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Nenemo Ari ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6,092 Joined: 17-June 02 From: over..... there. Member No.: 42 |
so - ask a non-existent, non-jesus gnuneo.
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yes, the mythical janus actually has two faces, one looking forward and one back. Does your encyclopedia of mythology say different?
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Nenemo Ari ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6,092 Joined: 17-June 02 From: over..... there. Member No.: 42 |
yes, the mythical janus actually has two faces, one looking forward and one back. Does your encyclopedia of mythology say different?
...another christmas bug <_< |
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'The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.' (Heraclitus, fragment 12)
1. Why a frenzied mouth? 2. Why can we not laugh? |
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H.N.I.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderators Posts: 8,886 Joined: 18-August 02 From: Jawja Member No.: 125 |
1. she talks a lot. And really fast.
2. because they are not funny. |
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QUOTE 'The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.' (Heraclitus, fragment 12) 1. Why a frenzied mouth? 2. Why can we not laugh? QUOTE [37] 14 {Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Iota-Delta} ONION-PEELINGS The Universe is the Practical Joke of the General at the Expense of the Particular, quoth FRATER PERDURABO, and laughed. But those disciples nearest to him wept, seeing the Universal Sorrow. Those next to them laughed, seeing the Universal Joke. Below these certain disciples wept. Then certain laughed. Others next wept. Others next laughed. Next others wept. Next others laughed. Last came those that wept because they could not see the Joke, and those that laughed lest they should be thought not to see the Joke, and thought it safe to act like FRATER PERDURABO. But though FRATER PERDURABO laughed openly, He also at the same time wept secretly; and in Himself He neither laughed nor wept. Nor did He mean what He said. [38] COMMENTARY ({Iota-Delta}) The title, "Onion-Peelings", refers to the well-known incident in "Peer Gynt". The chapter resembles strongly Dupin's account of how he was able to win at the game of guessing odd or even. (See Poe's tale of "The Purloined Letter".) But this is a more serious piece of psychology. In one's advance towards a comprehension of the universe, one changes radically one's point of view; nearly always it amounts to a reversal. this is the cause of most religious controversies. Paragraph 1, however, is Frater Perdurabo's formula- tion of his perception of the Universal Joke, also described in Chapter 34. All individual existence is tragic. Perception of this fact is the essence of comedy. "Household Gods" is an attempt to write pure comedy. "The Bacchae" of Euripides is another. At the end of the chapter it is, however, seen that to the Master of the Temple the opposite perception occurs simultaneously, and that he himself is beyond both of these. And in the last paragraph it is shown that he realises the truth as beyond any statement of it. http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib333.htm i'm not a crowleyite, not at all, but the man went a LONG way. I downloaded some recordings of his voice, specifically to hear him read my favourite poem *ever*, 'My Gitana', but as i discovered even just hearing his voice creates new mysteries and potential myths. anyone who has heard it will know what i mean. ;) of course, it IS just coincidence. "we will fight them on the beaches...." - extraordinary coincidence though. life's funny huh? ;) "frenzied" might be as lib models, ie the information flow is of rapid pace - also it might be that certain understandings need to be hidden until the correct time. Indeed it might be many reasons, and quite possibly all, depending on many circumstances, the person, their socialised beliefs of behaviour (ie the sybil might have had to conform to the current social beliefs about how sybils have to act), or by having a frenzy (trance?) it makes it easier to bamboozle when theyre not sure (bad things quite often happen to seers etc who are uncertain in times of crisis - especially if the Leader/megalomaniacs are used to hearing good news coming from them.), it might even be the real effect when they experience an invoked God and are effectively possessed. It might even be a reference to the likelyhood that epileptics/hysterics are often drawn into religion, and to their behaviour at heightened states of social/individual 'pressure'. as i said, probably different for different sybils, different places, different times, and indeed quite possibly not universally true. |
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