"Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō"
I had a college Latin teacher who asked us to translate this one. The professor was very clear that we should translate it in the spirit it was written, which is to say, vulgar.
I offered the following translation of the first line:
"I will fuck you up the ass, and jam my cock down your throat."
The professor then said, "Excellent. Tonally perfect. Now let us never speak of it again."
"I'll sodomize and clintonize you,"
I'm sure you can imagine the reaction of a roomful of teenage boys reading Latin poetry that iirc involved quite a lot of masturbation...
I hate and I love. Why I should do this, perhaps you may ask... I know not, but I feel it done to me, and I am wracked.
That was thanks to a mid winter Catullus test that got delayed several times due to flu circulating in our year 11 class. By the time everyone was finally back in school, we'd revised it something like 5 times and knew all the set poems off by heart.
This is not what HN is for.
Contrary opinion - no they're not, get a hold of yourself.
A lot of people lob ad homs at me and call me names and deny what I say here, but not a single one of you can explain our tragic human situation.
We can engineer fantastic buildings, create astounding works of art, perform the most incredible feats on the soccer pitch, and yet racism, poverty, cruelty, child porn and sexual abuse, oppression, and hatred remains rampant.
From my perspective of compassion, without asking anything from anyone here, I explain our situation to boos and unhelpful naysayers.
I am quite ahold of myself, my family loves me and I am at peace and happy. Yesterday my antics on the soccer pitch made my family laugh until they ached. We are poor but have our sustenance and live within our Creator's love.
As Eugene Parker said, "Well, we'll see who falls flat." The Parker Solar Probe is now orbiting the sun, doing its science, a marvel of engineering. And an evil, hateful bastard put a bullet in the servant of love Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s head 57 years ago, simply because he claimed that Black folks were human beings.
The truth is undefeatable, though we can be killed by the hateful fools of this world. I stand with compassion and truth.
In a modern mental health context, we generally call this mental illness.
Does describing it as some "other intelligent agent" have any meaningful explanatory power? People similarly talk about devils and angels, but such talk hasn't led to effective ways of dealing with such issues.
> not a single one of you can explain our tragic human situation.
We're evolved animals, and far from perfectly rational. Do you see some mystery needing explanation? The existence of good and bad impulses and behavior is hardly some sort of mystery.