Everything is one force.

The force consists of two aspects.

The aspects are attraction and separation.

Everything that exists varies properly between these aspects.

Because I can.

Brought back from the dead. By popular demand.

http://hajustbecauseican.blogspot.no/2009/11/antiquity-huge-toga-party.html

Thanks to Aristotle,
you now know what a fireball is.
Or fire damage. Or fire, as a matter of fact.

Aristotle was a smart-ass as you see, but he wasn't the only one. About a hundred years later, a kid was born in Syracuse of Sicily. This kid was named Archimedes. Yeah, that's right, he also happened to be Greek. One of his most famous discoveries is...the one with...the golden...and with....you know what? Fuck it. Let Wikipedia explain it to you:

"The most widely known anecdote about Archimedes tells of how he invented a method for determining the volume of an object with an irregular shape. According to Vitruvius, a new crown in the shape of a laurel wreath had been made for King Hiero II, and Archimedes was asked to determine whether it was of solid gold, or whether silver had been added by a dishonest goldsmith. Archimedes had to solve the problem without damaging the crown, so he could not melt it down into a regularly shaped body in order to calculate its density. While taking a bath, he noticed that the level of the water in the tub rose as he got in, and realized that this effect could be used to determine the volume of the crown. For practical purposes water is incompressible, so the submerged crown would displace an amount of water equal to its own volume. By dividing the weight of the crown by the volume of water displaced, the density of the crown could be obtained. This density would be lower than that of gold if cheaper and less dense metals had been added. Archimedes then took to the streets naked, so excited by his discovery that he had forgotten to dress, crying "Eureka!""

That should explain everything. Of course, you know this anecdote very well because you've been hearing it since you were little brats until now when you're fulltime losers, just to remind yourselves that you live a completely worthless and pathetic life. What still amazes you (as much as it used to, in your childhood) is not the complete genius of the theory, no....of course not. The thing that really amazes you still is the fact that after he had his little revelation, he took to the streets naked. Come on, don't fucking lie, you bloody bastard. You can almost see yourself again:

The Teacher: "Archimedes then took to the streets naked, so excited by his discovery that he had forgotten to dress, crying "Eureka!""
You: "Holy Mother of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Did he really? What a nutter!" 

And after that you'd think of what did the people around him say. Well, let me tell you what and enlighten you a bit: absolutely frickin' nothing! This was happening in ancient Greece! Do you really think it would've made any difference if he would've just walked out in a toga or a towel? I think people were accustomed enough to seeing each other naked....I don't know....it's just a wild guess....which is a right one, by the way. So stop being so amazed. We'll be back to this bit later.

As you see, Archimedes was also a smart-ass. He invented even more shit that you couldn't possibly wrap you head around. And among those great inventions there's an even greater one, a milestone in humanity's evolution, a key invention that helped us people survive for so long:

Go ahead. Make my day. I'm watching you.

1966 / Daisies – The food orgy.

Czechoslovakia (Ceskoslovenský Státní Film/Filmové Studio Barrandov). Director: Vera Chytilová. Cast: Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová. Original title: Sedmikrasky.

Why It’s Key: The climactic shock in this avant-garde farce is connected to food, not sex.

In an avant-garde feminist farce full of giggles and outrages, the ultimate jolt, which reportedly got its director into the most trouble, is an extravagant food orgy. Prior to this, the countless antics of two 17-year-old girls, both named Marie, nearly all involve food and/or drink, some of it served in posh restaurants, as well as the promise of sexual favors to dirty old men that are never delivered. Sometimes the transgressions are mainly formal; sometimes they involve both food and sex, such as when phallic bananas are compulsively sliced.

Eventually, the heroines’ plotless wanderings bring them via a dumbwaiter to a huge banquet hall filled with delicacies. After tentatively sampling a few dishes, they start sinking their hands into the sauces, devouring chickens, swilling diverse kinds of liquor, mixing together different dishes, gorging on pastries, and finally engaging in a food fight worthy of Laurel and Hardy —- much of this done to the strains of the Austrian national anthem. Then they start dancing on the table, swinging from an ornate chandelier, and smashing plates and glasses. Finally, to make matters even worse, they pretend to clean up the carnage —-reassembling plates like jigsaw puzzles and scraping food off the floor to heap it back onto trays.

Indignant Czech citizens who decried the waste and self-indulgence were only rising to the bait. The film ends with newsreel shots of aerial bombardment, over which a title appears: “This film is dedicated to those whose only reason for outrage is mutilated lettuce.”

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?m=200703&paged=4

I am not so interested in the various ways billions of others receive their pleasures from for example food or sex. I am somewhat disgusted by the staggering amount of time and effort that is now being spent in communicating these pleasures to each other. To each their own delights, so that we leave communications free to deal with more crucial matters.

Musiken föder ett behov av tystnad, publiken är försatt i sin egen scen och är inte beredd på att delta utan vill låta sig förföras. Musikforskaren Lucy Green beskriver, inspirerad av bland andra psykoanalytikern Jacques Lacan ett musikaliskt framträdande som en uppvisning där den som uppträder har på sig en mask, både som skydd och som hjälp i sin framställning av ett verk. Green beskriver att ”den som ser” framträdandet också är medveten om masken och att detta är en förutsättning för kommunikationen mellan ”förevisar” och ”den som ser”. För den som ser är den som framträder dubbel i sin natur, det är både någon annan och någon annan i en mask. Masken är mellanrummet mellan den som ser och den förevisar och det är där det konstnärliga utbytet sker. Detta sätter värdefulla ord på det som tar plats under en konsert. Ord som beskriver att det inte bara är den som framträder som skapar.

Musikern är sig själv på scen, men inte riktigt, och det vet publiken, och det är en förutsättning för kommunikationen. Detta scen-jag är en extra anspänning, en förhöjd vakenhet, kanske den mask Green talar om. Masken är inte bara min konstruktion som publiken får ta del av utan en ömsesidig produkt. Den som förevisar är den som har den aktiva positionen, makten att förföra, att locka...

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=503&artikel=5252246

http://www.estahome.nl/index.php/en/136820

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