The Gamesters of Triskelion

...and which entity trained barbarians to fight in the Colosseum and has since taught them how to govern themselves?

Bloody Do-Gooders

A Matter of Racial Pride

Postscript from the following day. I came across this picture of Stéphanie de Monaco and couldn't help it. But there's less irony involved here than I originally thought, for this look announces that you've got a mind of your own and that really is a matter of racial pride or rather that of paternal descent, provided the latter's connected with the character (originally suchend, since gestimmt).

Thomas Boulan-Bathoras

I already spoke of this, the impression that Thomas Aquinas thought that his stomch were God. But in light of the empty cavity that'd be evil, I thought a reminder might be in order lest someone thought that I meant that the subjective good and being are the same when I say that God and being are the same. The latter is a consequence of His omnipotence for there would be a conflict between consciousness and the world if they were not, which is of course Schopenhauer's position, and that of the gnostics, ironically, since Schopenhauer claims that it is also the Catholic Church's and in light of Thomas Aquinas' musings about the actus purus being the will that lets its manifestations devour each other, he might be forgiven for thinking it, only that the Catholic Church, unlike Schopenhauer and the gnostics, has no intention to put an end to it, but rather looks at it like a sea full of fish that it might catch for its purposes, greedy, dumb creatures that have many uses, quite like the Boulan-Bathors catching Sergeant Laureline with a beautiful butterfly, only that they have only one purpose in mind.

Well, the consolation that the Catholic Church derives from this, that a man might die, but that he'll be replaced by another and that the Church thus never'll be off the worse, which is still factually true and will be, until the earth's human population starts to shrink, but the fact that it is shrinking in the countries in which the people have been devoting their lives to the Church's purposes, trying to make the world better and life easier, portends the revelation of the error in their calculation establishing the nutritional benefit of everything that promises an increase in power for they will be unable to understand the path down which they go wielding it.

Ambition & Substanz

Heaven and Assignment

The imperial condition

Anpassungsnachhilfen

Daß der Mensch geneigt ist,

• seiner Vorliebe nach zu geloben,
• seinem (subjektiven) Glauben nach anzuerkennen und
• sich seinem Gewissen nach zu verpflichten,
  

ist nicht immer gern gesehen, und so kommt es, daß bei der Anpassung nachgeholfen wird, sowohl um sie zu auf den Weg zu bringen, als auch um von ihr abzubringen. Im einzelnen wird

• dem Geloben durch Aufdrüngung und Verlockung nachgeholfen,
• aufdrängend der Begegnung durch Verängstigung und
• der Einordnung durch Verabsolutierung und
• verlockend der Begegnung durch Einlullung und
• der Einordnung durch Relativierung,
  
• dem Anerkennen durch Förderung und Unterdrückung,
• fördernd der Einordnung durch Befreiung und
• der Umsetzung durch Zustimmung und
• unterdrückend der Einordnung durch Verwicklung* und
• der Umsetzung durch Erschütterung unf
  
• dem sich Verpflichten durch Stärkung und Zermürbung,
• stärkend der Umsetzung durch Erleichterung und
• der Begnung durch Klärung und
• zermürbend der Umsetzung durch Erschwerung und
• der Begegnung durch Verunsicherung.
  

* Plummer spricht die Wahrheit in Dragnet beinahe aus, aber dann doch nicht gänzlich unverschleiert:

Ferris Muskler

Thank God I turned it off the first time before it came to this...

The Art of Railroading

Mit 16 ist man noch schwer beeindruckbar.

Kein Zweifel möglich!

Sagacity laughing at reason

The lady doth protest too much.

Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.

I never knew what a man was supposed to be, I never wanted the responsibility,
but you know it seems, that the situation's getting serious.

Well, ONE generation...

Lamer! You know you are a lamer, but can you come up with an idea? Oh no!
I said, lamer! You're nothing but a lamer, but can you come up with an idea? Oh no!
I said, far out! Gonna be... the real... life Mr. Burns!
You know! Well, you know you had it coming to you, now there's not a lot I can do.
Lamer! You silly little lamer, so now you put your head in your hands, oh no!
I said, far out! Gonna be... the real... life Mr. Burns!
You know! Well, you know you had it coming to you, now there's not a lot I can do.
Well, work it out someday.
If I could see something!
You can see anything you want, boy!
If I could be someone!
You can be anyone, celebrate boy!
Well, if I can do something...
You can do something!
If I could do anything?
Can you do something out of this world?
Take a dream on a Sunday!
Take a life, take a holiday!
Take a lie, take a dreamer!
Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream along!
Lamer! Come on and dream and dream along! Come on and dream and dream along...
Lamer! You know you are a lamer, but can you come up with an idea? Oh no!
I said, lamer! You're nothing but a lamer, but can you come up with an idea? Oh no! Oh no!

The Wim Hof method

Savvy!

The Man with the Golden Gun

The actors and jesters are here, the stage is in darkness and clear, we're raising the curtain and no one's quite certain whose play it is.

Der Kampf der Systeme

The road to all social agreement