One Last Sincere Topic

[tekla]

Emerson was a pretty interesting guy.

[Sophie90]

Well then, I'll interject with this: I'm in love. Sincerely. Topically.

[Kim6]

---"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

"I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being," ~RWE


"His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;
Our valors are our best gods."  ~ Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca

[anewlife123]

I love this song ...

[Kim6]

---"There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now." ~RWE

male - M2F - transexual woman - trans..  Nice consistency, easy to explain and justify without looking too foolish.

[NicholeW.]

I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

...

I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the
     poet of wickedness also.

What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand
     indifferent,
My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
I moisten the roots of all that has grown.

Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and
     rectified?

I find one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.

This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,
There is no better than it and now.

What behaved well in the past or behaves well to-day is not
     such a wonder,
The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean
     man or an infidel.

So was Whitman. Although quoting the entirety would have been a myriad bridges too far... this bit will do.

[tekla]

to complete the trifecta

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau

[NicholeW.]

to complete the trifecta

We should prolly include Hawthorne and this guy as well .... for a quinfecta!

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.

[tekla]

these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

[Alyssa M.]

Well then, I'll interject with this: I'm in love. Sincerely. Topically.

Your love is "topical"? Where did you apply it? Did you have any adverse reactions? Itching? Rash? Also, why did you go for topical administration rather than oral, sublingual, or suppository?

~Alyssa

[Ell]

We should prolly include Hawthorne

let the trumpet, if possible, split its brazen throat with a louder note than ever, and the herald summon all mortals who, from whatever cause, have lost, or never found, their proper places in the world.

this one phrase, it seemed to me, meant Hawthorne understood the "idea" of being trans, at a time, of course, when very little could be done about it.

-ell

[Kim6]

The more things change the more they remain the same.

[Sophie90]

Well then, I'll interject with this: I'm in love. Sincerely. Topically.

Your love is "topical"? Where did you apply it? Did you have any adverse reactions? Itching? Rash? Also, why did you go for topical administration rather than oral, sublingual, or suppository?

~Alyssa

Topical as in... current. Of the present.

[Alyssa M.]

Cindy,

Alas, the "many worlds" is a pet peeve of mine. It's not just that it's not falsifiable, but that it reifies the artificial (but useful) idividual terms in mathematical series that we create to simplify calculations. In this case, there's an unenumerable infinity of them that arise from Feynman path integrals, which are just a nifty way of considering how waves (in general, not just in QM) propagate.

In any case, the APOD site is awesome -- one of my favorites is this one:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050528.html

Thanks for reminding me of that site!

~Alyssa

[cindybc]

Thanks for the link. Well it is all theoretical but interesting never the less. The theory of parallel universes in nothing new of course, it's been around for over fifty years or more. I remember reading about parallel universes in Superman comic books fifty year ago. There was also several sci-fi book written on the subject and goodness knows how many books on quantum dimensions. But then,....
what if?

Cindy 

[Lisbeth]

Well then, I'll interject with this: I'm in love. Sincerely. Topically.

Your love is "topical"? Where did you apply it? Did you have any adverse reactions? Itching? Rash? Also, why did you go for topical administration rather than oral, sublingual, or suppository?

~Alyssa

I highly recommend topical love. It's much preferable to love in tablet form, or liquid, or injected.

[tekla]

You could always use the suppository form, which is a lot like love.  (No, I didn't say that, your imagining it)

[Lisbeth]

You could always use the suppository form, which is a lot like love.  (No, I didn't say that, your imagining it)

Oh, yes. I've tried that. Very pleasant. (Did I say that?  )

[Shana A]

You could always use the suppository form, which is a lot like love.  (No, I didn't say that, your imagining it)

Geez, my imagination is really going down the gutter 

Z

[tekla]

Mine never made it out.