I'm a word-nerd (among other things. It's not an exclusive pastime).
Cali can be Kali- the vibration is the same. In Hebrew (via Goog. translate) Kali means 'tool'. So the banned guy here in comments for example, is a 'kali.'
But with the useful and oft-applied Proto-Indo-European hunch, the following makes more sense, particularly in San. Fran.. From the Puranic Encyclopedia Kali means Incarnation of sin; the Sin-god.
Other sources define Kali; "the name of a mind-born ‘divine mother’ (mātṛ), created for the purpose of drinking the blood of the Andhaka demons. According to the Matsya-purāṇa, “Most terrible they (e.g., Kālī) all drank the blood of those Andhakas and become exceedingly satiated.”"
Kālī means “blackness, night, the power of time.”
"She is the embodiment of all fear, while she herself is beyond fear and protects those from fear who invoke her. In Hindu iconology, she represents the supreme night, which devours all that exists. She is depicted as a fearful goddess with four arms, the Goddess of time and death."
And this source (all these definitions are collected/displayed in 'wisdomlib'):
"Kālī (‘the embodiment of Time’) is represented as the supreme night, which devours all that exists. She therefore stands upon the corpse of the destroyed universe. So long as the power that gives life to the universe remains predominant it is favourable, but when it is without strength it becomes as a corpse. The lifeless body is indeed the symbol of whatever is left of the manifested universe when it reverts to the natural state of eternal time. At the time of universal dissolution, the Power of Time, the power of destruction, is all that remains."
"The four arms of Kālī represent the four directions of space identified with the complete cycle of time. With her four arms, she stands as the symbol of the fulfilment of all and of the absoluteness of her dominion over all that exists."
"The conqueror laughs in her triumph. That laughter is the expression of absolute dominion over all that exists. It mocks at those who, in the folly of their vanity, hope to escape dissolution. It ridicules all those who cling to material existence and clutch their paltry possessions craving to continue their feeble existence in a cosmos in the grip of change and transformation."
So- That's Kali, same as Cali. Sounds like a fun friend to have in a tight spot.
Now take Fornia- a passing grasp of Italian and Latin one might immediately make out 'oven', which is forno in Italian. So bets on something to do with heat or fire...
(---Crowd goes wild--- ) Google translate confirms; fornia, Latin = ovens.
So what is going on in Kali Forno? The ovens of sin?
Thanks! I'm a word nerd myself, although I never thought of putting the Hindu Kali (the bloodthirsty bitch) together with Italian ovens, even though Il Fornaio was one of my favorite San Francisco eateries when I lived there.
> And that is California’s true specialty: Taking tiny acorns and flash-growing them into world dominating forests.
And one can see the seed (pardon the pun) of the problem right there, not all acorns make good forests and flash-growing them means there's no time to weed out the bad ones.
Agreed. California doesn't judge them, it just grows them. Which is why you end up with things that make you say, "What the hell is wrong with California?"
One obvious thing that's wrong: California is WAY to big to be a single state. Democracy does not scale. The bigger the electoral district the more people you have to influence in order to make a difference. At California scale, nothing short of professionals can sway most elections, even at the state house level.
Any state which is so big that a truly angry voter cannot affect a lower house election by knocking on doors is too big a state.
Wasn't something like that originally the first amendment, just never ratified? If so, any way we could just go on ahead and ratify it now? Probably not, and more the pity, but it seems like it would at least help _some_...
Read Dana's book "Two years before the mast", he spent a year living on calif coast from san-diego to san-fran, and was one of the first western people to document the place for east-coast USA people, written pre 1850's gold-rush, which destroyed Calif, and the 1907 destroyed even more.
