I put up a page with the lyrics from Nightwish‘s new album, since everybody seems to be trying to figure them out these days, and for once I’m part of “everybody”…
At the time I’m writing this post, The Poet and the Pendulum is not checked, but copied straight off a site I found it on. I couldn’t find For the Heart I Once Had and The Islander anywhere so I tried to come up with them myself, and at least in The Islander I’m sure there are quite a few mistakes, not to mention several missing lines. The lyrics for Amaranth and Eva have been posted on the official site, so they’re correct. As for all the others, I copied them from wherever I could find them and did my best to fill in blanks and make corrections afterwards.
There are still plenty of blanks and certainly plenty of misheard words, so any help is welcome.
This would be really funny if it weren’t real. Normally the separation of Church and State means not letting religion influence politics, but one should realize that it’s the other way around in Communist states. But even thinking of it like that makes no sense…
How can you say that “The so-called reincarnated living Buddha without government approval is illegal and invalid”? It makes me watch a little scene playing around in my mind, where a ghost walks up to a clerk and says “Excuse me, I’d like the form for a reincarnation permit please… Actually, I think you’ll need to fill it with what I tell you since I can’t hold the pen… The little problems of being dead, you know… Or you will, if you forgot how it was last time…”
I’m against preserving cultures for their own sake, but I’ve always felt there’s something in Tibet that should not be touched. Perhaps it’s a small part of the sacredness in us all, and it’s destruction would weaken the already weak goodness in the world even more. Or perhaps it’s nothing more than a dream, but a dream worth dreaming.
I’m also certainly against cultures that refuse to evolve, but I would never accuse Tibet of that. I think there is evolution taking place there, despite China getting it’s dirty paws in the way, just in ways that don’t readily meet the eye.
While I’m sure that Buddhism has plenty of wrong ideas, some of which I oppose quite strongly, I also think that it has many good ones as well. Not to mention that I’m not aware of any other notable world religion where the clergy is so humble or where the control exerted by the leader is so gentle. Please correct me if I’m wrong in saying that.
I’m not sure that I believe that they can accurately guess who the next incarnation is, or even that the same spirit comes back time and time again for so long, never letting its followers and pupils go unguided, but what I believe is that it is a great source of badly needed wisdom and tranquility for this world, a source which has already been badly tampered with. Don’t damage it even further…
Of course, this is only legalizing something that they have already done, albeit at a lesser level… As always, being good is seen as being weak and the strong will rush to squash you. It’s a sad, rough, evil world we live in, and humans as a whole are nothing but selfish, violent morons… I dare anyone to prove that wrong…
Or at least that’s what the project for the new law of education, recently agreed upon by the minister of education and leaders of the major teachers’ unions here, says…
Back in the communist days, school started at the age of six. Then, immediately after the revolution, the age was moved up to seven. Then, a few years ago, there were discussions about first grade starting once again at the age of six, but what actually happened was the addition of an extra, mandatory, “preparation” year before the actual first grade. So the first grade still started at the age of seven, but children had to go to school starting at the age of six.
Now they’re making it even worse, by making kindergarten mandatory, starting at the age of three. At this rate I’m expecting them to take the baby right out of the mother’s belly and strap him or her into a chair, in front of an encyclopedia… There was actually a drawing in a newspaper a while back, when talks about this new law first surfaced, with a baby reading the Encyclopedia Britannica in the crib.
You know, there are those things called parents which should have the most important role in the early years of childhood, not other relatives or babysitters, and certainly not institutions, be they public or private! This is simply yet another attempt at creating robots, molded according to whatever projects the government has for the population!
Of course, it can’t happen starting immediately, since there aren’t enough places in the existing kindergartens even for the children that parents want to send there, which makes the law even more idiotic.
I for one strongly feel that such a thing as kindergartens shouldn’t even exist! If you can’t raise a kid yourself, don’t have one! But of course the government doesn’t think beyond today, and their solution to the aging population and strained welfare system is to encourage people to have more children. They’re also extremely worried that Romania’s population is steadily dropping, instead of wondering how to make it drop faster, since overpopulation affects the entire world. When the human population must obviously drop to about a third of it’s current levels, that means it must drop everywhere and everything counts!
I’m fuming about so many things lately that I think I’m going to blow a fuse. Or another fuse that is… Expect an entry along the lines of “If I were a god…” soon…
Don’t know why the latest trailer for this game resonates so much with me, but I spent a few hours watching it over the past few days. Adding this to the first trailer and to what was basically a short film which followed it, I find myself thinking that the developers should try to make a movie on this idea. I’m quite sure it would turn out better than the game.
Why do I say that? For one, because it seems like a too ambitious project and the expectations are too high. I don’t think it’s possible to turn out quite like that and when it will be released and fall from way up there, it will fall hard. And then because I looked at all the gameplay videos I could find and feel that they more than support my assumption. For example, check out a random gameplay video I picked and another that briefly presents the available character classes (in order of appearance in it: Hunter: Marksman, Hunter: Engineer, Cabalist: Summoner, Cabalist: Evoker, Templar: Blademaster, Templar: Guardian). Granted that it looks extremely intense, but it simply doesn’t have “it”…
Of course, it could yet prove me wrong after release, but usually games look better in previews than they really are, so I’m not expecting that to happen at all. Still, after it will be released and I’ll get a new computer I might try to play it (with an Evoker of course, that’s not even a question) and see for myself. But I’d still rather see the movie…
This would be funny if it wouldn’t be very sad and upsetting. Pharmacists sue the state for requiring them to do their job, saying it’s making them choose between their religion and their job? Nobody needs to make those who say this choose now, they already did…
It’s very simple people, since the day-after pill can be bought over-the-counter and, despite repeated attempts by some, people still get to decide what to do with their own bodies, a pharmacist’s job is to sell said pill to anybody who asks to buy it and refrain from any negative remarks regarding the matter.
But I do agree that the idea of being able to refuse to actually sell the pill if they can get a coworker to do it for them is silly. Don’t see how asking somebody else to do it would make any difference, since their objection is to the fact that somebody intends to take that pill. Plus that asking somebody to do something for you is like doing it yourself anyway.
You can only help somebody the way they want to be helped. If you say you chose this line of work to help people but refuse to actually do that when their needs conflict with your beliefs or morals, it means you were never interested in helping people, but just in helping yourself feel better about your own failings and perhaps less guilty about the harm you have caused to others.
I might have said that if you have objections to somebody not wanting to keep an unwanted pregnancy and give birth to an unwanted baby then you should take their place, but that wouldn’t solve the more important issue which is that we need to drastically reduce the population, which certainly won’t happen if said baby would be born. What I can say is that if you object to people having sex without the desire to procreate, you should think that they could also object to you not doing it. Do they force you to do it? Think about that…
If your beliefs or morals conflict with your job description and you can find no way to compromise, then it’s quite obvious that the two are incompatible. And if they conflict with helping people, perhaps you should think long and hard about what that means.
This reminds me of the Muslim women protesting that they’re required to reveal their faces when stopped by traffic cops. It’s obvious that they need to, since the cop wants to know that they’re really the person pictured on the license, and if they can’t do that because of their religion then it’s obvious that their religion is incompatible with the idea of a woman driving.
