But, Alnedra, you have to have more of the quotation for it to make sense:
Matthew 10:34-38 (NRSV):
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daugher-in-law against her mother-in-law, and one's foes will be members of one's own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of it."
The sword is clearly a metaphor for breaking up families, and other normally united units: not literally a sword to kill people.
What pro-democracy campaigners forget is that Europe took many hundreds of years to evolve democracy, going through many difficult and painful upheavals to get there. Yet we expect the people of Iraq, Zimbabwe, Russia etc to go from Fuedalism/ Communism to Democracy immediately. Hence LiveWireConfusion's point above.
But there are counterexamples where democracy took root quickly. The most obvious example, of course, is Japan, where an imposed democracy after WWII has taken root.
Sometimes the world is just weird. When people can devote their time and energy to finding the "true" identity of someone that died more than 300 hundred years ago and be respected in academia, but when people, like myself, who study something that is actually going on right now, there are those who scoff and turn up their nose...
Well, it's not as those these people are respected for doing work in Shakespearian authorship. Nobody gives a shit about that in academia, because there's pretty good evidence for the author of the plays being Shakespeare, and there's no good reason to doubt it. That rebuttal is pretty good, for example. I couldn't find anything on Brenda James, but William "Bill" Rubinstein is a modern British and Jewish historian - i.e. his status in academia is not at all derived from this work, and is fact probably undermined by it as seeming "popular."
I was the co-director of a short play last year, and in preparation I read a few books of short plays. My favorite, and the one I ended up doing, was Oedi by Rich Orloff. It's a humorous adaptation of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex. My second choice was a comedy of manners about an unusual name by A.A. Milne, although I forget the name.
All in the Timing is good too, although the only bit I've seen is the ones with the monkeys doing Hamlet, but that was hilarious.
I also recommend looking at plays other One-Act performances have done. That'll give you some names to look at, at least.
I third Questionable Content.
posted by dd42 16 years ago
In "According to a study into our primate cousins which found that male macaques pay for intercourse by using grooming as a currency."
The abstract at least is free - your mileage to the original article may vary.
posted by dd42 16 years ago
Original Article
posted by dd42 16 years ago
In "How White and Nerdy are you?"
32% - that was fun.
posted by dd42 17 years ago
In "High"
My favorite bit: "Today it's a naked homeless man," said homeless advocate Aladdin Beshir. "Tomorrow it could be a dead homeless man."
posted by dd42 17 years ago
In "Happy birthday,"
Gotta love his equations.
posted by dd42 17 years ago
In "Iowa! Land of mysteries!"
I go to school at Grinnell, btw, which is what obviously jumps to my mind when I think of the state.
posted by dd42 17 years ago
I've never had a way with women. But the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could.
posted by dd42 17 years ago
In "The Christian Guide to Small Arms"
But, Alnedra, you have to have more of the quotation for it to make sense: Matthew 10:34-38 (NRSV): "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daugher-in-law against her mother-in-law, and one's foes will be members of one's own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of it." The sword is clearly a metaphor for breaking up families, and other normally united units: not literally a sword to kill people.
posted by dd42 18 years ago
In "Why Democracy is Wrong."
What pro-democracy campaigners forget is that Europe took many hundreds of years to evolve democracy, going through many difficult and painful upheavals to get there. Yet we expect the people of Iraq, Zimbabwe, Russia etc to go from Fuedalism/ Communism to Democracy immediately. Hence LiveWireConfusion's point above. But there are counterexamples where democracy took root quickly. The most obvious example, of course, is Japan, where an imposed democracy after WWII has taken root.
posted by dd42 18 years ago
In "Another Gospel"
Sometimes the world is just weird. When people can devote their time and energy to finding the "true" identity of someone that died more than 300 hundred years ago and be respected in academia, but when people, like myself, who study something that is actually going on right now, there are those who scoff and turn up their nose... Well, it's not as those these people are respected for doing work in Shakespearian authorship. Nobody gives a shit about that in academia, because there's pretty good evidence for the author of the plays being Shakespeare, and there's no good reason to doubt it. That rebuttal is pretty good, for example. I couldn't find anything on Brenda James, but William "Bill" Rubinstein is a modern British and Jewish historian - i.e. his status in academia is not at all derived from this work, and is fact probably undermined by it as seeming "popular."
posted by dd42 18 years ago
In "Curious George: Used CDs"
verbminx, do you have a link to more on that? I'd be curious to read their rationales.
posted by dd42 18 years ago
In "Curious George: Theatrical Shorts"
I was the co-director of a short play last year, and in preparation I read a few books of short plays. My favorite, and the one I ended up doing, was Oedi by Rich Orloff. It's a humorous adaptation of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex. My second choice was a comedy of manners about an unusual name by A.A. Milne, although I forget the name. All in the Timing is good too, although the only bit I've seen is the ones with the monkeys doing Hamlet, but that was hilarious. I also recommend looking at plays other One-Act performances have done. That'll give you some names to look at, at least.
posted by dd42 19 years ago
In "Pissed off George"
Favorite dictionary: http://www.oed.com [free access through my college or my old high school, don't know about you]
Favorite dictionary for things the OED doesn't have: http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Favorite time-killer: Little Fluffy Industries, Inc.
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posted by dd42 19 years ago
In "Jacques Derrida, RIP"
You don't have to like the guy - I certainly don't. But it's still rather crass to report his death with an insult.
posted by dd42 19 years ago
In "2000!"
2002!
posted by dd42 19 years ago
In "Geek Test"
365. About what I expected.
posted by dd42 19 years ago
In ""
"Castro" and "Doofus" both kick all yours hardcore though. Separately. Together they suck.
posted by dd42 19 years ago
In "Dear diary, you make me sic."
Who's Dong Resin?
posted by dd42 19 years ago
In "Long Bets: Accountable predictions."
The money won is given to charity.
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