Touchstone Archives: A Requiem for Friendship ShareThis Facebook Tweet LinkedIn Email Why Boys Will Not Be Boys & Other Consequences of the Sexual Revolution by Anthony Esolen Sam Gamgee has been fool enough to follow his beloved master Frodo into Mordor, the realm of death. Finally he finds Frodo in the upper room of a small filthy cell, naked, half-conscious, lying in a heap in a corner. Still groggy, Frodo can hardly believe it, but he clutches at his friend. At that a snigger rises from the audience in the theater. An ignorant but inevitable response. The bachelor Abe Lincoln long shared a bed with his closest friend, Joshua Speed, and later wrote letters expressing, with what seems a touch of self-deprecating irony, his fear that he would be lonely once Speed had taken a wife. “Your love to me was finer than the love of women,” laments David in a public song, when he learns of the death of his friend Jonathan. One Tiny Insight Six hours is not long—and that is part of Dante’s point. Arbitrary Words A Faulty Premise Pansexual Language
Samsung Series 9 NP900X3C-A01US 13.3-Inch Ultrabook (Ash Black): Computers & Accessories I Can Carry You! (High Quality) 38 Vintage Conversation Rules Editor’s note: The excerpt below comes from a book published in 1875: A Gentleman’s Guide to Etiquette by Cecil B. Hartley. Hartley’s rules may be over 100 years old, but they’re just as true today as they ever were. There are some real gems here — some of which truly gave me a chuckle. 1. Even if convinced that your opponent is utterly wrong, yield gracefully, decline further discussion, or dexterously turn the conversation, but do not obstinately defend your own opinion until you become angry…Many there are who, giving their opinion, not as an opinion but as a law, will defend their position by such phrases, as: “Well, if I were president, or governor, I would,” — and while by the warmth of their argument they prove that they are utterly unable to govern their own temper, they will endeavor to persuade you that they are perfectly competent to take charge of the government of the nation. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.
View topic - The Lost Art Of Buddyship: the deepest of male interactions Chapter 9 of Herb Goldberg's book The Hazards of Being Male, published 1976, is called "The Lost Art Of Buddyship". I've provided the link to the chapter at the end of this post. In it, Goldberg states that as adult males in our culture the phenomenon of being without even a single buddy or good friend is a common one-so widespread in fact, that it is not seen as unusual nor is it even spoken about. Rather, it is taken for granted. He says that men are not comfortable sharing their downsides-their failures, anxieties, and disappointments. He also discusses what it's like for single men and how it often mobilizes intense sexual anxieties, doubt, and suspiciousness. Goldberg states, "It is a tragic irony in our culture that men can only come comfortably close to each other when they are sharing a common target. The chapter ends with the term "buddyship", which he describes as a genuine social skill, an area of competence that needs to be learned. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Why You're Not a Morning Person (and How to Become One) Blogg » Upplýsingar eru forsenda upplýsingarDV.is Ég hef undanfarið leitast við að sinna þeirri hlið vinnu minnar sem á sér stað utan landsteinanna, og fyrir vikið verið lítið virkur í íslenskri pólitískri umræðu. Hluti af ástæðunni fyrir því er að mig langaði til að fá smá tilfinningu fyrir því hvernig nýtt þing myndi líta út og hvernig nýja ríkisstjórnin myndi hegða sér, áður en ég færi að gera einhverskonar veður. Veðrið sem ég finn mig knúinn til að gera núna snýr að Brynjari Nielssyni, sem hefur unnið sér það til frægðar fram yfir öllum öðrum þingmönnum þessa þings að vera algjörlega ófær um að fullyrða nokkuð án þess að það felist í því rökvilla. Ef við tökum til að mynda nýjustu grein hans á Pressunni, "Af hverju ekki allan hagnaðinn?" Hafandi svo veikt andstæðing sinn gengur hann fram með þá einfaldlega röngu fullyrðingu að veiðigjaldið gangi út á að taka "næstum allan" hagnað útgerðarinnar inn í ríkissjóð. Því næst byrjar Brynjar á skemmtilegu rökvillunum.
