Alchemisoul

All these years later and I'm still finding new layers to the most brilliant single season of television ever created.

"Why should I live in history? Fuck, I don't want to know anything anymore. This is a world where nothing is solved.

You know, Someone once told me time is a flat circle. Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.

And that little boy and that little girl, they’re gonna be in that room again, and again, and again, forever."

Everytime you rewatch to not just appreciate this work of art for what it was understood to be in real time time, but more so with hindsight for the mere fact its on a level of such coveted company, no modern contemporary compares enough to share a stage with - you initiate the reigniton of cyclical suffering.

You brought the boogie man back to watch him fall. You want to feel whatever justice can be salvaged for those who suffered. But what else have you done? The suffering endured and transcended is now in rremission.

The suffering resets. Replays. The little boy and girl are back in that room. The Saturn Returns. You came back to rewatch. And you rewound the spiral. Who's the Big Bad now?

Whenever I have a bad day, I love to watch An Idiot Abroad or The Ricky Gervais Show (Cartoon)

Ricky Gervais: Callum Best is only famous because of his dad.

Wiki Holes 4 U: The Fascinating Dilemmas of Nuclear Semiotics

This diagram that looks like one of the Solomonic sigils/corresponding seals used to summon one of the 72 demons from The Lesser Key of Solomon comes from a paper addressing the mystery of the Chromosome 2 fusion site and a theory proposing the series of reproductive events that led to the genetic sequence of humans distinguishing them from other primates.

"Aye, we talked about it. Have you ever been in a city under siege? Maybe this part's not in your books. See, it's not the fighting that kills most people; it's the starving. Food's worth more than gold. Noble ladies sell their diamonds for a sack of potatoes. Things get bad enough, the poor start eating each other. The thieves, they love a siege. Soon as the gates are sealed, they steal all the food. By the time it's all over, they're the richest men in town."

Tool | "Hooker with a Penis" (Pomona, 1996)

I ● met a boy ● wearing Vans ● 501s

And a dope ● Beastie tee ● nipple rings

New tattoos ● that claimed that he

Was OGT ● back from '92 ● from the first EP

And in between ● sips of Coke

He told me ● that he thought we ● were sellin' out

Layin' down ● suckin' up ● to the man

Well now I've got some

Advice for you, little buddy

Before you point the finger

You should know that I'm the man

I'm the man and you're the man

And he's the man as well

So you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass

All you know about me is what I've sold ya, dumb fuck

I sold out long before you'd ever even heard my name

I sold my soul to make a record, dip shit

And then you bought one

All you read and wear or see and

Hear on tv is a product begging for your

Fat-ass dirty dollar

Shut up and

Buy, buy, buy my new record

And buy, buy, buy, send more money

From 2017

“There will come a day that we will see far more radical extremists and terrorists coming out of Europe because of lack of decision-making, trying to be politically correct, or assuming that they know the Middle East, and they know Islam, and they know the others far better than we do,” Zayed said. “I’m sorry, but that’s pure ignorance".

“Saudi Arabia is more keen to fight terrorism than the… Europeans,” Sheikh Abdullah said during the Tweeps Forum 2017. “The voices we hear calling for murder and shedding blood and stealing the wealth of people are in London, Germany, Spain and Italy.

“From now on, we will name and shame these countries. We will classify them as incubators of terror if they don’t address this problem of terrorism in their land."

"Social media (players) must realize that there is content that is exploited by extremist and terrorist groups that want to recruit our sons and daughters and want to hijack religion"

-UAE's Minister of Foreign Affairs warning to Europe about Fucking Around and Fnding Out by being soft on Radical Islam (2017)

#fuckaroundandfindout

#playstupidgames

#winstupidprizes

Epo·qu·e·tude (noun)

An antidote to crushing anxieties over the deteriorating state of the world, epoquetude is the reassuring awareness that while humanity may succeed in destroying itself, the Earth will certainly survive us, as it has survived many other cataclysms; and that, in the endless chambers of time, the lives of individual species, vast civilizations, and even entire worlds are merely brief notes in an inconceivable symphony, each sounding its distinct voice and then fading out, so that the music may continue.

"Because if the history of evolution has taught us anything, it's that life escapes all barriers, breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But, uh...well there it is. Life, uh...finds a way".

"We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."

"But I guess, beliefs in a way, people that are Godless, and in some way, if they don't have some kind of belief, for lack of a better term - if you don't believe in magic on some level, your art probably sucks.

You gotta believe in some kind of magic in some kind of way. I don't mean God, or whatever you're into. But if you're not inspired by, if your heart isn't lifted by some supernatural thing that you've witnessed, real or not. You're probably going to be focusing on your looks or money, right? Then you're gonna be focusing on something that has no heart."

- Maynard James Kennan, 2013 Interview with Marc Maron

"Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are."

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

- Carl Sagan, excerpt from the 11th epsidode of Cosmos ("The Persistence of Memory")

"Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars.

Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are."

"Well, there are a lot of occult traditions connected with Sirius. Among other things, Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, so if people are going to focus on anything out there -especially in the ancient world – Sirius would be very important. Particularly in Egypt, where it happens to rise just at the same time the Nile starts its annual flooding.

I mention in Cosmic Trigger something I picked up from Theosophy: just as in yoga you activate the heart chakra and then move the energy up to the crown chakra: this is happening to the ‘Cosmic Being’ which is trying to move the energy up from our Sun to Sirius.

Later in Dublin I met somebody who told me – on the basis of God knows what authority besides his own imagination – that above the 33rd degree of Masonry, unknown to the world, there is actually an illuminated inner circle which is in touch with Sirius. I thought I’d invented that myself, but this guy is telling me this like it’s an inner secret of Masonry!

But maybe that’s what Hugh Kenner calls an ‘Irish fact’, which is quite unlike an English fact, an American fact, or a French fact, and has no connection with a scientific fact. An Irish fact has the wonderful Dalìesque fluidity of a melting clock and the Joycean uncertainty of a rubber inch."

- Robert Anton Wilson, Fortean Times Interview (1992)