#History Unrepeated

[eretzyisrael]

By Nachum Kaplan

Hamas correctly identified that antisemitism was only dormant in the West, and that they just needed to wake the sleeping monster. They knew this because there were clear tells, such as the international media’s fixation on Israel, the over-reporting of the country, and that the Pavlovian way the conflict becomes newsworthy only when Israel responds to an attack.Hamas stuck to what has worked throughout history. The blood libel trope was modernized into accusations of genocide and deliberate starvation, while the trope of Jews being responsible for their persecution was updated with the notion that Israel had turned Gaza into an open-air prison.They leveraged their numerical advantage.With more than a billion Muslims globally, Hamas knew it had a huge virtual army it could activate on social media to reach a global audience.Hamas flooded social media with lies to exploit the Repetition Bias, a heuristic (mental shortcut) in which repeated information feels more true than new or unrepeated information. Social media repeated these lies exponentially, aided by extensive use of AI-generated “photographs.”The Palestinians also exploited another numerical advantage, the number of Muslim states, which is 48. This has given them weight in forums such as the United Nations and its various committees and bodies, creating a suited army of bureaucrats with credible titles to tell lies to the international press.Almost comically, Iran has just assumed the presidency of the UN Conference on Disarmament. That is the same Islamic Republic that funds, arms, and trains Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen — and ships arms to Russia to use in its invasion of Ukraine.They controlled the information flow.Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have used traditional authoritarian tactics to control the information flow from areas they govern. Reporters cannot report freely or unfavorably from Palestinian-controlled territories if they want to retain access. Threats of violence keep the few unsympathetic local reporters in check.Exploiting the inability of most media to report from Gaza directly, Hamas has used local Gazan “journalists” to feed lies, distorting images, and fabricated data to the credulous international media. Time and again, the foreign press has swallowed them, including claimed civilian death toll numbers that are demonstrably untrue (and presume every person killed was a civilian).Hamas has only needed the media to report its numbers, knowing that if repeated enough, they be treated as true and that no one will pay attention to the fine print stating they are unverified. Hamas at one point even had the media complaining that Israel was simultaneously not allowing reporters access to Gaza and targeting journalists there.They mastered the 24-hour news cycle.The internet has blurred the traditional lines between print and television news, turning all news media into digital services beholden to the 24-hour news cycle.Hamas has understood that as long as it keeps manufacturing outrages, the news cycle will move on quickly, and they will never be held to account. The Qatar-funded Al Jazeera, which has the veneer of a real news organization, has played a key role in this.They have exploited a ‘post-truth’ world.Hamas recognized that the post-Modernist rot has resonated in much of the West, including across its media and universities. The belief that people cannot only have their own opinions, but their own facts, sounds laughable, but it has become worryingly normal.Political tribes express opinions mainly as identity signals, and tribal loyalty is more important to these people than truth, or even reality. Hamas has understood that this liberates it from any need to have a fact-based narrative.They use simple slogans.“

#hamas #gaza #hamas propaganda #hamas media machine #Palestinians

[air-of-the-waterfall]

Wait a minute how do people talk about history in the AOAS world? Citra wakes up from the vault and learns what year it is, but that means nothing to her without knowing what years preceded it. If that's the case with the unrepeating animal nomenclature system, then do people have to jump through elaborate hoops just to reference past events?

"Hey, Frank, what year did you graduate uni again?"

"Uh... Year of the Toad, I think?"

"... When was that?"

"It was twenty-one years after I was born in Axolotl."

"Yeah, but when was that??"

Irl the Chinese zodiac involves an entire system to actually keep track of time, but in AOAS there's no mention of anything but endless arbitrary animal names. Immortals don't really care about time, but it must get tedious trying to locate specific events in history for anyone who wasn't there or doesn't remember.

I'd also like to know more about the Office of the Calendaria that gets mentioned when that one scythe has to lobby for a reptile name. Do humans actually pick the names (if so, what's the process?), or does the Thunderhead plan them decades in advance and let humans in the office believe they're doing something useful? If someone can lobby for their favourite animal, then humans must at least have a say

#arc of a scythe #aoas

[taylorrama]

The Locked Tomb + mewithoutYou pt. 11/17

Hail the blest atomic morn Unto the earth a bomb is born The pebble bed reactor core Up to the sky ascends.

