Strength does not come from physical capacity.

It comes from an indomitable will.

Do not be too moral.

You may cheat yourself out of much life.

Aim above morality.

Be not simply good;
be good for something.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act
because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

become the change you want to see in the world.

The wisdom of Gandhi

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" - Mahatma Gandhi

"We must become the change we want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you." - Mahatma Gandhi

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Imitation is the sincerest flattery." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Truth never damages a cause that is just." - Mahatma Gandhi

"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place." - Mahatma Gandhi

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." - Mahatma Gandhi

"However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes." - Mahatma Gandhi

"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi

"There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable.

It is disastrous to confuse them.

Religions tell children they might go to hell and they must believe,

Science tells children they came from the stars
and presents reasoning they can believe

There are two kinds of people;
those who divide people into two kinds,
and those who don't.

Those who will not reason, are bigots,
those who cannot, are fools,
and those who dare not, are slaves.

Iron rusts from disuse,
stagnant water loses its purity
and in cold weather becomes frozen.

So does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

As scarce as truth is...

the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way
the body treats a strange protein.

It rejects it.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.

Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if,
instead of cowering before them,
we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them

We are all born ignorant,
but one must work hard to remain stupid

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

If you were to take out one eyeball
and then take out the oher eyeball
and hold them up so they were looking at each other
it would be the most mind blowing, cosmic experience ever.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Salad Fingers Marilyn Manson

The only things in life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

eudaimonia

Many people are forewarned against enthusiasm;
they mistake it with fanaticism,
and it's a big mistake.

Fanaticism is an exclusive passion based upon one opinion;
enthusiasm connects to the universal harmony;
it's love of beauty,
the elevation of the soul,
the pleasure of devotion,
all united in the same sentiment that has grandure and calm.

The meaning of this word for the Greeks provides the most noble definition: enthusiasm signifies God is in us.

In effect, when man's existence is expansive
it has something of the divine.

Sapphire CFNM

As an anthropologist group we are always interested in what's new in sex - many of our readers will know we've been charting sexual psychology and sexual evolution since its inception.

Sapphire has recently been experimenting with, and writing about, the practice of CFNM, an interesting sub-culture:












"CFNM stands for Clothed Females Naked Men.
Its the new thing my friends and I are into.

Everyone knows I am a real naked chick. I like to be naked all the time.
I am naked at home, as soon as I get in my clothes come off. I don't get dressed if I have visitors.
I sunbathe naked, I swim naked, I go to nude beaches, I go to naturist sessions at the local pool.
I love to be surrounded by other naked people, especially girls.

When I am dancing and stripping I will be one naked chick in a room full of clothed men (and some girls). This is very empowering, as any girl who has done it will tell you.

So now we come to CFNM.

Most male strippers are gay. They are into each other and know what turns them on in another man and how to be sexy and put on a show. They have no investment in what the women think.

One of the things commando units like the SAS do is CFNM as humiliation. They make the soldier stand naked in front of clothed women who laugh at his penis.

Now it comes to straight men CFNM.
Any girl who has been on a hen night and had a stripper there will know how we like to laugh and enjoy the show. It is totally different from how we would go with the guys to enjoy a girl stripping, or how guys watch a girl strip, or gay guys watch men strip.
(or if you ever take a straight man to watch a gay male stripper - now that can be funny)

Most girls like to enjoy humiliating the man at CFNM.
But if you have a real man, one who is physically powerful, well endowed, and supremely confident, he will find the experience empowering - and so can the clothed females.

If you take this past the visual to the tactile, the man will become hard and the clothed women can enjoy playing with him and wanking him off, right to the climax.

I have always liked seeing a non stop stream of cum shooting out of a nice big willy.

And it is a great ending to a great show when you and your friends have put "all hands to the pump" and shared the experience, and have his semen all over your hands, wrists and forearms.

The bigger the cock, the more hands on it.
We booked a guy who could literally take four of our hands on him while he lay there and enjoyed it.

I never thought I'd find anything new to do sexually.

But CFNM looks like it's going to be my new thing for 2011.

I'll keep you posted.

xoxo"


Read all about CFNM, Sex and more at:
Sapphire's Sapphic Traffic

The wise man in the storm prays to God,
not for safety from danger,
but for the deliverance from fear.

It is the storm within that endangers him,
not the storm without.

Moderation is a good thing.

If you don't overdo it.

Jokester

If Ali G was a physicist would he say
"is it because i is the square root of negative one?"

The End Of The World

Apocalyptic storms predicted to it California.

First Horseman

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs

If you want help, help others

If you want trust, trust others.

If you want love, give it away.
If you want friends, be one.
If you want a great team, be a great teammate.

