There is a show that they are talking about here:
https://youtu.be/KO6gxCl8qC0?feature=shared
I have never seen it. It appears to be popular. It has a lot of merchandise already which sells out. It introduces people to "Goetic Demons" and uses them, making the names of such more mainstream than ever before in the United States. Before this, the most mainstream mentions of them were still rather fringe, as they appeared in Japanese video games like Shin Megami Tensei and Devil May Cry, with the latter being more mainstream and popularly played in the United States, but not as much with the Goetic Demon Names as much as with the more well established names overall.
Much more popular than Goetic Demon Names are the names of demons which are also much more well known from being outside of the Goetic Names, and in the United States and worldwide, the most access to the names in popular culture were games in the Diablo series by Blizzard Entertainment most likely, and just general Christian culture and evangelism that focuses on some of these names.
The most popular and well known is Satan, generally synonymous with "The Devil", which is the namesake of the game series "Diablo" and brings up a title or term closely identified with all the others and the concept of a fiery Hell, Darkness, Death, Torture, and the Occult. Those things seem to indicated symbolically on the cover art, which may be more witnessed thsn actual gameplay which will have a drastic drop from all those who merely hear of it somehow, then those who see more like the cover art, and it keeps getting into a smaller population from there.
Another extremely popular, but far less popular than the international term "Satan" and the overall concept of "The Devil" and "Demons" and "Angels" is Beelzebub, sometimes also called Beezlebub.
This show though that the video is bringing up, brings up and highlights far more obscure and less known names, like "Stolas".
People in the comments are bringing up modern obsessions like "intimate partner abuse" frequently, and the show might deal with various social dynamics, coupled with music, and has attracted many females and the "LGBTQ+" community to it, by also apparently having stuff which is of interest to them like less common or strict rules having to do with sexuality, identity, and relationship boundaries between different categories of people, and some more gender bent ways of dressing and acting.
This is a hugely popular show presented on YouTube.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne_Medrano
She has a birthdate very close to mine, but a different year.
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She is bisexual,[44] and on the asexual spectrum.[45] She grew up Presbyterian, and says she remembers going to church and questioning a lot of stories in the Bible—Adam and Eve and Lucifer, in particular.[46]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexuality
I'm heterosexual and really like the appearance of women, but don't get any action, a much more literal involuntary celibate than the ones who get called that who seem to be socially inept, misogynistic, and self-sabotaging.
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In a January 2024 interview following the release of Hazbin Hotel on Amazon Prime Video, she described herself as a "queer woman on the internet who made something popular", and related herself to her character Charlie Morningstar, saying that both she and Charlie are in a "position of fighting uphill battles to just have [their] dreams exist."[47] Previously, Medrano had described herself, on social media, as a "proud 'fiery' [L]atina," and said that Vaggie was the character she related to most, saying that Vaggie and Charlie "feel like sides of [her]self."[48]
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Ethnic and Racial stereotypes bother me and make me sad.
I was looking at some descriptions on old cards from a Dungeons and Dragons Adjacent game series, and they were describing these "Jaguar Warrior" humans who are very directly inspired by Aztec things, in such a sad way, because it was so childish and limited, like they were not allowed to be as complex or unique and individualistic as the characters who were more Western inspired, even if that individuality comes through the form of villainy, though they would generally be villains in some way too as they are dedicated to a God in the game world that is associated with evil and evil things, Zaltec, in perhaps and attempt to treat their characters with Western "respect", they made them Noble Savages and "Braves", and one could almost hallucinate the "Tonto-esque" way that they were most likely being thought of. The drawings of their faces, and there were two character cards at least that I have seen of these, are both totally without personality or uniqueness, while the Western seeming character is full of character and uniqueness.
So when this woman, in my opinion "caves" to the stereotypes of being a "fiery Latina", I feel sick to my stomach. I despise that stuff. It is that stuff that is currently behind so much evil that is occurring right now, like the stereotyping and imposing of stereotypes that the J people are doing to the P people, and how the J book has basically always implied things like that, possibly more overtly or in a now more popular fashion than any other text due to it being so widespread now, like their prejudices towards various groups that were viewed as automatically an enemy or "bad" category, ignoring how vile they would appear to be as a whole if they were viewed and treated in the same way as they view and treat "others", but we are meant to not hold them to the same standards, in which case their villainy recorded in their own telling of their supposed history, hopefully largely fabricated, reveals that they were for the most part very similar seeming to the mostly European and Caucasian variants that exist today in their horrible thinking that lead to horrible ways of dealing with all the "out groups" and really even "their own".
Supposedly, these Goetic Names derive from traditions that are J*d**-Christian in nature, though the names at times may connect to other cultures and languages where they were used before J*d**-Christian influence, and were thought of in different ways.
They are categorized now as "demons", which for many makes them "automatically bad", like how "Canaanite" and now "Palestinian" is meant to mean "automatically bad", no matter what their age, ancient or infant.
Hispanic people, a people under the influence of a "Latin", "Romance" culture, the heirs of Latin like the Italians and with a more clearly Vulgar Latin seeming language than the French most likely or even the Portuguese, many of which also descend from a colonized people, with layers of colonial history and tension, since the people of Iberia were colonized by Rome, they were colonized by Christianity, by Germans, by Arian Christian Kingdoms possibly, by Muslims, then they performed the ReConquista and ended up imposing Northern groups upon Southern groups that had little real historical unity or connection with the Northern Groups, and their languages were pushed further away in favor of the Northern "Standards". It didn't end there, then they went and they terrorized people through the Inquisition, and terrorized the Catalans, the Basque, and many more tribes and families, and had the Spanish Inquisition, they imposed themselves on the Americas and brought ruin there and tried to wipe out those cultures and people too, they became like a killer virus.
Now the people throughout the Spanish world have this confused rage and hatred in themselves that is carried through their language and history, where alien things were repeatedly imposed upon them and then pushed forcefully on to others, a culture of bullying and abuse which had led to a lot of machismo complexes, chauvinism, colorism, unspoken but still very active and real casteism and classism, and a deep desire to lash out and rebel while also wanting and even loving authoritarianism on the other hand. They have a very strong attraction to the Satanic and Demonic, and to be Contrary but not necessarily "Counter-Culture" in the same way as others.
All that sh"t, and it is truly sh*t, stinking sh*t, seems to make its way into this cartoon made by this "fiery Latina" "bisexual asexual", lol, all of that nonsense gibberish seeming to very specifically give some insight into the batsh*t crazy thinking of the modern Romans of today.
As far as I can tell, very little of the Native mindset may have actually survived in comparison to the things which can be traced to Roman and Hispanic thinking from the Spanish language being used and so the dominant way in which these people even think to themselves, and language matters VERY much, and what is carried in those languages. I speak in my mind some form of "American English" and carry the sentiments and attitudes of an "American", which are totally at odds in many ways to what is being presented by the mainstream media today as the norms of an American or of America, such as through films which possibly the vast majority are finding in at least some ways unpleasant and objectionable and not representing their standards or ideals or even their true culture, as if it was written by alien groups, and it often really is being written by people with little to no experience with the mainstream culture of the North American people, but by a tiny minority with different cultures, evrn if they are "caucasian" or "English" in their ancestry, they have never lived like we have, or been given the thinking through the language and history that we have, yet they are made out to be the writers of a culture they try to make the norm, and people are finding that it is really not mixing and meshing comfortably with the ways in which they were raised or the prior culture that they were indoctrinated with. This is causing "Western" people in general to seek out groups that they can better identify with or tools and "technologies" they feel are such that they can use more freely to express their sentiments through, so Islam and Satanism, both considered the Arch Heresies of the Latinate and Western World, are what so many are flocking to throughout the West, since both represent the Rebellion Against Oppression and the Authoritarian Justice we had been raised to consider the "American Way", where Christianity appears instead to be slavish and effeminate, not suitable to the Virile Modern Roman, still full of "Fire":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtus
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The origins of the word virtus can be traced back to the Latin word vir, 'man'. The common list of attributes associated with virtus were considered to be particularly masculine strengths. From the early to the later days of the Roman Empire, there appears to have been a development in how the concept was understood.
Originally virtus described specifically martial courage, but it eventually grew to be used to describe a range of Roman virtues. It was often divided into different qualities including prudentia (practical wisdom), iustitia (justice), temperantia (temperance, self-control), and fortitudo (courage). This division of virtue as a whole into cardinal virtues is an ongoing project of positive psychology or, in philosophy, virtue ethics, following a tradition originating in Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. It implies a link between virtus and the Greek concept of arete.
At one time virtus extended to include a wide range of meanings that covered one general ethical ideal.[1] The use of the word grew and shifted to fit evolving ideas of what manliness meant.[2] Once, virtus meant primarily that a man was a brave warrior, but it came also to mean that he was a good man, someone who did the right thing. During the time of the decline of the Roman elite, the Roman upper class no longer thought of themselves as unmanly if they did not serve in the military.[3]
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Virtus came from an aristocratic tradition in which it described a specific type of public conduct. It was mainly applicable to those in the cursus honorum, certainly by the late republic at least. It was not a "private" virtue in the way that modern people might consider it. Valor, courage, and manliness were not things to be pursued in the private sphere of the individual or the individual's private concerns. There could be no virtue in exploiting one's manliness in the pursuit of personal wealth, for example. Virtus was exercised in the pursuit of gloria for the benefit of the res publica resulting in the winning of eternal memoria. According to D.C. Earl, "Outside the service of the res publica there can be no magistratus and therefore, strictly speaking, no gloria, no nobilitas, no virtus."[4]
The nobility of virtus lay not only in one's personal acta but also those of one's ancestors. However Cicero, a novus homo, asserted that virtus was a virtue particularly suited to the new man just as nobilitas was suited to the noble. Cicero argued that just as young men from noble families won the favor of the people so too should the novus homo earn the favor of the people with his virtus. He asserted that virtus, and not one's family history, should decide a man's worthiness. Because virtus is something that a man earns himself, not something that is given to him by his family, it is a better measure of a man's ability. Cicero's goal was not to impugn the noble class but widen it to include men who had earned their positions by merit.[5]
The term virtus was used quite significantly by the historian Sallust, a contemporary of Cicero. Sallust asserted that virtus did not rightfully belong to the nobilitas as a result of their family background but specifically to the novus homo through the exercise of ingenium (talent, also means sharpness of mind, sagacity, foresight, and character). For Sallust and Cicero alike, virtus comes from winning glory through illustrious deeds (egregia facinora) and the observance of right conduct through bonae artes.[6]
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Virtus was not universally applicable—typically only adult male Roman citizens could be thought of as possessing virtus.
Women
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Virtus was rarely attributed to women, probably because of its association with vir. The highest regarded female virtue was pudicitia: 'modesty' or 'chastity'. Cicero, however, attributes virtus to women several times. He uses it once to describe Caecilia Metella when she helps a man who is being chased by assassins.[Note 1] Twice more he uses it when describing his daughter, Tullia, portraying her in his letters as brave in his absence.[10] He uses it again to describe his first wife Terentia during his exile.[11] Livy in Book 2 attributes it to Cloelia.[12]
Children
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Virtus was not a term commonly used to describe children. Since virtus was primarily attributed to a full-grown man who had served in the military, children were not particularly suited to obtain this particular virtue.
Slaves
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While a slave was able to be homo ('man') he was not considered a vir. Slaves were often referred to as puer (Latin for 'boy') to denote that they were not citizens.[13] Since a slave could not be a vir it follows that they could not have the quality of virtus. Once a slave was manumitted, he was able to become a vir and also classified as a freedman, but this did not allow him to have virtus. A good slave or freedman was said to have fides, but no virtus.[13]
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Foreigners in the Roman world could be attributed with virtus, for example, if they fought bravely. Virtus could also be lost in battle. Virtus could even be a qualification for citizenship, as in the case of Spanish cavalry men granted citizenship by Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in 89 BCE for their virtus in battle.[14]
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Virtus applies exclusively to a man's behaviour in the public sphere; that is, to the application of duty to the res publica in the cursus honorum. His private business was no place to earn virtus, even when it involved courage, feats of arms, or other associated qualities performed for the public good.
