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The Romans used the cross as a form of simultanious torture and exicution. They had some pretty wacky ideas on that line like sewing someone found guilty of patricide into a sack with a snake, a dog, a cock, and a monkey then throwing them in the Tiber. Which seems like a waste of snake, dog, chicken and monkey, but what do I know. At any rate, I don't think the cross was a symbol for the romans.ygmir wrote:The Romans took the cross as a symbol from earlier civilizations,the fire elf wrote:crosses aren't christian, they're roman.
when something starts being a thing, it goes on being it
that's how it works
The Lady with a Lamprey
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
the elder generations have long conviced the young that survival is inseprable from money...
and they've got money politics.
so, they expect a certain bit of politicality
i get it... i grok it... i might have no natural taste for the stuff, but i've quaffed worse
am i the only to find inside a desire to build and dwell in what i've built?
and they teach that
long and hard, they'll teach it
but let's not forget the lack of numbers growing in trees or letters swimming through cool brooks on a hot summer day
with dichotomies, you can get them backwards.
natural/unnatural?
what flippin thing that is real and has mass is not the same bloody thing when you turn it around?
bugger...
they don't seem pleased as punch
and they've got money politics.
so, they expect a certain bit of politicality
i get it... i grok it... i might have no natural taste for the stuff, but i've quaffed worse
am i the only to find inside a desire to build and dwell in what i've built?
and they teach that
long and hard, they'll teach it
but let's not forget the lack of numbers growing in trees or letters swimming through cool brooks on a hot summer day
with dichotomies, you can get them backwards.
natural/unnatural?
what flippin thing that is real and has mass is not the same bloody thing when you turn it around?
bugger...
they don't seem pleased as punch
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there's nothing soo prevalent to human awareness as ambient social pressure... it elucidates where we've been from where we're going. sudden shifts of it. crude, perhaps, but not without effect... or affect, you might say.
in this age of information, as though all but pre-history isn't that, it takes forms as diverse as a ground unit calling in an air strike to a lady asking a fireman to help get her cat out of a tree.
do we need acting on pretense? is the skin thick?
why is it we live differently than pr3e-historic man? (every child is different than the parents... EVERY)

few have the taste-tester of the kings of old, when it comes to ambient social pressure. where's your poison, where's your pain? do you suppose the posturing of the high road, while hoping for a better place to go?
frought. frought and distraught. within the mind, frought and distraught is perfectly legal, perhaps more than acceptable, as it feels reassuring to another, when they feel less alone
but to ignore the slick conviction of facade
to utter and speak, amiss from simply walking the high road and hoping for a better place to go

to go
where to? where from?
sperm and egg be eye, tweather truly noticed or a lie
where's your information packet?
do you still have it?
you didn't lose it along the way, now did you?
c'mon
inform us...
less dick-tate
oh...
what's that?
you don't know how to read?
or did you just go in the egg to hide?
if you're not going to up the lution,
you might as well been swallowed.
hmf....
"kali sticks her tongue out in shame"
did i just say nothing?
they'd rather i were useful to their current vector
for to them, a change in direction would be to lose face
and i've still got mine.
"... the states of mind which become possible as a result of satori are clearly used for adaptive purposes. Zen was closely involved in the training of the samurai class in traditional Japanese society...: more effective action, rather than monastic withdrawal, was the goal. ... the implied increase in energy, and decrease in conflict, inhibiting self-consciousness, and anxiety suggests that satori promotes adaptation.
... might easily be conceptualized as a series of 'regressed' states, each of which develops functions on which succeeding states must depend. For example, the first phase eventually deepens to a kind of relaxed drowsiness in which primary-process derivatives appear. The ability to deal with them in an accepting fashion enables the student to get through to the next phase in which much more 'regressed' elements are apparent. Feelings of omnipotence appear to color this stage of 'mirror-like' detachment. The nonstriving quality of this state is apparently it's chief safe-guard against maladaptive reactions, even though further impulse derivatives are probably emerging. This non-striving is probably a lesson of the previous phase. Satori, in turn, grows out of the second phase, and is probably based on certain safeguards which were developed there.... "
--- The Highest States Of Consciousness, edited by John White
most people notice the change that begins small and turns white headed and different.
and they notice people exist in any given moment
but there's a tendency to formulate stagnant views of what they are any given moment.
*summer is winter coming, and winter is spring on the way.
presented with surprised unaccepting ignorance, and that was not what you set out for?
the world has more bridges than you'll ever see
we are full of unseen convictions.
shant succesfully build a bridge when you don't know where the two shores stand
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Belgians to Buy Budweiser

One of the replacement horses:

Old team:InBev (Euronext: INB) shareholders voted to approve the acquisition of all the shares of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. for USD 70 per share at the Company´s Extraordinary General Meeting held today. Shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the combination.