That's how it works

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions

8th day

This song was chilling enough when it came out in 1980 - 30 years later we can see how prophetic it really was.

This song pre-dates The Terminator and The Matrix.
It pre-dates the Internet.

When will the 8th day really get here?



We are well into the predicted Orwellian future already.

Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, You Tube.
Internet Dating - Internet banking.

Big Brother really is watching our every move.

William Gibson's vision of the future as a nightmare.
Totalitarianism in the guise of 'liberal' political correctness
cultural Marxism
EU
the masses worship of celebrity

Meanwhile we are still on our way to the 3rd world war

An important thing to learn is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously.

The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

2012 The End Of The World

20/12/2012

20 December 2012

This is the last day of the Mayan calendar.

The calendar lasts for 5125 years.

The last dates marks the end of human civilisation.

The current cycle, or baktun, of this calendar began on August 13th, 3114 B.C. This marked the end of the last period and the beginning of the current one.
The baktun that we are currently living in is the thirteenth, and the end of this cycle is one that has been considered to have a large level of importance to the Mayan people, which is why so many people have come to the conclusion that this cycle’s end is one that will mean the end of the world as we know it.

This might be the same way the dinosaurs were killed, by a big meteor, as in Armageddon, or it might be the next Ice Age.

The long calendar was created in order to correspond with a long term astronomical prediction by the Mayan people

20 + 1 + 3 = 23 - The Number 23

This might be caused by a solar flare.

This might be caused by the return to the solar system of Nibiru, otherwise known as Planet X, a mobile planateray body far larger than Haley's comet.

According to this 2012 end of the world philosophy, when this planetary body re-enters our system it will cause massive disruptions in the orbits of Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, and Earth. When Nibiru crosses our orbit they believe that it will cause the gases in Jupiter to ignite because it will get too close to the sun and the precarious balance that keeps its gas structure in check will be lost, therefore causing Jupiter to turn into a secondary sun. In combination with this, the solar flares that are released from the sun on a naturally reoccurring cycle are set to peak during the year 2012. It is believed that this occurrence in combination with the cycle of Nibiru will cause a massive amount of damage to the planet on a level that has never been seen before.

Rather than an Ice Age we will see a Fire Age.


There are others who contend that the end of the world 2012 prophesy actually refers to a very rare planetary alignment that will occur during the winter solstice on december 21 2012.
At this time the entire Milky Way (including the earth and the sun) will align at a point that is known as the galactic equator. This alignment is so rare that it only happens every twenty five thousand years.
It is thought that this rare planetary alignment could signal a shift in the magnetic poles. This polar shift has happened before in the distant past, and if it were to happen now it would cause massive destruction across the globe.
Some claim that the reason the Mayan long calendar ends on this exact date is that something is going to happen in combination with this alignment, the introduction of Nibiru, and the solar flares.

It can’t be a coincidence that all of these things are scheduled to happen at the same time that the Mayan calendar is set to come to its conclusion.

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection.

Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path,
for they draw only corrupt blood.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

When one door closes, another opens

but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

There is nothing so powerful as truth

-- and often nothing so strange

We cannot control the evil tongues of others.

But a good life enables us to disregard them.

Puck's soliloquy

If we shadows have offended,
think of this and all is mended:
that you have but slumber'd here,
while these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
no more yielding than a dream.
Gentles -- do not reprehend.
If you pardon -- we will mend.
And -- as I am an honest puck,
if we have unearned luck
now to'scape the serpents' tongue,
we will make amends, ere long.
Else the puck a liar call.
So good night unto you all.
Give me your hands if we be friends
and Robin shall restore amends.

This world is the Theatre of the Absurd
and I am The Lord of Misrule

This world is a Will to Power...
and nothing besides.

The Theatre of the Absurd

The Theatre of the Absurd (French: Théâtre de l'Absurde) is a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction, written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. Their work expressed the belief that, in a godless universe, human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down. Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion, silence [1]. Critic Martin Esslin coined the term "Theatre of the Absurd", relating these plays based on a broad theme of absurdity, roughly similar to the way Albert Camus uses the term. The Absurd in these plays takes the form of man’s reaction to a world apparently without meaning or man as a puppet controlled or menaced by an invisible outside force. Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to Vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the "well-made play". Playwrights commonly associated with the Theatre of the Absurd include Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Fernando Arrabal, and Edward Albee.