In private
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While in many cultures it is considered "manly" to father and provide for a family, family life was considered in the Roman world to be part of the private sphere, in which there was no place for virtus. Most uses of virtus to describe any part of private life are ambiguous and refer to another similar quality.[15] In the Roman world the oldest living patriarch of the family was called the pater familias. This title implied that he could make all legal and binding decisions for the family; he also owned all its money, land, and other property. His wife, daughters, sons, and his sons' families were all under his potestas. The only time a son was seen as separate from his father's control in the eyes of other Romans was when he assumed his public identity as a citizen. He could earn his virtus by serving in the military, and thus he could only demonstrate manliness outside of the family setting. This is another reason that virtus is not often used to describe Roman private life.[16]
In public
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Virtus was a crucial component for a political career. Its broad definition led to it being used to describe a number of qualities that the Roman people idealized in their leaders.
In everyday life a typical Roman, especially a young boy, would have been inculcated with the idea of virtus. Since military service was a part of the lives of most Roman men, military training would have started fairly early. Young boys would have learned how to wield weapons and military tactics starting at home with their fathers and older male relatives and later in school. Also a young boy would have heard numerous stories about past heroes, battles, and wars. Some of these stories would have told of the virtus of past heroes, and even family members. Publicly it was easy to see the rewards of virtus. Public triumphs were held for victorious generals and rewards were given to brave fighters. This propaganda encouraged young boys coming into their manhood to be brave fighters and earn virtus. It was the duty of every generation of men to maintain the dignitas which his family had already earned and to enlarge it. Pressure to live up to the standards of one's ancestors was great. In achieving virtus one could also achieve gloria. By gaining virtus and gloria one could hope to aspire to high political office and great renown.
Cicero suggested that virtus was real manhood and that it boiled down to "Ever to excel". He declared that, "The whole glory of virtue [virtus] resides in activity." A Roman political man would only need to show scars in defense of the Republic to prove his worth.
Romans established their status through activity, creating a pecking order of honour. This involved agon—a test, trial, or ordeal requiring active effort to overcome. This activity was thought to banish certain characteristics of Roman thought that were believed to be negative. Such negative characteristics included being shameless, inactive, isolated, or leisurely and were the absence of virtus; placing dignitas into a static, frozen state. The contest established one's being and constructed the reality of one's virtus. Romans were willing to suffer shame, humiliation, victory, defeat, glory, destruction, success, and failure in pursuit of this.
Virtus was often associated with being aggressive[citation needed] and this could be dangerous in the public sphere and the political world. Displays of violent virtus were controlled through several methods. Men seeking to hold political office typically had to follow the cursus honorum. Many political offices had an age minimum which ensured that the men filling the positions had the proper amount of experience in the military and in government. Thus, even if a man proved himself capable of filling a position or was able to persuade people that he was capable, he would not necessarily be able to hold the position until he had reached a certain age. Minimum age also ensured an equal basis for candidates in elections for public offices, because by the time most men went into public office they would have retired from military service. Furthermore, before any Roman soldier could partake in single combat, he had to gain permission from his general. This was meant to keep soldiers from putting themselves in unnecessary danger in order to gain virtus.
Politically, virtus also tended to be a concept of morality. In contrast to its representation of manliness—as seen in aggression and the ruthless acquisition of money, land, and power—the lighter, more idealistic political meaning almost took on the extended meaning of pietas, as a man who was morally upright and concerned with the matters of the state.[17]
Plautus in Amphitruo contrasted virtus and ambitio. Virtus is seen as a positive attribute, while though ambitio itself is not necessarily a negative attribute it is often associated with negative methods such as bribery. Plautus said that just as great generals and armies win victory by virtus, so should political candidates. Ambitio "is the wrong method of reaching a good end". Part of virtus, in the political sphere, was to deal justly in every aspect of one's life, especially in political and state matters.[18]
According to Brett and Kate McKay, the Roman identity exists in a paradigm[clarification needed]; Rome was a contest culture and honor culture. Romans believed "your identity was neither fixed nor permanent, your worth was a moving target, and you had to always be actively engaged in proving yourself."[19]
Sexuality
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While in many cultures the virtue of manliness is seen as being partly sexual,[citation needed] in the Roman world the word virtus did not necessitate sexuality. Similar words deriving from the same stem often have sexual connotations, such as the word for man itself (vir) and the concept of "virility" (virilitas).[20] Nonetheless, poems such as Catullus 16 and the Carmina Priapea,[21] as well as speeches such as Cicero's In Verrem, demonstrate that manliness and pudicitia, or sexual propriety, were linked.[22]
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M. Claudius Marcellus, during the battle of Clastidium in 222 BCE, dedicated a temple to Honos and Virtus. This was one of the first times that Virtus had been recognized as divine. The connection with Honos would have been obvious to most Romans, as demonstrations of virtus led to election to public office, and both were considered honos. The cult of Honos was already a long-standing tradition in Rome. The marriage of the two deities ensured that Virtus would also get proper respect from the Romans. But the pontiffs objected that one temple could not properly house two gods because there would be no way of knowing to which god to sacrifice should a miracle happen in the temple.[citation needed]
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During the reign of Augustus, the Senate voted that a golden shield be inscribed with Augustus' attributes and displayed in the Curia Iulia, these virtues including virtus, clementia, iustitia, and pietas. These political catchwords continued to be used as propaganda by later emperors.
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The comic poet Plautus made use of virtus in his play Trinummus, which concerned family virtus, honor, public office, and obligations to the state. He also offered commentary on the concept of virtus in Amphitruo (see § In public above).[23]
Cicero said, "[only] virtus usually wards off a cruel and dishonorable death, and virtus is the badge of the Roman race and breed. Cling fast to [virtus], I beg you men of Rome, as a heritage that your ancestors bequeathed to you. All else is false and doubtful, ephemeral and changeful: only virtus stands firmly fixed, its roots run deep, it can never be shaken by any violence, never moved from its place."[24]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%ABrya
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Vīrya literally means "state of a strong human" or "manliness."[1] In Vedic literature, the term is associated with heroism and virility.
In Buddhism, virya refers to a practitioner's "energy",[2][3][4] "persistence",[4][5] "persevering,"[6] "vigour", "effort", "diligence",[7][8] or "exertion", and is repeatedly identified as a necessary prerequisite for achieving liberation.
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The Abhidharma-samuccaya states:
What is virya? It is the mind intent on being ever active, devoted, unshaken, not turning back and being indefatigable. It perfects and realizes what is conducive to the positive.[7]
In the context of the Mahayana Abhidharma, virya is commonly translated as diligence.[7]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu
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Sisu is a Finnish word variously translated as stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, grit, bravery, resilience,[1] and hardiness.[2] It is held by Finns to express their national character. It is generally considered[by whom?] not to have a single-word literal equivalent in English (tenacity, grit, resilience, and hardiness are much the same things, but do not necessarily imply stoicism or bravery).
In recent years, sociologists and psychologists have conducted research on sisu, attempting to quantify it and identify its effects, beneficial and harmful, in both individuals and populations.[3]
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Sisu is extraordinary determination in the face of extreme adversity, and courage that is presented typically in situations where success is unlikely. It expresses itself in taking action against the odds, and displaying courage and resoluteness in the face of adversity; in other words, deciding on a course of action, and then adhering to it even if repeated failures ensue. It is in some ways similar to equanimity, though sisu entails an element of stress management.
The English "gutsy" invokes a similar metaphor (one also found in other languages): the Finnish usage derives from sisus, translated as "interior", and as "entrails" or "guts". See also the colloquial phrase "intestinal fortitude". Another closely related English concept evokes the metaphor grit.
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Sisu is a term which dates back hundreds of years. It is described as being integral to understanding Finnish culture.[4] It is a term for going beyond one's mental or physical capacity, and is a central part of the country's culture and collective discourse. However, hardly any empirical research has been done to explore the meaning of this construct as a possible psychological strength resource, and it has long seemed[to whom?] to have a somewhat elusive nature. It has usually been studied as a cultural component among Finns and Finnish Americans,[5][6] but as a psychological construct long remained under-researched and poorly defined.
As early as the 1940s, attempts were made to grasp the essence of sisu. The Finnish newspaper Uusi Suomi[7][full citation needed] reached out to its audience for their definition of sisu, and conducted a contest. Uusi-Suomi wrote: "All of us somewhat know what sisu is... [it] has for long been a topic for discussion here in Finland and abroad. But how do we describe and define what sisu really is?" The quest to define the essence of sisu has evidently been around for almost a century. More recently, William R. Aho, professor emeritus of sociology at Rhodes College, said "we need a good deal of organized, systematic scientific research to discover the scope and depth of sisu, geographically and situationally, and the depth and strength of both the beliefs and behaviors surrounding and emanating from sisu."[5]
Research that began in 2013 sought to offer more precise language for discussing the term. While examining sisu within the psychological framework, it sought to render it less elusive as a construct by giving it an easily citable definition rooted within the field of positive psychology. Sisu as a psychological power potential was introduced for the first time at the 3rd World Congress on Positive Psychology in Los Angeles on 29 June 2013.[8] In the study, sisu is described as a psychological key competence which enables extraordinary action to overcome a mentally or physically challenging situation. Sisu also contributes to what has been named the action mindset: a consistent, courageous approach toward challenges which at first seem to exceed our capacities.[9] Sisu, as measured by the Sisu Scale questionnaire, has been established in contemporary psychological research as a strong correlate with well-being and stress. The Sisu Scale is composed of harmful and beneficial sisu. [10]
A related online survey conducted between March and May 2013 tracked the cultural representations of sisu among contemporary Finns and Finnish Americans.[11] It revealed that sisu is still deeply valued, and that there is public interest for cultivating this strength capacity as well. The study received over 1,000 responses; its data was the basis for thematic analysis. Among the main findings was the perception of sisu as a reserve of power which enables extraordinary action to overcome mentally or physically challenging situations, rather than being the ability to pursue long-term goals and be persistent.
Sisu is a psychological potential that enables the individual to tap into strength beyond their pre-conceived resources. Wielding sisu in the face of adversity helps individuals push through what first seemed like the boundaries of their mental or physical capacities. Sisu provides the final empowering push when we would otherwise hesitate to act. Sisu can be conceptualized as taking action against the odds. Even though 53% of the respondents believed some people innately have more sisu, 83% of the respondents believed that sisu is a flexible quality that can be cultivated through conscious practice, rather than being a fixed quality, and the majority of respondents were interested in developing this capacity. Research on sisu is currently[may be outdated as of August 2023] continuing at Aalto University School of Science in Espoo, Finland.[12]
Sisu is not always an entirely positive quality. In Finnish, pahansisuinen, literally translated, means one possessing bad sisu, a description of a hostile and malignant person. The answers from the sisu survey indicate that there can be too much sisu, and according to the survey answers this leads to bull-headedness, foolhardiness, self-centeredness, and inflexible thinking. The study suggests that sisu should be informed by reason and cultivated and practiced with self-compassion.[9]
Like any trait or psychological capacity, sisu is the complex product of genetic, psychological, biological, and social factors, and its comprehensive understanding will require studies from multiple scientific perspectives. Finland may have the initial monopoly on sisu as a cultural construct, but it is a universal capacity and the potential for it exists within all individuals.
The transformative power of narrative is widely acknowledged.[13][page needed] People develop their values and contribute to cultural values by communicating with other people in their culture.[14] Fostering sisu may very well be embedded in such behavior, rather than being a genetic trait one is born with. Sisu is a new term in the field of positive psychology, and it may contribute to our understanding of the determinants of resilience, as well as of achievement and the good life. It is suggested[by whom?] that positive psychology research could benefit from focusing on sisu and by examining relevant constructs from other cultures.
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Sisu has been described as "the word that explains Finland", and the Finns' "favorite word"—"the most wonderful of all their words."[15] As defined by Roman Schatz in his book From Finland with Love (2005), sisu is an ability to finish a task successfully. During the Winter War of 1939–1940, the Finnish perseverance in the face of the invasion by the Soviet Union popularized this word in English for a generation.[16][17] In what may have been the first use of sisu in the English language, on 8 January 1940, Time magazine reported:
The Finns have something they call sisu. It is a compound of bravado and bravery, of ferocity and tenacity, of the ability to keep fighting after most people would have quit, and to fight with the will to win. The Finns translate sisu as "the Finnish spirit" but it is a much more gutful word than that. Last week the Finns gave the world a good example of sisu by carrying the war into Russian territory on one front while on another they withstood merciless attacks by a reinforced Russian Army. In the wilderness that forms most of the Russo-Finnish frontier between Lake Laatokka and the Arctic Ocean, the Finns definitely gained the upper hand.
