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dalekofchaos · 3 years

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What would you say are the biggest mistakes Mass Effect 3 made?

Okay this is going to be a long one, but these would be the biggest mistakes ME3 ever made in my opinion

Choosing Cerberus over The Reapers. The thing that annoyed me most about ME3 is the fact that Harbinger is not the main threat. The Illusive Man is. Harbinger has been built up as the big bad since ME2. "YOU HAVE FAILED. WE WILL FIND ANOTHER WAY." He says as he discards the Collectors. Then his speech to Shepard as the base blows up. "Human, you've changed nothing. Your species has the attention of those infinitely your greater. That which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction. You will surrender your potential against the growing void. We return, and you will rise. We are the harbinger of your perfection. We will bring your species into harmony with our own. Your species will be raised to a new existence. We are the beginning, you will be the end. Prepare for our domination. Prepare for our coming." Then in Arrival, he came pretty damn close to unleashing quick subjugation and harvest upon an unprepared galaxy. Upon Shepard foiling his plans. "Shepard. You have become an annoyance. You fight against inevitability. Dust struggling against cosmic winds. This seems a victory to you. A star system sacrificed. But even now, your greatest civilizations are doomed to fall. Your leaders will beg to serve us. Know this as you die in vain: Your time will come. Your species will fall. Prepare yourselves for the Arrival." The perfect final villain right? Unfortunately, Cerberus was more focused on than The Reapers. My problem with Cerberus and no Harbinger is Too many Cerberus, too few Reaper forces in plot. We fight Cerberus more often than the reapers. Hardly any boss fight and the one with Reaper Destroyer on Rannoch was more an interactive movie than fight. During the Horizon mission in Mass Effect 2, Harbinger was solidified as the Big Bad. It was menacing and ominous, with just the right amount of annoying. It taunted us throughout the game, telling us how insignificant we were, and how our actions were pointless. It was willing to posses drones through the Collector General to fight us personally, and when we killed the host, it tossed them aside. Harbinger even gave the typical “You haven’t seen the last of me!” villain rant. It made any fire fight frustrating, and that made me want to kill it even more; I hated Harbinger. Many games fail to do that. Harbinger was an enemy which I looked forward to defeating. I had the desire to annihilate. In Mass Effect 3, I got a codex entry and a cameo. Harbinger just swoops in at the last second and blows my friends and I to hell(and lets the Normandy save them), then flies off. Personally, I would have loved to hear Harbinger’s menacing monologue, it drove me on. I would have felt a deeper motivation to take the fight back to Earth if it told me how much destruction the Reapers were causing, how many lives were lost. I felt cheated when I got to the final mission, only to suddenly realize it was largely absent from the game. Harbinger has been replaced. Replaced by the Illusive Man and Kai Leng. The former is an old acquaintance, albeit one now controlled by the Reapers. The latter is a space ninja from a terrible book. What would've been amazing is if Harbinger IS the Catalyst. Harbinger taunts and haunts Shepard throughout the game He uses the memory of that child to haunt Shepard as a symbol of humanity lost. After Shepard activates the Crucible. Harbinger appears. He explains to why and how The Reapers were made. the AI Leviathan created to solve the equation is Harbinger all along, Harbinger manipulated The Leviathan into giving it Reaper form and birth at first it did what it commanded and what they asked of it was to look at the dark energy building up which back then was only an anomaly that Leviathan was concerned with but then the first harvest began and Harbinger and The Reapers were born. Funny enough, Leviathan reminds me so much of FMA:Brotherhood. The Intelligence tricked Leviathan to create the Reaper is very similar to how the Dwarf in the flask became Father. So what I think should have happened is it would've been revealed that Harbinger is the AI that convinced the Leviathan that harvest was the only way to survive and justifies the harvests not because organics and synthetics can't coexist, but because of the dark matter crisis. Throughout the game we would have more confrontations with Harbinger. Have him "ASSUME CONTROL" during fights. Give us a voiced confrontation between Shepard and Harbinger. Make it clear that Harbinger chose The Illusive Man and convinced him of together they could uplift and empower humanity over the lesser races. The Illusive Man is to Harbinger, as what Saren was for Soverign. Then the Crucible will grant us the choice to Destroy or Control The Reapers or Harvest this cycle to survive the Dark Matter crisis. You could either. Destroy Harbinger and The Reapers, while the united races would discover a way to stop the dark matter problem. Give in to Harbinger to harvest humanity to save the galaxy. Control The Reapers to stop the harvesting and to work together to stop the dark matter crisis.

Choosing to have a smaller crew than ME2 and focusing solely on the ME1 characters and screwing over or ignoring the ME2 crew, especially romancing Jack, Miranda and Thane. If it were up to me, this is what my ideal ME3 line up would be Ashley/Kaidan EDI Garrus Liara Tali Javik Jack Miranda Thane(EA forgot about him and simply chose to kill him off, I think Thane could’ve rejoined the crew and even had a mission where we find a cure for Thane and Kolyat) Grunt Mordin(you'll see how later) Legion(You'll see later) Balak or any Batarian Squadmember. Ideally it would be someone who survived the Bahak system or even a Batarian freedom fighter who puts his people’s survival over the pride and prejudices of the Hegemony. His sole goal is to liberate Khar'shan and save his people. But for a more memorable person, Balak would be the squad member. I would make killing Balak not an option. The last high ranking officer in the Hegemony. Instead of causing deaths on the Citadel, he seeks Shepard out. It’s an enemy of my enemy is my friend. Over time, Balak would show remorse for his past actions as a terrorist and for the Hegemony’s past. Shepard and Balak learns to overcome their differences and see each other as friend and works together to destroy the Reapers. We would get a Priority Khar’shan where we could liberate the planet and the Batarians would be in a fighting force.

Keeping James alive. I like James, but he added absolutely nothing to the game. We already had an Alliance character. Ashley Williams/Kaidan Alenko. James should have been the Jenkins/Wilson of the game. He should have died in the crash to take out Eva and Ashley/Kaidan should have been with us from beginning to end. James is a character we barely know. We’ve waited a long ass time to see Ashley/Kaidan and it was downright disappointing that neither Ashley nor Kaidan did not get to interact with Garrus on Priority Palaven and Wrex during Priority S’Urkesh.

Mirandafying Ashley Williams. Mirandafying Ashley Williams for Mass Effect 3 was shallow and unnecessary. Wearing loose and long hair and skimpy clothing? Ashley Williams is a by the books soldier. She would not look like this. She would not grow her hair or let it down like this. I mean, it’s not that they changed her face so much, but they just tried too hard with the makeup, hair and outfit. Ashley didn’t need to be model-sexy and run around in heels and showing cleavage. She was already sexy as hell in her own way. All they needed to do was give her the Alliance Crewmen outfit as her casual look and the Phoenix Armor and the current Alliance type armor she was given in ME3, as well as a unique Spectre armor. It's not just the shallow Mirandafying. It's the fact that Ashley has little to no interactions. Ashley barely has any interactions in the game. Compared to Kaidan, Ashley is not interactable. I don't like that Ashley barely has any interactions and just feels...hollow. Ashley should have crew moments with Joker, Adams, Ashley at the monument mourning those who died with the original Normandy, Liara, Tali and Garrus. Was it so much to ask for simple interactions? And really, Ashley in the first game had a personality, Ashley in ME3 feels hollow.

Choosing Diana Allers over Emily Wong and Khalisah al-Jilani. Emily and Khalisah are two reporters we actually know and respect. They earned their place on the Normandy. Emily reported on crime and traffic controllers. Khalisah gave us hard hitting questions and actually cared about reporting on what the fuck was going on in the galaxy. They earned their place on the Normandy as far as I'm concerned. Compare that to Diana Allers. What has Diana Allers done to deserve a spot on the Normandy? Nothing. They created the Battlespace to make her seem like a hip and cool Alliance News Correspondent. Allers looked, weird and she just comes off as annoying and she's a waste of space on the Normandy when we could've had a whole new or returning squad member. God, I WISH Javik could throw her out the fucking airlock. You had TWO perfectly great reporter characters and you did jackshit for any of them. Just so you could have an excuse to hire Jessica Chobot.

Not letting us see Tali's face on Rannoch. Legendary Edition fixed the mistake by finally showing us Tali's face, but it's still exclusive to Shali romancers. What should have happened was we see Tali's face when she unmasks on Rannoch. If we don't romance her, she unmasks and gives us a smile. If we romance her we see her face and kiss her. Something simple like that. It would've been great to see

Not having the ME2 squad members join in on the Citadel DLC. I mean for fuck's sake, it's like they want us to know "fuck you, ME1 squadmembers only" Again, why? Why wasn’t Jack, Miranda, Grunt, Samara, Jacob, Zaeed and Kasumi not added? If we romanced Jack or Miranda, why didn't they come to save us when we were being hunted? Why not REALLY making it feel like Team Hammerhead by actually adding the ME2 Squad members to the Citadel DLC before the party? There was no reason why you couldn't include the ME2 squad members in the Citadel DLC

Making Cerberus the villains instead of uneasy allies, when The Batarians were the perfect allies for The Reapers. This might just be me but I think Cerberus should have been on our side in ME3 and The Batarians should have been fighting for The Reapers. Makes sense Cerberus has just been a rouge organization doing what the job no matter what the cost(even if the cost is atrocities) and instead of indoctrinating themselves they could of studied it to make themselves immune to indoctrination and The Illusive Man's goal was to use any means necessary in order to destroy The Reapers. I also like the idea that you know you can't trust him, but he does get results. The Council and The Alliance are desperate, so they accept a partnership with Cerberus. The Batarians have always held a grudge against The Alliance, The Council and would have wanted revenge for Bahak/ Viper Nebula. The fact that there are no consequences for what we had to do in Arrival from The Batarians just doesn't make any sense and you'd think this would give The Batarians the motive to turn to The Reapers. Hell in the Terra Nova DLC in Mass Effect 1 it seemed to me that Balak was already indoctrinated and Balak’s revelation of the “Batarian rebellion” makes it seem like they would be the perfect tools for The Reapers. Balak will be the new Saren figure. If you killed Balak, then The Reapers would just bring him back. The first act of war for the Batarians was the destruction of the Viper Nebula, so their retaliation was killing Udina. Prior to the Reaper invasion of Earth, Udina would go to Omega to make peace talks with Aria. The Batarians attack and gain control of Omega, Aria is ousted(but saved by General Petrovsky) and Udina is executed live for the galaxy to see. Because of Udina's execution and Anderson leading the resistance on Earth. The Illusive Man is now the Human Councilor. Miranda and Kai Leng would be squad members. Depending on if you gave TIM the Collector Base or destroyed it, he will either keep you in the dark or help you at every turn. Just think of the Cerberus War Assets Cerberus Scientists General Oleg Petrovsky Collector Base Cerberus Fighters Cerberus Phantoms Cerberus Engineers Project Phoenix We would get a big mission to deal with the Batarians, Priority:Khar'shan. If you do not deal with the Batarians, there will be major casualties. However half of the Batarian forces are not indoctrinated and just want to end the mistakes of their government and live. Balak wants to kill the rebellion of his people. Ironic. Somehow Balak has placed enough bombs on the planet to destroy everyone who is resisting Reaper indoctrination. We can either. Talk Balak out of it. Telling him to resist and fight for your people(which WOULD gain Balak as an ally) or talk Balak into killing himself. Or the true Renegade option is to kill Balak and order a strike that wipes out the Batarian forces, but sacrificing the Batarian Rebellion. By the time we get to Priority Earth everyone is on the same page and united against the true threat, The Reapers. And it is Harbinger who is the final boss

Not having Maelon be there with Mordin in ME3. This isn't really a problem, but I had a thought. If we spared Maelon and kept Maelon's data for the cure. Maelon should have been on board to help Mordin with the cure. If we warn Mordin and Maelon about the sabotage, then Maelon would choose to sacrifice himself to save Mordin. And after that, Mordin would choose to join Shepard's crew.

Legion's "death" is pointless. He....is software. He could easily copy and paste The Reaper code without sacrificing himself in the same manner when he was broadcasting the Reaper signal to all Geth. Or he could've disseminated himself after he made a copy and transfer that copy over to his platform. I just get the feeling that they didn't want to keep Mordin, Thane or Legion alive....for reasons.

#Mass Effect #Mass Effect Legendary Edition #Mass Effect 3 #Ashley Williams #Kaidan Alenko #Commander Shepard #Femshep #Harbinger #Miranda Lawson #Jacqueline Nought #Tali'Zorah #Garrus Vakarian #Urdnot Grunt #Mordin Solus #Thane Krios #Legion #Emily Wong #Khalisah al Jilani #Ka'hairal Balak

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rokkr-witness · 4 years

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Primordial Thurs: Ymir and Surtr

So this project started because quarantine has been keeping my kindred apart, so we’ve been doing zoom meetings to discuss some interesting themes in Norse Mythology. I haven’t cited all the references used for these but I hope I got enough of them. This particular work is going to talk about several important concepts, them being Chaos, creation and Destruction and how those concepts are represented by the Primordial Thurs Ymir and Surtr. I will say I’m not a scholar, and a good portion of this is UPG, take it or leave it.

Ymir

Ymir is the first of the giants in Norse mythology, he dates back to the primal times before Odin, Thor or any other God existed. He is created when the fires of muspelheim meet the ice and rime of niflheim in the ginnungagap, the void. He’s representative of the first shared Ancestor, but also the first “consciousness” to come out of Chaos. When referring to consciousness we do not mean sentience here. Thematically, Ymir is the personification of the chaos before creation, which is also depicted as the impersonal void of Ginnungagap. Both Ymir and Ginnungagap are ways of talking about limitless potential that isn’t actualized, that hasn’t yet become the particular things that we find in the world around us. His name means Screamer so connect that to birth, not just the birth of the womb but also the birth of the universe (the Big Bang).

According to Snorri Sturlson Ymir was suckled by the cow Audhumla for his nourishment, but whether this is a Christian literary device or not has been debated. It may be that Audhumla, who also licked Buri out of the ice, was introduced as a way to present a dichotomy in the myths, that being Buri, Ancestor of Odin as Good and lawful, and Ymir, primordial chaos as inherently Bad and therefore deserving of destruction. But we’ll get to that.

When he slept, several other giants were conceived asexually in Ymir’s hermaphroditic body, and spontaneously sprang from his legs and the sweat from his armpits. A man and a woman grew under his arms and a six headed son under his foot. Þrúðgelmir is the name of one son, who’s son Bergelmir is the only one to survive the ocean of Ymir’s blood after his slaying. This is accounted in the book Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda.

There is some suggestion that Buri might have been one of the beings created from Ymir’s body, and by extension so Bor and Bestla, the parents of Odin. I actually prefer this interpretation, because it removes the dichotomy of jotun = bad because they are inherently evil and the descendents of Buri, imposed(cultivated) order, are inherently good. With all beings originating from Ymir you have one source for creation and one "race" for lack of a better term, and it changes the designation of Aesir, Jotunar and vanir to a more tribal understanding, that being the family or group we choose to belong to.

Anyway, Ymir’s son Þrúðgelmir appears in the poem Vafþrúðnismál from the Poetic Edda. When Odin (speaking under the assumed name Gagnrad) asks who was the eldest of the Æsir or of the giants in bygone days, Vafþrúðnir answers:

"Uncountable winters before the earth was made,

then Bergelmir was born,

Thrudgelmir was his father,

and Aurgelmir his grandfather."

—Vafþrúðnismá

Odin, Vili and Ve, The divine brothers then slew Ymir and fashioned the realm of midgard from his corpse. His flesh made the earth, his bones the mountains, his blood the oceans and his brains the clouds. It is also during this creation that the Gods establish Utangard and Innangard by giving the giants the shoreline and using Ymir's eyelashes to build a wall between the rest of the Cosmos and Midgard- the realm of future humans. Through this the tribe of the Aesir, imposes the order necessary for life(as we understand it) to thrive and begins the push and pull between that order and the primordial chaos of the Giants. A push and Pull that ultimately culminates in Ragnarok.

Surtr

And that brings us to Surtr. If Ymir can be considered your primordial Rime, or Frost Thurs, then Surtr is your primordial Fire Thurs. Likewise if Ymir represents the chaos of creation, Surtr represents the Chaos of destruction and the completion of the natural life cycle. Because he is associated with the south (Muspelheim), Surtr is then associated with the idea of fire, which is common in Icelandic Norse mythology. It can be argued that the figure of Surtr was, at the very least, a local figure given over to Iceland’s relatively tumultuous volcanic geography that was incorporated in part into the larger Nordic cycle by Icelandic-born writers, but this theory has never been proven.

His Consort is Sinmora. Less is known of this figure than Surtr himself, save she possesses/is the guardian of the legendary weapon Lævateinn*. Some theories suggest Sinmora as the Same entity as Hela, but personally I find they hold very little water.

Surtr is demonized as a malevolent antagonist to the gods, positioning himself against the world as a whole. And, I want to dispense with the idea, immediately, that Surtr is inherently demonic or otherwise evil. I cannot emphasize this enough.

“If we associate Surtr with the Icelandic writers, an etin with an affinity towards fire and the volcanic landscape of their homeland, then it is easy to see how they could put a greater derogatory emphasis on the being. After all, fire is well attested to being both a savior and a potential threat to civilization, ” Marc, Axe and Plough

It is my understanding that Surtr is in Muspelheim before the worlds are created. Which makes him the perhaps oldest entity in the Northern Pantheon. (excluding some ideas that the Void itself is an entity) Surtr is the lord of Múspellsheimr and the leader of that realm. We do not know when he became the lord of Múspellsheimr, so it is fair to assume that he has always been. That Surtr has always been. This is supported by Muspell, the primordial world of fire, as the primary impetus for the creation of the universe. The interactions between Muspell and Niflheim, within the great void of Ginnungagap was what birthed the universe (Faulkes 1995: 10).

This Idea is one we see regularly, paths of Destruction as paths to rebirth, creation. It is possible that Surtr is a regular arbiter for that rebirth, and has been through the founding and destruction of several universes. What can be gathered from this is something we see regularly in Northern Traditions, the understanding that though things die, life continues, renews and grows.

Natural science does a good way of illustrating Surtr’s importance in this example.

Take Andisols for instance. These are soils that form on volcanic ash and contain volcanic glass and compounds of elements such as Fe, Al and Si. (Ions of those elements, which are released by leaching and weathering of volcanic rock, can form complexes with organic matter; in addition to an andisol’s ability to retain water, this can make for very fertile growing conditions, after it has had the chance to weather, break down and release it´s nutrients. Eruption(destruction), break down, and then growth.

Now let's stop right there for a second. There is very little information on Surtr however there are some conclusions that can be drawn with some mental gymnastics about his role at ragnarok. His role at Ragnarok is to do battle with Freyr, be victorious and cover all the realms with Fire. After Balder will return from Hel and a new cycle of life will begin.

If you look at Ymir as the beginning and Surtr as the end, and both of them in a system of chaotic creation and destruction, then Freyr, the vanic god of fertility and agriculture( one of the ways in which humans mastered the natural world), is the obvious Foe. Freyr represents creation in the system created by Odin Vili and Ve after Ymir’s slaying. To return to the primordial creation you have to remove it, you have to remove everything. And Surtr is the obvious answer to that, an ever present being that sees the same cycle completed over and over. I’d even argue that Balders return to the world of the living is christianized to reflect Christ and maybe a better ending to ragnarok is simply to return to the natural state of the cosmos, Muspelheim in the south, Niflheim in the north and the Void between them.

Conclusion

So i Started this with very little information and so have had to draw a lot of my own conclusions. Some heathens who have also written on this subject, like raven kaldera and his associates, i think over humanize Surtr and by extension Ymir in ways to make the entities more approachable. but i see that for myself as sort of counterproductive. Others like Ljossal Lodursson idk, i just don’t find that his conclusions hold up to my interpretations, that is I don’t support Audumla as an essential part of the cosmos, but that’s my UPG and so i think it’s important to remind everyone that your UPG is yours and you’ll draw your own conclusions through journey work and research. My dissatisfaction with others who follow the path of the jotnar is not a reflection of the validity or quality of their works.

How you choose to incorporate any deity is really up to you.

For myself, I like Ymir for organic inspiration, but I also just sort of feel close to him as I'm a human living on earth, obsessed with the way the universe is held together. If you accept the big bang theory as the scientific beginning of the universe there is a place you can drop ymir in there. Ymir, Screamer, Bang...you get it. I have found if you stare too long at Ymir you sorta fall in and getting out again is rather difficult. I began to feel very unconnected to other parts of my faith, including Loki the longer i stayed trying to connect to Ymir.

Surtr is sorta similar for me. When you want to start over with a clean slate he'd be the one to help you, or rather his is the power you would seek since I'm not certain I could see something omnipresent and everlasting, that is the personification of ultimate entropy as being able to offer conscious help.

I don’t think of them as meeting people or interacting with persons. Try seeing them as simply being, events or states. Powers, elements, eldritch entities beyond sentient consciousness. Like some kind of Norse Jellyfish or giant space Apatosaurus. They just are, they have functions and they are or have fulfilled them.

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*Lævateinn

Lævateinn is etymologically considered to be a kenning for a sword (Old Norse "damage twig"[1]

Henry Adams Bellows translation:

41. Svipdag spake:

"Now answer me, Fjolsvith, the question I ask,

For now the truth would I know:

What weapon can send Vithofnir to seek

The house of Hel below?"

42. Fjolsvith spake:

"Lævatein is there, that Lopt with runes

Once made by the doors of death;

In Lægjarn's chest by Sinmora lies it,

And nine locks fasten it firm."[3]

Bellows comments that Lægjarn means "Lover of Ill" and, like the name Lopt, refers to Loki

There is some suggestion that the weapon may be the misteltoe used to kill Baldur but this theory has never been proven.

More Reading

Arith Hargar- he has an excellent video on Ymir

http://www.northernpaganism.org/

a site with lots of information on various Jotnar as well as digital shrines

Raven Kaldera's Jotunbok

https://axeandplough.com/

Marc has several articles of interest- including one of the few written about Surtr

Ljossal Lodursson has written several texts on Thursatru that offer unique perspectives

#heathenry #heathen #rokkatru #asatru #norse #norse pagan #pagan #ymir #surtr

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letusmeetagain · 3 years

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Empathy and the own nature

“We are the same.”

Up to this point I just can’t see Eren being controlled. For shifters, it’s needed something to anchor their roles as holders of 9 titan’s power. For Eren it was in chapter 120 and 121 when he discovered part his own nature. Probably most of the shifters were never controlled but showed an empathy, a shared feeling or goal that was already there before. Maybe a similarity with Ymir the founder. After all, every SoY is part of her body.

The last opening gave me the idea to play with this both opposed sides: creation and destruction, the Founder and the Attack titan and their previous shifters, and I think their connection is relevant to know Eren’s role right know.

The founder

As far as we know, the founder can be related to the command “I create and preceive, I rather die and sacrifice myself”. It reseambles the way Ymir created everything but also sacrificed herself, accepted and perpetuated the system. The roots and stem of this civilization. The part of her that is responsible for everyone and can’t be free... and also the part that blames itself for everything. “The guilt is inside”.