Song: Magic Lantern Days Album: Pale Horses

So, John Gaius nukes Earth, resets everything, and ascends to godhood. Today's song could be sung in that immediate aftermath, though if it really were a Nine Houses hymn, it probably would've been written a generation or so later. Anyway.

Hail the blest atomic morn Unto the earth a bomb is born The pebble bed reactor core Up to the sky ascends. Hail the blest atomic sea, Its mouth in Oak Ridge, Tennessee Whose lips--untouched with blasphemy-- Our glowing eyes attend

I think the first stanza is pretty on the nose with how well it works for TLT. Part of the theology of this universe is praising the Resurrection and it's easy to imagine that the nuke that killed Earth in this framework would be considered a "blest atomic morn."

The last line of the second stanza is also pretty literal for TLT given Jod's eyes and Lyctor eyes.

Bishops wrapped in Bedford cloth Said pride would cast our victories off, The Deep Blue to our Kasparov Our moral thoughts impart.

Much of the imagery in this song takes these nuclear fallout/nuclear apocalypse trappings (bombs, Bedford cloth of pilots) and christens them in religious concepts. I imagine that similar things were done immediately after the Resurrection. John and the Lyctors–theoretically the only people who remember everything–had to recontextualize this catastrophic event to create a functioning theocracy. Maybe they crafted images like this to achieve that.

The chorus.

Brightest and best Are the children of the morning. Dawn on our darkness And lend us thine aid" {SHH 132}.

This sounds pretty and hopeful on its own, but in the song's context and applied to TLT, that beauty has this chilling undertone to it. We started with an atomic morn to be hailed and now the children, the inheritors, of that morning are the brightest and best. All of the Nine Houses are children of the Resurrection and necromancy seems to be an inheritance that some of them get. Though, I'm not sure than many in the Nine Houses would be praying for or honoring dawn on darkness. Probably the opposite.

Side note: these lines are almost directly pulled from a shape note song. Shape note songs tend to talk a lot about death. Like a lot. If any part of The Locked Tomb universe was extrapolated from American Christianity, shape note would be the perfect weird nichey thing to include.

In unmysterious ways We re-enacted closet plays From charming, Magic Lantern days For the android whales below You'd be cast as the Nazarene In the unrepenting desert scene Near to me, your Mary Magdalene, Our Lady of the Snow,

These lines continue this conceit of flipping common religious ideas on their head in light of apocalypse–unmysterious ways vs. "God works in mysterious ways. We have the person the narrator is addressing as Jesus, the Nazarene, while the narrator casts himself as Mary Magdalene, a figure with polarizing and fraught history in Christianity. But they're performing this silly play together for silly robot whales. All of this is just...the same energy that Tamsyn Muir has with writing TLT at all. She's upturning Christian theology for fun (and profit), playing with all kinds of names and stories in a very distant post-apocalypse universe with memes. Silly! Beautiful!

The chorus again, but with an added part.

Star of the west, the horizon deforming, Too many humans Under the brown fog of winter Come dawn in our darkness. Lend us thine aid

Now, we have this chilling image of the sky deformed because of the encroaching, inevitable bomb. The dawn in the darkness now is associated with the light from the bomb, the light from Jod killing everyone to save them.

The song ends with this sort of postlude.

Guide where our infant redeemer is laid Guide where our infant redeemer is laid Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid

It's clearly referring to Jesus, but in TLT, the infant redeemer is laid in the Ninth House. 👀 Or it could also refer to Nona since she is baby. 😌

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TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 1; TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 2; TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 3; TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 4; TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 5; TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 6; TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 7; TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 8; TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 9; TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 10; TLT + mewithoutYou pt. 12

#tlt #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #nona the ninth spoilers #nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #mewithoutyou

[avatarvyakara]

Trying something else—but I could really, really do with a read-through to make sure I’m doing it right. To any and all who might give me some advice on Chinese family histories as told by said families, I would greatly appreciate your assistance.

That said, here’s a start.

***

Ruzhui, it’s called. “Superfluous entrance”.

