Headline of the Day from The Babylon Bee: Doctors Finally Admit Best Treatment For Flu Just 'The Price Is Right' And Crackers
Rereading Crafting Scenes by Raymond Obstfeld, a fantastic book recommended to me on this very forum years ago. He quotes from the story "Naked" by Carol Oates: She was by nature and training an unfailingly friendly woman; she practiced friendliness as a musician practices an instrument, and with as unquestioned a devotion. He then goes on to note: The... excerpt shows how little insight she has into herself: to practice friendliness is not the same as actually being friendly; it is merely an imitation. Which brings us to my immediate reaction, my random and useless thought of the day: Oh fuck you and your goatfucking, misanthropic prose.
Pretty sure the guy teaching the course on Norse mythology said Valhalla, but that was a long time ago and I've slept since then.
Yeah. Sparta is undeniably in Greece. When the proff said women who died in childbirth were admitted to Valhalla, I assumed he meant Scandanavian women. Greece was pretty much ignored in that lecture. Well, I got curious and went on a little fishing expedition. Turns out it was Fólkvangr that accepted fallen warriors and women who died in childbirth. The following is from worldhistoryedu.com: The afterlife region of Fólkvangr in Norse mythology ... is believed to be the realm of the Norse goddess Freyja, the deity of fertility, beauty, and war. Freyja is said to have been impressed by her husband Odin’s great hall; therefore the goddess decided to build a hall for herself and the fallen warriors that were not selected by the Valkyries... According to some Norse myths, Fólkvangr also accepts women that died in childbirth.
Does anyone else have a paradise or afterlife of their own making? That they believe in? That is no part of any major religion? Spoiler: My Paradise When we die, we become a sort of creative god, that can make a universe from scratch and populate it with our own type of art and beauty. Our minds will be clear and capable of all this when we die. And we will be able to visit the universes of other loved ones who have died. We can also decide to temporarily remove our godhood and live in the universes we create.
Paradise would look like an unravaged earth populated with loved ones, including every four-footed creature that ever held my heart.
I thought somebody was just saying that the Norse have very similar warrior ethics to the Spartans concering who gets into heaven. It actually makes a lot of sense, considering Sparta was actually peace-loving until it was invaded by the Dorics, an extremely warlike Germanic tribe who incidentally gave us the Doric column. After the invasion Sparta became warlike. And of course, the Norse religion covered all of the Germanic countries in its time, so they were doubtless Norse. Making Sparta a southern outpost of Viking culture.
I'm intrigued by Fiddler's Green. The idea that.. "Oh we'll never make it into Heaven. But we aren't going straight to Hell, like those losers who aren't us." And that there's a bunch of different groups that think this-sailors, cavalry troopers, artillerymen.
A six liter (who the hell buys a six liter bottle?) of 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon will cost you $500,000 USD.
If one of the richest people on the Earth put up a vending machine that gave away free banknotes at the rate of $500 000 per day they would still likely be one of the richest persons in the world by the end of their life.
There’s not any evidence that the Dorians were Germanic; I think it’s generally agreed that they were Greek.
That's the only way I make chocolate chip cookies: one giant circle to be broken into smaller pieces for eating convenience. Spending two hours in the kitchen putting cookie sheets in and out of the oven is a PITA.
I haven't made chocolate chip cookies in ages, but I saw that the import food shop has Nestle chips, so it may be time soon.
