Then and Now

"Ehmals und jetzt"


"In juengern Tagen war ich das Morgens froh,

Des Abends weint ich, jetzt, da ich aelter bin,

Beginn ich zweifelnd meinen Tag, doch

Heilig and heiter ist mir sein Ende." Friedrich Hoelderlin


"THEN and NOW"

"In my younger days I was fresh and clear in

the morn but weepy by even; now, being older

I often begin my day in madding confusion;

may get lucid and coherent by its ending."

[a perhaps too free translation by nekkid]

Holderlin

Robert Anton Wilson

Happy Disincorporation [7-11-07] to Robert Anton Wilson!Wilson Library

Priory of Sion and the blue apples

The ancient secret order of The Priory of Sion seems to be an important key to much of the speculation about Mary Magdalene, the Knights Templar and their treasures, and the mysteries of Rennes-le-Chateau.

So how do you like those
blue apples ?

Malum Malum Malum

Malo. Malo. Malo. Malo.
Malo: I would rather be
Malo: in an apple-tree
Malo: than a naughty boy
Malo: in adversity.
Malo. Malo. Malo. Malo.

Miles' Song in Benjamin Britten's

opera, *Turn of the Screw*

MALO

In the bleak midwinter...

Christina Rossetti wrote the poem and Gustav Holst composed the music for it.
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/i/n/intbleak.htm

And now we can hear it sung out in the bleak itself by Christ Church Choir, Oxford along with other musical treats:
http://www.danielsparks.com/blog/

THE WOLF MOON

biting cold

desolate


castle

Pig Year

Here piggie, piggie! suuueyy!

Pig year cometh February 18, 2007.

http://www.chiff.com/home_life/holiday/chinese-new-year.htm

wondering wandering eidentities

Wondering in the fields of

the Lord, at play in Elysian

meadows or wandering in Dao:

What difference to me though

some may tear hair rend wear

fume and perhaps cast stones?

nekkid...9 DEC 2006

doggie-dew in the grass, alas

doggie-dew in the grass

apass asail alas alass

ahoy do not go gentle in

to dogplayd poopy grass

beware, oh so fair lass


nekkid...9 Dec 2006

Blessings of Sharia

What are the realities of Sharia?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=500838&ObjectID=10413099

Mighty Lak A Tractatus Philosophicus

Meanwhile gittin'down at dem Zombie Jambooree

dey quaken' back-to-back jookin' belly-to-belly

shimmyshimmy lak twistin' time at Sock Hop Ball

got love in my tummy 'most like Sist' Mary Kate!


nekkid [with more nonsense than Wittgenstein's Tractatus]

http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=8183

Friedrich Hölderin

I rejoice today finding a Yahoo! group dedicated to the poet Friedrich Hölderin. He is my favorite Denkengedichter.



Hölderin

palmate bamboo

bam boo bends

wind

bends bam boo


pal mate

wobbles

mate pal


nekkid...2 November '06

palmate bamboo

forget words

Zhouangzi was a good

old boy was he, he, he

had a lot more words

than the number one

Old Boy Laozi he he he


nekkid

Booze the Saviour

Archaeologists found evidence in the Temple of Mut of pious drunken
orgies. The festival was a commemoration of mankind's salvation by
booze.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15475319/

http://members.aol.com/egyptart/beer.html

at the Lupanare in Pompey

Tourists are welcome at the newly restored Lupanare in Pompey.
Lupanare

christian zionists?

In The Joseph Campbell Foundation website they are currently discussing 'christian zionists' who have sprung up in Texas. Haven't the jewish zionists caused enough trouble? Who needs christian zionists?
Perhaps if we ignore them they will blow away... or succumb to the hylomorphism of their adolescent offspring.

JCF

now yin ... now yang

>> We need both modalities. Like the Taoists say, Now yin ...
> now yang. <<

Walking the walk: now yin ... now yang, being

that is the highest principle, the Tai Chi, the por-

tal between dimensions, walking in fields of Tao;

god-like, we are living in America maybe Elysium:

Amerika ist Wundebar! CoCola! Poka Doxy Bikinis.

Ja, Rammstein Bundschen, this story is about love!

The love of freedom! Liberty must be defended!
Self-determination for all requires discipline or
else one will trespass on others' rights and liberty.

nekkid...26September2006

Amerika by Rammstein

Return of the Madhi

In the early Seventies when I first read the scfi novel Dune, there was not much knowledge of Islam or the Shiah in my neck of the woods. Over the years since, the terminology of Dune has become progressively more prominent.
Now the President of Iran works and prays for the Raj'a [return] of the Mahdi, Muhammad al-Madhi, the 'hidden one', the Twelfth Imam. This is apocalypse, Shia style. Meanwhile the most radical insist the world must be cleansed with blood to prepare his return. Interesting how Frank Herbert based his sci-fi mythology on this.

Role of Hidden Imam

tuberculosis

Deutsche Welle reports a hidden TB epidemic which will begin sufacing with millions of deaths soon. Two billion people, it is claimed, are infected; that's every third human on earth. HIV, usually accompanied by TB, is rampant in Eastern Europe.
LINK