Spa’s Are Modern Day Asclepeions

An Asclepeion is a ancient Greek hospital that in addition to sleeping quarters contained open air facilities where people would have access to fresh air, sunlight, and nature. Asclepeions employed various wellness strategies including massage and various styles of bathing.

The healing traditions practiced in the ancient Greek Asclepeions seem to continue to exist to this day in a modern manifestation. Spa therapy seems to be a modern manifestation of the Greek Asclepeion.

Spas employ massage and various types of massage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepeion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa

The Virtue Of Bravery

Once upon a time when people were educating the youth, the youth would not only be taught academic matters but they would also be taught to be virtuous. Virtues are moral qualities that indicate a good character. Aristotle taught that virtues are obtained by getting in the habit of behaving in a virtuous manner. He believed virtues are obtained through practice and that whether or not one is virtuous is not a matter essence. Aristotle would agree with Sartre that “existence precedes essence”.

An example of virtues are the cardinal virtues of: justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude. Another important virtue that was often taught to people was the virtue of bravery. Young males were often taught that being brave is important(it is important for females to be brave too).

Many people who are racially conscious and white look to the future and see uncertainty for their race. The future could be good, it could be bad, or it could be somewhere in between. We just don’t know. However it is important to face that uncertainty about the future with a sense of bravery.

http://www.virtuesproject.com/virtuesdef.html

The opposite of virtue is vice. It is worth noting that vices tend to create sickness. Gluttony can cause sickness as can an excess of anger or lust. Laziness in the form of physical inactivity is unhealthy as well. Many of the ailments affecting people in the modern world are due to people lacking a good moral character, they are full of vice. Many people are gluttonous and lazy.

The Anti-littering Movement

Littering used to be commonplace in America until an anti-littering campaign in the late 60′s and early 70′s strongly promoted an anti-litter message. This anti-littering campaign was promoted by a variety of organizations and among those organizations is one known as Keep America Beautiful. Below is a video of one of their anti-littering commercials.

The Peripatetic School

The Peripatetics were members of a school of philosophy in ancient Greece. Their teachings derived from their founder, the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, and Peripatetic is a name given to his followers. The school originally derived its name Peripatos from the peripatoi (περίπατοι ”colonnades“) of the Lyceum gymnasium in Athens where the members met. A similar Greek word peripatetikos (Greek: περιπατητικός) refers to the act of walking, and as an adjective, “peripatetic” is often used to mean itinerant, wandering, meandering, or walking about. After Aristotle’s death, a legend arose that he was a “peripatetic” lecturer — that he walked about as he taught — and the designationPeripatetikos came to replace the original Peripatos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_school

Anti-prejudice Propaganda May Make People Prejudice

Organizations and programs have been set up all over the globe in the hopes of urging people to end prejudice. According to a research article, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, such programs may actually increase prejudices.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110707151445.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Vegetarianism In The Shahnameh

Below is a section from a epic poem called The Shahnameh, the epic poem of Persia. It is about how The Devil(Ahriman is the name for The Devil in the zoroastrian faith) tricked a King into eating meat and through the king’s meat eating he brought the king under his control and then used the king to conquer another king. King Zahhak is the one who is brought under the control of Ahriman and King Jamshid is the one who Ahriman used Zahhak to conquer. The below segment of the poem is about Ahriman tricking Zahhak into eating meat.

The zoroastrian faith contains scripture that is against eating meat just as hinduism is against eating meat.

As a youth well spoken, clean, and clever,
Ahriman went to Zahhak with fawning words,
“Let me,” he planned, “a famed and noted cook,
Find favour with the king with my cooking.”
Zahhak was thus by his appetite seduced,
And commanded the monarch’s faithful minister
Give to Ahriman the royal kitchen’s key.
Foods then were few, yet people did not kill to eat
But lived on the earth’s produce of vegetal.
Scheming the evil-doing Ahriman designed
To slaughter animals for food, and serve both bird and beast;
That the monarch when possessed
Of the carnal lust for blood and flesh
Would as a slave obey him, and do all his bidding yet.