— Time magazine, January 8, 1940[16]
In 2009, sisu was described as so essential to the Finnish national character that "to be a real Finn" you must have it: "willpower, tenacity, persistency."[18]
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Singled out for kudos for this attribute was "Finland's wiry old peasant President, Kyösti Kallio—full of sisu..."[17] The word was also used to describe the Finnish stubbornness in sticking to its loose alliance with The Third Reich from 1941 to 1944 (in the war against the Soviet Union, which had attacked Finland on 30 November 1939):
Finnish sisu—meaning a peculiarly Finnish brand of doggedness, capable of facing down death itself—was at work against the Allies.... The Finns are not happy. But sisu enables them to say: "We have nothing worse than death to fear."
— Time magazine, May 10, 1943.[19]
During the 1952 Summer Olympics, sisu was further described in the context of the continuing Cold War looming over the Finnish capital city of Helsinki:
HELSINKI, host to the Olympic Games, a city of 400,000, was abustle. ... The Finns are not stupidly hiding their eyes from their future, but they are determined not to fall into another fight with a powerful and predatory next-door neighbor 66 times their size (in area, Finland is the sixth largest country in Europe; in population it is the third smallest). Under popular, 81-year-old President Juho Kusti Paasikivi and able, unpopular Agrarian Premier Urho Kekkonen, the Finns have learned to walk the nerve-racking path of independence like tight-rope walkers.
— Time magazine, July 21, 1952[20]
Well into the 1960s, sisu was used to describe the Finnish resistance to the invasion of 20 to 30 years prior and its continuing discontents.[21] In 1960, Austin Goodrich's book, Study in Sisu: Finland's Fight for Independence, was published by Ballantine.[22] Also in 1960, a notable reviewer of Griffin Taylor's novel, Mortlake, wrote:
"Have you heard of Finnish sisu?" asks a character in "Mortlake"—and it turns out that sisu is a sort of stamina or staying-power which the Finns have had to develop as a result of living next door to the Russians.
— Nigel Dennis, New York Times Book Review[23]
In 2004, Jorma Ollila, CEO of Nokia, described his company's "guts" by using the word sisu:
In times like these, the executives who run Nokia talk up a uniquely Finnish quality called sisu. "The translation would be 'guts,'" says Jorma Ollila, CEO of Nokia, in an interview. (Photograph Caption: Jorma Ollila says Nokia is determined to 'overcome all obstacles.') "But it's also endurance. There is a long-term element to it. You overcome all obstacles. You need quite a lot of sisu to survive in this climate." The climate he's referring to is the bleak and bitter Nordic winters, but he might as well be talking about the competitive, erratic wireless-phone market and Nokia's travails. This sisu trait—anathema to Wall Street's short-term outlook—says a lot about Nokia's response to its recent turmoil.
— Kevin Maney[24]
A Finnish heavy metal rock singer injured himself, without noticing, at a concert, to which a reviewer wrote:
Alan epäillä, että suomalainen sisu ja adrenaliini ovat yksi ja sama asia.—I am beginning to suspect that the Finnish sisu and adrenaline are the same thing.
— ImperiumI.net Finnish Heavy Metal website[25]
The concept is widely known in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which is home to a large concentration of Finnish Americans. This has extended to include a popular bumper sticker saying "got sisu?" or simply "SISU". In 2010, a 63-year-old Yooper named Joe Paquette Jr. of Munising, Michigan, walked 425 miles to the Detroit Lions training facility to bring the spirit of sisu to the team.[26]
The non-profit documentary SISU: Family, Love and Perseverance from Finland to America was made by Finnish-American filmmaker Marko Albrecht. The documentary looks at sisu by means of a profile of his late mother, his Finnish-American family, and his uncle Heikki's fight against pancreatic cancer. The film was called a time-capsule of modern Finnish-American life.[27]
In a 2008 episode of Top Gear, F1 racer Mika Häkkinen described sisu to James May:
Sisu in English means courage, it is the Finnish courage. Let me give you an example. Climbing a tree and jumping down from there, that doesn't mean sisu. That is not courage. Sisu we can relate very much that in motor racing, for example, you're driving a rally car in a forest extremely, really fast, you need courage to be able to brake late, to go on the throttle really early, to go really close to the apex of the corners.[28]
The platinum trophy of the Finnish-made video game Alan Wake 2, given to players who earn every other trophy in the game, is called Sisu.
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Due to its cultural significance, sisu is a common element of brand names in Finland. For example, there are Sisu trucks (and Sisu armored vehicles), the icebreaker MS Sisu, a brand of strong-tasting pastilles manufactured by Leaf[29] and Suomen Sisu, a Finnish nationalist organisation with connections to other far-right groups.
Sisu is also a male name with increasing popularity. More than 2,000 Finnish men have this name,[30] most of them being born after 2010. The son of The Dudesons's Jukka Hilden is called Sisu.
Globally, there were several fitness-related organizations and endurance sports teams such as the Sisu Project based in Haverhill and Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A.[31] that carried the name sisu and based their philosophy on the characteristics included in the concept sisu, including courage, integrity, honesty, and determination.
Mount Sisu is the name of a mountain first ascended by mountain climbers Veikka Gustafsson and Patrick Degerman in the Antarctic.
Sisu is also the name of a London-based hedge-fund, operated by several directors including Joy Seppala. The firm bought the football club Coventry City FC in 2007.
In Norway there is a seafood company named Sisu Seafood Norway AS that exports Norwegian seafoods.
On the Western end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the SISU Ski Fest is a popular annual event, highlighting a 21- and 42-kilometer cross-country ski race "finishing" in historic downtown Ironwood.[32]
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"Monument to the Finnish sisu" on a fell in Lapland
In season two of McLaren's animated program Tooned, Sisu is a planet and the true origin of two-time Formula One Drivers' Champion Mika Häkkinen (and possibly 2007 Drivers' Champion Kimi Räikkönen as well, based on a Sisu scene near the end of the episode in question). Häkkinen and Räikkönen are both Finnish and have driven for McLaren; Häkkinen won both of his titles with the team while Räikkönen won his after leaving McLaren for Ferrari.
A starship with a crew of partly Finnish descent in Robert A. Heinlein's 1957 science fiction novel Citizen of the Galaxy is named Sisu.[33]
A World War II movie titled Sisu, directed by Jalmari Helander and starring Jorma Tommila, was released in April 2023.[34]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah
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Chutzpah (Yiddish: חוצפה - /ˈxʊtspə, ˈhʊt-/)[1][2] is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. A close English equivalent is sometimes "hubris". The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh (חֻצְפָּה), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity". Thus, the original Yiddish word has a strongly negative connotation, but the form which entered English as a Yiddishism in American English has taken on a broader meaning, having been popularized through vernacular use in film, literature, and television.
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See, they even know, Hubris is all they do now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumud
Here is a crazy ad that was sent to me:
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It's deliciously dreadful. Lucky you.
WEDNESDAY’S NEW
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Ah capitalism, but at least this kind comes with torture...
Rest in 10 PC Nuggs with 2 Dips of Dread, Small Cursed & Crispy Fry, and Small Raven’s Blood Frosty® - agony awaits.
WEDNESDAY’S RAVEN’S BLOOD FROSTY® — OOZING WITH FLAVOUR
Black cherry and endless chills.
WEDNESDAY’S 4 DIPS OF DREAD
2 mystery dips in every bag —keep ordering for a chance to endure them all.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Rodrigo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday_Addams
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Addams
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Addams would enjoy the Presbyterian Cemetery on Mountain Avenue in Westfield as a child, where – according to author and Addams expert Ron MacCloskey – he would wonder what it was like to be dead.[5] In the cartoons, his ghoulish creations lived on Cemetery Ridge with a dreadful view.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterianism
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Presbyterian is applied to churches that trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups that were formed during the English Civil War, 1642 to 1651.[3]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Dissenters
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Presbyterian theology typically emphasises the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures, and the necessity of grace through faith in Christ. Scotland ensured Presbyterian church government in the 1707 Acts of Union,[4] which created the Kingdom of Great Britain. In fact, most Presbyterians in England have a Scottish connection. The Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America, Australia, and New Zealand, mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants.[5] Scotland's Presbyterian denominations hold to the Reformed theology of John Calvin and his immediate successors, although there is a range of theological views within contemporary Presbyterianism.
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https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/0 ... spiration/
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How an inmate’s insight inspired Northeastern professor’s modern take on ‘Paradise Lost’
Assistant professor Orlando Reade’s “What In Me Is Dark” has won plaudits for the way it has shone a light on John Milton’s epic and its attractiveness to history’s freedom fighters.
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https://news.northeastern.edu/wp-conten ... e=1100,732
The Black Hand like that of the Church Of Bane from Dungeons and Dragons and The Forgotten Realms and the lyrics of Gowan's Criminal Mind song.
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Reade admits that he was “afraid” of the libertarian’s 17th-century poem, which details the biblical story of the fall of man and Satan’s ruinous revolt against God, because of its density and legacy. But his interaction with the inmate made him view the masterpiece “in a new way.”
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seny
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Chutzpah (Yiddish: חוצפה - /ˈxʊtspə, ˈhʊt-/)[1][2] is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. A close English equivalent is sometimes "hubris". The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh (חֻצְפָּה), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity". Thus, the original Yiddish word has a strongly negative connotation, but the form which entered English as a Yiddishism in American English has taken on a broader meaning, having been popularized through vernacular use in film, literature, and television.
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See, they even know, Hubris is all they do now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumud
Here is a crazy ad that was sent to me:
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It's deliciously dreadful. Lucky you.
WEDNESDAY’S NEW
MEAL OF MISFORTUNE
Ah capitalism, but at least this kind comes with torture...
Rest in 10 PC Nuggs with 2 Dips of Dread, Small Cursed & Crispy Fry, and Small Raven’s Blood Frosty® - agony awaits.
WEDNESDAY’S RAVEN’S BLOOD FROSTY® — OOZING WITH FLAVOUR
Black cherry and endless chills.
WEDNESDAY’S 4 DIPS OF DREAD
2 mystery dips in every bag —keep ordering for a chance to endure them all.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Rodrigo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday_Addams
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Addams
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Addams would enjoy the Presbyterian Cemetery on Mountain Avenue in Westfield as a child, where – according to author and Addams expert Ron MacCloskey – he would wonder what it was like to be dead.[5] In the cartoons, his ghoulish creations lived on Cemetery Ridge with a dreadful view.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterianism
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Presbyterian is applied to churches that trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups that were formed during the English Civil War, 1642 to 1651.[3]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Dissenters
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Presbyterian theology typically emphasises the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures, and the necessity of grace through faith in Christ. Scotland ensured Presbyterian church government in the 1707 Acts of Union,[4] which created the Kingdom of Great Britain. In fact, most Presbyterians in England have a Scottish connection. The Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America, Australia, and New Zealand, mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants.[5] Scotland's Presbyterian denominations hold to the Reformed theology of John Calvin and his immediate successors, although there is a range of theological views within contemporary Presbyterianism.
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https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/0 ... spiration/
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How an inmate’s insight inspired Northeastern professor’s modern take on ‘Paradise Lost’
Assistant professor Orlando Reade’s “What In Me Is Dark” has won plaudits for the way it has shone a light on John Milton’s epic and its attractiveness to history’s freedom fighters.
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https://news.northeastern.edu/wp-conten ... e=1100,732
The Black Hand like that of the Church Of Bane from Dungeons and Dragons and The Forgotten Realms and the lyrics of Gowan's Criminal Mind song.
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Reade admits that he was “afraid” of the libertarian’s 17th-century poem, which details the biblical story of the fall of man and Satan’s ruinous revolt against God, because of its density and legacy. But his interaction with the inmate made him view the masterpiece “in a new way.”