When Zeke surpassed the vow, the relation between shifters and this part of Ymir became evident.

After comparing Zeke, Frieda and Uri, the difference gets clearer. It’s about their own nature. A natural way to be that echoes the will of someone else. While Frieda and Uri were subjected to the vow, because their natures couldn’t accept the blame on themselves and their people, Zeke was able to break the vow. Probably it wasn’t just because he knew how to do it but because of his own nature to accept the blame and extinction.

If we consider the 145th King’s ideology (“We better never existed in this world”) and Zeke’s, it’s easy to interpret that both were alike by nature. Zeke was showing there his own way to see the world out of his father’s indoctrination. Aplying this to Frieda and Uri, both were forced to act according this ideology, they weren’t fully agree with.

The founder’s command is in the end:

ACCEPT DEATH, BE A SCAPEGOAT

I do believe Rod was saying the truth there. He couldn’t because his selfish mindset fixated to life would have clashed with the founder’s mindset and purpose. Maybe his strong will would have been a problem too.

It’s also safe to say that Historia would have had to face the same destiny as her sister. Historia learnt from the very beginning what it was to be hated since birth. By nature, her mindset wasn’t in tune to accept this command.

And this is what I call indoctrination:

Until this day I ask myself if Frieda was preparing her for something.

For the moment when she would be asked to inherit the founder...

And Ymir just came as a redeemer to tell her it was wrong to try to be a good girl like that and tip the scales in favor of one specific outcome...?

Although these characteristics among others (like the jaws-sacrifice) are important parts of Ymir’s soul... which is the most prominent? The one that mantains the system or the one entrusted with the mission to put an end to it? And why none of them is balanced at all?

After the enounter in paths, the most prominent now is...

The Attack titan

This is the part that opposes the founder. The destruction, the search for freedom. “The guilt is outside, I want and deserve to exist”.

To say that Grisha did the same mistake as Ymir back then. Everyone was searchig for freedom, defying a world that doesn’t allow it.

Back then, Ymir sought freedom for the pigs, Krüger had to see his family being murdered and couldn’t do anything, Grisha sought freedom for her sister, Eren had to see her mother die. The whole cycle.

One part wishes for freedom for others, another revenge for the loss. Impotence and frustration. Everyone carries the accumulated burden of those moments.

As for this part of her, even revenge... the result is a intent of redeeming not this mistake she did but also the whole story. When thinking about the big amount of sacrifices done for this, it’s important to think that the only thing that matters to them right now is to put an end to the way things are.

And I rather don’t dig too much into the consequences of summing every single shifter wanting the same that should be like feeling the same torture over and over again in different times, places and with different people. It’s like loosing hope over and over again with no mercy. And also the empathy and compassion resulted of feeling that you and everyone else was condemned to go through the same: freedom, revenge and destruction.

“I didn’t do any of that, and neither did Faye.”

For this to be solved, Krüger made sacrifices and suffered because of the mission. It’s clear he didn’t enjoyed doing so, he had to no matter what he wanted as individual. So did Eren on what matters to him. As individual, he had a wish about his friends. As a small part of a whole complex story bigger than anything, he had the duty to keep moving forward, his nature was in tune too. Something that probably echoed Ymir’s wish as their natures are partly alike.

But both probably wanted this.

Because...

...all in all, her will is outside the paths, disperced and being represented by every shifter. Maybe this is the reason of this sick unbalance.

#snk #Ymir Fritz #shingeki no kyojin #the founder #the attack titan #snk theory

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soniccyclesau · 4 years

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Fundamentals

Setting

The planet the stories of Sonic and friends will be set on a planet a hybrid of Earth and Möbius. The “human side” is like Sonic Unleashed’s Earth and the “mobian side” is like Sonic SatAM or Sonic Underground (naturally, the planet is bigger having other effects that are too much to talk about here). Humans and Mobians have been wiped out to near extinction and came back several times, making history become muddled and lost (and serving the story). The planet’s Chaos energy is made much more relevant than usual, and Gaia coexists to keep Chaos in line. The Time Stones, Power/Portal Rings, Phantom Ruby, World Rings Master Emerald and Sol Emeralds will be reworked and more significant, and will all in due time (probably) be posted here.

Mobian color significance/avatars* ^

Every so often, there is one avatar born for each Chaos emeralds and it’s seen as a turning of age for the Mobian civilization.

Avatars

The Guardian first appeared when an Echidna underwent a mysterious and horrifying rital and gave birth above the mouth of the largest inactive volcano of Angel Island to The First. They protect the emeralds on the secluded island, floating high above the oceanic point of inaccessibility (known to us as Point Nemo). They are the Speedster’s first and last friend/rival and later becomes the protector of the family. They have the best connection to the Master Emerald, and thus, other times and worlds. Many echidnas have been recorded to live for hundreds of years, but The Guardian remains healthy due to their unique birth, life and connections. When they die, another will arise from the volcano.

- Tikal the Echidna “The First”

- Knuckles the Echidna “The Second” to echidna/kin or “Sir Gawain” in the Second Life

The Godfather is the Speedster’s battle partner and his best mentor and equal. It is unsure if there has been one constant avatar like The Guardian or if the reappearance process is similar to The Speedster. Unknown to the world, G.U.N. were in the process of creating him around the time, but when Ivo Robotnick (Eggman) stole him and travelled to Mobius to take over, his father (another RICH powerful G.U.N. Business Official) covered up the whole ordeal and secret existence of Mobius and terminated Project SHADOW.

- Shadow the Hedgehog or “Sir Lancelot” in the Second Life

— Mephiles the Dark inherited some of the avatar attributes but cannot overuse them or risk major injury to his (nonphysical) form.

The Speedster always appears as a blue hedgehog with a bright blue lightning bolt on their body. Since their deaths have been witnessed publicly, it is confirmed that they’re reincarnated. They are meant to be the greatest hero of their time, and a symbol of the turning of ages. Their main powers always have to do with sound, air, electricity and speed. They’re usually very charismatic leaders and have a profound impact on others.

- Needlemouse

- King Lyrist

- Sonic

The Priest is the bridge between life and death, but death is never heavily associated in their image. Always singers by heart, these wise souls tend to be one of the youngest and are prophets with supernaturally sharp intuition. Although they’re still an important part of the family, they’re usually a lonewolf with important, over ambitious goals to achieve. There have been many cases of the Priest time and dimension traveling, meaning almost anyone can run into them at any time and will probably be unaware.

- Manic the Hedgehog

- “Sir Percival” (Silver disgused)

- Silver the Hedgehog

The Soul has very close connections with The Heart but represents the family as a whole and is seen as one of the strongest fighters because of their powerful eyes (about as vague as it sounds). They can see right through one’s emotions/lies or what their muscles will do next, but also grants access to sight similar x-ray or infrared vision. They’re subconsciously aware of the cycle while the others are not until they’ve been told.

- Bunnie Rabbott

- Rob O’ Hedge “Sir Thorodann”

- Whisper the Wolf

The Volcano is the evil, destructive force that caused the cycle to be started. These avatars have a disproportionate amount of wealth, power and desire for domination of the world, complimented by a long life span for various different reasons. No one will know someone is The Volcano until they commit the biggest act of malicious defiance that would destroy their life, triggering blackened sclerae, grey irises, red pupils, orange streaks in the hair and insanity. This can happen at any point in someone’s natural life.

- {UNKNOWN} Röbotonikk (“Classic”/“Boom”)

- Ivo Robotnick (“Modern”)

The Heart is held dearly by the other avatars and helps many of the individual relationships between them. Much like the body, it is the first one to go before the end and key to harmonic teamwork. They’re natural caregivers much like The Lover and are very in tune with their own emotions as opposed to others’. They are one of the most important allies, as they’ve had psychic visions of the future and turned the tides of battle as a critical strategist or have been the driving force of the battle as a powerhouse.

- Sonia the Hedgehog

- Sticks the Badger “Sir Lamorak”

- Amy Rose

The Giver, each given the name Miles Prower as a documentation method, is The Speedster’s closest and greatest ally and is a healer of hearts, souls and minds. They’re intellectually gifted as well and have been major political figures through several lives. They bring unification, prosperity and peace before the cycle begins again and they die last. Their job is to ensure before their death the emeralds are gathered up and stored on Angel Island once more. The job has only been incomplete once, resulting in many of the major floating islands to fall.

- Miles Prower the I passes onto Princess Sally Acorn due to an early death.

- Miles Prower the II “Alibaba”

- Miles Prower the III “Tails”

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2020’s Mind-Blowing Jupiter/Pluto Conjunction: Shadow & Light By

Dana Gerhardt

Seven of the ten deadliest pandemics in human history erupted during Jupiter/Pluto transits—just like the conjunction that peaks this year in April, June, and November.

Jupiter and Pluto were conjunct during the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918. Bubonic plague–the Black Death–ravaged Europe, Asia and Africa from the J/P conjunction of 1347 to their opposition in 1353. Jupiter was trine Pluto during one of humanity’s very first pandemics, the Plague of Justinian, which killed 25 million in 541. In modern times, the Lord of death and shadows (Pluto) has joined forces with the God of growth and expansion (Jupiter) during our five most recent pandemics.

Yet Jupiter and Pluto are gift givers too. Astrology teaches there are no shadows without light. These conjunctions, occurring about every 12 years, have also coincided with humanity’s greatest leaps forward. Together, Sky God Jupiter and his brother the Underworld Lord keep expanding our universe, triggering scientific breakthroughs, awakening new paradigms, distributing mega-wealth, and inspiring sweeping shifts in political power.

Johannes Kepler was born during a Jupiter/Pluto conjunction in Pisces, when most of the globe still believed that planets circled the Earth in perfect round orbits. At 24 (his Jupiter return), Kepler has a mind-blowing epiphany about the solar system’s true design; it’s published a year later, during the 1596 Jupiter/Pluto conjunction. Under a later conjunction, Kepler publishes the work for which he’s most famous—his planetary laws of motion—still used in calculations today. **

Hans Lipperhey applies for the first telescope patent in 1608, under a Jupiter/Pluto conjunction. In the following months, Galileo, the father of observational astronomy, builds his first telescope, through which he observes four of Jupiter’s moons, the first space objects seen orbiting a planet other than Earth. Three hundred sixty years later, after so many Jupiter/Pluto gifts, humanity takes its greatest leap yet, beyond Earth. Neil Armstrong leaves his footprints on the Moon within orb of the 1968-69 Jupiter/Uranus/Pluto conjunctions.

Spread the wealth

Pluto is a god of wealth—Jupiter rules good fortune. You might expect these archetypes to have blessed our billionaires. And they have. Warren Buffet, Rupert Murdoch, George Soros, Bill Gates—all born during a Jupiter/Pluto conjunction. Charles Koch was born with a Jupiter/Pluto trine (as was an earlier financier & philanthropist, JP Morgan). Koch’s brother David was born during their square (as was steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie nearly a century earlier).

But if you’re hoping Jupiter/Pluto might bring you a mega-lottery win this year, think again. Jupiter is an optimist who loves to roll the dice, but when dancing with Pluto, he favors hard work that’s born of obsession. That’s how scientific geniuses and billionaires are made—they think big (Jupiter) with formidable focus (Pluto).

What about the wealth of the common man? I’ll argue that the last three J/P conjunctions have increased this beyond measure, even as the divide between the haves and have-nots has grown wider than it’s been (some say) in all of human history. But first we have to expand our perception of wealth beyond the dollars in our bank accounts. Jupiter is a god of perspective—he favors higher, longer, and broader views.

With that mindset consider how the gifts of the 1981, 1994 and 2007 J/P conjunctions have thoroughly reshaped our world, bestowing the average man with powers beyond that of any king or emperor in history.

In 1981 IBM releases the first personal computer. Computing power that used to require a floor of bulky machines is now small enough to become a home appliance. Soon after, the internet is in development—which will eventually put whole libraries at our fingertips. Many of our greatest emperors spent massive piles of gold on developing their libraries. Today–for free–we can explore the works of mankind’s greatest thinkers.

During the 1994 J/P conjunction, the first PlayStations are released—opening the collective imagination to countless interactive new worlds. How do we calculate the ways these games have rewired possibilities inside the human brain? That year, Bezos launches Amazon—so that today, we can sit in our homes, desiring a book or a toothbrush and like an emperor, clap our hands, and have it delivered in an hour or a day. In 2007, the iPhone is released. It quite literally drops the universe into our palms. What king could have commanded views of the birth of a star? Now any child can do this.

But let’s get back to money. How might this year’s conjunction affect our wealth? Covid-19-inspired quarantines have halted economies around the world—prompting talk in the United States of relief efforts that would serve as the greatest wealth distribution in human history, a gesture fitting for these two planets. It’s reminiscent of the Pluto/Jupiter aspects of the early 30’s during the Great Depression—the New Deal was passed in the years between the J/P conjunction and the square. Big bold action is often required when these two planets meet. During the 1943 conjunction, FDR enlists the whole nation in a massive unified war effort.

It helps to remember that Jupiter is also a philosopher. For many, the most honest measure of wealth is having the free time to enjoy their lives—a sudden gift of this year’s pandemic. Time is perhaps the one thing more valuable than money. A homeless man has greater wealth than the dead billionaire. With life and astrology we always have a choice: we can focus on the shadow or the light. We can obsess (Pluto) about our common poverty. Or we can use this sudden abundance of hours to leap beyond our own limits. We can use Jupiter’s massive exuberance to boost our Plutonian passions.

As when–during the J/P conjunction of 2007–NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft uses the boost of Jupiter’s gravity to slingshot itself toward Pluto! **

Political pendulums swing

People focus on Pluto’s destruction—but empowerment is his favorite game. During J/P conjunctions, political power can swing dramatically. These are the years when we see regime changes, stunning political landslides, assassinations, and the birth of social movements.

Within orb of the 1931 Jupiter/Pluto conjunction, Mahatma Gandhi, himself born under a J/P conjunction, leads one of the most powerful nonviolent campaigns. He marches 241 miles across western India to get salt from the ocean, in defiance of the British ban against Indians collecting it or selling it. Spain becomes a republic; King Alfonso XII is deposed. Under the next conjunction in 1943, during World War II, Mussolini resigns; Italy surrenders. Assassination attempts on Hitler and the Philippines president fail.

Argentinian President Peron is ousted under the beams of the 1956 J/P conjunction, when Morocco gains independence from France & Spain, Churchill resigns, and Khrushchev shocks the Soviets by denouncing Stalin; the de-Stalinization of Russia begins. In the US, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat—and a young Martin Luther King helps lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

At the next J/P conjunction in 1968, under the weight of the Vietnam War, President Johnson stuns the country by declining to run for re-election. Throughout the year, around the world, workers and students take to the streets in mass protests against social and economic inequalities. In the US, the Civil Rights Act is passed.

Under this same conjunction, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated. At the next conjunction in 1981, Egyptian President Sadat is killed; attempts are made on newly elected President Reagan and Pope John Paul II. That same year, Nelson Mandela (born during the J/P conj of 1918) inspires one of the world’s earliest hashtags, “Free Mandela.” This cry starts gathering momentum around the world, and by the next Jupiter/Pluto conjunction, in 1994, Mandela, now freed, is elected the first black president of South Africa.

What happens is always surprising

I had hoped for wild regime changes this year. Though honestly, I hadn’t given Jupiter/Pluto much thought. Like many astrologers, I’ve been fixated on the Big Saturn/Pluto Restructuring and how it all ends this year—with the birth of a new collective cycle, signified by the Great Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in progressive Aquarius. I had hoped these omens were pointing to rising power for the people, a mass multi-cultural movement of women and millennials who would stare down the structures corrupt with greed and forge a new world, one that would benefit those at the bottom as much as those at the top!

Alas the future always glitters in a progressive’s eyes. And now that I know more about J/P conjunctions, I also know they don’t guarantee success. Just ask the air traffic controllers or the Polish Solidarity workers—whose 1980/81 rebellions were crushed by those in power. Jupiter and Pluto point to this great woosh of universal energy, erupting in massive expansion, but as with any explosion, there is darkness and light, destruction and birth. How many people grabbed high mortgages during the J/P conjunction of 2007, just one year before home values crashed? And if you want to know why toilet paper is flying off the shelves, blame Pluto (god of excrement) fueled by Jupiterian excess.

In truth Jupiter and Pluto don’t cause what happens below. They’re omens. Astrology is an art of symbols. Planetary motion tracks for us the otherwise invisible waves and patterns of universal energy. The Covid-19 virus is having its best year ever. As magnificent as our leap to the Moon, it has jumped into a new species and is conquering territories all over the world. It’s breathtaking. And their spaceship? Pluto’s agents! Bats and their guano.

But even wilder is what’s happening among humans now. Just one month ago, around the globe, people were hopelessly divided, right vs left, globalists vs nationalists, as democratic values collided with dictatorships. And now, with a snap of the cosmic fingers, we’re One World. We’re rallied and unified. What the amazing Greta Thunberg couldn’t do for climate change, was accomplished by a virus. The surge in national compassion that didn’t erupt when families were broken apart at the border, now erupts everywhere. “We’re in this together.” What Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders couldn’t achieve—inspiring the nation to strengthen its social safety nets, reign in corporate greed, and make health care available to all–this is suddenly being discussed in Congress, without a regime-changing election.

There was another moment like this, of overwhelming unity. It came during the J/P conjunction that took us to the Moon. But it wasn’t seeing that footprint or the planted flag that made us gasp with wonder. It was what we saw when we turned around—our very first view of that blue jewel, our whole Earth, floating in the dark vacuum of space. That single startling sight rippled us forward into a new awareness of the fragility of our ecology. It reawakened us to our interconnection with—and responsibility for—all life on this planet. A year later we held the first Earth Day. We were recycling. We were talking about alternative energies. We took measures to save disappearing species and habitats. Maybe it didn’t go far or fast enough, but our future trajectory was changed. The J/P conjunctions of 2020 are just beginning. Who knows what else they will bring!

Were you born during a Jupiter/Pluto conjunction?

Bill Gates was lucky to be born in 1955, wrote Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers. Gates was born just a few months before the J/P conjunction of 1956. Gates was lucky, said Gladwell, that local parents got together in 1968 (the next conjunction) and purchased a computer for his school. The opportunity to learn coding came to him at 13, during the year of his Jupiter return, when most of us find our life’s passion. Gates was lucky that he was just the right age to roll the dice when tech began taking off. He founded Microsoft during the 1975 Jupiter/Pluto opposition (which fell across his natal Moon/Mars opposition).

Jupiter and Pluto aren’t personal planets. Jupiter indicates the luck that comes to us through society—this is what’s called a “social” planet. Pluto is an “outer” planet; it defines generations. Both are zeitgeist planets—they describe the times. So it wasn’t just Gates, Gladwell argues. All those who made it big in high-tech were lucky to be born around this time, like Bill Joy, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs. Gladwell puts the peak at 1955, but says it actually stretches from 1952 to 1958–which is from the J/P trine to the sextile.

Below is a table of recent J/P conjunctions. If these aren’t your birth years, you may have been born during the years of other aspects. Check your birth chart. Are Jupiter and Pluto connected?

DateDegree April/June/November 202024/22 Capricorn December 200728 Sagittarius December 199428 Scorpio November 198124 Libra October 196823 Virgo February/June 195627/26 Leo August 19436 Leo May 193118/19 Cancer August 19185/6 Cancer

What happens for societies goes much slower than what happens for individuals. Jupiter/Pluto conjunctions are like a wave that peaks at the conjunction, but starts rolling the year before and continues the year after. We wouldn’t use such orbs in a birth chart—but we should use them to understand the time. And whether or not you have a Jupiter/Pluto aspect in your birth chart, this energy is in the zeitgeist now. We can all have a taste of its magic, if we’re willing to use it.

More on how to do that in my next article, Making the Jupiter/Pluto Conjunction Work for You.

How is the conjunction affecting you? First check the house (and/or planets) where 24 Capricorn falls in your chart. Are you getting transits this year? Steven Forrest’s fabulous Skylog report will tell you (order here). Mary Shea’s brilliant Solar Return report adds extra insight (order here). The SR is a divination chart calculated for your birthday. The house where Jupiter and Pluto falls in the SR is telling.

** This and more is in Patrick Watson’s exhilarating article on Jupiter and Pluto–check it out!

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About Dana Gerhardt

A popular columnist with The Mountain Astrologer since 1991, Dana Gerhardt is an internationally respected astrologer. She has lectured extensively and written for astrology publications on several continents. Her ongoing passions are the moon and living the intuitive life. Dana worked for many years in the corporate sector, where she observed the undeniable influence of natural cycles. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles and did graduate work in literature at Columbia University and CSULA. Dana can be contacted by email.

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Scholars have argued over the nature of civil wars since the Romans first gave us the term. As described in David Armitage’s fascinating book Civil War: A History in Ideas, they have settled, over time, on a three-way taxonomy:

Secessionist civil wars are those in which one part of a nation wishes to separate itself and go its own way. Both of the wars fought on American soil, it could be argued, fall into this category: not only the one we now call “the Civil War,” but also the one we proudly refer to as the American Revolution.

Successionist civil wars are conflicts in which factions vie for control of a nation’s political system. In these conflicts the form of the nation is not at issue, just who shall occupy the throne. History is rich with examples.

Supersessionist civil wars are those in which two factions, with incompatible visions of what the form of the nation should be, vie for sovereignty over the nation’s territory. The French and Russian revolutions were of this type.

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One of the peculiarities of civil war is that it is hard to say, except in retrospect, when a nation has passed the point of no return. There is rarely anything so distinct as Caesar’s fateful crossing of the Rubicon. It is, rather, like falling into a black hole: there is an “event horizon,” at some distance from the singularity, beyond which nothing can escape. To a space-traveler falling through it, there is no visible difference, no noticeable boundary—but once you have crossed that fateful border, there’s no possibility of turning back. All future timelines must pass through the singularity.

Is that where we are today? For the answer to be “no” means either that one side in this great political conflict will simply admit defeat, or that there will be some softening of grievances, some sort of coming together in a newly formed political center. Does that seem likely?

Looking at the yawning rift in American politics—the fundamentally incompatible visions of society and government that the two factions hold, the dehumanizing mutual antipathy that finds freer expression every day, the unforgettable damage already done, and the implacable fury with which they grapple for every atom of power—can any of us imagine some way forward in which Right and Left just “bury the hatchet” and “hug it out”?

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If we look at the current state of American affairs as a failed marriage, the best solution would be some sort of divorce. A secessionist solution might very well be welcomed by all, and avoid civil war altogether. The problem, though, is that, unlike our previous civil war, the two sides do not occupy distinct and contiguous geographical regions, but are, rather, mixed together county by county, or even house by house. Nobody has yet arrived at any plausible plan for the factions to disaggregate—and without physical separation, it is hard to imagine a realistic means of political separation.

That leaves the “supersessionist” type, which seems closest to the mark.

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“Red” and “blue” have profoundly different visions of the scope and structure of the federal government, and of the role of government in American life generally. They differ also on fundamental questions of religion, ethics, morals, and even human nature. Red believes that the American founding was a work of astonishing insight and inspiration and that it represents the best compromise yet struck by the minds of men to enable the possibility of ordered liberty and the individual citizen’s pursuit of happiness and prosperity.

