Month: May 2013

I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back.

Isaac Asimov, Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700 Jokes, Limericks and Anecdotes. (via a-phorist)

Scroll of Thoth: Bees in the Temple, Musings on Bees and Honey

Scroll of Thoth: Bees in the Temple, Musings on Bees and Honey

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Bees and the products we gather from them have been an essential part of Hellenic faith for longer than we have record. From bees we understand the sacred nature of the gods, of the soul, we gain our mythos, and an ancient companion. It is literally inmpossible to seperate…

I don’t like how the new tumblr links seem to attribute the work to me. This is ginandjack’s writing, not mine.

Bees in the Temple, Musings on Bees and Honey

ginandjack:

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Bees and the products we gather from them have been an essential part of Hellenic faith for longer than we have record. From bees we understand the sacred nature of the gods, of the soul, we gain our mythos, and an ancient companion. It is literally inmpossible to seperate bees from the ancient Hellenic world.In Greek, the word Μέλι or “meli” is trnaslated to honey, and the word Μέλισσα or “Melissa” means honey bee. From the word for “bee” we get the word for priestess, “Melissa” or “melissae”. And that springs directly from the nymphae of bees.

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Amazing. I recognize the Deathly Hallows symbol as well as Trystero’s, but what are the first an last ones?

i’d say the right is a for Kazimir Malevitsh, tell me if you find out about the left. ^^

The tags of the original posting read “#harry Potter #discworld #trystero #pynchon #secrets” – so maybe the leftmost symbol is Discworld-related? It reminds me of old Blind Io, but I think his symbol is a double-handled (not double-headed) axe…

Left to right
The summoning dark – from discworld
Deathly Hallows
Trystero – the crying if lot 49

the box is a ballot. I tick it off when I’m having a good a good time. There is a picture on here somewhere.

Why haven’t I read this earlier? ^^

Because its hard to follow conversations on pictures here?

Indeed, sometimes it is, and I’m glad I found it again – by pure chance. ^^