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Originally Posted by subterranean
I'm just thinking it'll be fun to have a sci fi wedding..
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Originally Posted by subterranean
I'm just thinking it'll be fun to have a sci fi wedding..
Are you gonna dress up as Diana Troy or Five of Nine?? :D Or Princess Leia??
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Originally Posted by subterranean
Just to score a few points, I would love a sci-fi wedding, I'd be wearing a female costume from the TOS, I have one already short and thight.
Oh and sub what is your favorite ST serie?
Hey guys,
Sorry I haven't replied to my questions yet (er, questions for me...), I've been awful busy...and all my time on the forums ends up being spent in either blasting all my energies in Evolution vs. Creation (not that I mind :D) or dwindling them all in a creative streak in the Games. So don't worry, some day I'll reply to everything here if it's the last thing I do. (Devil or no devil. :D)
Miss Darcy
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Originally Posted by Scheherazade
hmmmmmm... that's a toughy. I think Princess Leia has better outfits, and who can resist straping danishes to their head. But in all fairness I'll have to consult with the groom.
Pizza the Hut??? :D
He hasn't actually said yes yet, I hope I didn't scare him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Oh, he was talking about leaving the Forum the other day, I think. You didn't hear that? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
damn, another one slips through my fingers!!! :rage: :D
no more questions? no more answers?:(
Sorry peeps, been busy lately...
Koa
Which country or city where you want to spend your days of retirement?
Would you die for Love?
Was that last question for Koa as well? Or was it more general?
Camper, if you want to answer them, please do ;)
Is bored, will post.Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
Since you capitalize "Love," I wonder if you're talking about the concept? I would not die for the idea of Love. I think I'm five or six centuries too late to do that and get away with it.
Would I die *for* someone I love? I think only if my death would save his or her life, or improve it to a degree that my simple absense would not. (If I could move to Zimbabwe, for example, and that would be just as helpful, I'd rather not bite it...)
But then, I'm selfish enough that I can't actually imagine a scenario like the second one there. And as for the first? It seems almost selfish to offer your own life in place of your Love's. Then you are given peaceful oblivion while s/he is left to suffer your loss. (Assuming s/he loved you back...)
This wasn't supposed to be such a complicated question, was it? Too much sleep will do this to me. :D
Taliesin: Are you really from the Czech Republic, or was that part of the hooey you were feeding poor Snookie?
How can I choose where I want to spend my retirement... I've yet to start working :D And I think my decision are too subject to change with time, so I dont know what I will like in like 50 years... I know where I want to be (or rather, where I don't want to be) in the next few years, but I can't see further... Who knows, i might even come back to Italy at some point after leaving it as I plan to.Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
As for the second question, I was discussing something similar just earlier today... I'm way too selfish for Love, I was saying to a friend that I can't even imagine myself in a relationship cos I'm not willing to sacrifice the plans I have for myself... So every time I hear about things like death for love, my cynicism suggests me a big laugh... Of course this shows my ignorance about that feeling called Love, with the capital, but I seriously wonder if it exists, and if it does it's probably not appliabale for me. In short, the answer is NO, there are much better reasons to die.
No, it was actually not our chatlog at all. It was something a friend (who also got it from someone else) showed us and so it went that we posted it here...
We do not even know whether it is a chatlog at all. Perhaps it is someone's creation. We do not know.
So no, we are not from Czech Republic.
How we were stolen: well, when we were born, by some chance we were left outside some building (we were probably some days old) as our mother was in. And then some woman came and stole us. Luckily, a man saw this and shouted so our mother was able to run and catch that woman and take us back.
All's well that ends well.
What would we study: although fool's option (girls in the college) seems tempting, it hardly puts bread on one's table.
We have thought of studying of something related to mathematics as we have a natural talent to it. Another thought would be to learn composition, but We think that that wouldn't also put much bread on our table, so our basic thought is still math.
Are there any questions unanswered?
sub, Jay, whoever else wants to answer: what is your style of look? I mean, what do you generally wear? Which colours, what kind of things, sporty or elegant, is there something you can't stand to wear (iiih for me it's tights)...and so on..