Blue seems to believe increasingly that the whole thing was a sinister power-grab by a cadre of rich white males, designed to preserve and consolidate their immoral supremacy, and that the whole thing is so rotten that it should be torn up by its roots and replaced with something fairer and nobler. (Blue has already revealed that it wishes to see the Second Amendment, the Senate, the Electoral College, and our nation’s borders abolished—and its grievances hardly end there.)

We are fighting, then, not over who shall rule over the existing system, nor about whether the United States should be broken up into two distinct nations, but about whether the United States as currently constituted should continue to exist, or should be wholly replaced with an entirely new regime.

Yes, the idea of civil war is always repugnant. But there is another form of conflict that is very closely related to civil war—indeed they are often quite the same thing—that has exactly the opposite emotional polarity, and is especially well-related to civil wars of the supersessionist type: revolution.

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To rupture that fabric is far easier when it is already weakened—and this is precisely what has happened in America, and in the West more generally, over the past half-century. Insofar as the American past is taught or remembered at all today, it is as a litany of sins, deserving not propagation, but denunciation. The result is that American culture has, to a very great extent, lost its extension in time, and exists in an increasingly narrow present.

Roger Kimball has called this, in a lovely coinage, “temporal provincialism.” We might also call it historical “stenosis”: a pathological narrowing of the channels through which the life-blood of the past flows into the present and the future. And in the sense that the present is always being born from the womb of history, it brings to mind the tying off of an umbilicus—though that is really far too optimistic a metaphor. A better one is the cutting of a flower.

This narrowing presentism tears at a fundamental requirement of civilization: that its citizens see themselves as a living bridge between past and future. If the past is rejected or forgotten, then we have no estate to bequeath to posterity, other than what we can build, ex nihilo, in the present. To create a viable nation from scratch, however, is a daunting task, and one that rarely succeeds. Revolution may make for an exhilarating present, but it destabilizes the future.

Civilization depends also on high “time preference”: we defer present consumption to profit from the increased relative value of the things we build for the future. But too-rapid technological and social changes, and of course the deliberate obliteration of history, work to diminish confidence in the surety of the future and drive time-preference toward the present. This in turn manifests itself in hedonism, anomie, present consumption, loss of social cohesion (why pull together when there’s nothing to pull for?), and declining birth rates. This all feeds back upon itself in an intensifying, destructive cycle.

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Sorry about the stupid question, but wasn’t Ares kinda evil? He was in Percy Jackson at least, and that’s about all I know about Greek mythology

Hahaha, I mean, yeah he’s not exactly misunderstood, as far as most takes on him go. Supremely douchey, at the least. But then again, that kinda describes the vast majority of the Greek pantheon, both major and minor divinities alike….so I mean, he’s got plenty of company. Like I know in the PJ series, Poseidon is basically a pretty decent god comparatively speaking, but like….nah, he was definitely a major asshole in a majority of myths he showed up in. Demeter would definitely make your crops wither if you tried making a case for him being an okay guy, for instance.

But the take on Ares in that post you’re talking about still fits because in pretty much any myth I can think of, Ares is very much the type to be fully convinced he’s in the right at any given moment. He’s definitely the hero of his own story, and everyone else’s, as far as he’s concerned. So he would def object to being cast as evil.

It’s kinda like….so I mean, there’s definite reasons why Ancient Greek culture centered a great deal of focus on two different (and usually opposing) war gods, whereas most cultures usually only had one, or at least one prominent one and then any other war gods being more minor, satellite deities, kinda.

And yeah, Athena is almost always considered the ‘good’ or ‘civilized’ goddess of war - even though she definitely had a nasty streak at times herself - but it was usually more like….Athena was the goddess of wisdom, of strategy and tactics, the incarnation of war with PURPOSE and intent. Like, she embodied war in the sense of….a definite creation of human civilizations, wars that happen because human minds and motivations decide okay, we are going to war and here is why.

In contrast, it’s not really so much that Ares was considered evil, as that he was seen as more…brutish, unreasoning, impossible to sway with talk of peace or treaties or appeals to an enemy’s sense of mercy or such. Basically, he was Athena’s opposite in the sense that he embodied war as like…a force of nature, almost. Something primal, senseless, bloodthirsty, the kind of war that no one truly wins, whereas Athena’s domain was seen more as like…’noble war,’ or war waged for ideals, honor, stuff like that. A little known aspect of Ares is that he was also at times referred to as the god of storms as well as war. Not the heavens or skies in general, like Zeus or other sky gods, but storms specifically. The natural disaster kind, just powerful and overbearing and impossible to tame, just like, the wild fury of mindless nature that the best you can do when facing it is look for shelter and try and wait it out as best you can. Like, a storm isn’t technically evil, but that makes very little difference when the end result is the utter destruction of everything in its path, you know?

Its also interesting to consider the role cultural bias plays in even ancient mythologies. Like how we talk about how history is written by the victors, they decide what gets remembered and in what light…that’s kinda a key component of the Athena/Ares dichotomy too. Its not really a coincidence that Ares is the older of the two…both in terms of worship, like in the sense that he was around and having myths told about him long before Athena arose as a popular divinity in Hellenistic cultures…and in the sense of like, how even in the myths themselves, or at least the myths that lasted and make it through the millennia in the form we remember them and tell them today, Ares is literally the older of the two, in terms of age, with Athena being born long after him.

Like, we talk about the Greek pantheon as the gods of what we usually think of as ancient Greece, like…city-states like Athens and the like, the Greek civilization that built the Parthenon and practiced democratic ideas and were famed artisans and such…but the entire lifespan of THAT ‘ancient Greek civilization’ is still only a relatively small piece of the overall history of the region. The Greek gods as we know them today, were around in various forms for literally thousands of years before that…or at least some of them were. The older Greek gods, culturally speaking, are the ones who are more linked to primal, elemental forces of nature, embodiments of the natural world moreso than specific cultural ideas such as art, music, beauty, wisdom/strategic war, revelry, etc. And over time, as cultures of the region mingled and consolidated and grew into the broader, more widespread civilization we tend to label ‘ancient Greece’ in most of our minds….new gods got added to their myths and merged with the older, more elemental deities into one cohesive pantheon. And that’s why the gods of natural forces like lightning, the sea, the earth, sky, the sun, etc….they were the oldest gods in the Greek pantheon, age wise….the children of the Titans, along with those Titans who’d sided with them in the war against their parents, like Helios, etc. And its these gods’ children, for the most part, who embody the ideas born of human cultures and civilizations, and thus make up the younger generation of Olympians, like Aphrodite, Apollo, Dionysus, Hermes, etc. And of course, Athena.

Ares and Hephaestus exist in a kinda weird, in between state, like one foot in one ‘generation’ and the other foot in the younger one…because they’re examples of deities who were around for a long time in previous cultures in various forms….but kinda evolved along with the changing ideals and priorities and focal points of the various Hellenistic cultures that told their stories. Or not evolved precisely, that’s not the word I’m looking for, its got some less than accurate or great implications here, but…like essentially, in their oldest, earliest remembered ‘versions’, the gods we know now as Ares and Hephaestus were primarily associated with natural forces, just like Zeus, Poseidon, Demeter, etc. Proto-Ares, for lack of a better description, was more a storm god than even a war god, initially, while Hephaestus was pretty definitively a god of fire. But for various reasons, their stories changed along with the cultures that told their stories, without ever actually replacing them with newer, younger, ‘gods of civilization,’ the way the older Greek gods replaced the Titans in the mythological cycle, and their children were destined to do the same to them.

So by the time the Greek pantheon had solidified into the Olympians as we think of them today…..Ares and Hephaestus were added into the Olympian pantheon as part of the second generation of gods, like Aphrodite and Athena and Apollo….but were distinctly the oldest of that generation, the first sons of Zeus and Hera, and thus why they’d been around so much longer than the younger gods, mythologically speaking. And in the process, they’d ‘shed’ most of their more primal, nature-related aspects, as the storm god and fire god, and become more associated with where those forces led humanity once harnessed. Ares thus became the idea of war, but early war, as the emerging Greek civilization saw it, and by extension him…’primitive’ war, senseless violence and brutality that the Greeks of the more modernized era of Olympian worship saw themselves as having outgrown…and thus requiring the birth of a newer, younger, ‘more civilized’ god of war, a war god for the modern age of a more enlightened Greek culture and civilization, in their eyes….hence, the rise of Athena in both the myths and Greek culture as a whole.

(Though technically, Athena’s actually one of the older deities of the region too, with roots tracing all the way back to the earliest Hellenistic civilizations, but she was ‘updated’ in much the same way as Ares & Hephaestus, but even moreso, to the extent that its much trickier tracing her all the way back to her earliest depictions).

All of which is why I’d say its not that the idea that Athena = good war goddess/Ares - bad evil war god is necessarily wrong, per se….its more that its not the most accurate way of describing their dichotomy, and their relationship with the ancient Greeks of this era. The surviving myths we have most definitely characterize Ares as nasty, ill-tempered, prone to jealousy and fits of rage, always eager for a fight and hard to talk down from one….but also, he tends to be characterized as pretty stupid, overall, like…his only advantages tend to come from sheer strength and brute force, his willingness to inflict relentless violence without stopping or showing mercy, etc. And this is the part where I said its like how history is written by the victors. These are the depictions of Ares that survived til today more or less intact, widely proliferated, etc….even though Ares has had a very very long history tracing back thousands of years before those stories first were told, and has been many different things to many different cultures in all that time.

But the disdain for him that’s clearly visible in pretty much every surviving myth….that’s more about how like….the ancient Greeks telling those particular stories, recording them, passing them down….this disdain was basically their way of saying they’d outgrown Ares and the kind of senseless war he embodied, and why they ascribed to Athena’s more ‘civilized’ type of warfare, one that valued culture, and strategy, and tactics, and the OUTCOME of war, rather than the ACT of war itself. Essentially a culturally meta way of saying Ares’ kind of war, and wars of a type he would champion….this generation of ancient Greeks wanted to convey that all that was beneath them, that they’d evolved as a culture past that kind of senseless brutality and at this point had very little use for Ares and everything he represented.

(For the record, I’m not necessarily agreeing with their self-assessment, lol, as uh, lots of the wars conducted by the ‘ancient Greek civilizations’ at even their height, could still very accurately be termed senseless, brutal and bloodthirsty. Its more just about how any civilization that prides itself on well, how civilized it is, generally tends to look at what came before them as more primitive and uncultured. Whether or not that’s as accurate as they’d like to believe. Kinda like how we, as a modern society, would generally term ourselves more civilized and cultured than those particular ancient Greek civilizations, but uh, that doesn’t actually mean we’ve got a leg to stand on about modern warfare being any less senseless, primitive and needlessly violent than any waged 5,000 years ago, y’know? Anyway, this is purely an eye of the beholder kinda thing, more just about the kinda lens the myth-tellers of that era were viewing their gods and their stories through. Allegedly. I mean who the fuck really knows, I wasn’t there.)

And just for the hell of it, by a similar token, it could probably be argued that the myths making a big deal about Hephaestus being so ugly and misshapen by Olympian standards…you could probably make a case for that having a lot to do with Hephaestus’ age, culturally speaking, and how he was associated as much with older ‘more primitive’ cultures as with the more modern age of Olympian worship. Just as Ares became less and less associated with storms and more tied to violent war, Hephaestus moved further and further away from his origin as a primal fire god, to a more specific, newly added niche as a god of invention, craftsmanship, a patron god to blacksmiths. There’s stuff that could be said about the correlation between fire as a potentially destructive force, an almost violent or ugly aspect of nature that only held ‘value’ to humanity once tamed and shaped into a controlled force that had something to offer human culture, in the form of how it could be used to forge weapons, craft new technologies, inspire innovation, etc. Like…the thing about Hephaestus the Olympian is he was a popular god, in the sense of having a big cultural impact, occupying a fairly large focal point in civilizations of the time. But he wasn’t necessarily a well LIKED god. Nobody was pouring out libations to him if they could help it, he was kinda…there, because he was useful and needed, while still being a deity and presence that wasn’t entirely comfortable to be around or in the presence of, sort of. Personally, I think that all links back to how he’s referred to as being hideous to look upon, someone the other Olympians didn’t necessarily want near the rest of them, even as they petitioned him to make them weapons….like, I think you can see here the vestiges of him as the embodiment of fire, even as he’s less associated with that in this time period, and his focus narrowed more specifically to what fire MAKES. Like, the general idea of him, culturally speaking, being that we need him, and we know it, but he and the primal forces at the root of his divinity are like….not something its a good idea to be entirely comfortable around? Kinda the awareness that no matter how far civilization had advanced by then, it was still understood that like….there was still something primal, primitive about fire, that was never going to be possible to fully tame, to make totally civilized. That it’s a force of nature that can be harnessed, but. Bah.

Okay so I’ve been writing all this while waiting in the doctor’s office because boredom plus I’m a slut for mythological analysis and theorizing, buuuuuut I have to go be like, a person with an actual to do list today so I can’t finish this right now but also I don’t know if I’ll get around to coming back to it and finishing it so I’m just posting it as is, for whatever interest it holds as is, because plus it’s not like…..this is the answer anon was likely looking for to a pretty simple question haha, I just like, get carried away when talking myth stuff.

Also standard disclaimer I have to put on all my myth posts apparently haha, I am not a scholar, fuck academia, all of this is just my own personal musings based on my own personal research just because, and no I will not cite sources because I literally do not have time, this is just me talking about shit that interests me and my take on it, I am not suggesting this is the right or only take or should be taught to impressionable school children, lol do not @ me about how I’m misleading the innocents of tumblr who trusted that I, random tumblr user, should be construed as the sole authority on this topic like. I have reasons for adding this disclaimer and they are the thirty thousand fucking obnoxious ‘fight me for being wrong about Loki’ notes the last time I thought waxing mythologic was a good idea, and I have no interest in a sequel to that. LOL. Disclaimer over. Find the post interesting and worth looking for more thoughts on similar or even contesting lines elsewhere, or like, don’t. Just don’t go looking for me as target practice because my nerd take was controversial, lol thank you and have a nice day.

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Global Terror

Fear is a universal constant. Everyone on earth is afraid of something; it might be irrational like the number thirteen or clowns, or a very abstract concept like death of a loved one, but everyone knows fear, down in their bones. A lot of factors will eventually decide what an individual fears - someone who was stung by a bee as a very small child may well develop a fear of flying insects in later life, for example, while someone who was in a car accident is likely to find car journeys stressful in future. While individual experiences are likely to define our fears, the experiences that we share as a culture are equally likely to define our more abstract fears. This in turn will define trends in horror media in a nearly self-perpetuating cycle of societal fear response. This essay takes a look at various cultures and their reactions to societal terrors as shown in horror media, beginning with some of the less examined cultures and ending with the 'melting pot' that is, for better or worse, the perceived core of mass media.

Europe is an interesting source of horror, largely because of its early fairy tales being the progenitor of most commonly-used modern Western horror stories. Eastern Europe as a whole has lived with monsters for a very long time, from the narrative perspective. While the vampire mythos has existed since ancient Greece, and the forerunners of the modern vampire were British and Irish (John William Polidori first with the much-forgotten Lord Ruthven and Bram Stoker with Dracula), Romania and Slavic Europe have a surprising number of myths about vampires. Slavic and Romanian folklore is, in fact, so riddled with monsters that it's almost impossible to be truly afraid of them, as most fear is, at its root, of the unknown. That combined with the ease and blamelessness in which one can become a vampire in Slavic folklore means that there is an entirely different kind of horror involved in tales involving the blood-drinking undead; combined with the fact that everything from birth defects to an animal jumping over someone's open grave can make a vampire, the only way to truly find the fear and horror from these creatures is to become these creatures, at least from the narrative perspective. Films like Night Watch, Let The Right One In and Not Like Others delve into the lives of these cast-out souls, and the horror is found in the tragedy of their haunted, hunted existence and their battle with their own natures, not in the fates of their victims.

There is another purpose to the focus on the monster as the terrorised party in Slavic culture; the fear of standing out. Up until fairly recently, to stand out in Eastern Europe was the worst thing, when survival largely depended on keeping one's head down and not being noticed. Particularly post-World War II, the idea of birth defects or living 'impiously' by local standards being an offense punishable by death is a familiar one to those in Germany, Poland and Russia, even if that last is largely because of a significant guilt for letting it happen to countries that were ostensibly under its purview beginning with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. All told, in the tale of 'the different need to be exterminated because the world says they're wrong and dangerous', countries with their chequered history are likely to show sympathy for the different. Since supernatural creatures have been used as an allegory for the different and bizarre for at least a century, that makes it entirely unsurprising that that entire section of Europe will find the horror in being the 'different' one, rather than being the one hunted by the 'monster'.

Great Britain is a particularly interesting case, given its approach to life as a whole. The British Empire, and the two islands in general, have suffered a great many highs and lows, to the point where 'Keep Calm and Carry On' was effectively its motto long before they quasi-officially adopted it during World War II. Also, its folklore is full of just as many horrors as those found in Eastern European folklore, though British folklore mostly focuses on trickster beings that live somewhere in the middle of the Venn diagram covering spirit, monster and god. All things taken into account, it's surprisingly difficult to find a truly terrifying British horror story. The 'Keep Calm and Carry On' mentality mean that even the great classics, such as Dracula and Frankenstein, convey more of a clinical if occasionally suspenseful retelling than a conventional horror story. More modern British entries into the hallowed halls of horror show the other side of British esprit de corps - the ability to laugh at themselves in even the most dire of circumstances. This is a country that deals with terrorist attacks by stating in a ha-ha-only-serious way that "I've been blown up by a better class of bastard than this", flagging up that the surest show that this was an emergency was that a popular sandwich bar chain had run out of chocolate cake, and interrupts live coverage of the incident to air a popular soap opera. These are not a people that seek visceral terror as a form of entertainment, simply because it's so difficult to achieve. Even the few things they do find scary are often subject to parody; for every 28 Days Later apocalypse scenario, there's a film - usually by or starring Simon Pegg - to parody it, a Shaun of the Dead or a The World's End or, most recently, a Slaughterhouse Rulez.

However, looking at that example, as well as classics like Dracula, Frankenstein and Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde, there is one thing that the British seem to fear: a breakdown of the normally accepted rules of conduct, be they scientific, political or societal. Victor Frankenstein brought on his own doom by over-reaching himself in his field, and compounded it by ignoring his responsibilities to his creation. There are too many examples of this to count in Dracula, though the most notable is the fate of poor Dr Seward, who delved too deeply into things he should not have touched. This trend continues in microcosm and macrocosm in British cinema today; The Quiet Ones follows scientists tormented because they breached a realm of study best left unexplored, whereas 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later touches on both "Science Shouldn't Go Too Far" and "What Happens When The Rules Stop Working?".

Going to the other side of the globe for a moment, some of the front-runners of the horror genre are from the Pacific Rim. Japan and South Korea are renowned for their dark, suspenseful horror films, with Japan adding extra bombast with disaster movies whose messages and cultural impact have stood the test of time even if their special effects have not. The disaster movies are easy ones to dissect from a cultural standpoint; nuclear radiation and its effects, as well as large-scale property damage, have been a stark scar across the Japanese consciousness since 1945. Like the aforementioned car accident victim attempting to ride in a car without panicking, the radiation fears and mass-destruction imagery of the Godzilla movies are an almost guaranteed poke to the hindbrain.

Going back further in the consciousness of the region, however, we come to the underlying cultural fear evoked by the more subtle horror films of both Japan and South Korea. From Ringu in Japan to South Korean films such as The Wishing Stairs, the largest driving force for the supernatural plot elements are guilt and revenge, evoking the honour code that has driven both nations for a very long time, while also touching on the horrors left after their various wars of attrition with the 'death of innocence' trope. However, while Japan focuses on these themes in a more general way, South Korea often approaches the matter in a somewhat more focused - and, to the modern eye, disturbing - way in that many of its defining offerings to cinematic history touch on the latent homophobia of the nation. The Wishing Stairs, Whispering Corridors and particularly Memento Mori all focus on teenage girls, and all of them either imply lesbian relationships or outright feature them. It's unclear whether this is a call to arms, trying to see homosexuality as something more acceptable by framing it as a trait held by a sympathetic character, or a show that 'queers get what they deserve'. It's certainly seen as a common enough situation to be nearly commonplace in movies of that type, though blending it into the horror genre so completely frames it as something to fear.

Across the Pacific, we find Hollywood, and the so-called 'melting pot' that is the United States. Arguably the primary source of the world's entertainment media, the US should theoretically produce a range of horror as broad as the cultural heritage of its people. In a way, that's the case, as American horror authors and scriptwriters often borrow from the folklore of other nations or even simply remake them. However, as these are framed in the American idea of what 'scary' is rather than tapping into the cultural fear that inspired the originals, these remakes seldom come off as well unless they deviate significantly from the source material. Even going back past the days of cinema, consider HP Lovecraft - while born in the United States, America at that time was still only a few generations removed from being a British colony, rebuilding on its own after a bloody civil war. It had hardly been long enough for the nation to develop its own cultural identity, although it was clearly trying. Lovecraft began that in terms of horror; while still deeply entrenched in the "break rules to delve into things you should not examine and be damned" mentality of British horror, his deep-seated racism showed the first glimmer of a largely American fear of the black population, so recently freed.

Nowadays, however, US horror is a difficult subject to examine because of the subgenres on offer in the wider horror genre. Paranormal romance, for example, has taken a great deal of the horror out of classic movie monsters like vampires and werewolves, with the 'action-adventure' label making them one more antagonist to shoot. These days, the true horror in US entertainment media comes from a source whose very mundanity makes it all the more terrifying - other people. Born of urban legends as much as real-life serial killers, slasher movies are the one movie genre that is very specifically American (the British being too inured to the idea of the knife-wielding stranger by Jack the Ripper to really bother with it). Despite supernaturally-born outliers like Freddy Krueger, slasher-killers have always simply been troubled individuals, from Norman Bates to Jason Voorhes to the convoluted chain of Jigsaw killers. The Purge franchise takes it one step further, casting everyone in the immediate vicinity as a potential killer just waiting for the opportunity. While the actual reasoning behind this cultural paranoia is unclear, the fact that most entertainment media is optioned by committee under the auspices of swathes of marketing data means that there is at least a vocal minority of the American public that identifies enough with this mindset to engage it on an emotional level. Given the shape of US politics today, this is worrying on so many levels it's impossible to discuss them all in an essay of any reasonable length; it would probably take a proper academic paper written by someone with several degrees and preferably no personal investment. Perhaps someone living somewhere sane like Switzerland.

So what does all this tell us about the cultural makeup of the countries under discussion? It certainly indicates that Slavic Europe and the Pacific Rim are still haunted by the spectres of a particularly violent past, and that Britain has an inborn need for order that may or may not have originated with the loss of the Empire. The United States, meanwhile, shows some deep-seated paranoia, a fear of itself that shows no signs of abating and even seems to be ramping up as the years go by. It's entirely possible that the entire world needs whatever the cultural equivalent of therapy is, but given the cathartic nature of entertainment media, this is supposed to be a form of therapy from the cultural standpoint. At least most of the rest of the nations seem to be recovering, though they will always still be suffering from whatever the cultural equivalent of PTSD is; Britain, in fact, has recovered well enough to laugh about it, although given the shape of the sociopolitical landscape, they may have recovered too well and be doomed to repeat the lessons they refused to learn from history. The United States, meanwhile, appears to be wallowing in its own divisiveness from a cultural standpoint, with the primary indicator of the things it fears showing a nation that would be happiest alone in a bunker surrounded by land mines with a high-powered firearm, shooting at anyone who gets too close.

