Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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| — | Plato (via anamanao) |
Light, in the absence of eyes, illuminates nothing. Visible forms are not inherent in the world, but are granted by the act of seeing. Though the world and events do exist independent of mind, they obtain of no meaning in themselves: none that the mind is not guilty of imposing on them. I bid my people follow, and like all good equations, they follow; for full endowment of purpose, they do submit - in turn, they resign me to a role inhuman, impossible, and unaccountable. But I can no longer stand the sleepless nights… I think I am learning to love the Demiurge.
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| — | Trevor Goodchild, “Aeon Flux” |
I have my wallet out already
I wish I could read the rest of this.
If they are pagans too I will buy twice as many peanut butter cookies than usual!
I absolutely love this.
ACTUALLY. This myth gets more interesting. These original “double humans” were comprised of two parts—either both parts male, one part male and one female, or both female. This myth is used to explain why some people are homosexual and why some are straight. Yay Classics. I’M LEARNING SO MUCH IN COLLEGE GUYS
This gets better each time it scrolls through my dash.
The Greeks had their flaws but they always had a tolerant and practical way of seeing the world.
Like how they explained why the different people of the world have different skin colors. Instead of the Abrahamic “Mark of Cain”, they believed that Apollo, the sun god, who’s chariot was the sun, allowed his son to drive the chariot. The boy could not control it and the sun came too close the the Earth. And, some people got exposed to the sun more than others and tanned various colors. That is how they explained the difference between people of different colors.
“Rawhead Rex”
Based on a short story by Clive Barker.
A monstrous pagan god is loosed when a neolithic stone that held him prisoner is moved. The creature goes on a killing spree to reclaim that which was his.
Clive Barker has expressed a desire to make another attempt to adapt this story, as he was not happy with the final film. Mostly the look of the monster.
I saw this on television when I was about 8 or so. It scared the living hell out of me.