Prepared he first a meal of yolk,
Whose flavour the monarch relished so
That he praised the wily Ahriman, who replied thus,
“Illustrious monarch! For ever live!
To-morrow I will serve you and please you well.”
The evil one then counselled the king,
That it was blood that gave muscle and strength.
And thus his food would make the monarch lion-fierce.
All night he mused,
What strange repast shall I proffer on the morrow?
And when the azure vault brought back again
The golden gem he lavishly presented
A meal of partridges and silver pheasants.
The Arab monarch gorged
And lost his diminutive wits in admiration.
On the third day Ahriman served lamb and fowl,
And on the fourth a joint of veal with saffron flavour,
With rosewater, musk and old wine.

Zahhak when he had feasted and tasted blood and flesh,
In wonder at his cook’s ability, said,
“Worthy friend! Ask now your recompense.”
His scheme fulfilled, darkness answered,
“Live, O king! In wealth and power.
My heart does throe with your favour my soul’s food;
Yet would I ask one boon above my station?
‘Tis leave to kiss and lay my face and eyes upon thy shoulders.”
Surprised Zahhak replied, “I grant it; it may do you grace.”
Permission thus received,
Ahriman kissed the monarch’s shoulders and vanished.
A marvel followed – from the monarch’s shoulders
Grew two black snakes.

Distraught he sought a cure.
Find none, he excised them,
But they grew back again!
Oh! Strange, like branches from a tree.
The ablest leechers summoned gave advice in turn
And used their curious arts, but all in vain.
Then in leech form Ahriman himself appeared
“This was thy destiny,” said he.
“Cut not the snakes but let them live.
Give them men’s brains and gorge them till they sleep.
Such food may kill them. It is the only means.”
The purpose of the foul div shrewdly scan
Had he conceived perchance a secret plan
To rid the world of all trace of man?

http://zoroastrianheritage.blogspot.com/2011/07/were-ancient-iranians-zoroastrians.html

The above link links to a page where the word “aryan” is used. Some people associate the word aryan with Hitler because Hitler used the word to describe German people. However the word aryan does not refer to germans and the word aryan does not refer to whites in general either. Hitler used the word aryan incorrectly just as some white racialists use the word aryan incorrectly today. The word aryan refers to a specific ethnic group in Asia. Aryans are an ethnic group associated with India and Iran(Persia). Some people in those regions have aryan ancestry however there are other ethnic groups who have also contributed their genes to those areas too. Aryans may be a white ethnic group however that does not mean that whites in general are aryans. That would be like saying that since someone is from Europe they must be italian because Italy is in Europe. It is similarly ridiculous to say that whites are aryan because aryans are white. Aryans are also not German. Germans are german and aryans are aryan.

John Stewart Criticizes Media For Ignoring Ron Paul

 

Hypocrisy And England Riots

During the riots a 100 year old furniture store was burned and people were outraged over that. Yet the same people outraged over that have never expressed outrage over the many local businesses just as old being destroyed by globalism.

People expressed outrage over the disruption and destruction of property, yet England has been involved with destroying property in Libya because it has been bombing Libya. If they are so upset by their shops being made disorganized why are they so quick to mess things up in Libya?

The English government tried to close down twitter but twitter refused to limit their services in England. This same government criticised arab governments for trying to shut down twitter.

England supported all the arab riots and claimed the arabs had legitimate grievances. When riots happen in their country they dismiss the rioters as hoodlums and say the riots are disruptive.

They are outraged by the rioters looting and yet have no trouble looting the oil that they stole from Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi people.

From Matthew Chapter 7(verses mentioned on left of verse):

³ “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

⁴ How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

⁵ You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

The Normans And Saxons Of England

For those who are not aware the English people are a variety of ethnicities. Two ethnicities that are worth mentioning are the Normans and The Saxons. Normans are from Normandy France. Prior to France the Normans were from Scandinavia. Norman means “north man”, men from the north.

Saxons are a Germanic people from the general area of where Germany is today. The Saxons spoke a Germanic language and Normans spoke french.