There’s no great sociopolitical message here, unless it’s one that a reader wants to find for themselves. It’s just fascinating from an anthropological standpoint how much what people - on a cultural level - are afraid of can sometimes tell us about what kind of people they are.

#general essay: genre media

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The Shade: Origins

From within the primordial churning of the original ‘Big Bang’ that formed the solar system in which Sornieth resides with its brothers and sisters, there came two larger entities that governed the balance of their universe. Across dimensions they always came to be, in some form or another, and many beings that lived spoke of them in different tongues and gave them different names. However the story always remained the same. The two energies governed the balance between destruction and life. One birthed the black holes, collected the star’s afterglow as they faded into nothing over time, sent forth disaster to create a new canvas, and saw to the collapse of whole chains that had existed for millennia. The other took what was left of the chaos and molded it into beautiful creations of its likeness. From their union sprang worlds in various stages of materialization, love and new hope born anew. However their union also brought vicious calamity for one always tried to best the other, a constant struggle for ultimate power. Yes even the two entities were not above the selfish lust for being above the other, however light can not live without the darkness not darkness without life, for how would there be cleansing when the creatures that were created become bitter and selfish, and how would there be any life at all when the cleansing ended? Thus the two stayed content with their positions for millennia, with perhaps a skirmish every fifty or so centuries usually provoked by their own creations.

Around the time of the Third Age of Sornieth, the energies, known in this world as simply Light and Dark, grew restless. The grand new creatures that Light had created had been the sources of many a chaotic time. The Arcanist had reigned and his birth resulted in a new start, something Light had felt would be a good change. It was unusual for a cleansing to happen so many times in less than a couple of centuries, but this planet was one of the stragglers that needed help to become a thriving civilization. It seemed that the planet would never calm, especially with the newest wyrms that Light felt would be a good addition, a physical manifestation in likeness of the two. The Other Half however, found the entire scene a blemish on their work. The Planet was still not yet ready, and the beings that were sculpted from it were not only imperfect but didn’t seem to learn, as if they were in perpetual embryonic states. Dark was not new to the idea creating its own life to mirror Light’s, and found that a counterbalance and another wash needed to take place. However, knowing Light’s feelings on the matter, it concluded it would have to construct them secretly, away from the system and from the ever vigilant Light and wait until the time was right. He chose an experimental ground between two neighboring galaxies, calling them S1 and S2 for the area they were in was quite black indeed and reminiscent of shadows.

Dark didn’t exactly know what to call them. Originally it thought to create a black hole and simply swallow the churning planet, but found it would be too drastic. However the hole had already been created, and was growing by the day. He had taken notice one day that The Arcanist had managed to created an object, to his surprise, that had the ability to see into the deepest corners of their space. Light approached the other half and questioned this odd observation, however Dark assured the worried entity that it was nothing but a black hole created for nothing more than amusement. After a swift warning it was left alone once again to tinker with the new child. As the black hole grew, so did the concern of the meddlesome Arcanist. Why was such a primitive creature gaining knowledge at such a pace compared to the ones before him, and even after? That was when the idea came. Dark had kept an amalgamation of the lives that were lost in the cleansings as a way of carrying the burden of causing their deaths, but now there was an opportunity to use them. Adding their souls to the hole, it swelled many times larger than it had expected, trying to find formation and order within itself. Tendrils lashed out, jaws, teeth and claws tried to break free from the obsidian goo that bound them all together. It was a wonderful sight for Dark, knowing it had made such a fine child...or was it children?

Why was the peculiar wyrm so restless? Light had been following his journey across Sornieth to the grand pillar which housed his predecessors, but for what reason was he doing such a thing? There was no detection of a disturbance for a long, long time. The exact amount was unknown to the energies that governed the universe, as such a man-made idea had no meaning in their existences, however it was peculiar for Darkness to be so distant from the Other Half. Focusing back onto the turmoil below, The Arcanist had made it to the Pillar amidst the warring sisters of Nature and Plague. The two bodies were supposed to become beacons for those who were to be born, and for those who were to be guided to death, a seamless cycle, however the two creatures still involved themselves in the primal instinct of ‘who is more rightful in this world,’ an unfortunate side effect of giving mortal-esque bodies to previously intangible forces. As the starry eyed dragon stood on his haunches to engage the newly spawned mass of primitive souls, dancing in a dangerous tango as if calling them down, Darkness had returned to Light’s side, trailing the newborn to feast upon the world that they had cherished so, and destroying the ones who had now ruled it. As The Shade crept closer into the atmosphere of the planet, Darkness had made a point that this would be for the betterment of the world and the future worlds that they would create. With a final surge of power and a beckoning from below, the masses broke through, seeking to swallow The Arcanist whole and return to Sornieth, the impact of their combined power shattering even the swirling vivid black of Space,

‘But…

You forget…

Light….

Always peers through the Darkness…

And cracks through to shine for all…’

...the Pillar shattered

#flight rising #fr #flight rising lore #fr lore #flight rising headcanons #The Shade