One of the replacement horses:

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mind brought about by birth... by a roll in the hay
to be of age, looking through windows of time and space, can watch countless others get it on for financial gain-menty
human experience... awareness... too many transom?
movies like frankenstein's monster with crafty hidden seams, or life seen through a madcap teleporting bat, skipping through space and time like soo much wet tissue paper
messages in a bottle? they inform, they disseminate
context, precepts, forethought conceived
foresight suggests the continuity of meditative states holds the weight of time to fruition.
life's a spur, gentle little growth till strength be made
strength through flawless continuity
pretense of pretending... assailing fresh minds yet to think soo many different directions
like old trees under weight of granite and warmed by earth... oils of self perception, thick and viscous, alternate visions, divisions of what's real
friendly words spoken blindly through a tunnel soo tiny and long, they might as well be armored and guarded in a palace unknown
who would'nt feel their home see further than their sidewalk?
the incessant glorification of *smash*, in this 'you break it you buy it' world
the complete shift in 'realizations' of character, given an expanse of wardrobe
or permutations of culture done up for display
fodder for the creative
einstein worked in the patent office, after all
but for all they could try, the gape... the whole or lack of it
the discourse of pure imagined scape, and the finite angles of mundanity
monkeys infinitely set to typewriters would eventualy come up with shakespear's works, it's said
and the 'puter will ever be more versatile than a few strings strung there to there
open, broad expanse
any direction wither thou go
but've yet to notice a happy thought cause flight
rather earth dug and sculpted to precision, for fire in the belly of a metal beast
non-striving, they say
if only i could use up all my words
empty the cup
find a new drink... something hearty, with a light airy sweetness to it
the kind of thing you could sip for ages, and never tire of
something they'd not take for acid poured on the foundations of their mind
i'm a fan of dendrites and axons, sure... but i'd not have said trees and axles, but for convenience of communication
all hail, neural plasticity;
the stuff dreams are made of.
as for the rest of us,
we can strive to know as far as we see, or even further.
we're mostly, by a large majority, made up of the same colors
judge me by a surface glimmer?
tattoos might subplant even that
if they were trully democratic, they would neglect to treat me as represented by dead cells, and acknowledge i am ruled from the inside out
not that they truly think democracy would suffice... or what's a republican?
alas, they'll make me wear garments and divine my 'leigance from them
like some crazy sooth looking in the mirror
thumpthump
thumpthump
thumpthump
hey, what do you see?
more than you hear?
less than you know?
to be of age, looking through windows of time and space, can watch countless others get it on for financial gain-menty
human experience... awareness... too many transom?
movies like frankenstein's monster with crafty hidden seams, or life seen through a madcap teleporting bat, skipping through space and time like soo much wet tissue paper
messages in a bottle? they inform, they disseminate
context, precepts, forethought conceived
foresight suggests the continuity of meditative states holds the weight of time to fruition.
life's a spur, gentle little growth till strength be made
strength through flawless continuity
pretense of pretending... assailing fresh minds yet to think soo many different directions
like old trees under weight of granite and warmed by earth... oils of self perception, thick and viscous, alternate visions, divisions of what's real
friendly words spoken blindly through a tunnel soo tiny and long, they might as well be armored and guarded in a palace unknown
who would'nt feel their home see further than their sidewalk?
the incessant glorification of *smash*, in this 'you break it you buy it' world
the complete shift in 'realizations' of character, given an expanse of wardrobe
or permutations of culture done up for display
fodder for the creative
einstein worked in the patent office, after all
but for all they could try, the gape... the whole or lack of it
the discourse of pure imagined scape, and the finite angles of mundanity
monkeys infinitely set to typewriters would eventualy come up with shakespear's works, it's said
and the 'puter will ever be more versatile than a few strings strung there to there
open, broad expanse
any direction wither thou go
