Politics. From the first time I heard Dead Kennedy's when I was 8 to debating with my grandfather as a teenager to activism in college to my current job as a bureaucrat, I can't seem to get away from politics.
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, if not more so, than the Club magazines that used to occupy the space under my bed: Politics.
I bring it up today because of Provincial elections here in wonderful British Columbia (which is neither British nor Columbia but that's another topic altogether). I have gone to the booth before work and cast my vote on both the MAL for my district and on the Referendum on changing our electoral system over to the Single Transferable Vote system or STV (Check out the Wiki if you'd like to know more)
I remember how I used to argue with my dad and my grandfather about how things worked and how they should work and how they didn't know anything because they were just asleep and needed to wake up.
Now however, I will concede that they did know what they were talking about as they had experienced much more of the world than had I and had reached the acceptance of certain facts about people and human nature.
On the flipside, I still think we can change and that politics can change but it may take a long, long time. This is only the 39th election for this province and in comparison to other countries and empires, we are still very young and have a long way to go. We are going through some serious growing pains not only as the woprld goes through the economic realities of our global age but as we as residents of BC go from being a "Hinterland Economy" to a "Metropolitan Economy".
The province was built on natural resources but we have decimated fishing, our forests suffer not only questionable logging practises but a natural plague that may or may not have been brought on by global arming. We have minerals and gas but our love of the environment makes it hard to comprimise. Do we want money and a livelyhood for our friends and families or do we want to retain pristine habitat? It seems that our frontier towns are threatened to be wiped otu and if that is the case, if these people have no work, where do they go? With sky high real estate and living costs can the cities, and really we have but 2, provide enough work and resources for a population explosion?
Hard questions with seemingly no answer yet the politicians tell us they have the answers and to trust in them but who to trust?
Do we trust the pro-union NDP who promise jobs and education with money that doesn't exist?
Do we trust the pro-business Liberals who think they've done a good job over the past 8 so what's 4 more if we keep on this rocking boat?
Maybe we should turn to the Greens who are fiscally conservative but seem not to really have a strong platform nor do they have experience ruinning things?
Where to go from here? Can't please everyone.
Well, I made my choice. I made my X and I hope.
I hope that the positives will outweigh the negatives.
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, if not more so, than the Club magazines that used to occupy the space under my bed: Politics.
I bring it up today because of Provincial elections here in wonderful British Columbia (which is neither British nor Columbia but that's another topic altogether). I have gone to the booth before work and cast my vote on both the MAL for my district and on the Referendum on changing our electoral system over to the Single Transferable Vote system or STV (Check out the Wiki if you'd like to know more)
I remember how I used to argue with my dad and my grandfather about how things worked and how they should work and how they didn't know anything because they were just asleep and needed to wake up.
Now however, I will concede that they did know what they were talking about as they had experienced much more of the world than had I and had reached the acceptance of certain facts about people and human nature.
On the flipside, I still think we can change and that politics can change but it may take a long, long time. This is only the 39th election for this province and in comparison to other countries and empires, we are still very young and have a long way to go. We are going through some serious growing pains not only as the woprld goes through the economic realities of our global age but as we as residents of BC go from being a "Hinterland Economy" to a "Metropolitan Economy".
The province was built on natural resources but we have decimated fishing, our forests suffer not only questionable logging practises but a natural plague that may or may not have been brought on by global arming. We have minerals and gas but our love of the environment makes it hard to comprimise. Do we want money and a livelyhood for our friends and families or do we want to retain pristine habitat? It seems that our frontier towns are threatened to be wiped otu and if that is the case, if these people have no work, where do they go? With sky high real estate and living costs can the cities, and really we have but 2, provide enough work and resources for a population explosion?
Hard questions with seemingly no answer yet the politicians tell us they have the answers and to trust in them but who to trust?
Do we trust the pro-union NDP who promise jobs and education with money that doesn't exist?
Do we trust the pro-business Liberals who think they've done a good job over the past 8 so what's 4 more if we keep on this rocking boat?
Maybe we should turn to the Greens who are fiscally conservative but seem not to really have a strong platform nor do they have experience ruinning things?
Where to go from here? Can't please everyone.
Well, I made my choice. I made my X and I hope.
I hope that the positives will outweigh the negatives.
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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"