"I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die. But I think the ultimate argument against his philosophy, as against any unpleasant but internally self-consistent ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to the emotions. Nietzsche despises universal love; I feel it the motive power to all that I desire as regards the world. His followers have had their innings, but we may hope that it is coming rapidly to an end."
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big ups on Steven Adams...
Have to laugh at one brendon egan in the SST today whingeing about Steven Adams not wanting to play for the tall blacks.
He is more of a man than you will ever be and he knows himself.
He has better things to do than to pull on the black singlet for NZ so the pundits and bigmouths can whine and whinge about him if the team loses.
You must think he is silly or something.
He has a life of his own and it does not involve spending half his life jetting around the world to provide column inches for prissy little media prigs back here in their heermit kingdom
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the mighty lawnmower/chainsaw axis...
What do kayonedoubleyewones want for xmas most?
Thats right! a chainsaw and a motor mower preferably with no muffler.
An idiot started their chainsaw two doors down and after the first rev I yelled so loudly they must have heard me.
STFU.
Just because you don't want to listen to yourself or your wife does not mean you have carte blanche to drown out the whole neighbourhood in your ghastly noise
Friday, December 24, 2021
jimmy stewart ptsd...
Jimmy Stewart & PTSD:
Months after winning his 1941 Academy Award for best actor in “The Philadelphia Story,” Jimmy Stewart, left Hollywood and joined the US Army. He was the first big-name movie star to enlist in World War II.
An accomplished private pilot, the 33-year-old Hollywood icon became a US Army Air Force aviator, earning his 2nd Lieutenant commission in early 1942. With his celebrity status, he was assigned to attending rallies and training younger pilots.
Stewart, however, wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to fly combat missions. By 1944, frustrated and feeling the war was passing him by, he asked his commanding officer to transfer him to a unit deploying to Europe. His request was reluctantly granted.
Stewart, now a Captain, was sent to England, where he spent the next 18 months flying B-24 Liberator bombers over Germany. Top brass tried to keep the popular movie star from flying over enemy territory. But Stewart would hear nothing of it.
Determined to lead by example, he assigned himself to every combat mission he could. By the end of the war he was one of the most respected and decorated pilots in his unit. But his wartime service came at a high personal price.
In the final months of WWII he was grounded for being “flak happy,” today called Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD).
When he returned to the US in August 1945, Stewart was a changed man. He had lost so much weight that he looked sickly. He rarely slept, and when he did he had nightmares of planes exploding and men falling through the air screaming (in one mission alone his unit had lost 13 planes and 130 men, most of whom he knew personally).
He was depressed, couldn’t focus, and refused to talk to anyone about his war experiences. His acting career was all but over.
As one of Stewart's biographers put it, "Every decision he made [during the war] was going to preserve life or cost lives. He took back to Hollywood all the stress that he had built up.”
In 1946 he got his break. He took the role of George Bailey, the suicidal father in “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Actors and crew of the set realized that in many of the disturbing scenes of George Bailey unraveling in front of his family, Stewart wasn’t acting. His PTSD was being captured on film for millions to see.
But despite Stewart's inner turmoil, making the movie was therapeutic for the combat veteran. He would go on to become one of the most accomplished and loved actors in American history.
When asked in 1941 why he wanted to leave his acting career to fly combat missions over Nazi Germany, he said, "This country's conscience is bigger than all the studios in Hollywood put together, and the time will come when we'll have to fight.”
This holiday season, as many of us watch the classic Christmas film, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” it’s also a fitting time to remember the sacrifices of those who gave up so much to serve their country during wartime.
Credit:
Ned Forney, Writer, Saluting America's Veterans
Sharing a post by Michael Kelvington, professor of Military Science at Ohio State University. A wonderful reminder to stay close to those brave souls who serve(d) on the front line and who may be struggling with PTSD.
Thursday, December 23, 2021
joan didion quote...
"I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package, I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.” - JOAN DIDION
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derrrrrrrrr....
One of them usually carries abc news from the usa
however TV1 will not interrupt the cricket on one channel to play the news
I like watching the cricket but international news is tops in my priorities.
Saturday, December 18, 2021
Friday, December 17, 2021
volunteers...
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[Verse]
G F Look whats happening out in the streets C G Got a revolution got to revolution G F Hey Im dancing down the streets C F Got a revolution got to revolution G F Aint it amazing all the people I meet C F Got a revolution got to revolution G One generation got old F One generation got soul G F This generation got no destination to hold [Verse] Pick up the cry G F Hey now its time for you and me C G Got a revolution got to revolution G F Come on now were marching to the sea C G Got a revolution got to revolution G Who will take it from you F C G We will and who are we G We are volunteers of america C volunteers of america G volunteers of america
Thursday, December 16, 2021
memo to masterton district council...
fix the pot holes in south road or re-seal it pronto.
mea culpa
still I guess it slows the boy wacers down much to the chagrin of the locals who want to live in peace and quiet.
Monday, December 13, 2021
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