The More Tangled Forest

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It begins with The King as a boy, having to spend the night alone in The Forest 
to prove his courage so he can become King. 

Now while he is spending the night alone he's visited by a sacred vision. 

Out of The Fire appears The Holy Grail, symbol of God's Divine Grace. 

And a voice said to The Boy, 
"You shall be keeper of The Grail so that it may heal the Hearts of Men." 

But The Boy was blinded by greater visions of a life filled with Power and Glory and Beauty. 

And in this state of radical amazement he felt for a brief moment not like a boy, 
but invincible, like God,
 so he reached into The Fire to take The Grail, 
and The Grail vanished, 
leaving him with his hand in the fire to be terribly wounded. 

Now as this boy grew older, his wound grew deeper. 

Until one day, 
Life for him lost its reason. 

He had no faith in any man, 
not even himself. 

He couldn't love or feel loved. 

He was sick with experience. 

He began to die. 

One day a Fool wandered into the castle 
and found The King alone. 

And being a Fool, he was simple minded, 
he didn't see a king. 

He only saw a man alone and in pain. 

And he asked The King, 
"What ails you friend?" 

The King replied, 
"I'm thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat". 

So The Fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to The King. 

As The King began to drink, 
he realized his wound was healed. 

He looked in his hands and there was The Holy Grail, 
That which he sought all of his life. 

And he turned to The Fool and said with amazement,
"How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?" 

And The Fool replied,  
"I don't know. 

I only knew that you were thirsty."

         

Arthur :

Save him, Merlin.

Merlyn, of The Gloam :

He has no will to live.

Arthur :

Bring him back, whatever the cost.

Whatever the cost! Do it!

Merlyn, of The Gloam :

So be it.

Arthur :

Will he live?

Merlyn, of The Gloam :

Oh, yes.

Arthur :

Will Guenevere...?

Merlyn, of The Gloam :

Yes.

Arthur :

Merlin, will I ever have a son?

Merlyn, of The Gloam :

Yes.

Arthur :

No riddles, nothing but a simple yes?

That frightens me.

Merlyn, of The Gloam :

But a King should be afraid, Arthur, always...

...of The Enemy waiting everywhere...

...in the corridors of his castle...

...on the deer paths of his forest...

...or in a more tangled forest...

[ taps his temple ]

...in here.

Fell a Victim

fell (adj.)

"cruel," late 13c., possibly late Old English, perhaps from Old French fel "cruel, fierce, vicious," from Medieval Latin fello "villain" (see felon). Phrase at one fell swoop is from "Macbeth." Related: Fellness.

fell (n.1)

"rocky hill," c. 1300, from Old Norse fiall "mountain," from Proto-Germanic *felzam- "rock" (source also of Old High German felisa, German Fels "stone, rock"), from PIE root *pel(i)s- "rock, cliff." Old High German felisa "a rock" is the source of French falaise (formerly falize) "cliff." Now mostly in place-names, such as Scafell Pike, highest mountain in England.

fell (v.2)

past tense of fall (v.), Old English feoll.

fell (n.2)

"skin or hide of an animal," Old English fel "skin, hide, garment of skin," from Proto-Germanic *fella- (source also of Old Frisian fel, Old Saxon fel, Dutch vel, Old High German fel, German fell, Old Norse fiall, Gothic fill "skin, hide"), from PIE *pel-no-, suffixed form of root *pel- (3) "skin, hide." 

Related: Fellmonger

At this stage, this one particular point is one that well bears reiteration and clarification :

Precisely, What is a Victim?

and 

What Qualities or Attributes are generally characteristic of Victimhood*?

* with particular preference for those which be detected from making  objective observations of their presence or occurrence in any given case being evaluated. 

"...So, this is what He [Satan] essentially said [during an exorcism] :-

He said, 'We Do Not Have The Right to afflict people, or cause problems in these areas of their lives, by shutting off their finances or destroying their relationships, here -

Christ gives Us permission to do it, but We don't have any Rights -

We Do it, Hoping the Person Will

PLAY THE VICTIM

When it Happens -

What's That Mean...?

It means, that when something really  BAD  happens in their lives, they will just go

"Look what's happening to me, there's nothing I can do about this,

it keeps recurring,

everything I do, nothing's working.."

so they just give it over [to The Demons] , so They can just maraude the person's life.