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2020年5月5日尼希亞共修講座（要點）

2020年5月5日-周六-印度时间上午9：21AM -尼希亚南达共修讲座（英语）- 要点 5 MAY 2020 - TUESDAY - 09:21 AM - NITHYANANDA SATSANG GIST *今天是CHITHIRAI BRAHMOTSAVAM庆典的第11天，全世界所有全知宝座灵修院一起庆祝。 *TODAY, ELEVENTH DAY OF CHITHIRAI BRAHMOTSAVAM CELEBRATION IN ALL THE SARVAJNAPEETHAS ALL OVER THE WORLD. *帕冉沙克提女神米纳克什以SARVA ALANKARA的装扮散发恩典，桑达雷什瓦拉帕冉玛希瓦以SARVA ALANKARA的装扮坐在SWARNA RISHABHA VAHANA坐骑散发着恩典。让我们先接受祂们的恩恵，献上我们的敬拜，然后进入共修讲座。 *PARASHAKTI MEENAKSHI IS GRACING IN SARVA ALANKARA AND SUNDARESHWARA PARAMASHIVA IS GRACING IN SARVA ALANKARA IN SWARNA RISHABHA VAHANA. LET US FIRST RECEIVE THEIR GRACE, OFFER OUR WORSHIP, THEN ENTER INTO THE SATSANG. *帕冉玛希瓦直接来自圣凯拉萨的信息： *PARAMASHIVA’S MESSAGE FROM KAILASA: *非暴力无上法则 -终极宇宙法则。道法的意思是“宇宙法则”。终极的宇宙法则是“非暴力AHIMSA”——非暴力。这是最有力量、最好的战略，甚至可以阻止兴都教大屠杀。 *AHIMSA PARAMO DHARMAHA - THE ULTIMATE COSMIC LAW. DHARMA MEANS ‘COSMIC LAW’. THE ULTIMATE COSMIC LAW IS ‘AHIMSA’ - NONVIOLENCE. IT IS THE MOST POWERFUL, BEST STRATEGY, EVEN TO STOP THE HINDU HOLOCAUST. *我完全调整与帕冉玛希瓦一起才开口说话。真的，帕冉玛希瓦说出了我说的每一个字。即使是句号、逗号、停顿，一切都直接属于祂，包括肢体语言。祂只是用肌肉记忆、生物记忆、生物能量，来显示祂想要做的。我对我所说的话负责任。 *I TALK AFTER THOROUGHLY TUNING MYSELF TO PARAMASHIVA. LITERALLY PARAMASHIVA IS UTTERING EVERY WORD I AM UTTERING. EVEN THE FULL STOP, COMMA, PAUSE, EVERYTHING IS DIRECTLY HIS, INCLUDING THE BODY LANGUAGE. HE IS JUST USING THIS MUSCLE MEMORY, BIOMEMORY, BIOENERGY, TO MANIFEST WHAT HE WANTS TO DO. I AM VERY RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT I AM TALKING. *首先我让你们明白我是如何采用非暴力的方式来处理与我和我的上师的关系，与我的第一团队的关系，与我的共修团的关系，与我的弟子们和信徒们的关系，与修行的兴都教徒的关系，与整个宇宙的关系，与整个人类的关系，与一切的关系…… *LET ME FIRST MAKE YOU ALL UNDERSTAND HOW I ADOPT AHIMSA - NONVIOLENCE - FOR RELATIONSHIP WITH ME AND WITH MY GURU, RELATIONSHIP WITH MY FIRST TEAM, WITH MY SANGHA, WITH MY DISCIPLES AND DEVOTEES, WITH PRACTISING HINDUS, WITH THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, WITH THE WHOLE HUMANITY, WITH EVERYTHING…. *如果你知道我是如何运作的，你将会觉醒。奎师那是基于无上法则的最伟大战略家。那些声称奎师那引发摩诃婆罗多战役的人是傻瓜、笨蛋和反兴都教徒。奎师那亲自去谈判和平，然后祂被辱蔑。奎师那知道祂会被辱蔑，当祂去谈判和平时，祂可能会被辱蔑。但祂还是冒了这个险。祂不仅被辱蔑，还有人企图谋杀奎师那。 *IF YOU KNOW HOW I FUNCTION, YOU WILL BECOME ENLIGHTENED. KRISHNA IS THE GREATEST STRATEGIST BASED ON THE PARAMA DHARMA. FOOLS AND STUPIDS AND ANTI-HINDUS ARE THOSE WHO CLAIM KRISHNA MADE MAHABHARATA. KRISHNA PERSONALLY WENT TO NEGOTIATE PEACE AND HE WAS ABUSED. KRISHNA KNOWS HE WILL BE ABUSED, THAT MAY BE ABUSED WHEN HE GOES FOR NEGOTIATING PEACE. BUT STILL HE TOOK THE RISK. HE WAS NOT ONLY ABUSED, THERE WAS MURDER ATTEMPT ON KRISHNA. *奎师那遵守大使的所有规则：不带任何武器、保护或保安人员……只是NIRAYUDHA BAANI。这些KAURAVAS ....DURYODHANA由于极端的妄想命令逮捕奎师那！整个地球都在震动，大地之母BHOOMA DEVI把他赶出了宝座——他被赶出了宝座! *KRISHNA FOLLOWED ALL THE RULES OF THE AMBASSADOR: COMING WITHOUT ANY WEAPON OR PROTECTION OR SECURITY GUARD... JUST NIRAYUDHA BAANI. THESE KAURAVAS….DURYODHANA DUE TO EXTREME DELUSION ORDERS KRISHNA’S ARREST! WHOLE EARTH SHAKES AND BHOOMA DEVI KICKS HIM OUT OF HIS THRONE - HE IS THROWN OUT OF HIS THRONE! *那时，大地之母BHOOMA DEVI认为DURYODHANA不应该赢得这场战争。逮捕奎师那不仅不符合国家法律，甚至也是宇宙法律中一个残暴的部分。 *AT THAT TIME ITSELF BHOOMA DEVI DECIDED DURYODHANA SHOULD NOT WIN IN THE WAR. ARRESTING KRISHNA IS NOT ONLY NOT RIGHT AS PER THE COUNTRY LAW, IT IS AN ATROCIOUS ASPECT EVEN IN THE COSMIC LAW. *最初，兴都教王国被认为是按照宇宙法则运行的。宇宙法本身被采纳为国法，并制定宪法。当我读了越来越多的兴都教宪法和兴度教刑事诉讼法典，我想：多么文明！我每天都爱上MANU、BHARADWAJA（兴都教吠陀圣哲，学者）和YAJNAVALKYA（兴都教吠陀圣哲）! *ORIGINALLY, HINDU KINGDOMS ARE SUPPOSED TO RUN BY COSMIC LAW. COSMIC LAW ITSELF IS ADOPTED AS COUNTRY LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION IS DRAWN. WHEN I READ MORE AND MORE THE HINDU CONSTITUTION AND HINDU CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE, I THINK: WHAT A CIVILIZATION! I AM EVERYDAY FALLING IN LOVE WITH MANU, BHARADWAJA AND YAJNAVALKYA! *为了将来，我至少会让这一切活在一个地方。在帕冉玛希瓦和帕冉沙克提的恩典下，祂们赐予我能力显化的科学，越来越多地赐予我能力显化的科学，我将激发许多国家的决策者、法官、行政人员去学习兴都教圣典。正因为如此，我正在收集和整理一切。当一个发达国家的法官对帕冉玛希瓦的兴都教科学感到惊讶时，我会确保并支持他理解兴都教的法则。 *I WILL AT LEAST KEEP ALL THIS ALIVE IN ONE PLACE FOR THE FUTURE. BY THE GRACE OF PARAMASHIVA AND PARASHAKTI WHO ARE BLESSING ME WITH THE POWER MANIFESTATION SCIENCE, MORE AND MORE WITH POWER MANIFESTATION SCIENCE, I AM GOING TO INSPIRE MANY COUNTRIES’ DECISION MAKERS, JUDGES, ADMINISTRATORS, TO STUDY HINDU SCRIPTURES. JUST FOR THAT I AM COLLECTING AND ORGANISING EVERYTHING. WHEN A JUDGE FROM A DEVELOPED COUNTRY IS SURPRISED ABOUT THE PARAMASHIVA’S SCIENCE OF HINDUISM, I WILL MAKE SURE AND SUPPORT HIM TO UNDERSTAND HINDU PRINCIPLES. * 非暴力怎么可能是阻止兴度教大屠杀的策略? *HOW CAN AHIMSA BE THE STRATEGY TO STOP THE HINDU HOLOCAUST. *尽管奎师那启发了阿周那发动战争，但祂从来都不是一个暴力的人。祂的核心存在是非暴力的——非暴力无上法则。 *EVEN THOUGH KRISHNA INSPIRED ARJUNA TO WAGE THE WAR, HE WAS NEVER A VIOLENT PERSON. HIS CORE BEING IS NONVIOLENT - AHIMSA PARAMO DHARMAHA. *那些傻瓜以为我戴金饰。只有我知道我戴的是金刚菩提子！聪明的人都知道我戴着金刚菩提子！金刚菩提子是我穿戴的核心。 *FOOLS THINK I AM WEARING GOLD. ONLY I KNOW I AM WEARING RUDRAKSHA! INTELLIGENT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND I AM WEARING RUDRAKSHA! RUDRAKSHA IS THE CORE I AM WEARING. *奎师那本质上绝对是非暴力的。祂想要拯救人类。但当时那些愚蠢的人类没聆听，制造了摩诃婆罗多战争和毁灭。即使在这种情况下，奎师那也确保了最低限度的伤害，至少人类得以幸免。 *KRISHNA IS ABSOLUTELY NONVIOLENT TO HIS CORE. HE WANTS HUMANITY TO BE SAVED. BUT THOSE DAYS THOSE FOOLISH HUMAN BEINGS WHO DID NOT LISTEN, MADE THE MAHABHARATA WAR AND THE DESTRUCTION. EVEN IN THAT SITUATION KRISHNA MADE SURE MINIMUM DAMAGE IS DONE AND AT LEAST HUMANITY IS SPARED. *“我”或“奎师那”的核心是纯粹的慈悲、非暴力。 * CORE OF ME OR KRISHNA, WHICH DOES THE STRATEGY, IS PURE COMPASSION, NONVIOLENCE, AHIMSA. जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः । त्यक्त्वा देहं पुनर्जन्म नैति मामेति सोऽर्जुन JANMA KARMA [CA] ME DIVYAM EVAṀ YO VETTI TATTVATAḤ TYAKTVĀ DEHAṀ PUNAR JANMA NAITI MĀM ETI SO ARJUNA *从根本上说，如果你理解了我的存在和活动的本质，你就会获得解脱，你就不会被生死循环所束缚。一个知道我的发生和活动的真实本质的人，在离开肉体之后，不会再在这个物质世界中重生，而是会获得我永恒的住所，噢阿周那！ FUNDAMENTALLY IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE TRUE NATURE OF MY EXISTENCE AND THE ACTIVITY, YOU WILL BECOME LIBERATED AND YOU WILL NOT BE BOUND BY THE BIRTH-DEATH CYCLE. ONE WHO KNOWS THE TRUE NATURE OF MY HAPPENING AND ACTIVITIES DOES NOT, UPON LEAVING THE BODY, TAKE HIS BIRTH AGAIN IN THIS MATERIAL WORLD, BUT ATTAINS MY ETERNAL ABODE, O ARJUNA *我将再一次揭示去凯拉萨的秘密：所有的暴力都是妄想。99.9999%组成你和我的物质不仅是相同的物质，他们也知道它们是相同的物质。那0.00001%只是一点点的傲慢和愤怒，让你和我在你的内心感到分离。我称之为错觉。 *I WILL REVEAL THE SECRET TO GO TO KAILASA ONCE FOR ALL: ALL VIOLENCE IS DELUSION. 99.9999% OF THE MATERIAL OUT OF WHICH YOU ARE MADE AND I AM MADE IS NOT ONLY THE SAME STUFF, THEY ALSO KNOW THAT IT IS SAME STUFF. THAT .0000001% ONLY IS THE LITTLE ARROGANCE, ANGER THAT MAKES YOU AND ME FEEL SEPARATE INSIDE YOU. I CALL IT DELUSION. *世界上最糟糕的错觉是分离的感觉。总有一天，量子物理和科学将会赶上我所宣称的。那将是人类最伟大的事情。现在，决策者可能会，也可能不会把我的话当真。但是在将来的某一天，那些他们信任的人，科学家们，将会得出我现在宣布的结论。他们会得出同样的结论，因为人类必须被拯救。 *THE WORST DELUSION IN THE UNIVERSE IS FEELING OF SEPARATION. ONE DAY, QUANTUM PHYSICS AND SCIENCE WILL CATCH UP WITH WHAT I AM DECLARING. THAT WILL BE THE GREATEST THING FOR HUMANITY. NOW, DECISION MAKERS MAY OR MAY NOT TAKE ME SERIOUSLY. BUT IN SOME TIME, PEOPLE WHO THEY TRUST, THE SCIENTISTS, WILL COME TO THE CONCLUSION I AM DECLARING NOW. THEY WILL COME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION, BECAUSE HUMANITY HAS TO BE SAVED. *分离的感觉是最愚蠢、最糟糕的错觉。它来自于“分离的感觉”，源于暴力。暴力植根于分离的感觉。 *FEELING SEPARATED IS THE MOST STUPID AND WORST DELUSION. IT IS FROM THE ‘FEELING SEPARATED’ STEMS VIOLENCE. VIOLENCE IS ROOTED IN FEELING SEPARATED. * Gurukul（圣童弟子学院）的孩子：记住，我和你坐在凯拉萨的院子里，把手放在你的肩膀上，告诉你，就像我如何在能力显化中给精确的指令，没有多一个字少一字，因为能力显化需要强烈整合大气体，即使有些许点作弊发生的，它需要时间再一次去治愈VATAVARANA，我告诉你：我的成功也会让你成功的秘密是: 对生命永不气馁。永远不要对生命生气。永远不要对生命充满暴力。如果你切开并检查我的内在，将会有百分之零的暴力，甚至一点暴力都没有。这就是我成功的秘诀。 *GURUKUL KIDS: REMEMBER, I AM SITTING WITH YOU IN KAILASH COURTYARD WITH ONE HAND ON YOUR SHOULDER AND TELLING YOU, LIKE HOW DURING POWER MANIFESTATION I GIVE PRECISE INSTRUCTIONS, NOT ONE WORD EXTRA, ONE WORD LESS BECAUSE POWER MANIFESTATION NEEDS INTENSE, INTEGRATED ATMOSPHERE, AND EVEN IF A LITTLE CHEATING HAPPENS, IT TAKES TIME TO HEAL THE VATAVARANA AGAIN, I AM TELLING YOU: SECRETS OF MY SUCCESS WHICH WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL IS: NEVER EVER GET FRUSTRATED ABOUT LIFE. NEVER EVER GET ANGRY ABOUT LIFE. NEVER EVER GET VIOLENT ABOUT LIFE. IF YOU CUT AND CHECK ME INSIDE, THERE WILL BE ZERO PERCENT VIOLENCE, NOT EVEN ONE IOTA OF VIOLENCE. THAT IS THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS. *铸造你我的金属，铸造这个宇宙的金属，铸造帕冉玛希瓦的金属，都是一样的。这是个好消息。最伟大的消息是，这材质知道我们都是一样的！这并不是说你需要一步一步地建立觉醒。这个材料的意思是：你的身体、思想、核心认知、个人身份，和你有所亲近的人，比如“我的父亲，我的母亲，我的朋友，我的朋友或我”。沉思这个真理。无论你想显化什么能力，告诉我，你将显化它。 *THE METAL OUT OF WHICH YOU AND I ARE MADE, THIS UNIVERSE IS MADE, PARAMASHIVA IS MADE, IS SAME. THAT IS THE GREAT NEWS. THE GREATEST NEWS IS, THIS MATERIAL KNOWS WE ARE ALL SAME! IT IS NOT THAT YOU NEED TO BUILD THIS ENLIGHTENMENT STEP BY STEP. THIS MATERIAL MEANS: YOUR BODY, MIND, CORE COGNITION, INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY, AND ALL YOUR CLOSE PEOPLE LIKE ‘MY FATHER, MY MOTHER, MY FRIEND, MY FRIEND OR ME’. MEDITATE ON THIS TRUTH. WHATEVER POWER YOU WANT TO MANIFEST, TELL ME. YOU WILL MANIFEST IT. *你和我是一体的，你知道我们都是一体的，都是一样的。这真是个好消息！我对孩子们说的是最重要的秘密策略。管理和推广疫苗的高层人员不给他们的孩子接种疫苗！顶尖人物总是有一些只属于他们自己和家人的秘密。无论他们对家人做什么，都是最正确、最秘密的策略。我对我的孩子们说这意味着这是最正确和最秘密的策略——RAJA VIDYA RAJA GUHYA——王室的知识，王室的秘密! *YOU AND ME ARE ONE THE SAME AND YOU KNOW THAT WE BOTH ARE ONE AND THE SAME. THAT IS THE GREAT NEWS! WHAT I AM TALKING TO MY KIDS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SECRET STRATEGY. TOP PEOPLE WHO ADMINISTER AND PROMOTE VACCINES DON'T VACCINATE THEIR KIDS! TOP PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVE SOME SECRETS ONLY FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILY. WHATEVER THEY DO WITH THEIR FAMILY IS THE MOST RIGHT AND SECRET STRATEGY. I AM TALKING THIS TO MY KIDS MEANS THIS IS THE MOST RIGHT AND SECRET STRATEGY - RAJA VIDYA RAJA GUHYA - ROYAL KNOWLEDGE, ROYAL SECRET! *感觉分离应该用圆满的工具来处理，而不是用你的傲慢来支持。当你感到孤立时，不要试图用傲慢来支持你的思想。试着让自己圆满。 *’FEELING SEPARATED’ SHOULD BE HANDLED BY THE TOOL OF COMPLETION, NOT SUPPORTED BY YOUR ARROGANCE. WHEN YOU FEEL SEPARATE, DO NOT TRY TO SUPPORT YOUR THOUGHT CURRENTS WITH ARROGANCE. TRY TO DEAL WITH YOURSELF WITH COMPLETION. *我在告诉你最基本的事实。 *I AM TELLING YOU BASIC TRUTHS. *我向荧幕背景中较早的SANNIDHANAMS鞠躬。背景中显示了马杜莱的第288，289和29任 SANNIDHANAMS! *I BOW DOWN TO THE EARLIER SANNIDHANAMS IN THE BACKDROP. THE 288, 289 AND 290TH SANNIDHANAMS OF MADURAI ARE SHOWN IN THE BACKGROUND! *在内在决定：没有暴力，没有分离。如果有一种分离的感觉，不鼓励这种感觉。 *INSIDE, DECIDE: NO VIOLENCE, NO SEPARATION. IF THERE IS A SEPARATION FEELING, NO QUESTION OF ENCOURAGING THAT FEELING. *你在做梦，好像一只老虎在追你，你在喊：“请给我一把左轮手枪，一把武器，我必须杀了这只老虎，救我自己！”！“除非你妻子真的生你的气，否则她不会给你那把左轮手枪，因为如果你把那把左轮手枪弄到那种错觉的状态，你会杀死自己或周围的人，而不是你在错觉中看到的那只老虎。所以你只需要有人给你倒杯水或者扇你耳光让你醒来！你需要警铃，而不是左轮手枪！ *YOU ARE DREAMING AS IF A TIGER IS CHASING YOU AND YOU ARE SHOUTING, ‘PLEASE SOMEBODY GIVE ME A REVOLVER, A WEAPON, I HAVE TO KILL THIS TIGER AND SAVE MYSELF!’ UNLESS YOUR WIFE IS REALLY ANGRY WITH YOU, SHE WILL NOT GIVE YOU THE REVOLVER BECAUSE IF YOU GET THAT REVOLVER IN THAT DELUDED STATE, YOU WILL KILL YOURSELF OR THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU, NOT THAT TIGER YOU ARE SEEING IN THE DELUSION. SO ALL YOU NEED IS SOMEBODY JUST POURING A CUP OF WATER ON YOU OR SLAPPING YOU TO WAKE UP! YOU NEED ALARM, NOT REVOLVER! *在你的内心，治愈和理解分离中的错觉，从那开始所有暴力和暴力策略，你的人生将会是非暴力。你不会有生与死。你们将不会有强大的暴力将你们再次拉到地球上。 *INSIDE YOU, HEALING AND UNDERSTANDING THE DELUSION IN SEPARATION AND THAT FROM THAT STARTS ALL VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE STRATEGY, YOU WILL BECOME NONVIOLENT YOUR WHOLE LIFE. YOU WILL NOT HAVE BIRTH AND DEATH. YOU WILL NOT HAVE STRONG VIOLENCE WHICH WILL PULL YOU DOWN AGAIN TO PLANET EARTH. *事实上，在我身上发生了很多谋杀案。很多人试图用法律、污蔑、骚扰、不公正的手段来杀我，破坏了我所有的努力和共修团。互联网上到处都是这一切的证据。但我决定不伤害自己，因为他们想伤害我。他们想伤害你，你的敌人攻击你，这是暴力。如果你对暴力做出反应，你的敌人又多了一个“你”来支持他摧毁你。 *FACTUALLY, SO MANY MURDER ATTEMPTS HAPPENED ON ME. SO MANY PEOPLE TRIED TO KILL ME WITH LAWFARE, ABUSE, HARASSMENT INJUSTICE, DESTROYING MY WHOLE HARD WORK AND SANGHA. EVIDENCES ARE THERE ALL OVER THE INTERNET FOR ALL THIS. BUT I DECIDED NOT TO HURT MYSELF BECAUSE THEY ARE TRYING TO HURT ME. THEY TRYING TO HURT YOU, YOUR ENEMIES ATTACKING YOU, IS VIOLENCE. IF YOU REACT WITH VIOLENCE, YOUR ENEMY HAS GOT ONE MORE PERSON WHICH IS ‘YOU’ TO SUPPORT HIM TO DESTROY YOU. 因为我清楚地知道分离是一种错觉，所以我从宇宙的逻辑——DHARMO RAKSHATI RAKSHITAHA出发，如果你保护了道法，道法就会保护你。 *BECAUSE OF MY CLARITY THAT SEPARATION IS DELUSION, I OPERATED FROM THE COSMIC LOGIC - DHARMO RAKSHATI RAKSHITAHA - IF YOU PROTECT DHARMA, DHARMA WILL PROTECT YOU. *我从宇宙逻辑出发。我从不变得暴力。我只是开始分析我现在应该做什么来完成我的使命。从凯拉萨带来所有伟大东西：帕冉玛希瓦的恩典、国家、空间、权力、存在、超意识和帕冉玛希瓦的凯拉萨——所有的技术，方法和知识，并与世界分享。 *I OPERATE FROM THE COSMIC LOGIC. I NEVER BECOME VIOLENT. I ONLY STARTED ANALYSING WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW TO FULFILL MY MISSION. IT IS TO BRING ALL THE GREAT THINGS FROM KAILASA, PARAMASHIVA’S GRACE, THE STATE, SPACE, POWERS, BEING, SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS AND KAILASA OF PARAMASHIVA - ALL THE TECHNOLOGY, METHODOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE, AND SHARING IT WITH THE WORLD. *当SKANDAMATA（注：开悟宝宝）开始说话、理解、交流时，这是我要教给她的第一条真理：你和我是合一和一样的。你和你周围的每一个人和帕冉玛希瓦都是一样的！她是我最喜欢的PAPA！对她来说，这是我作为她的导师给她的第一份礼物。这是我从我的上师，帕冉玛希瓦-得到的最有价值的礼物！ *WHEN SKANDAMATA STARTS TALKING, UNDERSTANDING, COMMUNICATING, THIS IS THE FIRST TRUTH I WILL TEACH HER: YOU AND ME ARE ONE AND THE SAME. YOU AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU AND PARAMASHIVA IS ONE AND THE SAME! SHE IS MY FAVORITE PAPA! TO HER, THIS IS THE FIRST GIFT I WILL GIVE HER AS HER GURU. THIS IS THE MOST VALUABLE GIFT I GOT MY GURU - PARAMASHIVA-ARUNAGIRI YOGISHWARA! *我会给你大量早期研究的证据。我从圣典法理、先圣印证法理和本尊印证法理宣布这一点——伟大的圣典宣言、早期大师宣言以及我自己的经验和宣言……所有这些都是一致的！ *I WILL GIVE YOU TONNES OF EVIDENCES FROM EARLIER RESEARCHES DONE. I AM DECLARING THIS FROM SHASTRA PRAMANA, APTA PRAMANA AND ATMA PRANAMA - THE GREAT SHASTRAS’ DECLARATION, DECLARATION OF THE EARLIER MASTERS AND MY OWN EXPERIENCE AND DECLARATION...ALL ARE IN ALIGNMENT! *有了非暴力无上法则，当你得到证据的时候，你就不会有暴力。你不会说：‘给我拿着，看我会怎么做！“有大量证据。नभ宮तभभभववषयतत孯-“NA BHOOTO NA BHAVISHYATI”-表示“既非之前也非之后”……在印度法律史上，无论是在之前还是之后，任何一个第一信息报告都是在没有强奸受害者或甚至没有捏造虚假受害者的情况下提交的。因为他们没有时间，所以他们把第一信息报告归档了！无论是在2010年3月4日之前，还是在2010年3月4日之后，都没有一个被指控强奸的受害者被起诉！他们破坏了对印度法律体系的尊重。 *WITH AHIMSA PARAMO DHARMAHA, WHEN YOU GET THE EVIDENCES, YOU WILL NOT HAVE VIOLENCE. YOU WILL NOT SAY: ‘GET IT FOR ME, SEE WHAT I WILL DO!’ THERE IS TONNES OF EVIDENCE. न भूतो न भविष्यति - ‘NA BHOOTO NA BHAVISHYATI’ - MEANS ‘NEITHER BEFORE NOR AFTER’.... NEITHER BEFORE NOT AFTER IN INDIAN LEGAL HISTORY, ANY FIR IS FILED WITHOUT A RAPE VICTIM OR WITHOUT EVEN COOKING UP A FALSE VICTIM. THEY FILED SUCH AN FIR BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE TIME! NEITHER BEFORE MARCH 4TH 2010 OF INDIAN HISTORY NOR AFTER MARCH 4TH 2010 THERE WAS EVER AN FIR FILED WITHOUT A VICTIM FOR A RAPE CHARGE! THEY DESTROYED THE RESPECT FOR THE INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM. *这些来自泰米尔纳德邦的腐败警察…！