If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing,
which would you choose?

The Day I Met God

I met God across his long walnut desk
with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him,
and God asks me, "Why?"
Why did I cause so much pain?
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred,
snowflake of special unique specialness?
Can't I see that we're all manifestations of love?

I look at God behind his desk,
taking notes on a pad,
but God's got this all wrong.

We are not special.
We are not crap or trash either.
We just are.
We just are,
and what happens just happens.

And God says,
"No, that's not right."
Yeah. Well.
Whatever.

You can't teach God anything.

We are God’s middle children

with no special place in history
and no special attention.

Unless we get God’s attention,
we have no hope for damnation or redemption.

The Magician

The Magician

The Magician

The Magician, The Magus, or The Juggler (I)
is the first trump or Major Arcana card in traditional Tarot decks.

Action — Consciousness — Concentration — Personal power
Practicality — Energy — Creativity — Movement
Precision — Conviction — Manipulation — Self confidence
Being objective — Focusing — Determination — Initiative

A youthful figure in the robe of a magician has the face of the divine Apollo, the sun god, with a confident smile and shining eyes.
Above his head is the mysterious sign of the Holy Spirit, the sign of life, like an endless cord, forming the lemniscate of infinity.
About his waist is a serpent-cincture or girdle, the ouroboros, the serpent devouring its own tail. The ouroboros is an ancient symbol of eternity, eternal becoming, or transmutation and transformation, but in this case it indicates more especially the eternity of attainment in the spirit.
In the Magician's right hand is a wand raised towards heaven, the sky or the element æther, while his left hand is pointing to the earth. This iconographic gesture has multiple meanings, but is endemic to the Mysteries, symbolizing divine immanence, the ability of the magician to bridge the gap between heaven and earth.
On the table in front of the Magician the symbols of the four Tarot suits signify the Classical elements of earth, air, fire and water.
Beneath are roses and lilies, the flos campi and lilium convallium, changed into garden flowers, to show the culture of aspiration.


When the Magician appears in a spread, it points to the talents, capabilities and resources at the querent's disposal.
Depending on the card's placement in relation to other cards, the message is to tap into one's full potential rather than holding back, especially when there is a need to transform something.
There are choices and directions to take.
Guidance can arrive through one's own intuition or in the form of someone who brings about change or transformation.

The card can mean that a manipulator is floating around, usually if it's reversed. He may be a beneficent guide, but he does not necessarily have our best interests in mind.
He may also represent the querent’s ego or self awareness.
He can also represent the intoxication of power, both good and bad.

This card signifies the divine motive in man.
It is also the unity of the individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought.
With further reference to the "sign of life", i.e. the infinity symbol and its connection with the number 8, it may be remembered that Christian Gnosticism speaks of rebirth in Christ as a change "unto the Ogdoad."
The mystic number is termed Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the Land of the Lord.
According to Martinism, 8 is the number of Christ.

In other traditions this card can refer to scholarly knowledge.
The Fool (card 0) has learned something about the workings of the world and now sees himself as powerful.
Perhaps the reputation of the Magician is derived from the Fool misunderstanding what is happening while the High Priestess (the next card) is looking back, thinking that the Magician is missing the point of spiritual knowledge.

Some schools associate him with Hermes, especially Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic Egyptian/Greek figure who is a combination of Hermes and of Thoth, a god of the moon, knowledge, and writing.
In this aspect, The Magician guides The Fool through the first step out of the cave of childhood into the sunlight of consciousness, just as Hermes guides Persephone out of the Underworld every year.

He represents the potential of a new adventure, chosen or thrust upon one.
A journey undertaken in daylight, in the Enlightenment tradition.
He brings things out of the darkness into the light.
He explores the world in order to master it.
He is solar consciousness.

He is associated through the cross sums (the sum of the digits) with Key 10, The Wheel of Fortune, picking up on Hermes as a Trickster figure and a god of chance, and Key 19, The Sun, bringing us back to Apollo and to enlightenment.

He embodies the lesson of “as above, so below," the lesson that mastery in one realm may bring mastery in another.
He also warns of the danger of applying lessons from one realm to another.

The Magician transcends duality.
He has learned the fundamental elements of the universe, represented by emblems of the four suits of the tarot already broken apart and lying on the table before him. Similarly, in the Book of Thoth deck, he is crowned by snakes, another symbol of both infinity and dualism, as snakes have learned from Gilgamesh how to shed their skins and be reborn, thus achieving a type of immortality; the blind prophet Tiresias split apart coupling snakes and as a result became a woman, transcending the dualism of gender.

I don't know if you've ever felt like that

That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years.

Or just not exist.
Or just not be aware that you do exist.

Or something like that.

I think wanting that is very morbid,
but I want it when I get like this.

Everyone you ever love will reject you or die.

Everything you ever create will be thrown away.
Everything you’re proud of will end up as trash.

on a long enough time line,
the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

The best deeds go silently unrewarded

If u want to make a omelette,
you have to break a few eggs.

Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.

In the wild you don’t see old animals
because as soon as they age,
animals die.

If they get sick or slow down,
something stronger kills them.

Animals aren’t meant to get old.


Our culture has made death something wrong.

Old animals should be an unnatural exception.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark,
closed inside someone else,
when you see how everything you can ever accomplish
will end up as trash.

Fallen heros ones we love
and even those we don't like
returned to ashes and soap.

What's worse?

Hell or nothing?

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

The wealthy and the poor have this in common,
they worship money.

One as what they feel they can't live without,
one who covets endlessly
and can't stop thinking of what they don't have.

Napoleon bragged that he could train men to sacrifice their lives
for a scrap of ribbon.

