Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity

New comment on your post #357 “Green card”
Author : misgav
Comment:
try the french bureaucratic machine

try the french bureaucratic machine

New comment on your post #358 “What I did in my spring vacation”
Author : Sariel Har-Peled
Comment:
Smoky mountains. Click the picture and you would be exposed to a lot more pictures from the trip.

Smoky mountains. Click the picture and you would be exposed to a lot more pictures from the trip.

New comment on your post #358 “What I did in my spring vacation”
Author : Maverick
Comment:
is this the big flat? where are the corns?

is this the big flat? where are the corns? !

New comment on your post #344 “A tactful way to eat your neighbour’s small child”
Author : Karen Gecko
Comment:
(1) Another thing that does not exist,
(2) On a More serious note must insist,
(3) Is a world in which both yes and no upon the same sentence same meaning,
(4) Do so coexist …
(5)
(6) Thus on a More serious note must insist,
(7) That to have an Erdos number of 1 is not the same as none,
(8) That young Gauss was not both able and incapable of adding the numbers quickly from 1 to 100,
(9) That the universe does not have both more and less stars right now than 10001,
(10)
(11) Thus on a More serious note must insist,
(12) That to walk a road is not the same as to sit still,
(13) That to think on Plato is not to watch the 70’s show,
(14) That to go to the moon is not to play a game of GO,
(15)
(16) Thus on a More serious note must insist,
(17) That to change the world is not to lie and wait,
(18) That to kill the innocent is not a question of debate,
(19) That to rape is not to woo,
(20)
(21) So on a More serious note must insist,
(22) That relativism in its purest form,
(23) Is not able to turn yes into no,
(24) Or a dirty puddle into a chocolate malt (even if one holds one’s nose, OR what what knows),
(25)
(26) Therefore, OBJECTIVELY, relativity does not exist.
(27)
(28) So on a More serious note IF ONE MUST INSIST,
(29) That objectively, objectivity does not exist,
(30) Than certainly what we so subjectively discern,
(31) That which we love and that which we earn,
(32)
(33) Is not objectively loving or gain,
(34) Now I warn the reader, the rest of this paga may cause some pain,
(35)
(36) And the most distiguished and profound truth,
(37) that we will ever get,
(38) Is when we admit yes and no can be both true,
(39) and of course this is no oxymoron yet.
(40)
(41) Nothing is true, no good nor bad.
(42) Unless relative to something that is NOT relative to something else,
(43) But since that would mean absolute measure,
(44) Well, why not each draw the line to our own pleaser?
(45) Why need a line at all, mixing excretion with dinner,
(46) is sure to produce health in the intenstines, is it not?
(47)
(48) Truth in beauty.
(49) A soft warm sunset and sweet smelling pine,
(50) by an ocean calm and divine? Surely, terrible thing when the breeze is so gentle.
(51) Surely to go inside and ignore the day is truly no loss.
(52) For every day is just a coin toss.
(53)
(54) Truth in action,
(55) To destroy a monarch’s cacoon as he begins to emerge,
(56) surely no less good than to watch and observe.
(57) To kick a faihful dog is good
(58) relative to your friend who beats his wife instead.
(59)
(60) Truth in love.
(61) Take pleasure in a a young child’s pain?
(62) No right, no wrong ..
(63) No wrongful gain, what wrong can you see,
(64) When there’s always someone more evil then thee? you know that
(65) Truly wrong free you can be.
(66) No wrong, no wrong ..
(67)
(68) The Nazi’s gain?
(69) No shame, no shame … For was not Nero worse when he came?
(70)
(71) Truth in speaking,
(72) The politician lies?
(73) For to him it is Truth, just not absolutely.
(74) Right to vote? What is right, what is right?
(75) Perhaps better for Caeser to settle the question.
(76) Truth not in values,
(77) Surely the Harijans deserve their class,
(78) Relative to me, I was born a nobler breed,
(79) Although my great-ancestor ate Uncle Smeed.
(80)
(81) Truth in learning.
(82) The world sits on an oyster, of course, of course.
(83) Your truth is as true as mine for when I close my eyes
(84) Its oysters all the way down, I can see.
(85)
(86) Truth in purity,
(87) Unfaithful wife? Open your eyes, that’s all.
(88) She’s good compared to that postitute, remember to think relatively.
