The Right Kind of Adult

Don't allow æons of History and Life to be blinked out of being just because YOU have a grudge against Your Father! 

So you lost the opportunity to marry, settle-down and 

give life; sire a few heirs,

found a Royal Dynasty --

You’re being given the chance to play FATHER to The GALAXY by ACTING like one and protecting it. Saving it!

What Good would a Woman’s Blood be to The Earth?

We bare, my dear — women give birth.

That am our work

BILL MOYERS: 

What about the female? 

I mean, most of the figures in the temple caves arc male. 

Was this a kind of secret society for males only?

JOSEPH CAMPBELL:

It wasn’t a secret society, it was that the boys had to go through it. 

Now, we don’t know exactly what happens with the female in this period, because we have very little evidence to tell us. 

In primary cultures today, the girl becomes a woman with her first menstruation. 

It happens to her; 

I mean, nature does it to her. 

And so she has undergone the transformation, and what is her initiation? 

Typically it is to sit in a little hut for a certain number of days, and realize what she is.

BILL MOYERS: 

How does she do that?

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: 

She sits there. 

She’s now a woman. 

And what is a woman? 

A woman is a vehicle of life, and life has overtaken her.

 She is a vehicle now of Life. 

A woman’s what it’s all about; the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment. 

She’s identical with the earth goddess in her powers, and she’s got to realize that about herself. 

The boy does not have a happening of that kind.

He has to be turned into a man, and voluntarily become a servant of something greater than himself. 

The Woman becomes the vehicle of nature; The Man becomes the vehicle of The Society, The Social Order and The Social Purpose.

LORD: 

Welcome, Fool. 

You have come of your own Free Will to the appointed place. 

The Game is over. 

POLICEMAN :

Game? What Game? 

LORD :

The Game of The Hunted leading The Hunter. 

You came here to find Rowan Morrison, but it is We who have found You and brought You Here and controlled your every thought and action since You arrived. 

Principally, we persuaded you to think that Rowan Morrison was being held as a sacrifice because our crops failed last year. 

POLICEMAN :

I know your crops failed. 

I saw the harvest photograph. 

LORD :

Oh, yes. They failed, all right, disastrously so... for the first time since my grandfather came Here. 

The blossom came but The Fruit withered and died on The Bough. 

That must not happen again this year. 

It is our most earnest belief that the best way of preventing this is to offer to our God of The Sun and to The Goddess of Our Orchards the most acceptable sacrifice that lies in our power. 

Animals are fine, but their acceptability is limited. 

A little child is even better, but not nearly as effective as the right kind of adult. 

POLICEMAN :

What do you mean, "right kind of adult"? 

LORD :

You, Sergeant, are the right kind of adult, as our painstaking researches have revealed. 

You, uniquely, were The One We Needed. 

A Man who would come Here of his own Free Will. 

A Man who has come Here with The Power of a King by representing The Law. 

A Man who would come Here as a Virgin. 

A Man who has come Here as a Fool. 

POLICEMAN :

Get out of my way. 

WENCH :

You are The Fool, Mr. Howie - 

Punch, one of the great Fool-Victims of History, for you have accepted The Role of King for a day, and who but A Fool would do that? 

But you will be revered and anointed as a King. 

You will undergo Death and Rebirth - Resurrection, if you like. 

The rebirth, sadly, will not be yours, but that of our crops. 

POLICEMAN :

I am a Christian, and as a Christian, I Hope for Resurrection. 

And even if you kill me now, it is I who will live again, not your damned apples. 

Sleep Close and fast 

POLICEMAN :

 

No matter what you do, you can't change the fact that I believe in the Life Eternal, as promised to Us by Our Lord, Jesus Christ. 

I believe in The Life Eternal as promised to Us by Our Lord, Jesus Christ. 

LORD :

That is good. For believing what you do, we confer upon you a rare gift these days - a Martyr's Death. 

