Test 4

May 18th, 2009 by admin in What is the Reason?

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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

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• Deborah R. Brenner May 18, 2009 at 2:09 pm

  I do not think it is completely true
• Él-Ad Jun 1, 2009 at 5:56 am

  The Chasidic masters teach that the goal of the Yetzer Hara is not the sin/aveirah/misdeed itself, but rather – to get you down.

  Once you are “bogged” down, on a wheel, running around in circles of thought – instead of being alive, active and productive – you can’t move forward. Paralyzed, you are defeated and at a minimum you are losing precious life time. Years even.

  So while this quote may not be 100% accurate, it is a cute way of pointing out to us that, “The only thing that wants us to be unhappy is?…. unhappiness.” If we are not unhappy, it ceases to exist.

  In one account the Vilna Gaon chased a depressed person who had gained spiritual insight out of his presence, seeing that the person’s gifts were drawn from a negative source. The Gaon certainly was not an insensitive person. If the story is true, then it comes to teach us how dangerous depression is and that a depressed person can bring others down too.

  H. Rackham’s 1914 translation from: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum)

  [32] But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. [ quote begins: ===>>> Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? <<<=== quote ends ]

  [33] On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

  FYI:

  Turns out the passage doesn’t just look like real Latin, it is real (although slightly scrambled), and from a famous source. This news came from Richard McClintock, a Latin professor turned publications director at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. Curious about what the words meant, McClintock had looked up one of the more obscure ones, consectetur, in a Latin dictionary. Going through the cites of the word in classical literature, he found one that looked familiar. Aha! Lorem ipsum was part of a passage from Cicero, specifically De finibus bonorum et malorum, a treatise on the theory of ethics written in 45 BC. The original reads, Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit . . . (“There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain . . .”).

  McClintock recalled having seen lorem ipsum in a book of early metal type samples, which commonly used extracts from the classics. “What I find remarkable,” he told B&A, “is that this text has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since some printer in the 1500s took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book; it has survived not only four centuries of letter-by-letter resetting but even the leap into electronic typesetting, essentially unchanged.” So much for the transitory nature of content in the information age.

  Just one problem. When I spoke to McClintock recently, he said he’d been unable to locate the old type sample in which he thought he’d seen lorem ipsum. The earliest he could definitely trace back the passage was Letraset press-type sheets, which dated back only a few decades. But come on, you think graphic arts supply houses were hiring classics scholars in the 1960s? Well, maybe they were. But it’s easier to believe that someone at Letraset simply copied the text from an old hot-type source. We’re now faced with the mere technical detail of figuring out which one.

  — Cecil Adams’ comments in
  http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2290/what-does-the-filler-text-lorem-ipsum-mean