Freya, the Norse goddess of love and beauty, is often associated with felines in Norse mythology. These enigmatic creatures played a significant role in Freya’s tales and were believed to be her loyal companions and protectors throughout her journeys.
Key Takeaways:
The bond between Freya and cats in Norse mythology is a captivating and enduring one.
Cats held significant symbolic representation in Norse mythology and were associated with Freya due to her role as the goddess of love and beauty.
The Skogkatt and the Norwegian Forest Cat are two specific cat breeds that were closely connected to Freya.
Cats were believed to be Freya’s familiars and protectors, serving as her companions throughout her journeys.
Cats were an integral part of Norse folklore, with superstitions, beliefs, and rituals centered around these enigmatic creatures.
This is a good video for Buddhists since much of it comports well with Buddhist teachings. Good for other religions and philosophies that have roots in the deep past as well. The ancients did not have our tools, sciences or mathematics, but they were easily as smart as us and did have more time to meditate, contemplate, and ponder the nature of reality. It’s a wonderful thing that a good deal of modern thinking corroborates many of their findings. Psychology has benefitted greatly from Buddhist techniques and ways of thinking. Now, even physics and cognitive science seem to be touching deeply on Buddhist teachings. ABN
Two high level takeaways. First, please pay attention to the venue {GO DEEP}, as CTH has documented for 10+ years the AME church network is the epicenter of racially driven political influence. BLM are the activist foot soldiers; AME are the network organizers. BLM harvest the ballots; AME are the precinct workers who scan them as many times as needed. This is the “Atlanta way,” that duplicates in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore and Madison.
Second, Fani Willis must anticipate a major problem with her case and conduct if she is proactively going to the crew who will be tasked with circling the wagons on her defense. In this video soundbite Fani Willis plays the race card to her audience at Big Bethal AME church in Atlanta. WATCH:
Fani Willis’ full speech was 35 minutes long and filled with racially driven context.
The AME church network is the same political system used by Barack “if I had a son” Obama, Benjamin Crump, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin in Miami-Dade/Orlando. The same network in Ferguson Missouri (Mike Brown), the same network in Baltimore, Maryland (Freddy Gray), and on it goes.
The AME network is a system built on the guise of religion, but fraught with politics, racial division, the retention of pretenses and massive fraud.
About a decade ago, I happened to be talking with an eminent academic scholar who had become known for his sharp criticism of Israeli policies in the Middle East and America’s strong support for them. I mentioned that I myself had come to very similar conclusions some time before, and he asked when that had happened. I told him it had been in 1982, and I think he found my answer quite surprising. I got the sense that date was decades earlier than would have been given by almost anyone else he knew.
Sometimes it is quite difficult to pinpoint when one’s world view on a contentious topic undergoes sharp transformation, but at other times it is quite easy. My own perceptions of the Middle East conflict drastically shifted during Fall 1982, and they have subsequently changed only to a far smaller extent. As some might remember, that period marked the first Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and culminated in the notorious Sabra-Shatila Massacre during which hundreds or even thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered in their refugee camps. But although those events were certainly major factors in my ideological realignment, the crucial trigger was actually a certain letter to the editor published around that same time.
A few years earlier, I had discovered The London Economist, as it was then called, and it had quickly become my favorite publication, which I religiously devoured cover-to-cover every week. And as I read the various articles about the Middle East conflict in that publication, or others such as the New York Times, the journalists occasionally included quotes from some particularly fanatic and irrational Israeli Communist named Israel Shahak, whose views seemed totally at odds with those of everyone else, and who was consequently treated as a fringe figure. Opinions that seem totally divorced from reality tend to stick in one’s mind, and it took only one or two appearances from that apparently die-hard and delusional Stalinist for me to guess that he would always take an entirely contrary position on every given issue.
In 1982 Israel Defense Minister Ariel Sharon launched his massive invasion of Lebanon using the pretext of the wounding of an Israeli diplomat in Europe at the hands of a Palestinian attacker, and the extreme nature of his action was widely condemned in the media outlets I read at the time. His motive was obviously to root out the PLO’s political and military infrastructure, which had taken hold in many of Lebanon’s large Palestinian refugee camps. But back in those days invasions of Middle Eastern countries on dubious prospects were much less common than they have subsequently become, after our recent American wars killed or displaced so many millions, and most observers were horrified by the utterly disproportionate nature of his attack and the severe destruction he was inflicting upon Israel’s neighbor, which he seemed eager to reduce to puppet status. From what I recall, he made several entirely false assurances to top Reagan officials about his invasion plans, such that they afterward called him the worst sort of liar, and he ended up besieging the Lebanese capital of Beirut even though he had originally promised to limit his assault to a mere border incursion.