but've yet to notice a happy thought cause flight
rather earth dug and sculpted to precision, for fire in the belly of a metal beast
non-striving, they say
if only i could use up all my words
empty the cup
find a new drink... something hearty, with a light airy sweetness to it
the kind of thing you could sip for ages, and never tire of
something they'd not take for acid poured on the foundations of their mind
i'm a fan of dendrites and axons, sure... but i'd not have said trees and axles, but for convenience of communication
all hail, neural plasticity;
the stuff dreams are made of.
as for the rest of us,
we can strive to know as far as we see, or even further.
we're mostly, by a large majority, made up of the same colors
judge me by a surface glimmer?
tattoos might subplant even that
if they were trully democratic, they would neglect to treat me as represented by dead cells, and acknowledge i am ruled from the inside out
not that they truly think democracy would suffice... or what's a republican?
alas, they'll make me wear garments and divine my 'leigance from them
like some crazy sooth looking in the mirror
thumpthump
thumpthump
thumpthump
hey, what do you see?
more than you hear?
less than you know?
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lest friendship eclipse what's found,
the sun shall not run between the earth and the moon.
sure, i don't have the choices others make
others...
dont they rear the wo/men thou would seek?
would you even care for their taste in stuff?
and what of them they would rear?
toss a stark dichotomy crost the globe
how easy would you find love to how easy you find hate
and would it matter how you looked
straightup cold-calling?...
or have you your tendencies
metals may be malleable
but seldom do they breathe
the sun shall not run between the earth and the moon.
sure, i don't have the choices others make
others...
dont they rear the wo/men thou would seek?
would you even care for their taste in stuff?
and what of them they would rear?
toss a stark dichotomy crost the globe
how easy would you find love to how easy you find hate
and would it matter how you looked
straightup cold-calling?...
or have you your tendencies
metals may be malleable
but seldom do they breathe
sphera spinning circa gradually midst photon shaft grazing electron soo flit while neutron's gazing
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reckons, even better than rising from rest to alarm each morn, could find a transition with... other piece
with the gentle slope of rolling hills, gently buffeted by vapors so thin, like a fog strolling casual
where breath
where din
labors so fine, with pleasures not fined, the cost lost not dine
rather yet, ever more to get, spirits fresh
decline?
goldish fleece
where flourished cities fleece
yet 'complished mind
selfstructured self, and micro-rule redundant
look up to tell a bird to fly?
why?
tis not sane nor plain
let mine be mine
the boss man might skim from the top, but he offers joe shmo something hard to come by...
work force credibility
tis boss man's job to defend it, nes pas?
with the gentle slope of rolling hills, gently buffeted by vapors so thin, like a fog strolling casual
where breath
where din
labors so fine, with pleasures not fined, the cost lost not dine
rather yet, ever more to get, spirits fresh
decline?
goldish fleece
where flourished cities fleece
yet 'complished mind
selfstructured self, and micro-rule redundant
look up to tell a bird to fly?
why?
tis not sane nor plain
let mine be mine
the boss man might skim from the top, but he offers joe shmo something hard to come by...
work force credibility
tis boss man's job to defend it, nes pas?
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I'm not much of a TV watcher but, I'm seeing a change. For years TV fare was "friends" and "Seinfeld" and vapid stuff like that. The flicks brought us a big dose of stupid; "Dumb and Dumber. Forest Gump was especially bad for proving that no matter how stupid a person was, they could succeed.
Then came Malcolm in the Middle, where a brilliant kid aces everybody. After that came X-files and CSI, all centered around intelligent people. Now, we have "House" and "Bones" and a couple of others that showcase intelligence and abilities. It's great to see MSM "pandering" to those who can't stomach "wrestlemania" and reality shows.
Then came Malcolm in the Middle, where a brilliant kid aces everybody. After that came X-files and CSI, all centered around intelligent people. Now, we have "House" and "Bones" and a couple of others that showcase intelligence and abilities. It's great to see MSM "pandering" to those who can't stomach "wrestlemania" and reality shows.
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