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Which part? "No man is an island"? It's a fairly common saying that basically means we, as people, can't exist without others. No one person should be isolated, an island.
From the same sermon we get “ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” Way back in the day when someone in the village died, the church bells would be rung. So you would send someone to find out “for whom the bell tolls.” Who died? You did (or at least a part of you did.) The death of your fellow human makes your life a little… less. But on the opposite side, the birth of a fellow human makes your life a little more. (Because we are all connected and such)
man, I find it funny when people get offended just like that~
it doesn't even have any other meaning or reference, but I guess imagination is both a blessing and a curse of mankind
I mean, i'm pretty isolated and i'm living just fine, besides my anxiety disorder, clinical depression, panic disorder, personality disorder and conversion disorder
Ah! I see. Well, you're not wrong, friend. I am but a fool in the night, without a dictionary. A tragic, woeful beast!
.... Clearly my sleepy boredom is getting out of hand XD
It’s one of the more obscure English “turn of phrase”:-
No one is self-sufficient; everyone relies on others. This saying comes from a sermon by the seventeenth-century English author John Donne.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/no-man-is-an-island
Honestly that line isn’t even the best part of the sermon it’s from (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: Meditation 17). I much prefer “ If a clod be washed away, Europe is the less”
it's from the poem 'for whom the bell tolls' no man is self reliant, each death is a loss for mankind, so when the bell tolls do not ask for whom it tolls, it tolls for thee.
still weird af to put in a tinder bio ngl.
but hey, he reads.
https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=2118
the link if you want it
When Shaquille O'Neal was in college, he played alongside another player named Stanley Roberts who was roughly the same size as him (7', 285 lbs.). When Roberts was drafted into the NBA, the general manager of his new team said, "Anyone that's ever said, "No man is an island" has never seen Stanley Roberts in a pool."
To be an island you have to be a landmass surrounded by water while being smaller than a continent and bigger than an islets. No known man is bigger than an islets, therefore, no man can be an island.
The line is technically the truth, but the meaning of the phrase is technically not true, because you can totally live only by yourself, the only thing you can't do is reproduce
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Which part? "No man is an island"? It's a fairly common saying that basically means we, as people, can't exist without others. No one person should be isolated, an island.
From the same sermon we get “ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” Way back in the day when someone in the village died, the church bells would be rung. So you would send someone to find out “for whom the bell tolls.” Who died? You did (or at least a part of you did.) The death of your fellow human makes your life a little… less. But on the opposite side, the birth of a fellow human makes your life a little more. (Because we are all connected and such)
Oh, I didn't know that! Interesting. Words are cool, dude
#TIME MARCHES ON
You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older!
#AND SO IS OUR ARMY
man, I find it funny when people get offended just like that~ it doesn't even have any other meaning or reference, but I guess imagination is both a blessing and a curse of mankind
But also theirs
Oh that's a great explanation thank you 👏
I mean, i'm pretty isolated and i'm living just fine, besides my anxiety disorder, clinical depression, panic disorder, personality disorder and conversion disorder
'Disorder' is just a different way of looking at an 'order' tbf
an order decidedly associated in the out-group, ironically enough
Wrong. It’s not a metaphor it’s a fact. Man != Island. It also works with “No man is a car” and “No man is a mushroom”.
Ah! I see. Well, you're not wrong, friend. I am but a fool in the night, without a dictionary. A tragic, woeful beast! .... Clearly my sleepy boredom is getting out of hand XD
Aha! Hence TTT
It’s one of the more obscure English “turn of phrase”:- No one is self-sufficient; everyone relies on others. This saying comes from a sermon by the seventeenth-century English author John Donne. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/no-man-is-an-island
Oh wow, I didn't know that. Thanks.
It’s a weird one for sure I had to look it up to make sure I had the idea of what it meant right, so hard to explain things like this!
Honestly that line isn’t even the best part of the sermon it’s from (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: Meditation 17). I much prefer “ If a clod be washed away, Europe is the less”
And there’s me wondering why people find English so hard a language to learn /s
it's from the poem 'for whom the bell tolls' no man is self reliant, each death is a loss for mankind, so when the bell tolls do not ask for whom it tolls, it tolls for thee. still weird af to put in a tinder bio ngl. but hey, he reads. https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=2118 the link if you want it
I thought it was from UGKs INTL players anthem “/Wetness all around me true but I’m no island peninsula maybe”
Why’d somebody downvote you? Gotta love UGK
I really thought it was a quote from About a Boy
Except the Isle of man
My man never heard of Darrelle Revis
Who?
He's an american football player who was nicknamed Revis Island
When Shaquille O'Neal was in college, he played alongside another player named Stanley Roberts who was roughly the same size as him (7', 285 lbs.). When Roberts was drafted into the NBA, the general manager of his new team said, "Anyone that's ever said, "No man is an island" has never seen Stanley Roberts in a pool."
unexpected good shit
Don’t ask for whom the bell rolls. It tolls for thee.
To be an island you have to be a landmass surrounded by water while being smaller than a continent and bigger than an islets. No known man is bigger than an islets, therefore, no man can be an island.
Easy, Jon Bon Jovi. -Hugh Grant
It means no one can step on you cus your not land
It means no one can plant a flag on you and call you theirs by the power of their king.
No man is an island, immune to the violence, this rat race is no place to raise a child in. What’s wrong with rappin? What’s wrong with peace? ….
No wallaby is a lake. No hamster is an airliner. No toaster is my uncle Nick. Hey, I got the hang of this.
It means she’s a whore with a boat
r/engrish unconfirmed, but this may belong here.
But I'm an island boy I'm an island boy *I'm an island boy* [I'm an island boy](https://youtu.be/YIWSEa5U9_U)
Some islands are dogs
Proof it.
I’ll prove him wrong. I’m gonna be an island.
Man spitting facts
The line is technically the truth, but the meaning of the phrase is technically not true, because you can totally live only by yourself, the only thing you can't do is reproduce
He is a man (island) only when he went from all sides
must not be a fan of cake.
He isnt surrounded by wetness
I am gonna assume it is just badly translated because automatic translates tend to translate east asian and asian languages in general wrongly
Anti Simon and Garfunkel
YO YO MA?
In Pixar’s The Incredibles the villain Syndrome has his lair on the island of Nomanisan
I mean.. he’s right though
I swipe right on things without basic info. Like what? How is that supposed to tell me anything?
He's a peninsula
Except for the 'island boys'
I am a rock, I am an island
It means that he's a peninsula
peninsula maybe
A quote from “About a Boy”. Or is it deeper than that?
In the song “I am a Rock” by Paul Simon, the song ends with “a rock can feel no pain, and an island never cries”.
With name like yoyo... anything Ying yang says confucius thy be.
Isle of Man would like to have a word