I wear fairly sharp suits at work. Out of work I wear flared or bootcut jeans or cords, T-shirt or button down shirts or a striped Fred Perry - got some Pete Fowler (artist) T-shirts that I like at the moment (www.monsterism.net). I wear a black leather half trench coat - a second hand Helmut Lang; a bargain off a mate; it's cool as f*** and it will last forever. Brown Converse Leather 'All Star' trainers, at the moment - originally out in 1975. I've got got longish, 'moddy' hair. Think 1968 'Small Faces'. God, I sound like a vain fop!
black top, slightly low-necked - ballerina or v-cut - and gap jeans. if i have to get dressy, anything by jones new york. steel-toed brown tims, police boots or sneakers for the most distal body parts. otherwise flats, comfy heels or sexy italian scandals. oh, one doesn't wear scandals. oops. ;)
so easy! :)
By the way, I'm not as anal as I sound on the last post. I do like style, but I'm as likely to be found unshaven, and I look a lot untidier than the description would have you believe. I suppose beatnik/mod/hippy best describes it. Sound even more self obssessed now! I'll stop digging now.
following the editing example of B above, i've blue on at the moment - actually wear whites/colors two to three times a week. let's see, thats about 15 weeks a year. :D
I dress relatively plainly - no labels, outrageous colors, revealing, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koa
Today, I wear my navy blue scrubs for school with a white coat, but casually, I often wear a pair of khaki/cargo trousers, usually a black or gray buttoned shirt or t-shirt, black Dr. Martens boots, and my black-and-white striped beanie. Otherwise, I almost always maintain myself as clean-shaven, and short jet black hair.
I have no definate style. I wear what is comfortable, usually with the addition of knee socks in bright colors. Today I wore my tie dress and furry glam jacket with sandals. I like to experiment with makeup, my favorite right now is bright red eyeliner. I like to wear Mono's scarf.
Sub's Love question: There were times I'd say yes without a second thought. Now I'd've to say that it'll depend on circumstances, but somewhere I read a line that's changed my view on 'dying for love', can't remember it word-by-word, but the idea was 'living for love' instead, you know, not 'Would you die for love?' but 'Would you live for love?' kinda thingy. If you think about it, the latter seems harder in a way.
Koa's clothes question: *chechs what she's wearing, lol* a cross between sandals and trainers, khaki cotton pants, black short-sleeved shirt, long jeans vest with buttons.
I usually wear clothes like that, not girlie clothing friendly (no dresses or skirts or blouses *shudders*)
*In a Draculean accent* Ze time 'as come for me to answer your questions... ;)
(Finally!)
Well. This is one of those subjects that I could practically spend my whole life talking about, but I won't hold you for that long. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mono
The humanist in me wants to think, and indeed, does think there is something more to life than just living it out and then dying. The scientist in me tells me that the authors I read may have a point in saying that everything seems to happen only for efficiency, there is perhaps no "point" at all. But, again, the humanist shudders at the very idea. (Though I do not refer to myself as "we" as Taliesin does, I have my own share of multiple personalities. ;))
As there is more humanist than scientist in me, though, I believe there is a meaning in life. A meaning - perhaps for all to become better, for us all to become better people, through the stages of our lives/reincarnation; perhaps for us to escape the karma, escape the witches' circle and finally find nothingness. Egolessness, timelessness...spacelessness...
Why are we here? What are we doing on this earth? I know, we're here because billions of years ago life began - began? or came from outer space - but that's not why we're here, that's how we happen to be here. A "meaning" is more than an explanation of cause and effect.
Sometimes it hits me that I don't really exist. Sure, I exist, in the material state, or so I am led to think because of my senses (just consider what it would be like if you lost all your senses...blackness...utter blackness...with no sound, feeling...)...but really, though we all know there are others, that other people exist, with their own desires, ambitions, lives...they live in the same world as us and yet...we are trapped within ourselves. Not necessarily to say we're egocentric, though we are - what I mean to say is, we are confined to our personal view of the world, we cannot directly experience what it is to be somebody else. I could go on and on about this, but regrettably do not have the time.
More on that feeling of non-existence: you realise that you are no more than all the other millions in the world, your life is not any more important than theirs might be; you realise you are only an animated speck of dust, a molecule, or even a superstring in that pale blue dot in infinite, or at least, boundless, spacetime.
And I have never been the comfortable with the idea of the universe "ending" anywhere. I always thought, well if it ends, what's outside it? Say you have an egg. Outside the shell is air, but it's still something...so why call it separate, in the case of the universe? - I think the answer may be - there is literally nothing outside the universe (or super-cluster of parallel universes). Nothing. No time, no space, no thing. Absolutely nothing.
But what is nothing? We hardly know it. Our existence is, in most cases, confined to the material world only. The very idea of utter and complete nothingness is unintelligible to our minds. Nothingness is not empty space - even in empty space there are, I think, virtual particles (excuse if that's the wrong term...may be getting it mixed up with something else)...nothingness could so easily be where the soul, the spirit, the metaphysical exists without incurring any direct material existence.
