Is Anyone Watching the Olympics?

Jamie D · August 11, 2012, 12:57:33 AM

Quote from: UCBerkeleyPostop on August 09, 2012, 07:07:23 PM
Zarathustra himself, however, stunned and strange, rose from his
seat, looked around him, stood there astonished, inquired of his
heart, bethought himself, and remained alone. "What did I hear?"
said he at last, slowly, "what happened unto me just now?"
But soon there came to him his recollection, and he took in at a
glance all that had taken place between yesterday and to-day. "Here is
indeed the stone," said he, and stroked his beard, "on it sat I
yester-morn; and here came the soothsayer unto me, and here heard I
first the cry which I heard just now, the great cry of distress.
O ye higher men, your distress was it that the old soothsayer
foretold to me yester-morn,-
-Unto your distress did he want to seduce and tempt me: 'O
Zarathustra,' said he to me, 'I come to seduce thee to thy last sin.'
To my last sin?" cried Zarathustra, and laughed angrily at his own
words: "what hath been reserved for me as my last sin?"
-And once more Zarathustra became absorbed in himself, and sat
down again on the big stone and meditated. Suddenly he sprang up,-
"Fellow-suffering! Fellow-suffering with the higher men!" he cried
out, and his countenance changed into brass. "Well! That- hath had its
time!
My suffering and my fellow-suffering- what matter about them! Do I
then strive after happiness? I strive after my work!
Well! The lion hath come, my children are nigh, Zarathustra hath
grown ripe, mine hour hath come:-
This is my morning, my day beginneth: arise now, arise, thou great
noontide!"- -

Thus spake Zarathustra and left his cave, glowing and strong, like a
morning sun coming out of gloomy mountains.

THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
by Friedrich Nietzsche
translated by Thomas Common (public domain)

I never saw a purple cow.
I never hope to see one.
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one.

- Gelette Burgess, c. 1895

barbie · August 11, 2012, 12:46:25 PM

I do not have a TV at home, but I just wached a few football games through the internet.

A female lifting athlete is famous here in my country, although she failed to get a medal this time. She also appears in several TV advertisements, and people seem to like her. The image of her is an unyielding and hard-working woman to sustain her family. That image was typical to mothers when I was child.