Falstaff

While the medieval and later Roman custom of a Lord of Misrule as a master of revels, a figure of fun and no more than that, is most familiar, there does seem to be some indication of an earlier and more unpleasant aspect to this figure

The Wicker Man

However, according to the anthropologist James Frazer, there was a darker side to the Saturnalia festival. In Durostorum on the Danube (modern Silistra), Roman soldiers would choose a man from among them to be the Lord of Misrule for thirty days. At the end of that thirty days, his throat was cut on the altar of Saturn. Similar origins of the British Lord of Misrule, as a sacrificial king (a temporary king, as Frazer puts it) who was later put to death for the benefit of all, have also been recorded[citation needed]. If such a practice were even play-acted at Amasea, we can be sure we would have heard about it from the bishop.

On January 1, A.D. 400, Asterius, bishop of Amasea[1] in Pontus (Amasya, Turkey) preached a sermon against the Feast of Calends ("this foolish and harmful delight")[2] that tells a lot about the Lord of Misrule in Late Antiquity. The New Years feast included children arriving at each doorstep, exchanging their gifts for reward:[1][2]

"This festival teaches even the little children, artless and simple, to be greedy, and accustoms them to go from house to house and to offer novel gifts, fruits covered with silver tinsel. For these they receive, in return, gifts double their value, and thus the tender minds of the young begin to be impressed with that which is commercial and sordid."

--Asterius, in "Oratio 4: Adversus Kalendarum Festum" [2]
It contrasted with the Christian celebration held, not by chance, on the adjoining day:

"We celebrate the birth of Christ, since at this time God manifested himself in the flesh. We celebrate the Feast of Lights (Epiphany), since by the forgiveness of our sins we are led forth from the dark prison of our former life into a life of light and uprightness." --Asterius, "Oratio 4"

Significantly, for Asterius the Christian feast was explicitly an entry from darkness into light, and although no conscious solar nature could have been expressed, it is certainly the renewed light at midwinter, which was celebrated among Roman pagans, officially from the time of Aurelian, as the "festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun". Meanwhile throughout the city of Amasea, although entry into the temples and holy places had been forbidden by the decree of Theodosius I (391), the festival of gift-giving when "all is noise and tumult" in "a rejoicing over the new year" with a kiss and the gift of a coin, went on all around, to the intense disgust and scorn of the bishop.

The Lord of Misrule

In Britain, the Lord of Misrule — known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots — was an officer appointed by lot at Christmas to preside over the Feast of Fools. The Lord of Misrule was generally a peasant or sub-deacon appointed to be in charge of Christmas revelries, which often included drunkenness and wild partying, in the pagan tradition of Saturnalia. The Church held a similar festival involving a Boy Bishop. The celebration of the Feast of Fools was outlawed by the Council of Basel that sat from 1431, but it survived to be put down again by the Catholic Queen Mary I in England in 1555.

While mostly known as a British holiday custom, the appointment of a Lord of Misrule comes from antiquity. In ancient Rome, from the 17th to the 23rd of December, a Lord of Misrule was appointed for the feast of Saturnalia, in the guise of the good god Saturn. During this time the ordinary rules of life were turned topsy-turvy as masters served their slaves, and the offices of state were held by slaves. The Lord of Misrule presided over all of this, and had the power to command anyone to do anything during the holiday period. This holiday seems to be the precursor to the more modern holiday, and it carried over into the Christian era.

Saturnalia

Saturnalia became one of the most popular Roman festivals. It was marked by drunken orgies, tomfoolery and reversal of social roles, in which slaves and masters ostensibly switched places, much like the Lord of Misrule in later Christian celebrations.

Saturnalia was introduced around 217 BC to raise citizen morale after a crushing military defeat at the hands of the Carthaginians.[1] Originally celebrated for a day, on December 17, its popularity saw it grow until it became a week-long extravaganza, ending on the 23rd. Efforts to shorten the celebration were unsuccessful. Augustus tried to reduce it to three days, and Caligula to five. These attempts caused uproar and massive revolts among the Roman citizens.

Saturnalia involved the conventional sacrifices, a couch (lectisternium) set out in front of the temple of Saturn and the untying of the ropes that bound the statue of Saturn during the rest of the year. A Saturnalicius princeps was elected master of ceremonies for the proceedings. Besides the public rites there were a series of holidays and customs celebrated privately. The celebrations included a school holiday, the making and giving of small presents (saturnalia et sigillaricia), massive and multiple group orgies, and a special market (sigillaria). Gambling was allowed for all, even slaves.

The toga was not worn, but rather the synthesis, i.e. colourful, informal "dinner clothes"; and the pileus (freedman's hat) was worn by everyone. Slaves were exempt from punishment, and treated their masters with (a pretense of) disrespect. The slaves celebrated a banquet: before, with, or served by the masters. Yet the reversal of the social order was mostly superficial; the banquet, for example, would often be prepared by the slaves, and they would prepare their masters' dinner as well. It was license within careful boundaries; it reversed the social order without subverting it.[2]

The customary greeting for the occasion is a "Io, Saturnalia!" — Io (pronounced "e-o") being a Latin interjection related to "ho" (as in "Ho, praise to Saturn").