Another thing that intrigues me is the infinitely small, as well as the infinitely large. Atoms, molecules, subatomic particles, quarks, superstrings....and what lies beyond? Blake, I think, had such an amazing scope - his poem (from Auguries of Innocence...the one in my signature) "To see a world in a grain of sand" so beautifully encompasses this idea. How can we know that there is not even smaller life - "life", what a hard-to-define word - inside superstrings, how can we know if the zooming in ever stops?
Well, enough musing. I may have not made sense to anybody, that often happens around 8 o'clock at night when I'm on the computer, but no matter, I've made sense to myself. The day I stop making sense to myself will be rather traumatic, I imagine. (I can't make sense of myself sometimes, but then that's a totally different thing.)
Various places. Europe must be the continent I've explored the most; I've seen some of Asia, none of the Americas, none of Africa, none of Antarctica (so far :D), and none of the North Pole...but then, I've still got my whole life before me. (Minus those fifteen years, of course)Quote:
Originally Posted by Koa
So to answer your question: Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, France, Spain, England (when still in the pram - haven't seen it since :(), Holland,...that's probably about it. We were going to go to Greece and Croatia last time, but we gave in and went to Spain again instead. We loved it so much in Peniscola the time before that we had set our hearts to go there again.
In Italy...hmm...start with...Rome - delectable pizza, by a fountain near the Pantheon (what a remarkable piece of architecture!) - also threw a coin backwards into the Fontana di Trevi, guaranteeing myself another visit to Rome; Naples - unfortunately very crowded at the time we were there, but we went to a quieter church where they were practising for a wedding, and that was nice :D; Pompeii...loved it, ancient history is one of my favourite subjects; Salerno; Rimini (I'm pretty sure); Verona! - loved that as well, and not making that up; and Cremona, which was also one of my favourites. Been to some other places south and others north but they were in the country in small towns I can't remember the names of.
Maybe you should transfer that into the "Compliment the person above you" thread. :D It's actually happened before, couple of times, mainly cos I'm pretty tall...on my 13th birthday one lady guessed I was 16. I like hanging out with people a few years older than myself, maybe that's one of the causes...and by the time I'm older I'm sure I'll start being surprised just like you. In fact, being a few seconds older already, I must admit I thought Taliesin was older than he is, too...and what do you know.Quote:
Btw, i just looked at your profile just out of curiosity and from how you write I must say that I thought you were much older...(I do underestimate young people, maybe cos I dont realise how old I am and consequently that people that are younger than me are old enough to use their brain. Even my brother (same age as you darcy) is starting to do so ...sometimes )
Anyway, I think that answers all my questions, remind me if I've forgotten any...must go...
Miss Darcy
QUESTIONS:
Mono: Very ordinary today...what's your favourite movie? (Pathetic question, but never mind)
Koa: Where are you planning to travel next? (Doesn't necessarily have to be soon)
Jay: What's the weather like over there!!! - I know, I kinda got an update from my grandma over the telephone today, but, well, only for one part of the CZ...how's stuff in Liberec (and Brno)?
Scher: I heard - or rather, read - you teach...what subject/s? What year? :)
The weather's pretty nice today, a bit chilly but sunny, on the other hand it was horrendous yesterday, it was raining all day through!Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy
Haven't been in Liberec for a bit over a week now but I'm assuming things there are pretty much ok, should know for sure if my sister's pregnant in a few days (if mum doesn't text me :p)
Things in Brno are... kinda same, just the teachers are starting to be a bit of a pains because of the closing of the end of the term :rolleyes:
Darcy: I noticed you're using flower-y avatars. Do you like flowers a lot? :p If so (d'oh ;)), what's your fave... let's say, 5?
Am I the official traveller of the forum? ;)Quote:
Koa: Where are you planning to travel next? (Doesn't necessarily have to be soon)
It's a bit question mark in my mind... Need to choose what to do in the summer, and if I go somehwere it might be Russia, Hungary again, Germany, or France. Still hoping to get that job in England next autumn, cos if I dont I'll go Russia then instead. I dont really feel like going to Russia but I sort of have to, my Russian is so bad I need to improve it before I graduate or soon after.
Um, I do like flowers, though I like books better. ;) I'm using flowery avatars mainly because I like the look of them! :D Favourite 5...oh my dog, that's an incredibly difficult question. Er...um...hmm...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay
Just in random order...lilies-of-the-valley, forget-me-nots, um, bouřka, orchids (various kinds), bluebells, tea-roses, roses in general, camellias, pansies, violets...I guess I could just say I like every flower. ;)
Ask my questions later, just using my lunchbreak time at the moment. :)
For anyone interested (and just because :D), this is bouřka :)
http://i.postcard.cz/pc/n23/af-02393.jpg
That's lovely.
