Sunday, April 02, 2006

Weazl's Thought of the Day


May you see heaven in the eyes of someone near and dear.


And may you be reminded of the beauty there is to live for
wherever you can find it.
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14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the nice thought. May I ask what was so beautiful to make you write this. This is a true question, not irony, as the best way to get information is from the person himself. ;)

-P-

2:54 PM
Anonymous said...

Nice. Very nice, weazl! No more quiet but thougtful today? Perhaps both! I like it.

3:04 PM
Da Weaz said...

Sometimes you can be in a cold, dark place in a cold, dark place and minor miracles can happen. Weaz doesn't like talking about himself much, but sometimes there are gentle reminders that all of the misery and ills in the world can be forgotten by genuine laughs when least expected.

And when those moments happen, especially in a place like here, where weazl rants, raves and barks at the moon, a little humility, sunshine and thankfulness need to be shared, reminding us that above all there is hope. Otherwise there is simply death, whether we breathe or not.

3:48 PM
Anonymous said...

Weaz got laid?

4:04 PM
Da Weaz said...

Further proof of why weaz doesn't like talking about himself.

4:25 PM
Anonymous said...

Understood. Maybe I chose a wrong forum for this conversation.

Or maybe - be it at any forum - some people just can't take when somebody else whistles in the dark, like Weazl now.

-P-

5:12 PM
Anonymous said...

Jájinka, I understand that you were from the Czech Republic, right?

I saw what I thought to be a very good film last night. It was a filmatisation of Milan Kunderas' The Unbearable Lightness of Being under a similar title.

I am curious to hear what you after either having read to book or seen the film (if you have), think about its depiction of life around the events of 1968.

5:36 PM
Anonymous said...

Very lovely. Thank you Weaze.

doc

8:00 PM
Anonymous said...

I appreciate your intelligence and clarity. Although I disagree with you, I am enjoying our debate.

I don't care if you study veterinary science. If you comment on political science, and you leave out massively cogent facts, your education on the subject is flawed. Now I take it that you are European, or British, and that Government is a subject of study in where ever it is that you studied. The subject of Government was either not taught accurately, or it was intentionally miss-taught.

I know that because you describe history with an enormous logical deficit. And that deficit is the socialist and Islaamic factors in European history.

You describe a dance with a partner missing. It is obvious that you have been taught to be blind to one side. You ask how you know that there is a partner missing. Because so many of us, on my side of the pond, see that you have failed to describe that partner. That makes me know that you have been carefully schooled...some how...to ignore obvious facts. Propaganda!

Yes, Europe is Socialist. Socialism is not a static political condition. It exists on a continuum. Hence, one country can be more socialistic than its neighbor. And, a country can be very socialistic with out identifying itself as such.

Europe has a veritable stable of socialist parties. Some of them are not even called 'socialist'. But they are all committed to one similar goal: The collectivization and redistribution of wealth to produce a childishly hopeful, and totally unworkable, utopian economy. That veritable hoard of socialist parties constantly agitates to infuse their collectivist programs into European economies. And they have been very successful at doing that. Each socialist success makes the host economy less effective, which encourages the Left to try and correct the inefficiency with even more socialist fixes. The French are currently in the streets to insure that at-will employment will be illegal. That will never work!

Suffice it to say that human beings simply don't operate in the socialist way. No inducements, including: religion, altruism, patriotism, torture, mass murder, imprisonment, oppression, begging, pleading, or whining have been able to get socialism to operate efficiently. It is dumb to even continue trying. But Europeans, including you, plod on pathetically believing that some where down the road a failure will magically transform itself into a utopian success. Silly!

Your efforts produce very poor economies. And you are angry that our economy works swimmingly. Instead of finding your own errors, you blame us of illegal behavior.

When compared to Europe, our commerce is far more (not perfectly) ethical. Yes we provided the Contras, Mujhadeen, Iraq and others with weaponry. We did that to defeat Communism. We discontinued that supply when our goals were accomplished. France, Germany, Russia, and China have been supplying violent dictatorships with arms, including nuclear and biological, as gainful commerce since World War Two. No, I’m wrong. Europe has been supplying evil regimes with arms since the 1600’s!

