tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post4549093941186560468..comments2023-10-28T04:53:32.505-07:00Comments on View From The Northern Wall: Thief Of Secretschristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-49077027132867597982010-12-23T08:08:03.242-08:002010-12-23T08:08:03.242-08:00Merry Christmas, all you long time blogging friend...Merry Christmas, all you long time blogging friends of mine. I am glad for your comments, glad you are here.<br /><br />Joseph, I have been meaning to have some contact with you lately, just because, and there you are!<br /><br />Ghost, thank you. I agree with you. The devil is certainly an angel with an attitude.<br /><br />Katrin, you are a good friend to me. Loving you.<br /><br />Erin, I live in the ideal of no secrets, which does not mean tell all to everyone, just to be able to if necessary for some reason. I like to think my life is an open book with nothing to hide in it any more. As far as censorship goes, it matters very much why. I like it to be voluntary and compassionate, a matter of diplomacy. I might be okay censoring myself for your sake or the sake of someone if I knew I might cause grief somehow but I am rarely happy with any imposed censorship. Both Blogger and Facebook have censorship rules. On blogger if you do not put the adult warning page up as our friend does, then they can block your blog. I think that is okay. I didn't get any warning from anyone but a friend on Facebook about showing the statue of naked Hermes. I might not have had any bad press from it either, in which case all would have been fine. The Greek gods were often shown in human form nude and perfect. It was important to show them thus, the principle connection between god and man being ideal form.<br /><br />However, I did not want to risk offending anyone and receiving bad press anywhere. I go to considerable lengths to fly low in the radar on Facebook and elsewhere, being very picky who I trade with and all that. Especially on Facebook, there are all these applications which ask you for permission to access your stuff in trade for your participation. Notwithstanding that these apps are mostly not what I prefer to connect to, I really hate that they can trade on my info and my friends like that. I am censoring myself on Facebook all the time.<br /><br />Facebook is a problem for me. It is a deeply social site with all these ways to connect. All the games and other stuff are mainly social. However they are not free even when they are money cheap. The trade is in information collection. Facebook keeps track of the demographics for advertising and *other* purposes. It is a close thing for me. I want to have the connection with my local community, but I really don't like being in the spotlight. They really put you there, and can easily notice you specifically if they want to. Your only protection that way on Facebook being that there are so many and so little reason to single any one of us out.<br /><br />On the other hand, publishing is spotlighting in its nature. Both ?Facebook and Blogger are new forms of publishing. Censorship is always an issue in the public eye. It cannot be removed because the public is so diverse.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-34949898911542167202010-12-23T06:06:28.329-08:002010-12-23T06:06:28.329-08:00Censorship? I'm none too keen on censorship o...Censorship? I'm none too keen on censorship or obeying. Somehow, for me, I allow certain things to fall with intention. If intention is fair then censorship is out the window. If intention is mean spirited, well, then the stamp can fall. But I laugh at myself. Intention is a tricky thing to discern.<br /><br />I'm wondering on the nature of secrets just now after reading this. I'm wondering if all secrets are because of the nature of spirits, laced with weight? Seems so.<br /><br />xo<br />erinWoman in a Windowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14747858840088922077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-89909813238355598072010-12-22T13:01:41.591-08:002010-12-22T13:01:41.591-08:00Thanks Christopher!
I didn't know all this.
An...Thanks Christopher!<br />I didn't know all this.<br />And i gladly pray to Hermes, when stealing sectrets and revealing mine.katrinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09549558632861568997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-83721936697154143162010-12-22T12:20:22.072-08:002010-12-22T12:20:22.072-08:00angels are messengers with wings. the devil is an ...angels are messengers with wings.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2yfGX9E7Qk" rel="nofollow"> the devil is an angel too</a>Ghost Dansinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15216056025402469120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-87819392014629716332010-12-22T11:11:16.604-08:002010-12-22T11:11:16.604-08:00He's my patron Greek fellow. I approve of this...He's my patron Greek fellow. I approve of this; it's just his style. :)Joseph Harkerhttp://namingconstellations.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-40887871994337937052010-12-22T04:57:29.713-08:002010-12-22T04:57:29.713-08:00I "forgot" many things. Here is a list ...I "forgot" many things. Here is a list of some of them...all to be found on Wikipedia.<br /><br />For example, the Caduceus is his symbol first and then the symbol of the medical community because their knowledge of the insides of a human body (that is within the boundaries of it) is hermetic knowledge.<br /><br />Not only is Pan (the lustily erotic nature of the wild world) his son but so also is Hermaphroditus, and thus the blurring of boundaries in bisexuality.<br /><br />Aphrodite is only one of his consorts. She is second to Merope but which Merope is left to us, probably the Merope who is one of the Pleiades, as Maia, daughter of Atlas and mother to Hermes shares her name with another of the Pleiades.<br /><br />Messenger of the gods<br />God of commerce, thieves, travelers, sports, and border crossings<br />Abode: Mount Olympus<br />Symbol: Caduceus, Talaria, Tortoise, Lyre, Rooster,<br />Consort: Merope, Aphrodite, Dryope, Peitho<br />Parents: Zeus and Maia<br />Children: Pan, Hermaphroditus, Tyche, Abderus, Autolycus, and Angeliachristopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-55687133739590631932010-12-22T04:32:04.364-08:002010-12-22T04:32:04.364-08:00Uh,
you forgot the pairing of Hermes and Aphrodite...Uh,<br />you forgot the pairing of Hermes and Aphrodite.<br />Lov eyou!Recovered Zombiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18102456300981024628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-36246669309761593682010-12-22T04:30:41.876-08:002010-12-22T04:30:41.876-08:00thank you.....
perfect for this moment in
time......thank you.....<br />perfect for this moment in <br />time...........Recovered Zombiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18102456300981024628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-44405787831597441652010-12-21T22:15:47.729-08:002010-12-21T22:15:47.729-08:00hermes-- from whence cometh hermeneutics and semio...hermes-- from whence cometh hermeneutics and semiotics....lies,yarns and spins, <br />signs and misdirects and sometimes, perhaps a breath or a whisper of truth, just to keep it interesting...<br />i like how you have used the stones, and the weeping.Harlequinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964772119118368322noreply@blogger.com