(89) No sympathy need I show you from me.
(90)
(91) Truth in identity,
(92) Surely no different from the ape who writes Sonnets,
(93) contemplates the universe and what’s on it,
(94) Makes ups stories for pleasure,
(95) and predicts the weather,
(96) Calculates the upper and lower bound his search algorithms,
(97) makes certain to quatify what he knows he can know,
(98) which is naught, post building from his basic assumptions (is this faith?),
(99) Builds Victorian, Ranch, and French Eclectic style houses,
(100) sculpts himself in the nude and baths in a suit.
(101)
(102) Truth in identity,
(103) Surely we are no different than the God who’s jealous of his sister’s fancy car,
(104) who searches for his keys for a half hour
(105) Who wishes to be a basketball star,
(106) Yet every day,who carries a briefcase at quarter to seven,
(107) but longs for the day when he can sleep until high noon.
(108) But if we get rid of all our desires,
(109) a better God we will be, not delirious and tired.
(110)
(111) Unable to know all, unable to will the world into being,
(112) In our mind still a God we decide we will subjectively be.
(113) Relatively, Saddam Hussein is not God too of course since we have people like Ghandi,
(114) oh the good of relatively.
(115) But of course he is to himself and to some around him, for does he not rule? Is his picure not
(116) on every town tool?
(117) So it proves he is God,
(118) relatively.
(119) Consitant logic is not necessary.
(120)
(121) Yet is “Something wicked this way comes”
(122) really the same as a “Twiddling of the thumbs”?
(123)
(124) But perhaps since objectivity does not exist
(125) (and we do like puzzles, the God of games, how attractive a theory, that blatantly isn’t what it seems)
(126) The grand TRUTH,
(127) is that there exists no absolute truth. (No oxymoron indeed?)
(128)
(129) Perhaps Genicide is right for some,
(130) Perhaps it is good to save no one,
(131) Perhaps good has not meaning at all,
(132) Perhaps, than again, my mind is so very small,
(133)
(134) That I cannot comprehend that there can be,
(135) Something other than my mind and me.
(136) Nobody’s needs more important than mine.
(137) For subjectively that is all I can find.
(138)
(139) But of course subjectively I can say,
(140) That great am I as I believe I may,
(141) With words of Shakespeare and a mind of Einstein,
(142) You just don’t see the same as me,in my grand subjectivity,
(143)
(144) The only problem is this body of mine,
(145) Somehow does not appear to be,
(146) That of Mary Lou Retton, or
(147) Jennifer Capriati,
(148)
(149) But surely we can throw in a little reductionism,
(150) By banning of all mirrors,
(151) Than I will be as I know I really appear,
(152) More beautiful than Helon of Troy, and eyes that shine like stars,
(153)
(154) Then I will see me as I truly am,
(155) and nobody can tell me what I can’t or what I can,
(156) I don’t need a God other than me, or if I sneeze (God bless me),
(157) …
(158) But as an engineer something dawns on me,
(159)
(160) That none of my work can really be,
(161) That others may use what I make,
(162) Must be really be subjective to only those I can see,
(163) For objective knowledge cannot be,
(164)
(165) The study of science therefore surely must be,
(166) A pursuit of fools who think something can truly be,
(167) but in my enlighted state I know now it a farce,
(168) and in this state set my own course,
(169)
(170) For there is nothing that is “yes” and nothing that is “no”,
(171) Yet they must truly both be so,
(172) And as I write this is a computer to me,
(173) speaking to my operating system in bits electric impulses, 1’s and 0’s,
(174) but yours surely speaks to its operating system in ancient Hebrew,
(175)
(176) And I tell you I have relativistically proven
(177) (oxymoron, now, the greatest of heros)
(178)
(179) nothing truly exists, for wouldn’t that mean, ouch, objectivity?
(180) Who asks who are thee?
(181)
(182) So lost and confused, a muddle of reductionism of physics, the Theory of Relativity,
(183) Applied to Humans
(184) who Like it or Not,
(185) Can think and can see,
(186) Does not work relative to nothing,
(187) And by definition can not be absolutely something.
(188)
(189) Therefore, RELATIVELY, relativity does not exist …
(190) (For those forgetfully inclined, please see line 26).

