Second volume of #WillDurant #TheStoryofCivilization, #TheLifeofGreece. It was published in 1939. My copy has a tattered dust jacket, but it’s not BOMC. I don’t expect to remember all the names and places, but rather an holistic introduction of Ancient Greece. Next year another volume! https://www.instagram.com/p/CmN-vmLhKVw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
“I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun."
― Will Durant
Caricature of pain or why good things happen to bad people.
I first became aware of thismosaic,pastiche,collage thing, if you willDuring my ma’s first trimesterBrahma was a lotus flowerthe stem was my umbilical cordDestroyer of worlds, orGentle warrior. A family name.Donned on me by the second of my kind.
After many life cycles I became a hospitalIn Baghdad, but I kept getting bombed by the…
Roy doesn’t leave. He storms off but comes back to check on the others. They’re all upset.
Roy gets hurt in the opening two and is out for two weeks, leading to the first mission with Mister Twister being without Roy.
Roy and Kaldur dance around their feelings for one another and Kaldur doesn’t know if he’d rather have Tula or Roy. The opportunity presents itself to confess to Tula first.
Roy is there during Bereft. Wally and Dick, sans memory, assume Roy has changed his costume and gotten salt water bladders on his legs for Kaldur because they’re an item now. Couples usually have matching costumes and they can’t think of another reason the two would match except for that.
When M’gann restores Roy’s memories with the others, she learns (and only her) that he’s a clone.
When they return, she calls Batman, Black Canary, Green Arrow, and J’onn to tell them and Roy. She also wipes the programming from Roy’s mind. We learn, now, that Roy broke his programming by returning to found the team. And that he’s done it before, to protect Robin and Kaldur in mentor-student tag-team missions. There is reasonable belief that the OG Roy is probably dead.
Roy and Kaldur fight but end up together because Kaldur gets it though to Roy that his feelings aren’t part of Cadmus, that his feelings for Kaldur are part of the proof that he has become his own person, outside the cloning and the programming.
During Failsafe, Roy loses it hard when Kaldur sacrifices himself. Afteward, and during therapy, he becomes the official second-in-command of the team for being the only one who isn’t a selfless sacrificial nincompoop. Roy has proven he will fight tooth and nail to protect the tea, mission be damned, and Batman actually finds that useful because he doesn’t want them to die.
He adopts Zatanna and M’gann AND Artemis as his sisters, logistics be damned.
Sometime near the end of season one, Kaldur just straight up moves in with Roy in Star City.
I haven't listened to the episode yet but I also don't care about spoilers soooo how would you make the audio play Kaldur/Will(Roy) ?
I’d have Kaldur show up with Will, Artemis, and Lian with no explanation. When Will makes the remark about Artemis living in his home rent-free, Artemis says something along the lines of “What about Kaldur?” and Will either says, “That’s different, you’re not dating me.” or makes his voice all sappy and says “Kaldur pays in kisses~”
The cynical part of my brain is convinced Grandon is gonna give us a one-off throwaway line wherein a minor character describes having a girlfriend and then never shows up again as our queer rep. But there’s still an itty bitty part of me that isn’t dead inside that still hopes for legit representation.
Forget mistakes, forget failures, forget everything, except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. https://www.quotenova.net/authors/will-durant/qzezzg
“Nós somos o que repetidamente fazemos. A #excelência , então, não é um ato, mas um hábito” #WillDurant IMERSÃO REGISTRAL NO PRIMEIRO REGISTRO DE IMÓVEOS DE SÃO PAULO CAPITAL PARA APRIMORAMENTO DOS SERVIÇOS REGISTRAIS PRESTADOS EM CAXIAS DO SUL. A BUSCA PELA QUALIDADE NA PRESTAÇÃO DOS SERVIÇOS COMO HÁBITO. A certeza de que sempre podemos melhorar em nossos ofícios, bem como também podemos ser pessoas melhores. Com o Registrador de Imóveis do Primeiro Registro de São Paulo, dr. @flauzilino , também #pastor da Igreja #AssembleiadeDeus em Campinas, SP. Momentos de muitos ensinamentos técnicos, que serão aplicados no Registro de Imóveis de Caxias do Sul, no Cartório Manoel Valente, junto ao @ricaxiasdosul . O objetivo é o aperfeiçoamento e melhoramento na prestação dos serviços. Mas não posso deixar de registrar a oportunidade incrível de contato com esse homem íntegro, honesto e de espiritualidade elevada. Exemplo de conduta e de dedicação. (em São Paulo, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR1lXe0ljt2/?utm_medium=tumblr
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” (Will Durant). I have used this quote before in previous posts. I agree wholeheartedly with Durant’s summation of Aristotle’s work, and I also believe his quote embodies the very essence of who we are. When we are getting closer and closer to the end of something, especially something that has been happening over a long…
A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. At its cradle (to repeat a thoughtful adage) religion stands, and philosophy accompanies it to the grave. In the beginning of all cultures a strong religious faith conceals and softens the nature of things, and gives men courage to bear pain and hardship patiently; at every step the gods are with them, and will not let them perish, until they do. Even then a firm faith will explain that it was the sins of the people that turned their gods to an avenging wrath; evil does not destroy faith, but strengthens it. If victory comes, if war is forgotten in security and peace, then wealth grows; the life of the body gives way, in the dominant classes, to the life of the senses and the mind; toil and suffering are replaced by pleasure and ease; science weakens faith even while thought and comfort weaken virility and fortitude. At last men begin to doubt the gods; they mourn the tragedy of knowledge, and seek refuge in every passing delight.
Achilles is at the beginning, Epicurus at the end. After David comes Job, and after Job, Ecclesiastes.