Ange de les Desolee

maneastellus @ 2007-08-31T23:36:00

2007-08-31T14:23:52Z

Major fuckup in wednesday's job interview. (Well, in addition to having applied for the fucking thing: The ad was somewhat misleading and i was given to believe it was for a government department, but it turned out to be a fucking Shares registry.)
My only experience is two years in a Moroccan restaurant, so the first hag i had to speak to asked about what sorts of pressures one is put under as a waiter, and how i've dealt with bad customers. I can't remember how i started answering that, but she asked afterwards, "So does the customer always come first?". The answer is: by no fucking means. People who hear that phrase and the use of the singular instead of the plural promptly forget that they aren't the only customer there, and you can't waste more time on one person than on any other, though they all expect it, so Efficiency comes first. If this is difficult for them to get through their heads, there are plenty of valuable lessons to be learned in a scalding-hot tagene inverted and placed with some force in the crotch.
However, i started saying "They have to be given that impression", and stuttered after, "They have to...", so i repeated it, and she cut me off when i'd only gotten that far again, so she thought i meant 'yes' and was being emphatic.
The next guy i had to talk to was a fat, balding, middle-aged 27-29year old with a bad twitch. In one respect it was kind of reassuring, but it was also indicative that the intimidation doesn't stop at being left indefinitely in a very small cubic white room with one door and no windows, mostly taken up by a single table, waiting between interviewers. In fact, he told me that if i got the job, the person i would be replacing is a 27 year old who has been working in the mailing room since he was 17, and is now ready to move onto "bigger and better things", aka a shares clerk. Pardon me while i have another fucking midlife crisis just thinking about it. What the fuck is wrong with these people? Later, the poor guy brought up that I was only 20, and asked if i thought any problems would arise from my working with people from a very different age-group. Most of the people working there are over 50, and "...there aren't many of us here under 30". He said this somewhat imploringly, badly masked and twitching, as if by 'us' he meant himself and me, rather than he and the company. He may rest assured that I empathise with him fully.
It has now occurred to me that when asked what value i thought my skills would be to the company, i should have said that i have no intention of pursuing a permanent career in that bullshit and i'd be happy to stay in the mailing room doing the grunts work for as long as i have to. I'm not competitive and i wouldn't be a threat to my interviewer's jobs in future, and i'd be good practice for other initiates who need to be more slowly weened into the predatory environment by stoicly bearing the brunt of their frustrations, so i wouldn't threaten the Darwinian dynamic of the workplace, except to the advantage of those already there, by weakening their future competition who've had their trial-by-fire made easier by having me around to beat up on.
But that might have gotten me the fucking job. I was half asleep when they called this morning to tell me i'd failed the interview, so i'm not sure if i vocalised "Isn't it a bit early in the morning for good news?" Sadly i doubt it.
So here's to dickhead yuppie scum who'd sooner have a piss-boring unfulfilling job with shitty hours and too much pay, than a personality.

maneastellus @ 2007-08-23T17:50:00

2007-08-23T08:41:57Z

Of gender constructs, homophobia and Liberalism:
Adam Smith's theory of Economic Liberalism is based in that people rationalise all actions by how they can make a material gain. Our aversion to incest is evidence against this, as it is founded purely in concern for distant future generations and has no immediate ramifications. This is the same for resource exploitation and pollution, but the consideration is distinctly absent in an irrational double-standard. Why is an apathetic conservative Western middle-class consumer not held in the same stigmatic revoltion as an inbred redneck retard?
In small communities, sexual promiscuity and a lack of regard for who fathered which children would make avoiding incest in succeeding generations more difficult because everyone would be a potential half-sibling. This is why monogamy was institutionalised in early societies and measures were taken to enforce 'fidelity', which were obviously discriminatory against women because 'infidelity' on a man's part doesn't make the identity of the child's mother any less certain. Measures included everything between partial segregation for the sake of etiquette and propriety, and genital mutilation. The entire history of sexual antagonism, repression and terrorism stems from these measures. I'll finish reading Venus in Furs before continuing.
...
Several contagious venereal infections, such as thrush and trichonomas, are caused by bacteria naturally occurring in the human digestive system. It can be contracted or transmitted by bisexual promiscuity, monogamous heterosexual sodomy, or simply unhygene in single women. Bisexuals could avoid them by having a bath between partners, but for most nomadic hunter-gatherers this wasn't an option, so the transmittal of venereal disease was instead seen as the wrath of the gods against the immoral principle of homosexuality.
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maneastellus @ 2007-08-18T13:19:00

2007-08-18T04:01:24Z

The Roman Catholic (lit. 'All-encompassing') faith was an amalgamation of all the major cults practiced in Rome at the time of Constantine, and Christianity was the most popular. I'm assuming Constantine's conversion was to gain the popularity of the Roman people at a time when the old Roman state religion was at odds with that of most of the people and was a trapping of the oppression and decadence in the division of Roman society.
Most of the doctrine of the Roman Christians (and therefore all modern Christians) comes from the teachings of Paul, while the churches founded by the other Apostles led to several schismatic forms of Christianity in the East (founding the Christian cults in Rome was the reason for Paul's comparative success). The dominant non-Roman church was that of a prophet-scholar called Macedonius and was spreading through Eastern Europe among the Goths and other Germanic and Asiatic barbarians and across the Eastern end of the empire. It was decided therefore that monopolising Christianity would stem nationalist separatism within the boundaries of the Empire and assist further expansion.
The main difference in the doctrines of Paul's Roman church and Macedonius' Eastern one is in whether Jesus, as part of the eternal trinity, had always existed, or was born mortal and didn't exist prior to his time on earth. Since this is too subtle an esoteric technicality for most Christians to care about, the leading officials in the Roman theocracy held several conferences in the late Carthage, where all available holy text material was examined and the modern Bible was compiled from that which wasn't too contradictory to the artificial aspects (such as purgatory) invented at the conferences purely for the purpose of alienating the practices of the Macedonian church, that it may be declared Heretical.
I'd like to hear a Christian's explanation, in the light of this, how the Bible can still be taken seriously as Divine Inspiration direct, especially when all the texts had been translated from Aramaic to Greek to Latin at the time of the Conferences of Carthage, and since have been translated again.

maneastellus @ 2007-07-13T14:38:00

2007-07-13T06:54:31Z

Allegorical interpretation of El Laberinto del Fauno.
Ikhe, don't read this until you've seen it.

