don't worry, it'll soon be a SWAT-worthy experience to advocate voting for someone not of the dominant political part(y/ies).
Soon, even gatherings that are completely peaceful and unlikely to change anything will make people eligible for indefinite detention. e.g. these people(http://www.wow.com/2008/01/03/ron-pauls-world-of-warcraft-rally/)
what may happen is that a judgment is made against the guy in the UK and there is no ramification to him until he tries to go there the next time. If he does he'll probably be arrested, etc on whatever equivalent there is in the UK to a bench warrant for failing to pay the judgment against him. And that process will happen efficiently because of the wonderful sheep^h^h^h^h^h people accounting systems we all now employ at border checkpoints as part of our security theater.
He just thinks he's Stewie. He's probably plotting to wipe out global warming as a means to destroying all broccoli. He will control his weather device with a Speak and Say.
It is true that Tolkien had a distaste for the 'allegorical impulse', particularly the tendency to read every story as an allegory. But, again, I can't recall that this fits with anything Tolkien actually says about the Narnia books; and one could just as easily say that Tolkien's tendency to dislike allegorical reading would have led him to be irritated by those who insist on reading the Narnia books only as an allegory -- it isn't necessary, and many people don't, for the very good reason that the books are not properly allegories at all, except in the sense that any book making extensive use of certain kinds of imagery will have allegorical tones, which can as a matter of art be explicitly harnessed. In that sense Tolkien himself does the same thing, and admits it: his descriptions of Galadriel are influenced by the imagery of the Virgin Mary, etc. It doesn't follow from these things that The Lord of the Rings is an allegory. (Eliot's Middlemarch taps into the imagery of earth and vegitation; it doesn't follow that Middlemarch is an allegory for the earth. Pullman's His Dark Materials series makes rather extensive use of Miltonic imagery, as interpreted by Blake. It doesn't follow that it's an allegory for a Blakean worldview, just that the imagery is supposed to have Blakean-Miltonic tones in acting on the reader.) Lewis denied (quite rightly) that the Narnia works are allegories in any proper sense. He was trying to write books that will strike readers the way MacDonald's books struck him, namely, those that 'baptized his imagination' in giving him an imaginative sense of Something More; but his mode of writing wasn't particularly allegorical -- he started with a few striking pictures in his head and wrote about them. The allegorical associations just followed from that. Further, the above description of Tolkien's complaint is very implausible; Perelandra, which is a re-telling of Paradise Lost, is even more easily read as allegory than Narnia, and Tolkien loved it. Tolkien's complaint was not about the content, but about the art: he thought the works weren't serious enough.
i wasn't consigning anyone to an eternity of anything. i was correcting the misapprehension that we are innocent with respect to Iran. I was also pointing out that our continued interventions in the region have been and still are counterproductive.
Whether and/or the degree to which Tolkien used allegory is a fairly contested subject. Thus the reason i included both secular and blasphemous as possible adjectives. But even if you were right, that would fall under the heading blasphemy from an Islamic perspective.
The Iranians bear 100% of the blame for the existence of a tyrannical government in Iran. We should condemn Iranian culture and its people.
i agree with you except for this. our past and current interventions both in Iran and with its neighbors have directly contributed to the rise and sustainment of the current Iranian government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
Also, i recall an interview with Peter Jackson in which he described reconciling his worldview with Tolkien's in the context of remaining faithful to the artistic vision of LoTR. He (in my view) misapplied a Tolkien quote dismissing allegory by claiming that LoTR couldn't have Christian or theist themes buried in it. My guess is that if Tolkien considered it (which is likely given his rigor elsewhere) he may have perceived God as a universal entity and had no reason not to include theism in his fantasy. I also find it hard to believe that Tolkien hated allegory all that much given his life long friendship with Lewis, an admitted writer of allegory. One might say that allegory was the majority of Lewis' work. Yet I've not seen any criticism of Lewis' allegory in their correspondence.
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i'm sorry, but that solution is way too simple.
we need a byzantine, despotic series of regulations to mask our continued bilking of the economy... i mean to fix this.
apparently my 'm' key was dysfunctional. or i was. whatev. bumblebee wasn't a freakin camaro.
bubblebee was a bug. camaro ftl.
don't worry, it'll soon be a SWAT-worthy experience to advocate voting for someone not of the dominant political part(y/ies).
Soon, even gatherings that are completely peaceful and unlikely to change anything will make people eligible for indefinite detention. e.g. these people(http://www.wow.com/2008/01/03/ron-pauls-world-of-warcraft-rally/)
it's "keel", not "kill".
what may happen is that a judgment is made against the guy in the UK and there is no ramification to him until he tries to go there the next time. If he does he'll probably be arrested, etc on whatever equivalent there is in the UK to a bench warrant for failing to pay the judgment against him. And that process will happen efficiently because of the wonderful sheep^h^h^h^h^h people accounting systems we all now employ at border checkpoints as part of our security theater.
Why would you worry? Now red tides will come new and improved with added octane!
I hear sugarcane is a good source of grain alcohol (ethanol).
I think i hear the corn lobby at my door...
connection reset by peer.
too late. hypnotoad has already pwned you.
http://r33b.net/
get her a copy of microserfs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs
all skies will look like the one on our default desktop background image.
He just thinks he's Stewie. He's probably plotting to wipe out global warming as a means to destroying all broccoli. He will control his weather device with a Speak and Say.
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville
don't forget the social benefits programs. they're expensive non-negotiable expenditures too.
That's why it's the warfare-welfare state.
do not puncture or dispose of in fire^H^H^H^H water.
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i wasn't consigning anyone to an eternity of anything. i was correcting the misapprehension that we are innocent with respect to Iran. I was also pointing out that our continued interventions in the region have been and still are counterproductive.
they weren't rejecting free markets, they were rejecting colonialism.
but the people selecting the movie are, aren't they? which is what surprised me.
Whether and/or the degree to which Tolkien used allegory is a fairly contested subject. Thus the reason i included both secular and blasphemous as possible adjectives. But even if you were right, that would fall under the heading blasphemy from an Islamic perspective.
i agree with you except for this. our past and current interventions both in Iran and with its neighbors have directly contributed to the rise and sustainment of the current Iranian government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
i'm sorry, you're applying argumentum ad logicam inappropriately. the correct response is to appeal to emotion like the GP.
with relation to Islam, yes it is.
Also, i recall an interview with Peter Jackson in which he described reconciling his worldview with Tolkien's in the context of remaining faithful to the artistic vision of LoTR. He (in my view) misapplied a Tolkien quote dismissing allegory by claiming that LoTR couldn't have Christian or theist themes buried in it. My guess is that if Tolkien considered it (which is likely given his rigor elsewhere) he may have perceived God as a universal entity and had no reason not to include theism in his fantasy. I also find it hard to believe that Tolkien hated allegory all that much given his life long friendship with Lewis, an admitted writer of allegory. One might say that allegory was the majority of Lewis' work. Yet I've not seen any criticism of Lewis' allegory in their correspondence.
this made my entire office laugh.
Everyone knows that Tolkien was Klingon. Just like Shakespeare.
LoTR is allowed in Iran? I thought it was too secular, or blasphemous, or something.