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?
> 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.
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.
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
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;
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.
> 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.
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.
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 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;
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.