The general theme is the changing relationship between child and parent during the development of the child's ability to handle autonomy and take responsibility for its life (like rather a lot else, i notice, but it's a theme that is seldom addressed, and an issue that is almost never resolved because no one pays attention to Mythology).

1. Learning to make sacrifice of infantility:
The first task is to find the key (knowledge and wisdom) in the roots of the tree (tree being the paths of knowledge and embodiment of the changes and cycles of eternity, roots being intuition and instinct and self reflection).
Traditionally, the fig tree symbolises religious knowledge. It can't flourish because of a stigma in the roots. The toad's refusal to move is the stigma, not the toad itself, which is a representation of the earth and a denizen of dark, moist places. It too is a symbol of intuition, but in one respect, specifically in Ofelia's case, also of a girl's growing knowledge of womanhood. In either case it must be brought to the surface in the form of the key to sacrifice in order for the tree, the path to higher knowledge, to continue to grow.
A motif present in the film is visual representations of female genitalia. The fig tree, the book's diagram of the feasthall and the guardian, and the bloodstains on the book all take roughly the shape of the uterus and ovaries. The shape of the fig tree and the picture of the guardian are overemphasised to the point that the arms curve around into circles forming two windows. This represents either the change from one world to another (like the yin/yang) or a choice between the two in a deviating path. These are basically the same thing, accompanying an obvious reference to the beginning of menstruation, also traditionally representing the change to adulthood. (Another sample of halves representing change is when Captain Vidal is shaving. When his is half finished he looks at himself in the mirror [personal reflection on a changing role as a father] and drags the razor across it at neck height; rather self explanatory.)

Once the key is acquired the next task begins with Ofelia's mother getting sick and blood staining the pages of the Book of Crossroads in the shape of the uterus and ovaries. This is a reminder that the purpose of the exercise is to foster the exchange of authority and responsibility between the child and the parent (the mother is sick and fading, the corollary is the attention of Ofelia being drawn to the change to adulthood, represented by menstruation).
With the knowledge of sacrifice (the key to the locker) already acquired, the nest step is preparedness to make it and give up the trappings of the old life of being doted on. Ofelia enters a place where the choice is to be made. She is not to eat or drink anything there (like dancing in mushroomrings) because indecision is not a place to find sustenance. She uses the key to open the locker and take the sacrificial blade, but is tempted by a grape (lifeblood and immortality), representing her desire never to leave childhood and reluctance to take on responsibility. This awakens a creature who's eyes are in its hands. Combining the senses of touch and sight in this way represents having no foresight or understanding of consequences: seeing only what one touches, and the creature therefore embodies infantile hedonism, which will consume the child who refuses to take on the change to adulthood and won't make sacrifice.
The fairies (an embodiment of intuition and instinct at work) warn Ofelia by being eaten (the partial deterioration of intuition by the influence of apathy) and so she has to leave through the ceiling, because once a person finds themself in that mindstate, they cannot leave it the way they came in, and must escape by seeking a higher purpose.

2. Transcendence and the end of parenthood:
Vidal tells the doctor, if the choice need be made, to save the child and let the woman die. Vidal is the father who will not relinquish authority over the child when the child is prepared to take on the responsibility. He would have the potential adult die to keep things the way they are. The aforementioned shaving scene demonstrates his willingness to alter his own conduct, nipping change in the bud. The two solutions are: Mercedes cutting open his cheek (...not sure exactly what the means yet...) and running away; simple destruction of the relationship and joining the rebels, or Ofelia trying to take the child away from him. Trying to leave without the baby failed, because the sacrifice made for transcendence is not of the child, but of freedom from responsibility. The child is needed as a foundation of which to build that which comes after the change, and cannot be left behind or forgotten. In the Labyrinth, Ofelia gives the baby back to Vidal, who shoots her and gives the baby to Mercedes. Ofelia is released from the constraints of childhood, Mercedes is given hers back so that she may build on it with stability and security, Vidal is disposed of, and all changes are completed.

maneastellus @ 2007-07-10T03:36:00

2007-07-09T17:38:18Z

Play it again sam...
http://www.jtf.org/israel/israel.desecrating.and.sanctifying.htm
Hahahahahahahahahhaaaaaaagh!