他们使整个泰米尔纳德邦和印度警察蒙羞。在那份飞行情报上签字的警察将成为整个印度法律体系中的一个黑点。有一种叫做自然正义系统的东西！所有这些都是对我的不公正！ *THESE CORRUPT POLICE OFFICERS FROM TAMILNADU POLICE…! THEY HAVE BROUGHT SHAME ON THE WHOLE TAMILNADU AND INDIAN POLICE. THE POLICE WHO SIGNED ON THAT FIR WILL BE A BLACK MARK ON THE WHOLE INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM. THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED NATURAL JUSTICE SYSTEM! ALL THESE ARE INJUSTICES DONE TO ME! *我的律师说我们应该提出恶意诉讼。即使我这么做了，到正义来临的时候也要25年。我60岁了！所以你想让我在这上面浪费我的一生？这是整个平庸的趋势。我从宇宙逻辑出发。我是来传递帕冉玛希瓦真知和帕冉玛希瓦认知能力。 *MY LAWYERS SAID WE SHOULD FILE FOR MALICIOUS PROSECUTION. EVEN IF I DO IT, IT WILL BE 25 YEARS BY THE TIME JUSTICE COMES. I WILL BE 60! SO YOU WANT ME TO WASTE MY WHOLE LIFE ON THIS? THAT IS THE WHOLE MEDIOCRE TENDENCY. I OPERATE FROM COSMIC LOGIC. I AM HERE TO DELIVER PARAMASHIVA JNANA AND PARAMASHIVA VIJNANA. *这群攻击我要消灭我的德拉维派，他们唯一的目的是：我不应该交出我从凯拉萨带来的东西。他们对我没有任何个人仇恨。我和他们没有任何关系，我甚至从来没有说过一句批评他们的话。直到他们袭击我我才知道他们的名字。没有个人恩怨。他们试图抢走我们的一些财产，但仅仅为了财产他们可能不会杀害，因为他们抢走了整个国家的财产！所以这可能是一个原因，因为我不允许他们抢走我的财产，但持续的谋杀企图更具意识形态。他们不想让我做真正的灵性工作。即使我最终赢得了战争，他们也会浪费我的一生。仅仅因为参战，我就失去了我的全部生命，我来这里的目的是不可能实现的。这就是我告诉你的原因，非暴力无上法则。 *THIS DRAVISH GANG WHICH IS ATTACKING ME TO ELIMINATE ME, THEIR ONLY AIM IS: I SHOULD NOT DELIVER WHAT I BROUGHT FROM KAILASA. THEY DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER PERSONAL HATRED ON ME. I AM IN NO WAY RELATED TO THEM AND I NEVER EVEN SPOKE A WORD CRITICIZING THEM. I DON'T EVEN KNOW THEIR NAMES TILL THEY ATTACKED ME. THERE IS NO PERSONAL ENMITY. THEY TRIED TO GRAB SOME OF OUR PROPERTY BUT JUST FOR THE PROPERTY THEY MAY NOT KILL BECAUSE THEY HAVE GRABBED THE PROPERTY OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY! SO THAT MAY BE ONE REASON BECAUSE I DID NOT ALLOW THEM TO GRAB MY PROPERTY, BUT THE PERSISTENT MURDER ATTEMPT IS MORE IDEOLOGICAL. THEY DON'T WANT ME TO DO THE REAL SPIRITUAL WORK. EVEN IF I WIN THE WAR IN THE END, THEY WOULD HAVE WASTED MY WHOLE LIFE. JUST BY GETTING INTO THE WAR I WOULD HAVE LOST MY WHOLE LIFE, THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH I CAME WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN FULFILLED. THAT IS WHY I AM TELLING YOU, AHIMSA PARAMO DHARMAHA. *在我的内心，有那么多的疗愈，圆满，关于非暴力无上法则。正因为如此，即使事实上对我做了那么多不公正的事，我也从未激动过。我没有反应也没有回应。马迪亚扎根是签署了第一信息报告的人。他给整个印度法律体系带来了耻辱。这是想杀了我。他们利用起诉作为一种狡猾的方式合法化他们企图杀我，仅此而已。 *INSIDE ME THERE WAS SO MUCH HEALING, COMPLETION, ABOUT AHIMSA PARAMO DHARMAHA. BECAUSE OF THAT I NEVER GOT AGITATED EVEN THOUGH FACTUALLY SO MUCH INJUSTICE IS DONE TO ME. I NEVER REACTED OR RESPONDED. MADHIYAZHAGAN IS THE ONE WHO SIGNED THE FIR. HE HAS BROUGHT SHAME ON THE WHOLE INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM. IT IS AN ATTEMPT TO KILL ME. THEY ARE USING PROSECUTION AS A CUNNING WAY OF LEGITIMIZING THEIR ATTEMPT TO KILL ME,THATS ALL. *帕冉玛希瓦给了我力量。我10岁的时候，阿如那吉瑞-尤吉士瓦冉就在我身上钻研这个任务。我真是太有活力了。我没有被这些恶魔和魔鬼所迷惑。如果我参战了，在帕冉玛希瓦的恩典和时神的保护下，我会赢的，但是什么时候！到那时我的生命就不复存在了。我不可能启发你们所有人。我会在那里很忙的。这就是我生活的目的吗？ *PARAMASHIVA HAS GIVEN ME THE STRENGTH. ARUNAGIRI YOGISHWARA, WHEN I WAS 10, HAS DRILLED IN ME THIS MISSION. THAT IS SO ALIVE IN ME. I DID NOT GET DELUDED BY THESE DEMONS AND DEVILS. IF I HAD GOT INTO THE WAR, WITH PARAMASHIVA’S GRACE AND PROTECTION OF KALABHAIRAVA, I WOULD HAVE WON, BUT WHEN! BY THEN MY LIFE WOULD HAVE GONE. I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE ENLIGHTEN ALL OF YOU. I WOULD HAVE BEEN SO BUSY THERE. IS THAT THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE? *如果你没有暴力，你将与你生活的真正目的保持一致，你会觉得你对你的目标是有成效的。当你需要离开你的身体时，这是你需要的最终完成。当我离开我的身体时，我会觉得我和我的目标是如此的一致和富有成效。对你的目标有效率的感觉，叫做“实现”。 *IF YOU DON'T HAVE VIOLENCE, YOU WILL BE ALIGNED WITH THE REAL PURPOSE OF YOUR LIFE AND YOU WILL FEEL YOU ARE PRODUCTIVE TO YOUR GOAL. IT IS THE ULTIMATE COMPLETION YOU NEED WHEN YOU NEED TO LEAVE YOUR BODY. WHEN I LEAVE MY BODY I WILL FEEL SO ALIGNED AND PRODUCTIVE TO MY GOAL. FEELING PRODUCTIVE TO YOUR PURPOSE, IS CALLED ‘FULFILLMENT’. *我希望我所有的孩子都能学会这一点。我的上师们是如此诚实的人。我所有的爱都倾注在他们身上，他们用它让我觉醒。我告诉我的信徒：你们倾注在我身上的所有爱，我都会对其完全一致，并让你们觉醒。我会把宇宙中最好的东西给你。这是我的承诺。 *I WANT ALL MY KIDS TO LEARN THIS. MY GURUS ARE SUCH HONEST PEOPLE. ALL MY LOVE I POURED IN THEM THEY USED IT TO MAKE ME ENLIGHTENED. I TELL MY DISCIPLES: ALL THE LOVE YOU POUR ON ME, I WILL BE ABSOLUTELY INTEGRATED TO IT AND ENLIGHTEN YOU. I WILL GIVE THE BEST THINGS OF THE UNIVERSE TO YOU. THAT IS MY COMMITMENT. *就是这样：婆婆怎么对待你，你就怎么对待媳妇。同样的，我的上师们如何对待我，我会对待你们！所以我向你们承诺：我会完全对你们一致。不管你发什么脾气，我都不会恨你。我和我的上师们发了很多脾气。报应现在才降临到我身上！尽管我发脾气，他们还是爱我。我向你们承诺，我会和你们一样，我不会放弃你们，也不会恨你们。即使你走了，我也会等你回来，我永远不会恨你。 *IT IS LIKE THIS: HOW YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW TREATED YOU, YOU WILL TREAT YOUR DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. SAME WAY, HOW MY GURUS TREATED ME, I WILL TREAT YOU GUYS! SO I COMMIT WITH YOU GUYS: I WILL BE ABSOLUTELY INTEGRATED TO YOU. WHATEVER TANTRUMS YOU THROUGH I WILL NEVER HATE YOU. I HAVE DONE SO MANY TANTRUMS WITH MY GURUS. THAT KARMA IS ONLY COMING TO ME NOW! THEY LOVED ME DESPITE MY TANTRUMS. I COMMIT WITH YOU GUYS, I WILL BEHAVE THE SAME WAY WITH YOU, I WILL NOT GIVE UP ON YOU AND NEVER HATE YOU. EVEN IF YOU LEAVE, I WILL WAIT FOR YOU TO COME BACK, I WILL NEVER HATE. *10岁的时候，我对阿如那吉瑞-尤吉士瓦冉的爱！如果祂想制造一个自杀式炸弹，祂本可以轻而易举地做到的。但祂给了我最好的。我的上师给我最好的，我也会给你最好的。 *AT 10, THE KIND OF LOVE I HAD FOR ARUNAGIRI YOGISHWARA! IF HE WANTED TO MAKE A SUICIDE BOMBER HE COULD HAVE EASILY DONE IT. BUT HE GAVE ME THE BEST. I WILL ALSO GIVE YOU THE BEST WHAT MY GURU GAVE ME. *非暴力是宇宙的终极真理和法则。开始在你和你自己的关系中应用它，那就是根植在宇宙中发生的地方。就像如何锻炼肌肉一样，同样的方法，锻炼意识，用绝对的圆满来磨练自己。你的内心会变得如此强大。从这种力量，你将知道生活的目标，你将会有战略。 *NONVIOLENCE IS THE COSMIC ULTIMATE TRUTH AND LAW. START APPLYING THAT INSIDE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOURSELF, THAT IS WHERE THE GROUNDING IN THE COSMOS HAPPENS. LIKE HOW TO BUILD MUSCLES YOU DO WORK OUT, SAME WAY, TO BUILD CONSCIOUSNESS, GRIND YOURSELF WITH ABSOLUTE COMPLETION. YOU WILL GAIN SO MUCH POWERFULNESS INSIDE. FROM THAT POWERFULNESS, YOU WILL KNOW THE GOAL OF LIFE AND YOU WILL STRATEGISE. *如果我和试图杀我的DRAVISH派打了起来，不管我赢了还是输了，我都是输家。不与他们开战，然后继续做我的工作，那些我需要为世界做出创造性的贡献，这是最成功的应对策略。 *IF I GOT INTO THE FIGHT WITH THE DRAVISH GANG WHICH WAS TRYING TO KILL ME, WHETHER I WIN THE WAR OR LOSE THE WAR, I AM THE LOSER. NOT GETTING INTO THE WAR WITH THEM AND CONTINUING TO DO MY WORK, WHAT I NEED TO CONTRIBUTE CREATIVELY TO THE WORLD, IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL RIGHT STRATEGY. *我之所以能做到这一点，是因为我的神经系统没有迫使我与他们抗争。我非常感谢阿如那吉瑞-尤吉士瓦冉和他为我创造的素食身体。只有一次，当其他人的血液进入我的系统时，当他的手指上有一个小伤口。我把他的手指放进嘴里，止住了血，还有一些血进入了身体！除此之外，没有其他血液进入我的身体！ *I WAS ABLE TO DO THIS BECAUSE MY NERVES WERE NOT PUSHING ME TO FIGHT WITH THEM. I AM SO THANKFUL TO ARUNAGIRI YOGISHWARA AND THE VEGETARIAN BODY HE CREATED FOR ME. THE ONLY ONE TIME WHEN SOME OTHER BLOOD GOT INTO MY SYSTEM IS, WHEN A SMALL WOUND HAPPENED IN HIS FINGER. I PUT HIS FINGER IN MY MOUTH AND STOPPED THE BLOOD AND SOME BLOOD WENT IT! OTHER THAN THAT NO OTHER BLOOD WENT INTO MY BODY! *我很高兴帕冉玛希瓦给予我稳定、强大的神经系统。因为，如果你内心对这种所��的正义和不公正感到焦虑不安，你的整个人生就完了。 *I AM SO HAPPY FOR THE STABLE, POWERFUL, NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMASHIVA HAS GIFTED TO ME. BECAUSE, IF YOU ARE AGITATED INSIDE ABOUT THIS SO-CALLED JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE, YOUR WHOLE LIFE IS GONE. *2010年前后，我眼中的甜蜜和喜悦都是一样的。经过无情的迫害，甚至一个晚上都无法平静地休息，我的神经都永远无法被扰乱的。任何人受到了那么多不公正的对待，实际上将会成为一种来自于自我防卫的暴力。 *THE SWEETNESS AND JOY IN MY EYES IS SAME BEFORE AND AFTER 2010. AFTER RELENTLESS PERSECUTION AND UNABLE TO REST EVEN ONE NIGHT PEACEFULLY, MY NERVES COULD NEVER BE SHATTERED. ANYBODY ELSE WITH SO MUCH INJUSTICE DONE TO THEM ACTUALLY WOULD HAVE BECOME VIOLENT AT LEAST FOR SELF DEFENSE. *我非常清楚：我会找到一个地方，让我可以坐下来，非暴力地为世界做出贡献。这是最大的成功，因为我采用了非暴力作为策略来对待自己和社会。 *I WAS VERY CLEAR: I WILL FIND A PLACE WHERE I CAN SIT NONVIOLENTLY AND CONTRIBUTE WHAT I NEED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORLD. THIS IS THE GREATEST SUCCESS BECAUSE OF NONVIOLENCE AS STRATEGY THAT I ADOPTED WITHIN ME AND WITH SOCIETY. *非暴力拯救了我，使我富有成效的，使我贡献所有可以为世界做出贡献的。我宣告我不打算使用暴力，非暴力是唯一的办法。我告诉你，我是如何应用我的上师帕冉玛希瓦的非暴力和如何用非暴力帮助我在各个层面上去对付地球上最腐败的恐怖帮派。 *NONVIOLENCE HAS SAVED ME, MADE ME PRODUCTIVE, MADE ME CONTRIBUTE WHAT I NEED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORLD. I AM NOT GOING TO BE VIOLENT IN DECLARING THAT NONVIOLENCE IS THE ONLY WAY. I AM TELLING HOW I ADOPTED NONVIOLENCE MY GURU PARAMPARA AND HOW THAT HAS HELPED ME IN EVERY LEVEL TO DEAL WITH THE MOST CORRUPT TERRORIST GANG ON THE PLANET EARTH. *看看DRAVISH帮派的记录。他们犯下很多谋杀案，但从未被指控！他们是这样的不法分子，但全世界都不会知道他们是罪犯！他们就像一个堂黑手党团伙。就像我是唯一一个在没有受害者的情况下提出强奸指控的人，同样，在帕冉玛希瓦的恩典和时神的保护下，唯一从他们纵火中逃脱的人就是我。 *SEE THE TRACK RECORD OF THE DRAVISH GANG. THE NUMBER OF MURDERS THEY HAVE COMMITTED, BUT NEVER GETTING ACCUSED! THEY ARE SUCH CRIMINALS, THE WORLD WILL NOT EVEN KNOW THEY ARE CRIMINALS! THEY ARE LIKE A DON MAFIA GANG. LIKE HOW MINE IS THE ONLY FIR FILED FOR A RAPE CHARGE WITHOUT A VICTIM, SAME WAY, WITH PARAMASHIVA’S GRACE AND KALABHAIRAVA’S PROTECTION, THE ONLY ERSON WHO ESCAPED FROM THEM IS ME. *所谓正义与不正义属于二元逻辑。非暴力是终极宇宙法则——宇宙的多维逻辑。 *SO-CALLED JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE BELONGS TO BINARY LOGIC. NONVIOLENCE IS THE ULTIMATE COSMIC LAW - THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL LOGIC OF COSMOS. *我会给你更深层的秘密：一个不对外界有反应的人会有更多的时间在的内心空间，并变得更有效率和成为工作狂。人们问我，‘你只在公共生活中工作了几年。你怎么做了这么多！’ *I WILL GIVE YOU DEEPER SECRETS: THE PERSON WHO DOES NOT HAVE REACTION WILL HAVE MORE TIME IN THE INNER SPACE TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE AND WORKAHOLIC. PEOPLE ASK ME, ‘YOU WORKED ONLY FEW YEARS IN PUBLIC LIFE. HOW COME YOU DID SO MUCH!’ *当你没有反应，你是非暴力的，你有那么多的时间给你。时间延长了。这是事实。我不会说谎或欺骗。 *WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE REACTION AND YOU ARE NONVIOLENT, YOU HAVE SO MUCH TIME AVAILABLE FOR YOU. TIME EXPANDS. IT IS THE TRUTH. I WILL NOT LIE OR CHEAT. *这就是我如何养育SKANDAMATA的方式。她会坐在桌子上，她用我的盘子吃饭。我用双手吃饭。 *THIS IS THE WAY I AM GOING TO BRING UP SKANDAMATA. SHE WILL BE SITTING ON THE TABLE AND SHE WILL EAT FROM MY PLATE. I EAT WITH BOTH HANDS. 我也会放食物在她那儿。当你们和我在同一个盘子里吃饭时，我会在食物质量上妥协吗？不，我和你分享的事实就是这样。我不会在真相的质量上妥协。 I WILL PUT FOOD FOR HER ALSO. WHEN YOU AND ME ARE EATING FROM SAME PLATE, WILL I COMPROMISE ON QUALITY OF THE FOOD? NO. THIS TRUTH I AM SHARING WITH YOU IS LIKE THAT. I WILL NOT COMPROMISE ON THE QUALITY OF THE TRUTH. *我们常常认为，复仇是一种情感释放，得到报应会使我们感觉更好。尤其是现代这个无良的电影娱乐业和无良的大众传媒洗脑后，复仇的行为在做错事之后正在接近尾声。 *WE OFTEN BELIEVE THAT EXACTING REVENGE IS A FORM OF EMOTIONAL RELEASE AND GETTING RETRIBUTION WILL HELP US FEEL BETTER. ESPECIALLY THIS MODERN DAY CINEMA ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY CULT AND MASS MEDIA CULT BRAINWASH YOU THAT THE ACT OF REVENGE IS GAINING CLOSURE AFTER WRONG DONE. *复仇有相反的效果。这就像猴子感到更痒，更抓挠自己，直到它死为止永远不会觉得安定，因为它会创造一个伤口和创造更多的感染，它会死去。 *REVENGE HAS THE OPPOSITE EFFECT. IT IS LIKE THE MONKEY FEELING MORE ITCHING AND SCRATCHING ITSELF, NEVER SETTLES DOWN TILL IT DIES BECAUSE IT WILL CREATE A WOUND AND MORE INFECTION AND IT WILL DIE. *他们告诉你：暴力就是英雄主义。不，那不是！非暴力才是英雄主义！ *THEY TELL YOU: VIOLENCE IS HEROISM. NO IT IS NOT! NONVIOLENCE IS HEROISM! *我已经把诽谤性的电视广播全录下来了。苏瓦纳电视-150天，萨马亚电视-120天，着如果一天播放24小时，意味着它将相当于这很多天。 *I HAVE THE TOTAL DEFAMATORY TELECAST DONE ON ME. SUVARNA TV - 150 DAYS, SAMAYA TV - 120 DAYS MEANS IT IF RUNS FOR 24 HOURS, IT WILL AMOUNT TO THESE MANY DAYS. *我既没有死也没有精神崩溃。这一切都是源于帕冉玛希瓦的恩典和时神的的保护，以及我的上师阿如那吉瑞-尤吉士瓦冉给予我的强大认知。 *AND I AM NEITHER DEAD NOR HAVING ANY NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. IT IS ALL BECAUSE OF PARMASHIVA’S GRACE AND KALABHAIRAVA’S PROTECTION AND STRONG POWERFUL COGNITIONS MY GURU ARUNAGIRI YOGISHWARA GAVE ME. *对我来说你们都像SKANDAMATA ！ *YOU ALL ARE LIKE SKANDAMATA FOR ME! *我希望你们都能看这部美国纪录片https://youtu.be/G8HenR5-lkM，看看你们是如何被无良的大众传媒和娱乐业控制的。 *I WANT YOU ALL TO WATCH THIS AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY https://youtu.be/G8HenR5-lkM TO SEE HOW YOU ARE BEING CONTROLLED BY MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT CULT. *我是不会妥协的，我告诉你的事实。当 SKANDAMATA坐在餐桌上，我和她在同一个盘子里吃饭时，在我和她吃饭时，我既不会折中食物的质量，也不会向真理妥协，因为那是最甜蜜的时刻，最终的真理需要被分享。 *I WILL NOT COMPROMISE THE TRUTHS I AM TELLING YOU. WHEN SKANDAMATA IS SITTING ON THE DINING TABLE AND SHE AND I ARE EATING FROM THE SAME PLATE, NEITHER I WILL COMPROMISE THE QUALITY OF FOOD NOR I WILL COMPROMISE THE TRUTHS I AM TALKING TO HER WHILE EATING, BECAUSE THAT IS THE SWEETEST MOMENT WHEN THE ULTIMATE TRUTHS NEED TO BE SHARED. 想象一下，我在你屋子的NITHYANANDA SABHA 里，我们在同一个盘子上吃饭。 IMAGINE, I AM IN YOUR ROOM IN THE NITHYANANDA SABHA AND WE BOTH ARE EATING FROM THE SAME PLATE. *我没有太多的二元逻辑点可以证明给你，但我会一步一步地告诉你宇宙逻辑，让你明白“非暴力无上法则”。 *I DON'T HAVE TOO MANY BINARY LOGIC POINTS TO PROVE TO YOU BUT I WILL TELL YOU STEP BY STEP THE COSMIC LOGIC TO MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND ‘AHIMSA PARAMO DHARMAHA’. *所有的愤怒，复仇，都会夺走你的生命。你会被这些情绪控制和操纵。 *ALL ANGER, REVENGE, TAKES LIFE AWAY FROM YOU. YOU WILL BE CONTROLLED AND MANIPULATED THROUGH THOSE EMOTIONS. *毫无疑问，我受到了不公正的对待。这是事实。但外在的事实不应该塑造你的生活现实。把自己从外在的事实中解脱出来。让你的生活现实不受外在事实的压榨的。那你就是一个领导者。 *INJUSTICE IS DONE TO ME, NO DOUBT. IT IS A FACT. BUT EXTERNAL FACTS SHOULD NOT MOULD YOUR LIFE REALITY. LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM THE EXTERNAL FACTS. LET YOUR LIFE’S REALITY NOT BE IMPACTED BY THE EXTERNAL FACTS. THEN YOU ARE A LEADER. *我不允许我的现实被 DRAVISH恶魔塑造。我不允许这两个帮派——反兴都教恐怖分子和反上师兴都教黑手党——塑造我的现实，尽管他们试图塑造我的现实。我仍然是领袖，我的生命之主-ATMESHWARA！我为我的灵魂和生命留下了ESHWARA 。 *I DID NOT ALLOW MY REALITY TO BE MOULDED BY DRAVISH DEMONS. I DID NOT ALLOW THESE TWO GANGS - ANTI-HINDU TERRORISTS AND ANTI-GURU HINDU MAFIA - TO MOULD MY REALITY, EVEN THOUGH THEY TRIED TO MOULD MY REALITY. I REMAINED AS LEADER, LORD OF MY LIFE - ATMESHWARA! I REMAINED ESHWARA FOR MY SOUL AND MY LIFE. *我不仅没有对这些德拉维什帮派做出任何反应，也没有任何暴力反应，我甚至一次都没有向阿如那吉瑞发问，问他“斯瓦米吉，为什么我会这样？“我甚至都不曾想起过它。想不起来了！当我转向他时，我只有一个灿烂的笑容。它是亲密原始的、广泛的、毫无掩饰、亲密的、激情的，与他积极生命的合一。上师咒骂不是上师在咒骂你，而是你怀疑你的上师或质疑你的上师。 *NOT ONLY I DID NOT REACT OR DID ANY VIOLENT REACTIONS AGAINST THESE DRAVISH GANG, NEVER I EVEN TURNED TO ARUNAGIRI YOGISHWARA ONCE AND ASK, ‘SWAMIJI, WHY DID THIS HAPPEN TO ME?’ I CAN'T EVEN THINK OF IT! WHEN I TURN TO HIM, I WILL HAVE ONLY A WIDE SMILE. IT IS INTIMATE RAW, WIDE, WILD, INTIMATE PASSIONATE, LIFE-POSITIVE ONENESS WITH HIM. THE GURU’S CURSE IS NOT GURU CURSING YOU, IT IS YOU DOUBTING YOUR GURU OR QUESTIONING YOUR GURU. *在每一个层面上，非暴力都应该是策略。它越来越合一。非暴力强力的合一，于非暴力强烈的合一。 *IN EVERY LEVEL, NONVIOLENCE SHOULD BE THE STRATEGY. IT IS MORE AND MORE ONENESS. NONVIOLENCE STRENGTHENS ONENESS AND ONENESS STRENGTHENS NONVIOLENCE. *懒惰和无意志，疲倦和无聊，不是非暴力。这就是阿周那在VISHADHA 瑜伽中所要做的。 *LAZINESS AND NONINVOLVEMENT, TIREDNESS AND BOREDOM, IS NOT NONVIOLENCE. THAT IS WHAT ARJUNA WAS TRYING TO DO IN VISHADHA YOGA. 翻译：尼希亚中文翻译小组