The entire SV high-tech, is just an extension of the LA cocaine-whores, same kind of people, without the bible-thumping, just coke-whores & gold-diggers; Hell on Earth
Lot's of people arrived there in 1980's, I remember as a kid I was the only little MOFU I knew that was BORN & raised in So-Cal, every kid I knew was mostly an OKIE and their fathers worked metal fabrication, engineering, mold-faking, or casting
I grew up in Watt's LA, so I saw death as a child daily; Even in jr-high, or high school you didn't walk around at night, you would die, unless you were with your 'gang' in a large group, but solo walking was death, there were always beaners or knee-grows driving around looking for people to beat;
I remember as a kid we all carried screwdrivers & pliers in our pockets the pliers were for pulling teeth, and the screwdrivers were for stabbing, most kids at high-school had just one eye and wore an eye patch.
Like I said, I just assumed the entire world was like that, so when I found out that there was beauty on earth, I got the fuck out of LA.
...
I guess if you worked and lived in say Laguna-Beach, or Newport Beach, and only saw 'beautiful people' and good restaurants, ... then fine life is good; But if your lived in Watts, Pacoima, Cerirtos; Then death was a daily reality.
Now they make a big deal when a kid is 'killed' at school, when I was a kid, the local news never even reported, it was like a dog getting his on the road.
Working in LA, I got sent to Alaska for a few weeks; On return I quit my job and drive my pickup to 'alaska' and never returned to CALIF ever again, NEVER; I used to have nightmares in 1980's in my dream I had returned to CALIF :(
What then was it? For me it was the cocaine-whores in the bars, or the chistian moron bible thumping bitches outside of the bars; The coke-whores cunts smelled like fish, and bible-thumpers fuck like star-fish ( just laid there )
Went to Alaska and all the girls wanted to do was Hike in the mountains, and FUCK; They were hippy-chicks and they kept their cunts fresh & clean and they liked to fuck; Unlike the coke-whores who just wanted to go back in the bar and score the next-line, or the bible-thumping so-cal morons who would never stop talking about the bible and the earth only being 4,000 years old;
Not an accident that CALIF had only two types of women coke-whores, which were just gold-diggers addicted to coke, which late 1970's was the LA thingy
The bible angle is that at that same time every fucking corner in LA had a huge tent and christian sermons, they couldn't build the churches quick enough, in 1970's Vietnam war had created 100's of 1,000's of Aerospace jobs, and lots of them were mid-west bible-thumpers, and their 'daughters' were lost souls
...
You bay-ahrea just a little different, there it was just 'gold-diggers', because nobody went to bay-ahrea SV other than get rich quick fuck-nutz, while working people like 'machinists' went to LA to make bombs for GOV
Then in 1990's CIA created inQTel which became VC for all high-tech in SV the rest is history today fb, google, amazon, ... oracle, ... its all NSA-CIA, and of course HOMO, because the people they put in charge of inQtel were CIA homo's from 1940's OSS operation-paperclip.
We need to study more history. California became what it was from around 1920 thru 2000 for the same reasons Athens did, and Rome did, and Venice and Genoa did, and New York City did, etc.
It became a trade crossroads that welcomed and enabled lots of strangers, especially wealth-seeking entrepreneurs, into a self-reinforcing innovation swarm.
It will collapse for the same reason they did. Such wealth attract human parasites who feast on the efforts of the producers until they've exhausted them. Makers, Takers, and Fakers as always.
It's always the case that the descendants of the Makers at the top of the heap morph into Fakers or Takers (or both), and the attract the same to join and boost them. (I mean, what would you call that airhead Disney heir? She's certainly not a Maker of anything important or useful.) And they try to control or take or hobble the new entrepreneurs because they are mostly Fakers who merely want control.
'What the hell is wrong with California'?
I'm a word-nerd (among other things. It's not an exclusive pastime).
Cali can be Kali- the vibration is the same. In Hebrew (via Goog. translate) Kali means 'tool'. So the banned guy here in comments for example, is a 'kali.'
But with the useful and oft-applied Proto-Indo-European hunch, the following makes more sense, particularly in San. Fran.. From the Puranic Encyclopedia Kali means Incarnation of sin; the Sin-god.