maneastellus @ 2007-07-10T03:08:00

2007-07-09T17:06:14Z

Someone help me sink that carrier. We only have until tuesday. Why does tuesday have a red line underneath it? What the Fuck? Why does someone who is both a yank AND a computer programmer think they can spell better than me? Americans and computer programmers spell even worse than government officials. Why is the world run by people who can't spell or construct a sentence in their first and only language? Is that why i can't find a job? And i'm not even the best writer or speaker, as i have demonstrated by beginning a sentence with a conjunction. What's going on? Fuck, it's tuesday already. I have to think of a way to sink an aircraft carrier with my bare hands in the time it takes to walk and swim to Garden Island, after thinking of a way to get downstairs and out the door without waking my grandmother who is asleep in the loungeroom. That means the cat is locked in my room so she doesn't disturb my grandmother. That means i'm locked in my room with a cat sleeping on me. As soon as that ship disappears over the horizon i'll immediately think of a really obvious way to have sunk it using a sleeping cat on my stomach from my room in Drummoyne. Since it will have been too late, i will have to content myself with hunting down all the hags who got knocked up by American sailors and remove the malbegotten hellspawn through their nostrils and destroy the taint before another batch of demi-yank daemon-baby-boomer bastards are unleashed. Fuck. Run out of shit to bitch about. Has a decent movie in history ever had a sequel made? xXx is fucking gay. The NexXxt Level is fucking gayah, arrgh, mann gegen mann... 'Girls come from Mars to be rockstars, boys come from jupiter to be MORE stupidER (sic)' I'm running out of good irony, this is what i have to resort to. Still, a movie exists in which a priest in a confessional kills a man for being a loser. So i'm happy... It's the same movie in which some genius discovers that the way to make the joke "...so he says to the blind chick, 'the reason snakey spits up when you stroke him is 'cause snakey thinks he's my cock" funny is to churn your skull into a paste with a clawtooth hammer right after telling it. That's a much better punchline.
17ish hours 'til 'Khe arrives... maybe...
A pet is for life, but sanity is for the week(tm). Id amo, id amo, id amo! Ecce ladum. The green tide approacheth. I know just the way to waste a day. Laters.
Speaking of Latin, and therefore Romans, yellow-blue Tiber...

The Serious Sam logo looks like MalcomX as an elevator attendant

2007-05-28T14:57:37Z

brief history of human everything:
Some smartarse crushes grass-seed into powder, adds water to it and bakes it on a fire-stone.
Bread becomes a staple and grasses are domesticated by removing other plant species and cultivating the grasses as a monoculture.
Wild cattle are caught alive and raised from birth to be non-migratory. Tribes needn't travel to follow the beasts' migration. (late palaeolithic, approximately intact beuvine skeletons with damaged vertabrae are found near signs of human habitation = animal was slaughtered near the camp instead of killed elsewhere and brought back in pieces = domestic)
It is irrelevant which of the above happened first, both would have been a gradual process rather than an instant event, but it meant the beginning of urbanisation.
With the disassociation from the cycles of nature by the domestication of food sources, the availability of food for the next year is less easy to determine. Without migration, domesticated cattle exhaust the soil and the monocultural grain crops damage ecosystems, reducing scope for forraging if the harvest is poor. In the meantime, reproduction is unregulated due to the loss of the subsistence ethic of nomadic culture. Excess population need to be fed by trading goods with neighbours who've had a more successful crop, or have more food sources, such as saltwater fish. Tradable goods develop more as the people not needed to work the land have the time on their hands to develop their manufacture skill.
When this isn't enough, such as during drought when the neighbouring towns have no surplus, seasonal warfare becomes a method of food production and population control. Neighbouring settlements have their crops and livestock stolen by those who: made copper/bronze/iron axes and speaheads first; or lived nearer the equator, so their crops ripened earlier (Sparta would harvest their own crops, move north and chase their neighbours into their fortified town, harvest their crops and leave). In the latter case, those who had a coastline or mountain range to the south had an advantage and grew to be powerful city-states (in the case of Athens, to the south was probably the original limit of the Spartan seasonal raid, which meant they didn't have to worry about their nearest southern neighbours until they were stong enough to defend against the Spartans by the time they had expanded that far). The raids would continue until the losers would agree to pay tribute without having their houses burnt down. When this still wasn't enough, the nearest neighbours had to be eradicated altogether and the population excess would move in. These two methods expansion were the begining of nation-building and towns (which passed for "city-states") grew into empires.
These were held together by a heirarchy of extortion/protection, which was the basis of the feudal system: the Core of the expansion recieved tribute from the rest, which was used to maintain an army that would protect the periphory from external invasion and destruction. Failure to pay resulted in invasion and destruction by the Core. A vassal collective contributed tax and manpower as 'capital' so that they could recieve dividends from the empire's expansion, like a pyramid scam.
The main tin deposits in Europe and the Mediterranean are in Britain, so the Bronze-Age Greeks, Egyptians and Mesopotamians traded with it extensively. Later, the Celts were the first to smelt iron becuase the largest coal deposits are in Germany and the Ukraine. These two factors made the Celts the dominant culture of European early-antiquity, until the Romans developed the manipal system and the Marian professional army.
Rome defeated Carthage mainly by: Luck; The Corvus, which evened out the innitial overwhelming superiority of the Carthagininan navy; and because of their more militant culture, given their central, inland position, as opposed to a wide trading empire spanning much of the Mediterranean coastline with little inland depth.
Then stuff continued to suck and i got bored with this rant. Tom and I made an air-musket by cutting open a bicycle pump and putting a large spring inside it, sticking a thin copper tube into the front of it (exactly, as it turns out, the caliber of the ballbearings in scateboard wheels [2 7-ball bearings in each wheel = 48 rounds per scateboard, and it would take many less than 48 shots to bring down a scater and get another board. I call that an investment]), hacking a notch into the pump bar to clip onto a bolt locking-lug at the back of the pump, and taping the whole thing to a headless axe-handle. It can shoot though and apple at 4m, but because of the wide shoulders of the bicycle pump, it's difficult to aim and we have yet to make a sight-rail for it. When we do we will be scrapmetal merchants, hunting scaters and smashing the boards to get the ballbearings and melt them down with a soldering iron into ingots the shape of a dent in a brick. I'm a genious. We'll be rich in, like, already. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbKvieJQezs
I love you China... and horses with gasmasks... and bayonet-charges through radioactive fallout...