Given the genocide in Gaza which is ‘morally’ founded on the 10/07 Hamas raid which Israel and USA almost certainly knew was coming well in advance and allowed to happen; and given the vile sameness of yet another war in the Middle East being started by USA for Israel and no one else, this essay by Ron Unz is essential reading. Understanding the deep tenets of a culture is essential to understanding the behaviors of those who are in that culture, close to that culture, or controlled by that culture, as USA clearly is. The linked essay by Unz is a well-organized and very clear overview of fundamental Jewish beliefs and how they affect all of us today. ABN
…In New York, and in the prominent Orthodox communities of Israel and London, allegations of child molestation and rape have been rampant. The alleged abusers are schoolteachers, rabbis, fathers, uncles—figures of male authority. The victims, like those of Catholic priests, are mostly boys. Rabbi Rosenberg believes around half of young males in Brooklyn’s Hasidic community—the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world—have been victims of sexual assault perpetrated by their elders. Ben Hirsch, director of Survivors for Justice, a Brooklyn organization that advocates for Orthodox sex abuse victims, thinks the real number is higher. “From anecdotal evidence, we’re looking at over 50 percent. It has almost become a rite of passage.”
Ultra-Orthodox Jews who speak out about these abuses are ruined and condemned to exile by their own community. Dr. Amy Neustein, a nonfundamentalist Orthodox Jewish sociologist and editor of Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals, told me the story of a series of Hasidic mothers in Brooklyn she got to know who complained that their children were being preyed on by their husbands.
In these cases, the accused men “very quickly and effectively engage the rabbis, the Orthodox politicians, and powerful Orthodox rabbis who donate handsomely to political clubs.” The goal, she told me, is “to excise the mother from the child’s life.” Rabbinical courts cast the mothers aside, and the effects are permanent. The mother is “amputated.” One woman befriended by Dr. Neustein, a music student at a college outside New York, lost contact with all six of her children, including an infant she was breastfeeding at the time of their separation.
Narcissists and psychopaths dissociate (erase memories) a lot (are amnesiac) because their contact with the world and with others is via a fictitious construct: The false self. Narcissists never experience reality directly but through a distorting lens darkly. They get rid of any information that challenges their grandiose self-perception and the narrative they had constructed to explicate, excuse and legitimize their antisocial, self-centred and exploitative behaviors, choices and idiosyncrasies.
In an attempt to compensate for the yawning gaps in memory, narcissists and psychopaths confabulate: They invent plausible “plug ins” and scenarios of how things might, could, or should have plausibly occurred. To outsiders, these fictional stopgaps appear as lies. But the narcissist fervently believes in their reality: He may not actually remember what had happened-but surely it could not have happened any other way!
These tenuous concocted fillers are subject to frequent revision as the narcissist’s inner world and external circumstances evolve. This is why narcissists and psychopaths often contradict themselves. Tomorrow’s confabulation often negates yesterday’s. The narcissist and psychopath do not remember their previous tales because they are not invested with the emotions and cognitions that are integral parts of real memories.
Narcissism is well-described and largely understood in Western psychology. It is a major ‘station of the mind’, a stage in the development of any civilization. It seems probable that most if not all ancient and/or traditional cultures are narcissistic and that those that have retained ancient features today are narcissistic. Virtually all religions, including Buddhism, were established at the state-level by an autocrat and forced upon the population as a means of control. Confucianism, all the Abrahamics, Hinduism and so on, all share this general background. Ashoka tailored early Buddhism to be what he wanted it to be. The cabal that controls the West today is similarly hell-bent on controlling everyone and everything. The rulers who do this are cluster B narcissists and they demand a kind of ‘retail narcissism’ of their populations—enamorment with the ruler and the ruler’s rule book and intolerance of deviation from it. We can see this all around us today as cabal repeatedly lashes out against wrong-think while constantly ‘reimagining’ what that is. ABN
A.A. Long summarizes the Stoic philosophical system and highlights the connection between its physics and ethics in Hellenistic Philosophy; Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics. An outline of his thought follows:[2]
• The Stoics “prided themselves” on the coherence of their philosophical system
• They believe the universe is “amenable to rational explanation” because it is “rationally organized.”
• Mankind derives their rationality from the same logos embodied in the universe.
• Cosmic and human events are consequences of the same logos.
• Mankind is related to cosmic Nature or God through the rationality of the logos.
