Month: January 2013

fuckyeahtattoos:

In the Ogham alphabet this spells out the Gaelic word mhaithimidne, which means forgive. 

Forgiveness is one of the most vital aspects of our humanity; it’s how we heal. I’ve had to learn that no matter how tired you are, no matter how terribly you’ve been wronged, no matter how angry you are at yourself, you have to find it in you to forgive. Sometimes, forgiveness even comes on its own with time. Forgive out of love; forgive out of compassion; forgive out of desperation; forgive out of knowledge; forgive because you should; forgive because you can.

I got this because I wanted a more unconventional way to have the word tattooed on me. I love this because it’s linear and simple and beautiful.

I had it done by Jake at Ol’ Skool Tatoos in Brownsville, Texas. He’s a fantastic artist, and he’s so adamant about being as accommodating as possible. The entire times, he was making sure I was okay with the pain and controlling my breathing (because tattoos between your ribs flippin’ hurt). He even called me a trooper afterwards. It’s my third tattoo, and the second one I’ve gotten from that shop. They’re all quite a hoot to sit and talk with, and I’m never disappointed. 

spitzenprodukte:

“THEY TALK ABOUT VIOLENCE” I collected a whole bunch of leaflets, propaganda and flyers during the 2010 student protests. I think I got this flyer at the second or third demo after Millbank, produced by one of the anarchist affinity groups which operated at the time.

lunaraurora:

sassy-kenway:

WTF

Subject: THIS IMAGE SHOULD BE SEEN IN THE WHOLE WORLD

While magazines and TV chains report about the lives and love affairs of movie actors and actresses, football players and other celebrities, the Chief of the Kayapo tribe heard the worst news of his entire life: 

Mrs. Dilma, the president of Brazil, has given her approval for the construction of an enormous hydroelectric central (the world’s third largest one).

This means the death sentence for ALL the tribes living at the shores of the river because the barrage will flood more or less 400 000 hectares of the forest. 

More than 40 000 natives will have to find other living surroundings where they will be able to survive. 

The destruction of the natural habitat, the deforestation and the disappearance of several species of plants and animals will be a fait accompli. 

We know that a simple image is the equivalent of a thousand words, it shows the price to be paid for the “quality of life” of our so-called “modern comforts.”
There is no space in the world anymore for those who live differently. Everything has to be smoothed away, that everyone, in the name of globalization must lose his and her identity and way of living.

If this enrages you, I urge and implore you to forward this message to all your friends, relatives and acquaintances. 

Thank you in the name of life, nature and biodiversity.

©Hans van Raam

i hate people.

This is complicated. Yes, we want renewable energy, but there are better ways of going about this. The article does not mention that driving indigenous Brazilians off their land has been going on for generations. Something has to give, but why can’t these people be justly compensated?

The Universe of Magic is in the mind of a man: the setting is but Illusion even to the thinker. Humanity is progressing; formerly men dwelt habitually in the exterior world; nothing less than giants and Paynim and men-at-arms and distressed ladies, vampires and succubi, could amuse them. Their magicians brought demons from the smoke of blood, and made gold from baser metals. In this they succeeded; the intelligent perceived that the gold and the lead were but shadows of thought. It became probable that the elements were but isomers of one element; matter was seen to be but a modification of mind, or (at least) that the two things matter and mind must be joined before either could be perceived. All knowledge comes through the senses, on the one hand; on the other, it is only through the senses that knowledge comes.

Aleister Crowley, Liber DCCCLX (John St. John), Preface (via vagabondbohemia)

shadylane3:

Hephaestus was the Greek god of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. Hephaestus’ Roman equivalent was Vulcan. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of the gods.

As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshiped in the manufacturing and industrial centres of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. Hephaestus’s symbols are a smith’s hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs.

Hephaestus is reported in mythological sources as “lame” and “halting”. He was depicted with crippled feet and as misshapen, either from birth or as a result of his fall from Olympus. In vase-paintings, Hephaestus is usually shown lame and bent over his anvil, hard at work on a metal creation, and sometimes with his feet back-to-front. He walked with the aid of a stick. The Argonaut, Palaimonius, “son of Hephaestus” was also lame.

Other “sons of Hephaestus” were the Cabeiri on the island of Samothrace, who were identified with the crab by the lexicographer Hesychius. The adjective karkinopous (“crab-footed”) signified “lame”, according to Detienne and Vernant. The Cabeiri were also lame.

In some myths, Hephaestus built himself a “wheeled chair” or chariot with which to move around, thus helping him overcome his lameness while demonstrating his skill to the other gods. In the Iliad, it is said that Hephaestus built some bronze human machines in order to move around.

Hephaestus’s ugly appearance and lameness is taken by some to represent arsenicosis, an effect of low levels of arsenic exposure that would result in lameness and skin cancers. In place of less easily available tin, arsenic was added to copper in the Bronze Age to harden it; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired Lewis Carroll’s famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would have suffered from chronic poisoning as a result of their livelihood. Consequently, the mythic image of the lame smith is widespre

Parallels in other mythological systems for Hephaestos’s symbolism include:

The Ugarit craftsman-god Kothar-wa-Khasis, who is identified from afar by his distinctive walk—possibly suggesting that he limps.

As the Egyptian Herodotus was given to understand, the craftsman-god Ptah was a dwarf.

In Norse mythology, Weyland the Smith was a lame bronzeworker.