The Pelican is Subdued

2007-05-14T12:49:52Z

http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pelicancorrectedqx3.jpg

maneastellus @ 2007-03-17T08:50:00

2007-03-16T23:09:40Z

Parental authority stems only from the necessity for the child's livelihood to be taken responsibility for until it is capable of performing vital actions itself, at which point the parent must relinquish responsibility for that aspect of the child's life, and the corresponding authority and the power-base founded in it. As soon as the child is at all capable of surviving alone its parents have no valid excuse to continue to exercise authority. The process of transferal of authority to autonomy must be reciprocal or the child will either feel neglected or dominated if the parents are too eager to absolve themselves of responsibility or too reluctant to let go of the authority. The child's frustrated need for sovereignty in the latter case will generally become a malign desire to control others as compensation for their disallowance to control their own life. Parents will either raise their own children in the manner that they had been raised, either exercising their will for power or their need to be babied on their own children, or if they resented their own parents' methods, will make a conscious effort to avoid imitating it, simply reverting the process to the other problem for their spawn. In this way, the very basic problem is perpetuated and no one notices because it is taken as unremediable human nature, partly due to a general underestimation of a young child's receptibility to the frustration of their own needs: most people are either pathological megalomaniacs or pathetic welps by the time they can speak. The rest are weened into it more gradually by varying degrees.

Analogies involving male lions are popular for the erroneous demonstration that the desire for power is natural to all life. In fact the reason for the apparent 'domination' of a pride by the male lion is for the purpose of genetic diversity. The male is deliberately overfed and gets no exercise so that after two or three years he is too fat and useless to compete with a more fit rogue lion whose introduction into the local gene pool will prevent inbreeding and biological deterioration. Male cubs are expelled from their home pride not for the threat they pose to their father's authority, but for the benefit of neighbouring prides which are in need of fresh blood.
Primates, which use much less energy-expensive means of procuring sustinence, cannot use this system because rogue male apes are unlikey to be adequately more fit than business alphas due to the rogues' survival being no less easy. The inbreeding that doubtless resulted from simian alphas' prolonged lifespans may have given proto-human evolution a kick-start.
Herding herbivores often have a longer period of sexual immaturity despite being able to stand up half an hour after birth. The young are also taken by preditors more frequently than mature beasts, and these two factors result in a reduced likelihood of a bull or billy mating with its offspring.
tangent ends here.
as does rant.
Tony, since Ikhe is the busiest of us it's up to her when we meet up as whenever you two are free, as am i likely to be. Sorry i took so long to respond to your email but i dont have a computer anymore and have to use my brother's on the occasions that i see him. See you sometime before you die of polyps, which with any luck will be after we've all died of apocalypse.

Rest ye well my friend...

2006-12-30T13:59:14Z

I found myself standing idly in the kitchen tapping random surfaces comically while trying to think of a way to break the news to my mother that they've finally murdered Saddam.
What they eventually managed to pin on him was the "genocide" of 148 (one hundred and fourty-eight... genocide?) Shiites in 1984. Had they taken any of his other crimes to court, such as the gassing of Kurdish civilians etc, which had been ranted about so gratuitously before the invasion, America's involvement would have been found far too prominent to publicise.
It's been a long time since anyone i've know has died: the last was my step-grandfather five years ago, before that was my uncle when i was eight. I cried when Tony died, but that was because my other uncle, my grandfather and my father all died before i was much old enough to remember very well and i was in italy or something at the time, so that was more for four missed funerals than for Tony himself. As for Erol, the bastard that gave me the name 'pursehouse', it was five minutes after i was told he'd shot himself infront of my grandmother that i wished i'd done him myself...
So I'm mourning Saddam as much as i would a relative of my own. Even more than for Yassir, which is a surprise. I guess it's to do with the injustice, the ignobility... Yassir was poisoned or something, and Ariel Sharron soon followed suit, but that afforded him the dignity he deserved. The only thing that would make me feel better about Saddam would have been to see him refuse the hood and draw breath, passing from his prior resignation to preparation for what would follow... The animals dancing around his body would be imaterial if i'd seen the last of his dignity.
Not that i endorse the murder of two million Iranians, or ten thousand Curds, or 148 Shiites, or anyone else. I'd have been happy for the Iraqis to have killed him five years ago, if the thought had crossed their mind, which i doubt. One can never have enough dead despots i say, but Saddam was not the place to start.
And for that you have my blessing,
and forgiveness if you can find a use for it.
The paths you walk now are yours alone.
May you share it with Fortune at your side.
Good luck. And rest in peace.

maneastellus @ 2006-09-18T10:12:00

2006-09-18T00:27:56Z

I havn't heard of any biblical stories between Joseph of the coat and Moses, so i'm assuming that after Joseph became visier of Egypt and brought his family along the Jewish community in Egypt grew to become an influential lobby group and political advisers were often chosen from the community for their reputed administrative skills. This inevietably was met with considerable vitriol from the clergy and at times of particular tension, the pharaoh would have had to choose a side in the possible event of a civil war. Thusly would the Jews have possibly suffered their first pogroms, but the priests didn't always come out in the Pharaoh's favour. If Akhnaten thought the Jewish community and their supporters would have a military advantage against the peasant conscripts from the lands owned by the priests, he would have chosen instead to disband the clergy and make the Jews' monotheistic cult the state religion, which is what happened.
Later, the 40 years of wandering around in the desert could be interpreted as a period of political campagning for separatism, ending in Rammases II granting the Jews a homeland to the north as a puppet buffer-zone between Egytian occupied Sinai and the aggressive Hittite empire in Turkey.
Archaeological evidence at the supposed site of Jericho shows that the Egyptians, not the Jews, sacked the Hittite city at roughly the time the bible describes. I'm therefore assuming that Jericho, situated in the unconsolidated frontier territory proposed as the Jewish homeland, was conquered by an Egyptian army led by Jewish Egyptian officials.
Later, during Roman annexation of Asia Minor and the Gaza following the war with Mithridates IV of Pontus, the dominant empire in the middle east, "Asia" was unified under a Roman provincial governorship with local warlords instated as puppets. Jedea was a client kingdom of the Parthian Empire until the 4th decade bc when Herod defeated the Parthian governor Antigonos and ruled as a Roman Puppet. Thus was the last Zion disolved and the jews scattered across the Roman empire...
Rant no longer has a point..

