(FOOTSTEPS)
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Behind The Waterfall
(FOOTSTEPS)
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Speak Your Order Onto The World
Monday, 17 September 2018
Friday, 14 September 2018
Sycamore Trees
THE RELIGION OF
ANCIENT EGYPT
By
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
D.C.L., LL.D., LIT.D., PH.D., T.R.S., F.B.A., F.S.A. SCOT.
EDWARDS PROFESSOR OF EGYPTOLOGY,
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
LONDON
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO LTD
16 JAMES STREET HAYMARKET
1906
THE FUTURE LIFE
The soul wandered around the tomb seeking sustenance, and was fed by the goddess who dwelt in the thick sycomore trees that overshadowed the cemetery. She is represented as pouring out drink for the ba and holding a tray of cakes for it to feed upon. In the grave we find this belief shown by the jars of water, wine, and perhaps other liquids, the stores of corn, the geese, haunches and heads of oxen, the cakes, and dates, and pomegranates which were laid by the dead.
In an early king's tomb there might be many rooms full of these offerings. There were also the weapons for defence and for the chase, the toilet objects, the stores of clothing, the draughtsmen, and even the literature of papyri buried with the dead. The later form of this system was the representation of all these offerings in sculpture and drawing in the tomb. This modification probably belongs to the belief in the ka, which could be supported by the ka of the food and use the ka of the various objects, the figures of the objects being supposed to provide the kas of them. This system is entirely complete in itself, and does not presuppose or require any theologic connection. It might well belong to an age of simple animism, and be a survival of that in later times.
In the beginning of the monarchy it seems that the servants of the king were all buried around him to serve him in the future; from the second to the twelfth dynasty we lose sight of this idea, and then we find slave figures buried in the tombs. These figures were provided with the hoe for tilling the soil, the pick for breaking the clods, a basket for carrying the earth, a pot for watering the crops, and they were inscribed with an order to respond for their master when he was called on to work in the fields. In the eighteenth dynasty the figures sometimes have actual tool models buried with them; but usually the tools are in relief or painted on the figure. This idea continued until the less material view of the future life arose in Greek times; then the deceased man was said to have 'gone to Osiris' in such a year of his age, but no slave figures were laid with him. This view of the future is complete in itself, and is appropriately provided for in the tomb.
Ideas Cultivate Human Beings
" Fincher used to toss around the, you know,
You've Gotta Kill Your Parents,
and then
You've Gotta Kill Your God,
and then
You've Gotta Kill Your Teacher
[ If you can...]
I think Tyler helps Jack reject The Value System of His Parents, and then, at the end, he has to reject Tyler, if Tyler's his Teacher, he has to sort of pull back -
And y'know, Tyler helps him through the initial steps towards Enlightenment -
But in The End / By The End, he has to pull away from Tyler, even, to define himself as separate from Tyler.... "
- Ed Norton,
Fight Club DVD Commentary Track,
1999
BUT THAT ISN'T TRUE -
That's Not The Case, at all...
Palinhuk reiterated and really drummed ths point Home in particular over the 10-Issue run of Fight Club 2,
15 years on :
Ideas are Real,
We are Not.
He is NOT Seperate from Tyler -
He isn't Real -
He Doesn't Exist -
whereas,
Tyler Durden DOES Exist...
The Dark Princess
Strange and Unusual
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Monday, 10 September 2018
The Hermit Tends The Light in the Midst of Outer-Darkness
Cut to the halls. Buffy and Cordelia are walking.
Cordelia:
So, how much the creepy is it that this Marcie's been at this
for months?
Spying on us? Learning our most guarded secrets?
So, are you
saying she's invisible because she's so unpopular?
Buffy:
That about sums it up.
Cordelia: (exhales)
Bummer for her. It's awful to feel that lonely.
Buffy:
Hmm. So you've read something about the feeling?
Cordelia: (stops Buffy)
Hey! You think I'm never lonely because I'm so cute and popular?
I can be surrounded by people and be completely alone.
It's not like any of them really know me.
I don't even know if they like me half the time. People just want to be in a popular zone.
Sometimes when I talk, everyone's so busy agreeing with me, they don't hear a word
I say.
Buffy:
Well, if you feel so alone, then why do you work so hard at being popular?
Cordelia:
Well, it beats being alone all by yourself.
She continues down the hall. After considering that for a moment Buffy
quickly follows.
Sunday, 9 September 2018
Diabolical Narcissism
In all seriousness, as a Man, the thing which shocked the sense out of me most of all in watching this is just how *well* she knows The Godfather - because she *understood* it.
I am watching it again right now as a direct consequence — I understand that Michael is the only son prepared to journey into The Underworld (the echoey, cavernous hospital) to confront The Dragon (the hag-like nurse) and rescue his Dead Father by moving him to another room where the demons cannot find him or come claim him.
But it had never occurred to me that the moment that comes afterwards, where he enlists the aid of an innocent baker and well-wisher to *pretend* to be armed muscle guarding The Don that *that* was the moment when he became an evil man —
I could dispute that : because what is an innocent man doing venturing into The Underworld as a Fool...? Surely that Fool’s Faith should keep him safe.
The conventional wisdom is that Michael becomes an evil man when he decides to kill Sollozzo and the Police Captain (out of pure wrath) — but maybe that’s wrong.
The Baker volunteers to help (and says he is prepared to do anything), not knowing what that entails.
It’s not the narcissism of Michael that endangers The Baker, it’s the faith and love of Michael and the grace of The Fool which keeps all three of them safe, and alive.
Saturday, 8 September 2018
You Need a Teacher — Like Wolverine
She's He-re...
Friday, 7 September 2018
Who is Luke Skywalker?
Thursday, 6 September 2018
Our Hero is a Junkie Living In an Abandoned Church
Our Hero, Nick Clark, is a Junkie Living In an Abandoned Church.
Cloak and Dagger - Season 1, Episode 1
Our Hero, Tandy, is a Junkie Living In an Abandoned Church.
(Of Truth)
Nobody Believes Him.
Nobody Believes Her.
Except for Her Twin Flame and Soul Partner in Fate
Monday, 3 September 2018
The Quantum Last Jedi
Just like Our Father.
See you around, Han."
He's stalling so we can escape.
It is one man against an army.
We have to help him, we have to fight."
Hope I Get Wise Before I Get Old
"Like anybody,
I would like to lead
a loooong life, longevity - has it's place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just wanna do God's Will.
And He has allowed me to go up,
To The Mountaintop.
And I've looked over -
And I've seeeeeeen
The Promised Land.
I May Not Get There w. You.
But I just want you to know
Right Now
That We as a People
would get to The Promised Land
And so I wanted you to know Right Now,
I'm so Happy Tonight -
I ain't fearin' anything,
I ain't fearin' Any Man.
MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY
OF THE COMIN' OF THE LORD
" One day we will have to stand before The God of History and we will talk in terms of things we’ve done.