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seny
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomez_Addams
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In the Charles Addams cartoons, Gomez—as with all of the members of the family—had no given name.[2] When The Addams Family television series was being developed, Charles Addams suggested naming the character either Repelli or Gomez. Addams left the final choice up to portrayer John Astin, who chose Gomez.[3]
Because "Gómez" is originally a Spanish surname, the character's name was changed to "Homero" ("Homer") in Spanish speaking translations. In Spain, where the surname originated, he is called Gómez.
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Like the other members of the family, Gomez's personality became largely codified by the television series.[2] He is depicted as being of Castilian extraction and Spanish ancestry, which was first brought up in "Art and the Addams Family" on December 18, 1964; in the episode, Gomez says his "ancestral land" is Spain and Morticia refers to him as a "mad Castilian."[4]
John Astin had long sessions with Addams and series producer David Levy, who gave him free rein in developing the character. Enlarging on Addams's description of Gomez as a Latin lover type, Astin suggested the eye-rolling, pencil moustache, and ardent devotion to Morticia.[5]
In the Addams cartoons and the television shows, Gomez wore a necktie to his chalk-stripe suit, though in the films, Gomez wears a bow tie and a wide variety of extravagant clothing. He spends $1000 per month on cigars,[6] and he is an accomplished juggler and knife thrower. He loves crashing toy trains and diving for crabs on Halloween. When he wishes to know the time, he will pull a pocket watch from the breast pocket of his jacket (the chain is attached to the lapel) while simultaneously checking a wristwatch.
Gomez is an athletic, acrobatic, and eccentric multibillionaire.[6] Though an extremely successful businessman, having acquired much of his wealth through inheritance and investments, he has little regard for money and will casually spend thousands of dollars on any whimsical endeavor. Gomez's investments are guided more by whimsy than strategy, yet rarely fail him. Gomez owns businesses around the world, including a swamp, bought for "scenic value", a crocodile farm, a buzzard farm, a salt mine, a tombstone factory, a uranium mine, and many others. In Forbes 2007 "Fictional 15" list of the richest fictional characters, he was ranked number 12 with a net worth of $2.5 billion.[6]
As a young man, Gomez was, per flashback in "Morticia's Romance", a perennially sickly youth, gaining perfect health only after meeting Morticia. He nevertheless studied law (voted "Most Likely Never to Pass the Bar") and is quite proud his law class voted him "Least Likely to Succeed"; and although he rarely practices, he takes an absurd delight in losing cases, boasting of having put many criminals behind bars while acting as their defense attorney, claiming that he "never sent an innocent man to jail"; this is somewhat contradicted in the episode "The Addams Family Goes to Court," which noted that while Gomez has never won a case, he has never lost one either. This backstory, while not mentioned directly, is recalled in The Addams Family (1991), when Gomez announces he will serve as his own attorney, only to lose the case. In The New Addams Family, Gomez had also studied medicine.
Gomez has offered contradictory views on work; in one episode, he claims that although his family was wealthy even in his childhood, he nonetheless performed odd jobs and "scrimped and saved [his] kopeks," which he considered character building. When his son Pugsley decided to find a job, however, Gomez was horrified, claiming, "No Addams has worked in 300 years!" In the 1991 animated series, Gomez deliberately tried to fail at something, anything, only to realize in the end of the episode that he is only a failure in failure. This is additionally contradicted in "New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family" (season one, episode 9, 1964). He specifically states that Thing always beats him at bridge.[7][better source needed]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morticia_Addams
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Fatale
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magica_De_Spell
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Magica De Spell (magica being Italian for 'magical') is a cartoon character created in 1961 by Carl Barks for the Duck universe. An Italian sorceress, she constantly attempts to steal Scrooge McDuck's Number One Dime, which she believes will play a vital role in magically obtaining the same fabulous wealth of its owner.
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The dime is a key plot point in practically every story featuring Magica De Spell, a character invented by Carl Barks, as the main villain. Magica believes that by stealing the first coin earned by the richest person in the world and melting it down to a magical amulet, she can gain the power of the ancient King Midas, so that everything she touches becomes gold and she can be rich beyond her wildest dreams. The fact that this will only work if the coin indeed belongs to the richest person in the world at the time, and is the first coin that person earned, is crucial, and is made into a plot point in some stories. However, the dime only has magical value because of these circumstances and not on its own. Magica once successfully stole the Dime while helping the Beagle Boys rob McDuck, stopping when she realized this would mean McDuck would no longer be the world's richest person, rendering the Dime worthless.
According to a comic story by Don Rosa,[33] it is an 1875 Seated Liberty dime, but in a comic story written by Pat and Carol McGreal and drawn by Maximino Tortajada Aguilar,[34] the last two digits have been swapped, making it an 1857 Seated Liberty dime.
Scrooge earned the dime in 1877 in his hometown of Glasgow, when he started working as a shoeshine boy on his tenth birthday.[16] Before that it belonged to Howard Rockerduck (the father of John D. Rockerduck). The customer who paid it to him, a ditch-digger called Burt, seemingly "cheated" Scrooge. In reality, Scrooge's father, Fergus McDuck, gave Burt the dime specifically for paying Scrooge for his services. Scrooge McDuck never learned that fact, although Fergus did reveal it to Scrooge's sisters Matilda and Hortense. Burt and Magica De Spell, who learned about this when she traveled in time to the day Scrooge earned the Dime, are the only other ones who know. McDuck kept it as a reminder not to be fooled again in the future. When he emigrated to the US three years later, he carried it with him. Scrooge still has the dime and keeps it on a pillow under glass because of its sentimental value. Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and Gladstone Gander among many others think it is really a lucky charm, but Scrooge himself rejects any claims beyond sentimentality.[32]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_ ... ty_coinage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_dime
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_coinage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Barber
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Peace_Cemetery
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Fellows
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_U ... Oddfellows
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Grand United Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society (GUOOFS)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism
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Jacobitism[c] was a political ideology advocating the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the British throne. When James II of England chose exile after the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, the Parliament of England ruled he had "abandoned" the English throne, which was given to his Protestant daughter Mary II of England, and his nephew, her husband William III.[1] On the same basis, in April the Scottish Convention awarded Mary and William the throne of Scotland.[2]
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The Revolution created the principle of a contract between monarch and people, which if violated meant the monarch could be removed. A key tenet of Jacobitism was that kings were appointed by God, making the post-1688 regime illegitimate. However, it also functioned as an outlet for popular discontent, and thus was a complex mix of ideas, many opposed by the Stuarts themselves. Conflict between Prince Charles and Scottish Jacobites over the Acts of Union 1707 and divine right seriously undermined the 1745 rising.
Jacobitism was strongest in Ireland, the Western Scottish Highlands, Perthshire, and Aberdeenshire.[3] Pockets of support were also present in Wales, Northern England, the West Midlands and South West England, all areas strongly Royalist during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. In addition, the Stuarts received intermittent backing from countries like France, usually dependent on their own strategic objectives.
In addition to the 1689–1691 Williamite War in Ireland and Jacobite rising of 1689 in Scotland, there were serious revolts in 1715, 1719 and 1745, French invasion attempts in 1708 and 1744, and numerous unsuccessful plots. While the 1745 Rising briefly seemed to threaten the Hanoverian monarchy, its defeat in 1746 ended Jacobitism as a serious political movement.
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Scottish Gaelic: Na Seumasaich
Irish: Seacaibíteachas, Na Séamasaigh
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Historian Frank McLynn identifies seven primary drivers in Jacobitism, noting that while the movement contained "sincere men [...] who aimed solely to restore the Stuarts", it "provided a source of legitimacy for political dissent of all kinds".[32] Establishing the ideology of active participants is complicated by the fact that "by and large, those who wrote most did not act, and those who acted wrote little, if anything."[33] As a result, historians have taken different views on its primary driving force. These include being an aristocratic rejection of an increasingly unitary state, feudal opposition to capitalism, or Scots and Irish nationalism.[34]
Jacobitism drew on elements of a political theology shared by Non-juring, Tory elements within the Church of England, and members of the Scottish Episcopal Church.[35] These were the divine right of kings, their accountability to God, not man or Parliament; secondly, that monarchy was a divine institution; thirdly, legitimism, the crown's descent by indefeasible dynastic right, which could not be overturned or annulled; and lastly the scriptural injunction of passive obedience and non-resistance, even towards monarchs of which the individual subject might disapprove.[36][37]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobit ... _Belle.jpg
The bluish color is beautiful.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-edi ... rite-color
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Studies as early as 1941 indicated that bluish hues were the most preferred; just this summer, the world’s favorite color was declared to be a particular shade of greenish-blue (or was it bluish-green?) based on a 30,000-person survey canvassing 100 countries. It’s a predilection that isn’t limited to a particular geography or gender or even political affiliation—as it turns out, even Republicans generally prefer blue, too.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/0 ... reen-blue/
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It is the world’s favourite colour - but nobody can decide whether it is actually blue or green
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https://colorlib.com/wp/color-psychology-facts/
It is a word and people are meaning the same specific blue-green color we are wired to like, the chlorophyll color that is seen throughout nature and seen here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo_painting
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Rococo painting represents the expression in painting of an aesthetic movement that flourished in Europe between the early and late 18th century, migrating to America and surviving in some regions until the mid-19th century. The painting of this movement is divided into two sharply differentiated camps. One forms an intimate, carefree visual document of the way of life and worldview of the eighteenth-century European elites, and the other, adapting constituent elements of the style to the monumental decoration of churches and palaces, served as a means of glorifying faith and civil power.
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Remember, these two seemingly contrasting themes have been repeated throughout this recent writing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo_ ... _Swing.jpg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll
https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine-archive/node/1425
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Our eyes and plant leaves have much in common
Published:3/25/2014 3/25/2014
Discovery initially led to accusations of flouting the law of thermodynamics, newest college Professor of Distinction recalls
By Clint Talbott
One might ask what human eyes and photosynthesis have in common. The answer, a pioneering scientist at CU-Boulder says, is, “More than you might think.”
Barbara Demmig-Adams has been named the 2013 College Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences. She discussed her work during a public presentation celebrating the honor this fall.
“Intense sunlight can actually damage the human eye, as well as leaves.” The eye absorbs light for the purpose of interpreting information, and leaves absorb light for energy to make food.
“Therefore, it is maybe not entirely surprising that eyes and leaves share things. They employ the same powerful protection against any damage from this intense light, except that plants manufacture this protection just as is needed, but we can neither manufacture this protection nor do we seem to know what we need to eat.”
Humans need to consume certain compounds that protect our eyes and other parts of the bodies against damage.I stood up there and proposed that plants do dissipate any excess light just fine, and this ‘damage’ thing had to be looked at again. ... Nothing could have prepared me for the firestorm that broke loose."
Demmig-Adams described her interest in photosynthesis this way: It is the basis of life on Earth and human civilization.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/eye2017226
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180954729/
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The colors we see—all different wavelengths—move by microbes swarming on the surface of our eyes, enter through the cornea and pass through the pupil. They bend through the lens and swim through the vitreous humor that keep the eye an orb. On the retina, the back of the eye, the light rays pass right through the nerve cells that will pass signals to the brain—but ignore them for now. They reach cones—that line the back of the eye and sense the differences in colors—and rods, which are color-blind but even more sensitive to light.
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Plants appear green to the human eye due to the presence of chlorophyll pigment, which absorbs light in the blue and red ends of the spectrum but reflects green light.
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https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/Qur ... a-803.html
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To render or do the forbidden, blessed with means of subsistence, to die in youth, take up a load or burden, green, to become green in color (9th verb form), to be cut or cut off (like as dying young or fruit that is picked before it is ripe), fresh or pleasant, having much verdure.