Ends

WWII

2006-07-24T04:11:45Z

Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and Japan against
Britain, France, Russia, China, Malaya and Sinagapore, Australia and other colonies, and America.

1938
Germany invades Czechoslovakia:
France and Belgium weren't happy with the amount Germany had to pay in reparations for the First World War, so they invaded Germany illegally and confiscated the Ruhr (major industrial centre) and extensive agricultural land. This meant the remaining industries had the rest of the reparations on their heads and went bankrupt. Unemployment was nearly 30%, food prices were going up firstly because of inflation, then further due to the fact that few people could afford it and the market was miniscule, so farmers went out of business as well. Hitler came to power, stopped reparations and kick-started production and employment by increasing spending in the military and rearmament. This was only a short term solution and the military funding had to go somewhere, preferably to regaining much needed agricultural and industial land, aka Lebensraum. Expansion eastward would not be seen by the Tripple-Entente as a coninuation of the war germany had lost, as reconquista of the Ruhr would have been. Annexing Czechoslovakia and Poland was an attempt to prevent war.

Japan is at the height of its atrocities in Manchuria:
Robert Menzies is desperate to support the Japanese massacres of Chinese civilians in the sacred memory of Lambing Flats. Despite exportation of iron already being illegal on the grounds that Australia didn't have enough of its own, the warfies who refused to load the first shipment of pig-iron ended up mauled by dogs when Menzies implimented the 'Transport Workers Act 1929'. From then on australian pig-iron shipments were sent on their merry way to play their part in the murder of 17,100,000 Chinese, without interefence by nip-loving pinko unionist traitors.

1939
Germany and Russia invade Poland symaltaneiously:
Germany's expansion west continues, Russia feels threatened and takes action. France and Britain had decided Czechoslovakia was enough and declair war on Germany,
But...
Russia invades Finland:
Leningrad is only 10km from the Finnish border. Finland was allied with Germany and Russia feared Germany would use it as a brigde across the Baltic, so Russia tried to move the border further away to make Leningrad more defensible. When Russia invaded Finland, it was expelled from the Tripple-Entente and France and Britain declared war on in it, alongside germany, in defense of Finland.

1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbour and invades Malaya:
Chinese Malays had financially supported China's defence against Japan, Japan invaded after dealing with China, shortly after bombing Pearl Harbour because Hawaii had traitionally been under Japanese sovereignty before US annexation.
America, Britain and Australia and other allies declare war on Japan.

Alternatively, given that: Chamberlain was slow to decide to take action against Germany over Poland; Russia was no longer a member of the Tripple-Entente and had invaded Poland and Finland at the same time as Germany and had war declared on it by France and Britain; and that Menzies was avidly supporting Japan's invasion of China:
WWII could have easily been
Germany, Italy, Japan, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria, France, Britian and Australia and other colonies against
Russia, China and America.

Things would no doubt be rather different now.

maneastellus @ 2006-07-16T00:48:00

2006-07-15T15:12:26Z

Fuck
Scratch the Cornish Norwegian heritage, it turns out the Norwegians stayed in Dublin and managed to force out the Danish invaders. Then they raided Scotland, not Cornwall. The either makes me a Dane or a Norwegian Vikingr from the Isle of Man...
I guess being a dane isn't so bad...
Come to think of it, Harald Hardrada didn't rule as much as Sweyn Forkbeard. That Dane conquered all of England, then his son Cnut was betrayed by the Saxon Earls, but conquered Norway and killed St Olaf before going back and retaking England as far as Wessex. Pity he didn't get around to breeding and founding a dynasty...
But it was cool that the Norwegians had a real empire and Vikings from the Orkneys, Hebrides and Ireland all rallied under Hardrada's son Magnus to attack England when Edward the Confessor took the throne.

It just means there's nothing trippy about my name.
*sulk* aww, don piano...

maneastellus @ 2006-07-14T07:35:00

2006-07-14T00:47:48Z

To anyone i havn't already told: Australia is by definition a 3rd-World country.
A: Last i heard, the indigenous reservations have a higher per-capita leprosy rate than the untouchables in India.
B: Our economy is based primarilly in cheep mineral exports:
Japan is the only country we've had a trade surplus with, and that's a shitload of worthless coal for most of our computer parts and cars and other shit that now comes from china and pakistan... but that was in the '80s just about everything... We've always made a loss on wool because until recently we bought all our woolen cloth and garments from Britain.

HOW TO MAKE A 3rd WORLD COUNTRY:
Step 1: Colonialism
1. Find some small foreign country and establish a trade monopoly with them. This may involve going to war with all their other long-distance trading partners, eg. the French.
2. Buy their coffee, cotton, silk, spices, slaves etc. and dazzle them with your own wonderous alien technologies like clear glass and guns (make sure you only dazzle them with demonstrations, don't actually SELL them any. Stick to basic primary produce).
3. Find some psychotic megalomanic pretender to the throne and support his usuption of government by lending him money and arms.
4. Continue to lend him money and arms to put down any loyalist dissent or other discontent among the general populace.
5. He will probably be a hethen and have the support of whatever gook cult happens to be contaminating their backwards minds (make sure he is a chauvinist fanatic when you choose to support him). Send more missionaries.
6. Demand your loans back. This and the interfering christians among the peasants will cause him to start spouting anti-foreigner rhetoric. Use this, his debts and your christian benevolence to the downtrodden to depose him and annex the country.

