(no subject)

dear work,

this is the second time in a month that you have let me come to work on my "monday" to find no partner, and no one scheduled to work the incoming shift. i love working a 14 hour shift blind. no. really.

this would constitute Reason Number 6,299,348,227 why i went part time. keep this up and i won't wait until September to tell you to stuff this job all permanent like. i'll let you come to work in say, July, on your "monday" of course, to find out that you're short one employee.

to summarize...you suck and i will exact my retribution for it soon.

love,
me.

(no subject)

dear work,

this is the second time in a month that you have let me come to work on my "monday" to find no partner, and no one scheduled to work the incoming shift. i love working a 14 hour shift blind. no. really.

this would constitute Reason Number 6,299,348,227 why i went part time. keep this up and i won't wait until September to tell you to stuff this job all permanent like. i'll let you come to work in say, July, on your "monday" of course, to find out that you're short one employee.

to summarize...you suck and i will exact my retribution for it soon.

love,
me.

because i see Farscape everywhere

after a very complicated series of link hops, i came across a web page with [Pythagorean-based Tarot.] go figure. the first card, or rather the 0 card, is the Fool.

follow along, fair reader, and venture a guess of whom it may speak.

Motto:
In mundo privato (In a private world)

Deities:
Dionysos, Bacchus, Dianus and Diana.

Greek Letter = Alpha:
Arche = beginning, first cause, origin.

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Description

A dancing figure - it could be a young man or woman - with a multicolored (predominantly green), floral cloak draped around his hips and over his left arm. He wears a fawn skin over his right shoulder, hiding his chest. In unkemp, light brown locks, which fall to his shoulders, there are seven feathers (white, black, purple, blue, red, silver and gold), which look vaguely like horns, and he wears an ivy wreath around his temples. The Idiot is barefoot, and drags vines tangled around one leg. In his right hand he holds a staff wrapped in ivy and topped with a pine cone, and in his left a bunch of grapes. The Idiot stares into the distance, oblivious to his surroundings, and appears to be whistling. A small panther stands against the Idiot's leg, but we cannot tell whether it is biting him or marking him as its own. A serpent emerges from the ground in front of the Idiot, and a fig tree laden with figs is in the background.
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Verse

Behold! the Holy Idiot, lost within
A private world. He'll have the chance to win
New freedom from confining rules. Rejoice
The madness! For it brings another choice.
Now let the Saturnalia begin!


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Interpretation

When the time comes, as it always does, when the old rules, conceptual structures, prejudices and beliefs are not longer adequate to the challenges at hand, then a Divine Maniac is needed. He or she lives in a private world, and so is not bound by the shared conventions, preconceptions or norms of the society. The Gods - or Chance - select the Idiot who will become the savior who will transform society. He is elevated to King for a short time (for only so much madness can be tolerated), and must undergo many transformations before, with luck, he rejuvenates the world.
On a personal level, there are times in all of our lives when customary thought patterns have outlived there usefulness. Then it is time for Divine Madness (mania). There are no rules for this, for it is the rules that are bankrupt. The only escape is inspired frenzy and the blind leap into the abyss. We may hope for the best, but there are no guarantees.

The Idiot represents the irrepressible Vital Spirit, overflowing its banks, roaring across the landscape, and carving new pathways where it will.


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Commentary

In ancient Greek an idiotes (Latin idiota) - the origin of our word "idiot" - is an individual, a person concerned only with his own private affairs, a commoner with no interest in public affairs, who is assumed to be ignorant, unskilled and vulgar (OLD & LSJ, s.v.). In old Tarot decks and in old descriptions of them the Fool is called, for example, il Matto (the Madman), il Folle (the Fool), or le Fou (the Fool). The Idiot represents the ordinary person, living in a private world, whether through ignorance, insanity, or rugged individualism. The Idiot is the Everyman before he is, by chance, given an opportunity to be Saturnalicius Princeps, Carnival King - king for a week. (Carnival and Saturnalia both last one week, Dec. 17-23.)

By electing a Carnival King we take a conscious, intentional step into the irrational. The Fool or Jester represents an intentional source of chaotic, irrational, random action, which is intended to break whatever rules or conventions normally hold. He allows us to escape our self-imposed bounds. Because he is bound by no rules, he is truly the Arche (Beginning), the Uncaused Cause. (Nichols 24, 30-1)

because i see Farscape everywhere

after a very complicated series of link hops, i came across a web page with [Pythagorean-based Tarot.] go figure. the first card, or rather the 0 card, is the Fool.

follow along, fair reader, and venture a guess of whom it may speak.

Motto:
In mundo privato (In a private world)

Deities:
Dionysos, Bacchus, Dianus and Diana.

Greek Letter = Alpha:
Arche = beginning, first cause, origin.

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Description

A dancing figure - it could be a young man or woman - with a multicolored (predominantly green), floral cloak draped around his hips and over his left arm. He wears a fawn skin over his right shoulder, hiding his chest. In unkemp, light brown locks, which fall to his shoulders, there are seven feathers (white, black, purple, blue, red, silver and gold), which look vaguely like horns, and he wears an ivy wreath around his temples. The Idiot is barefoot, and drags vines tangled around one leg. In his right hand he holds a staff wrapped in ivy and topped with a pine cone, and in his left a bunch of grapes. The Idiot stares into the distance, oblivious to his surroundings, and appears to be whistling. A small panther stands against the Idiot's leg, but we cannot tell whether it is biting him or marking him as its own. A serpent emerges from the ground in front of the Idiot, and a fig tree laden with figs is in the background.
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Verse

Behold! the Holy Idiot, lost within
A private world. He'll have the chance to win
New freedom from confining rules. Rejoice
The madness! For it brings another choice.
Now let the Saturnalia begin!


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Interpretation

When the time comes, as it always does, when the old rules, conceptual structures, prejudices and beliefs are not longer adequate to the challenges at hand, then a Divine Maniac is needed. He or she lives in a private world, and so is not bound by the shared conventions, preconceptions or norms of the society. The Gods - or Chance - select the Idiot who will become the savior who will transform society. He is elevated to King for a short time (for only so much madness can be tolerated), and must undergo many transformations before, with luck, he rejuvenates the world.
On a personal level, there are times in all of our lives when customary thought patterns have outlived there usefulness. Then it is time for Divine Madness (mania). There are no rules for this, for it is the rules that are bankrupt. The only escape is inspired frenzy and the blind leap into the abyss. We may hope for the best, but there are no guarantees.

The Idiot represents the irrepressible Vital Spirit, overflowing its banks, roaring across the landscape, and carving new pathways where it will.


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Commentary

In ancient Greek an idiotes (Latin idiota) - the origin of our word "idiot" - is an individual, a person concerned only with his own private affairs, a commoner with no interest in public affairs, who is assumed to be ignorant, unskilled and vulgar (OLD & LSJ, s.v.). In old Tarot decks and in old descriptions of them the Fool is called, for example, il Matto (the Madman), il Folle (the Fool), or le Fou (the Fool). The Idiot represents the ordinary person, living in a private world, whether through ignorance, insanity, or rugged individualism. The Idiot is the Everyman before he is, by chance, given an opportunity to be Saturnalicius Princeps, Carnival King - king for a week. (Carnival and Saturnalia both last one week, Dec. 17-23.)

By electing a Carnival King we take a conscious, intentional step into the irrational. The Fool or Jester represents an intentional source of chaotic, irrational, random action, which is intended to break whatever rules or conventions normally hold. He allows us to escape our self-imposed bounds. Because he is bound by no rules, he is truly the Arche (Beginning), the Uncaused Cause. (Nichols 24, 30-1)