We don’t have a great war in our generation,
or a great depression,
but we do,
we have a great war of the spirit.

We have a great revolution against the culture.

The great depression is our lives.
We have a spiritual depression.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them,
and show them courage by frightening them.

you're not how much money you've got in the bank.

You're not your job.

You're not your family,
and you're not who you tell yourself....

You're not your name....

You're not your problems....

You're not your age....


You are not your hopes

Holly Valance dancing naked in Kiss Kiss video

Holly Valance dancing naked in Kiss Kiss video



Holly Valance will appear on Strictly Come Dancing - but here she is dancing naked, apparently nude in the Kiss Kiss video

Holly Valance

Holly Valance, the Australian pop star-turned-actress, has signed up to be a contestant on the next series of BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing'

Holly Rachel Vukadinović

better known by her stage name Holly Valance,
an Australian model, actress and singer.

Holly Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours.

In 2002, she released her debut album, Footprints, which yielded the international number-one hit single "Kiss Kiss".

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.

Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held.

Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books.

Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin.

Believe nothing just because someone else believes it.

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps

Do not pursue what is illusory

- property and position.

All that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade
and can be confiscated in one fell night.

Live with a steady superiority over life.

Don't be afraid of misfortune,
and do not yearn after happiness;
it is after all, all the same.

The bitter doesn't last forever,
and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

Aliens

THEORY

We are the aliens.

You know how Britain used to send it's criminals to Australia, a distant island, and how that country is founded by convicts.

Well the civilised societies of the Galaxy found a little island right on the outer rim and sent them all here.

We are the descendents of the insane troublemakers of the civilised galaxy.

Temet nosce

Only the shallow know themselves.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths.

You never reach it,
because there is always something more to say.

We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors.

We borrow it from our children.

The best index to a person's character is

(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good

(b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Education is when you read the fine print.

Experience is what you get if you don't.

Human beings,
by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives

This planet has a problem...

most of the people living on it are unhappy
for pretty much of the time.

Many solutions have been suggested for this problem,
but most of these are largely concerned with the movements
of small green pieces of paper.

Which is odd because on the whole it isn't the small green
pieces of paper that are unhappy.

One door away from Heaven...

...we live each day and hour.

One door away from Heaven,
But it lies beyond out power

To open the door to Heaven
And enter when we choose.

One door away from Heaven,
And the key is ours to lose.

One door away from Heaven,
But, oh, the entry dues

Counted Sorrows

Is the end of the world a coming?
Is that the Devil they hear humming?
Are those doomsday bells a ringing?
Is that the Devil they hear a singing?

Or are their dark fears exagerrated?
Are these doom-criers addlepated?

Those who fear the coming of all Hells
are those who should be feared themselves.

place posters of sex positions near schools

teach them what they won't

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful

for beauty is God's handwriting
a wayside sacrament.

Welcome it in every fair face,
in every fair sky,
in every fair flower,
and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction...

You have a class of young strong men and women,
and they want to give their lives to something.

Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate,
just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Break into church and steal bibles

put encyclopedias in the pews

Pretend to commit suicide

remind people to live

spike drinks at prom

give them memories to look back on

Royal Wedding

Well it's nice to see where all the extra money we paid for fuel this year got spent.

Everytime we go to the station and it's gone up by a penny yet again (145 in London) we are reminded it's a Royal wedding this year.

Let's see how many of the hookers who were at those expensive hotels last night go on to sell their stories to the tabloids.

Nice to see Elton John in the front row. No doubt thinking up the words for Kate's version of Candle In The Wind.
(at least the Tudors had the front to be open about these things)

Actually, in referencing The Tudors, Kate is at least as fit as Natalie Dormer when she played Ann Bolyen - with gives all the more credence to the theory that none of this is real. We mean really real.

The United Kingdom is not a kingdom, it is a Republic. The Prime Minister is the President. It as been since WWII.

The last monarch to be a real sovreign and have an Empire was Queen Victoria.
It all crumbled under King George, the last monarch to actually have any actual power.
Then we had WWII and Churchill became President.

Perhaps now Charles will do the decent thing and step aside, retire to private life with his "Duchess" and allow Wills to become Prince of Wales and Kate to become Princess Catherine, which is what the people want. He inherits the title more from his mother than Charles anyway.

Then we'll have a new proper royal couple lined up for the throne when Bettie finally pops off.

Maybe then the people will get behind the "monarchy" - even if it isn't real.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them

move mail one box down

force neighbours to meet each other

When you have only two pennies left in the world,
buy a loaf of bread with one,
and a lily with the other

Falsely diagnose patients with incurable illnesses

Make them live their dreams.

Start a fight with the loneliest guy in the bar

Intentionally lose so that he gets laid.

Hit on married women in front of their husbands

Your bruises rekindled a dead romance.

Never be complete.
Never be content.
Never be perfect.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Trust in yourself.

Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe

All great spirits have always encountered opposition
from mediocre minds.

Trust men and they will be true to you

treat them greatly,
and they will show themselves great.

Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudgens stars in the new movie Sucker Punch.

Wish she had starred in the film Donkey Punch.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Human beings,
by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Every moment is a golden one
for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

We don't receive wisdom

We must discover it for ourselves
after a journey
that no one can take for us
or spare us.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds

The latter cannot understand it when a man does not
thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices
but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

True merit is like a river

The deeper it is, the less noise it makes

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase.

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

one - one - one

take the last 2 digits of the year you were born
plus the age you will be this year
it will equal 111

1..1..11..11

This year we will experience four very particular dates:

1/1/11
11/1/11
1/11/11
11/11/11

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?