Thursday, 4 August 2022

Peter





Quo Vadis?










Peter
masc. proper name, 12c., from Old English Petrus (genitive Pet(e)res, dative Pet(e)re), from Latin Petrus, from Greek Petros, literally "stone, rock" (see petrous), a translation of Syriac kefa "stone" (Latinized as Cephas), the nickname Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona (Matthew xvi.17), historically known as St. Peter, and consequently a popular name among Christians (Italian Pietro, Spanish and Portuguese Pedro, Old French Pierres, French Pierre, etc.). As slang for "penis," attested from 1902, probably from identity of first syllable.

 
The common form of this very common name in medieval England was Peres (Anglo-French Piers), hence surnames Pierce, Pearson, etc. Among the diminutive forms were Parkin and Perkin.

To rob Peter to pay Paul (1510s, attested in slightly different wordings from late 14c.) might be a reference to the many churches dedicated to those two saints, and have sprung from the fairly common practice of building or enriching one church with the ruins or revenues of another. But the alliterative pairing of the two names is attested from c. 1400 with no obvious connection to the saints:
Sum medicyne is for peter þat is not good for poul, for þe diuersite of complexioun. 

Lanfranc's "Chirurgia Magna," English translation, c. 1400

peter (v.)
"to diminish gradually and then cease," 1812, colloquial, of uncertain origin. To peter out "become exhausted," is 1846 as miners' slang. 

Related: Petered; petering.
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petrous (adj.)
c. 1400, in anatomy, "very hard, dense," from Old French petros (Modern French petreux) and directly from Latin petrosus "stony," from petra "rock," from Greek petra "rock, cliff, ledge, shelf of rock, rocky ridge," a word of unknown etymology (Beekes says it is "probably Pre-Greek"). 

Used of certain bones, especially of parts of the temporal bone.

Peirce 
surname, attested from late 12c., from Old French Piers, nominative of proper name Pierre (see Peter) .

Pete
Pierre
Piers

Wednesday, 3 August 2022

The Selfishness of Self-Doubt







No, let him go —

If he's doubting himself, 
he won't be any good to us.











Save Your Servant


















 


The Evil One :
Morning! You again. 
You've interrupted me.
 
Have you come to 
Save God's Servant
 
Well, I must Save Mine
My Son, The Gemini. 
He has Work to Do. 
Much more. 
 
But come in
Father Morning. 
Enter, night. 
This Time You're Going to Lose
 
Fr. Morning :
In The Name of 
The Father
and of 
The Son... 
and of 
The Holy Spirit
Amen
 
"Save your servant who 
trusts in you, My God. 
Let him find in you, Lord, 
a fortified tower in the face 
of The Enemy." 
 
"Our Father, who art in heaven... 
hallowed be thy name. 
Thy kingdom come. 
Thy will be done..." 
 
The Evil One :
I see, We are Praying now. 
Bright prayers. 
Do you think they will
Save You now, as before? 
 
Well, I can pray too
You feel my little orisons
creeping up your spine? 
 
The sweaty murmurs 
of my rosary beads. 
The Human Hearts 
I've taken into Hell. 
 
Fr. Morning :
"I cast you out, unclean spirit! 
Along with every satanic 
power of the enemy! 
Every specter from hell. 
In the name of our Lord,
 Jesus Christ. 
It is he who commands you. 
He who stilled the sea and the storm. 
He who flung you from heaven 
to the depths of hell! 
 
You Robber of Life! 
You Author of Pain! 
You corruptor of justice, 
and innocence, and youth. 
 
You Begetter of Death. 
Sworn Enemy of all 
The Human Race!
 
I command you —
 
Det. Kinderman :
 Allerton? Nurse... 
 
The Evil One :
Don't worry about Julie. 
We'll get her. 
 
Det. Kinderman :
Pray for Me, Damien. 
You're Free
 
The Evil One :
Did You Think to Save 
Your Friend, The Priest? 
 
Det. Kinderman : 
My God, help! Help me
 
The Evil One :
Have I helped 
Your Unbelief
 
Det. Kinderman :
Oh, yes. Yes, I Believe. 
I believe in Death
I believe in Disease
I believe in Injustice 
and inhumanity. 