Step 2: Economic Domination
1. Colonise a country that exports products in demand in Europe, eg. spices.
2. Colonise a country that produces a raw material that can be refined in mechanised factories at home and sold in Europe or back to the colonies, eg. cloth from cotton.
3. Build basic material factories in the colonies to refine the primary produce. Manufacture goods at home from the refined materials to sell in Europe or back to the colonies, eg. germents from cotton cloth.
4. Establish manufacture industries in the colonies...
But NEVER ALLOW SELF-SUFFICIENCE. Always ensure that whites own the plantations worked by local slaves, and whites own the mills and factories run by local workers.
The bottom line is, keep the colonies at a level of development one step bellow yours until the colony is fully industrialised, then make sure you own everything. The colony will make a loss on everything they try to trade because the cloth they buy back is worth more than the cotton they sold that it's made from. They can only hope that they sell more raw materials than they buy back in goods, but since they also buy goods made in or from materials from other colonies, on average, every imperial periphery is in the same shit.

maneastellus @ 2006-07-09T17:30:00

2006-07-09T07:52:35Z

I thought i'd reached the peak of my fixation with my bogus Viking heritage when i discovered that Dublin was founded by Norwegians who worked as mercineries for the feuding Irish warlords, but moved to Cornwall when the Danes invaded Ireland at the time of the Dano-Norwegian dispute over England. My mother's maiden name is Seaman, the English name given to those descended from the foreigners who settled in Cornwall where my maternal grandfather's family came from.
This has me entirely convinced that i'm a Norwegian Viking, but...

I was several weeks old before my parents thought of a name for me. Lochlainn was my mother's first choice (which she thought meant "from the water") until she found Oran which meant "pallid/pale" which i was. This morning i looked up the meaning of Lochlainn for some reason:

http://www.behindthename.com/

Lochlainn
male
Irish
Irish form of Lachlan

Lachlan
male
Scottish
Scottish nickname for a person from Norway. In Scotland, Norway was known as the "land of the lochs", or Lochlann.
So my name means "Pale one from the Land of the Waters" rather than just "Pallid of the Water".

Holy shit.
My name, which i was given because my mother likes the sound of it, means I'm a Norwegian from Ireland living in Brittain. Which i already proved in what i've been reading for my History Extension major work.
Six months ago no one would have had any idea.

This should explain Jung's theory of synchronicity better than he ever could...

maneastellus @ 2006-06-25T12:57:00

2006-06-25T03:00:29Z

For a while there I was a born-again neo-nazi

1. Last year Australia sold a unanium refinery coil to Iran for use in civilian power plants. The transaction took place in Nigeria or thereabouts, so ASIO claimed Iran had bought a device from Africa to produce weapons-grade uranium and plutonium.

2. Iran is being accused of discussing a bill to force an identification dress code on religious minorities like in Nazi Germany. There is no evidence to suggest this and the bill in question is simply a tariff on imported Western-style clothes. Bush, Howard and some Canadian wanker are expressing their disgust and disbeleif that any nation would follow a policy resembling those of Nazi Germany.

3. Amerca is openly discussing nuclear strikes on Iran, if not for flimsy assumptions as to their offensive nuclear capacity (see 1.) than secondarilly for humanitarian purposes (see 2.)

4. Australia is hoping desperately to become a nuclear power in the immediate future. No one is sure why so urgently. After Kyoto it's obviously not for environmental concearns, so it's doubtfull Howard plans to stop at nuclear energy producion.

5. Costello recently said reassuringly that petrol prices would drop once supply increased, which it would do in the near future. He didn't say how.

= Austalia planning to be the agressors in a nuclear conflict with Iran, probably in the next two years.

However,
It is known for fact that oil production peaked in the middle-east in the eighties and by now most of the deposits are dry and need to have water pumped down into them to try and force the oil out. This now uses more oil than can be extracted in the process. After the total ineffectuality of the annexation of Iraq in alleviating the oil drought there is little reason to assume that war with Iran will have any effect on oil supply. The only other reason for turning Iran into a radioactive wasteland is for Israeli hegemony in the middle east. Iran is the only remaining significant oppostion to Zionist expansionism with America's unquestioning support.

Hence my newfound hatred for Jews

There is another option that i just thought of while typing this:
North Korea will not allow America to initiate a nuclear conflict with Iran or to subjugate any other un-colaborative small country with nuclear force.
China's diplomatic links to Korea are weak, but in the event of a nuclear conflict, China would inevitably be placed by the US alongside the defensive pact of North Korea and Iran and labeled the 'Axis of Evil'.
China is now being blamed for the oil drought. China's oil consumption in the motor industry is miniscule compared to that of America, but many if not most petrolium-based products are produced by China FOR EXPORT TO THE WEST.
Shifting the blame to China not only draws the attention away from US agression in the Middle-East but will also weaken China's diplomatic potential in the event of a universal conflict by affecting China's public image in the West.
Symaltaineous removal of Iran and North Korea will establish US proxy control over both China's flanks, (surrounding it between occupied Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, Taiwan and Japan and unified Korea) and initiate another cold-war nuclear stalemate which China will lose and have to succumb to US colonial economic domination. China would provide the labour and resources to support the US in the same manner that Britain dominated India in the late 1800s.

so scratch the Zionist expansion thing, i'm back to being a Anarcho-socialist for now.

