Why not?

"Someone has to take a stand against evil, why should it not be me?"

The Abyss

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

-Nietzsche

Churches and Taverns

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

-Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814-1876)
Russian anarchist and political theorist who opposed Karl Marx

Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living

At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
1. Respect for self
2. Respect for others
3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to
enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

militant pacifist

“I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. . . . Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?”

—Albert Einstein

Only lacks a Goblin to run it!

http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/04/24/forest-fire-clear-cut-robot

Nietzsche

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

My plan for global domination

Ok, so I recently learned of a mythical animal from South America...the Lightning-Breathing Ocelot!

How is this significant you ask?

You team the suckers up with flying monkeys!  Yes, the infamous flying monkeys, woefully under utilized by the Wicked Witch of the West...I mean seriously, you have an army of fricking flying monkeys and you can't take out a Kansas farm girl in a dress with a stupid little dog?  WTF???

So anyway, I digress...

Imagine teaming up lightning-breathing Ocelots with winged monkeys....

Visualize this scene, military base in the middle of the night, guards are bored and sleepy, and everyone else is out cold.  Several squadrons of winged monkeys bearing the 82nd Airborne equivalent of Lightning-Breathing Ocelots crosses the wire at tree-top level and drop their load of Ocelots silently into the base (Ocelots always land on their feet of course) and then all hell breaks loose!  Ocelots laying waste to everything around them with their Godzilla-like lightning breath, Flying Monkeys providing close air support (dive-bombing pockets of resistance with flying-monkey poop).  It would be a massacre!

Now visualize that whole scene again set to Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner


or O Fortuna by Carl Orff (slightly modified by Therion)!




Can you say total global domination?  I love the smell of flying monkey poop in the morning.  It smells like victory!

Famous Buddhist Quotes & Sayings

• Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
• You only lose what you cling to.
• Fill your mind with compassion.
• We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
• The Four Reliances
  First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words;
  Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher;
  Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;
  And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.
• We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.
• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
• Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
• Pay no attention to the faults of others,
  things done or left undone by others.
  Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
• What we think, we become.
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
• Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
• He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
• An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind
• Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
• Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
• Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
• On life's journey Faith is nourishment,
  Virtuous deeds are a shelter,
  Wisdom is the light by day and Right mindfulness is the protection by night.
  If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him;
  If he has conquered greed nothing can limit his freedom.
• One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?"
  "No", answered Buddha.
  "Then are you a healer?"
  "No", Buddha replied.
  "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.
  "No, I am not a teacher."
  "Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated.
  "I am awake", Buddha replied.

http://www.amazingposts.com/2007/08/famous-buddhist-quotes-sayings.html

Elements

Earth,
Solid, strong, hard, unforgiving, bearer of live, consumer of death, constantly worn away and rebuilt, slow moving but juggernaut, stable yet malleable, stops water yet melts in the flood, merges with fire to flow freely and explode into the sky, redirects wind only to become part of the sky itself

Water,
Ever fluid, ever moving, bearer of nutrients for life itself, easily manipulated but unstoppable, quenches fire, flies with air, white frozen rivers grind earth to paste, blue islands on the seas of time and space

Fire,
Driving the universe, convection radiation conduction, exploding brimstone, turning all that lives to cinders, destroyer of civilization fuel for life, driving water into the air, lighting the heavens

Air,
Pushing water through the sky, oceans disappear, earth carried away, fire driven yet quenched, crisp and cold, gritty and hot, infinite yet mostly empty, with water spinning behemoths smashing all in their path

The origin of Kohuoro

Kohu:   (noun) fog, mist, haze, smog.   Ka pōkia te maunga e tekohu .  The mountain was covered by fog. 

Oro:  1. (noun) grove of trees of one kind.   

            2. (noun) sound, rumble.   

Ya, I am a pagan treehugger, deal with it!

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