| The loss of trust
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2024-01-11
Some people take sex seriously, others don't. Too bad for those who do, for they are bound to get hurt.
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| The issue of egoistic love
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2023-12-31
Everyone has his own way of love.
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| The bottomless grave
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2022-10-23
"The China Syndrome" was a film of the 70s with Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon, describing a nuclear meltdown, causing the reactor to burn itself down through all earth to China. The symbolism was to this bottomless pit which could not be disposed of. Thanks for the comment, arquious, which prompted my explanation.
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| A Mermaid In A Starry Sky
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2020-10-03
Wonderful! Every time you wake up in the morning you still have access to your dreams, but as soon as you open your eyes, all that reality is shattered. However, that's the only REAL reality.
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| Memories
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2018-03-31
Tricky question, Kant. I would say that nothing is more individual, it's different for everyone depending on how it is experienced, no love is the same, and no general rule is applicable, while of course the force of its spiritual element is universal - felt diffrently by every individual to all levels and degrees from extreme ecstasy to prosaic acknowledgement of fact.
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| Ancestors
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2017-04-17
Great comment, Ken. I guess we all have something in common by our ancestors - the legacy of piety.
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| The case against Donald Trump
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2017-01-23
Most Latin Americans and Moslems will have reasons to see him out, and that's only two parties out of an overwhelming majority. Hillary stole the elections from Bernie, and Trump stole them from Hillary, although she had 2,7 million more votes. That's American politics. They have had faked presidents and elections before.
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| A dark secret
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2016-09-29
Thanks for your comments. It's a long story...
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| Love at some safe distance
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2016-07-28
Thanks for your comments.
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| Catching up
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2016-07-20
Thank you, all.
Alas, Lawrence, it's reality...
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| How not to complicate relationships
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2016-04-07
How nice to hear from you again, Kathy! It's been a long time... I am not very frequent here any more, but every now and then I also make occasional revisits...
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| No time
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2015-11-15
I am afraid so...
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| Welcome
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2015-11-04
Many thanks for the appreciation.
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| Moor blossom
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2015-10-30
Thank you, Josephus. It was intentional, of course.
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| Your voice
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2015-09-20
How nice to see your name again, Kathy. It was a long time ago. Hope you are doing well. I am not as diligent any more as I used to be with poetry, but now and then you just can't help it... Many thanks for your comment.
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| The blessings of workoholism
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2015-01-22
Thank you very much, all of you!
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| The success of failures
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2012-05-31
Thanks, Joe and Jim. Reality is sometimes harsh, but fortunately not always...
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| Suicide or self sacrifice
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2012-02-23
Wonderful story, Ken. I didn't know. There was also Jan Palach in Prague 1969... and many others, whom we shall never know.
I have never heard of any shame connected with suicide in the east. On the contrary, the cases I know of were recorded with the utmost respect. On the other hand, suicides are not very common among buddhists and therefore the more resounding and justified when they occur, like the Vietnamese monks burning themselves during the Vietnam war...
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| The best friends
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2011-10-23
Thank you!
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| The mists of Avalon
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2011-03-07
related perhaps with Shangri La
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| Artificial
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2010-09-23
Excellent!
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| The Plight of the Tibetans
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2010-09-03
Thank you, learnings. I couldn't agree more. It's so necessary.
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| One Leader's Credo
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2010-05-20
Excellent!
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| The urge of passion
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2010-05-05
You must include the previous line to get the meaning:
"there will never be any worse debacle
than when love, once set on fire,
is refused and must backfire."
meaning, there will be no worse backfire, than when true love is refused. Thanks for your comment.
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| NO MORE TEARS TO SHED
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2010-04-11
We all have that in common, my friend.
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| Hibernation
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2010-04-09
It just became that way, like a documentary...
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| Spring Smells
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2010-03-31
Ha-ha, well known phenomenon. No one is guilty, especially not the dogs, who have the right to fart as well as we...
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| The Long Hair History
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2010-03-31
Thank you, Marie. You are quite right, of course: the essay is more literary than scientific. Here is another comment I had in another forum, with my answer:
Nick Crown: Not a bad article but there are several inaccuracies: from 1500-1600 short hair was the most common. The Roman army invented the crew cut to prevent enemies grabbing a soldier by the hair. From the 5th until the 11th centuries Europeans like the Vikings and Saxons had shoulder length hair. Then short hair became the norm for the elite after William the Bastard conquered England. The Normans cropped their hair short after William's brother, a bishop, remarked a man with a beard looked like a goat.