In 1066 The Normans conquered England, prior to that England was ruled by Saxon people. The Normans became the people of the upper classes and the Saxons became the peasants. This is why words associated with food and business are of French origin in the  english language and words associated with peasants and working classes are of Saxon origin(words like tailor and smith).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England

The story of Robin Hood is about the Norman-Saxon tensions. After the Norman conquest the highest rank a Saxon could be was a rank of yeoman. A yeoman is a small land owner. Robin Hood was a of yeoman extraction and was in conflict with the Norman overlords. The Norman rule is sometimes referred to as the Norman yoke.

Norman saw on English oak.
On English neck a Norman yoke;
Norman spoon to English dish,
And England ruled as Normans wish;
Blithe world in England never will be more,
Till England’s rid of all the four.

-Sir Walter Scott poem Ivanhoe

The current British monarchy is descended from the original Norman conquerors, the guy who became king after the Norman conquest was William the conqueror.

The British monarch queen Elizabeth II is a descendant of William the conqueror. The family lineage is chronicled in the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_of_Elizabeth_II_from_William_I

And William the conqueror was descended of a conqueror of Normandy called Rollo. Legend has it that Rollo was exiled from Norway due to piracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo

Rollo is the great-great-great-grandfather of William the Conqueror. Through William, he is an ancestor of the present-day British royal family, as well as an ancestor of all current European monarchs and a great many pretenders to abolished European thrones.

http://ancestoranecdotes.blogspot.com/2010/07/rollo-rolf-aka-robert-i-duke-of.html

Rollo was a Danish Prince according to the Norman Dudo of Saint-Quentin (“De Moribus et Actis Primorum Normanniae Ducum”). Rollo, or Rolf, was the son of Rögnvald, Earl of Möre. Chronicle sources, which are not always reliable, note that he was exiled from Norway because of lawlessness

Parliament was established as a compromise between the interests of The Normans and the interests of The Saxons. Prior to the establishment of parliament the Normans exercised absolute rule. Now though the parliament does not represent the interests of the Saxon people rather it swindles the working classes in favor of international capitalists interests.

The word parliament is derived from the word parler which means “to speak” in Old French

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=parliament&searchmode=none

Basically the parliament was devised as a means of allowing the peasants to have a place for their voices to be heard by their representatives.

American style democracy takes things one step beyond the original parliamentary system because the American style government abolished all forms of nobility and so instead of the nobles allowing the peasants to have a voice the situation evolved in America to a point where the nobles didn’t even exist. And currently the British  model has progressed to a similar place as the American model because the British aristocracy has been stripped of most of their power.

American thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson saw America as a Anglo-Saxon rebellion against Norman rule. The tribal chiefs of The Saxons were said to have been elected and so American thinkers saw it as a good idea for the rulers of America to be elected.

So the basic ideal in America is “the right of the governed to be governed by their consent”, And the Norman ideal is “the right of a ruler to rule by the right of conquest, to conquer is justification for rule”.

In essence the Saxon ideal came to be understood as being embodied in the principles upon which America was founded, one where the concept of nobility was seen as an anathema.

Related Links:

Site on Normans, Saxons, And Vikings

http://www.freewebs.com/axanor/svn.htm

Saxons and Normans in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy

http://www.tolkiensociety.org/ed/warwick.html

http://www.houseofnames.com/tolkien-family-crest

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/10/tolkien-and-norman-conquest.html

British Aristocracy and Normans

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/f96/the-british-aristocracy-17344.html

Further Analysis Of The Riots In England

These riots amount to a redistribution of wealth. Basically the upper classes loot from people by doing scams within the system such as bankers and other sorts of stuff.

And these rioters are looting in a very open and honest way, essentially they are doing the same thing as the upper class scammers. One major difference between the two though is that the lower class people have been scammed by the government and those in the upper class and looted their whole life and so with these riots they really are just TAKING BACK WHAT WAS STOLEN FROM THEM.

Above is a comment I made on this blog post by Robert Lindsay:

http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/racial-breakdown-of-the-english-riots/

Robert Lindsay provides first class analysis of the racial demographics of the rioters in that blog post.

My basic analysis that I talk about in the above quote is that the people rioting have been exploited their whole life and that by looting they are reclaiming the wealth that was stolen from them. The families of the people rioting might be on welfare but they have working class ancestors who were exploited.

Their working class ancestors built the wealth of the British Monarchy, and so they are reclaiming the fruit of the labor of their ancestors.