His name was Zì Jīn, not that long ago. Jīn as a name, even a personal name, is not uncommon. Zì, as any kind of name, most certainly was.

Great-Aunt Shí used to sit with him and tell him stories about a past he isn’t sure anyone could really remember, not as far back as she goes. Zi is a rare name, she told him, a name that belonged to the second family ever to rule as emperors—the first, to be honest; nobody knows whether the Xia were truly real, not really. The story of the Shāng Dynasty, and the Zi family who provided their rulers, is a story older than the Flowerlike Beauty, older than the Celestial Empire, as old as the Middle Kingdom itself. Oh, others would take over later, true, and some would scatter and hide under other names—Jì and Yīn and Kōng (yes, like the Teacher—the one his classmates kept mispronouncing as Confucius). But they kept their name. It grounded them. Fewer and fewer sons were born—fewer and fewer carried on the name as three and a half thousand years of history passed them by.

But born they still were.

To be a Zi means being calm, peaceful, stoic, but not uncaring. The eternal grandfather, too old to command but old enough to command respect, content to play with the grandchildren as they have their games of war and politics like they’ve done since the only writing done was on the burnt bones of animals in the hope that the past could command the future.

“Lee”, by contrast, is one of the most popular names around. There are a hundred million Lees. At least.

When Jin asked Great-Aunt Shí about the name, while they cooked together, she snorted and tried to brush it off. It wasn’t important that she tell him, he didn’t need to hear it from her. It wasn’t too big a deal. It was a tactic that had served her well with five prior generations of Zì, including that of her brother, Jīn’s grandfather.

Jin found a way, when he was younger, of getting around that particular blockade. It was through being very patient, very calm, keeping up with the work, and annoying the heck out of his favourite relative with the unrepeated question while doing so. She didn’t need to hear it again and again, she just knew he wanted to ask but wouldn’t because it wouldn’t be polite. And yet.

She finally huffed and told him that yes, there was a history to the Lee family as well. Or, rather, a mythology. Certainly there may well have been Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors prior to any history. Certainly, Emperor Yao may well have had a minister called Gao Yao who was the potential progenitor of that promise-less pedigree. Certainly Laozi (whose philosophies Great-Aunt Shí had a famously complicated attitude towards) may well have been called Li Er when people couldn’t be bothered with proper titles. Certainly there was a House of Li by the Táng Dynasty, a certain number of millennia later—although historically speaking that was hardly a selling point. (Jīn, who had done his best to learn what history he could, had one or two positive opinions on that particular dynasty that apparently weren’t too popular at home.) But the story that his aunt insisted was the most prominent one was that of Li Zheng, executed by one of their ancestors, whose wife and son lived on nothing but plums for years and who changed how their name was written to honour the fruit that kept them alive.

A fun story. (One that shunted their family centre-stage again, but a fun one.) But who remembers that, said his Great-Aunt Shí, among a hundred million people? Being a Li was as common as being a Smith over in the English-speaking world, to her mind. Maybe there was a history, but who among the descendants actually bothered to remember it?

Actually, that might have been part of what drew him to Míng in the first place.

The Zì family might predate every other family back home, but coming to Toronto in the 1970s? They were just one more face in the crowd. But the Lee family—Ming Lee’s family—had been there for generations. Against all odds, they had prospered. In a city where a different empire’s architecture dominated the biggest buildings, they had built a temple to an ancestral figure and kept it safe for generations. Literal generations. (…three, in point of fact, but who was counting?) And perhaps out of deference to that ancestor, the Lee family didn’t much care who your own ancestors were, just what you chose to do with your life now. If you weren’t a Lee of their line, anyway.

And Míng…

“My family is the absolute—” followed by a word he doesn’t know but which sounds a lot like “four enemies”— “worst.”

And a toss of hair that he’s absolutely certain wasn’t red last week.

Míng has a history of her very own.

TO BE CONTINUED

#fanfic #turning red #ming lee #jin lee #Jin x Ming #(why is this not a tag) #family history #trying to make this actually work #I have no idea if it’s the *right* way to make it work #it might not be #hence asking for help #please #chinese culture #chinese history

[sennenpharaoh]

that's two people we don't talk about apparently. complex history?

"Some things are... better left unrepeated. Some things I'd rather forget and put behind me."

