The Princess' Dilemna

Are There Any Knight's Going My Way?

Hippolyta's Stolen Girdle

Attention, Western Civilization, your Midsummer Knight's Dream is over. A robin has returned Hippolyta's girdle and the lady now must pledge service to Artemis. If only this were but some Fuseli knight mare...If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.--W. Shakespeare

-Alas, it is but no dream. Amazons must once again take up the bow and cleave their left breast. One wonders if they've the spannungsbogen necessary for completing the task. Kronos once more holds dominion over man. Olympian Zeus is again with Amalthea below Mt. Ida. May the Korybantes below guard and protect Zeus better than pictured Knight's above did guard Hippolyta's girdle. But methinks they cannot. A nightingale aims to soon lull them back to sleep. And if his song does not the trick, their continual rocking back & forth motion soon will, for even the Fisher King knows that the spear of destiny rightfully belongs to man. ;)

Grabbing Hold of Kairos

from Wikipedia:

Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment (the supreme moment). The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological or sequential time, the latter signifies a time in between, a moment of undetermined period of time in which something special happens. What the special something is depends on who is using the word. While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative nature.

In rhetoric kairos is "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."

F'd Over, Reprise

F'd Over

Sources of "pleasure" in rape

Sarah Palin Declares for 2012 Presidential Race

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

Does it Make YOU More Powerful?

507 (Spring-Fall 1887)

The valuation "I believe that this and that is so" as the essence of "truth." In valuations are expressed conditions of preservation and growth. All our organs of knowledge and our senses are developed only with regard to conditions of preservation and growth. Trust in reason and its categories, in dialectic, therefore the valuation of logic, proves only their usefulness for life, proved by experience--not that something is true.

That a great deal of belief must be present; that judgments may be ventured; that doubt concerning all essential values is lacking--that is the precondition of every living thing and its life. Therefore, what is needed is that something must be held to be true--not that something is true.

"The real and the apparent world"--I have traced this antithesis back to value relations. We have projected the conditions of our preservation as predicates of being in general. Because we have to be stable in our beliefs if we are to prosper, we have made the "real" world a world not of change and becoming, but one of being.

--Nietzsche, WtP