Now i almost feel sorry for the Israelis who think US is conquering the world for them out of the goodness of their hearts to compensate for 'The' holochaust. And it's not easy to pity anyone who would write this:
http://www.jtf.org/israel/israel.desecrating.and.sanctifying.htm

i love being a political pendulum

maneastellus @ 2006-06-03T22:38:00

2006-06-03T15:16:41Z

The second day I spent in the Berlin Museum I got there before it opened and still didn't finish before it closed. One of the last things I saw there was a loop of three segments of WWI footage:
1. The British going over the top. There wasn't much of a top to go over by that stage, what was left of the trench looked like a chain of linked deeper-than-average shell craters. The walls weren't steep enough to warrant ladders. The German Maxims must have opened up as soon as the British sergeants signalled the charge, because only about a third of the men in view of the camera made it out of the trench. The first to fall was about fifth in line from the right side of the screen. He was half-way through his first step, nodded his head, crumpled at the waist and rolled down into a puddle. Most of the others managed to get onto the crest of the embankment before falling back into the trench. None made it as far as the barbed wire.
2. A German foxhole. A hill slopes down to the lower-left of the screen where a Maxim gun crew are sitting. They turn around in panic and prepare to fire and the horizon rises slightly as countless British leave the trench along the crest of the hill. The line thins out and dissipates as it moves forward. Soon there is no movement and the German gun stops.
I want to find this film and animate a flip-book for every British soldier, tracing every step they take, the way they fall and the position they lie in while they rot or until the next bout of shelling. There are hundreds just in this one four-second film.
3. A mineshaft trench detonation. When the solidity of the earth permited, the anzacs would dig a tunnel all the way across nomansland and excavate a chamber below a partuclarly defensible German trench, fill it with explosives and explode a whole section of the German lines. This is where the term 'diggers' comes from. It was a lengthy and difficult exercise because the mud was rarely solid enough to dig through, and because the Germans would follow the sound of the digging and try to tap into the shaft.
There is a flat field with a line zig-zagging across it. The ground begins to bloat up and crack and rise until the dome takes up most of the screen. Then it falls slowly. A minute figure runs out of the trench down near the left corner of the screen and disappears. A pixel against the colapsing cloud of earth.

This photo is surreal:

And this one was lucky to have been taken. It's the first shell to hit Reims cathedral, and it's a miracle that a camera was pointing in the right direction at the right time:

We'll have our time. Just ours, and our last.

maneastellus @ 2006-06-02T00:34:00

2006-06-01T15:10:44Z

Gun license is regrettably taking longer to organise than i was hoping. I just hope i can restrain myself from gutting a lawyer before i finally do. I don't enjoy having government officials lie to my face, but i guess I would too if I had to speak to me.
April 10 was my first court hearing. It was adjourned because i had no legal representation. A couple of weeks later i spoke to the chamber magistrate who told me to come back the next day and talk to LegalAid. The next day i was told they were busy and speaking to them was reserved for people whose hearing was on that day. I went back today because my hearing is 10:00am tomorrow and i wouldn't have time in the morning. The same fat wanker in glasses and a tracksuit with a clipboard said they were too busy, but we finally found someone from LegalAid, who said they needed two weeks' notice. I find myself with a somewhat low regard for that tubby pick.
At this point i more often think of just walking into Laurence Ordinance and walking out with a rack of Mausers and Laurence's head than waiting to get a license.
I need to start eating. I had trouble stwinging Mjolnr last night, and i think i would find more satisfaction locked in a full courtroom with an UNloaded rifle...

maneastellus @ 2006-05-28T18:33:00

2006-05-28T10:07:21Z

In the 1940-50s, Mediterranean and Baltic immigrants arrived in time to take advantage of and contribute to a housing and infrastructure construction boom. Their motive for migration was predominately economic so as long as they were better off here they worked and didn't complain, were comparetively well recieved and assimilated easily.
Alternatively in the 1970s, Lebenese were displaced by Israeli expansionism in a time of recession in the West and migrants found little economic opportunity on arrival. Generally speaking, to an unprepared Lebenese migrant there would be little to distiguish a local gentile from an Israeli invader back home and this would have contibuted to the alienation and segregation that retarded the processes of integration.
While Post-war European immigrants were initially the object of prejudice, they were eventually gratefully accredited with construction of such major projects as the Snowy River hydro-electric scheme, which alleviated some of the division which arises when naturalised latter generation immigrants awaken a jingoistic facination with heritage, often founded in historical stigma.
Second and third generation Lebenese immigants however have only the resentment towards 'mainstream' australia regarding the largely unrewarded struggle of their parents, feeling that this place isn't worth the work that was involved in getting here.

There is more, this is just a couple of aspects of the origin of the enmity that are ignored.

Tom and I are getting our gun licenses. We just need to pay for club membership and a short test, which comes to about $100.

We can then buy a mauser and an enfield between us, but can only keep them on the premesis of the gun club unless we have either a >90kg safe or one that's bolted to the floor, or the signature of someone (my uncle) who is a primary producer willing to keep them on his land. Tom say as long as he owns a gun, he doesn't care if it's over 600km away most of the time. Now i just need to find a decent, preferably WWI, german bayonet.

maneastellus @ 2006-05-25T01:12:00

2006-05-24T15:19:46Z

Minus the angles of the outer corners of the eyes, I am Erwin Rommel

...Cool

The End

His lip is a tad tighter than mine, but when he was twenty he had the same ugly simmian grin...

Well there you go...

Topic of Interest
Ends here.

Orbsong: as featured in wikipedia should they delete it too soon...

2006-02-13T05:56:50Z

The Orbsong is the basis of a belief system that finds its roots in the Music of the Spheres (of which its name is a variant), Jung's study of comparetive mythology and the collective unconscious, and Hegel's World Spirit. Despite being by nature a cult, it has no known proclaimed followers. It arose in Sydney's Inner West and North Shore in the early 21st century.

Principles
Adherents to the Orbsong are generally fatalistic staunch liberal socialists, believing that freedom of individual willpower and pursuit of reason is paramount to the meaningfulness of human existence, and that personal freedom of action and thought is necessarily reciprocal to the freedom to take responsibility for consequences: Law codes and justice are viewed as synthetic constructs.