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https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/76/21/#gsc.tab=0
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivendell
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In 1937, having had his manuscript for The Silmarillion rejected by a publisher who disparaged all the "eye-splitting Celtic names" that Tolkien had given his Elves, Tolkien denied the names had a Celtic origin:[T 7]
Needless to say they are not Celtic! Neither are the tales. I do know Celtic things (many in their original languages Irish and Welsh), and feel for them a certain distaste: largely for their fundamental unreason. They have bright colour, but are like a broken stained glass window reassembled without design. They are in fact "mad" as your reader says – but I don't believe I am.[T 7]
Dimitra Fimi proposes that these comments are a product of his Anglophilia rather than a commentary on the texts themselves or their actual influence on his writing, and cites evidence to this effect in her essay "'Mad' Elves and 'elusive beauty': some Celtic strands of Tolkien's mythology".[18] Fimi proposes that some of the stories Tolkien wrote as elven history are directly influenced by Celtic mythology.[18] For example, "Flight of The Noldoli" she argues, is based on the Tuatha Dé Danann and Lebor Gabála Érenn, and their migratory nature comes from early Irish/Celtic history.[18] John Garth states that with the underground enslavement of the Noldoli to Melkor, Tolkien was essentially rewriting Irish myth regarding the Tuatha Dé Danann into a Christian eschatology.[21]
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https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Undying_Lands
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Western_Lands
This ad played as I read about the "Undying Lands", f*ck, that was horrible, it kept typo'ing and then trying to explain it was also infuriatingly difficult, because of "Lanss" and "Lands" sounds so similar, and then when I tried writing the typo'ed version to type it here in the explanation and then it typed it correctly when not intended! There is in that little tale a message, I try not to write things without additional layers of meaning for meditative purposes.
Likewise, at the same time, there are two shoppers working for the same company and even purchasing for the same buyer, me, who are unaware that they are doing that, as they cross by each other in the store, they don't know that they are both workers for the same company, or even shopping for the same person! They are completely isolated and cut off from each other, making complaining amongst themselves difficult, and organizing to get better rights, which is just what a company would ideally want, completely isolated people working as blind cogs in a machine to enrich unknown masters.
https://youtu.be/eIkIp4L865M?feature=shared
When I looked up at it, it was showing an interview with people involved with the film, interspersed with the trailer, so it said "Death Lives".
I had been looking at a "(Aztec/American) Death Whistle" from Amazon.ca, the World's Most Convenient Consumer Hub, for months, maybe even years now, considering potentially purchasing one, but also not necessarily liking or being able to feel comfortable using it in this apartment building where one can hear through the walls and I maintain a lot of silence like a monk.
It is all meant to sound weird, like that the place is called Amazon, like the Amazon Jungle, that they are selling a modern recreation of an ancient technology that produced the sound of people screaming as if in terrible distress or being tortured.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Myrkul
I'm trying to understand and figure out uses for these symbols:
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Dead_Three
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Dead_Three
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/c ... ke_theyre/
That title made me laugh:
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Why do folk talk about The Dead Three like they're losers?
In game characters talk about Bane, Bhaal and Myrkul as if they're pathetic. They are human adventurers who presumably reached max level and boot strapped themselves to godhood with hard work and great cunning. The fact they never give up and keep grinding no matter who they are up against is seen as annoying, rather than admirable. I looked for a list of Faerun gods who were human and the best list was about 20 names long. Of all the millions of people who ever lived in that world, only 20 beat the odds, and three of them are these guys who are considered losers. Why?
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The name of the person who posted it is reminiscent of The Addams Family:
https://www.reddit.com/user/MorbidParamour/
Morbid Paramour
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.4993494 ... f8f8f8.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/moviecritic/co ... raze_that/
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In the Charles Addams cartoons, Gomez—as with all of the members of the family—had no given name.[2] When The Addams Family television series was being developed, Charles Addams suggested naming the character either Repelli or Gomez. Addams left the final choice up to portrayer John Astin, who chose Gomez.[3]
Because "Gómez" is originally a Spanish surname, the character's name was changed to "Homero" ("Homer") in Spanish speaking translations. In Spain, where the surname originated, he is called Gómez.
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Like the other members of the family, Gomez's personality became largely codified by the television series.[2] He is depicted as being of Castilian extraction and Spanish ancestry, which was first brought up in "Art and the Addams Family" on December 18, 1964; in the episode, Gomez says his "ancestral land" is Spain and Morticia refers to him as a "mad Castilian."[4]
John Astin had long sessions with Addams and series producer David Levy, who gave him free rein in developing the character. Enlarging on Addams's description of Gomez as a Latin lover type, Astin suggested the eye-rolling, pencil moustache, and ardent devotion to Morticia.[5]
In the Addams cartoons and the television shows, Gomez wore a necktie to his chalk-stripe suit, though in the films, Gomez wears a bow tie and a wide variety of extravagant clothing. He spends $1000 per month on cigars,[6] and he is an accomplished juggler and knife thrower. He loves crashing toy trains and diving for crabs on Halloween. When he wishes to know the time, he will pull a pocket watch from the breast pocket of his jacket (the chain is attached to the lapel) while simultaneously checking a wristwatch.
Gomez is an athletic, acrobatic, and eccentric multibillionaire.[6] Though an extremely successful businessman, having acquired much of his wealth through inheritance and investments, he has little regard for money and will casually spend thousands of dollars on any whimsical endeavor. Gomez's investments are guided more by whimsy than strategy, yet rarely fail him. Gomez owns businesses around the world, including a swamp, bought for "scenic value", a crocodile farm, a buzzard farm, a salt mine, a tombstone factory, a uranium mine, and many others. In Forbes 2007 "Fictional 15" list of the richest fictional characters, he was ranked number 12 with a net worth of $2.5 billion.[6]
As a young man, Gomez was, per flashback in "Morticia's Romance", a perennially sickly youth, gaining perfect health only after meeting Morticia. He nevertheless studied law (voted "Most Likely Never to Pass the Bar") and is quite proud his law class voted him "Least Likely to Succeed"; and although he rarely practices, he takes an absurd delight in losing cases, boasting of having put many criminals behind bars while acting as their defense attorney, claiming that he "never sent an innocent man to jail"; this is somewhat contradicted in the episode "The Addams Family Goes to Court," which noted that while Gomez has never won a case, he has never lost one either. This backstory, while not mentioned directly, is recalled in The Addams Family (1991), when Gomez announces he will serve as his own attorney, only to lose the case. In The New Addams Family, Gomez had also studied medicine.
Gomez has offered contradictory views on work; in one episode, he claims that although his family was wealthy even in his childhood, he nonetheless performed odd jobs and "scrimped and saved [his] kopeks," which he considered character building. When his son Pugsley decided to find a job, however, Gomez was horrified, claiming, "No Addams has worked in 300 years!" In the 1991 animated series, Gomez deliberately tried to fail at something, anything, only to realize in the end of the episode that he is only a failure in failure. This is additionally contradicted in "New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family" (season one, episode 9, 1964). He specifically states that Thing always beats him at bridge.[7][better source needed]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morticia_Addams
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Fatale
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magica_De_Spell
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Magica De Spell (magica being Italian for 'magical') is a cartoon character created in 1961 by Carl Barks for the Duck universe. An Italian sorceress, she constantly attempts to steal Scrooge McDuck's Number One Dime, which she believes will play a vital role in magically obtaining the same fabulous wealth of its owner.
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The dime is a key plot point in practically every story featuring Magica De Spell, a character invented by Carl Barks, as the main villain. Magica believes that by stealing the first coin earned by the richest person in the world and melting it down to a magical amulet, she can gain the power of the ancient King Midas, so that everything she touches becomes gold and she can be rich beyond her wildest dreams. The fact that this will only work if the coin indeed belongs to the richest person in the world at the time, and is the first coin that person earned, is crucial, and is made into a plot point in some stories. However, the dime only has magical value because of these circumstances and not on its own. Magica once successfully stole the Dime while helping the Beagle Boys rob McDuck, stopping when she realized this would mean McDuck would no longer be the world's richest person, rendering the Dime worthless.
According to a comic story by Don Rosa,[33] it is an 1875 Seated Liberty dime, but in a comic story written by Pat and Carol McGreal and drawn by Maximino Tortajada Aguilar,[34] the last two digits have been swapped, making it an 1857 Seated Liberty dime.
Scrooge earned the dime in 1877 in his hometown of Glasgow, when he started working as a shoeshine boy on his tenth birthday.[16] Before that it belonged to Howard Rockerduck (the father of John D. Rockerduck). The customer who paid it to him, a ditch-digger called Burt, seemingly "cheated" Scrooge. In reality, Scrooge's father, Fergus McDuck, gave Burt the dime specifically for paying Scrooge for his services. Scrooge McDuck never learned that fact, although Fergus did reveal it to Scrooge's sisters Matilda and Hortense. Burt and Magica De Spell, who learned about this when she traveled in time to the day Scrooge earned the Dime, are the only other ones who know. McDuck kept it as a reminder not to be fooled again in the future. When he emigrated to the US three years later, he carried it with him. Scrooge still has the dime and keeps it on a pillow under glass because of its sentimental value. Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and Gladstone Gander among many others think it is really a lucky charm, but Scrooge himself rejects any claims beyond sentimentality.[32]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_ ... ty_coinage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_dime
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_coinage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Barber
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Peace_Cemetery
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Fellows
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_U ... Oddfellows
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Grand United Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society (GUOOFS)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism
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Jacobitism[c] was a political ideology advocating the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the British throne. When James II of England chose exile after the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, the Parliament of England ruled he had "abandoned" the English throne, which was given to his Protestant daughter Mary II of England, and his nephew, her husband William III.[1] On the same basis, in April the Scottish Convention awarded Mary and William the throne of Scotland.[2]
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The Revolution created the principle of a contract between monarch and people, which if violated meant the monarch could be removed. A key tenet of Jacobitism was that kings were appointed by God, making the post-1688 regime illegitimate. However, it also functioned as an outlet for popular discontent, and thus was a complex mix of ideas, many opposed by the Stuarts themselves. Conflict between Prince Charles and Scottish Jacobites over the Acts of Union 1707 and divine right seriously undermined the 1745 rising.
Jacobitism was strongest in Ireland, the Western Scottish Highlands, Perthshire, and Aberdeenshire.[3] Pockets of support were also present in Wales, Northern England, the West Midlands and South West England, all areas strongly Royalist during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. In addition, the Stuarts received intermittent backing from countries like France, usually dependent on their own strategic objectives.
In addition to the 1689–1691 Williamite War in Ireland and Jacobite rising of 1689 in Scotland, there were serious revolts in 1715, 1719 and 1745, French invasion attempts in 1708 and 1744, and numerous unsuccessful plots. While the 1745 Rising briefly seemed to threaten the Hanoverian monarchy, its defeat in 1746 ended Jacobitism as a serious political movement.
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Scottish Gaelic: Na Seumasaich
Irish: Seacaibíteachas, Na Séamasaigh
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Historian Frank McLynn identifies seven primary drivers in Jacobitism, noting that while the movement contained "sincere men [...] who aimed solely to restore the Stuarts", it "provided a source of legitimacy for political dissent of all kinds".[32] Establishing the ideology of active participants is complicated by the fact that "by and large, those who wrote most did not act, and those who acted wrote little, if anything."[33] As a result, historians have taken different views on its primary driving force. These include being an aristocratic rejection of an increasingly unitary state, feudal opposition to capitalism, or Scots and Irish nationalism.[34]
Jacobitism drew on elements of a political theology shared by Non-juring, Tory elements within the Church of England, and members of the Scottish Episcopal Church.[35] These were the divine right of kings, their accountability to God, not man or Parliament; secondly, that monarchy was a divine institution; thirdly, legitimism, the crown's descent by indefeasible dynastic right, which could not be overturned or annulled; and lastly the scriptural injunction of passive obedience and non-resistance, even towards monarchs of which the individual subject might disapprove.[36][37]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobit ... _Belle.jpg
The bluish color is beautiful.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-edi ... rite-color
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Studies as early as 1941 indicated that bluish hues were the most preferred; just this summer, the world’s favorite color was declared to be a particular shade of greenish-blue (or was it bluish-green?) based on a 30,000-person survey canvassing 100 countries. It’s a predilection that isn’t limited to a particular geography or gender or even political affiliation—as it turns out, even Republicans generally prefer blue, too.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/0 ... reen-blue/
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It is the world’s favourite colour - but nobody can decide whether it is actually blue or green
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https://colorlib.com/wp/color-psychology-facts/
It is a word and people are meaning the same specific blue-green color we are wired to like, the chlorophyll color that is seen throughout nature and seen here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo_painting
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Rococo painting represents the expression in painting of an aesthetic movement that flourished in Europe between the early and late 18th century, migrating to America and surviving in some regions until the mid-19th century. The painting of this movement is divided into two sharply differentiated camps. One forms an intimate, carefree visual document of the way of life and worldview of the eighteenth-century European elites, and the other, adapting constituent elements of the style to the monumental decoration of churches and palaces, served as a means of glorifying faith and civil power.
