Complaint's of being a woman = Part Two
5 comments Posted by Linora 'Aronil' Low at 4/29/2005 09:34:00 AMMy dear fellow readers, unfortuanately i'm going to be presenting my very unfortunate masculine side....oh dear..
To come about with the second entry on complaint's of being a women, I have thought about it. I had half a mind to discontinue at one point, but now when i think about it. Writting about it is just some sense of making women aware of how ridiculous they can be at times, maybe it may sound more ridiculous since this complaing is coming from a female herself.
Why is women just love to go gossipping behind backs of others? It is a known fact even tot he women themselves, that it just would not do.. further more... it's downright horrible. After speaking with girls naturally, i find that when this matter is actually brought about, they give the excuse that it is to release tension. Women have accumalated tension which usually in my opinion is released by tears. So besides releasing water works, they will then move on to the next best thing, as tearing will just make a puffy face...which is to talk. And naturally what comes out of a woman's mouth as usual.. would be the nagging if not the complaining of what the find to be either annoying, irritating, sexist and the list goes on.
Speaking of tension, i noticed that women naturally have this habit of keeping the past. Why is that so? I dont' know even if i ask myself, cause personally keeping up with particular pasts is bad. Past is past. It is history. However maybe women have this idea that history will repeat itself and therefore they cling on to it, hoping to either revert it or maybe prevent it. Then following that because they try to prevent it too much and nag to much about it, it then causes them stress and disappointment. Women just have this natural habit to keep to it, because of why... memories!!! As much as a memory is beautiful, women tend to like holding on to bad memories as well, even when they know for a fact that it is bad for them to do so. Women have this thing also for when they hav this particular memory, good or bad, they just have to talk about it and make it all dramatic. In fact i've noticed after speaking with other girls, that when i tell thme of a problem that i have, they can actually relate to me with much zest...
I wonder whether is it because they are at the same time actualyl reflecting on something in themselves that also troubles them..
Am I wrong? It can be possible..I'm to saying it is the answer.
And following that, why are women so particular with the little things, that can seem so trivial at times? Or to be more exact, the mushy wushy things. Women.. i admit myself too... are suckers for the sweetness of things in life. The minute someone does something 'genuinely' nice, we
(I'm starting to write we, cause i do not deny i am woman) are hooked, line and sinker. Then after that when it is not done anymore... we just have to whine, saying 'Why don't you do itanymore?" Have i done some thing wrong? or mroe so they then become perasan thinking... ohh he's in to me!?
Oh well that constitutes the complaint's (haha naturally) of a woman today. All men and women are free to rebutt... :P
In regard to some thoughts and debate on the topic....
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To answer first to my dear friend:
Even though a lot of people you may know, my dear, does not see it as a bad thing... cause i have to admit even i know a good number... doesn't mean that it is still justified to use them.
Even though they are expressed differently and even though they sound different in a manner, it just doesn't seem appropriate.
My debate still maintains that even though they are words and are considered to be slangs in this modern generation...they are still inappropriate. Probably the world may not agree to it, cause it has been over used extensively in every corner till it has become a norm. But i am no judge to a person as to what they want to use, or more so how they perceive the word to be. Only a thought...
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A little history on the word f*** :...
Word History:
The obscenity f*** is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500.
The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, “Flen flyys,” from the first words of its opening line, “Flen, flyys, and freris,” that is, “fleas, flies, and friars.” The line that contains fuck reads “Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.” The Latin words “Non sunt in coeli, quia,” mean “they [the friars] are not in heaven, since.”
The code “gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk” is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields “fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli.” The whole thus reads in translation: “They are not in heaven because they f*** wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge].”
Now in anycase, after reading what the word itself means. All the more i do not wish to use, as it should not be used. Even to express happiness, sadness, anger, or even just a slang. The word as it is explained in www.dictionary.com, all the descriptions for it are distasteful to the ear if one reads them. Having read them. Now why would one like putting slangs like these into sentences that are meant to be of compliment or of expression.
When you say "My, you are a beautiful person." as compared to "My, you are a f****** beautiful person". When you say something you mean, why impurify it with the slangs. Indirectly it is as though you say angrily to the person or in some perverse mock that she/he is beautiful. It's not about interpretation here, what i type. But more so, it is the fact of the word that it is vulgar.
Too much of the media and post-modernism has caused everything to have a double meaning. Even as something as simple as this. Why does one think then, that that which is supposedly good is actually in truth bad?
Disclaimer: This entry is just voicing out a habit which i just do not prefer.. of myself..and which i think becomes a bad habit of others. It is the truth so bare with me and with this entry. I am sorry if it first of all causes any harm and offence to others. I do not mean for it to do. But i think it is an issue which should actually be resolved in some manner. To just bring a little awareness in ourselves.
Swearing, curses, cusses, obscenities, vulgarities...however you wanna put them or say them, they are still the same. They are all swears.
