Kael

A lot of things have been happening and a lot of things have not happened, I am pretty much still me, I hope. So not to update on that front - but I've found more quotes so here they are:

"And let me tell you this: our higher senses are blunted. We are so drenched with material sin, that we should probably fail to recognize real wickedness if we encountered it"
- The White People, Arthur Machen

There are so many ways to interpret it, in the media, in politics, in religion, and their different ways to dilute the truth of the matter. Have we lost the sight to see true evil? Then again, we come back to: what is truly evil?

"When you look at a tree, se it for its leafs, its branches, its trunk and the roots, then and only then will you see the tree"
- Unfettered Mind, Takuan Soho

That could be one way of being able to see wickedness for what it truly is, yet still, we lack the pinpoint to describe a universal evil which all would consider the same - what is wicked and evil for one, is quite different for another. But if there were a way to perceive the whole of evil, I think close to its roots would be ignorance.

"The Way is like the edge of a razor; it is small and difficult to travel"
- Kontha Upanishads

I have reached the conclusion that my life is an adventure. Not a realistic, ritualistic or any r that would take away the the r in great! My quest involves the dangers of new friendships, low payment, taxes and acid indigestion (which will now be referred to as the great Black Dragon if it should trouble me). Hmmm, I need a Lady In The Lake to hand me my Pen of Infinite Ink and I think I am off to my Magical Realm. Note to self: Search yourself every day, make certain reality fades and your imagination takes a leap. These sweet euphoric moments are the gems of your life.

It is told of a confucian scholar, that he begged the twenty eight partriarch Bodhidharma to: "give his soul peace". The Bodhidharma answered harshly:"show it to me, and I shall give it peace". The confucian scholar answered:"That is the problem, I cannot find it". Bodhidharma answered back:"Your wish is granted". The confucian understood and left with peace in mind and spirit.

Written in a heavily drunken state:
"I mørkets lund, jeg skifter gal, vemodig jeg er elementet. Merkverdigheter, det vil si, har sånn makt som videreføres galskap av dens ødeleggelse."
For once, I have no clue to what this has to do with anything, this is a real puzzler for me :D. Good I like a good mystery.

Waves and hugs to anyone who wants one! I am easy ;)
KJ

Oh, hi...
I sort of dropped out for 11 weeks there. I am alive and kicking though, I just don't have that much on my mind. I drift around and the days seems to glide comfortably by, I wish this could continue forever, but I must start to engage everyday a bit more seriously.

The reason for scribbling today, is to leave another set of quotes and excerpts which has caught my attention. Nothing new there, huh? :)


DIFFERENT VIEW ON COMMUNION

"The Papist enjoy God, the Calvinist bread and Lutherans bread with God"
- Voltaire, but excerpt taken from Egon Friedells European Cultural History Volume One.

THE SKEPTIC, IDEALIST AND REALIST

"The skeptic knows all and smiles at everything. The idealist does not take the world seriously, on the other hand, the realist tells the idealist: I don't take your world perspective seriously. And the skeptic takes none of the two seriously..."
- Egon Friedell

A GOOD THOUGHT

"We are the stuff that dreams are made of"
- William Shakespears Epitaph

LOGIC IN A FIREPLACE

"Where there is smoke, there is fire, or has been"

THE ABSOLUTE NOTHING

"Ex nihilo nihil fit - nothing comes from nothing"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_ni…

That was what I wanted to reflect on this time (yup, I really didn't have anything on my mind the last 11 weeks...except the obvious maybe...*scratches head*...).

Wavu and hug if you need one, I'm not difficult *wink*
Kael

I've increased my training both mentally and physically of late - here is some notes which I have taken from a book by Fredrick J. Lovret to improve my technique.

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Well, that was a short entry...

Hugs to all the people out there!
Kael

As some might have noticed, I haven't exactly been busy here, many reasons for that - but I would like to sum it up as quality time living. I've had the chance to spend a lot of time with my family and relations. I've also started snooping around some anime forums here and there (Unruleds Vault and Download Anime).

I finished these notes for posting about two to three months ago, hope they are of interest:
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"If need be, I would destroy the destroyer, even if the destroyer was me"
- Wastefull Kael

OPERATION 6 - Living next door to Annis & too much white stuff keeps appearing...

The Chapter of Ancient People and Goddess Cults (Crete and Pre-hellenic Europa pt. 2)

"The Great Goddess was depicted wearing a flounced gown suspended from her slim waist, round which a girdle is clasped. The upper part of the body is bare, and she has enormous breasts. Sometimes she stands on a mountaintop, guarded by two great lions, and sometimes she is seated beside trees or plants. In addition to her lions, her wild animals include the wild goat, the horned sheep, the bull, the red deer, the snake, and the dove; and among the symbols associated with her are the horns of the bull, the double axe, the sacred pillar, the moon crescent, and a wand or staff. She was apparently a Goddess of death, battle, fertility and the chase. Offerings were made to her in a mountain-cave she was supposed to inhabit......The original mother was worshiped and propitiated because she was feared. She was the Fate who measured the lives of men, who sent disasters as well as blessings, and associate of lions and snakes as well as doves and deer."

This is the basis which the Mother Goddess is described as in the beginning - further we will look at aspects which was "inherited" by myths, Goddesses and legends. This passage though, made me reflect a lot on the tarot deck - although I knew that tarot was steeped with ancient religion and myths - I can more clearly "see" what the different cards have come to represent (Goddess, Strength, wands etc).

Here are some bloodthirsty women which my book compares with the ancient earth Goddess, although not Goddesses, it's myth from England. Black Annis is from England I believe and Yellow Muilearteach is believed to be Gaelic (do not confuse with vegetable...lol). The first poem here is about Black Annis home, and that she lurks in the oak tree and kills all who tries to enter...