by,
Karen Gecko

(1) Another thing that does not exist,
(2) On a More serious note must insist,
(3) Is a world in which both yes and no upon the same sentence same meaning,
(4) Do so coexist …
(5)
(6) Thus on a More serious note must insist,
(7) That to have an Erdos number of 1 is not the same as none,
(8) That young Gauss was not both able and incapable of adding the numbers quickly from 1 to 100,
(9) That the universe does not have both more and less stars right now than 10001,
(10)
(11) Thus on a More serious note must insist,
(12) That to walk a road is not the same as to sit still,
(13) That to think on Plato is not to watch the 70’s show,
(14) That to go to the moon is not to play a game of GO,
(15)
(16) Thus on a More serious note must insist,
(17) That to change the world is not to lie and wait,
(18) That to kill the innocent is not a question of debate,
(19) That to rape is not to woo,
(20)
(21) So on a More serious note must insist,
(22) That relativism in its purest form,
(23) Is not able to turn yes into no,
(24) Or a dirty puddle into a chocolate malt (even if one holds one’s nose, OR what what knows),
(25)
(26) Therefore, OBJECTIVELY, relativity does not exist.
(27)
(28) So on a More serious note IF ONE MUST INSIST,
(29) That objectively, objectivity does not exist,
(30) Than certainly what we so subjectively discern,
(31) That which we love and that which we earn,
(32)
(33) Is not objectively loving or gain,
(34) Now I warn the reader, the rest of this paga may cause some pain,
(35)
(36) And the most distiguished and profound truth,
(37) that we will ever get,
(38) Is when we admit yes and no can be both true,
(39) and of course this is no oxymoron yet.
(40)
(41) Nothing is true, no good nor bad.
(42) Unless relative to something that is NOT relative to something else,
(43) But since that would mean absolute measure,
(44) Well, why not each draw the line to our own pleaser?
(45) Why need a line at all, mixing excretion with dinner,
(46) is sure to produce health in the intenstines, is it not?
(47)
(48) Truth in beauty.
(49) A soft warm sunset and sweet smelling pine,
(50) by an ocean calm and divine? Surely, terrible thing when the breeze is so gentle.
(51) Surely to go inside and ignore the day is truly no loss.
(52) For every day is just a coin toss.
(53)
(54) Truth in action,
(55) To destroy a monarch’s cacoon as he begins to emerge,
(56) surely no less good than to watch and observe.
(57) To kick a faihful dog is good
(58) relative to your friend who beats his wife instead.
(59)
(60) Truth in love.
(61) Take pleasure in a a young child’s pain?
(62) No right, no wrong ..
(63) No wrongful gain, what wrong can you see,
(64) When there’s always someone more evil then thee? you know that
(65) Truly wrong free you can be.
(66) No wrong, no wrong ..
(67)
(68) The Nazi’s gain?
(69) No shame, no shame … For was not Nero worse when he came?
(70)
(71) Truth in speaking,
(72) The politician lies?
(73) For to him it is Truth, just not absolutely.
(74) Right to vote? What is right, what is right?
(75) Perhaps better for Caeser to settle the question.
(76) Truth not in values,
(77) Surely the Harijans deserve their class,
(78) Relative to me, I was born a nobler breed,
(79) Although my great-ancestor ate Uncle Smeed.
(80)
(81) Truth in learning.
(82) The world sits on an oyster, of course, of course.
(83) Your truth is as true as mine for when I close my eyes
(84) Its oysters all the way down, I can see.
(85)
(86) Truth in purity,
(87) Unfaithful wife? Open your eyes, that’s all.
(88) She’s good compared to that postitute, remember to think relatively.
(89) No sympathy need I show you from me.
(90)
(91) Truth in identity,
(92) Surely no different from the ape who writes Sonnets,
(93) contemplates the universe and what’s on it,
(94) Makes ups stories for pleasure,
(95) and predicts the weather,
(96) Calculates the upper and lower bound his search algorithms,
(97) makes certain to quatify what he knows he can know,