One last thing: the Mods weren't the first youth subculture with long hair. In the 1950s Teddy Boys grew their hair a similar length and piled it high using brylcreem at a time when most men had short back and sides. At the same time in the US greasers styled their hair in a similar way, while surfers and beatniks allowed their hair to be bushy and un-styled
This article (referenced in an earlier thread) may also interest you:
http://www.historum.com/showthread.php?t=11567
Yesterday 00:28
Christian Lanciai : Thanks, Nick, especially for the historum article. As soon as I had finished mine I became aware of its fallacies, although the main meaning would remain. It was actually Alexander who forbade his soldiers to grow long hair for your above-mentioned reason, but only soldiers. It's true what you say about the Saxons and Vikings, but you should then also include the famous French Merovingians (see Lincoln, Baigent and their epoch-making historical work), perhaps the men with the longest hair in history (until today), and all these three represented also a kind of great age, even the Saxons - remember king Arthur and his lads, who always were depicted with long flowing hair far beyond their shoulders, especially Sir Lancelot. In a corrected version of the article, I changed 1700 to 1650, the year after king Charles' decapitation, the longest-haired monarch in history, after which the absurd wig fashion started off. I am aware of the pre-Beatles long-haired groups, but they were only groups and hardly convincing as very long-haired, while the Beatles launched it for real. Also I would not quite agree about short hair 1500-1600. Raphael? Leonardo? Elizabethan England? Pico de Mirandola? What I most of all agree with in your comment, though, is denominating William the Bastard exaclty what he was. The last king Harold has ever since been rotating in his grave (that actually never has been found) waiting for the truth to finally come out... Cheers, my friend! ---
As for the Sikh detail, it was only a way to make the reader immediately get an idea of long-haired Indians, who were always extremely long-haired, especially the holiest ones, a continuous tradition ever since the Mahabharata and the Vedas, a tradition of sacred "longhairedness" which today is most respectfully manifest by the Sikhs.
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| MY OVER ACKTIVE MIND
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2010-03-29
The famous genius syndrome, always a terrible burden...
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| SADLY 'TIS THE WAY OF THE WORLD
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2010-03-21
an all too familiar situation...
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| Perchance to Dream
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2010-02-02
Very real.
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| DAME DAME
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2009-12-20
Never give up!
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| Dementia
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2009-12-11
Hauntingly good!
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| The lost soul
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2009-12-04
Dear Rain, your comment has not reached my messages, wherefore I can only answer you here:
Thank you.
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| HIS MUM GOT THE BILL FORE HER SONS SHROUD
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2009-10-18
Shocking story. In China, still today, the families of executed prisoners are given the bills for the bullet expenditure - just one bullet, and the family has to pay. Normally, the executed prisoner was innocent...
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| Love out of bounds
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2009-10-13
I would suggest, "Love out of bounds", which would mean both love without limits and love in exile, – but please don't change anything. It's good as it is.
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| PC OR NOT PC
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2009-10-11
Remarkable and thought-provoking.
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| [29 Sep 2009] - Editorial Update
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2009-10-01
Thanks a lot for keeping us updated! At least locally, our patience has so far been endless... so chances are it will just continue that way...
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| [29 Sep 2009] - Editorial Update
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2009-10-01
Thanks a lot for keeping us updated! At least locally, our patience has so far been endless... so chances are it will just continue that way..
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| [29 Sep 2009] - Editorial Update
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2009-10-01
Thanks a lot for keeping us updated! At least locally, our patience has so far been endless... so chances are it will just continue that way..
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| [29 Sep 2009] - Editorial Update
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2009-10-01
Thanks a lot for keeping us updated! At least locally, our patience has so far been endless... so chances are it will just continue that way..
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| [29 Sep 2009] - Editorial Update
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2009-10-01
Thanks a lot for keeping us updated! At least locally, our patience has so far been endless... so chances are it will just continue that way...
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| [29 Sep 2009] - Editorial Update
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2009-10-01
Thanks a lot for keeping us updated! At least locally, our patience has so far been endless... so chances are it will just continue that way...
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| THE TIME DRAWS NIGH! PART 1 & PART 2.
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2009-08-01
Can't you renew it? I hope you'll stay on.
Cheers!
Christian
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| Dance me to the end of love!
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2009-07-16
It seems to me very modern and timeless...
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| Could We?
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2009-05-24
Certainly!
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| First Star to the Right
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2009-05-22
I agree.
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| As I Listen....
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2009-04-26
There is nothing more powerful...
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| Souls Searching
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2009-04-19
You remain our Queen of Poetry on this site, Kathy. Thank you.
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| Walk the Talk
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2009-04-03
Very wisely written and almost compelling to limitless afterthought...
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