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OXYMORON: GOVERNMENT ETHICS

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OXYMORON:  Definition — 1657, from Gk. oxymoron, noun use of neut. ofoxymoros (adj.) “pointedly foolish,” from oxys”sharp” (see acrid) + moros “stupid.” Rhetoricalfigure by which contradictory terms are conjoined soas to give point to the statement or expression; theword itself is an illustration of the thing. Now often used loosely to mean”contradiction in terms.”, e.g. “Government Ethics”.  There is an actual government office called ” The US Office of Government Ethics”.  Really!? You couldn’t make this shit up if you stayed up all night…..

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Hyperrealistic Paintings

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Tom Martin is a young English artist who  makes use of acrylic paint to create the most amazing paintings. Looking at them you could swear they are simple photographs, but in reality they are painstakingly painted by hand.  Hyperrealism evolved from the “photorealism” movement of the 1970s, and it’s dedicated to making artworks that are “more real than real”. Hyperrealists try not just copy a photograph with paint, but emphasize elements that were not evoked by the original. 23-year-old Tom Martin is already one of the most respected hyperrealist artist in the world, with works featured in art exhibitions all around the world.  Just have a look at his amazing super-sized paintings and tell me if you’d have known they aren’t simple photos or computer generated images.

1001 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU'RE DEAD, INSIDE THE BOOK, READING MATTER

HANG OUT WITH DEAD CELEBRITIES

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“Have you ever been at a party and someone asked you, by way of pretending to be conversational, “If you could spend a year on a desert island with 5 people from history, who would you chose?”

Now you can spend the rest of eternity with some of famous celebrities – if you can find any.

When you’re dead, how do you communicate with other spirits? This is a good question. This is also a question that you must answer before you will be able to find celebrities to hang out with.

There are many, many variables involved here: some celebrities you might like to hang out with may have returned to Earth long ago.

Maybe they already lived 17 more lives as other identities since having lived as the celebrity you are familiar with. During those lifetimes they may not have become famous.

What if you met Napoleon, but you don’t speak French?

What if the celebrity forgot that they were a celebrity in a previous life and changed careers? Like Elvis. What if he went back to Earth and became a used car salesman in Iowa or a truck driver in Bangladesh?

One of the most famous people in history was Sir Isaac Newton. What if Isaac spent his next 4 lives as a horse? Or, what if he’s still hanging around the tomb where his body is buried at Westminster Abbey?

Newton’s monument can be seen in Westminster Abbey. It was executed in white and grey marble. The monument features a figure of Newton reclining on top of a sarcophagus, his right elbow resting on several of his great books and his left hand pointing to a scroll with a mathematical design.

Above him is a pyramid and a celestial globe showing the signs of the Zodiac and the path of the comet of 1680. The Latin inscription on the base translates as:

“Here is buried Isaac Newton, Knight, who by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colors thus produced. Diligent, sagacious and faithful, in his expositions of nature, antiquity and the holy Scriptures, he vindicated by his philosophy the majesty of God mighty and good, and expressed the simplicity of the Gospel in his manners. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race! He was born on 25 December 1642, and died on 20 March 1727.”

If someone built a monument for you and said all those nice things about you on your gravestone?

Perhaps he was tempted to hang around there and bask in the glory of his own mythology!

Or, since he was such a smart guy, maybe he figured out how to break the cycle of birth, death and rebirth and went somewhere “over the rainbow” where he could enjoy a more pleasant existence.”

— Excerpt from the book 1001 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU’RE DEAD, by Lawrence R. Spencer