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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Mar 13, 2021 9:44:02 GMT
(I'm talking about cowboys in general. So, the headhunters and bounty killers are also mentioned as the cowboys.) How do you imagine the modern cowboy today? Can he live in town? Would he a honorable guest at casino palaces? Would his horse be a motorcycle? There might be another examples. This muchacho from "No Country for Old Man" is a good example of a cowboy as for me. Unfortunately in the movie he has a family; I guess the real cowboys are always bachelors. The guys below could pass as cowboy too. Must say I loved those movie. Yeah, it was absolutely nice. Ukrainian version of cowboy XVII-XVIII centuries. (Must say that among cossacks there were true lone warriors.) Mostly, the best version as for me is a lonely cowboy, or a cowboy somewhere far from all those cities, towns, and any other social rookeries.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Mar 13, 2021 14:54:16 GMT
There are still real cowboys who herd cattle and live the old lifestyle all throughout the Western United States today. Heck, the same goes for Latin American countries. When I was in Nicaragua our vehicle had to stop in the road because the cowboys were doing a cattle drive in the middle of it.
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Post by Sonny on Mar 13, 2021 16:09:51 GMT
Yes, a moterbike. I've seen it used in movies.
I think Cloud from FF7 can be described as a Cowboy, riding into the sunset:
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Mar 14, 2021 13:51:41 GMT
eugene 2.0 Also when you talk of Slavic cowboys like the Cossacks this song came to mind. It's the most Cowboy Speghetti Western song I've ever heard but it comes from Russia.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Mar 14, 2021 15:56:33 GMT
eugene 2.0 Also when you talk of Slavic cowboys like the Cossacks this song came to mind. It's the most Cowboy Speghetti Western song I've ever heard but it comes from Russia. Thank you very much, Clovis!! You know I guess there are at least two features Americans and some Slavs have - love of freedom. One of the poets of Cossacks (' life), a philosopher Grigory Skovoroda, wrote love for freedom: "...In the final quarter of his life he traveled by foot through Sloboda Ukraine staying with various friends, both rich and poor, preferring not to remain in one place for too long. During this time he dedicated himself to individual hermit-like monastic life and study. This last period was the time of his great philosophic works. In this period as well, but particularly earlier, he wrote poetry and letters in Church Slavonic language, Greek and Latin and did a number of translations from Latin into Ukrainian".A piece of poetry: On which thing the house is put: When it’s stone, a house will stand, Whereas sand under it, no matter how it stands, It will be undermined by the dry wind. (The Garden of Divine Songs, Song 22 - it's an allusion to Matt. 7: 24 )And some philosophy more: "G. Skovoroda with this idea approaches the quintessence of his work, his life – how to find a way to the true happiness? We "look for happiness in all directions," - says the philosopher. But it - "everywhere and always with us, like a fish in water, so we are in it, and it is us looking at ourselves." The philosopher explains that happiness is like the "sunshine: open for it only the entrance to your soul." However, when it "pushes your wall" seeking this entrance, but not finding it because often "your heart is dark" when "darkness fills the abyss.""It's still non-obvious his position toward the freedom... well, that's all I've found now. But anyway, the love of freedom exists. And about the song - yeah, this song is probably to be famous in Russia. In Ukraine this song isn't popular, but it doesn't mean nobody is familiar with it. Do you know any cowboy songs? I mean those songs which usually play in silence, when a cowboy is lonely, or far away from home? All real sympathy songs, and really memorizing, really impressive I'd heard playing "Gun":
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Mar 17, 2021 0:48:56 GMT
eugene 2.0 Also when you talk of Slavic cowboys like the Cossacks this song came to mind. It's the most Cowboy Speghetti Western song I've ever heard but it comes from Russia. Thank you very much, Clovis!! You know I guess there are at least two features Americans and some Slavs have - love of freedom. One of the poets of Cossacks (' life), a philosopher Grigory Skovoroda, wrote love for freedom: "...In the final quarter of his life he traveled by foot through Sloboda Ukraine staying with various friends, both rich and poor, preferring not to remain in one place for too long. During this time he dedicated himself to individual hermit-like monastic life and study. This last period was the time of his great philosophic works. In this period as well, but particularly earlier, he wrote poetry and letters in Church Slavonic language, Greek and Latin and did a number