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Remember, these two seemingly contrasting themes have been repeated throughout this recent writing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo_ ... _Swing.jpg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll
https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine-archive/node/1425
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Our eyes and plant leaves have much in common
Published:3/25/2014 3/25/2014
Discovery initially led to accusations of flouting the law of thermodynamics, newest college Professor of Distinction recalls
By Clint Talbott
One might ask what human eyes and photosynthesis have in common. The answer, a pioneering scientist at CU-Boulder says, is, “More than you might think.”
Barbara Demmig-Adams has been named the 2013 College Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences. She discussed her work during a public presentation celebrating the honor this fall.
“Intense sunlight can actually damage the human eye, as well as leaves.” The eye absorbs light for the purpose of interpreting information, and leaves absorb light for energy to make food.
“Therefore, it is maybe not entirely surprising that eyes and leaves share things. They employ the same powerful protection against any damage from this intense light, except that plants manufacture this protection just as is needed, but we can neither manufacture this protection nor do we seem to know what we need to eat.”
Humans need to consume certain compounds that protect our eyes and other parts of the bodies against damage.I stood up there and proposed that plants do dissipate any excess light just fine, and this ‘damage’ thing had to be looked at again. ... Nothing could have prepared me for the firestorm that broke loose."
Demmig-Adams described her interest in photosynthesis this way: It is the basis of life on Earth and human civilization.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/eye2017226
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180954729/
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The colors we see—all different wavelengths—move by microbes swarming on the surface of our eyes, enter through the cornea and pass through the pupil. They bend through the lens and swim through the vitreous humor that keep the eye an orb. On the retina, the back of the eye, the light rays pass right through the nerve cells that will pass signals to the brain—but ignore them for now. They reach cones—that line the back of the eye and sense the differences in colors—and rods, which are color-blind but even more sensitive to light.
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Plants appear green to the human eye due to the presence of chlorophyll pigment, which absorbs light in the blue and red ends of the spectrum but reflects green light.
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https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/Qur ... a-803.html
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To render or do the forbidden, blessed with means of subsistence, to die in youth, take up a load or burden, green, to become green in color (9th verb form), to be cut or cut off (like as dying young or fruit that is picked before it is ripe), fresh or pleasant, having much verdure.
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https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/76/21/#gsc.tab=0
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivendell
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In 1937, having had his manuscript for The Silmarillion rejected by a publisher who disparaged all the "eye-splitting Celtic names" that Tolkien had given his Elves, Tolkien denied the names had a Celtic origin:[T 7]
Needless to say they are not Celtic! Neither are the tales. I do know Celtic things (many in their original languages Irish and Welsh), and feel for them a certain distaste: largely for their fundamental unreason. They have bright colour, but are like a broken stained glass window reassembled without design. They are in fact "mad" as your reader says – but I don't believe I am.[T 7]
Dimitra Fimi proposes that these comments are a product of his Anglophilia rather than a commentary on the texts themselves or their actual influence on his writing, and cites evidence to this effect in her essay "'Mad' Elves and 'elusive beauty': some Celtic strands of Tolkien's mythology".[18] Fimi proposes that some of the stories Tolkien wrote as elven history are directly influenced by Celtic mythology.[18] For example, "Flight of The Noldoli" she argues, is based on the Tuatha Dé Danann and Lebor Gabála Érenn, and their migratory nature comes from early Irish/Celtic history.[18] John Garth states that with the underground enslavement of the Noldoli to Melkor, Tolkien was essentially rewriting Irish myth regarding the Tuatha Dé Danann into a Christian eschatology.[21]
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https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Undying_Lands
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Western_Lands
This ad played as I read about the "Undying Lands", f*ck, that was horrible, it kept typo'ing and then trying to explain it was also infuriatingly difficult, because of "Lanss" and "Lands" sounds so similar, and then when I tried writing the typo'ed version to type it here in the explanation and then it typed it correctly when not intended! There is in that little tale a message, I try not to write things without additional layers of meaning for meditative purposes.
Likewise, at the same time, there are two shoppers working for the same company and even purchasing for the same buyer, me, who are unaware that they are doing that, as they cross by each other in the store, they don't know that they are both workers for the same company, or even shopping for the same person! They are completely isolated and cut off from each other, making complaining amongst themselves difficult, and organizing to get better rights, which is just what a company would ideally want, completely isolated people working as blind cogs in a machine to enrich unknown masters.
https://youtu.be/eIkIp4L865M?feature=shared
When I looked up at it, it was showing an interview with people involved with the film, interspersed with the trailer, so it said "Death Lives".
I had been looking at a "(Aztec/American) Death Whistle" from Amazon.ca, the World's Most Convenient Consumer Hub, for months, maybe even years now, considering potentially purchasing one, but also not necessarily liking or being able to feel comfortable using it in this apartment building where one can hear through the walls and I maintain a lot of silence like a monk.
It is all meant to sound weird, like that the place is called Amazon, like the Amazon Jungle, that they are selling a modern recreation of an ancient technology that produced the sound of people screaming as if in terrible distress or being tortured.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Myrkul
I'm trying to understand and figure out uses for these symbols:
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Dead_Three
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Dead_Three
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/c ... ke_theyre/
That title made me laugh:
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Why do folk talk about The Dead Three like they're losers?
In game characters talk about Bane, Bhaal and Myrkul as if they're pathetic. They are human adventurers who presumably reached max level and boot strapped themselves to godhood with hard work and great cunning. The fact they never give up and keep grinding no matter who they are up against is seen as annoying, rather than admirable. I looked for a list of Faerun gods who were human and the best list was about 20 names long. Of all the millions of people who ever lived in that world, only 20 beat the odds, and three of them are these guys who are considered losers. Why?
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The name of the person who posted it is reminiscent of The Addams Family:
https://www.reddit.com/user/MorbidParamour/
Morbid Paramour
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.4993494 ... f8f8f8.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/moviecritic/co ... raze_that/
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https://listofdeaths.fandom.com/wiki/Li ... ved_Deaths
https://crimereads.com/high-net-worth-v ... e-fiction/
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It’s true. As readers, the only thing we love more than a bad person getting what’s coming to them is a bad rich person getting what’s coming to them. Agatha Christie knew it when she skewered the American gangster in Murder on the Orient Express. She knew it when she used a poison-tipped dart to do away with grisly moneylender Madame Giselle in Death in the Clouds, and later when she poisoned the wealthy matriarch Mrs. Boynton in Appointment with Death.
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According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, J*w*sh again ranked as the most financially successful religious group in the United States, with 44% of J*ws living in households with incomes of at least $100,000, followed by Hindu (36%), Episcopalians (35%), and Presbyterians (32%).[13] Amongst J*ws, in 2016, Modern Orthodox J*ws had a median household income of $158,000, while Open Orthodoxy J*ws had a median household income of $185,000 (compared to the American median household income of $59,000 in 2016).[14]
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https://www.ajc.org/news/ajc-survey-sho ... -to-israel
https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-po ... ing-gazans
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx9l4x7xjno
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Baroness Golding said her dad told her of people at the camps who were "skin and bones with vacant eyes".
She added: "We need to remember this, so it can never happen again."
Despite wanting to preserve this valuable evidence, Mr Edwards could not face having the piece of lampshade in his home, so gave it to his son to keep safe.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_Revolt
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The uprisings unfolded almost simultaneously across various provinces of the Roman East. In Egypt, Libya and Cyprus, J*w*sh actions were primarily directed against local populations rather than the Roman authorities,[8] with accounts from historians like Cassius Dio and Eusebius, as well as epigraphical evidence, documenting extreme violence, including mass killings and the destruction of temples.[9]
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Dio's account describes the J*ws of Libya as engaging in shockingly violent and cruel behavior.[9] They are said to have engaged in cannibalism, mutilation, and other brutal acts, including using the victims' skins and entrails to make clothing and belts, and staging gladiatorial and wild beast shows.[45][42] Dio reported that the J*w*sh rebels in Cyrenaica were responsible for approximately 220,000 Gentile deaths,[45]
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Epigraphical sources provide evidence of attacks on religious and civic structures, including temples and statues.[9] In Cyrene, for instance, the sanctuary of Apollo witnessed the destruction and burning of the baths, porticoes, ball-courts, and other nearby structures during the uprising. The temple of Hecate also suffered destruction and was burned down in the uprising. Significant damage is also recorded at the Caesareum and the temple of Zeus.[9][15] Bishop Synesius, a native of Cyrene from the early 5th century, also refers to the devastation caused by the J*ws, four centuries after the revolt.[47]
The archaeological evidence, including inscriptions, sheds light on the significant destruction caused by the J*ws in Cyrenaica during the revolt.[48] A Hadrianic milestone commemorates the repair of the road connecting Cyrene with its port, Apollonia, "which had been overturned and smashed up in the J*wish revolt," possibly in anticipation of a Roman military advance from the sea.[9][45] Joyce Reynolds notes significant damage to the sanctuary of Asclepius at Balagrae, west of Cyrene, which was later rebuilt under the Antonine dynasty.[15][9] The presence of a deeply incised seven-branched m*n*r*h—a symbol indicative of J*w*sh presence—on a road northwest of Balagrae may suggest, according to Reynolds, that J*ws deliberately sought to disrupt the route connecting Cyrene with neighboring regions to the west.[9] The destruction of a small second-century temple near modern El Dab'a in Marmarica is likely also attributable to the J*w*sh rebels.[15]
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Lukuas's forces, supported by Egyptian Jews who rallied to his side, continued to plunder the Egyptian chora (countryside) and destroy various districts throughout Egypt.[50] Papyrological evidence indicates that the revolt indeed affected extensive areas, including the Athribite district, the region around Memphis (noted for its antisemitism), the Faiyum, Oxyrhynchus, and the Herakleopolite nome. Further south, fighting also impacted the Kynopolite, Hermopolite, Lycopolite, and Apollinopolite districts.[26] It seems that the Jewish forces were well-organized and capable of presenting serious military challenges to their adversaries; as they moved through Egyptian villages, they quickly overcame local resistance.[51]
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Haha, they excuse it by interjecting "(noted for its antisemitism)" without facing that their history, their book, which is a big part of their culture, even if they are atheistic now or were then like the Sicarii were said to have been, repeatedly encourages, promotes, praises, and goes beyond even merely normalizing these exact sorts of actions they have been repeatedly bringing to life which target civilians and even little children and babies:
https://www.arabnews.jp/en/middle-east/article_151834/
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Prof. Nick Maynard, a gastrointestinal surgeon working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, told the BBC that he and his colleagues are encountering “clear patterns of injury” in young casualties, including “certain body parts on different days, such as the head, legs or genitals.”
Speaking to the “Today” program on BBC Radio 4, Maynard said: “On one day they’ll all be abdominal gunshot wounds, on another they’ll all be head gunshot wounds or neck gunshot wounds, on another they’ll be arm or leg gunshot wounds.”
He added: “It’s almost as if a game is being played, that they’re deciding to shoot the head today, the neck tomorrow, the testicles the day after.”
Maynard said the victims at the aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which he called “death traps,” tend more often than not to be teenaged boys.
“These are mainly from the militarized distribution points, where starving civilians are going to try and get food but then report getting targeted by Israeli soldiers or quadcopters,” he added.
“A 12-year-old boy I was operating on died from his injuries on the operating table — he’d been shot through the chest.”
GHF sites, backed by the US and Israel, are manned by private contractors and Israeli soldiers.
At least 875 Palestinians seeking food at the centers have been killed by live fire since May, according to the UN.
Maynard said levels of malnutrition seen in young patients are affecting their ability to recover from their wounds.
“The repairs that we carry out fall to pieces, patients get terrible infections, and they die,” he added. “I’ve never had so many patients die because they can’t get enough food to recover.”
The BBC said other medics working in central and southern Gaza had also reported patterns of gunshot wounds in people shot at GHF centers.
