I will be that which I will be.
- Jehovah.
A better, and more literal translation (from the Hebrew), than "I am that I am," which implies that the divine is unchanging and static rather than dynamic and changing (according to its own particulars rather than to our own). "I will be that which I will be" implies that God is capable of some sort of change or adaptation or compromise, with the world.
may this become an iconic iterative in the racialist conversation
hope-fully, every one that uses the
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'Your boldness and drunkeness, Antiochus, caused your fall; For you expected to drink up the Arsacid Kingdom in huge cups.' - Phraates II
"I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires."
Originally Posted by The Mad Playwright
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!"
From Mitchell's translation of the Book of Job, which is, I believe, a literal translation from the Hebrew. Mitchell is a poet who's also translated tales and fables like the Gilgamesh story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...ll_(translator)
This passage has the Almighty rebutting of Job's many accusations of hostility against him with short, terse replies- the overall implication is, to me, that human justice is all too often imperfect and biased and that only God himself possesses the ability to deal out what he calls "savage justice." In the introduction to his translation, Mitchell comes right out and says that God has dual the qualities of creation and destruction, terror and beauty, and that those who deny this blatant fact is misunderstanding God in a serious way.
"Then the Unnamable again spoke to Job from within the whirlwind:
Do you dare to deny my judgment?
Am I wrong because you are right?
Is your arm like the arm of God?
Can your voice bellow like mine?
Dress yourself like an emperor.
Climb up onto your throne.
Unleash your savage justice.
Cut down the rich and the mighty.
Make the proud man grovel.
Pluck the wicked from their perch.
Push them into the grave.
Throw them, screaming, to hell.
Then I will admit that your own strength can save you."
Excuse me but what is this? And why do you link to my pictures?Originally Posted by lei.talk
hope-fully, every one that uses the
to spread this across the inter-webs
will include the original post-linkage because
the original poster deserves all credit.
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Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur (Publilius Syrus, Sententiae A22)
"To love and be wise is scarcely granted to even a god."
Magna di curant, parva neglegunt (Cicero, De Natura Deorum II.66)
"The gods take care of the important things, trifles they ignore."
This one came to mind in light of recent events:
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin
All-time favourite:
The society of love is a society of two, a society of solitudes, resisting universality. - Levinas
"Move all 'Zig! For great justice!
Zero Wing
Berlusconi To German MEP Martin Schulz, at start of Italy's EU presidency in July 2003:
"I know that in Italy there is a man producing a film on Nazi concentration camps - I shall put you forward for the role of Kapo (guard chosen from among the prisoners) - you would be perfect."
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