Demetrius I of Macedon Biography[edit] After several campaigns against Ptolemy on the coasts of Cilicia and Cyprus, Demetrius sailed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. He freed the city from the power of Cassander and Ptolemy, expelled the garrison which had been stationed there under Demetrius of Phalerum, and besieged and took Munychia (307 BC). After these victories he was worshipped by the Athenians as a tutelary deity under the title of Soter (σωτήρ) ("Preserver"). Coin of Demetrius I (337-283 BC). Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ([coin] of King Demetrius) Demetrius I Poliorcetes portrayed on a tetradrachm coin In 302 BC he returned a second time to Greece as liberator, and reinstated the Corinthian League. He also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and his father. His son Antigonus offered all his possessions, and even his own person, in order to procure his father's liberty. Literary references[edit] Plutarch[edit] Hegel[edit]
Boða milljarða lækkun á veiðigjaldi og skoða tannlækningar barna - DV.is Á Alþingi í kvöld dreifði Framsóknarflokkurinn frumvarpi um breytingar á veiðgjaldi á útgerðina. Verði frumvarpið óbreytt að lögum má gera ráð fyrir því að tekjur ríkissjóðs af veiðgjöldum fyrir aflaheimildir verði 3,2 milljörðum lægri á árinu 2013 frá því sem gert var ráð fyrir í fjárlögum og að tekjurnar geti orðið 6,14 milljörðum lægri á árinu 2014 en áætlað var. Í umsögn fjármála- og efnahagsráðuneytisins um frumvarpið kemur fram að ekki liggi fyrir á þessu stigi aðrar ráðstafanir til að vega upp á móti þessari lækkun á áformaðri tekjuöflun ríkissjóðs. Því gerir ráðuneytið ráð fyrir því að staða ríkissjóðs muni versa sem nemur þessari umtalsverðu tekjulækkun frá því sem áformað var og verði til muna lengri leið að jöfnuði í heildarafkomunni en gert var ráð fyrir í ríkisfjármálaáætlun sem fylgdi með fjárlagafrumvarpi fyrir árið 2013.
The Key To Happiness At Work We spend so much of our lives at work that it’s important we find happiness while their. Unfortunately, boring, stressful and tedious jobs can take their toll and many people find their time at work more miserable than happy. So how can you find happiness at work? Well, there are a few things you can change if you are still not in a long-term career position. If you’re already in a long-term career position though, you can still improve your happiness at work in a number of ways. Original Source -Die Karriere Bibel Don't you just love an inspiring quote? Featured photo credit: Couple on sunset via Shutterstock
How to Wake up Immediately in the Morning Waking up in the morning can be a real effort and it is a struggle for many people to get out of bed. The temptation to hit the snooze button on the alarm clock just to capture another ten minutes of time in bed can be overwhelmingly tempting. Having difficulty waking in the morning can cause further problems if it also affects work or college, especially if you are regularly turning up late or flustered from rushing around to arrive in time. The struggle to wake up and get out of bed in the mornings can have a negative impact on your whole day and if the problem persists can start getting you down. There are changes you can make that will help resolve the difficulties you have rising in the morning and make getting up easier. Move the Alarm Clock If you have your alarm beside your bed within easy reach, the temptation will be to stretch out and either switch it off or hit the snooze button. Develop a regular sleeping pattern Practice Harness natural light Try a natural light alarm clock
How To: Be An Optimist Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Page 2 of 2 Look for the silver lining Optimists understand that, all in all, life goes on. It's absurd to think that the financial markets will be down forever. Resolve to be an optimist in 2012 One of the great optimists of the latter half of the 20th century was a brilliant economist name Julian Simon. You can go back centuries and centuries looking for bad news about the future, looking for doomsday language in everything you read, or you can believe that in one form or another, life will go on just fine, it will merely require a few adjustments. Nikola Tesla's Best Productivity Tricks The 16 Best Western Movies Few figures in history have had as powerful an impact on American masculinity as the cowboy. For over a century, the cowboy has — for better or for worse — been a standard of rugged individualism and stoic bravery for the American male. While the mythologization of the American cowboy began all the way back in the 1880s with dime novels and Wild West shows, it wasn’t until the advent of twentieth century cinema that the cowboy cemented his place as an icon of manliness. The Western has been a popular genre of cinema since the very beginning of film, and successive generations of filmmakers have used the “Wild West” as a backdrop on which to explore the social issues of their respective eras. It isn’t until the 1930s that the Western became an avenue for telling stories with searching and hard-hitting messages. High Noon High Noon is film about being torn between duty and love and standing up for what you believe in, even when everyone else abandons you. Best line: “Don’t shove me Harv.