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https://fonpeter.wordpress.com/2023/04/ ... nd-forget/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgiveness
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/inte ... ould-it-be
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-who ... ay-with-it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitem ... ial_hatred
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_the_other_cheek
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:39
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
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Former American Vice President Dick Cheney said that his support of American use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" against suspected terrorists was unchanged by the fact that 25% of CIA detainees subject to that treatment were later proven to be innocent, including one who died of hypothermia in CIA custody. "I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent." Asked whether the 25% margin was too high, Cheney responded, "I have no problem as long as we achieve our objective. ... I'd do it again in a minute."[29]
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Volokh considers two criminal cases in which the defence told the jury "that no innocent person should be convicted and that it is better that many guilty go unpunished than one innocent person be convicted" as references to a Blackstone's ratio with values of both "infinite" and "many" guilty men to an innocent one.[30] He notes its importance in the inspiration of Western criminal law, but concludes by citing a question of its soundness:
The story is told of a Chinese law professor, who listened as a British lawyer explained that Britons were so enlightened that they believed it was better that ninety-nine guilty men go free than that one innocent man be executed. The Chinese professor thought for a second and asked, "Better for whom?"[31]
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https://nationalpost.com/feature/canada ... ice-system
https://www.om.nl/binaries/om/documente ... ngels_.pdf
https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/hait ... ows-enarhe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_justice
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 1622000519
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_justice_in_Ghana
https://www.dw.com/en/south-africa-nige ... a-70832801
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866208
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-authoritarianism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... of_victims
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_crime
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-s ... _terrorism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
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The Reign of Terror (French: La Terreur, lit. 'The Terror') was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to the Federalist revolts, revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. While terror was never formally instituted as a legal policy by the Convention, it was more often employed as a concept.[3]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_revolts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_A ... Saint-Just
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Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just[a] (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ʒyst]; 25 August 1767 – 28 July 1794), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror,[1][2][3] was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution. The youngest person elected to the National Convention, he was a member of the Mountain faction and a steadfast supporter and close friend of Robespierre. He was swept away in Robespierre's downfall on 9 Thermidor, Year II.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/cont ... -asset.png
https://www.parismuseescollections.pari ... k=xkmF3c2g
https://crimereads.com/high-net-worth-v ... e-fiction/
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It’s true. As readers, the only thing we love more than a bad person getting what’s coming to them is a bad rich person getting what’s coming to them. Agatha Christie knew it when she skewered the American gangster in Murder on the Orient Express. She knew it when she used a poison-tipped dart to do away with grisly moneylender Madame Giselle in Death in the Clouds, and later when she poisoned the wealthy matriarch Mrs. Boynton in Appointment with Death.
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According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, J*w*sh again ranked as the most financially successful religious group in the United States, with 44% of J*ws living in households with incomes of at least $100,000, followed by Hindu (36%), Episcopalians (35%), and Presbyterians (32%).[13] Amongst J*ws, in 2016, Modern Orthodox J*ws had a median household income of $158,000, while Open Orthodoxy J*ws had a median household income of $185,000 (compared to the American median household income of $59,000 in 2016).[14]
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https://www.ajc.org/news/ajc-survey-sho ... -to-israel
https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-po ... ing-gazans
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx9l4x7xjno
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Baroness Golding said her dad told her of people at the camps who were "skin and bones with vacant eyes".
She added: "We need to remember this, so it can never happen again."
Despite wanting to preserve this valuable evidence, Mr Edwards could not face having the piece of lampshade in his home, so gave it to his son to keep safe.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_Revolt
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The uprisings unfolded almost simultaneously across various provinces of the Roman East. In Egypt, Libya and Cyprus, J*w*sh actions were primarily directed against local populations rather than the Roman authorities,[8] with accounts from historians like Cassius Dio and Eusebius, as well as epigraphical evidence, documenting extreme violence, including mass killings and the destruction of temples.[9]
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Dio's account describes the J*ws of Libya as engaging in shockingly violent and cruel behavior.[9] They are said to have engaged in cannibalism, mutilation, and other brutal acts, including using the victims' skins and entrails to make clothing and belts, and staging gladiatorial and wild beast shows.[45][42] Dio reported that the J*w*sh rebels in Cyrenaica were responsible for approximately 220,000 Gentile deaths,[45]
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Epigraphical sources provide evidence of attacks on religious and civic structures, including temples and statues.[9] In Cyrene, for instance, the sanctuary of Apollo witnessed the destruction and burning of the baths, porticoes, ball-courts, and other nearby structures during the uprising. The temple of Hecate also suffered destruction and was burned down in the uprising. Significant damage is also recorded at the Caesareum and the temple of Zeus.[9][15] Bishop Synesius, a native of Cyrene from the early 5th century, also refers to the devastation caused by the J*ws, four centuries after the revolt.[47]
The archaeological evidence, including inscriptions, sheds light on the significant destruction caused by the J*ws in Cyrenaica during the revolt.[48] A Hadrianic milestone commemorates the repair of the road connecting Cyrene with its port, Apollonia, "which had been overturned and smashed up in the J*wish revolt," possibly in anticipation of a Roman military advance from the sea.[9][45] Joyce Reynolds notes significant damage to the sanctuary of Asclepius at Balagrae, west of Cyrene, which was later rebuilt under the Antonine dynasty.[15][9] The presence of a deeply incised seven-branched m*n*r*h—a symbol indicative of J*w*sh presence—on a road northwest of Balagrae may suggest, according to Reynolds, that J*ws deliberately sought to disrupt the route connecting Cyrene with neighboring regions to the west.[9] The destruction of a small second-century temple near modern El Dab'a in Marmarica is likely also attributable to the J*w*sh rebels.[15]
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Lukuas's forces, supported by Egyptian Jews who rallied to his side, continued to plunder the Egyptian chora (countryside) and destroy various districts throughout Egypt.[50] Papyrological evidence indicates that the revolt indeed affected extensive areas, including the Athribite district, the region around Memphis (noted for its antisemitism), the Faiyum, Oxyrhynchus, and the Herakleopolite nome. Further south, fighting also impacted the Kynopolite, Hermopolite, Lycopolite, and Apollinopolite districts.[26] It seems that the Jewish forces were well-organized and capable of presenting serious military challenges to their adversaries; as they moved through Egyptian villages, they quickly overcame local resistance.[51]
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Haha, they excuse it by interjecting "(noted for its antisemitism)" without facing that their history, their book, which is a big part of their culture, even if they are atheistic now or were then like the Sicarii were said to have been, repeatedly encourages, promotes, praises, and goes beyond even merely normalizing these exact sorts of actions they have been repeatedly bringing to life which target civilians and even little children and babies:
https://www.arabnews.jp/en/middle-east/article_151834/
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Prof. Nick Maynard, a gastrointestinal surgeon working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, told the BBC that he and his colleagues are encountering “clear patterns of injury” in young casualties, including “certain body parts on different days, such as the head, legs or genitals.”
Speaking to the “Today” program on BBC Radio 4, Maynard said: “On one day they’ll all be abdominal gunshot wounds, on another they’ll all be head gunshot wounds or neck gunshot wounds, on another they’ll be arm or leg gunshot wounds.”
He added: “It’s almost as if a game is being played, that they’re deciding to shoot the head today, the neck tomorrow, the testicles the day after.”
Maynard said the victims at the aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which he called “death traps,” tend more often than not to be teenaged boys.
“These are mainly from the militarized distribution points, where starving civilians are going to try and get food but then report getting targeted by Israeli soldiers or quadcopters,” he added.
“A 12-year-old boy I was operating on died from his injuries on the operating table — he’d been shot through the chest.”
GHF sites, backed by the US and Israel, are manned by private contractors and Israeli soldiers.
At least 875 Palestinians seeking food at the centers have been killed by live fire since May, according to the UN.
Maynard said levels of malnutrition seen in young patients are affecting their ability to recover from their wounds.
“The repairs that we carry out fall to pieces, patients get terrible infections, and they die,” he added. “I’ve never had so many patients die because they can’t get enough food to recover.”
The BBC said other medics working in central and southern Gaza had also reported patterns of gunshot wounds in people shot at GHF centers.
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https://fonpeter.wordpress.com/2023/04/ ... nd-forget/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgiveness
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/inte ... ould-it-be
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-who ... ay-with-it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitem ... ial_hatred
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_the_other_cheek
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:39
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
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Former American Vice President Dick Cheney said that his support of American use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" against suspected terrorists was unchanged by the fact that 25% of CIA detainees subject to that treatment were later proven to be innocent, including one who died of hypothermia in CIA custody. "I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent." Asked whether the 25% margin was too high, Cheney responded, "I have no problem as long as we achieve our objective. ... I'd do it again in a minute."[29]
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Volokh considers two criminal cases in which the defence told the jury "that no innocent person should be convicted and that it is better that many guilty go unpunished than one innocent person be convicted" as references to a Blackstone's ratio with values of both "infinite" and "many" guilty men to an innocent one.[30] He notes its importance in the inspiration of Western criminal law, but concludes by citing a question of its soundness:
The story is told of a Chinese law professor, who listened as a British lawyer explained that Britons were so enlightened that they believed it was better that ninety-nine guilty men go free than that one innocent man be executed. The Chinese professor thought for a second and asked, "Better for whom?"[31]
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https://nationalpost.com/feature/canada ... ice-system
https://www.om.nl/binaries/om/documente ... ngels_.pdf
https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/hait ... ows-enarhe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_justice
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 1622000519
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_justice_in_Ghana
https://www.dw.com/en/south-africa-nige ... a-70832801
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866208
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-authoritarianism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... of_victims
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_crime
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-s ... _terrorism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
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The Reign of Terror (French: La Terreur, lit. 'The Terror') was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to the Federalist revolts, revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. While terror was never formally instituted as a legal policy by the Convention, it was more often employed as a concept.[3]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_revolts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_A ... Saint-Just
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Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just[a] (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ʒyst]; 25 August 1767 – 28 July 1794), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror,[1][2][3] was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution. The youngest person elected to the National Convention, he was a member of the Mountain faction and a steadfast supporter and close friend of Robespierre. He was swept away in Robespierre's downfall on 9 Thermidor, Year II.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/cont ... -asset.png
https://www.parismuseescollections.pari ... k=xkmF3c2g
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Re: I'll talk about a bunch of things here
I enjoy reading these anyway. Now I'll fill up all these brief posts at some point hopefully, basically like a new thread.
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Re: I'll talk about a bunch of things here
I saw a bit of a terrible film called Shirley which horrendously lies about some author.
These films must be significantly better than that totally obnoxious film with shockingly bad acting in it as well. Somehow the director goes ahead and just keeps making stuff and no one seems to ever say how totally sh*t her work is:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls006466313/? ... date%2Casc
These films must be significantly better than that totally obnoxious film with shockingly bad acting in it as well. Somehow the director goes ahead and just keeps making stuff and no one seems to ever say how totally sh*t her work is:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls006466313/? ... date%2Casc
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Re: I'll talk about a bunch of things here
10:27
So I found this guy wearing and mentioning symbols similar to my own, and then I saw their page and profile:
Huehuecóyotl
https://m.youtube.com/@Hue_Hue_Coyotl
https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/WUnuv ... ffff-no-rj
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All American Anarcho-Commie, fed up with the Two Party System. It's the same bullshit that's left us all stranded.
No system should govern on the basis of its own justification.
It always makes me laugh when Conservatives speak on propaganda. If they could ever get their heads out of their asses, and see past the bullshit, they might find themselves Anarchists and Socialists themselves. Libs = Trash, and equally complicit in giving Republicans everything they want. The Government is Hellishly Compromised, and has been for long. Money is power, and power is ultimate in decision-making. It is reserved only for the top Capital owners. Any suggestion of help for the common man has been met with a trained hatred, while assistance to those at the top are all the rage at every meeting. The age of American Empire as we know it is nigh on done, and we've got to see to it as a country that the change comes from the ground up. A horizontal shift in power by the people, for the people.
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I can't find any good music on their channel lol. I've had and have been surrounded by the coyote symbol and identification since infancy.
I take totemism as a real human experience and tendency that I take as perhaps a little more seriously and meaningful than a lot of others might these days, so if I see someone really identifying with and seeing themselves in a certain animal, I like to see what might end up being linked to that or what it could mean, and if there are similarities between others who may choose similar ways of being represented, showing themselves to others, and being seen by themselves and others.
It can be non-animal too, the clues people end up providing as to what they may be like and what camp on sone more indirect abd abstract or overall level, a mystical and spiritual level even, they may seem to belong to.