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This was written in early February, pictures taken a bit later in February and early March, but, due to me joining some anime forums, it's been gathering a bit dust. The forum which I've spent most time with is www.unruledsvault.com scribbling on anime soundtracks and anime.


Hugs by the following:
Kjell -- [adjective]:Pretentiously academian
Kaeljohnsen -- [adjective]:Extremely extreme!

Me and my naginata! :)

I've started to practice again, and I am using a jumping rope to get a higher dexterity and flexibility in my technique.

The rest of the LJ is landscape pictures:

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Hopefully the next operation will contain the already written notes from Pre-Hellenic Europa,

Hugs and peace
Kael

Well this and the next journal entries will be filled with quotes and notes which I've taken from a book about religion and myths called Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europa. For those reading, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, the quotes taken from the before mentioned book is often from various other books too.

"Children, to avoid approaching danger are taught to double the thumb within the hand. This was much practiced whilst the terror of witchcraft remained....It was the custom to fold the thumbs of dead persons within the hand, to prevent the power of evil spirits".
- History of Norththumberland

"During a marriage among the Madigas (Telugur Pariahs), a sheep or a goat is sacrificed to the marriage posts. The sacrificer dips his hand in the blood of the animal, and impresses the blood on his palms on the wall near the door leading to the room in which the pots are kept. This is said to avert the Evil Eye"
- C&PHE

Two things about the last statement - it made me think of Tolkien (the eye and the mark of Saruman of All Colours). The second part is that "...which the pots are...", I think this might be a type-o, and that it is the post, but not knowing the traditions of the Madigas, I fear I cannot make that assumption by "correcting" the possible error of what is written in the book.

"It is a worldwide superstition that by injuring footprints, you injure the foot that made them"
- The Golden Bough

This made me think of the philosophical aspect too, to injure the memory of a human, you destroy the recollection of a human.

"Every Weapon has its demons"
- Old Gaelic axiom

So be careful using your mind as a weapon...

This first part illustrated from the book the traditions handed down by our ancestors belief in mythology - rituals to ward of evil and the actions taken to do just that. This next part is an interpretation of the oldest gods and faiths:

- The Palæolithic Gods were apparently half-demons also, "destroyers" as well as "preservers", "enemies of man" as well as "friends of man", "bringers of calamity" as well as "bestowers of blessings" -
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One such Goddess of old was Ishtar, she was a fertility/love Goddess and at the same time the Goddess of War.

Well most of my entries forward is going to be in shambles, much like this one I fear. Sending out much happy thoughts and hugs to everyone. Things I forgot to mention was that I had a splendid time with Lieoah and Jengou when we went to Brokeback Mountain - thanks you guys, it was a wonderful day :)! I hope everything is alright with my good friend Girla as well - your a wonderful and kind person, so don't let anyone get you down *thumbs up*

Hugs
K

Today is just notes and quotes:

WHAT MAKES A LIE?

"For me,
the truth is dependant on mindframe,
time and various outward occurrences.

For instance, at any given moment,
there are just as many truths concerning what life is
as there are people living on the planet."
- Unreasoning of Kael (aka Wasteful Kael)

DEFIANCE

"I want to roar,
I want to stand on the rocks by the sea,
Let wave after wave crash over me,
The wind to howl with me
The rain to soak me,

I want to roar,
From the day of birth we were destined to struggle,
crawl, walk, run, think - like a shark,
move or die, devouring to survive,
Almost like a walking entropy,

I want to roar,
I give the finger to the struggle every morning,
Getting out of bed is my defiance,
Hear me life, I am still here,
so sit on it and spin..."
- Unreasoning of Kael on a crappy day

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Remember to blink, watching the screen too long will dry out your eyes, reducing your eyesight. You forget to blink when you stare at something, and the computer screen demands your stare at every given moment - so take the time to look away from the PC and blink. *Thumbs up*

Hugs
Kael

This is a tag, and as you might discern from the title, one with high levels of sugar (I'll try to keep it short...). I've actually prepared a longer LJ, like I did in ye olde daze, but a tag came up, that I simply couldn't resist:

Taken in shadowy darkness of night, by means and rites unholy (actually it was morning, light outside, open tag for bored people, buut that wasn't dramatic enough) from Mercury Girl, who again had mastered the seven tiers of car-o-mancy and gathered it from Cannualiciat. Yeah, yeah, I keep saying less sugar, but...but it's so goood....sorry *worried frown on face*.

If you could have a lunch with any five people (dead or alive) who would you invite and why?

1. Buddha
2. Jesus
3. Mohammad
4. Nietzsche, Freud or Jung (any of the three would do in this seat...)
5. David Lynch

Have a really freaky lunch and then start making the weirdest movie ever....

Waves
Kael

Edit 1 (3 seconds after posting) - no, they did not prescribe any "heavy" drugs after the appendix operation...

I have finally gotten around to writing on my blog this year. Wooooh, go me! I have had the chance to play 40K, watch Narnia/Potter/movies, RPG (yayayayay) and hang around with friends. We started the re-assembly of the pantomime Mother Goose at ISS on Saturday, I had promised to help out at home on Sunday and Sunday night I was going to watch Crusade and the the latest B5-movie with Vidar.
That was the plan anyway...

further along with the plan for this week was helping with pantomime on Monday and Tuesday, practice Katori-Shinto Ryo on Wed, then help again with panto Thur,Fri and Sat (these are the days the play will be shown). Again, that was the plan...so much for plans...

The next part involves hospitals, so, if your like my brother and you don't like hospitals, don't read

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Time for this loser to catch some snooze,
Hugs to anyone that needs one,
and another to everyone else,
Kjell