THAT'S THEIR GOAL

or at least,

BE UNIMPEDED

He said,

'What you have to do is, 

since We have no  Rights,

BUT YOU DO

by The Natural Law,

The Natural Law, according to Leo XIII, states,

(That We Know by Reason)

That :

WE HAVE RIGHTS OVER OUR PROPERTY

WE HAVE RIGHTS OVER OUR GOOD REPUTATION

WE HAVE RIGHTS OVER THE PRODUCT OF OUR WORK

And so, what He [Satan] was saying was,

'You Have Rights Over These Things 

You Need to Reassert Your Rights

and 

Kick Us Out!'

and that's what We started doing."

Fr. Chad Ripperger

Exorcist and Spiritual Warrior.

The Secondary Fathers : Leo McGarry

"...So, this is what He [Satan] essentially said [during an exorcism] :-

He said, 'We Do Not Have The Right to afflict people, or cause problems in these areas of their lives, by shutting off their finances or destroying their relationships, here -

Christ gives Us permission to do it, but We don't have any Rights -

We Do it, Hoping the Person Will

PLAY THE VICTIM

When it Happens -

What's That Mean...?It means, that when something really  BAD  happens in their lives, they will just go

"Look what's happening to me, there's nothing I can do about this,

it keeps recurring,

everything I do, nothing's working.."

so they just give it over [to The Demons] , so They can just maraude the person's life.

THAT'S THEIR GOAL

or at least,

BE UNIMPEDED

He said,

'What you have to do is, 

since We have no  Rights,

BUT YOU DO

by The Natural Law,

The Natural Law, according to Leo XIII, states,

(That We Know by Reason)
That :

WE HAVE RIGHTS OVER OUR PROPERTY

WE HAVE RIGHTS OVER OUR GOOD REPUTATION

WE HAVE RIGHTS OVER THE PRODUCT OF OUR WORK

And so, what He [Satan] was saying was,

'You Have Rights Over These Things

You Need to Reassert Your Rights

and
Kick Us Out!'

and that's what We started doing."

Fr. Chad Ripperger

Exorcist and Spiritual Warrior.

  

Textbook Joseph Campbell.

The way Campbell explained it, 

Young Men need a Secondary Father to finish raising them.

Beyond their Biological Father, they need a surrogate, traditionally aminister or a coach or a military officer.

The floatsam and jetsam of a generation washed up on the beach of last resort.

That's why street gangs are so appealing. 

They send you men out, likeKnights on Quests to hone their skills and improve themselves.

And all the TRADITIONAL Mentors -- forget it.

Men are presumptive predators. They're leaving Teaching in droves.

Religious Leaders are pariahs.

Sports Coaches are stigmatized as odds-on pedophiles.

Even The Military is sketchy with sexual goings-on.

A Generation of Apprentices 

Without Masters.

Bartlet heads to the door. He stops as he remembers something.
BARTLETOh, Roger, if anything happened, you know what to do, right?

TRIBBYI honestly hadn't thought about it sir.

BARTLET
First thing always is national security. 

Get your commanders together. 

Appoint joint chiefs. 

Appoint chairman. 

Take them to Defcon 4. 

Have the governor send emergency delegates to Washington. 

The assistant attorney general is gonna be the acting A.G 

If he tells you he wants to bring out the National Guard, do what he tells you.

LEO'S OFFICE.  

As Bartlet tells Tribby the procedure, we see Leo walk into his office to get his coat. 

The door to the Oval Office is open so he can hear the President and Tribby, but couldn't see them.
BARTLET
You have a best friend?

ROGER
Yes, sir.

BARTLET
Is he smarter than you?

ROGER
Yes, sir.

BARTLET
Would you trust him with your life?

ROGER
Yes, sir.

BARTLET
That's your chief of staff.
Leo, obvioiusly touched, stops for a minute and walks away.

Back in THE OVAL OFFICE, Charlie walks in. Bartlet continues to speak.
BARTLETOh, in the residence, in the second floor, the bathroom at the end of the hall.
You have to jiggle the handle a little.

CHARLIEMr. President?

BARTLETI got to go. 

[beat] 

You'll do fine. 

People have phenomenal capacity.

ROGERYes, sir.

Bartlet holds his book and puts his fist against his chest close to the heart. 

Tribby stands watch as the President and Charlie leave. 

After they've gone, Tribby is standing in front of the Presidential seal and looks around the Oval Office in awe.

