05-11-2014, 10:24 AM
Martin White Wrote:I would say, "FFS" but unfortunately I'm not surprised.
I have been asked twice, in two different states (North Carolina and Oklahoma) "What language do you speak in England?"
Really. I'm not kidding. Even slightly.
Both times were during the presidency of George W Bush. Coincidence? You decide.
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:I once sat in a bar in Florida watching the evening news which was about the USS Vincennes shooting down of a passenger airliner off Iran. The lady next to me asked where I lived and I said just outside London, England. She responded by pointing to the TV, saying that I must be worried, what with the shootdown happening right on my doorstep.
Iran is nearly 3000 miles away from the UK, and six hours flight by a jetliner.
Of course I was worried; Iranian beluga caviar is a delicate thing and that sort of travel time means its could arrive ruined....
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14