(98) which is naught, post building from his basic assumptions (is this faith?),
(99) Builds Victorian, Ranch, and French Eclectic style houses,
(100) sculpts himself in the nude and baths in a suit.
(101)
(102) Truth in identity,
(103) Surely we are no different than the God who’s jealous of his sister’s fancy car,
(104) who searches for his keys for a half hour
(105) Who wishes to be a basketball star,
(106) Yet every day,who carries a briefcase at quarter to seven,
(107) but longs for the day when he can sleep until high noon.
(108) But if we get rid of all our desires,
(109) a better God we will be, not delirious and tired.
(110)
(111) Unable to know all, unable to will the world into being,
(112) In our mind still a God we decide we will subjectively be.
(113) Relatively, Saddam Hussein is not God too of course since we have people like Ghandi,
(114) oh the good of relatively.
(115) But of course he is to himself and to some around him, for does he not rule? Is his picure not
(116) on every town tool?
(117) So it proves he is God,
(118) relatively.
(119) Consitant logic is not necessary.
(120)
(121) Yet is “Something wicked this way comes”
(122) really the same as a “Twiddling of the thumbs”?
(123)
(124) But perhaps since objectivity does not exist
(125) (and we do like puzzles, the God of games, how attractive a theory, that blatantly isn’t what it seems)
(126) The grand TRUTH,
(127) is that there exists no absolute truth. (No oxymoron indeed?)
(128)
(129) Perhaps Genicide is right for some,
(130) Perhaps it is good to save no one,
(131) Perhaps good has not meaning at all,
(132) Perhaps, than again, my mind is so very small,
(133)
(134) That I cannot comprehend that there can be,
(135) Something other than my mind and me.
(136) Nobody’s needs more important than mine.
(137) For subjectively that is all I can find.
(138)
(139) But of course subjectively I can say,
(140) That great am I as I believe I may,
(141) With words of Shakespeare and a mind of Einstein,
(142) You just don’t see the same as me,in my grand subjectivity,
(143)
(144) The only problem is this body of mine,
(145) Somehow does not appear to be,
(146) That of Mary Lou Retton, or
(147) Jennifer Capriati,
(148)
(149) But surely we can throw in a little reductionism,
(150) By banning of all mirrors,
(151) Than I will be as I know I really appear,
(152) More beautiful than Helon of Troy, and eyes that shine like stars,
(153)
(154) Then I will see me as I truly am,
(155) and nobody can tell me what I can’t or what I can,
(156) I don’t need a God other than me, or if I sneeze (God bless me),
(157) …
(158) But as an engineer something dawns on me,
(159)
(160) That none of my work can really be,
(161) That others may use what I make,
(162) Must be really be subjective to only those I can see,
(163) For objective knowledge cannot be,
(164)
(165) The study of science therefore surely must be,
(166) A pursuit of fools who think something can truly be,
(167) but in my enlighted state I know now it a farce,
(168) and in this state set my own course,
(169)
(170) For there is nothing that is “yes” and nothing that is “no”,
(171) Yet they must truly both be so,
(172) And as I write this is a computer to me,
(173) speaking to my operating system in bits electric impulses, 1’s and 0’s,
(174) but yours surely speaks to its operating system in ancient Hebrew,
(175)
(176) And I tell you I have relativistically proven
(177) (oxymoron, now, the greatest of heros)
(178)
(179) nothing truly exists, for wouldn’t that mean, ouch, objectivity?
(180) Who asks who are thee?
(181)
(182) So lost and confused, a muddle of reductionism of physics, the Theory of Relativity,
(183) Applied to Humans
(184) who Like it or Not,
(185) Can think and can see,
(186) Does not work relative to nothing,
(187) And by definition can not be absolutely something.
(188)
(189) Therefore, RELATIVELY, relativity does not exist …
(190) (For those forgetfully inclined, please see line 26).