Happy Saturnalia, pagans

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint,
something inside always reminds or informs you
that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Haters are confused admirers who can't understand why everybody loves you.

What ever you do,
dont congratulate yourself too much
or berate yourself either.

Your choices are half chance.
So are everybody elses.

Friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on.

Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle
because the older you get,
the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is.

Many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

It is Doubt that makes us grow

because it forces us to look fearlessly at the many answers that exist to one question

By three methods we may learn wisdom:

First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;

and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom

Whether or not it is clear to you,
the universe is unfolding as it should.

I wash my hands of those who imagine
chattering to be knowledge,
silence to be ignorance,
and affection to be art.

Live passionately,
with all the injuries that can happen as a result.

It is worth it.

Accept certain inalienable truths...

Price will rise,
politicians will philander,
you too will get old;

and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young
prices were reasonable,
politicians were noble,
and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

In art, immorality cannot exist.

Art is always sacred.

Waiting is painful.
Forgetting is painful.
But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Stress is an ignorant state

It believes that everything is an emergency.

Nothing is that important.

Ongyo

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given.

Men are wild beasts,
and would devour one another but for this protection.

A rose longed for the company of the bees,
but none would come to her.
Even so, the flower was still capable of dreaming.

When she felt all alone,
she would imagi­ne a garden filled with bees that came to kiss her.

And so she managed to resist until the next day,
when she opened her petals again.

When life hits you hard, don't complain.

Cry out loud, swear, smash a vase, but don't complain.

You are not a victim

You are not defeated when you lose.

You are defeated when you quit

To say "no" is not a sin.
To say "yes" is not a virtue.

Beware: time goes by and regrets may be lethal.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Remember...

You are free, but you have to choose something.

An open oven bakes no bread.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Katy Perry

Katy Perry in 'Teenage Dream'

Katy Perry in 'Teenage Dream' satire

Katy Perry original pics

Katy Perry homage

At least this lady isn't afraid to actualy show her butt.

The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.

Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore.

You have to hit them with a sledgehammer,
and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

What sick ridiculous puppets we are...

and what a gross little stage we dance on.

What fun we have dancing and fucking
Not a care in the world
Not knowing that we are nothing.

We are not what was intended.

Love costs - it takes effort and work.

It's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life.
It's easier to steal what you want than it is to earn it.
It's easier to beat a child than it is to raise it.

Apathy is an easier solution. The path of least resistance

Passion

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace.
A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No-one wants their life thrown into chaos.

That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is aleady rotten.
They are the engineers of the superceded.

Other people think exactly the opposite.

They surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems.
They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness.
They are either euphoric because something marvellous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it -
which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence.

Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.

When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock

Kirsten Dunst Topless

Kirsten Dunst finally gets her tits out in a movie.
We've been waiting for this since Bring It On.

(The person who said "since Interview With The Vampire" deserves a lick of the cat)

Kirsten Dunst Topless

Roxanne Pallett Nude

Roxy Pallett from Emmerdale has now gotten her first film role - which involves her getting naked and doing an outdoor sex scene.

So without further ado, here are some clips and a link to the scene

Roxanne Pallett Nude scene

The man who's travelled the furthest is the most aware of the road that still lies ahead.

Compared to what you ought to be you are only half awake

You are making use of only a small part of your physical and mental resources.

The human individual lives far within his limits.

He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

Happy Halloween

Machete

Machete has finally been mde into a real film and is ready for release.

See the original mock trailer from Grindhouse:

Machete trailer

We remember seeing this and wishing it was a real film - and now it is and looks like being not just one of Tarantino's coolest films but one of the coolest films ever.

As everyone wants to work with Tarantino, the film is packed with guest stars and cameos.

Jeff Fahey plays the main bad guy, in an inspired piece of casting.
Seagal appears.
Jessica Alba has a shower scene.
And Lindsay Lohan appears side topless.
(neither are showing the goods just yet)

Jessica Alba In the Shower In Machete


Lindsay Lohan and Alicia Rachel Marek In Machete, Clip 1

Lindsay Lohan and Alicia Rachel Marek In Machete, Clip 2

This scene is particularly interesting as it shows Mayra Real and we do mean all of her - and just look where she hides her weapon:

Mayra Leal Nude In Machete

Seagal walks in right at the end - which makes two cunts we get to see in this scene

Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.