00:03.157-05:00The important thing about "You do you," ...The important thing about "You do you," is that the person saying it is abdicating all responsibility for the maintenance of standards of behavior by the person being addressed.<br /><br />The exact opposite of this statement would be Dirty Harry's statement, "Make my day."<br />I'd suggest not doing so, if Harry ever says this to you.mikeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17875483485290838207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27304948831576338862019-05-30T16:50:37.091-05:002019-05-30T16:50:37.091-05:00You may think that " you do what you want to ...You may think that " you do what you want to do" of the 60s is a sign of rugged individualism but it was a sign of cowardice. The boys of that era where scared shit of being drafted and going off to Vietnam. You see the draft was standard procedure in those days, the standard way of life for young men.You conformed to the rules and served when called. Not with these pampered (spock babies), gutless kids ( iam talking about the ones who dodged the draft illegally). So they came up with the bullshit that " I do my own thing" . The real rugged kid was the one who did his duty,conformed to the rules and served, not the punks who fled to Canada and did their thing. <br />The real rugged individual is the one that goes to work every day, mows his lawn, and worries about the welfare of his family - the deplorables. Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738566962027017005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55727502638799696222019-05-30T16:41:08.325-05:002019-05-30T16:41:08.325-05:00I also share the view that "I am that I am&qu...I also share the view that "I am that I am" refers to God as pure Being, "Is-ness." The rest of us come and go, the rest of everything in creation, known and unknown, comes and goes. God doesn't change.<br /><br />Doesn't surprise me that someone at the NYT is hostile and clueless about religion and an atheist. That's the Left these days. Pathetic.Rosalyn C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05868527120018363058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56895801090106449542019-05-30T16:33:33.172-05:002019-05-30T16:33:33.172-05:00isn't that the wiccan philosophy, it takes wor...isn't that the wiccan philosophy, it takes work to be as ignorant as colson, a ny times review best seller, If memory serves,narcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07128976398798678295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23283046384765960212019-05-30T16:29:30.954-05:002019-05-30T16:29:30.954-05:00It's your thing
Do what you wanna do
I can'...<i>It's your thing<br />Do what you wanna do<br />I can't tell you<br />Who to sock it to<br /><br />It's your thing<br />Do what you wanna do now<br />I can't tell you<br />Who to sock it to<br /><br />If you want me to love you, maybe I will<br />I need you woman, it ain't no big deal<br />You need love now, just as bad as I do<br />Make's me no difference now, who you give your thing to<br /><br />It's your thing (It's your thing)<br />Do what you wanna do<br />I can't tell you<br />Who to sock it to</i><br /><br />Ah, the romance of the late 1960's!<br />SDalyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16687303670864926453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3970451388890415322019-05-30T16:27:23.771-05:002019-05-30T16:27:23.771-05:00"Emerson thought very highly of himself"..."Emerson thought very highly of himself"<br /><br />Yes, he did. <br /><br />"My hat's off to anyone who can read Emerson and get something out of it.'<br /><br />My hat (a Basque boina/txapela) stays on. You can keep Emerson. <br /><br />buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36842783595260658572019-05-30T15:53:55.902-05:002019-05-30T15:53:55.902-05:00“I am what I am, and that's all that I am.”
―...“I am what I am, and that's all that I am.”<br /><br />― PopeyeTommy Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268175762963470262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84783135449887167122019-05-30T15:52:32.561-05:002019-05-30T15:52:32.561-05:00"It is what it is" happens to be a favor...<i>"It is what it is" happens to be a favorite of mine.</i><br /><br />Well....STOP it, Captain Obvious!!madAsHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01149940549262340795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49486379656698952162019-05-30T15:46:28.983-05:002019-05-30T15:46:28.983-05:00"When God informs Moses, 'I am that I am,...<i>"When God informs Moses, 'I am that I am,' he is telling the prophet, 'Look, get off my back, I’m God.'</i><br /><br />No. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07575021285669012791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36962990085379490942019-05-30T15:45:09.680-05:002019-05-30T15:45:09.680-05:00"It is what it is" happens to be a favor..."It is what it is" happens to be a favorite of mine.richlbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02301945204311918130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33210568758765147592019-05-30T15:44:49.933-05:002019-05-30T15:44:49.933-05:00Best Do Your Thing ever. 20 minutes of pure awesom...Best <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-pjopYogIc" rel="nofollow">Do Your Thing</a> ever. 20 minutes of pure awesome.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05973774692416760687noreply@blogger.com