of translations from Latin into Ukrainian".A piece of poetry: On which thing the house is put: When it’s stone, a house will stand, Whereas sand under it, no matter how it stands, It will be undermined by the dry wind. (The Garden of Divine Songs, Song 22 - it's an allusion to Matt. 7: 24 )And some philosophy more: "G. Skovoroda with this idea approaches the quintessence of his work, his life – how to find a way to the true happiness? We "look for happiness in all directions," - says the philosopher. But it - "everywhere and always with us, like a fish in water, so we are in it, and it is us looking at ourselves." The philosopher explains that happiness is like the "sunshine: open for it only the entrance to your soul." However, when it "pushes your wall" seeking this entrance, but not finding it because often "your heart is dark" when "darkness fills the abyss.""It's still non-obvious his position toward the freedom... well, that's all I've found now. But anyway, the love of freedom exists. And about the song - yeah, this song is probably to be famous in Russia. In Ukraine this song isn't popular, but it doesn't mean nobody is familiar with it. Do you know any cowboy songs? I mean those songs which usually play in silence, when a cowboy is lonely, or far away from home? All real sympathy songs, and really memorizing, really impressive I'd heard playing "Gun": Well, I do know two good Western themed songs not of the description you've given but I'll post them here anyways.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Mar 17, 2021 5:24:56 GMT
Thank you very much, Clovis!! You know I guess there are at least two features Americans and some Slavs have - love of freedom. One of the poets of Cossacks (' life), a philosopher Grigory Skovoroda, wrote love for freedom: "...In the final quarter of his life he traveled by foot through Sloboda Ukraine staying with various friends, both rich and poor, preferring not to remain in one place for too long. During this time he dedicated himself to individual hermit-like monastic life and study. This last period was the time of his great philosophic works. In this period as well, but particularly earlier, he wrote poetry and letters in Church Slavonic language, Greek and Latin and did a number of translations from Latin into Ukrainian".A piece of poetry: On which thing the house is put: When it’s stone, a house will stand, Whereas sand under it, no matter how it stands, It will be undermined by the dry wind. (The Garden of Divine Songs, Song 22 - it's an allusion to Matt. 7: 24 )And some philosophy more: "G. Skovoroda with this idea approaches the quintessence of his work, his life – how to find a way to the true happiness? We "look for happiness in all directions," - says the philosopher. But it - "everywhere and always with us, like a fish in water, so we are in it, and it is us looking at ourselves." The philosopher explains that happiness is like the "sunshine: open for it only the entrance to your soul." However, when it "pushes your wall" seeking this entrance, but not finding it because often "your heart is dark" when "darkness fills the abyss.""It's still non-obvious his position toward the freedom... well, that's all I've found now. But anyway, the love of freedom exists. And about the song - yeah, this song is probably to be famous in Russia. In Ukraine this song isn't popular, but it doesn't mean nobody is familiar with it. Do you know any cowboy songs? I mean those songs which usually play in silence, when a cowboy is lonely, or far away from home? All real sympathy songs, and really memorizing, really impressive I'd heard playing "Gun": Well, I do know two good Western themed songs not of the description you've given but I'll post them here anyways. All right! Yeah, I've been listening to Ghoultown, and its song is probably the best. I mentioned also the campfire songs. May I ask you when you was traveling /and some cowboys block a road with cows or kinda/ had you sat near the bonfire or had you sung any songs then?
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Mar 17, 2021 20:41:29 GMT
Well, I do know two good Western themed songs not of the description you've given but I'll post them here anyways. All right! Yeah, I've been listening to Ghoultown, and its song is probably the best. I mentioned also the campfire songs. May I ask you when you was traveling /and some cowboys block a road with cows or kinda/ had you sat near the bonfire or had you sung any songs then? Well, I was on a mission trip for my church and the we were headed to the barrio we were assigned to to help build a church. While we were driving in the street, everything halted because Nicaraguan cowboys on horseback wearing cowboy hats and the whole shebang were driving herds of cattle across the street. There was no bonfire because we were in a vehicle on the road. We sang in the vehicle of course but it wasn't cowboy songs it was "Let it Go" from the movie Frozen. Why we sang that was any man's guess but we did.
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