Cultural Anarchicism
Morality and the superego are seen as obstruction of the freedom of thought through destructive social conditioning, and are opposed on the grounds that social mores result in the perpetuation of unnecessary harmfull establishments such as class structure and gender, age and race discrimination that can be cynically manipulated for personal gain at the expense of others. Common-sense is treated with existencial caution as the formulation of the Orbsong came about as a response to general paranoia about widespread indoctrination conspiracies: organised or inadvertently evolving from custom.

Arts
The Orbsonic appraoch to art and artforms is as logical development of any practical or theoretical methodology either for the evolution of the Orbsong or in acquiescence to its will. Art practice is seen as an assertion of personal autonomy and willing assistance in any develpomantal series of an evolving method. An artist's value to a form is non-utilitarian and based not on skill or innovation but on the will to assert one's humanity. War is opposed on the grounds of its ambiguous purposes and outcomes and the magnitude of indoctrination utilised for unegalitarian benefit. However, warfare is seen as an art practice and widely romanticised as exploration of the extremes of human experience and emotion as well as an artform that is developed by consecutive practitioners.

Prejudices
Cultists of the Orbsong violently oppose social structure that is by any measure oppressive or divisionary. Extremists would appear anti-semetic, focussing on female genital mutilation (erroneously believed to have originated as an archaeic hebrew practice) and the judeio-christian vilification of Lucifer the mythological 'bringer of light' figure as opposed to, for example, Prometheus or Odin: his Greek and Nordic equivalents respectively.

Beliefs
The Orbsong itself is thought to be an imperceptible force, wave or particle opperating in the universe that could be equated to 'God'. It may encompass history and fate or simply be the result of several fundamental human develpomental instincts such as the exchange of authority and responsibility in parent-child relationships. Due to the presence of apparent mythological elements in such works as that of Shakespeare there is believed to be an ambient connection between individual minds and some broader mythological spectrum.

Bitchkreig...

2006-02-01T08:35:04Z

i would ask anyone interested or bored anough to be ammused to keep an eye on the lj which goes by the name of '8teen', but he has deleted my first comment and blocked me then proceded to ask why i've given up; asking if he 'hit a nerve' with his comments, as i seemed upset... a very well-deservingly placed 'LOL' in the approximate vicinity methinks... All hope of Lynn being bright enough to publicly humiliate Needs were in vain. Looks like we're just going to have to eventually kill him and run the risk of making him a martyr among countless worthless candy livestock...

Some things that need to be clarified

2006-01-15T03:51:59Z

This will be added to and edited:

Capitalism: The state of affairs where the Rich who have the capital to start and own buisnesses will remain The Rich and nothing will change.

Communism: State of small self-sufficient collectives sustained by cottage industry or buisness cooperatives: where the workers own and pool the capital and collectively own the buisness. State ownership of all business is in fact Totalitarian Autocracy/Oligarchy, which can be diametrically opposed to Communism as this can mean that the government is run by the rich buisness owners. Religious faith is irrelavent, but commercialised religious institutions and spiritual faith must not be confused.

Representative Democracy: A governemt representing the interests of the rich that generally adheres to a domestic policy of total apathy, allowing complete dog-eat-dog Economic Liberalism, and instead focusing all its efforts on cynical manipulation of the middle and lower classes in order to be reelected.

Food Chain: Does not exist. Predatory relationships between species are part of the complex structure of all ecosystems that include the mineral content of the soil substancially determined by the animals that crap and die in it, and which in turn determines the local plant-life. Food webs are NOT Heirarchical. There are no intrinsically more 'important' species which all 'lower' species serve.

Dream of the too-long waking mind

2006-01-05T20:51:38Z

DIY Saline Huntress

You will Need: 1 Old man, 2 meathooks, flaying knives, a cleaver, 1 pair gloves, 1 pair socks, a table, 1 young phoetus w. umbilical cord, 1 potted animal tail

Hang old man by ankles from meathooks and flay from shins to neck.
With cleaver, decapitate skinned body and discard.
Put gloves on front legs of table and socks on hind legs.
Use pelt as tablecloth with head at front end.
Place potted animal tail at other end.
Place phoetus in lotus position on centre of table.
Pinch and raise tablecloth at four points around phoetus.
Pull cloth over head of phoetus to cover it. Tie with umbilical cord.

Store your saline huntress at temperatures between absoute zero and -190 degrees celcius and feed it a hatfull of live gossamer every gibbous sun.
Your saline huntress should provide you with a lifetime of loyal camaraderie and nostalgic anecdotes about absent friends. With training it may also sing old war songs and learn not to shit nightmares that burn through the ceiling.

You will not actually see a wild Saline, though their presence is indicated by a feeling that the walls around you are growing nearer. The Saline inhabit rings of hallway or cave, often tiled, in which the walls tilt slightly and cause the circle to become a moebus strip. While running along such a cave, one will have stood on the walls, ceiling and floor on previous laps of the apparent circle. When sharing such a space with Salines one will feel that the hallway tapers and grows narrower as you run in either direction. To be stuck in such a situation would promptly send a person mad, so we are lucky in that such a place could not theoretically exist outside nightmares, as the hallway must be impossible to exit, and therefore impossible to enter, and dynamic gravity is essential for the full horrific experience.

maneastellus @ 2006-01-01T23:44:00

2006-01-01T12:45:09Z

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How do some people feel about you:	the Stranger song
How do you feel about yourself:	Last Year's man
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend:	Teachers
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend:	Suzanne
Describe where you want to be:	Famous blue raincoat
Describe what you want to be:	the Partisan
Describe how you live:	Dress-rehearsal rag
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Share a few words of wisdom	one of us cannot be wrong
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