by,
Karen Gecko

New comment on your post #343 “Gaza shopkeeper stocks Danish flags”
Author : Karen Gecko
Comment:
(1) Another thing that does not exist,
(2) On a More serious note must insist,
(3) Is a world in which both yes and no upon the same sentence same meaning,
(4) Do so coexist …
(5)
(6) Thus on a More serious note must insist,
(7) That to have an Erdos number of 1 is not the same as none,
(8) That young Gauss was not both able and incapable of adding the numbers quickly from 1 to 100,
(9) That the universe does not have both more and less stars right now than 10001,
(10)
(11) Thus on a More serious note must insist,
(12) That to walk a road is not the same as to sit still,
(13) That to think on Plato is not to watch the 70’s show,
(14) That to go to the moon is not to play a game of GO,
(15)
(16) Thus on a More serious note must insist,
(17) That to change the world is not to lie and wait,
(18) That to kill the innocent is not a question of debate,
(19) That to rape is not to woo,
(20)
(21) So on a More serious note must insist,
(22) That relativism in its purest form,
(23) Is not able to turn yes into no,
(24) Or a dirty puddle into a chocolate malt (even if one holds one’s nose, OR what what knows),
(25)
(26) Therefore, OBJECTIVELY, relativity does not exist.
(27)
(28) So on a More serious note IF ONE MUST INSIST,
(29) That objectively, objectivity does not exist,
(30) Than certainly what we so subjectively discern,
(31) That which we love and that which we earn,
(32)
(33) Is not objectively loving or gain,
(34) Now I warn the reader, the rest of this paga may cause some pain,
(35)
(36) And the most distiguished and profound truth,
(37) that we will ever get,
(38) Is when we admit yes and no can be both true,
(39) and of course this is no oxymoron yet.
(40)
(41) Nothing is true, no good nor bad.
(42) Unless relative to something that is NOT relative to something else,
(43) But since that would mean absolute measure,
(44) Well, why not each draw the line to our own pleaser?
(45) Why need a line at all, mixing excretion with dinner,
(46) is sure to produce health in the intenstines, is it not?
(47)
(48) Truth in beauty.
(49) A soft warm sunset and sweet smelling pine,
(50) by an ocean calm and divine? Surely, terrible thing when the breeze is so gentle.
(51) Surely to go inside and ignore the day is truly no loss.
(52) For every day is just a coin toss.
(53)
(54) Truth in action,
(55) To destroy a monarch’s cacoon as he begins to emerge,
(56) surely no less good than to watch and observe.
(57) To kick a faihful dog is good
(58) relative to your friend who beats his wife instead.
(59)
(60) Truth in love.
(61) Take pleasure in a a young child’s pain?
(62) No right, no wrong ..
(63) No wrongful gain, what wrong can you see,
(64) When there’s always someone more evil then thee? you know that
(65) Truly wrong free you can be.
(66) No wrong, no wrong ..
(67)
(68) The Nazi’s gain?
(69) No shame, no shame … For was not Nero worse when he came?
(70)
(71) Truth in speaking,
(72) The politician lies?
(73) For to him it is Truth, just not absolutely.
(74) Right to vote? What is right, what is right?
(75) Perhaps better for Caeser to settle the question.
(76) Truth not in values,
(77) Surely the Harijans deserve their class,
(78) Relative to me, I was born a nobler breed,
(79) Although my great-ancestor ate Uncle Smeed.
(80)
(81) Truth in learning.
(82) The world sits on an oyster, of course, of course.
(83) Your truth is as true as mine for when I close my eyes
(84) Its oysters all the way down, I can see.
(85)
(86) Truth in purity,
(87) Unfaithful wife? Open your eyes, that’s all.
(88) She’s good compared to that postitute, remember to think relatively.
(89) No sympathy need I show you from me.
(90)
(91) Truth in identity,
(92) Surely no different from the ape who writes Sonnets,
(93) contemplates the universe and what’s on it,
(94) Makes ups stories for pleasure,
(95) and predicts the weather,
(96) Calculates the upper and lower bound his search algorithms,
