(Juno Receiving the Head of Argos {Creator:Jacopo Amigoni} 1730 – 1732) I recently made a post about Machiavelli and quoted some folks who said that he was sort of pissed that Christianity made us into a bunch of wankers. When I say wankers, what I mean is people who feel like we should “turn the [...]
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Posted in Machiavelli, Philosophers, Power and Morality, tagged Cesare Borgia, Discourses on the First Decade of Titius Livius, Julian II, Machiavellian, Maurizio Viroli, Nicollo Machiavelli, Pope Alexander VI, Scott Curry, The Art of War, The Prince on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oxford English Dictionary defines Machiavellianism as “the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct.” In social psychology, a Machiavellian person is one who has a high tendency to deceive and manipulate others for personal gain. In middle school Mr. Snarey told us that to be called Machiavellian means that you are cynical, [...]
evil walks amongst us…are you a trichot?
Posted in Rudolf Steiner, Unified Theory: Bringing Together Seemingly Paradoxical Elements, tagged Ahriman, dichotomy, duality, Groenbaek Kalkmaleri, Jesus, Lucifer, Rudolf Steiner, trichotomy, vesica piscis on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m reading an interesting book at the moment entitled The Incarnation of Ahriman: The Embodiment of Evil on Earth. It is a collection of lectures by Rudolf Steiner about Ahriman, the specter of ultra domination who has already incarnated or will be incarnating soon, here in the West. In the first lecture, which is all I have [...]
I am a watermelon head full of seeds.
Posted in Rudolf Steiner, Science and Magic, tagged Brahma Kumaris, Buson YŌkai Emaki, camping, Einstein, Rosen Method, Rudolf Steiner, Vipassana on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(Watermelon Monster from the Buson YŌkai Emaki-1754) We see nature around us, and we see also that man enters into his physical existence through the forces of this same nature. We know through our study of Spiritual Science that we do not rightly regard nature if we only pay attention to its external physical features. [...]
jesus would love this post: therablogging at its best.
Posted in Philosophers, Power and Morality, Socrates on July 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
(Socrates and his wife Xanthippe, who is emptying a chamber pot on his head) So, most people who read the previous post, in which I make the point that if-God- hadn’t-wanted-us-to-talk-about-people-why-would-ze-make-it-so-fun? point, agreed that Jesus was probably a funny guy, and that they, too, like funny things. I’ve pondered and pondered over the last 48 [...]