And Torture
and Anger 
and Hate.

I believe in Murder
I believe in Pain!

I believe in cruelty 
and infidelity! 
 
I believe in slime 
and stink... 
and in every crawling
putrid thing... 
every possible ugliness... 
and corruption

You Son of a Bitch
I Believe... 

in You
 
My God! Bill. 
My God! 
 
The Evil One :
You grow tiresome, Lieutenant. 
And foolish

Save Your Prayers. 
God is not Here 
with Us, now. 
There is only 
The Darkness, here. 
And Your Death
 
Fr. Morning :
Save Your Servant... who 
Trusts in You, My God. 
 
Det. Kinderman : 
You! Damien, fight Him
 
The Evil One :
Goodbye, Lieutenant. 
 
Det. Kinderman :
Damien! 
Fight! Fight
 
The Evil One :
You cannot win. 
He Dies. 
 

The Exorcist :
No! Bill, now
Shoot, now
Kill me now
 
We won... 
Bill. 

Tuesday, 2 August 2022

Stones





What links together The Plot, Principle Moral Themes and 
Ending(s) of the following classic movies….?

• It’s A Wonderful Life
• The Fly
• The Exorcist
• Exorcist III : LEGION















Yeah? Well, MY God Carries An HAMMER..!!



Thor is The Champion of The Gods, of Earth and of The Human Race.

He is The Great Fighter who can be brought out when something is •really• BAD.

You DON’T go to Thor for Wisdom, you go to Thor because 
he's going to PROTECT you 
against The Evil Monsters.

Tales of Thor's adventures provided escape from one of the bleakest periods in human history — 
The Dark Ages of the first millennium A.D.

It was a time when the Norse world, stretching from the British Isles to the Baltic Sea, was in turmoil.

“ The Agricultural Society, 
where people were farming 
and surviving kind of at the very edge 
of how it was possible to Survive, because it was cold, 
it was the northern part of Europe, 
it wasn't around the Mediterranean where it was much easier to grow things, and it tended to be, from everything we can tell, quite VIOLENT.”

War, Famine and Death were Daily Facts of Life 
on the desolate Northern fringes 
of Europe.

But The Myth of Thor brought 
a sense of Order to The Chaos.

“It was a religion of the countryside.
‘Paganism’ actually 
is a Latin word 
that describes that,
what the  Country People believe in, and paganism is not really 
well •organized•, either.

It's NOT like the Greek Pantheon 
in the sense that it's 
very well-organised 
and everybody •knows• 
whose responsibilities 
and who's more important
 than whom.

It's VERY different.

The view of Human Life 
in that mythology was a 
fairly Dark and fairly Stern one — 
Human beings DIDN’T look forward 
to the kind of Salvation and Heaven at The End of Time 
that's promised in the 
Christian stories.

They had a kind of a Darker
a more Sorrowful View of Life.

People have to show 
Great Courage and 
Hardiness in the face of 
ENORMOUS obstacles.

For inspiration, 
The People looked to Thor.
Thor was the quintessential hero.
He was STRONG.

Unlike some of the other gods 
he was NOT DECEPTIVE, 
he was NOT TREACHEROUS, 
but he was STEADFAST
and as this hero figure, I think, people could identify 
with him best.”


In The Myth, 
Two of Thor's Weapons 
help him conquer Evil Forces : 
A Belt that doubles his strength 
and A Hammer that shoots 
lethal bolts of lightning.

No matter how far Thor throws 
his trusty hammer Mjolnir, 
it will return to him 
like a boomerang.
And each time thunder roars
it means Thor's Hammer 
has struck a Giant.

Thor is The Master of Lightning
and this is not uncommon 
in other mythologies.

The obvious parallel here 
is Zeus in classical mythology, 
for He is The Thunder God.

The Thunder and Lightning God is The PROTECTOR God.

He's The Strongest Fighter
so he has that capability 
that Zeus has, 
The Thunderbolt, 
The Hammer for Thor, 
that can 
DESTROY The Bad Guys.













Yeah? Well, MY Love Carries An AXE..!!





“What about Thor?”, you ask..?

