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January 28, 2013
THE ORACLE: WHAT YOU SEEK IS WHAT YOU FIND
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January 27, 2013
DREAMS COME TRUE
"When You Wish Upon A Star"
When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you
If your heart is in your dreams
No request is to extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do
Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of their secret longing
Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wished upon a star
Your dreams come true
When you wish upon a star
Your dream comes true
January 26, 2013
SURVIVING ETERNITY
ONE DOES NOT DISCUSS ETHICS
WITH A SNAKE WHEN IT STRIKES.
ONE DOES NOT SEEK JUSTICE
IN THE JAWS OF A SHARK.
BANKERS, SOLDIERS, POLITICIANS,
AND PRIESTS WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM.
POWER, CONTROL AND POSSESSION
ARE THEIR NATURAL SCHEME.
BEINGS OF GOOD WILL TREAT EACH OTHER
AS THEY WOULD BE TREATED THEMSELVES.
EVERY CREATURE SURVIVES
ACCORDING TO ITS KIND.
GOOD AND EVIL ARE SEEN THROUGH
THE EYES OF PREDATORS AND PREY.
SURVIVAL IS AVOIDING PAIN.
PLEASURE IS LOVE ETERNALLY.
ONE KNOWS THAT SURVIVAL IS A GAME
THAT IMMORTAL SPIRITS CANNOT PLAY
UNLESS THEY FORGET THAT THEY ARE THEY.
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Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013.
January 25, 2013
REQUEST DRY WOOD
For all you aspiring "terrorists" or "heretics' (same thing), take some advice from people who learned from their predecessors during the gruesome history of "humanity":
Deliberately causing death through the effects of combustion has a long history as a form of capital punishment. Many societies have employed it as an execution method for crimes such as treason, heresy, and witchcraft. The particular form of execution by burning in which the condemned is bound to a large stake is more commonly called burning at the stake. Death by burning fell into disfavour amongst governments in the late 18th century. (because more cost-effective methods were devised as the cost of wood increased).
Burning at the stake was popular in Catholic and Protestant lands. There were three methods of burning at the stake. In the first method, burning wood was piled around a stake driven into the earth. The prisoner hung from the stake from chains or iron hoops. In the second method (popular in punishing witches), the prisoner again hung from a stake, but this time the wood was piled high around the victim so the observers could not see her pain and suffering as she burned. In the third method (popular in Germany in the Nordic countries), the victim was tied to a ladder which was tied to a frame above the fire. The ladder was then swung down into the flames.
Law required that victims be strangled before burning at the stake, but many victims were deliberately burned alive. This violence was used as both punishment and warning, similar to the sacrificing of criminals in front of an audience at the Roman Colosseum. Originally, burning at the stake was primarily used for women convicted of treason (men convicted of treason were hanged, drawn and quartered). Later, burning at the stake became a popular punishment for men and women accused of heresy or witchcraft.
The 16th and 17th centuries saw a which-hunt such as the world had never seen. Rumors spread like wildfire of people participating in wild witches' Sabbats, the adoption of animal forms, and ritual cannibalism. Superstitious fear flung accusations everywhere, and the population lived in terror. As many as 200,000 people were burned at the stake for witchcraft during this time. Burning was believed to cleanse the soul, tantamount for those accused of witchcraft or heresy.
Henry the VIII's daughter, Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary") gave birth to England's most famous burnings at the stake. One of her victims was the sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, in 1556. During the course of Bloody Mary's five year reign, she was responsible for 274 burnings. Her victims were condemned of heresy--being Protestant.
In the 17th century, during the Spanish Inquisition, burning at the stake was a popular choice for punishment since it did not spill the victim's blood (the Roman Catholic Church forbade this). The burning meant the victim would have no body to take into the afterlife. Burning at the stake began to fall out of favor in the 18th century when more "humane" methods of capital punishment rose.
Read a History of "Cripsy Critter Barbeque Techniques" (burning at the stake) in this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning
January 24, 2013
DO WHAT THOU WILT
(Image by Marianna Stelmach)
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François Rabelais (c. 1494 – 9 April 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. Rabelais is considered one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing.
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"All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good; they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule and strictest tie of their order there was but this one clause to be observed, "Do What Thou Wilt;" because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us."
-- Rabelais, description of how the Thélèmites lived and the rules they lived by.
January 22, 2013
HISTORICAL HAIR STYLES
Here is a fascinating series of videos that describe and demonstrate the hair styles worn by men and women of the ancient world: (see the full series here)
