Tag: misinterpretation

Romantic love – overrated and hyped-up by the media since 1200AD – Telegraph Blogs

Romantic love – overrated and hyped-up by the media since 1200AD – Telegraph Blogs.

 

Romantic love is often selfish and damaging

Anthropomorphic ideas and further thoughts about living

From here
An·thro·po·morph·ic /ˌænθrəpəˈmoɚfɪk/ adjective
1 : described or thought of as being like human beings in appearance, behavior, etc.
▪ a story in which the characters are anthropomorphic animals

2 : considering animals, objects, etc., as having human qualities
▪ anthropomorphic beliefs about nature

The reason I have posted this is that I know as a child I saw chairs and tables and houses a living beings.And the windows were eyes,the door a mouth.When I was looking up where the word “door” originated it came  a thousand years ago from the word for mouth.So human beings did see the way I used to see….and no doubt further back that’s why they saw trees inhabited by living spirits for example.Everything was alive and had a personal quality.That could be frightening if you saw storms and gales that way.Maybe at some level we do still think that way and ascribe motives to the beings in the storm who want to harm us

Some people still believe in demons but I don’t.Epileptics were regarded ad possessed by demons until quite recently.

I prefer different language…. it’s a way  of attacking other people saying they are possessed by demons, which I object to.

And it creates problems .by saying that you push afflicted people away.Some folk say that because demons are mentioned in the Bible they must exist.Well,remember much of what was written was explained in ways accepted then as they knew nothing of the medical science we know now.Even great prophets can only use the concepts which exist  in the era in which they live.And also translations alter the meaning inadvertently.The Bible was not written originally in English.

The problem of evil and whether there is an evil principle as an opponent of God is very complex  and wondering about does not to my mind help me to live better .I trust in God whatever that means.

The relief of the right words

It tickles me to spell “wrong”  rong… but also it has made me wish to find out why we have all those extra silent w’s at the beginning of words.We don’t call rats,wrats… so there must be some etymological reasons.

We also have silent k’s like  in  Knowledge.I imagine that once that was  pronounced.I’ll do some research by lying on my bed with the etymological dictionary on top of me

If you tell lies in bed I cannot recall if that’s also spelled,

lying in  bed

or if it’s lieing in bed.

That latter way looks wrong to me..

So  if you say,she was lying in bed.it has two meanings I think.As in life the context provides the most likely solution

Please stop lying,dear,whilst you are lying in bed.

I am not lying!

Well cats don’t pour out the tea

I was being whimsical for a change.

Ah,whimsey,I wonder what the etymology of that is?

Stop thinking so much and get into bed

Do you want me to lie with you?

Well,I don’t want you to lie to me.

Learning English is very hard as it combines so many other languages.

Is that why we have combine harvesters?

I’ll harvest you if you don’t give  me some peace!

God knows why I married you!

Well,I am glad to hear it as I thought nobody on earth  knew…. that  I am the nicest person in the entire world.If it’s true

why does nobody know?Maybe it’s a fantasy…

I say,my dear,that’s a  trifle exaggerated but I catch your drift.

What a relief,no more lying after today.Amen

Knock on the windows of opportunity or break the glass

The phrase “the window of opportunity” seems not wholly   satisfactory

.Admittedly you can see through a window unless you have thick net curtains but how many of us would be able to leap out of the window and seize the opportunity by the throat,if you see what I mean? And  if you were in the attic you’d be dead before you got  there…so what we need are “doors of opportunity”

The problem with that is you can’s see through a door unless it’s either got a window or is a glass door..So if you want success try living outside in a transparent tent where nothing will get in your way if anything passes by and your will get free publicity

I expect the phrase was made up by someone who writes speeches for politicians.

If you want a to  succeed you must  grasp the windows of opportunity as they go by and squeeze every last drop of rum out of them [try the tygers of wrath too]

She was only a little window but she was the window for me

Do not ask what your windows can do for you but what you can do for your windows.

Look through the windows and seize the day.Unless it’s  a dark night in which case visit a brothel  if they have windows

And one day all our children will be able to choose their own windows..red,yellow  ,……………..mix your own…..free windows ..

Windows are the eyes of the house

Don’t be shy if opportunity peeks into your window.Peek right back at it…

Ich bin ein Window! Moi aussi.Ma femme!

Where is she now, the  rich widow of my opportunity?

To look or not to look.Out of a selection

Never close the door in case someone wealthy passes by on the other side.and merely glances at your window.

Now is the Window of our discontent made gloriously plumper with our sunny walk

One good window deserves another.

I’ll be your window, if you open your door

Windows,they ought to be taxed I say.

Windows.. they give you an illusion of being in the sun but did you know we can see  in…and we saw you and the mirror on your ceiling…anything to say in  your pretense?

Cruelty to Hilary Mantel by Giles Coren in the Times yesterday

I am a great admirer of Hilary Mantel’s novels and have been for years so I know she has had appalling health problems.The drugs she’s on make her much fatter than before… but why should that matter?

Giles Coren, call her an “inflatable Ken Dodd ” and suggests she writes because she can;t get a man.Well if Giles Coren was the last man on earth I would not date him.

HM made a very intellectual and nuanced speech last week in which she mentioned the role of Kate Middleton in the Royal family.I am unsurprised by the tabloids reaction but very much by the PM.Ed Milliband and the Times.None have read her words.

Such cruelty  is common now but not all fat people eat much and I’d rather go to bed with an obese yet charming man than any of these cruel nasties…attraction has many aspects only one of which is conventional beauty.