You will not only have Life Eternal, but you will sit with The Saints among The Elect. 

Come. It is time to keep your appointment with The Wicker Man. 

Odd-Man Hypothesis : Far-Off Men and The Eternal Father

By the 30th Century, Human Society was Highly Compartmentalised....

SpaceTech ROGIN : 

You know what'll happen when you cut that lock.

Teeth+Curls : 

There's no point in both of us being killed by the blast - 

Get into The Ark, man. 

SpaceTech ROGIN: 

You don't want trouble with the space technician's union, Doctor. 

Teeth+Curls : 

What? 

** THUMP **

SpaceTech ROGIN: 

That's My Job. 

The “Odd-Man Hypothesis” is a fictional hypothesis which states that unmarried men are better able to execute the best, most dispassionate decisions in crises—in this case, to disarm the nuclear weapon intended to prevent the escape of organisms from the laboratory in the event the auto-destruct sequence is initiated. In the novel, the Odd-Man explanation is a page in a RAND Corporation report of the results of test series wherein different people were to make command decisions in nuclear and biological wars and chemical crises.

Hall is briefed on the Hypothesis after his arrival at Wildfire. In the book, his copy of the briefing materials has the Hypothesis pages removed; in the film, he is criticized for failure to read the material ahead of time.

Dr. Hall is assumed to have the highest “command decision effectiveness index” among the Wildfire team; this is the reason why he is given a control key to the self-destruct mechanism. Hall initially derides this idea, saying he has no intention of committing suicide before he is told that it is his job to disarm the weapon, rather than to arm it: Stone then admits that the Odd-Man Hypothesis, while accurate (in the confines of the book), was essentially a false document used to justify handing over a nuclear weapon to private individuals and out of government control.

The Man Law

If You Could Write a Rulebook for Being a Man, what "Man Law" Would You Write?

The Law: 

1. Encourage children through play.

2.Promote the best in people.

3. Keep the sacred fire burning.

4. Guard the women and children from harm.

5. Confront the eternal adversary. 

6. Build the crystal palace.

7. Confront death with courage and return.

8. Dare to cut down a tree.

9. Offer your sons up as a sacrifice to God.

8. Protect your daughters from exploitation.

9. Store up wealth for the future.

10. Consult the ancestral spirits.

11. Read great books.

12. Speak the truth about unpleasant things.

13. Pay close attention.

14. Make a worthy temple for the Lord.

15. Keep the howling winds of winter at bay.

16. Stand up for the oppressed.

17. Be a prince of peace.

18. Don’t be too civilized.

19. Organize yourself with other men

20. Be faithful to your wife.

21. Be hospitable to friends and strangers.

22. Rout the wolves and chase the lions so the shepherds can eat.

23. Establish a destination – and a path.

24. Bring heaven to earth.

25. Take on the sins of the world.

26. Dig the wells and mine the gold and copper.

27. Gather everyone to the banquet.

28. Grow up and take responsibility.

29. Resist pride in all things.

What Should You Say to a Callow Youth with Two Black Eyes...?

First thing Tyler yells is, "The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

"The second rule about fight club", Tyler yells, "is you don't talk about fight club."

Indeed, What can  you say to him - he's already been told twice.
He's quite clearly Truly Incorrigable.

 IF YOU HIDE YOUR IGNORANCE, NO-ONE WILL HIT YOU, AND YOU WILL NEVER LEARN.

Q : WHY is the Second Rule of Fight Club "You Do Not Talk About Fight Club."?

A : Because only a Generation of Men raised by Women would have to be told twice.

Me, I knew my dad for about six years, but I don't remember anything. My dad, he starts a new family in a new town about every six years. This isn't so much like a family as it is like he is setting up a franchise.

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

My father never went to college so it was really important that I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what?

My dad didn't know.

When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married.

I'm a thirty-year old boy, and I am wondering if another woman is really the answer I need.

Do Not Listen to Your Wife

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