Post #166,121
7/26/04 2:54:26 PM
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That demonstrates that new sins can be created
"Java developer" wasn't a possible sin in Dante's day. :-)
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #166,122
7/26/04 3:01:05 PM
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Re: That demonstrates that new sins can be created
Not developers! They belong with the "Virtuous pagans" :)
-drl
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Post #166,123
7/26/04 3:03:57 PM
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Wasn't Dis filled with... Heretics?
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #166,124
7/26/04 3:14:01 PM
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Only if he ate them
Dis has swallowing issues - he eternally chows down on Brutus and Cassius, the assasins of Caesar, with two of his three mouths, but does manage to repeatedly gobble down Judas with the third.
It is interesting that the vision here is trinitarian. Jung would call this imaginary realm the "shadow" of the heavenly realm. I suppose Brutus and Cassius are analogous to J's crossmates.
The realm of Dis, the 9th circle, is called "Cocytus" and is dominated by an icy plain and lake. Cocytus is also one of the five rivers of Hell, along with Acheron, Lethe, Phlegethon, and Styx. Four new rock bands are waiting to be marketed!
-drl
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Post #166,130
7/26/04 3:40:12 PM
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But.. I thought
Dis was the name of the city in Canto 9; the city with walls of red-hot iron, and Satan was in the center pf the lake in the 9th level, the circle of traitors, using Brutus, Cassius, and Judas as bubblegum...
Oddly enough, though I've read Dante's Inferno, the main memories I have of the 'geography' of Hell come from [link|http://www.marypat.org/stuff/mywords/dante.html|Niven and Pournelle's "Inferno"]. It's more relevant to today...
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #166,132
7/26/04 3:52:01 PM
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Ecco Dite!
[link|http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu:1321/dynaweb/dante/inferno/@Generic__BookTextView/14699;pt=14699#X|http://jefferson.vil.../14699;pt=14699#X]
Search for "Ecco Dite" - "Behold Dis!"
[link|http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu:1321/dynaweb/dante/inferno/@Generic__BookView|http://jefferson.vil...Generic__BookView]
-drl
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Post #166,144
7/26/04 4:12:42 PM
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Dite~Lucifer! I did not know that!
At least it's one of four names [link|http://www.marypat.org/stuff/mywords/dante.html|here].
I also find Dis refers to Pluto, the god of the Underworld.
I wonder how I got that confused?
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #166,145
7/26/04 4:13:27 PM
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Dis-information I suppose...
-drl
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Post #166,150
7/26/04 4:22:44 PM
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"Booooo"!
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #166,152
7/26/04 4:30:08 PM
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-bows-
-drl
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Post #166,153
7/26/04 4:37:03 PM
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I would have asked for Metamucil...
... if I had wanted to go to purgatory...
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #166,154
7/26/04 4:39:58 PM
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Re: I would have asked for Metamucil...
[image|http://home.att.net/~mbaroto/images/divine.jpg||||]
DIS - p. 666 of "Divine's Comedy", copyright Feces Press. All frights reserved.
-drl
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Post #166,158
7/26/04 4:48:23 PM
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THAT was TRULY uncalled for!
But, uh, yeah. That would work too. Wrong orifice, though...
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #166,161
7/26/04 5:06:31 PM
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It's Hell.
There IS no such thing as "the wrong orifice" in Hell...
WANTED: Precognitive Telepath for adventuring Partnership. You know where to apply.
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Post #166,164
7/26/04 5:14:30 PM
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Re: It's Hell.
Oh, you wanted *torture*! Sorry, you've got the wrong place. You want the orifice down the hall, 7B.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #166,258
7/27/04 10:02:27 AM
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Ive been down on Hall, rated 8A
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I wondered what Darwinian moment had to effect itself before we devolved from children flying paper flags in the sky to half formed creatures thundering in a wall of horns down the road to Roncevaux. James Lee Burke
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Post #166,349
7/27/04 6:55:08 PM
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Ah, you mean - where lectures are not-held,
at Unseen University.
I grok to fullness.
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Post #166,355
7/27/04 7:10:57 PM
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OT: just discovered Discworld movies (new thread)
Created as new thread #166354 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=166354|OT: just discovered Discworld movies]
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #166,137
7/26/04 4:01:40 PM
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Full field...
[link|http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=593#discography|Lethe] - Like Tull and ELO
[link|http://www.deathmetal.com/acheron/|Acheron] - this one is amusing. Satanic Death Metal
[link|http://musica.mustdie.ru/en/band/phlegethon/1134/|Phlegethon] - Death Metal, natch. Grand Rapids, even...
[link|http://www.gainesvillebands.com/banddetail.asp?bandid=183|Cocytus] - Metal. Apparently less Death or Satan involved than the others...
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #166,139
7/26/04 4:02:28 PM
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ROFL!! how stupid of me :)
-drl
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