I dress in casuals..
No worries, as your question seems neither 'ordinary,' nor 'pathetic.'Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Darcy
I enjoy many, many different types of movies from comedy to horror to foreign. I cannot possibly narrow down my absolute favorite, but I have numerous favorites: Pulp Fiction (and anything else written and/or directed by Quentin Tarantino), Contact, The Royal Tenenbaums, Amélie, Jules and Jim, Run Lola Run, Seven, Shakespeare In Love, American Beauty, The Hours, A Clockwork Orange, Elephant Man, anything by Michael Moore :), Bad Education, any of the Monty Python films, Pi, Requiem For A Dream, anything written and/or directed by Tim Burton, and, last but not least, Napoleon Dynamite.
Whew!
Bandini: I do not remember you answering one of my previous questions, though just out of curiosity, you say you have an interest in philosophy: do you have any favorite philosophies and/or philosophers? If so, what and who?
amuse and Miss Darcy: what to you seems the purpose(s) of writing?
I love Sartre. Also into the 'social end' of Philosophy - enjoy Foucalt immensely. I know I can say Neitzsche on an inteligent site such as this without the knee jerk 'fascist' stuff being thrown at me. Neitzsche wasn't perfect, but he certainl wasn't a fascist, and was wholeheartedly PRO-semetic! The existentialist and post modernism movements owe it all to him. I'm more into 'idea' than 'personalities' - although I obviously rate soem philosophers over others. I am a big fan of 'gonzo' philosopher Robert Anton Wilson. What about yerself?
Scher - Do you read the book of the month, even if you don't want too?
Everybody- Does anybody have any good chicken or tofu recipes?
no :( but i know of a great thai curry tempeh...
So far I have read every Book of the Month... even if I didn't want to... I find that a nice challenge... Reading something I wouldn't have chosen myself otherwise... It doesn't pay off all the time but I like reading anyway :DQuote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
My favorite chicken dishes are fajitas, chicken and broccoli bake and kind of a chicken kebab... Oh, there is chicken-corn soup as well... If you are interested, I will PM the recipe(s) to you...Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I'll take it.Quote:
Originally Posted by amuse
yes please, unless we resurrect the recipe thread...Quote:
My favorite chicken dishes are fajitas, chicken and broccoli bake and kind of a chicken kebab... Oh, there is chicken-corn soup as well... If you are interested, I will PM the recipe(s) to you...
lots! these are a few that come to mind...Quote:
Originally Posted by mono
1. to keep authors from hammering nails into their heads whilst in great pain.
2. to tell the truth when people - individuals and governments - would demand that it be hidden.
3. to romance.
4. to convince.
5. to blasphemize
6. to mock
7. to sing
8. to share both infinitesimally small and grand concepts and discoveries
9. to continue breathing
everyone else: same question :)
Bandini:
What area of philosophy are you most interested in? and which philosophers are you most impressed with?
ooh, good idea!!! *salivates :DQuote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
thai curry tempeh
you will need: cooked rice, curry, tempeh (sqs. or rects.), onions, coconut milk, 2-ish broccoli crowns
take one can (reg. size, not the sm/skinny one) of coconut milk - with as little water in it as poss. you want it to be pure coconut milk.
a couple of broccoli crowns
(don't you like the painstakingly accurate recipe? ;))
lop the top off of the crowns. if you want you can put in the stems, but the trees alone will do and your dish will be much prettier for it.
get square or rectangular tempeh- not the round burger patty. cut this into cubes or triangles. i've always done this with triangles; it's really pretty that way. make them about 1-inch wide on the angle unless you like fairly huge chunks.
cook up some brown rice to go with, or basmati, or jasmine. have a nice spot of tea to go with, and some to sip on as you cook.
take a large skillet (a 4-quart saucepan should do as well) heat some olive oil, and toss in the half-moons of a chopped onion. i actually don't :eek: put garlic in this, but go ahead if you must. you will want to saute the broccoli by itself in another pan. add the tempeh and most of the coconut milk. at this point, you will also want to add the curry i put it in to taste - turn the food a nice orange-yellow color, and watch it all bubble away. hmm. it's a good idea at that point to turn the food down to simmer at that point. add the broccoli and the rest of your coconut milk; let this cook until broccolis are fully cooked but not overdone, and if you must, check the tempeh as you go along. your dish is done when the broccoli's cooked but still bright green. serve over the rice and enjoy! :)
YO! You go girl!!!! GREAT One-to-niner........Quote:
Originally Posted by amuse
.....and the thai tempeh sounds good too (heads directly to the refrigerator)......