(97) makes certain to quatify what he knows he can know,
(98) which is naught, post building from his basic assumptions (is this faith?),
(99) Builds Victorian, Ranch, and French Eclectic style houses,
(100) sculpts himself in the nude and baths in a suit.
(101)
(102) Truth in identity,
(103) Surely we are no different than the God who’s jealous of his sister’s fancy car,
(104) who searches for his keys for a half hour
(105) Who wishes to be a basketball star,
(106) Yet every day,who carries a briefcase at quarter to seven,
(107) but longs for the day when he can sleep until high noon.
(108) But if we get rid of all our desires,
(109) a better God we will be, not delirious and tired.
(110)
(111) Unable to know all, unable to will the world into being,
(112) In our mind still a God we decide we will subjectively be.
(113) Relatively, Saddam Hussein is not God too of course since we have people like Ghandi,
(114) oh the good of relatively.
(115) But of course he is to himself and to some around him, for does he not rule? Is his picure not
(116) on every town tool?
(117) So it proves he is God,
(118) relatively.
(119) Consitant logic is not necessary.
(120)
(121) Yet is “Something wicked this way comes”
(122) really the same as a “Twiddling of the thumbs”?
(123)
(124) But perhaps since objectivity does not exist
(125) (and we do like puzzles, the God of games, how attractive a theory, that blatantly isn’t what it seems)
(126) The grand TRUTH,
(127) is that there exists no absolute truth. (No oxymoron indeed?)
(128)
(129) Perhaps Genicide is right for some,
(130) Perhaps it is good to save no one,
(131) Perhaps good has not meaning at all,
(132) Perhaps, than again, my mind is so very small,
(133)
(134) That I cannot comprehend that there can be,
(135) Something other than my mind and me.
(136) Nobody’s needs more important than mine.
(137) For subjectively that is all I can find.
(138)
(139) But of course subjectively I can say,
(140) That great am I as I believe I may,
(141) With words of Shakespeare and a mind of Einstein,
(142) You just don’t see the same as me,in my grand subjectivity,
(143)
(144) The only problem is this body of mine,
(145) Somehow does not appear to be,
(146) That of Mary Lou Retton, or
(147) Jennifer Capriati,
(148)
(149) But surely we can throw in a little reductionism,
(150) By banning of all mirrors,
(151) Than I will be as I know I really appear,
(152) More beautiful than Helon of Troy, and eyes that shine like stars,
(153)
(154) Then I will see me as I truly am,
(155) and nobody can tell me what I can’t or what I can,
(156) I don’t need a God other than me, or if I sneeze (God bless me),
(157) …
(158) But as an engineer something dawns on me,
(159)
(160) That none of my work can really be,
(161) That others may use what I make,
(162) Must be really be subjective to only those I can see,
(163) For objective knowledge cannot be,
(164)
(165) The study of science therefore surely must be,
(166) A pursuit of fools who think something can truly be,
(167) but in my enlighted state I know now it a farce,
(168) and in this state set my own course,
(169)
(170) For there is nothing that is “yes” and nothing that is “no”,
(171) Yet they must truly both be so,
(172) And as I write this is a computer to me,
(173) speaking to my operating system in bits electric impulses, 1’s and 0’s,
(174) but yours surely speaks to its operating system in ancient Hebrew,
(175)
(176) And I tell you I have relativistically proven
(177) (oxymoron, now, the greatest of heros)
(178)
(179) nothing truly exists, for wouldn’t that mean, ouch, objectivity?
(180) Who asks who are thee?
(181)
(182) So lost and confused, a muddle of reductionism of physics, the Theory of Relativity,
(183) Applied to Humans
(184) who Like it or Not,
(185) Can think and can see,
(186) Does not work relative to nothing,
(187) And by definition can not be absolutely something.
(188)
(189) Therefore, RELATIVELY, relativity does not exist …
(190) (For those forgetfully inclined, please see line 26).

by,
Karen Gecko