Other sources define Kali; "the name of a mind-born ‘divine mother’ (mātṛ), created for the purpose of drinking the blood of the Andhaka demons. According to the Matsya-purāṇa, “Most terrible they (e.g., Kālī) all drank the blood of those Andhakas and become exceedingly satiated.”"
Kālī means “blackness, night, the power of time.”
"She is the embodiment of all fear, while she herself is beyond fear and protects those from fear who invoke her. In Hindu iconology, she represents the supreme night, which devours all that exists. She is depicted as a fearful goddess with four arms, the Goddess of time and death."
And this source (all these definitions are collected/displayed in 'wisdomlib'):
"Kālī (‘the embodiment of Time’) is represented as the supreme night, which devours all that exists. She therefore stands upon the corpse of the destroyed universe. So long as the power that gives life to the universe remains predominant it is favourable, but when it is without strength it becomes as a corpse. The lifeless body is indeed the symbol of whatever is left of the manifested universe when it reverts to the natural state of eternal time. At the time of universal dissolution, the Power of Time, the power of destruction, is all that remains."
"The four arms of Kālī represent the four directions of space identified with the complete cycle of time. With her four arms, she stands as the symbol of the fulfilment of all and of the absoluteness of her dominion over all that exists."
"The conqueror laughs in her triumph. That laughter is the expression of absolute dominion over all that exists. It mocks at those who, in the folly of their vanity, hope to escape dissolution. It ridicules all those who cling to material existence and clutch their paltry possessions craving to continue their feeble existence in a cosmos in the grip of change and transformation."
So- That's Kali, same as Cali. Sounds like a fun friend to have in a tight spot.
Now take Fornia- a passing grasp of Italian and Latin one might immediately make out 'oven', which is forno in Italian. So bets on something to do with heat or fire...
(---Crowd goes wild--- ) Google translate confirms; fornia, Latin = ovens.
So what is going on in Kali Forno? The ovens of sin?
Hell. And Los Angeles hasn't even been mentioned.
Thanks! I'm a word nerd myself, although I never thought of putting the Hindu Kali (the bloodthirsty bitch) together with Italian ovens, even though Il Fornaio was one of my favorite San Francisco eateries when I lived there.
> And that is California’s true specialty: Taking tiny acorns and flash-growing them into world dominating forests.
And one can see the seed (pardon the pun) of the problem right there, not all acorns make good forests and flash-growing them means there's no time to weed out the bad ones.
Agreed. California doesn't judge them, it just grows them. Which is why you end up with things that make you say, "What the hell is wrong with California?"
One obvious thing that's wrong: California is WAY to big to be a single state. Democracy does not scale. The bigger the electoral district the more people you have to influence in order to make a difference. At California scale, nothing short of professionals can sway most elections, even at the state house level.
Any state which is so big that a truly angry voter cannot affect a lower house election by knocking on doors is too big a state.
I've been a supporter of Glenn Reynolds' notion that we need something like 3500 federal house seats nationwide for exactly that reason.
Wasn't something like that originally the first amendment, just never ratified? If so, any way we could just go on ahead and ratify it now? Probably not, and more the pity, but it seems like it would at least help _some_...
Want to know the REAL calif ??
Read Dana's book "Two years before the mast", he spent a year living on calif coast from san-diego to san-fran, and was one of the first western people to document the place for east-coast USA people, written pre 1850's gold-rush, which destroyed Calif, and the 1907 destroyed even more.
The entire SV high-tech, is just an extension of the LA cocaine-whores, same kind of people, without the bible-thumping, just coke-whores & gold-diggers; Hell on Earth
I lived there for 35 years and finally left seven years ago for good. But it wasn't that terrible when I arrived there in 1982.
