#conceit — Public Fediverse posts

Uncurl, or: Unanswered

A Sijo

I plant my unanswered questions 
hoping spring knows what to do; 
yearning tendrils spread outward 
straining to find some purchase; 
crisp, green vowels uncurl softly 
beside bright consonant foliage  

W3 poetry prompt

For Sally’s W3 prompt last week, she invites us to explore what lies beneath the surface—whether in gardens, nature, or ourselves—through the images of soil, roots, weeds, and hidden growth.

My above sijo was inspired by this limerick I wrote for a d’Verse community prompt back in 2021:

Crisp, or: Fresh

I sow d'Verse prompts in my garden
But I feel that I must beg your pardon.
For my rows are of keys
That yield green abc's
Though my gardenin's really quite ardent.

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

Relieving song, or: Rising steam

A Sijo

my pot begins to murmur
beneath its plain, faithful cap;
every heartbeat finds less room
inside the thick, waiting steel;
then comes the valve's relieving song
each stanza lifts with rising steam

d’Verse: Ars poetica revisited

At d’Verse, we are encouraged to write an Ars Poetica that reveals our relationship with poetry through imagery, symbolism, or personification, showing our writing process rather than simply explaining it.

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

Relieving song, or: Rising steam

A Sijo

my pot begins to murmur
beneath its plain, faithful cap;
every heartbeat finds less room
inside the thick, waiting steel;
then comes the valve's relieving song
each stanza lifts with rising steam

d’Verse: Ars poetica revisited

At d’Verse, we are encouraged to write an Ars Poetica that reveals our relationship with poetry through imagery, symbolism, or personification, showing our writing process rather than simply explaining it.

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

"We must entrust the piloting of our [mecha] to 14-year-olds. We have no other choice."

-Neon Genesis Evangelion E4

#SeemsLegit #conceit #evangelion #anime

"We must entrust the piloting of our [mecha] to 14-year-olds. We have no other choice."

-Neon Genesis Evangelion E4

#SeemsLegit #conceit #evangelion #anime

A quotation from Ambrose Pierce

CONCEIT, n. Self-respect in one whom we dislike.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Conceit,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-08-12)

More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/83247…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #conceit #ego #perspective #pride #selfcenteredness #selfrespect

A quotation from Ambrose Pierce

CONCEIT, n. Self-respect in one whom we dislike.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Conceit,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-08-12)

More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/83247…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #conceit #ego #perspective #pride #selfcenteredness #selfrespect

"If you have something bad smelling in your pocket, wherever you go it will smell bad. Don't blame it on the place." ~ Ajhan Chah

#dhamma #dharma #AjahnChah #teachings #conceit #ego

A quotation from The Bible

Nothing is to be done out of jealousy or vanity; instead, out of humility of mind everyone should give preference to others, everyone pursuing not selfish interests but those of others.
 
[μηδὲν κατ᾽ ἐριθείαν μηδὲ κατὰ κενοδοξίαν ἀλλὰ τῇ ταπεινοφροσύνῃ ἀλλήλους ἡγούμενοι ὑπερέχοντας ἑαυτῶν, μὴ τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἕκαστος σκοποῦντες ἀλλὰ [καὶ] τὰ ἑτέρων ἕκαστοι.]

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Philippians 2: 3-4 [NJB (1985)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/23841/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #philippians #ambition #community #conceit #ego #humility #jealousy #loveyourneighbor #mutualsupport #mutuality #neighbor #others #pride #selfishness #society #unselfishness

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure. The former kind of surprise is pleasant, the latter unpleasant. It is therefore wise to be not unduly conceited, though also not too modest to be enterprising.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)

More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/795…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #overestimation #conceit #ego #expectations #humility #pride #selfconfidence #selfesteem #selfevaluation #selfimage #underestimation #motivation

A quotation from Moliere

ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
   So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
 
[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #amorousness #conceit #ego #folly #gullibility #love #lust #pride #selfbetrayal #selfdeceit #selfdeception #selflove #foolingyourself

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 35.108 Seyyohamasmisutta: I’m Better

“Seeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.…”

Read the sutta
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#conceit #SenseBases #SamyuttaNikaya #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 35.108 Seyyohamasmisutta: I’m Better

“Seeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.…”

Read the sutta
📖 https://daily.readingfaithfully.org/sn-35-108-seyyohamasmisutta-im-better/?=MDS

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☸️ Big-headed One (A free, 3-page sutta translation from 2020)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes #Conceit #Families #StoryTime
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/sn7.15

☸️ Big-headed One (A free, 3-page sutta translation from 2020)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes #Conceit #Families #StoryTime
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/sn7.15

@gerrymcgovern

Arrogance and entitlement barely scratches the surface; that argument (used by Zuck and various "AI" companies) boils down to "As long as we steal enough material, from enough different people, then it's not copyright infringement".

Kind of the opposite of what Big Content argued in Napster et al, I think.

Siccing Big Content's lawyers on Big Tech would have me reaching for the #popcorn.

#arrogance #conceit #entitled #BigTech #copyright

@gerrymcgovern

Arrogance and entitlement barely scratches the surface; that argument (used by Zuck and various "AI" companies) boils down to "As long as we steal enough material, from enough different people, then it's not copyright infringement".

Kind of the opposite of what Big Content argued in Napster et al, I think.

Siccing Big Content's lawyers on Big Tech would have me reaching for the #popcorn.

#arrogance #conceit #entitled #BigTech #copyright

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 7.15Mānatthaddha Sutta: Big-headed One

“Towards whom should I not be arrogant? Who should I respect?…”

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#children #conceit #parents #respect #SamyuttaNikaya #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 7.15Mānatthaddha Sutta: Big-headed One

“Towards whom should I not be arrogant? Who should I respect?…”

Read the sutta
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Endform - Clayborne - Conceit - Morsure

Batiment 7, Saturday, 8 June (20:00)

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/endform-clayborne-conceit-morsure

A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.:

«
I don’t believe any man ever existed without vanity, and if he did he would be an extremely uncomfortable person to have anything to do with. He would, of course, be a very good man, and we should respect him very much. He would be a very admirable man — a man to be put under a glass case and shown round as a specimen — a man to be …
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/jerome-jermome-k/68429/

#quote #quotes #quotation #vanity #conceit #ego #paragon #pride

A co-worker's fake nails are so long, she couldn't pick up a credit card she dropped.

I don't understand self created disability for appearances. .......

#pride #appearance #beauty #conceit