DISSOLVE TO: END TITLES.
FADE TO BLACK.
THE END
* * *

The Mark of KanYe

Textbook Joseph Campbell.

The way Campbell explained it, 

Young Men need a Secondary Father to finish raising them.

Beyond their Biological Father, they need a surrogate, traditionally a

minister

or a

coach

or a 

military officer.

The floatsam and jetsam of a generation washed up on the beach of last resort.

That's why street gangs are so appealing. 

They send you men out, like 

Knights on Quests 

 to hone their skills and improve themselves.

And all the TRADITIONAL Mentors -- forget it.

Men are presumptive predators. 

They're leaving Teaching in droves.

Religious Leaders are pariahs.

Sports Coaches are stigmatized as odds-on pedophiles. 

Even The Military is sketchy with sexual goings-on.

A Generation of Apprentices 

Without Masters.

KanYe West speaks Perfect English.

Barak Obama speaks Perfect English.

Tupac Shukkur was an Eloquent Muthaf**ka.

This Horse Cannot Be Ridden.

The Boy Cannot Be Trained.

He is Too Old —

and he's GodDamned Fool.

Involvement

 

"...that idea of The Far-Off Man, way, way out there, but 

What does The Hermit tell us...?

Romana has broken The Cardinal Rule of Gallifrey. 

She has become involved, 
and in a pretty permanent sort of way. 


The lonelier you are, the more you're joined together with everything else. "

(They sit on a small stone bench.)
DOCTOR: 

Have you seen the state of the time column recently? 

Wheezing like a grampus.

ADRIC: 

But it will get us to Gallifrey, won't it? 

DOCTOR: 
Gallifrey? Oh yes, yes. 

Are you really set on going to Gallifrey? 

ADRIC: 

Yes. 

DOCTOR: 
Oh. 

ADRIC: 
That is where we're going, isn't it? 

DOCTOR: 

That's one of the questions I was just pondering. 

There's bound to be an awful lot of fuss about Romana. 

Why she stayed in E-space, official investigations, that sort of thing. 

ADRIC: 

The Time Lords won't approve? 

DOCTOR:

What? She has broken The Cardinal Rule of Gallifrey. 

She has become involved, 
and in a pretty permanent sort of way. 

I think that you and I should let a few oceans flow under a few bridges before we head back home.

 
"...that idea of The Far-Off Man, way, way out there,  but 

What does The Hermit tell us...?
 
If you try this get as lonely as you can get, 
you become visibly aware which you can't get away from it, 
because when you get very lonely very fast you become extremely thin 
and 
everything that goes on is or now ordinarily unnoticed cum spiritum 
 

First of all, you will find that there is a  Community of Insects.
And they are tremendously interested in You, and not necessarily hostile, in maybe some cases they are so.

But alone in The Forest, when you get really quiet, you'll notice little creatures will come and inspect you look you all over an
they'll go away and tell their friends and they'll come and look to see what it is and you become aware of every single sound and you realize that alone you're in the midst of a vast burning crowd 

- it may not be human but it's everything else - 

so that the the point of being, The Discipline leads you to understand that   

You can't Resign

The lonelier you are, the more you're joined together with everything else. "

" Look at it - from another point of view, supposing I say everybody's playing the game Me First  - now, I'm going to play the game You First, to use the phrase of Bonhoeffer who called Jesus The Man for Others - now, let's see if we could play that game instead of 

Me First, 

You First 

Or,

"I'm the one see who's so generous I'm the one who's so loving so self-effacing and all you insolent brats ...."  

- Alan Watts

The Secondary Fathers : The Batman

“Son, you are in for a Show tonight..!!!”

Textbook Joseph Campbell.

The way Campbell explained it, 

Young Men need a Secondary Father to finish raising them.

Beyond their Biological Father, they need a surrogate, traditionally aminister or a coach or a military officer.

The floatsam and jetsam of a generation washed up on the beach of last resort.

That's why street gangs are so appealing. 

They send you men out, likeKnights on Quests to hone their skills and improve themselves.

And all the TRADITIONAL Mentors -- forget it.

Men are presumptive predators. They're leaving Teaching in droves.

Religious Leaders are pariahs.

Sports Coaches are stigmatized as odds-on pedophiles.

Even The Military is sketchy with sexual goings-on.

A Generation of Apprentices 

Without Masters.