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Sol lucet omnimus.lat. The sun shines all sun. ---- the main deity In many ancient cultures the Sun was considered to be either God himself, or visible in his image / manifestation. The cult of the Sun existed among all peoples, transformed from nomadic pastoralism to agriculture; it gave rise to Hinduism and Islam, sabeism (the cult of the heavenly bodies), the esoteric teachings of Zoroaster, to Sufism, pantheism, the worship of Baal, Helios, Saba (the Almighty), Zeus, Apollo, Jupiter, Amun, Horus, Osiris, Harpocrates, tuma, Memnon, Kronos, Anton, SHAMMASH, Galactica, Phoebe, Bela (which means: High, Chief, King, Lord, Master), Ashur, Anuria, Adod, Jehovah, Mithra, Wiracocha etc. The sun was considered: — one of the incarnations of the triple God: God the father and Creator, symbols of which served as sun — the one God, whose symbols are: the light itself, a halo, a rotating figurines, tonzura, the sun crosses the disk (with wings, or the rays of the eye) and its derivatives — socket, chrysanthemum, Lotus, ribbon star, ball. The symbol of the gods, powerful heroes: Vishnu, Buddha, Christ (the 12 rays represent the apostles) and numerous kings of the Sun — though quite rarely — sometimes embodied in female characters: in South Arabia, the goddess of Elat, and in Japan — Amaterasu, whose distant descendant is the Emperor, and the goddess is considered the Supreme creature of Japanese space. The goal of the solar festivals, the rites performed by the Egyptians, Jews, Phoenicians and other peoples of the East during the equinoxes, solstices and eclipses to help the Sun-God in these difficult periods of its annual cycle. Leaning on a stick, people continuously walking in a circle during the whole time of the Eclipse, hoping thus to help the weak Sun." At its Zenith, the point located right above the temple, which is determined by the time of the beginning of the rainy season, the Sun can see the entire Universe. The light radiated by the Sun is the cosmic mind; it symbolizes intelligence and knowledge sought by all candidates for initiation. The rays of the Sun have on the earth, the heavenly impact. Sunbeam, kindling the hearth symbolizes the transfer of the divine energy of matter in the world; it is the pivot on which revolve the heavenly and the earthly wheels. Like a rainbow, this beam — bridge by which God descends to man and man ascends to God. Observations of the solar cycle (alternation of the solstices and equinoxes) gave rise to celebrations of fertility, extant. The celebration of the birth of the Sun on December 25, the day when it begins to rise higher in the sky, became a Christian holiday after all, Christ can be called a new spiritual Sun; preserved cleaning branch, which is used in ritual self-flagellation and exile spirits in the day of the vernal equinox, dedicated to the revival and then the rapture of the Sun-God; on the day of summer solstice also kindle everywhere the fires (the fires of St John). The sun sometimes appears and, in its destructive aspect — the scorching heat that leads to drought, the consequences of which is opposite to the fertilizing action of rain. This associates the Sun with death: in all religions there are ideas about the sun of the Dead, dark Sun, and the gods of the Sun with a black face (Osiris, Hades). day star, of course, occupies among all the heavenly bodies the first place. Many religions connect the concept of God with the Sun in the sky; the Sun God is the environment of many names, the name of the destroyer of darkness (Babylonian: "who illuminates the darkness, enlightens the sky, down there, like upstairs, is destroying evil... All the princes radutsya, looking at you, all the gods Express my admiration to you..."). In a social system based on the dominance of masculinity, the Sun is mostly masculine, as it corresponds to a naive understanding of the deity (the exception is unless the Japanese Sun goddess Amaterasu-Omikami, which, however, is itself God's creation of heaven Izanagi). In areas where there was a threat of drought, the Sun with its heat could take an ambivalent or even negative value, or was supposed by the blood sacrificed in the labyrinth of people to strengthen its work in the sky. in order, therefore, to infuse into all new vitality (Ancient Mexico).There is a traditional distinction between the visible and invisible, accessible sense. and understanding, the outer and inner Sun. In most traditions the Sun is the universal Father and the Moon Mother, with the exception of the symbolic systems of American Indians, the Maori, the Teutons, the peoples of Oceania and Japan, where the Moon is masculine and the Sun feminine. Sun and rain — the most important of the fertile forces, hence the groom is associated with the Sun, and the bride the lunar goddess, and Mother Earth. Continuously going and going, sending out rays, which can be life-giving, destructive, the Sun symbolizes life, death and renewal of life through death. Spring Sun — sol invictus. White sun of the animals associated with the sun, but Black Sun is associated with a serpent and chthonic forces. In hunting civilizations the Sun is a Great Hunter. The sun is sometimes depicted as the fruit on the Tree of Life. When the solar deity is male, the Sun is depicted as the right eye. If half of the female deity, the Sun depicted as a left eye. "Children of the Sun" is a Regal, embodied gods. Cm.t.well. disk. In most cultures, the main symbol of the creative energy. The sun is often seen as being itself the Supreme deity or as the incarnation of his all-pervading power. Despite the geocentric view of the universe, which dominated ancient astronomy, some of the earliest images of the universe showed the sun as a symbolic centre or heart of the Cosmos. The most complex cult of the Sun existed in Peru, Mexico and Egypt. In some cultures, existed from some of the divine personifications of the sun... on the other hand, the sun has often been presented as the son of the Supreme God, sometimes symbolized his view or his shining love. Core values: the creative power of the Sun is the attribute of all solar gods and the Archangel Michael. the centre, the heart, the center of intuitive knowledge, strength, feelings and faith, the ability to feel and the power of imagination. The symbol of the highest cosmic forces. The all-seeing divinity and its power of teofania, motionless creature, the heart of the cosmos, the center of being and intuitive knowledge "mind world" (Macrobius), enlightenment, the world's eyes and the eyes of the day, Invictus, glory, greatness, justice, royalty. As the heat source, the sun represents vitality, passion, courage and eternal youth. As the light source, it symbolizes knowledge, intelligence. As the most striking of all celestial bodies, the sun, the emblem of royalty and Imperial splendor. In most traditions the sun is the sign of masculinity, in Germany, Japan, the Celtic regions of Africa, the Indians of North America, in Oceania and New Zealand, the Sun is feminine. The solar disk flowing from him streams of water represents the combination of Sun and water, heat and vapors, necessary for any life. Surrounded by the rays of the Sun surrounded by rays of the heart are of the same symbolism of the center as the seat of light and reason. The sun in the fight with the snake symbolizes the struggle of light and darkness, heavenly and chthonic forces. The sun standing still is beyond time. It is the Eternal Now, lighting, escape from time and the cycle of samsara. The sun and Moon together symbolize male and female, in their unity. Basic symbols: Graphic symbols of the Sun, along with the known circle, surrounded by rays, is traditionally mostly a sign of a circle with a dot in the center. In iconography the sun is portrayed a number of characters and symbols: a gold disk, a disk with rays and wings (often found in the middle East), paludism with rays (Nihon — "rising sun" — Japanese Imperial emblem), a circle with a dot in the center (a symbol of self-knowledge in astrology), star, spiral, ring, wheel, swastika (a cross or other signs that convey the rotation), heart, rosette, Lotus, sunflower, chrysanthemum. The sun can also symbolize the bronze, gold, YEL th or red, diamond, ruby, Topaz, winged or feathered serpent, an eagle or an eagle with a serpent, Falcon, Phoenix, Swan, lion, RAM, cock or bull. Often the cart in which rides the sun, pull gold or the white horse, and sometimes swans. The Sun symbols are the revolving wheel; disc; circle with a center point; a circle surrounded by rays; the swastika; the rays, both straight and wavy, symbolizing the light and heat of the Sun; shining chariot with sun gods that control white or Golden horses, or crossing the world in solar boats; the face surrounded by rays; eye; bronze Man; the spider in the center of my web with emanating from it in all directions rays; solar birds and animals such as eagle, hawk, Swan, Phoenix, cock, lion, RAM, white or Golden horse, winged or crested serpent, the Chinese dragon. fossilized sunlight (obelisks, menhirs), the rod, the scepter, the phallus, arrows, hand; God-the last ear, the guardian portrayed in the eyes of an eagle and hands; and God the judge, or the limit of the spirit— in the form of a disk, a shield and arms; symbols of the sun as the one God: the light itself, a halo, a rotating figurines, tonzura, the sun crosses the disk (with wings, or the rays of the eye) and its derivatives — socket, chrysanthemum, Lotus, ribbon star, ball. depicted as a disk with rays, circles with a dot in the center, countless variations on the theme of the disc and the circle with rays, in the form of a chariot, drawn by four white or Golden horses (#of horses varies). The cycle of the Sun and symbolize the rotating figures: this is the origin of the solar cross (the swastika), four extremity of which end in paws or legs bent in the same direction. It can be depicted animals or arms, radiating from a common axis, which in Ancient Egypt symbolized the omnipresent crackle in the movement of worlds, and testified to the desire of the Egyptians to harmony with the cosmos.Africa prehistoric rock pictures in Asian regions can often find the human figure with the "sun wheel" instead of a head, surrounded by teeth, separated by a cross, and private sectors are comprised of points (indicating the calendar division of the year?). In the prehistoric rock art of Northern Africa, there are paintings with bulls and rams, similar to the Egyptian cult images of them on the head with the disk, and they are called "solar sheep" and "oxen the sun". Some tribes in Africa the Sun is associated with the feminine, Mother. Bushmen of this Supreme deity. The ancient East Sumerian-Semitic sun gods Shamash and Ashur depicted as a winged solar disk. Egypt Cult of the Sun of the Egyptian God Amun-RA was transformed by the Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten, 1365-1348 BC) in a monotheistic system ("So beautiful you Shine, Sun, bright on the surface of the sky, full of living life, marked the first beginning of life itself..."). In the sun symbolism reveals the versatility and complexity of Egyptian thought. Between the appearance of the symbol (sun) and native characters (gods of the Sun), there are numerous connections (intersections). The name of the luminaries sounds like RA. The so-called personifying its God. Along with him there is another solar deity. Horakhty — God of the morning sun, and Khepri in the form of a winged beetle. Atum and the gods with rams ' heads (for example, khnum) are considered the hosts of the evening sun. Three major fluorescent image of the sun is a beetle in the morning, at noon, the solar disk (that is, RA himself), the evening — sheep. In late era the sun has provided a separate image for each hour: in the first and second child; in the seventh hour of the monkey, struck by an arrow (a ray of the sun); in the eleventh and twelfth hour — old leaning on a stick. The picture in the tomb of Ramses IX points to first watch for the crocodile, it is based on the idea that the God of the morning Sun emerges from the celestial ocean in the shape of a crocodile. Solar animals are the Falcon, the lion and the vulture. The image of the rising sun is often associated with cow's horns (the celestial cow), two sycamore, bow life, or with the post jed. Carpi — God-scarab rising sun, Mountains — day, RA — the sun at the Zenith and Osiris — God of the setting sun. Egyptian myth describes the nightly journey of the Sun on a bark through the perils of the underworld and each morning his appearance from the snake's mouth. The Egyptians worshipped the Sun in the image of the one God Amon-RA, the First that does not have the second speaker in three forms: Kheper in the morning, RA in the afternoon and tum in the evening. This Sun is the Creator possessed three virtues, symbolically expressed by three marks: the cross in the form of the letter T, crowned with a loop), Strength (the scepter of gods and kings) and Vitality (four pillars of the heavens and the solar beam). The setting Sun is sometimes depicted in the form of eggs (because when it touches the horizon it takes this form) passing through the underworld to emerge again, this time with a broken shell, the next morning; it was called the flame born of a flame. Winged Sun disk — symbol of the solar power of RA, Aten and renewal. Among the Egyptians the Sun rising is the Mountains, the Sun — RA, and the setting Sun — Osiris. His right eye is the Sun and the left the Moon. Mountains, fighting with Seth in the guise of the serpent Apophis, is the power of the Sun fighting against the darkness. Antiquity about Apollo and Helios as gods-the sun, see APOLLO. In Ancient Greece, the sun was represented by Helios, while the Roman Sol from time to time was replaced by Apollo, representing the radiance of the sunlight. According to Orphic teachings, the Sun is located in the center of the Universe, maintains the relationship and harmony between the planets, rotating them around by the force of gravity, and the streams of sunlight energising the entire cosmos. In prayers this light is called a chain connecting all things, attractive and beginning redemptive, liberating and inspiring force fertilized them. In Ancient Greece the sun was regarded as the eye of Zeus. From Plato the Sun — "the author of all things visible.., generation, nutrition and growth." The warmth and light of the Sun — creation and wisdom. The Pythagoreans ten suns — cyclic improvement. Among the Greeks the Sun the eye of Zeus. Apollo in the guise of the Sun kills the Python of darkness. The orphics the Sun — "Father", "the Great Creator and feeder of all things, the ruler of the world." The sun, the heart, and the Moon the liver of the universe. The Northern tradition of the Celts — feminine. Norse legend of the death of the handsome young God of light Balder, but both of these legends are based on the symbolic theme of a solar Eclipse, his disappearance during the night or seasonal increase and decrease the force of its light. In Scandinavia the sun is considered the eye of Odin. The peoples of Scandinavia — the eye of Odin (Boda), vision. The sun is depicted as a serpent sun. The Teutons: the Sun — woman and a Mother, and the Moon Is the Father.Slavs Slavs the sun God is portrayed in the guise of beautiful young man and, at times, like a new born every day and dying every day the same; in the symbolism of the Slavs the Sun and the Moon can change floors. China It was the Emperor's emblem in China, the sign of "Yan" in the Taoist philosophical system, but was never considered the Supreme deity in the Chinese Pantheon. Like many other peoples, the Chinese symbolically expressed the destructive aspects of solar power in the myth, like so many suns warmed the earth to a hot state: des Yat sun refused to carry their celestial watches at a time and came out to Shine at the same time; God-Archer was forced to kill nine of them to restore the cosmic balance. Typical solar emblem in China — red disk with a three-legged crow that symbolizes the three phases of the solar position during tion of the day: sunrise, Zenith and sunset. The Chinese have the Yang, the "great male principle", the Sky, the eye of day, active power, quickening ground. The sun is one of the twelve symbols of power. Ten Suns on the tree symbolize the end of the cycle. The rooster and the three-legged red crow living in the Sun: three legs symbolize the rising, midday and setting sun. Japan Japanese myth offers some farcical interpretation of this theme: the sun goddess Amaterasu hid in a cave, and it took cunning to lure her out. In Japan, people walked around the Sacred mount Fuji and Osaka, a hundred and walked through the sacred fence, in a singsong voice repeating the prayer. The Japanese Sun — goddess of women and snakes Amaterasu; she who possesses the great sun", born from the left eye of Izanagi, and from whom, it is believed, is Mikado — the Sun rising. The Symbol Of Japan. Mesoamerica According to the mystical views, the devil (Maya), sun's rays spread material and spiritual light, enlightening the world and the human mind, and endow objects with magical powers, vanishing with the sunset. At its Zenith, the point located right above the temple, which is determined by the time of the beginning of the rainy season, the Sun can see the entire Universe. The ancient Mexicans and Maya called this point the eye of the Sun depicted as a double circle on the ground eyes on the figures of the rain God Tlaloc. For the American Indian movement of the Sun through its daily and annual path is a symbol of the human life cycle. This light takes human form to raise the horizons of man to the divine level; it is a model of a real person. The sun represents the law of perpetual renewal. Every 52 years, at the time of coincidence of dates in lakeside solar calendars, the Maya and the Aztecs, believing that the life lights can fade away, and wanting to avoid the end of the world, held special ceremonies in order to appease the gods: it was called the feast of the new fire, in which human sacrifices were offered. The Supreme God of the Inca Viracocha, the Creator and inspirer of all things, the Spirit, whose power is manifested in the Sun, and the earthly embodiment of the king is the Son of the Sun. The mummies of deceased rulers were transferred to market square in Cuzco and worshipped them as jealously as the images of the gods. In the lush temple Cusco anthropomorphic image of Viracocha, turned to face the East, was surrounded by many sparkling rays. Four suns the Aztecs called the four ages of human existence that preceded the fifth (the one we live in). These epochs are connected with the four natural elements, the cardinal points and the deities. First the Sun, NAUI-Ocelotl (four-Jaguar), associated with the Earth, the North and the God Stole symbolizes the night movement of the Sun. Second, NAUI-Ehecatl (four-Wind), associated with Air, West and the God Quetzalcoatl, depicted as a monkey with puffed-out cheeks, is the setting Sun. Third, NAUI-Quiahuitl (four-Rain, or the Sun of Fire-Rain), associated with Fire, South, God, Tlaloc, gave way — NAUI-ATL (four-Water), corresponding to the East, the goddess of water Chalchiuhtlicue, and then the fifth Sun, NAUI-Ollenu (four-Movement), dedicated to Tonatiuh is the Sun will die in the earthquake. A symbol of the Sun located at the Zenith is God Whirlpooli. The Aztecs believed that to give the Sun the energy necessary for movement and, more importantly, the daily rebirth, the light should be fed. Hence the custom of ritual sacrifice — in fact, to saturate the Sun can only be human blood (precious water). Ancient Incas emphasized that we are "children of the Sun"; the Peruvian Sun-God was depicted in human form with a disc-shaped Golden face. In the Aztec cult of the Fifth Sun, the God of war Huitzilopochtli demanded new victims to sustain the sun, the protector of the human race. ... both of these legends are based on the symbolic theme of a solar Eclipse, his disappearance during the night or seasonal increase and decrease the force of its light. The Aztecs: pure spirit, air, Quetzalcoatl; the eagle symbolizes the rising Sun and the beginning of heaven, and the tiger or falling eagle — the setting Sun and earth's beginning. Crested serpent — a sun symbol. The Aztecs and the Incas were the "children of the Sun". The Incas depicted the sun in human form with the face in the form of emitting rays of the Golden disk, and was the "ancestor". North America the Sun is revered as the light of the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Great spirit of the Indians of North America, of God the Father in Christianity. American Indians the Sun — the universal spirit, the heart of the Sky. In some tribes the Sun is feminine, the Mother, in others the Sun and Moon are considered man and wife or brother and sister. Dance of the Sun(see) is one of the most important rituals. South America's most Important cultural region in which the Sun was worshipped, is, without doubt, Ancient Peru, where the Sun was viewed as the ancestor and patron of the people of the Incas. Inca Garcilaso de La VEGA (1539-1616) describes the sun temple of the capital Cusco: "All four walls from top to bottom was covered with Golden plates and bars. In front of that above the main altar, stood the figure of the Sun, consisting of a Golden plate, which was twice as thick compared to the slabs which covered the walls. Figure with her round face and her fiery rays and flames were made from a solid piece exactly as it was depicted by artists. It was so big it covered the entire front of the Church from one wall to the other... On both sides of the image of the Sun was located his sons dead bodies of kings, unknown to anyone embalmed in such a way that they looked like alive. They sat on their set at the gold beam, gold chairs, on which they used to be... side the Gates of the temple were made in the form of gold-covered portals. The walls of the temple with the external hand held rods are made of gold, and more than a cubit thick planks that covered the building like a crown." The identification of the Sun with gold in the Andes of South America was carried out with such consistency, as obviously no other place and symbolic the perfect connection of the immutability of the "noble metal" with the mummification also evident, as in drevnepersidskih temples of the moon, where the female ancestors of the head of family was clothed in silver and venerated.Australia and Oceania Celestial phenomena do not occupy in Australian mythology, such a large place in developed mythologies. A few tales of celestial bodies are included in the circle of totemic myths. The moon (month) is represented by a man, originally belonged to a totem the possum. With a stone knife a month rises to the sky, wandering to the West,/that descends the tree to the ground. After eating possums, month increases in size (full moon), weary, takes the form of a grey kangaroo; in this view it kills men, but one of them keeps a kangaroo bone, which grows back a month (the new moon). The sun is represented by the girl, rose through the tree to the sky, the Pleiades — the girls of the Bandicoot totem, which became the witnesses of the ceremony of initiation of young men and for this reason turned into stones and then into the stars. (from the article Australian mythology) This antropologicheskii and at the same time the totemic myth is woven with a cosmogonical myth: in the beginning there was darkness and the constant night pressed on the ground like an impenetrable veil, and then the sun came out and dispersed the darkness of Valencia (totem centre Bandicoot). (from the article Australian mythology) myths of the Northern and South-Eastern tribes of Australia along with the totemic ancestors there are also more generalized and apparently developed later, the images of "datateknik" of mythical heroes. In the North of the famous old mother (appears under the names Kunapipi, Clearin-Cleary, Cagliari etc D.) is the matriarchal ancestor, symbolizing giving birth to fertile land and associated with it (and with fertility, reproduction) the image of the serpent of the rainbow. In the Southeast — universal Patriarchal father (Nurrundere, Kony, Viral, Norelli, Bunjil, Byam, Daramulun), who lives in the sky and acting as a culture hero and patron initiation rites. Mother and father may belong to different, sometimes to several totems (each part of their body can have its own totem), respectively, to be the common ancestors (i.e. media and original sources shower) to different groups of people, animals, plants. In myths usually involve not one but several "mothers" and sometimes the two sisters or mother and daughter. These stories and their corresponding ritual contact with one of the "halves" (phratries) the tribe that permits the assumption of a partial Genesis of the images of the mothers of ideas about matriliny prostitelno. Lengarov living in Arnhemland, mythical ancestors are sisters Guncheva, coming from the North on their own created sea. In the boat they bring the various totems that hung drying on the trees. Then the totems are placed in work bags and in my travels hiding in various places. From totems appear ten children, first deprived of sex. Then hidden in the grass become men, and hidden in the sand. They are doing to their descendants a stick-diggers, belts made of feathers and other decorations, introduce the use of fire to create the sun, taught to consume certain types of food, give them a weapon, magical, totemic dances are taught and administered the rite of passage of young men. Guardians of ritual secrets, according to this myth, are the first women, but men Rob them of their totems and secrets distilled and female singing. The progenitor continue, forming terrain, new feeding areas and tribal groups of people. Again reaching the sea in the West, they go to the Islands, which before arose from lice dropped ancestress from their phone long after the disappearance Junchow in the West there are two other sisters, born in the shadow of the sunset. They complete the work of their predecessors, establish marriage classes and administered the ritual of the great mother — Kunapipi (Kunapipi), which partially are staged in our theatre of their actions. Sisters settle in a certain place, build a hut, gather food. One of them gives birth to a child. The sisters try to cook yams, snails and other food, but plants and animals come to life and jump out of the fire, the rain begins. The sisters try dancing to ward off the rain and terrible serpent-the rainbow that comes close to him and swallows the first totem animals and plants ("food" sisters, and then two women and a child. Being in the belly of the snake sisters are hurting him. The snake spits sisters. The child comes to life from the bite of ants. Sister Sauvaluck (as they are called Glengary and some other tribes) represent a peculiar variant of the same mothers as female, embodying fertility. As the snake-rainbow is widely known in most parts of Australia, combined ideas about the water spirit, serpent-monster (the germ of the "dragon"), magic crystal (it reflects a rainbow spectrum), used by sorcerers. Ingestion, and no such serpent people is (and other peoples) with the rite of initiation (symbols temporary death update). R. M. Berndt finds swallowing serpent sisters erotic symbolism associated with fertility magic. Maori Sun and Moon — the eye of Heaven. The peoples of Oceania, most often the Sun is the Mother of all, Luna's Father, and the star — children; in some parts of Oceania, the Sun and the Moon are considered children of the first men and women. The sun — "the great eyeball". Iran In Iran, the sun was regarded as the eye of Ahura Mazda (sometimes called Orascom. Maristov Mitra — the sun God. Saul, his Quadriga and Cauto are usually depicted on the right, and the Moon and Autopath to the left of the miter. The Iranians of the Sun — eye of Ormuzd. "Whoever venerates the Sun that is immortal, ruled by fast horses... honor Ormuzd, honors the Archangels, honors his own soul." The winged disk of the Sun is also a symbol of Ormuzd (Ahura Mazda). Hinduism In India these rays are compared to arrows or hair of Shiva, and the Sun is beginning and end of all phenomena. In India the personification of the rising Sun are beautiful and young goddess USAS, which dispels darkness and shines in the garb of light, and God of dawn Aruna. Two images of the Sun, passive and active, present Surya (its symbols — the bird, the horse, the wheel or the chariot of a light which dispels darkness, sickness and evil Powers, ceases to rain; and Savitar, the divine power that tells impetus to the movement of the whole nature. eyes of Varuna. Indra — the sun God defeats the dragon of chaos and darkness, Vritra. Siva — the Sun whose rays are the creative Shakti, giving life to the world. The sun is the "world door", the entrance to knowledge and immortality. Triple tree with three suns symbolize the Trimurti. The tree with the twelve Adityas of the sun means that the signs of the Zodiac and months of the year. These twelve forms of the sun will appear simultaneously as one at the end of the cycle of manifestation. Buddhism revered the Sun as light. In Buddhism, the Sun is the light of the Buddha. Taoism the Taoists, the Sun is Yang and the great heavenly power; The sun and Moon together symbolize supernatural being, all shining. Bible / old Testament the Heat of the Sun warming the human body, and the light that it emits has turned the Bible into symbols of the Divine spirit, flammable heart and open mind. In Genesis the Sun symbolizes the revelation and teaching. Stopping the Sun means the appearance of God, and the setting — the absence of the Divine spirit: And in that day, saith the Lord God: I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight (Amos, VIII, 9). —• Lies exhausted has given birth to seven, emits his breath; another day the sun has set on her, she is ashamed and confounded (jer. XV, 9)* In the Bible the symbolism of the Sun sometimes has a negative value the all-consuming passion, rage, selfishness (job praising yourself for not worshiped the Sun and the moon, that is, not believing in your own wisdom).Judaism the Jews: the divine will and guidance. Only in the old Testament of the Bible — in contrast to the cult of the Sun "Gentiles" — the Sun is seen only as one of the two "luminaries" that God has ordained place in the firmament. Gnosticism the Gnostics believed that the Sun... the dual— Sun white Sun and black, Michael and Samuel... that is an astronomical and cosmic symbol of two opposing types of light and two serpents representing good and evil, good and evil, God and Satan. These views they had embodied in the intertwined good and evil rays of the Sun. Christianity Theologians consider it the Holy substance of force and visible image of her spiritual existence. In the Christian imaginative world upside all over again in the East the Sun is the symbol of immortality and resurrection, and Christ on the mosaic of the 4th century is identified with Helios in the radiant halo of the sun chariot or acts as the judge of the world, surrounded by a halo solncevosam. Since Christ is also the Lord of time, he is associated with the establishment of the duration of the day by the Sun, which is especially often seen in Romanesque art. The Christians the Sun is God the Father, ruler and guardian of the universe, radiating light and love, Christ, the Sun of righteousness, the Logos, the divine principle in man. The sun and Moon depicted together with the crucifixion signify the dual nature of Christ and the power of nature, the worshipper of the Lord of the Universe. The sun is the seat of the Archangel Michael and the Moon — Gabriel. Thomas Aquinas is portrayed with the Sun on his chest. Christ is the "Sun of righteousness" — took the place of the popular in the late Roman Empire of the God Mithras, the symbol of the rebirth of the Invincible Sun. The sun, moon and stars were created on the fourth day of CREATION. Joseph (1), the son of Jacob, had a dream that they worship him. The sun and the moon are depicted in the scene of the crucifixion of CHRIST (II). Wife of the Apocalypse, "clothed with the sun," see the VIRGIN MARY (4). The sun is a symbolic expression of Christ. This interpretation goes back to the prophecy of Malachi 4:2 where it says, "But unto you that fear before My name shall the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings..." the Sun and the moon are represented as attributes of the virgin Mary, for in revelation 12:1 says: "...a woman clothed with the sun; under legs its moon." The sun and the moon are often present in scenes of the crucifixion: here they are expression of grief is only created on the death of Christ. SV. Thomas Acqui-nskogo sometimes depicted with the sun on his chest. In Ancient Greece the sun was regarded as the eye of Zeus, in Scandinavia — Odin, Iran — Ahura Mazda (sometimes called Orascom), India — Varuna, Muhammad called him the eye of Allah. The sun is revered as the light of the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Great spirit of the Indians of North America, of God the Father in Christianity. The sun is revered as the light of God the Father. "This is a visible image of the divine Grace... the transcendent archetype of Light" (Dionysius). "There is nothing available eyes around the world that would more adequately serve as a symbol of God than the Sun, which sheds light visible life, first itself and then all celestial and earthly bodies" (Dante). Islam Muhammad called it the eye of Allah. Muslims is all-seeing, all-knowing Eyes of Allah. "This Sun is the reflection of the Sun that is hidden by the veil" (Rumi). The heart of the Universe and the sign of God in Heaven and Earth." Astronomy/logy In astrology the Sun, as in antiquity, was regarded as one of the moving "planets" visible in the treatment of which around the Earth determines the length of the year. Like the moon, the Sun was considered the "main light" with properties: "masculine, hot, dominant". The position of the Sun in the zodiac (see the Stars) was determined what "sign" was born. The sun was in the constellation Leo your "day home" and, rising, reached Aries, and declining, was in the constellation Aquarius. In astrology the Sun is the life, the vitality, the embodied nature of identity, the heart and its aspirations. The heart of the world, the center of the controlled system, the Sun is in the middle of the circle of the zodiac and plays a pivotal role in the sliding of the individual's horoscope. Astrologers believe that its properties are warm, dry, masculine and positive start. Alchemy In alchemy the Sun meets the sparkling gold ("the Sun of the earth, the king of metals"), it is astrologically associated with the constellation Leo. "Black sun" — the alchemical symbol of raw, primary state of matter. The alchemists is the mind. Sol et Luna is a gold and silver, king and Queen, soul and body, etc. Sol niger est prima materia. The planetary sign of the Sun, a circle with a center point — a symbol of the completion of the "great Work". Magic as sunlight was valued oranzhevo-yellow, and of the precious stones associated with the Sun was considered diamond, ruby, Topaz, peridot and hyacinth. According to the traditional symbolism of the Sun was responsible for the Royal and paternal authority, for a person's position in the world, for glory and victory, for the heart and willpower and vitality. Its colour is Golden, metal — gold, day — Sunday, the position in the sky, the Zenith, the age and the beginning of manhood, the flower — chicory or spurge-solntsepad. Freemasonry Sun and Moon, the two luminaries of the physical world, Masonic symbolism — images of the first and second mentor and supervisor, they indicate that "every true free-Mason and a brother both by day and by night must seek the light of truth and never fall into the darkness of sin and impurity" (Bayrepel, 1793). A Mason can attain the highest Knowledge only through a symbolic trip around the world, which he makes in the dedication (see Labyrinth). It follows the path of the Sun from East to West, defining the change of seasons that correspond to the stages a dangerous path candidate. These stages — birth in the darkness of winter, overcoming the menacing clouds in the spring, climbing to the Zenith in the summer to grow corn, and fruit, defeating the surrounding enemies, autumn fog, set before the onset of winter and death, allegorically represented by the West, where the candidate reveals the secret of the updates existence. Blazing star Masonic Lodge is a symbol not only of divine power, but also the Sun in all his innumerable mercies. Heraldry the Sun was the emblem of Louis XIV, king of France. On the arms of the Sun depicted as a person, or disk surrounded by straight or intermittent (blinking) rays. Emblems of the Sun emitting its rays from behind the clouds. //My Shine is impossible to hide. Dignity and grandeur are associated with good deeds for a while can be dimmed. But to completely hide them as impossible, like the sun. [SE-II,tab.56-11,p. 342] the Sun setting in the sea. //The sun is still beautiful, though ready to leave the sky. the symbol shows us that good and godly man, as if he were upset, and in some depressed mood or humiliated he was under the influence of adverse circumstances or prevratnosti fate, however, it is worthy of admiration and praise, and in due time it will rise again and will succeed in honors and glory. [SE-II,tab.36-15,p. 258] a Solar Eclipse. //Now about me think more and better notice. the symbol means that trials and tribulations lead us to thoughts about God and our destinies, while at other times we tend to ignore it. Proverb. The sun pay attention only when it is his Eclipse. In other words — failure incline our eyes and mouth to the horn world. [SE-II,tab.22-13,p. 197] the Sun over a tree with dense foliage. //Winter has passed. the symbol means the return of summer, or period of prosperity, followed a period of disaster and bezotechestvo. [SE-II,tab.40-6,p. 276]The sun//It shines not only for myself but for the whole Universe. symbolicconstant. [Emblemata-2; tab.4-7, p. 122] Sun, pouring its rays on the dial of a sundial. //In darkness we are not wanted. the symbol demonstrates that as long as our actions are not illuminated by the sun of righteousness, they will not bring g any good neither to us nor to others. [SE-II,tab.43-1,p. 289] the Sun shining in full strength. //It is only one. the character Creator in which the more sparkle, energy and utility, than any other creature. A beautiful emblem of the causes of all things. She is so beautiful That lost the peoples fall down, Taking a copy for the original. [SE-II,tab.52-11,p. 327] the Midday sun over the calm sea.//It is impossible for me to dry up. the symbol for the true blessing it is possible to attack, but impossible to win. [Emblemata-2; tab.15-8, p. 166] the Sun shining in full strength. (See. Fig.12 in table. 52.) [SE-II,tab.41-1,p. 280] the Sun shining through the clouds. the symbol of the oppressed dignity and his upcoming lights at the time, when dispelled the clouds and obscurations. [Emblemata-2; tab.15-10, p. 166] Setting sun. //Not without regret. The light of heaven was nearly finished with his daily movement and, rushing to the goal, falls lower and lower. It seems that it is on the latest line that separates night from day. His balloon in sunset point are becoming more and more amazing shadows lengthened, then completely lost in the indistinguishable darkness. the symbol of those blessings which have little value until they have it, but when it comes time to part with them, suddenly begin to realize their true value, and losing hopelessly, bitterly regret their loss. [SE-II,tab.52-4,p. 326] the Sun behind the clouds. //It is hidden, but in the meantime preparing their thunder. It is a symbol of retribution, which in secret is preparing all the necessary to crush the evil, attacking them suddenly, invisible and in that moment, when you least suspect. [SE-II,tab.34-13,p. 248] the Sun shining through the clouds. //My suffering is my glory. the symbol of the Martyr, whose pain and suffering wrapped his fame. [SE-II,tab.27-9,p. 216] the Sun. //It is sowing everywhere the good. a symbol of a pious and good Christian or a blessed Savior who dedicated his life entirely to the creation of good. His life will always be a role model for those who are going the same way. [SE-II,tab.47-3,p. 306] the Sun. //It shines spreading its rays. When the sun rises, the East turns pink. Hills, located on the West side, are covered in streams of Shine and glitter. Cold Northern areas rejoice in its pleasant heat. Southern areas languishing from his fire. Similarly, the influence of the Sun of Righteousness is vague and has no defined boundaries. Previous generations have felt his influence, and generations not yet born will enjoy it in the future. The benefits provided by his death, shall apply to past, present and future era of human existence. [SE-II,tab.51-10,p. 322] the Sun. //I'm too bright to me to hold the look. a symbol of God. With versenta Almighty makes it incomprehensible It is unknown to us because too large, Chobe we were able to know him. So Leah and the sun unseen for us because of its powerful glare. [SE-II,tab.50-3,p. 317] the Sun II the moon. //I thrive, when you look at me your gaze. a symbol that while we are under the supervision and upbringing the supervision of divine Power, and she honors us with his attention and care, we will be on the rise. Until then, will continue until vzimnoy communication between us and this power, pashas fate will be good luck and success. [SE-II,tab.46-13,p. 303] the Sun in the zodiac. //I'm not a Maverick and never shy away from the na course. the symbol of a righteous and good man, who, like the sun, constantly adheres to the ways of piety and Holiness, and never deviates from this path, and shows the world brilliant examples of his infallibility. [SE-II,tab.46-14,p. 303] the Sun. //His kindness has no limits. the symbol of the deity. An inexhaustible heat source, Whose rays adorned the face of nature, a symbol of all that is good and great, Beautiful or gracious, fatherly divine Whose rays Pour out life and sows for all That is under it. [SE-II,tab.46-15,p. 303] the Occult Have sealants "Sun — divine arivial just" XIX the main Arcana of the Tarot, represented by the image of the Sun, expresses the dual function of light, bringer of light and heat: from him come the 12 rays, straight and wavy (it is connected with the zodiac, and thus with the cycle of the seasons). The midday Sun creates life, but is able to destroy, burn and dry up, if there is not enough lunar water. Flowing from his Golden rain symbolizes the richness of spirit and heart, the Philosophical stone of the alchemists, available only to the initiated. This Arkan brings the idea of the victory of the sun healthy mind in a Golden age. He reminds us that earthly happiness is available only to those who can overcome the resistance of his own life, like the Twins, who, being among themselves in free communication ." participate in the ordering of human chaos. Interpretation at guessing: brotherhood, harmony, a fair trial; newfound happiness. Honour, glory. Idealism incompatible with reality. Irritability, resentment. The sun Tarot inside the triangle is the first geometric shapes — used in heraldic art a symbol of the creative principles that is revealed to people in three persons. Art In the iconography of the Sun was depicted mostly as a solar deity with a radiant halo around the head or in the form of a luminous disk with a human face. The attribute of TRUTH personified, because in his light everything becomes clear. She holds it in her hand. Likewise, it sheds light on the love affair of Mars and Venus (8). allegorical figure of Truth in Western art is often depicted with the sun in his hands Я научусь тебя не ждать, Я научусь тебя не звать. Начну со Временем, В безвременье играть. Я вижу лик твой в небе и в себе, Я слышу голос,в беззвучной тишине. Прикосновение капель,нежности завет, И ветра ласка шепчущий ответ. Струится Солнце иль искриться дождь, Ты говоришь со мной из снов. И шелестит листва,танцуя на ветру И облака бегут с востока на Зарю. Я научусь тебя не ждать, Я научусь тебя не звать. Мой млечный путь меня ведет, В начертанном мгновении Встреча ждет. Pollin.

