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After This Man's initial burst in popularity, users on forums such as 4chan, as well as blogs like ASSME and io9, became suspicious that it was a guerrilla marketing stunt. [6] [10] A reverse-IP lookup of ThisMan.org revealed that its hosting company owned another domain named guerrigliamarketing.it, [9] "a fake advertising agency" founded by Natella that "designed subversive hoaxes and ...
sic et non: thus and not: More simply, "yes and no". sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc: we gladly feast on those who would subdue us: Mock-Latin motto of The Addams Family. sic infit: so it begins: sic itur ad astra: thus you shall go to the stars: From Virgil, Aeneid book IX, line 641. Possibly the source of the ad astra phrases.
Someone who, in the face of a specific argument, voices an argument that he does not necessarily accept, for the sake of argument and discovering the truth by testing the opponent's argument. cf. arguendo. aegri somnia: a sick man's dreams: i.e., "troubled dreams". From Horace, Ars Poetica VII 7. aes alienum: foreign debt: i.e., "someone else's ...
For Jung, dreams express archetypes, the unconscious structures that shape the human imagination. Freud had also noted, in The Interpretation of Dreams, the existence of "typical dreams" made by a large number of people that do not designate personal imperatives. But "Freud paid little attention to these dream motifs", explains Claire Dorly. [4]
Eric Berne considered the first years of life as a time when the child 'is dealing with magical people who can perhaps on occasion turn themselves into animals,' and thought that even in later life 'a great many people have an animal...which recurs again and again in their dreams. This is their totem [12] – something which may offer a route ...
[3] [4] Throughout Mesopotamian history, dreams were always held to be extremely important for divination [4] [5] and Mesopotamian kings paid close attention to them. [4] [3] Gudea, the king of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash (reigned c. 2144–2124 BC), rebuilt the temple of Ningirsu as the result of a dream in which he was told to do so. [4]
While many people who have lost everything aren’t yet able to fully process what they’re feeling, their emotions will evolve and intensify over the coming days, weeks, and months, says Nancy A ...
Legend has it that a person who wakes up from a bad dream can call out to baku. A child having a nightmare in Japan will wake up and repeat three times, "Baku-san, come eat my dream." Legends say that the baku will come into the child's room and devour the bad dream, allowing the child to go back to sleep peacefully.