#anonymous

[worldtouradvicetravel]

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Retrace history of 5000 years ago & uncover El-Giza pyramids and the Sphinx history and legends, Now it is walking tour behind Cheops pyramid to enter the Solar boat barques museum and then walking tour to arrive  the tomb of Khufu Kha Ef (G7130-7140 ), who supposed to be one of Cheops sons ( Brother of Chephren ), and he carried many titles such as Chief of justice an vizier, not so far from his tomb is located other tombs such as  Meres Ankh tomb and  Seshem Nefer Theti tomb ( LG53 ), Seshem Nefer was the director of the two seats in the mansion of life and secretary of all secret commands of king Cheops, Your guide will take you inside it to explain for you about what is the mastaba and you will see few details of daily life on the walls of the tomb such as a lion attacking another animal but best scenes for daily life are not in Giza pyramids area but they are located in Saqqara pyramid complex area as their colors still preserved, Proceed tour to the valley temple and the mysterious Sphinx.

Dazzling neighbour to the ambiguous Sphinx, with enormous ancient stones, the Valley Temple, Granite and basalt wall blocks, marble floor, The valley temple not only shows models of stunning building practices with megalithic blocks , but gives an idea about Giza plateau age, The temple contains no incised inscriptions or reliefs, Free time for wandering in the temple, then visit the Sphinx, The famous ambiguous Sphinx at Giza is a tremendous statue, sculptured in rock, representing a icon of the ancient Egyptian mythology with body of lion and head of a man to represent the power and intelligence of the king. It is 17 m high and 39 m total length. It was constructed in the reign of Khafre, about 2470 B.C 

After Giza Combo full day tour You will have time to visit the famous local shops either to buy souvenirs or to have idea about the Egyptian handicrafts, then enjoy lunch meal and back to hotel

Note at night We arrange also Pyramids by night ( Sound and light show in front of Giza pyramids and the Sphinx)

Giza Combo Day Tour Includes

- Pick up and drop off  service from your hotel in Cairo by World tour advice private tour guide

- All Giza pyramids Combo day tour transfers by modern Ac van + 40 minutes by camel or horse carriage 30 minutes

- All tickets of entry in Giza pyramids plateau, Valley temple, Sphinx, Solar boat barque museum, 

- Entry inside  two of the following tombs Seshem Nefer Theti tomb, Khufu Kha Ef  tomb or Meres Ankh tomb

- Private English speaking tour guide (Expert in Egyptology )

- Free time for shopping around Giza pyramids area

- Lunch meal at local restaurant included 1 soft drink

- Mineral water on board during the tour

- 1 soft drink in Giza pyramids panorama area in the bedouin camp

Giza Combo Day Tour Excludes

- Anything not mentioned in our Combo tour to Giza pyramids

- Tipping, recommended but not obligatory

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[urbanchristiannews]

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[kalira]

History Unrepeated

Written for @nejihinata​‘s NejiHina Week - Day 2: Never Again!

T; 1.3k Neji/Hinata

Hinata is determined that their clan will not repeat the mistakes of their past, determined to undo as much as she can of their ugly history. Neji is very proud of her . . . but mostly he would like her to be kind to herself in the process as well.

#NejiHinaWeek2021 #NejiHina Week #NejiHina #Neji x Hinata #NejiHina Week 2021 #never again #History Unrepeated #Neji #Hinata #working late #overworking #Kalira writes #Kalira writes; Naruto #Kalira writes; NejiHina #Naruto

[nicholassabalos]

Supercarrier at work….

CORAL SEA (July 3, 2019) -- United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) steams through historic waters as the massive warship head’s north along the east coast of Australia.

After spending American Independence Day (July 4, 2019) at sea -- including refueling (UNREP) its escort ships -- the supercarrier arrived on July 5, 2019 for a port visit to Brisbane, Australia....before another round of exercises and training at sea with the Royal Australian Navy.

The Coral Sea was, of course, the site of numerous and decisive sea battles during World War II between allies United States and Australia, versus the Empire of Japan.

  Note the city of Brisbane....a few hundred miles to the north of Sydney.

                                     __________________________

>>CLICK the photos for a closer look....

