“And do you know what ‘the world’ is to me? Shall I show it to you in my mirror?
This world: a monster of energy, without beginning, without end; a firm, iron magnitude of force that does not grow bigger or smaller, that does not expend itself but only transforms itself; as a whole, of unalterable size, a household without expenses or losses, but likewise without increase or income; enclosed by ‘nothingness’ as by a boundary; not something blurry or wasted, not something endlessly extended, but set in a definite space as a definite force, and not a space that might be ‘empty’ here or there, but rather as force throughout, as a play of forces and waves of forces, at the same time one and many, increasing here and at the same time decreasing there; a sea of forces flowing and rushing together, eternally changing, eternally flooding back, with tremendous years of recurrence, with an ebb and a flood of its forms; out of the simplest forms striving toward the most complex, out of the stillest, most rigid, coldest forms striving toward the hottest, most turbulent, most self-contradictory, and then again returning home to the simple out of this abundance, out of the play of contradictions back to the joy of concord, still affirming itself in this uniformity of its courses and its years, blessing itself as that which must return eternally, as a becoming that knows no satiety, no disgust, no weariness: this, my Dionysian world of the eternally self-creating, the eternally self-destroying, this mystery world of the twofold voluptuous delight, my ‘beyond good and evil,’ without goal, unless the joy of the circle is itself a goal; without will, unless a ring feels good will toward itself—
Do you want a name for this world? A solution for all of its riddles? A light for you, too, you best-concealed, strongest, most intrepid, most midnightly men?—
This world is the will to power—and nothing besides! And you yourselves are also this will to power—and nothing besides!”
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
“So overloaded is that passion among the Greeks that it begins ever anew to rage against itself and to strike its teeth into its own flesh. This bloody jealousy of city against city, of party against party, this murderous greed of those little wars, the tiger-like triumph over the corpse of the slain enemy, in short, the incessant renewal of those Trojan scenes of struggle and horror, in the spectacle of which, as a genuine Hellene, Homer stands before us absorbed with delight—whither does this naive barbarism of the Greek state point? What is its excuse before the tribunal of eternal justice? Proud and calm, the State steps before this tribunal and by the hand it leads the flower of blossoming womanhood: Greek society.”
Friedrich Nietzsche.
"Phrygian cap" is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated with the ancient Thracians, Dacians, Persians, Medes, Scythians, Trojans, and Phrygians after whom it is named.
It also describes a congenital gallbladder anatomical variant occurring in about 5% of people.
This case involving the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) shows that men haven't changed much since ancient Greek and Roman times.
Men tend to see women in two different ways:
1. Wife (Aphrodite Urania): She is the woman a man marries, has children with, builds a family with, and grows old alongside. She is usually valued more for stability, loyalty, and companionship than for overwhelming beauty. Here, what he seeks is power (family, legacy, and continuity).
2. Lover or Concubine (Aphrodite Pandemos): She is the exceptionally beautiful woman desired mainly for pleasure and passion. She may or may not live with him. Prostitutes can also be included in this category. Here, what he seeks is pleasure.
This is why I say that all goddesses are ultimately aspects of Aphrodite. They are either pudic (Urania) or impudic (Pandemos).
Likewise, all women mirror Aphrodite in one way or another, embodying either Urania or Pandemos.
In that sense, there is really only one goddess: Aphrodite. All other goddesses are simply different expressions of her. Homer was right to give her the golden apple.
In London, this sculpture was initially banned from public view because the orgiastic scene at the base , considered far too provocative . It wasn`t until 1894 that it finally went on show , with a piece of scarlet cloth wrapped around the pedestal to make it acceptable.
Proud and powerful she stands on her pedestal. At her feet , a writhing mass of men`s bodies twists together
in a raw , bestial frenzy .
This is Circe , the sorceress . Bertram Mackennal shows her with no mercy at all. To her, men were simply weak creatures , there for her to toy with and satisfy her desires . Mackennal drew from the famous story of the enchantress who turned Odysseus `s men into swine. He presents Circe as an incredibly beautiful woman with a gorgeous body and commanding presence.
Any man who looked at her was changed , turned into an animal, driven by nothing but raw lust and passion.
It's obvious that the Pope will defend immigration, it's consistent with the Christian morality preached by Jesus of "love thy neighbor." It's not a contradiction or inconsistency on the Pope's part.
In fact, you are the one being contradictory and inconsistent, because you want him to say the opposite. You won't find that in Christianity... you'll have to look for another religion. Anti-immigration sentiment is only found in paganism.
Pope Leo criticized blanket “remigration” as a solution to the migrant crisis in Europe, saying it doesn’t respect the personhood of foreigners.
“Many times we don't recognize the reasons why these people had to leave their countries. Many reasons: violence, war, conflict. So
Christians are always like that. They love everything created by the Roman pagan religion, but at the same time they hate paganism. It's an endless cognitive dissonance.
You have to realize that Roman paganism was a shitshow by the time Christianity gained traction. Nobody believed in the old gods anymore. The whole thing was a mish-mash of foreign cults and cope philosophies. Just look at Julian's disastrous attempts to reform it. This was not
"Milky way galaxy" is a redundant term because "galaxy" literally means "milky way", it comes from Greek.
According to the mythos, Zeus snuck baby Herakles to feed on Hera's breast when she slept. When she realized she pushed Herakles away. Then her milk sprayed across the sky.
Esses são os tais "luciferianos" ou "satanistas" que são contra luta de gladiadores... puta que pariu.
Esse imbecil não sabe que foram os cristãos que proibiram a luta de gladiadores no fim do império? E que essas lutas na verdade existiam em seu auge?
Por isso não gosto deles e não me considero em hipótese nenhuma um satanista. O que mais tem é satanista com moral cristã, a mesma coisa vale para o ateu.
@masochistmartyr Look at the people who glorify it, lost degenerates looking to fill the void in their heart with pleasures of the flesh.
Sex is endured for the one we love. A sacrifice. A burden. Not something to be enjoyed frivolously.
Yes, the Iliad itself was a kind of oral storytelling, and knowledge of the gods was passed down orally within families among the Greeks and Romans.
But my criticism is that oral transmission is much more easily lost over time than written books. Entire nations, peoples or families can die out (wars, plagues, diseases, low birth rates, etc.) and memories fade/change easily without continuous effort, while a book only requires being copied and preserved to survive centuries even if the people who created it no longer exist.
We probably wouldn't know what the Iliad would be like today if it hadn't been written down.
That's why my thesis that knowledge of the gods is the most important thing still holds true (even if it's passed down orally or in writing). That's also the reason I remain against initiation or secret/occult societies, because the knowledge of the gods is more easily lost by restricting it to a few.
Sade was so opposed to initiation and secret societies that he was imprisoned precisely for wanting to spread his ideas to everyone through his books.
And he was one of the most devoted men to Dionysus and created his entire philosophy around this god.
Although some ancient Dionysian cults involved initiation (mainly related to Orphism, the Eleusinian Mysteries, etc.), many other branches and interpretations of this god do not require it.
And I also interpret it the same way as Sade: initiation rituals are not necessary, only knowledge of the god, which can be acquired through the books themselves.
That's why Christians burned many pagan books in antiquity and have a deep zeal for the Bible, precisely because it seems they had an understanding of this.
The true gold or heart of religion is in the books, not in the rituals. It is in the knowledge of the god. By burning the book, knowledge is lost. That's why there was no continuation of ancient paganism into modernity.
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