Friday, August 28, 2009
Things taken for granted (in the absence of something decent to write about)
"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful."
I'm pretty sure you reading this and all the other bloggers around the world have come across those lines in its original Latin form but totally ignored it (I did, until today). How is that? Because it was H. Rackham's 1914 translation of "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...".
Lorem ipsum texts are normally contained in Blogger and Wordpress templates like this.
Ahhh. I originally thought Lorem ipsum was simply a goobledicock, nonsensical sentence used to fill up gaps in blog templates and graphic designs but alas, it actually came from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero. Marcus Tullius Cicero, a contemporary of Julius Ceasar and Mark Antony, was a philosopher widely considered as one of greatest orators and prose stylists of the Roman times.
1. There is value in things that we thought are unimportant.
2. There is always an interesting story behind all things -- especially those we take for granted -- including those people around us!
3. If we look a little closer at things, we will realize the lessons behind them.
There is actually a fourth lesson here: Don't blabber too much to disguise the truth that you really have nothing imaginative to write except this lorem ipsum thing. (The lesson was actually for me! Haha. There are days when the mind is not working.)
The continuation of the first paragph says: "Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"
Now I'm really being a blabbermouth!
Read www.lipsum.com for more details.
Read about Cicero here.
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in the absence of something to write... impressive how you were able to come up with such piece..
hehehe..
for someone who doesnt have anythin to write, u really did a good job in writing about something that for most of us eh nonsense pero hindi naman pala..
bilib talaga ako sa utak mo kuya nebz! Making something out nothing, or I may say we used to think as nothing.
palagi ko nga nababasa yun "Lorem Ipsum Dolor sit amet" pero I never had the initiative to discover what does it mean.Hehehe para kasing chant, tipong pagtapos bigkasin magtatransform ka into frog.. hehehe..
ayos ah galing talaga....thanks sa trivia about lorem ipsum and sa link thanks......yun pala un....
smart talaga, di na kita mareach hehehe pero ok yan ah, I learned new things from you again, "lorem ipsum" pag nabasa at narinig ko uli yan I will remember you now....hmmmm palitan ko kaya ng lay out ang blog ko nito? hehehe...ang ganda ng lessons mo....salamat
I have come across many times with these words "lorem ipsum" but I often ignore them. Thanks for sharing..
Nebz, what else can I say but to just stare at your blog and wonder where you have been getting all your thoughts and inspirations to come up with this post!
I agree with the 3 lessons learned... It's like the Pareto Principle where it says that in anything a few (20 percent) are vital and many (80 percent) are trivial.
I wonder where you get your inspiration when you post something in the absence of a decent topic to write?
Nice info, Nebz.
I wonder what they wonder!!! lolz!
pare-pareho lng kami ng comments... ang galing, walang maisulat pero meron! out of nothing there is something! ano ba kuya nebz! pangeng kalahati ng cerebrum mo!
at isa pa..
"i wonder what they wonder"..
madalas kong mabasa 'yan, pero ngayon ko lang naintindihan, hhehehe
Thumbs up! I didn't know those phrases mean something. =)
You continuously impressed me my friend.
God bless.
hahha, right Azel, penge ng kalahating cerebrum ni Nebz.
Thanks a lot sa post mo na ito, may natutunan ako. And very true, ilang beses ko na nabasa yang text na yan, pero didn't care nga naman to check ano ba meaning. hehehe
Salamat Nebz, alam mo na yun!
ganda ng infomation pards..pang cover ang dating...:)