Tuesday, February 19, 2008

O DIREITO AO FODA-SE

Um pouco antiga, mas ainda uma pérola da genialidade do Millor...


O DIREITO AO FODA-SE (Por Millor Fernandes)


O nível de stress de uma pessoa é inversamente proporcional à quantidade de foda-se!" que ela fala. 
Existe algo mais libertário do que o conceito do "foda-se!"? 
O "foda-se!" aumenta minha auto-estima, me torna uma pessoa melhor. Reorganiza as coisas. Me liberta.

"Não quer sair comigo? Não? Então foda-se!".
"Vai querer decidir essa merda sozinho(a) mesmo? Então foda-se!"


O direito ao "foda-se!" deveria estar assegurado na Constituiçao Federal. Os palavrões não nasceram por acaso. São recursos extremamente válidos e criativos para prover nosso vocabulário de expressões que traduzem com a maior fidelidade nossos mais fortes e genuínos sentimentos. É o povo fazendo sua língua. Como o Latim Vulgar, será esse Português Vulgar que vingará plenamente um dia.

"Pra caralho", por exemplo. Qual expressão traduz melhor a idéia de muita quantidade do que "pra caralho"?

"Pra caralho" tende ao infinito, é quase uma expressão matemática..
A Via-Láctea tem estrelas pra caralho, o Sol é quente pra caralho, o universo é antigo pra caralho, eu gosto de cerveja pra caralho, entende?

No gênero do "Pra caralho", mas, no caso, expressando a mais absoluta negação, está o famoso "Nem fodendo!"

O "Não, não e não!" é tampouco nada eficaz e já sem nenhuma credibilidade "Não, absolutamente não!" o substituem.

O "Nem fodendo!" é irretorquível, e liquida o assunto. Te libera, com a consciência tranqüila, para outras atividades de maior interesse em sua vida.

Aquele filho pentelho de 17 anos te atormenta pedindo o carro pra ir surfar no litoral? Não perca tempo nem paciência. Solte logo um definitivo "Danielzinho, presta atenção, filho querido, NEM FODENDO!".

O impertinente se manca na hora e vai pro Shopping se encontrar com a turma numa boa e você fecha os olhos e volta a curtir o CD do Lupicínio.

Por sua vez, o "porra nenhuma!" atendeu tão plenamente as situações onde nosso ego exigia não só a definição de uma negação, mas também o justo escárnio contra descarados blefes, que hoje é totalmente impossível imaginar que possamos viver sem ele em nosso cotidiano profissional.

Como comentar a gravata daquele chefe idiota senão com um "é PHD porra nenhuma!" ou "ele redigiu aquele relatório sozinho porra nenhuma!".

O "porra nenhuma", como vocês podem ver, nos provê sensações de incrível bem estar interior. É como se estivéssemos fazendo a tardia e justa denúncia pública de um canalha.

São dessa mesma gênese os clássicos "aspone", "chepone", "repone" e mais recentemente o "prepone" - presidente de porra nenhuma.

Há outros palavrões igualmente clássicos. Pense na sonoridade de um "Puta que pariu!", ou seu correlato "Pu-ta-que-o-pa-riu!!!", falados assim, cadenciadamente, sílaba por sílaba.

Diante de uma notícia irritante qualquer um "puta-que-o-pariu!" dito assim te coloca outra vez em seu eixo. Seus neurônios tem o devido tempo e clima para se reorganizar e sacar a atitude que lhe permitirá dar um merecido troco ou o safar de maiores dores de cabeça.

E o que dizer de nosso famoso "vai tomar no cu!"? E sua maravilhosa e reforçadora derivação "vai tomar no olho do seu cu!".

Voce já imaginou o bem que alguém faz a si próprio e aos seus quando, passado o limite do suportável, se dirige ao canalha de seu interlocutor e solta: "Chega! Vai tomar no olho do seu cu!". Pronto, voce retomou as rédeas de sua vida, sua auto-estima. Desabotoe a camisa e saia na rua, vento batendo na face, olhar firme, cabeça erguida, um delicioso sorriso de vitória e renovado amor-íntimo nos lábios.

E seria tremendamente injusto não registrar aqui a expressão de maior poder de definição do Portugues Vulgar: "Fodeu!". E sua derivação mais avassaladora ainda: "Fodeu de vez!".
Você conhece definição mais exata, pungente e arrasadora para uma situação que atingiu o grau máximo imaginável de ameaçadora complicação?