>>Photos: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kaila V. Peters, USN

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[puraleanbuy]

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[zmwrites]

Tag: Word Find XCV

This game comes from the lovely @mel-writes-with-her-dragons! Thank you! The words are speak, again, certain, home and weapon.

These will be from Remnants.

SPEAK

His brow furrowed and he took a breath to speak, but was interrupted by the door between the halves of the barn swinging open. Radka took a large step back to put much needed space between them. The weight of his gaze on her was hard to ignore but she didn’t allow herself to acknowledge it. She needed to think, to clear her head. Olesya was right: something about Damir made her do and say stupid, irrational things.

AGAIN (+ bonus WEAPON)

Savenko prowled closer, a smug smirk settled on his features. He stopped just one step behind her. She could feel his intentions rolling off of him, to make them suffer for the embarrassment they had caused him, and a shiver ran down her back. Damir’s fingers tightened around her arm.

“It’s been a good run, Svoboda. You’re craftier than I expected,” Savenko said.

She twisted to face him, keeping her hands on Damir’s stomach, just as he raised the gun again and aimed it at Damir’s head. She didn’t think—she shifted herself between the weapon and the injured man. She snarled up the barrel at the derisive expression beyond.

CERTAIN

“Damir’s come a long way since I last saw him,” Miran said, not looking up from his meal. “After what happened in Marlytsia, I was afraid he would fear physical contact for the rest of his life.”

“Vanya mentioned you were at the field hospital where he was treated.” She hoped her voice was level. As much as she wanted to know about Damir’s past and everything that had shaped him, she didn’t want to accidentally learn things he didn’t want her to know. She understood better than anyone the desire to leave certain parts of one’s history unrepeated.

HOME

“Lots of new faces tonight.”

“There are always lots of new faces.”

“Not this many.”

She tilted her head in acknowledgment, chewing the inside of her lip. Brenik was a city of transition, of cramped rentals and questionable work. It wasn’t somewhere people made a home out of unless they were truly stuck. Anyone who did well for themselves left at the first opportunity, and anyone who did exceptionally bad was found frozen to death between buildings when spring melted the snow or floating face down in one of the canals.

WEAPON

He dove into the next fight, all trace of discomfort vanishing as he pushed himself to perform despite it. She was at once in awe and full of rage. Awe for how he seemed to have complete control of his every muscle, how in tune he was with his surroundings, how sharp and efficient his every movement was. Rage for the people who had moulded him into the perfect weapon without once considering if it was the right thing to do, for the people who had stripped away all other futures from him as a child for their own gain.

That’s Milenko talking in the snippet for ‘home,’ since I don’t make it clear in context.

I tag @ladyniniane, @ryns-ramblings​, @adayforducks​, @pepperdee​, and anyone else who wants to play! Your words are border, direct, final, and stage. As always, no pressure!

#tag games #remnants #remnants excerpt

[nikosheba]

Rating: E (A somewhat soft E but to be safe, E)

Pairing: Celebrimbor/Annatar

Warnings: Possibly slightly dub-con ? but not how you’d think. Also generalized warnings for The Aftermath

Tags: Manipulation, Aphrodisiacs, Accidental Marriage, LaCE Gone Wrong

Summary:

Celebrimbor is hiding something from him. It isn't important.

(But it might be.)

Annatar has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.

Written as a request from @thatfeanorian! Requests are being written and also still open, they just keep turning into longfics!

#silverfisting #silvergifting #annatar #celebrimbor #fanfiction #my writing

[butch-bakugo]

20 tips for non-lesbians to help lesbians

From a lesbian!

Dont speak over us on lesbian issues. We know what is lesbophobic better than you do.

Dont call out a lesbian if they are being lesbophobic.( i suggest you @ a lesbian mutual and have them back you up if they pull the " your not a lesbian" card)

Dont say dyke uncencored under any circumstances(unless you're a bi wlw) and do not assume we are ok with being called q*eer. Really dont assume anyone is ok with being called q*eer but for us lesbians its much more common to despise it.

You can not call yourself butch/femme(bi wlw can call themselves that), especially if you only think it means masculine/feminine.

Defend lesbians who are being harassed for solely lesbophobic reasons.