I reject other things though as not necessarily being totemic, like the way certain creeps use symbols like My Little Pony and Wolves, Darth Vader or Storm Troopers, or cats that I've been seeing a lot, and all those who choose these do clearly fall into camps and types, and it seems to mean a lot that they chose these, but I can't accept that they are truly "Ponies" and "Wolves" and "Skeletons/Grim Reapers" or whatever, or cat-like, but are doing it for other reasons, and that is also because I love all those animals and these people are typically the most irritating pieces of sh*t anyone could conceive of, so "say it ain't so"!
The My Little Pony people are extremely belligerent, often contrarian, but mainly just rude, insulting, and suppressive, and like an idea of universal dumbness and conflict, they do indeed have a herd mentality and stampede type trampling mentality that they are very clearly all about really, plus in many cases they even imitate the hairstyles of the ponies, but they are not, I can not accept that they are truly horse spirits and that horses are such despicable creatures as they are, but there is even reason to think that ponies and horses really are potentially vile at times too.
Various political groups and shills seem to use these images and organize under them, such as the wolves always having a similar agenda in their writing. Again, they are operating somewhat like wolves, but I think that is all deliberate, not that these are true wolf spirits. They just like the idea of organizing and a hierarchy and working together to harass and take down people, but real wolves aren't evil pieces of sh*t like the people using the symbol, it is similar to how people might try to use images associated with Islam or Muslims to present themselves as totally propaganda inspired and affirming t*rror cosplayers, but they aren't real Muslims or anything like a person from any Muslim culture or background, or even beyond that those who are more sincerely and authentically Muslim through liking, agreeing with, believing in, and following the Qur'an and living a spiritual life at all times, which is a rare breed anyway.
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The global wolf population is estimated to be between 200,000 and 250,000, primarily gray wolves.
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The global cat population is estimated to be between 600 million and 1 billion cats,
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The world population of humans is estimated to be over 8 billion people
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Also, possibly from a Buddhist tradition originally, the Sikhs, particularly with the Singh name and from that sub section of the population that takes special vows, take on the identity of lions, as do Rastafarians, but that shouldn't mean that they are all really lion people, they should be all different, linking to different animal aspects, and often the people linked to certain animals, and most of the time it may even be multiple animals, should even look like or have aspects of their appearance showing these similarities or signs, besides their behaviours, and despite personal choices or preferences even, though they may come to prefer these things, they should have shown up more by themselves first or without too much purposefulness involved for me to consider it more interesting, though even deliberate choices say a lot about a personality, but it also seems a lot less natural and preternatural.
There are also choices where a person may be forced or pressured by factors like racism, so like a taurine figure selected by an African American male due to finding that they may already be seeing themselves looking like how the bull figure is depicted, along with other associations, but not necessarily that they would have ever even cared for a bull in any other way had it not been anthropomorphized and made similar to an African American male stereotype and maybe even given an African American voice actor as well. I especially hate how modern racism, which seems even more virile and insidious than even those periods that are brought up as examples of horrendous propaganda, polemics, and manipulations by institutions and the state and other groups influencing people and the public consciousness, and now it is back in such an open way as people are frequently denying certain examples of it which are impacting minds, and sadly and most disturbingly for me, the targeted populations are being influenced to conform and identify with things made for them and practically imposed upon them and they are being pressured to link themselves exclusively to certain things they are told are theirs but which are seemingly just nee collars and carcans made by the dominant groups and oppressors who really don't care about them and even hate them, just like how East Asian people have so many irritating stereotypes, both positive and negative, forced upon them and made into expectations that a lot of people may end up interacting with them very differently than they might a caucasian person, and that totally sucks and I hate to see or sense it or suspect it, and very few people seem to be able to escape it, and it creates a whole loop of trouble that keeps amplifying things, even becoming self-fulfilling prophecies.
Among the various people, they all still have different individual combinations of things that make for more specific affinities and associations with them that seem to go beyond even their nuclear family, where the various people in the family may be very closely genetically related but seem to have very separate personalities, and one might find themselves linked more to some other animals than even their twin, but otherwise more certainly their siblings and parents.
The same goes for other animals as well, each has their own personalities. A cat that might do things more like a shark, or a cat that acts more like a spider. Nobody and nothing seems to be what it just appears as in a vague way, but everything seems to be more and "other" and "else". The core, or one of the major elements running behind everything even from the beginning may be a drive for stimulation and an aversion to boredom or the opposite of activity and then what seems to be of interest.
I believe that animals are little to no different from the human animal, and so would likely subscribe to ideas like imitation, association, and totemism themselves, if they don't actually already, but there are videos of animals using buttons to communicate and they seem to have no problem with making these connections and understanding them in ways similar to or identical to human beings, even able to formulate jokes by associations and similarities.
So I found this guy wearing and mentioning symbols similar to my own, and then I saw their page and profile:
Huehuecóyotl
https://m.youtube.com/@Hue_Hue_Coyotl
https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/WUnuv ... ffff-no-rj
"
All American Anarcho-Commie, fed up with the Two Party System. It's the same bullshit that's left us all stranded.
No system should govern on the basis of its own justification.
It always makes me laugh when Conservatives speak on propaganda. If they could ever get their heads out of their asses, and see past the bullshit, they might find themselves Anarchists and Socialists themselves. Libs = Trash, and equally complicit in giving Republicans everything they want. The Government is Hellishly Compromised, and has been for long. Money is power, and power is ultimate in decision-making. It is reserved only for the top Capital owners. Any suggestion of help for the common man has been met with a trained hatred, while assistance to those at the top are all the rage at every meeting. The age of American Empire as we know it is nigh on done, and we've got to see to it as a country that the change comes from the ground up. A horizontal shift in power by the people, for the people.
"
I can't find any good music on their channel lol. I've had and have been surrounded by the coyote symbol and identification since infancy.
I take totemism as a real human experience and tendency that I take as perhaps a little more seriously and meaningful than a lot of others might these days, so if I see someone really identifying with and seeing themselves in a certain animal, I like to see what might end up being linked to that or what it could mean, and if there are similarities between others who may choose similar ways of being represented, showing themselves to others, and being seen by themselves and others.
It can be non-animal too, the clues people end up providing as to what they may be like and what camp on sone more indirect abd abstract or overall level, a mystical and spiritual level even, they may seem to belong to.
I reject other things though as not necessarily being totemic, like the way certain creeps use symbols like My Little Pony and Wolves, Darth Vader or Storm Troopers, or cats that I've been seeing a lot, and all those who choose these do clearly fall into camps and types, and it seems to mean a lot that they chose these, but I can't accept that they are truly "Ponies" and "Wolves" and "Skeletons/Grim Reapers" or whatever, or cat-like, but are doing it for other reasons, and that is also because I love all those animals and these people are typically the most irritating pieces of sh*t anyone could conceive of, so "say it ain't so"!
The My Little Pony people are extremely belligerent, often contrarian, but mainly just rude, insulting, and suppressive, and like an idea of universal dumbness and conflict, they do indeed have a herd mentality and stampede type trampling mentality that they are very clearly all about really, plus in many cases they even imitate the hairstyles of the ponies, but they are not, I can not accept that they are truly horse spirits and that horses are such despicable creatures as they are, but there is even reason to think that ponies and horses really are potentially vile at times too.
Various political groups and shills seem to use these images and organize under them, such as the wolves always having a similar agenda in their writing. Again, they are operating somewhat like wolves, but I think that is all deliberate, not that these are true wolf spirits. They just like the idea of organizing and a hierarchy and working together to harass and take down people, but real wolves aren't evil pieces of sh*t like the people using the symbol, it is similar to how people might try to use images associated with Islam or Muslims to present themselves as totally propaganda inspired and affirming t*rror cosplayers, but they aren't real Muslims or anything like a person from any Muslim culture or background, or even beyond that those who are more sincerely and authentically Muslim through liking, agreeing with, believing in, and following the Qur'an and living a spiritual life at all times, which is a rare breed anyway.
"
The global wolf population is estimated to be between 200,000 and 250,000, primarily gray wolves.
"
"
The global cat population is estimated to be between 600 million and 1 billion cats,
"
"
The world population of humans is estimated to be over 8 billion people
"
Also, possibly from a Buddhist tradition originally, the Sikhs, particularly with the Singh name and from that sub section of the population that takes special vows, take on the identity of lions, as do Rastafarians, but that shouldn't mean that they are all really lion people, they should be all different, linking to different animal aspects, and often the people linked to certain animals, and most of the time it may even be multiple animals, should even look like or have aspects of their appearance showing these similarities or signs, besides their behaviours, and despite personal choices or preferences even, though they may come to prefer these things, they should have shown up more by themselves first or without too much purposefulness involved for me to consider it more interesting, though even deliberate choices say a lot about a personality, but it also seems a lot less natural and preternatural.
There are also choices where a person may be forced or pressured by factors like racism, so like a taurine figure selected by an African American male due to finding that they may already be seeing themselves looking like how the bull figure is depicted, along with other associations, but not necessarily that they would have ever even cared for a bull in any other way had it not been anthropomorphized and made similar to an African American male stereotype and maybe even given an African American voice actor as well. I especially hate how modern racism, which seems even more virile and insidious than even those periods that are brought up as examples of horrendous propaganda, polemics, and manipulations by institutions and the state and other groups influencing people and the public consciousness, and now it is back in such an open way as people are frequently denying certain examples of it which are impacting minds, and sadly and most disturbingly for me, the targeted populations are being influenced to conform and identify with things made for them and practically imposed upon them and they are being pressured to link themselves exclusively to certain things they are told are theirs but which are seemingly just nee collars and carcans made by the dominant groups and oppressors who really don't care about them and even hate them, just like how East Asian people have so many irritating stereotypes, both positive and negative, forced upon them and made into expectations that a lot of people may end up interacting with them very differently than they might a caucasian person, and that totally sucks and I hate to see or sense it or suspect it, and very few people seem to be able to escape it, and it creates a whole loop of trouble that keeps amplifying things, even becoming self-fulfilling prophecies.
Among the various people, they all still have different individual combinations of things that make for more specific affinities and associations with them that seem to go beyond even their nuclear family, where the various people in the family may be very closely genetically related but seem to have very separate personalities, and one might find themselves linked more to some other animals than even their twin, but otherwise more certainly their siblings and parents.
The same goes for other animals as well, each has their own personalities. A cat that might do things more like a shark, or a cat that acts more like a spider. Nobody and nothing seems to be what it just appears as in a vague way, but everything seems to be more and "other" and "else". The core, or one of the major elements running behind everything even from the beginning may be a drive for stimulation and an aversion to boredom or the opposite of activity and then what seems to be of interest.
I believe that animals are little to no different from the human animal, and so would likely subscribe to ideas like imitation, association, and totemism themselves, if they don't actually already, but there are videos of animals using buttons to communicate and they seem to have no problem with making these connections and understanding them in ways similar to or identical to human beings, even able to formulate jokes by associations and similarities.
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Re: I'll talk about a bunch of things here
I'll keep this quote here because I enjoy imagining it like it is something from an old documentary:
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@minnminni
5 hours ago
Stop this useless crying. DO SOMETHING
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@JIMMYS_VIEW
3 hours ago
Do what exactly? Fight God? Are you stupid? Many have tried, and ALL have failed! What makes you think that you can defeat God?
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@minnminni
3 hours ago (edited)
@JIMMYS_VIEW your self righteousness is appalling
@JFL.Productions
2 hours ago
@JIMMYS_VIEW what makes you think God is supportive of Israel???
@aFoxyFox.
0 seconds ago
Jimmy thinks God was on the side of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and N**i of Germany, among others. Jimmy is mentally r*tarded you see.
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@minnminni
5 hours ago
Stop this useless crying. DO SOMETHING
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@JIMMYS_VIEW
3 hours ago
Do what exactly? Fight God? Are you stupid? Many have tried, and ALL have failed! What makes you think that you can defeat God?
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@minnminni
3 hours ago (edited)
@JIMMYS_VIEW your self righteousness is appalling
@JFL.Productions
2 hours ago
@JIMMYS_VIEW what makes you think God is supportive of Israel???
@aFoxyFox.
0 seconds ago
Jimmy thinks God was on the side of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and N**i of Germany, among others. Jimmy is mentally r*tarded you see.
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