Expressão, inclusive, que uma vez proferida insere seu autor em todo um providencial contexto interior de alerta e auto-defesa. Algo assim como quando você está dirigindo bêbado, sem documentos do carro e sem carteira de habilitação e ouve uma sirene de polícia atrás de você mandando você parar. O que você fala? "Fodeu de vez!".

Liberdade, igualdade, fraternidade e foda-se!!!

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Does anybody else like mythologies?


I haven't had the time to really think of anything different. Truth be said, my mind has been so elsewhere, trapped in the routine of everyday making a living, that I've even forgotton the address, let alone the password to this blog.

But this was a good weekend, I had a home project that I couldn't figure out how to make work and not only did I get pass the projection sorted out; the re-arranging of my living space has been done with good results. As I write this I am listening to the most excelent Blood, Sweat & Tears album, named BS&T:4. I know, everybody raves about Blood, Sweat & Tears 2, which I too agree is an excelent album. But BS&T4 is equally good and my personal favorite.

Well, because I didn't have any text of my own to offer, I thought of lookinf into my files to see if there's anybodies text that would be intresting to share. Being this the first entry, and not looking to make any specific point about anything currently on my mind, I thought why not start with God? The concept of the aged wise man in the skies looking after us is classic and soothing to some, but to me, and this is personal, that story holds less water the older I get. Funny that I thought it was the opposite, doesn't one normally get more religious the closer he gets to his mortality?

As I am white and of european descent, and europe was mostly conquered by the Romans, who in turn, where culturly turned on by the greeks, most of our culture, dare I say civilization, is either roman or greek related, ranging from the alphabet to democracy and many other things inbetween. So with that in mind, and God, here's a bio on Zeus.


Zeus by Ron Leadbetter

Zeus

Zeus, the youngest son of Cronus and Rhea, he was the supreme ruler of Mount Olympus and of the Pantheon of gods who resided there. Being the supreme ruler he upheld law, justice and morals, and this made him the spiritual leader of both gods and men. Zeus was a celestial god, and originally worshiped as a weather god by the Greek tribes. These people came southward from the Balkans circa 2100 BCE. He has always been associated as being a weather god, as his main attribute is the thunderbolt, he controlled thunder, lightning and rain. Theocritus wrote circa 265 BCE: "sometimes Zeus is clear, sometimes he rains". He is also known to have caused thunderstorms. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad he sent thunderstorms against his enemies. The name Zeus is related to the Greek word dios, meaning "bright". His other attributes as well as lightning were the scepter, the eagle and his aegis (this was the goat-skin of Amaltheia).

Before the abolition of monarchies, Zeus was protector of the king and his family. Once the age of Greek kings faded into democracy he became chief judge and peacemaker, but most importantly civic god. He brought peace in place of violence and Hesiod (circa 700 BCE) describes Zeus as "the lord of justice". Zeus was also known as "Kosmetas" (orderer), "Soter" (savior), "Polieos" (overseer of the polis, city) and "Eleutherios" (guarantor of political freedoms). His duties in this role were to maintain the laws, protect suppliants, to summon festivals and to give prophecies (his oldest and most famous oracle was at Dodona, in Epirus, northwestern Greece). As the supreme deity Zeus oversaw the conduct of civilized life. But the "father of gods and men" as Homer calls him, has many mythological tales.

His most famous was told by Hesiod in his Theogony, of how Zeus usurped the kingdom of the immortals from his father. This mythological tale of Zeus' struggle against the Titans (Titanomachy) had been caused by Cronus, after he had been warned that one of his children would depose him. Cronus knowing the consequences, as he had overthrown his father Uranus. To prevent this from happening Cronus swallowed his newborn children Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon, but his wife Rhea (who was also his sister) and Gaia her mother, wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes in place of the infant Zeus. Cronus thinking it was the newborn baby swallowed the stone. Meanwhile Rhea had her baby taken to Crete, and there, in a cave on Mount Dicte, the divine goat Amaltheia suckled and raised the infant Zeus.

When Zeus had grown into a young man he returned to his fathers domain, and with the help of Gaia, compelled Cronus to regurgitate the five children he had previously swallowed (in some versions Zeus received help from Metis who gave Cronus an emetic potion, which made him vomit up Zeus' brothers and sisters). However, Zeus led the revolt against his father and the dynasty of the Titans, defeated and then banished them. Once Zeus had control, he and his brothers divided the universe between them: Zeus gaining the heavens, Poseidon the sea and Hades the underworld. Zeus had to defend his heavenly kingdom. The three separate assaults were from the offspring of Gaia: they were the Gigantes, Typhon (Zeus fought them with his thunder-bolt and aegis) and the twin brothers who were called the Aloadae. The latter tried to gain access to the heavens by stacking Mount Ossa on top of Mount Olympus, and Mount Pelion on top of Mount Ossa, but the twins still failed in their attempt to overthrow Zeus. As he did with the Titans, Zeus banished them all to "Tartarus", which is the lowest region on earth, lower than the underworld.