See I left in 1978 an it was 'terrible'
Lot's of people arrived there in 1980's, I remember as a kid I was the only little MOFU I knew that was BORN & raised in So-Cal, every kid I knew was mostly an OKIE and their fathers worked metal fabrication, engineering, mold-faking, or casting
I grew up in Watt's LA, so I saw death as a child daily; Even in jr-high, or high school you didn't walk around at night, you would die, unless you were with your 'gang' in a large group, but solo walking was death, there were always beaners or knee-grows driving around looking for people to beat;
I remember as a kid we all carried screwdrivers & pliers in our pockets the pliers were for pulling teeth, and the screwdrivers were for stabbing, most kids at high-school had just one eye and wore an eye patch.
Like I said, I just assumed the entire world was like that, so when I found out that there was beauty on earth, I got the fuck out of LA.
...
I guess if you worked and lived in say Laguna-Beach, or Newport Beach, and only saw 'beautiful people' and good restaurants, ... then fine life is good; But if your lived in Watts, Pacoima, Cerirtos; Then death was a daily reality.
Now they make a big deal when a kid is 'killed' at school, when I was a kid, the local news never even reported, it was like a dog getting his on the road.
I left in 1978 and NEVER went fucking Back;
Working in LA, I got sent to Alaska for a few weeks; On return I quit my job and drive my pickup to 'alaska' and never returned to CALIF ever again, NEVER; I used to have nightmares in 1980's in my dream I had returned to CALIF :(
What then was it? For me it was the cocaine-whores in the bars, or the chistian moron bible thumping bitches outside of the bars; The coke-whores cunts smelled like fish, and bible-thumpers fuck like star-fish ( just laid there )
Went to Alaska and all the girls wanted to do was Hike in the mountains, and FUCK; They were hippy-chicks and they kept their cunts fresh & clean and they liked to fuck; Unlike the coke-whores who just wanted to go back in the bar and score the next-line, or the bible-thumping so-cal morons who would never stop talking about the bible and the earth only being 4,000 years old;
I thought it was 6000 years old. Oh well... back to the drawing board.
You seem to be fixating on fucking and coke-whores. Doesn't seem like a productive way to spend your energy.
More a report on CALIF & how fucked up it 'was'
Not an accident that CALIF had only two types of women coke-whores, which were just gold-diggers addicted to coke, which late 1970's was the LA thingy
The bible angle is that at that same time every fucking corner in LA had a huge tent and christian sermons, they couldn't build the churches quick enough, in 1970's Vietnam war had created 100's of 1,000's of Aerospace jobs, and lots of them were mid-west bible-thumpers, and their 'daughters' were lost souls
...
You bay-ahrea just a little different, there it was just 'gold-diggers', because nobody went to bay-ahrea SV other than get rich quick fuck-nutz, while working people like 'machinists' went to LA to make bombs for GOV
Then in 1990's CIA created inQTel which became VC for all high-tech in SV the rest is history today fb, google, amazon, ... oracle, ... its all NSA-CIA, and of course HOMO, because the people they put in charge of inQtel were CIA homo's from 1940's OSS operation-paperclip.
What were you thinking about in your 20's COCK?
I liked women, I liked pussy, I was a normal adult male, horny as hell; That has long passed :)
Enjoy your cocks; I will stick with my pussy's
Oh, fuck off, asshole. You're banned.
We need to study more history. California became what it was from around 1920 thru 2000 for the same reasons Athens did, and Rome did, and Venice and Genoa did, and New York City did, etc.
It became a trade crossroads that welcomed and enabled lots of strangers, especially wealth-seeking entrepreneurs, into a self-reinforcing innovation swarm.
It will collapse for the same reason they did. Such wealth attract human parasites who feast on the efforts of the producers until they've exhausted them. Makers, Takers, and Fakers as always.
It's always the case that the descendants of the Makers at the top of the heap morph into Fakers or Takers (or both), and the attract the same to join and boost them. (I mean, what would you call that airhead Disney heir? She's certainly not a Maker of anything important or useful.) And they try to control or take or hobble the new entrepreneurs because they are mostly Fakers who merely want control.
I don't think the Makers morph that much, but their descendants most certainly do.