(It amazes me that Europeans accuse America of empirical aggression when it has been Europe that has been engaged in that pursuit for hundreds of years, right up to the last part of the twentieth century. Even more astounding is the tacit European support for the Soviet, and now Islaam, two of the most brutal and socially unfair empires ever to exist, while vilifying the only country to ever dedicate itself to the irradiation of tyrannies. )

Now, as far as Islaam is concerned. Europe is no longer European. It looks as though it is, but it is not. Part of the hysterically excessive liberality of European politics after WWll was open borders. Now there is no going back. Muslims are out numbering you in every country of Europe and Scandinavia. You have lost your culture and your lands.

What is your answer to the demise of European Culture? Burning American flags! Brilliant!

Now what is it that you don’t understand about my position? Would you like to know why Keynesian economies (supply side) can work while collectivist economies cannot?
doc

8:02 PM
Anonymous said...

For erinyes

Nice to hear that!! It is a great book, though never published in Czech language. I was so suprised that so many of my friends here in Helsinki read the book!

Unfortunately, I haven´t seen the film and I have read only a few excerpts from ´the lightness´. I always preferred his other works such as Book of laugther and forgetting, Joke and Farewell waltz – my favourite one :- ). They, nevertheless, also deal with most of his themes - like love affairs and philosophical thoughts about the meaning of life and its emptiness under the Communist repression...

Well, some intellectuals and literary commentators got angry with Kundera after his publishing of ´the lightness' that he is falsificating and distorting the Czechoslovak reality in his pursue for the commercial success. The life of the ordinary dissident was not compiled of short - lived love affairs as in the book. He was also criticized for victimising himself and his hero's. But I guess Kundera's aim is not to depict just the reality of the life in then Czechoslovakia even though he got inspired by the life's of his fellow friends as he claims. Yet, I have a feeling as if Kundera did compile lifes of stereotyped, ordinary Czech people that lived these various stories , even though when reading his books, I still feel it is a bit ´coloured´. But I would agree Czechs lived these stories! My parents or relatives happened to be in the very situations depicted in his books (my daddy was for instance smuggling anti-regime leaflets from Hungary and he could go to prison for that!!)

I don´t know how about the film but his writing is of a ironic tone and also funny (especially the Farewell waltz), but it only shows you the whole absurdity of the system, people adjusting to it, playing their roles, living in their lies in regard to regime and in regard to themselves. The real life existed only in the ´underground´, you could not even trust your neighbours, people shielded themselves from the reality on the outside.

I can´t really say much about ´the lightness´ but I think it was there that somebody got persecuted after publishing a critical article about communism and decided to leave the country. This was on everyday basis, the Communists sometimes even encouraged the intellectuals to leave the country, they wanted to get rid of the parasites. To destroy someone´s life was so easy, you don't need any powerful police apparatus, a postman came with a letter, you either signed it or not.. and your life was ruined anyway..

It is perhaps also important to remind that Kundera himself joined the Communist party in 1948 for almost 20 years!! Well, many people joined but left the party after the invasion of 1968. He was affiliated with the ´Prague spring´ which ended in summer of 1968, got into argument with Havel etc.. Kundera was then excluded from the Union of writers, lost his teaching post, left the country to France and has been bitter ever since.

Feel free to contact me!!

jajinka1982@centrum.cz

8:52 PM
Da Weaz said...

Well, for me, the best single artistic piece showing the absurdity of the Communist system is Milos Forman's, The Fireman's Ball.

Grunt, the Utah thing sounds nice, communing with nature. Sometimes opportunities are found in strange places.

12:22 AM
Anonymous said...

Hey, Line Grunt:

Cool, I have 100 Acres in a northern forest. I lived in a cabin there for 10 years. I worked construction, cut wood , did violin repair, hunted, fished and chased the farm ladies. It was great.

doc

4:19 AM
Anonymous said...

I am very happy to hear that you have a gentle philosophic side. I hope that it brings you joy.

doc

4:25 AM
Da Weaz said...

Doc, was your last point addressed to me or to "line grunt." I don't want to take an unintended compliment.

1:47 PM

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