Defend trans lesbians and nb lesbians who are being harassed solely for translesbophobic reasons.

Learn lesbian history from actual lesbians.

Never interact positivitly with terfs. Terfs are inherently lesbophobic.

Spread only positivity about the lesbian community as a whole. You are free to critize individual lesbians but do not make assumptions about the entire community.

Do not spread lesbophobic sterotypes, e.i being predatory, scary, agressive, being terfs, being exclusionists, etc.

Call out other non-lesbians and your own lesbophobia, especially if a lesbian calls you out on it first. Apologize and do not do it again.

Do not consume lesbian porn. Ever.

Ask questions to lesbians if you want to know more about us, our lives, our history or the experience of being a lesbian.( we dont have to answer you but most of us are happy to answer any questions you have)

Support all types of lesbians.

Do not engage in the "useless lesbian " joke and call out other non-lesbians who do.

Do not interact with lesbophobes other than to criticize lesbophobes. Especially when a lesbian tells you they are lesbophobic.( i.e gaud/i am fish)

Support lesbian artists and writers.

Push for more explicitly lesbian representation in media( we are GROSSLY unreped)

Warn lesbians about lesbophobic users, celebrities and creators.( i.e fuck you vaspider)

Do not spread butch sterotypes or femme sterotypes.

This is a some-what detailed, some-what not list of 20 things most of us lesbians want from lesbian allies and people in general. Please respect them because breaking them will most likely result in you being lesbophobic.

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[christsbride]

Final Exam, Part One

Genesis 44:1-16

The sons of Jacob were not far from the city when they looked back and saw the prime minister's steward overtaking them. Once he caught up, he accused them of stealing from the Egyptian leader. "How could you do such a deceitful deed, after having been treated so well?"

They did not hesitate to let the steward examine their sacks of food, beginning with Reuben, the oldest. But lo and behold, when the steward got all the way down to the youngest, he found the silver cup in Benjamin's sack!

They had to return to the city with the steward, of course, where they were immediately ushered into the prime minister's presence. There, Judah did the talking.

This confession from Judah's mouth was amazing. But this was precisely what Joseph had been waiting for; this was why he had given the final exam. They passed. In fact all the brothers made straight A's on the first part of the test.

In speaking for his brothers, Judah did not attempt to justify himself or the others, nor does he try to pass the blame off onto Benjamin. Unlike before, they didn't turn on Benjamin and reject him as they had Joseph so many years ago. Judah says, in no uncertain terms, they were all guilty.

Given their history, this is an amazing admission. A real change had begun in their attitude. Think about the fact that these words were coming from the mouth and heart of Judah!

Joseph wanted to know whether his brothers were able to read the hand of God into daily life, even in things that seemed unfair. Even in misfortune and death. He wanted to see if their vertical scope was clear. And now he heard this confession coming out of Judah's mouth, who laid the guilt on all their shoulders. "Before God we have been found out. We are guilty! Our iniquity has been discovered."

I believe that in his confession Judah was actually going back over twenty years earlier and was referring to those days when they not only hated their brother Joseph but turned against him and sold him into slavery. Had it not been for Reuben, they would have murdered him. This now haunted these men. Judah had begun to realize that God did not overlook an unrepented offense.

Taken from Great Days with the Great Lives by Charles R. Swindoll. Copyright © 2005 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson. www.thomasnelson.com

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[kiriti2009]

Abraham Lincoln Inaugural Address

Fellow-citizens of the United States:

In compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly, and to take, in your presence, the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, to be taken by the President "before he enters on the execution of this office."

I do not consider it necessary at present for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement.

Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States, that by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property, and their peace, and personal security, are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this, they placed in the platform, for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves, and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:

Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes."

I now reiterate these sentiments; and in doing so, I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible, that the property, peace and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming Administration. I add too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given, will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause -- as cheerfully to one section as to another.

There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor. The clause I now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its provisions:

"No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."

It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it, for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the law-giver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution -- to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause, "shall be delivered," their oaths are unanimous. Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not, with nearly equal unanimity, frame and pass a law, by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath?

There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by state authority; but surely that difference is not a very material one. If the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but little consequence to him, or to others, by which authority it is done. And should any one, in any case, be content that his oath shall go unkept, on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept?

Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well, at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States"?

I take the official oath to-day, with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws, by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to, and abide by, all those acts which stand unrepealed, than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.

It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens, have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through many perils; and, generally, with great success. Yet, with all this scope for [of] precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever -- it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it -- break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?

Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that, in legal contemplation, the Union is perpetual, confirmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution, was "to form a more perfect Union." But if [the] destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity.

It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union, -- that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authoritative manner, direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.

In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion -- no using of force against or among the people anywhere. Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality, shall be so great and so universal, as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object. While the strict legal right may exist in the government to enforce the exercise of these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating, and so nearly impracticable with all, that I deem it better to forego, for the time, the uses of such offices.

The mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all parts of the Union. So far as possible, the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection. The course here indicated will be followed, unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper; and in every case and exigency my best discretion will be exercised according to circumstances actually existing, and with a view and a hope of a peaceful solution of the national troubles, and the restoration of fraternal sympathies and affections.

That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love the Union may I not speak?

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step, while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to, are greater than all the real ones you fly from? Will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

All profess to be content in the Union, if all constitutional rights can be maintained. Is it true, then, that any right, plainly written in the Constitution, has been denied? I think not. Happily the human mind is so constituted, that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this. Think, if you can, of a single instance in which a plainly written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied. If by the mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution -- certainly would, if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case. All the vital rights of minorities, and of individuals, are so plainly assured to them, by affirmations and negations, guaranties and prohibitions, in the Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or by State authority? The Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress protect slavery in the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say.

From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease. There is no other alternative; for continuing the government, is acquiescence on one side or the other. If a minority, in such case, will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which, in turn, will divide and ruin them; for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority. For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy, a year or two hence, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments, are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this.

Is there such perfect identity of interests among the States to compose a new Union, as to produce harmony only, and prevent renewed secession?

Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case, upon the parties to a suit; as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government. And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be over-ruled, and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly brought before them; and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each. This, I think, cannot be perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections, than before. The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived without restriction, in one section; while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all, by the other.

Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionaryright to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the national Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it.

I will venture to add that to me the Convention mode seems preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions, originated by others, not especially chosen for the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either accept or refuse. I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution, which amendment, however, I have not seen, has passed Congress, to the effect that the federal government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments, so far as to say that holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.

The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people, and they have referred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this if also they choose; but the executive, as such, has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope, in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth, and that justice, will surely prevail, by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.

By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well, upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied, hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."

I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

[acoustic-trauma]

God In an AJJ song

God is such a transient being,

So maybe god lives within me because your tone makes

Me tremble with the impulse to leave you.

It’s a complicated thing, proclaiming your love to a doormat with perked up ears,

And you can never quite get through the door without stepping on him.

But i feel god on this porch tonight.

Such an objective thing, i feel,

To look up in the sky and pretend that we matter,

We are all just matter from zeus’ bolt and the rage of henry the eighth,

But history, unless unrepeated doesn’t quite make my nosebleed

With you on this front porch.

I fill a cup with the juice of a grapefruit and the rind of your achilles heel,

So we can drink to the success that we aren't dead and gone yet,

But the big bird under the city never picked us up,

I think my mother ordered the wrong stork.

So my lovely girl tells me to be careful with men,

Because they make the same mistake too.

And the closest thing i've had to a brother stands on the porch of my hippocampus tonight,

Begging me to stop poisoning me liquor with forget-me-always juice.

But antipsychotics make my hands shake,

The doctor didn’t pick up on that for the 68th time,

He’s seen me knock down my coffee cup with your name written on the side,

Because i like answering when i hear someone call your name.

Those rich syllables permeate the thick columbian roast a hippie on 5th told me sung to her last night.

I never sang to you,

But this coffee sure as hell did,

This porch sure as hell did,

So maybe we all fucking matter,

In the sense of it,

Maybe we are just simply a cog in the machine that gets in the way of

Bartenders shaking with more thrust and passion or politicians to have warm skin.

But you will always matter, in all the sense of it,

Because i felt god on the porch this evening,

And i have to say i finally heard you talk back.

-z.h.

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