Personally me as a person, at one point I did not swear. Then after that i was influenced in swearing from reading a book which had the f""" word all over the place. My friend who does swear was shocked because i never swore before that. I shrugged it off at first then later on it hit me. I didn't like the habit. It was foul and uncool, and most of all, it makes a bad impression on me. It would protray me as a person who is unsophisticated, unphased by manners, and just downright rude. I have my points when i do swear at times yes but even so, I do my utmost to never swear and if not to keep it as mild as possible.
People who swear constantly, like rappers or black movies or adult movies or young adult movies. What is it with the love for the curses? Every single sentence that comes out of their mouth is always full of one swear words which leads into chains of swear words until they finally reach what they want to say.
For example:
Normal: What is the problem?
Swearing: What is you @$%&ing #$%@ ^&% of a problem?
As much as when one is angry, I just don't think it neccessary for one to go screaming obscenities at one another to show displeasure. Does it really release tension? Does it give off any benefit in the end to the individual or the people around the individual? When people start swearing in public, one instantly knows there is a disagreement of some kind. Swearing in the end finally ruins the picture for people.
One which i particularly do not like is when they bring in obscenities including God's name. It is a highly respected name which deserves so much praise and adoration and people can just nicely go ahead and use it in blasphemous terms. You are using His name in vain.
Just for example "god d*****t"
How would one like it if instead of putting the name God, try putting in your name, or even your parents name. So it then becomes "James d*****t" or "Ryan d*****t" I am not trying to be funny. I'm trying to point out that these are names which you hold dear to yourselves. So now how bout a name which is divine? Doesn't one think they should burn for having blasphemised in such a manner?
I once asked what is the problem with swearing...after being in with crowds (no pinpointing) of different groups...i finally understand why. Swearing just hurts...and it does not give off any benefit to anyone. The words are harsh and crude.
I give a lot of credit to people who choose not to cuss in public or anywhere. To me it shows maturity, integrity to oneself and and a sign of respect to others no matter who they are.
The book that rules all books...THE LORD OF THE RINGS!
3 comments Posted by Linora 'Aronil' Low at 4/15/2005 05:28:00 PMThis day i acclaim once again how much The Lord of The Rings is fantastic. J.R.R.Tolkien is THE man! Peter Jackson is DA man! Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas and Sam are the MEN! They are all factastic.
Now why can't the people of loevely Monash allows us to study books like these ad analyse them instead of other post-modernistics books that are just plain well horrible!
The author and the book!
Firstly all praises to GOD for having created such a man with such a descriptive and imaginative mind. The essence of his story tells of not only a world beyond our sight but also it mixes with a wonderful touch of biblical teaching if not some narrative from it.
The fact he took on and old language from the celtic culture and turned it into his own elven language which is now literally studied as a language..(wow) The creation of middle earth and the people. The creation of the different architectures and the scenes...
I can't speak enough about it as i havne't fully read his book..... which i will soon! No words can cover the magnitude of fantastic, amazing, wonderful, spectacular about the wonders of how Tolkien wrote his book.
The movie and the director
Just too quote something from Lordoftherings.net... 'There is a god.... and he is Peter Jackson!. He has brought to life a book with so much strength and possibilities. He could've messed up like Harry Potter but my goodness it is a fantastic piece of work.
A director is definately an author worthy of praise if he can let others see what he sees. The vision is something which only one person can see behind his own eyes but to bring it too life through visual aid. Fantastic.
It makes me appreciate my media studies on visual analysis so much more. After watching Return of the King, i also watched the extras where Peter Jackson and two other crew members speak about how particular scenes were shot, how they were made and the point why they were done in such a manner... wonderful visual ethnography.
What touched me so much from the story was when Gandalf and Pippin where waiting for the orcs to ram through one barrier. Pippin looked forlorn and felt doom waitign upon him, death and war wat just at his feet. He didn't expect it to end this way...Gandalf consoles him and his words (taken from the movie)
End?
No,the journey doesn't end here..
Death is just another path...
one that we all must take..
The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back..and all turns to silver glass
And then you see it..
White shores...and beyond...A far green country... under a swift sunrise.
That was a beautiful line and it will always be embedded in my memory.
Thank God for salvation..where death has been conquered. And my brothers and sisters...we will see that white shore with the swift sunrise...
I haven't blogged for a while all thanks to assignments and just more assignments.
This partically entry isyet again related with one of the subjects but more so a question my lecturer had posed to us which has rather shaken, if you will, if not made me a little uncomfortable.
History is considered to be made up of many stories all happening at once. Whatever thought, action, event that has happened is past and has become history. We are all ourselves part of that history, whatever it may deemed to be. So now it just so happens most of the time the history that we read now, is a compilation of the 'victors' of history or if not probably people who have made a define mark in the timeline. So if history is made up of many stories all happening at once, which in the end is the real story? Which in the end is the real truth?
Our bible is history itself. I can believe that it is dejure (by right) to be truth. But the question which given, has somehow blurred that understanding. Everything is a history and so is the bible and we know it is truth, so how does one as a Christian defend that statement. The bible is history but it is the ultimate truth.
Now this has gotten me shaken, as the thought maybe just scares me a little. But i'm willing and very much eager to hear other people's thoughts on this.