The weather has been amazing and I'm stoked for the upcoming 24 Hour Easter Seals Relay that my team and I will be competing in this weekend. It's been a lot of work fundraising and voluntering but I'm sure it will be well worth it after I finish my leg of the...
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Personally, I'm not hurtin right now but my little brother is. He's lefet his girl for good reasons but I know he's dying on the inside because of it. I feel useless as a big brother because I can't stop his pain. All I can do is ease it the best way I know how; with music.
I recommended this song among others...
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Most people, from what I've observed, would rather that the word never have to be uttered but there it is; A word seemingly as filthy,...
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So, I'm REALLY familiar with the Bible.
(Plus, it's part of the Ancient History curriculum at Berkeley...'cause, ya know, it was written in "ancient" times.)
And, that guy (who's supposedly Easau) really wasn't that harry...
Also, if you were familar with it you would know it's Jacob who kills Esau (with an arrow) rather than the other way around.
Plus, if you really want to go there (ignoring the basic story line and just using their names) that either makes The Others a "lost tribe of Israel" or "Edomites." The latter of which were supposed to be founders of Rome (according to Jewish lore)...and were hated by the Egyptians...and the Jews.
I was, however, mostly referring NOT to the hieroglyphics, (because those changed quite often through Egyptian history)
But, to the linen Jacob was weaving on the loom...which contained art from the "Aten" period which forsook the entire Egyptian pantheon in favor of one god the "Aten" (Thusly being COMPLETELY anachronistic with all of the other Egyptian iconography)
Also, the statue of what we now know is "supposed to be" Taweret...
I mean how do you look at that statue and think that is her?
"Taweret was depicted as a composite of all the things the Egyptians feared, the major part of her being hippopotamus, since this is what the constellation most resembled, with the arms and legs of a lioness, and with the back of a crocodile. On occasion, later, rather than having a crocodile back, she was seen as having a separate, small crocodile resting on her back, which was thus interpreted as Sobek, the crocodile-god, and said to be her consort. ...or even: In most subsequent depictions, Taweret was depicted with features of a pregnant woman. In a composite addition to the animal-compound she was also seen with pendulous breasts, a full pregnant abdomen, and long, straight human hair on her head."
That statue is wearing Greek sandals and an Egyptian man's kilt...
Tawaret was never depicted wearing a man's kilt (shenti)..'cause, ya know, shes not a man.
She was never wearing sandals (which the statues were greek sandals anyway)...she's actually never even really human (except for having breasts) and she's decidedly pregnant...which the back of the statue doesn't look pregnant.
I could continue on with more anachronistic and frustrating issues...but I think this is enough.
All of this being said, I love the show.
I know there are some things that need to be changed in order to appeal to a larger TV audience.
I just feel like there are some things that, "if you can't do right, you shouldn't do at all"
So I'll just remark on how I heard Mad World by Tears for Fears today, covered by some kid on American Idol, which he probably only knows about because he saw Donnnie Darko, which...
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I love my quiet little home but there are a lot of things in Vancouver that I miss; mainly the culture, the food and that variety of people.
Victoria is somewhat, how do I say, ethnically steril. We just don't have as many immigrants bringing their culture here and I think we lack because of...
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As a teen I learned that if you had the same name as a Saint, there was a name day which was kind of like your birthday and you got gifts or money on the...
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All you ladies look lovely! The sets still look very good over all.
Sometimes maybe you have to go away to appreciate what you left behind.
