04-25-2004, 04:34 PM | #161 |
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I like your new one Anduril! But I think my favourite of the ones I've read if the disclaimer in IronParrot's.
No kidding tho, you HAVE to make the drink in mine.
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04-25-2004, 07:45 PM | #163 |
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Tessar, where is your quote from? I like it.
Hector, can you pleeze translate yours? I want to know what it says. Twista your dance was um...... interesting, funny, but kind of disturbing at one point
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04-26-2004, 02:59 AM | #164 | |
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"What shall I, frail man, be pleading? Who for me be interceding When the just are mercy needing? Think, kind Jesus, my salvation Caused Thy wondrous Incarnation, Leave me not to reprobation Low I kneel with heart's submission, See, like ashes, my contrition, Help me in my last condition." I went to catholic school too, hector... Its from the "requiem aeternam dona eis, domine", recited on the first anniversary of a death.
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04-26-2004, 06:00 AM | #165 |
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i usually have a mixture of Manson lyrics in my thread but this was allowed to stand alone, its from a song on Holy Wood called "President Dead", hey President Hector are you gettin' high on violence, baby
i think i might change it to some lyrics from Crucifiction in Space. I am a Revolution pull my knuckles down if i could I am a Revelation and im nailed to the Holy Wood
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your translation is a bit different from the one I read. What then shall I say, wretch that I am, What advocate entreat to speak for me, When even the righteous may hardly be secure? Remember, blessed Jesu, That I am the cause of Thy pilgrimage. Do not forsake me on that day. I pray in supplication on my knees. My heart contrite as the dust, Take care of my end.
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04-26-2004, 12:49 PM | #167 |
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I'd like to add IR's sig to my list!
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04-26-2004, 01:01 PM | #168 |
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Thats alright Hector, latin is a bugger to translate at the best of times!
Mine is actually from the catholic book of prayer, where as yours, and this is only an assumption, is probably taken from the King James Bible. Everyone whom interprets both the bible and latin put their own spin on it, thus our two translations are different. Makes for interesting reading, though
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04-26-2004, 01:14 PM | #169 |
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actually, I got mine from the text of Berlioz's Requiem
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Berl...uiem_text.html
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04-26-2004, 05:04 PM | #170 |
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No worries hector.
I got mine from 14 years of catholic school and thus latin classes. I gotta be the only fenian(irish) 22 year old, in Australia, who can read latin. Or interpret it, basically ok. Anyone who says they are fluent in latin are either university lecturers, liars, priests or Romans (hence dead)! Its the words that matter, not the language. cheers
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04-26-2004, 05:08 PM | #171 |
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Latin?
Contrary to popular belief, I....wait...why am I telling you this? Mine is "I believe because it is impossible"--relating to Christianity. And I just added a note hectorberlioz received and is ashamed to answer.
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04-26-2004, 05:18 PM | #172 | |
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I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O'Hanlon Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!! Hectorberlioz's letter is a spoof...but he does have an accent and is ashamed of it!
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04-26-2004, 05:28 PM | #174 |
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That's lovely
I thought maybe Virginia was your name
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04-26-2004, 05:54 PM | #176 |
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Aww, that's sweet. You're a guy then. Admit or I'll start a poll thread!
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Mercutio is a girl
...haha, revenge for asking me if I had a southern accent
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04-27-2004, 09:24 AM | #179 |
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I think poor Mercutio is having an identity crisis!!!
While we sort this out, what do you think of this as part of my sig?: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana... " I'd first heard it years ago and it came up in a discussion I was having with some friends last night and thought I'd post it as part of my sig. Comments from the peanut gallery???
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04-27-2004, 09:44 AM | #180 |
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Well I've just stuck a very nice "Love Actually" quote in my sig. It's a great movie, but there is nudity...so i foyu're offended by breasts (or full frontal nudity of both genders if you watch the deleted scenes) then don't see it.
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