He embarked on a new Journey —
because he had found 
something to Live for;
something to Love for;
a little Someone, 
who turned him from 
Sad God, to Dad God….

THOR :
Breakfast is Served!


Thor, The Dad-God :
Remember what 
My Mum used to Tell Me --

Listen to The Grown-ups;
If You See Anyone Scared or Being Picked-on -- 
Look after Them.

But most of all : —
Have Fun.

See those aliens over there?





Love :
They look nice.

Thor, The Dad-God :
They ARE nice! 
That's Why We have 
to Look After Them.



They Will Always Be There for Us -- 
The SpaceViking, 
and His Girl Born from Eternity, 
with The POWERS of a GOD.

Two WARRIORS -- 
Fighting The Good Fight, 
for Those who can't fight good --

They have Travelled Far,
and been given Many Names --

But to Those 
Who Know Them,
They're simply known
as LOVE and THUNDER.











The Skrull Empire :
“Your Hate is Your Own. Your Judgement is Your Own.
We are Here to Save You. We are Here to Change You.
And We’re Here Because in spite of that you’ve done to prove Undeserving of Her —
She is The Goddess.”

The Amazing Spider-Man :
Uh…. She, who?

The Skrull Empire :
Love.

Nick Fury, Director of Nothing :
Yeah? Well, MY Love 
carries An AXE!”

Iron Man :
Right…. 
[mask down]

AVENGEEERRSS!”

ASSEMBLE!

Ostraphobia






Hook :
Good evening, 
Ladies and Gentlemen, 
Your Captain again.

Please do not allow 
this minor turbulence 
to disturb you.

For now, please sit back, relax. 
Enjoy the remainder 
of The Flight.
Thank You.

Maggie :
Look what Jack drew.

Peter :
That's very nice, dear.
….what's that? 

Maggie :
Fire.

Peter :
Fire. Really?
Is that our plane? 

Maggie :
Yep.

Peter :
Who are these people?

Maggie :
That's Jack, that's me
that's Mom...
...and that's you.

Peter :
Where's my parachute?
I won't make it to 
my next birthday….

Moira, Peter’s Wife :
You won't die without A Phone 
and A Fax Machine

Peter :
I got The Phone, 
and The Briefcase.

Moira, Peter’s Wife :
Talk to him.

Peter :
…why didn't I have 
a parachute, Jackie?

Jack :
Take a wild guess.

Peter :
Jackie.  Jack.
Will you stop? 
You can break a window.

Jack :
They're double-layered
You can't break ‘em.

Peter :
Give me that.

Jack :
You're afraid you're 
gonna get sucked out.

Peter :
I'm not afraid of being sucked out.

Jack :
YES, you are, you're afraid 
you're gonna get sucked out.

Peter :
Just stop.
Jack, next season, 
I'm coming to six games. 
I promise.

Jack :
Yeah, be sure to buy 
enough videotape.

Peter :
Hey. Jack.
My Word is My Bond.

Jack :
Yeah, junk bond!

Peter :
What's the matter with you? 
When are you gonna stop 
acting like a child?

Jack :
I AM a child.

Peter :
Grow up.

Sunday, 31 July 2022

The GOAT



Capt. Steve Rogers 
Thor, What's His Play?
[ King Lear, obviously. ]



Thor
He has An Army, called The Chitauri

They're not Of Asgard or any world known. 
He means to lead them against your people. 
They will win him the Earth. 
In return, I suspect, for The Tesseract.

Steve Rogers
An Army. From outer space.

Bruce Banner
So he's building another portal. 
That's what he needs Erik Selvig for.

Thor
Selvig?

Bruce Banner : He's An Astrophysicist.

Thor
He's A Friend.

The Widow
Loki has him under some kind of spell. 
Along with one of ours.


Steve Rogers
I wanna know why Loki let us take him. 
He's not leading An Army from here.

Bruce Banner
I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. 
That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. 
You can just smell crazy on him.

Thor
Have a Care How You Speak! 
Loki is beyond reason
but He is Of Asgard — 
and He’s My Brother.

The Widow
He killed eighty people in two days.

Thor
…he’s adopted.