• Full recognition of the implications of our relationship to cosmic Nature will inspire us to live up to the excellence of our human potential by living in agreement with cosmic Nature.
• Natural philosophy (science) and logic are tools that enable mankind to know what facts are true.
• “The coherence of Stoicism is based upon the belief that natural events are so causally related to one another that on them a set of propositions can be supported which will enable a man to plan a life wholly at one with Nature or God.”
…The Jewish Question, simply explained, consists of two enquiries: Do Jews possess an excessive influence in their host societies and, if so, what should be done about it? Most commentaries on the subject have focussed on the first question, leading the scholar John Klier to remark on one occasion that the assessment and critique of Jewish influence has throughout history been predominantly an intellectual pursuit. However, in pushing back against the taboo, even via the modest pursuit of research and the dissemination of one’s findings, one engages in activism of a sort. Indeed, one cannot expect to formulate a response to a problem if one cannot first convince others that a problem exists. The essence of the Jewish Question is therefore the argument that Jews do enjoy an excessive influence in their host societies, and that this excessive influence, for a large number of reasons, is highly problematic for those societies. These problems straddle all spheres of society — the cultural, the economic, and the political.
The linked article provides a concise outline of Jewish history in Western Europe and is well-worth reading for that. It fizzles when it gets to Eastern Europe and the present day. ABN
UPDATE: A rebuttal or next step in the argument linked above.
“Do Jews possess an excessive influence in their host societies”
This question is in fact a red herring that obfuscates the real issue.
Whether or not Jews have excessive influence is actually not even a question since the answer is obviously yes. But because the answer is so obviously yes debating it drives sane gentiles crazy and delights Jews. The Jews will counter that they have worked hard to attain their influence. Even non-Jews will come to their defense and say it’s their high IQ. Jews will whine about antisemitism being at the root of people’s objection to their influence. The debate always goes nowhere. Leaving disenfranchised gentiles pulling out their hairs. In the end we’re always back to square one.
That is because the basic question is wrong.
You see the problem is not whether Jews have excessive influence. The problem is what they DO with their influence.
Jewish influence drives our nations into wars. Jewish influence floods our countries with third world “refugees.” Jewish influence brings transexuals into our elementary schools to teach our children about anal sex. Jewish influence has turned our currency into a massive debt slavery system. Jewish influence has degraded our arts and literature. Jewish influence gave us the Frankfurt School and Murder Incorporated. Should I mention 911 and the death of JFK.
But we never even get to discuss any of these issues because to do so is “antisemitic.” So we’re stuck on quibbling about whether or not they have influence.
It’s not that Jews have influence. It is what they DO with that influence that has caused problems for these last 2000 years. And that’s what we need to talk to them about.
I pretty much agree with the main thrust of this comment. No matter who is in control—and there will always be someone—they must at least do a good job. They must at least allow the people they govern to thrive. A thriving Western civilization can afford a selfish elite, even benefit from it, if they at least ensure that the society that supports them is healthy and well-run. This is not the case today and for decades in USA, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Instead, these regions are dying due to severe parasitic infestation. One parasite supports another, and thus the parasitic strategy overwhelms an entire civilization. ABN
Some speculate the dark side is aliens created us. If true, of all the religions, I believe Buddhists will have the least problem with this since Buddhism accepts any and all forms of sentience no matter how it arises. Full video here. ABN
UPDATE: My partner strongly believes this is just the next episode in the ongoing world-conquering psyop. I believe that is a very credible interpretation, but also believe it is possible aliens created us and even more possible they are here and also possible they are in control. If they are in control, I wonder why they seem to be doing such a bad job. Yes, it could be worse, but it could also be better, especially if you are a sentient being more intelligent than us and far more advanced technologically. If they are not in control, why not?
To my partner, I made the point that this revelation is significant because Carlson is saying it, to which she replied he is obviously in on it too. In response, I said whatever happens there will always be people working the psyop, vying for money and power; the key point is this is coming from a prominent person now.
I do enjoy this topic and the many avenues of speculation it offers. Like many others, I have had significant experiences involving what I believe were aliens.
An important objection to aliens-are-here is it looks staged, looks HoWo, looks too scripted or cartoony. My response to this is sentient life itself clearly has a very large dramatic component.
That is to say, drama very clearly inheres in sentience itself on our plane of awareness. I do not believe sentience is a mere material function, a material abstract nothingness with an ersatz appearance of self-awareness. Thus, if a new layer of the human drama is being revealed, it cannot but appear dramatic; and that means we will tend to view it through the lens of the dramas we know best. ABN
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