# Who knows what this is? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 20, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648 "2009-01-20T17:28:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/1 "2009-01-20T17:28:17Z")
Hint: It’s got a lot of you all pissed off and it’s about 124 years old. ![http://nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7616&stc=1&d=1232501276](http://nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7616&stc=1&d=1232501276) ---
**Author:** ![BREETIME](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/breetime/32/5214_2.png) [@BREETIME](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BREETIME)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/2 "2009-01-20T17:31:00Z")
judith filmer? ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/3 "2009-01-20T17:32:05Z")
i dunno ---
**Author:** ![fbrendan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/4 "2009-01-20T17:32:24Z")
O O I know I know. George Watts, son. Hope. ---
**Author:** ![deebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deebo/32/5218_2.png) [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/5 "2009-01-20T17:32:50Z")
obama’s great grandmother ---
**Author:** ![BREETIME](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/breetime/32/5214_2.png) [@BREETIME](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BREETIME)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/6 "2009-01-20T17:33:52Z")
thats a watts painting, its called hope justice ---
**Author:** ![fbrendan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/7 "2009-01-20T17:35:00Z")
It was a gift, right? Google time for a refresher. ---
**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/8 "2009-01-20T17:35:28Z")
a woman playing a harp ---
**Author:** ![sureshot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot/32/7578_2.png) [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/9 "2009-01-20T17:36:46Z")
:lol: Fry, you have such audacity, posting a ridiculous picture. I hope you lose your mod status. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/10 "2009-01-20T17:39:38Z")
:lol: Yeah I’m an ass. Very good… ---
**Author:** ![BREETIME](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/breetime/32/5214_2.png) [@BREETIME](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BREETIME)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/11 "2009-01-20T17:41:10Z")
this has nothing to do with the recent presidential history does it? ---
**Author:** ![2TurboZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/2turboz/32/7577_2.png) [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/12 "2009-01-20T17:44:24Z")
[sarcasm]It’s Glorious[/sarcasm] Damnit… ---
**Author:** ![deebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deebo/32/5218_2.png) [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/13 "2009-01-20T17:46:20Z")
^why has this not been done yet! ---
**Author:** ![Oroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@Oroc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oroc)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/14 "2009-01-20T17:47:00Z")
a woman cutting her own head off with a mini guilatine for reasons unknown ---
**Author:** ![4DOORBABE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/4doorbabe/32/5071_2.png) [@4DOORBABE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/4DOORBABE)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/15 "2009-01-20T17:54:18Z")
This might help: > **[A painting called 'Hope' wins fans as Barack Obama's inspiration](https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2008/1128/p04s02-woeu.html)** > > A London museum attracts tourists with the artwork that inspired the famous phrase, 'audacity of hope.' ---
**Author:** ![deebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deebo/32/5218_2.png) [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/16 "2009-01-20T18:03:00Z")
way to actually follow politics ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/17 "2009-01-20T19:43:22Z")
You see, the painting is titled “Hope” and it shows a woman sitting on top of the world playing a harp. Now at first glance, that would be all right, for what more enviable position could one ever hope to achieve than being on top of the world with the whole world, everything and everyone dancing to your music. But when you look closer at the picture, when the illusion of power gives way tot the reality of pain the world at which this woman sits, our world, that is a world which is torn by war, destroyed by hate, devastated by despair and devastated by distrust. The world on which she sits is on the very brink of destruction. That’s when you look closer at the picture. And the instrument, on which she plays, her harp, has all but one of its strings broken, torn or ripped out. Even the instrument has been damaged by what she has been through and she is even more the example of quiet despair than anything else. Yet, the artist dares entitle the painting “Hope.” Because in spite of being in a world torn by war, in spite of being on a world destroyed by hate, decimated by distrust, in spite of being in a world where famine and greed are uneasy bed partners, in spite of being on a world where apartheid and apathy feed the fires of racism and hatred, in spite of being on a world where nuclear nightmare draws closer with each second, in spite of being on a world with a ticking time bomb, with her clothes in rags, her body scarred, bruised and bleeding and her heart all but destroyed with that one string she had left, Hannah had the audacity to make music and praise God. Have the audacity to hope for that child of yours, have the audacity to hope for that home of yours, have the audacity to hope for the church of yours. For whatever it is you’ve been praying, keep on praying and you may like my grandmother sing “There’s a bright side somewhere, there’s a bright side somewhere.” There is a bright side somewhere. Don’t you rest until you find it, for there is a bright side somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/18 "2009-01-20T19:57:30Z")
I’ll take “Kevin Williams” for $100 Alex. ---
**Author:** ![sureshot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot/32/7578_2.png) [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/19 "2009-01-20T20:12:27Z")
:roflpicard: @ Fry needing to spell it out ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648/20 "2009-01-20T21:00:01Z")
I wouldn’t call it politics so much as philosophy. :roflpicard: @ the Rorschach response… My last post was some select excerpts from a certain villainized preacher’s sermon in 1990. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-knows-what-this-is/61648.md?page=2)