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This is very... epic.

Have you ever read I'm Glad My Mom Died?

I relate so hard to some of this 😭💙

i guess they are in some kind of relation, the message was not unsolicited

anyhow, not many poems make me chuckle like this one

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Idk who replies like that to a spontaneous dick pick, it feels unrealistic

Yeah Call of the Wild is another great but if you have never read The Iron Heel

It's probably time to do so. It's what inspired Orwell to write 1984 and it is a fucking oracle in it's predicting the world today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2y85gW84U

I used to subscribe to this ideology. Now, I almost can’t wait.

Remember Man as you go by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so shall you be,
Prepare yourself to follow me

"Rage against the dying of the light" is one of the all-time greatest lines.

Favorite use of this:

As Simple bank was being shut down, the sysadmin turning off servers etc replaced the site with the poem.

While dns forwarded to PNC or whatever, anyone hitting the server directly, a nerd like me for example, would get the poem as the dying breath from a service that had been loved by many.

Don't think I've read it since but i seem to remember the dog leaving for a camp he knew of, hopefully with better kinder people.

I mostly remember it was an example used for man vs nature and man vs himself if I remember right. Been 30+ years.

I only read it once and it always stuck with me. Jack London and snow, name a more iconic pair.

If you like short stories, Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson wrote absolute top shelf ones.

To Build a Fire is fuckin HEAVY

that shit stays with me, and its been years since I last read it

That poor dog, I always feel so bad for it.

That's probably my favorite recitation, even though it's incomplete

I found the excerpt in the movie, Interstellar particularly moving.

I remember we read this for a middleschool emglish class. Along with To Build a Fire, Leiningen Versus the Ants among other works.

Thanks for sharing! I've always wanted more art and prose that reflect the feeling I get from this poem. I've always extended this poem to mean that no matter what you achieve, you will wish you had achieved more while on your deathbed. Therefore the only thing to be done to rage against the dying of the light is to unequivocally fight for what you believe in.

there is a song by the band called Morpheus, written and sung by Mark Sandman

When he was younger, he was a cab driver and got stabbed in the chest and almost died. He knew his life would not be as long as it should have been and always made sure to live it to the fullest.

He died on stage performing

one of his songs

Do not go quietly unto your grave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP7AOzzSRx4

I think of this song a lot, this poem hits that same mark for me

I am also reminded of Tecumseh and his famous speech. I have found this to be so important that I hold it deep to my core. It is this same feeling

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”

This is good medicine, thanks for sharing the poem

Well, I'm curious for what happens on the 29th of November. For me, I already know what vote I'm taking.

I've come to despise fireworks. Let's see, they traumatize my dog, they go off endlessly late at night for weeks surrounding holidays where I live, they're very wasteful, and they're basically the same every year anyhow. Over the past 20 years I've probably spent 5 minutes being mildly impressed by fireworks. Does not seem like a good trade off for me.

I really, really like fireworks. The louder and flashier the better. However since I've become a dog owner, befriending some war vets, and generally learning how disruptive they can be to both peoples and animals lifes, I've definitely grown in favour of restricting them quite heavily. I would be fine if they were only allowed at set times and places, so people can make plans to avoid or atend them and not have to worry about the bangs being all encompassing and randomly going off the entire week before an event.

Animals and traumatized veterans of war hate this one trick

for the unaware, the creation of fireworks was a way to celebrate the winter solstice

I... what? This is nonsense. Fireworks in imperial China were used in many festivities, and they weren't "created to celebrate the winter solstice". They were created when the accidental discovery of gunpowder was combined with a more ancient technique of throwing bamboo onto fire to create loud noises.

Where on Earth did you hear this?

I don't even understand how this misinformation fits into the context of the post, given it's clearly talking about someone with PTSD who becomes retraumatized by the sounds of the explosions.

Edit: Sorry, I still can't get over how puzzled I am at the cooked-up notion of people of the Song dynasty thinking "yes, we will celebrate Dongzhi, the 22nd of 24 solar terms, by inventing fireworks as a way to, uhhh... show how much we achieved by surviving another year. Lunar New Year? The fuck is that? Send it early."