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Degrassi Next Class Season 4 Reaction Post

Hi guys. I know I’ve been absent, but I really needed to come out of “hiatus” to share my feelings about DNC Season 4. I’m coming up on 30 at the end of the month and this season moved me more than any fiction has in the past couple years. So perhaps it’s fitting to write a sort of farewell to characters who’ve been with me since my mid-twenties. I know we all have a tendency to sort of insert ourselves into fiction, but this...was something else. Cheesy? Maybe.

Saad // Belgium storyline

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I mean honestly the fact that a show, especially a show for teens, is using the words: Syria, Istanbul, ISIS, refugee, at all is mind blowing to me. And unlike most television willing to broach the issue, DNC is actually humanizing its characters who have been touched by war. I feel like far too often, we’d rather just pretend everything is fine and half of an entire country’s population hasn’t been displaced. Half a million people haven’t been killed. I’ll be the first to admit I often do.

As some of you may know, I live in Istanbul and up until very recently, was working as a journalist. A majority of our energy was spent focusing on the Syrian refugee crisis and the country’s civil war. We live at the border of the war and yes, we take in more Syrian refugees than any other country in the world, but many are shoved into camps in the middle of nowhere or living in big cities, begging on the streets. There’s no infrastructure to handle them and most can’t move westward. Add to that the low-key security issues in the country (About 20 significant terror attacks in two years + an attempted coup. Hey-o!)

But even at our news station, when a terror attack hit Europe, versus somewhere in the Middle East, Africa, or even Turkey, we’d spend days dissecting it. But then, then, we’d run packages similar to Saad’s speech posing the question, Why doesn’t anyone care when it happens to brown people? Do people just expect brown people will be blown up? I agree with the sentiment, but when we, as the “brown” media perpetuate it? Internalised hate turned into greed.

We can’t normalise death, but I don’t think more Facebook flag filters are the answer, because there could never be enough to encompass the death and destruction occurring every day. The “Western” lack of interest in death in the Middle East does nothing but perpetuate the cycle of terror. I’ve seen Anti-Western sentiment grow after every terror attack in this country and I believe part of it can be attributed to the blase attitude shown by “Western” media toward “brown” death.

What does this have to do with Degrassi? I think they’ve done a pretty remarkable job tempering reality with what Canada [and the pre-Trump US] looks like on the surface. Canada is at an interesting crossroads in that it has one of the best policies for refugees in the world, but it’s far from perfect (not that anything can be). And there are Lolas and there are people like the asshat who ripped off Goldi’s hijab. Teenagers People have never been kind so it’s no surprise that people were suspicious of Saad. It was disturbing and heartbreaking, but never surprising, to watch his story. Also not surprising: Goldi’s foray into respectability politics.

Being welcomed into a “free society” is more than being given a chance to live. Yes, newcomers are given the freedom to worship as they chose (or not). And I am in no way undervaluing that. It’s a fundamental human right. People need to be welcomed, folded into the fabric, not made to feel like they must be grateful, or always apologizing for people who don’t speak for them. Or you know, in the case of Goldi, reminding people that they’re Canadian by birth.

Goldi // Winston

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The Muslim voices on DNC are strong, clear, and super diverse- just like- wait for it- people in real life.

I especially love Goldi’s relationship with Winston and how she tries to reconcile her personal morals to her feelings, desires, and the world around her. I was pleased with the show for never judging her or making her decisions “wrong.” We could see how big her decision to hold Winston’s hand was and it wasn’t played for laughs. Likewise, he didn’t push her, was always respectful of the boundaries of their friendship/flirtation. Checking that the dessert was halal, that it was OK for them to be alone together, etc. Of course, he blundered: Maybe you should just take it off. That felt as realistic as the sweetness, as did the fact that he did physically fight the guy. Goldi’s guilt about the whole thing felt spot on. Her father’s reaction felt right for the moment and character DNC created.

Bisexual !!!11!!!

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*I’m totally down with people who don’t label themselves. This is about a general TV problem and more so, this specific character*

How is it that after 30 years on this planet...every time I hear a character on television say the words I am bisexual, I still feel like something has opened up inside and I can finally exhale?

I do have to laugh, though, having read that post going around about imagining the classroom diversity exercise through a third party’s perspective. On one hand, I completely agree. On another, the attitude is part of why Miles has struggled. He can’t- and should never- deny the amazing privilege he has in his life. But he is bisexual, dammit, and we are real, and we are discriminated against, and we deserve validation, and acknowledgment of the fact that it puts us at high risk, even if we’re rich, white, Canadian men. // rant over.

Miles’s rejection to the “diversity” spot was a great segue into a total acceptance of himself. Aside from one throwaway line to Maya in season 14, we’ve never seen any outward acknowledgement that he has any issues with his sexuality. But he’s never put a label on it, nor has he referenced acting on it, or being aware of it, before Tristan. He was instantly cool with Tristan being gay and didn’t seem to mind helping Zoë figure herself out. But sometimes when we label something, it becomes real. It feels like no take-backs.

Miles finally admitting that he did, in fact, struggle with his identity, and wasn’t just someone “not into labels,” made me want to cry. This acknowledgement rounds out his entire story arc in a way leaving him as someone who loves the person, not the gender wouldn’t. IMHO. It seems to confirm a lot of head canon. And it seems like something that had been planned, rather than just fanservice. But what do I know?

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So. I’ll miss these characters.

That’s it. I think. <3

P.S.

Hijab moments: There are now just random extras in hijab (though why it took Syrian refugees for this to happen, idk). Also Goldi wrapping a loose scarf around her head to Facetime Winston.

Such a random and small thing, but there was a scene where Saad was chopping up cucumber and tomatoes and it was such an amazing touch. Small, but so, so, accurate. Kudos. Season was filled with them. Another was Rasha commenting about the horror of her ex not removing her shoes upon entering the house!

Connecting Lola’s parents fleeing Argentina to Saad fleeing Syria? Brava!

For all that Ms. Grell is up in everyone’s business and noticing that Yael is binding their breasts, you’d think she’d be checking in with Saad and the other refugees, though? I mean they’re all so worried about him being radicalized and a terrorist and yet aren’t doing mental health check-ins. Ridiculous.

Yay! A genderqueer/fluid character!

I don’t think Hunter has an obligation to stay with Yael. He likes girls. They’re not a girl. Hunter does, however, have an obligation not to be an asshole.

#degrassi next class spoilers #dnc spoilers #goldi nahir #saad al’maliki #MilesHollingsworth #degrassi

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supermacaroniandsqueezeblr · 7 years

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“Wizards” AU fic: Chapter Five

The table had been set, the tea and pastries had been prepared-all that was left to do was wait for Sean to arrive. Princess Emilia paced back and forth through her quarters, anxious with anticipation. Her heart was beating rapidly with both fear and excitement as she inhaled and exhaled to try and calm herself down.

“Everything’s going to be alright.” she told herself. “What are you so worried about?” Her thoughts were then interrupted by a knock on her door. Opening it, she saw two of the king’s assistants before her.

“Princess Emilia, his royal highness Prince Sean has just arrived to see you.” they announced, bowing and stepping aside to reveal him standing in the doorway.

“Good evening, your highness.” he politely greeted, giving a bow.

“Sean, you don’t need to bow every time we meet up,” the princess giggled, “but I appreciate it anyway.” She smiled and curtsied back to him. “Come in, the tea’s ready.” Holding out her hand, Sean took it, and the two stepped into the bedroom together.

“I thought we’d eat here tonight, so I asked the servants to arrange a table for us.” she explained. “Now we can have some privacy.” The prince nodded, and pulled one of the chairs out, allowing Emilia to sit down first. She thanked him, and Sean took his seat opposite her, blushing slightly.

“I’m so happy you were able to make it.” Emilia said, dropping a few lumps of sugar and pouring a tiny saucer of milk into her teacup. “I was a little worried that you’d be too busy tonight.”

“To be honest, I was a little worried as well, but I’m glad that my mother allowed me to go.” Sean admitted. “I-I wanted to see you again...and I really like being with you, too.”

“I feel the same way.” the princess grinned, her cheeks as pink as posies. “To tell you the truth, I didn’t really plan this from the start.”

“What do you mean?” Sean asked, pausing from gently blowing on his tea to cool it down.

“Well, earlier today, I was helping Gerda and Greta with picking berries for the spring festival, when I saw you nearby.” she started to explain. “All of a sudden, they just flew off to find you, right then and there, and bring you to me!” At the time, she had been embarrassed by the whole ordeal, but now, she saw the funny side to it all and burst out into laughter. This caused Sean to start laughing, too, for now he understood what had happened. “I never had anything to say to you-I think they just wanted to set us up!”

Together, the two talked and laughed into the evening, each drinking and eating their share of chamomile tea and scrumptious cookies, scones, and crumpets. Once they had finished, Emilia stood up, taking Sean’s hand in hers.

“Come with me. I want to show you something.” she told him. The prince was a little confused, but he still went along with her, curious to see what she was talking about. She led him out the door, through the halls, and out the tree, down into the forest glen where they stopped at a patch of tall grass.

“What I’m about to show you,” Emilia began in a low voice, “is something that I’ve never shown anyone else before. Nobody knows about this place, not even my father. This is only between you and me, and I’d like to keep it that way for now.”

Sean nodded in understanding as she pulled aside the blades of grass. There, laying before their eyes, was a little hideaway growing with soft, green moss, leafy lichen, and tiny little blossoms. In the center, there was a small sort of waterfall fashioned of stones, with a steady stream of water trickling down into a pond below. Emilia led Sean through the grass as they admired the serene and peaceful area.

“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” she remarked.

“Indeed.” the prince agreed, still in awe over such a lovely sight.

“Sometimes, I come here when I need to relax or take my mind off of things.” she added, sitting down besides the pond, watching the reflection of the moonlight upon its gentle surface. “Mostly, I come here to think...about the past, the future...what my future holds…”

Sean sat down next to Emilia as she continued. “My father told me stories about what this world was like long ago...about how it was filled with such wonderful things, but dark and dangerous things as well. Eventually, the darkness overshadowed the light, and people forgot what was most important to themselves and to others.”

Sean fully understood what Emilia was talking about. His mother had also taught him about Earth’s history, from the birth of civilization to its eventual destruction.

“I think about the past, and I wonder...what will our future be? Will we find happier times, or will the cycle continue yet again, with our kingdom in ruins?”

“Well, I think…” Sean began to say, “...what happened in the past is something that I believe we shouldn’t forget, but we shouldn’t dwell on it, either. We all make mistakes, but they help us learn from them and work to become better people. Hopefully, the future will be a better one, and we can live together in peace.”

Hearing Sean’s words, Emilia smiled contentedly. His knowledge and purity were traits to be admired, and she knew that he would be a great king someday. This reminded her once again of her future, and how she would eventually be wed to him and rule over the kingdom together.

“Sean?” she asked. “What do you think my future holds? I hope I can be a good ruler for our people…”

“I hope I can, too.” he remarked. “With you by my side, I-I don’t feel so afraid, though.”

“Neither do I…” Emilia responded, her cheeks feeling warm. “I feel...safe.”

They gazed into each other’s eyes for a moment, and then, purely following their instincts, started to lean in closer.

“Emilia! It’s almost past your curfew!” a voice suddenly cried out, abruptly bringing the two back to their senses and reality. The princess instantly recognized who it was.

“Coming, father!” she called back. She then turned to Sean again, standing up with him and leaving the hideaway. “I’m afraid I must be going now, but thank you for coming to visit. I had a wonderful time.”

“So did I.” Sean acknowledged. Emilia then embraced him in her arms. The prince held her close, taking in the sweet aroma of fresh, warm cinnamon buns. All of the fairies had this scent, including himself, but he felt it was especially prominent-and all around nicer-when she was near. At last, they let go.

“Goodbye, Sean. See you soon.”

“You too.”

At that moment, Emilia closed her eyes and quickly kissed his cheek. She then zipped back to the oak tree, catching a glimpse of a very surprised Sean, blushing as red as a ripe strawberry. After standing there in silence, trying to process what had just happened, a wide grin started to spread across his face as he put a hand to his cheek.

“Golly!”

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Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto

The end is near. Or has it come and gone before? – An ancestor

Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism?

We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history of utopian fantasies and apocalyptic idealization. It is a pathogenic global social order of imagined futures, built upon genocide, enslavement, ecocide, and total ruination.

What conclusions are to be realized in a world constructed of bones and empty metaphors? A world of fetishized endings calculated amidst the collective fiction of virulent specters. From religious tomes to fictionalized scientific entertainment, each imagined timeline constructed so predictably; beginning, middle, and ultimately, The End. Inevitably in this narrative there’s a protagonist fighting an Enemy Other (a generic appropriation of African/Haitian spirituality, a “zombie”?), and spoiler alert: it’s not you or me. So many are eagerly ready to be the lone survivors of the “zombie apocalypse.” But these are interchangeable metaphors, this zombie/Other, this apocalypse.   These empty metaphors, this linearity, only exist within the language of nightmares, they are at once part of the apocalyptic imagination and impulse. This way of “living,” or “culture,” is one of domination that consumes all for it’s own benefit. It is an economic and political reordering to fit a reality resting on pillars of competition, ownership, and control in pursuit of profit and permanent exploitation. It professes “freedom” yet its foundation is set on lands stolen while its very structure is built by stolen lives.

It is this very “culture” that must always have an Enemy Other, to lay blame, to lay claim, to affront, enslave and murder. A subhuman enemy that any and all forms of extreme violence are not only permitted but expected to be put upon. If it doesn’t have an immediate Other, it meticulously constructs one. This Other is not made from fear but its destruction is compelled by it. This Other is constituted from apocalyptic axioms and permanent misery. This Othering, this weitko disease, is perhaps best symptomatized in its simplest stratagem, in that of our silenced remakening: They are dirty, They are unsuited for life, They are unable, They are incapable, They are disposable, They are non-believers, They are unworthy, They are made to benefit us, They hate our freedom, They are undocumented, They are queer, They are black, They are Indigenous, They are less than, They are against us, until finally, They are no more. In this constant mantra of violence reframed, it’s either You or it’s Them. It is the Other who is sacrificed for an immortal and cancerous continuity. It is the Other who is poisoned, who is bombed, who is left quietly beneath the rubble. This way of unbeing, which has infected all aspects of our lives, which is responsible for the annihilation of entire species, the toxification of oceans, air and earth, the clear-cutting and burning of whole forests, mass incarceration, the technological possibility of world ending warfare, and raising the temperatures on a global scale, this is the deadly politics of capitalism, it’s pandemic.

An ending that has come before.

The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual invasion of our lands, bodies, and minds to settle and to exploit, is colonialism. Ships sailed on poisoned winds and bloodied tides across oceans pushed with a shallow breath and impulse to bondage, millions upon millions of lives were quietly extinguished before they could name their enemy. 1492. 1918. 2020…

Biowarfare blankets, the slaughter of our relative the buffalo, the damming of lifegiving rivers, the scorching of untarnished earth, the forced marches, the treatied imprisonment, coercive education through abuse and violence. The day to day post-war, post-genocide, trading post-colonial humiliation of our slow mass suicide on the altar of capitalism; work, income, pay rent, drink, fuck, breed, retire, die. It’s on the roadside, it’s on sale at Indian markets, serving drinks at the casino, restocking Bashas, it’s nice Indians behind, you.

These are the gifts of infesting manifest destinies, this is that futured imaginary our captors would have us perpetuate and be a part. The merciless imposition of this dead world was driven by an idealized utopia as Charnel House, it was “for our own good” an act of “civilization.” Killing the “Indian”; killing our past and with it our future. “Saving the man”; imposing another past and with it another future.

These are the apocalyptic ideals of abusers, racists and hetero-patriarchs. The doctrinal blind faith of those who can only see life through a prism, a fractured kaleidoscope of an endless and total war.

Its an apocalyptic that colonizes our imaginations and destroys our past and future simultaneously. It is a struggle to dominate human meaning and all existence. This is the futurism of the colonizer, the capitalist. It is at once every future ever stolen by the plunderer, the warmonger and the rapist.

This has always been about existence and non-existence. It is apocalypse, actualized. And with the only certainty being a deathly end, colonialism is a plague.

Our ancestors understood that this way of being could not be reasoned or negotiated with. That it could not be mitigated or redeemed. They understood that the apocalyptic only exists in absolutes.

Our ancestors dreamt against the end of the world.

Many worlds have gone before this one. Our traditional histories are tightly woven with the fabric of the birthing and ending of worlds. Through these cataclysms we have gained many lessons that have shaped who we are and how we are to be with one another. Our ways of being are informed through finding harmony through and from the destruction of worlds. The Elliptic. Birth. Death. Rebirth.

We have an unknowing of histories upon histories of the world that is part of us. It is the language of the cosmos, it speaks in prophecies long carved in the scars where our ancestors dreamed. It is the ghostdance, the seven fires, the birth of the White Buffalo, the seventh generation, it is the five suns, it is written in stone near Oraibi, and beyond. These prophecies are not just predictive, they have also been diagnostic and instructive.

We are the dreamers dreamt by our ancestors. We have traversed all time between the breaths of our dreams. We exist at once with our ancestors and unbirthed generations. Our future is held in our hands. It is our mutuality and interdependence. It is our relative. It is in the creases of our memories, folded gently by our ancestors. It is our collective Dreamtime, and it is Now. Then. Tomorrow. Yesterday.

The anti-colonial imagination isn’t a subjective reaction to colonial futurisms, it is anti-settler future. Our life cycles are not linear, our future exists without time. It is a dream, uncolonized.

This is the Indigenous anti-future.

We are not concerned with how our enemies name their dead world or how they recognize or acknowledge us or these lands. We are not concerned with re-working their ways of managing control or honoring their dead agreements or treaties. They will not be compelled to end the destruction that their world is predicated upon. We do not plead with them to end global warming, as it is the conclusion of their apocalyptic imperative and their life is built upon the death of Mother Earth.  We bury the right wing and the left wing together in the earth they are so hungry to consume. The conclusion of the ideological war of colonial politics is that Indigenous Peoples always lose, unless we lose ourselves.   Capitalists and colonizers will not lead us out of their dead futures. Apocalyptic idealization is a self fulfilling prophecy. It is the linear world ending from within. Apocalyptic logic exists within a spiritual, mental, and emotional dead zone that also cannibalizes itself. It is the dead risen to consume all life.

Our world lives when their world ceases to exist.

As Indigenous anti-futurists, we are the consequence of the history of the colonizer’s future. We are the consequence of their war against Mother Earth. We will not allow the specter of the colonizer, the ghosts of the past to haunt the ruins of this world. We are the actualization of our prophecies. This is the re-emergence of the world of cycles. This is our ceremony. Between silent skies. The world breathes again and the fever subsides. The land is quiet. Waiting for us to listen.

When there are less distractions, we go to the place where our ancestors emerged.

And their/our voice.

There is a song older than worlds here, it heals deeper then the colonizer’s blade could ever cut.

And there, our voice. We were always healers. This is the first medicine.

Colonialism is a plague, capitalism is pandemic. These systems are anti-life, they will not be compelled to cure themselves. We will not allow these corrupted sickened systems to recuperate. We will spread.

We are the antibodies.

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Addendum: In our past/your future it was the unsystematic non-linear attacks on vulnerable critical infrastructure such as gas utilities, transportation corridors, power supplies, communications systems, and more, that made settler colonialism an impossibility on these lands.

Our organizing was cellular, it required no formal movements.

Ceremony was/is our liberation, our liberation was/is ceremony.

We honored our sacred teachings, our ancestors and coming generations.

We took credit for nothing. We issued no communiqués. Our actions were our propaganda.

We celebrated the death of leftist solidarity and it’s myopic apocalyptic romanticism.

We demanded nothing from capitalists/colonizers.

Fuente: http://www.indigenousaction.org/rethinking-the-apocalypse-an-indigenous-anti-futurist-manifesto/

[Publicado 19/marzo/2020]

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