According to legend, Metis, the goddess of prudence, was the first love of Zeus. At first she tried in vain to escape his advances, but in the end succumbed to his endeavor, and from their union Athena was conceived. Gaia warned Zeus that Metis would bear a daughter, whose son would overthrow him. On hearing this Zeus swallowed Metis, the reason for this was to continue to carry the child through to the birth himself. Hera (his wife and sister) was outraged and very jealous of her husband's affair, also of his ability to give birth without female participation. To spite Zeus she gave birth to Hephaestus parthenogenetically (without being fertilized) and it was Hephaestus who, when the time came, split open the head of Zeus, from which Athena emerged fully armed.

Zeus had many offspring; his wife Hera bore him Ares, Hephaestus, Hebe and Eileithyia, but Zeus had numerous liaisons with both goddesses and mortals. He either raped them, or used devious means to seduce the unsuspecting maidens. His union with Leto (meaning the hidden one) brought forth the twins Apollo and Artemis. Once again Hera showed her jealousy by forcing Leto to roam the earth in search of a place to give birth, as Hera had stopped her from gaining shelter on terra-firma or at sea. The only place she could go was to the isle of Delos in the middle of the Aegean, the reason being that Delos was, as legend states, a floating island.

Besides deities, he also fathered many mortals. In some of his human liaisons Zeus used devious disguises. When he seduced the Spartan queen Leda, he transformed himself into a beautiful swan, and from the egg which Leda produced, two sets of twins were born: Castor and Polydeuces and Clytemnestra and Helen of Troy. He visited princess Danae as a shower of gold, and from this union the hero Perseus was born. He abducted the Phoenician princess Europa, disguised as a bull, then carried her on his back to the island of Crete where she bore three sons: Minos, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon. Zeus also took as a lover the Trojan prince Ganymede. He was abducted by an eagle sent by Zeus (some legends believe it was Zeus disguised as an eagle). The prince was taken to Mount Olympus, where he became Zeus' cup-bearer. Zeus also used his charm and unprecedented power to seduce those he wanted, so when Zeus promised Semele that he would reveal himself in all his splendor, in order to seduce her, the union produced Dionysus, but she was destroyed when Zeus appeared as thunder and lightening. Themis, the goddess of justice bore the three Horae, goddesses of the seasons to Zeus, and also the three Moirae, known as these Fates. When Zeus had an affair with Mnemosyne, he coupled with her for nine consecutive nights, which produced nine daughters, who became known as the Muses. They entertained their father and the other gods as a celestial choir on Mount Olympus. They became deities of intellectual pursuits. Also the three Charites or Graces were born from Zeus and Eurynome. From all his children Zeus gave man all he needed to live life in an ordered and moral way.

Zeus had many Temples and festivals in his honor, the most famous of his sanctuaries being Olympia, the magnificent "Temple of Zeus", which held the gold and ivory statue of the enthroned Zeus, sculpted by Phidias and hailed as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". Also the Olympic Games were held in his honor. The Nemean Games, which were held every two years, were to honor Zeus. There were numerous festivals throughout Greece: in Athens they celebrated the marriage of Zeus and Hera with the Theogamia (or Gamelia). The celebrations were many: in all, Zeus had more than 150 epithets, each one being celebrated in his honor.

In art, Zeus was usually portrayed as bearded, middle aged but with a youthful figure. He would look very regal and imposing. Artists always tried to reproduce the power of Zeus in their work, usually by giving him a pose as he is about to throw his bolt of lightening. There are many statues of Zeus, but without doubt the Artemisium Zeus is the most magnificent. It was previously thought to be Poseidon, and can be seen in the Athens National Archaeological Museum.

Friday, June 8, 2007

First, an Introduction

I have never had a blog before. I'm not really sure what to do with this one now that I have it set up. I'm inclined to use it to collect story's and data of various orgins. Articles found elsewhere that I normally keep in my "curiosities" file in my hard drive. I may use this blog to share these with you kind internaut. I may post some of my own stuff too. Right now, I don't even know in what language will my posts be in. Got to give it some thought...

Anyway, thank you for stopping by. Do come again.
Have yourself a good day today. Peace.