Πέμπτη 31 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

Well, these rags still look ugly!

Yes, rags with signature is high class style nowadays. However they were tried on Ancient Greek Sculptures and they didn't look any better. Rags are rags. Fashion and clothing industry has to sell, so they must find something new every year; so that one can show his good income and present himself with each collection of the last years. However with such a demand in quantity, quality does suffer heavily.

Was this the best they could do to promote their stuff? The best they could do, they cannot do any better that.

Christianity conquered Heathen Europe. The Dark Ages came. When Europeans decided to read the remaining ancient scriptures, Rennaisance came. When they followed these ideas further, there came the Age of Enlightment. Last century it was decided to abandon the classical world. Fascism, Marxism-Leninism and the 'need' to 'grow' appeared. Not only to grow, but to grow always faster, with a higher rate. The merchants became philosophers and artists, and the philososphers and artists, merchants; and all of them just gamble. Cornelius Castoriades noticed that between 1400 and 1925 there was every 5 years a first class productive genius in Europe; and between 1925 and 1975 there was none.


A Christian Writer and opponent of Hellenism, invented a story to defame the "rival" God Dionysos. He doesn't say where he heard such a myth and as a Christian he doesn't have the abililties to be inspired to utter new myths.

http://www.carnaval.com/dionysos/
Bisexual or true fidelity?
There are a myth involving a homoerotic relationship with Ampelos, a sweet youth, and Prosymnos, his guide to the realm of Hades. When Dionysos goes to Hades to retrieve his mother, Semele, to bring her to Olympus, he meets Prosymnos on the way. According to Arthur Evans in his book The God of Ecstasy, Christian writer Clement of Alexandria reports:

Dionysos wanted to descend to Hades but did not know the way. A certain Prosymnos promised to show him for a price. The price was indecent but not for Dionysos. The price he asked of Dionysos was a sexual favor. (Evans 34)

Upon his return from the underworld, Dionysos can’t locate Prosymnos because he has died and instead has sex with a wooden dildo made from the branch of a fig tree in order to pay his due to his guide.

Τρίτη 29 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

RIP Lemmy Kilmister!

Orgasmatron



Killed By Death



Whorehouse Blues



Brotherhood of Man


Paul of Kissamos and Siatista won't spit, but just condemn!

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Now everyone should see what was the real debate here. The bishops really argued if one should spit at loosers and sinners or not. The meek bishop will not tolerate any politician, who voted in favour of the Cohabitation Contract in his area.

A reactionary Anarchist!


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39:15

 
Against the Contract of Cohabitation which was extended to people of the same sex, were the Church, the Nazis, many Conservatives and the Stalinists. The above man is a comedian, who is admired by people who identify themselves as anarchists or  broad-minded. I was taken aback when in the second video, which is in Greek without subtitles, he said that he despises people who choose civil to religious ceremonies. He says that Greek Orthodox Christianity is folk civilisation, which of course this statement shows his total ignorance. In the first video, which is again in Greek without subtitles, he says that homosexuals shouldn't have such rights, because if someone chooses to rebel against common beliefs and norms that way, one shouldn't on the other hand seek approval by the 'policeman and priest'. Exactly what all the other said, but in a more polite way. The priests said that homosexuals should keep their homosexuality to themselves; like 90% of the clergy.

Κυριακή 27 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

Why is Germany so tough on Greece? Look back 25 years!

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Every drama needs a great baddie, and in the latest act of the Greek crisis Wolfgang Schäuble, the 72-year-old German finance minister, has emerged as the standout villain: critics see him as a ruthless technocrat who strong-armed an entire country and now plans to strip it of its assets. One part of the bailout deal in particular has scandalised many Europeans: the proposed creation of a fund designated to cherrypick €50bn (£35bn) worth of Greek public assets and privatise them to pay the country’s debts. But the key to understanding Germany’s strategy is that for Schäuble there is nothing new about any of this.

It was 25 years ago, during the summer of 1990, that Schäuble led the West German delegation negotiating the terms of the unification with formerly communist East Germany. A doctor of law, he was West Germany’s interior minister and one of Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s closest advisers, the go-to guy whenever things got tricky.
The situation in the former GDR was not too dissimilar from that in Greece when Syriza swept to power: East Germans had just held their first free elections in history, only months after the Berlin Wall fell, and some of the delegates from East Berlin dreamed of a new political system, a “third way” between the west’s market economy and the east’s socialist system – while also having no idea how to pay the bills anymore.

The West Germans, on the other side of the table, had the momentum, the money and a plan: everything the state of East Germany owned was to be absorbed by the West German system and then quickly sold to private investors to recoup some of the money East Germany would need in the coming years. In other words: Schäuble and his team wanted collateral.

At that time almost every former communist company, shop or petrol station was owned by the Treuhand, or trust agency – an institution originally thought up by a handful of East German dissidents to stop state-run firms from being sold to West German banks and companies by corrupt communist cadres. The Treuhand’s mission: to turn all the big conglomerates, companies and tiny shops into private firms, so they could be part of a market economy.

Schäuble and his team didn’t care that the dissidents had planned to hand out shares of companies to the East Germans, issued by the Treuhand – a concept that incidentally led to the rise of the oligarchs in Russia. But they liked the idea of a trust fund because it operated outside the government: while technically overseen by the finance ministry, it was publicly perceived as an independent agency. Even before Germany merged into a single state in October 1990, the Treuhand was firmly in West German hands.

Their aim was to privatise as many companies as possible, as soon as possible – and if you were to ask most Germans about the Treuhand today they would say it achieved that objective. It didn’t do so in a way that was popular with the people of East Germany, where the Treuhand quickly became known as the ugly face of capitalism. It did a horrible job in explaining the transformation to shellshocked East Germans who felt overpowered by this strange new agency. To make matters worse, the Treuhand became a hotbed of corruption.

The agency took all the blame for the bleak situation in East Germany. Kohl and Schäuble’s party, the conservative CDU, was re-elected for years to come, while others paid the price: one of the Treuhand’s presidents, Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, was shot and killed by leftwing terrorists. (Schäuble too became the victim of an attack that left him permanently in a wheelchair, only days after German reunification – but his paranoid attacker’s motives were unrelated to the political events)

But the reality of what the Treuhand did is different from the popular perception – and that should be a warning for both Schäuble and the rest of Europe. Selling East Germany’s assets for maximum profit turned out to be more difficult than imagined. Almost all assets of real value – the banks, the energy sector – had already been snapped up by West German companies. Within days of the introduction of the West German mark, the economy in the east completely broke down. Like Greece, it required a massive bailout programme organised by Schäuble’s government, but in secret: they set aside 100bn marks (£35bn) to keep the old East German economy afloat, a figure that became public only years later.

With prices for labour and supplies going through the roof, the already stressed East Germany economy went into freefall and the Treuhand had no chance to sell many of its businesses. After a couple of months it started to close down entire companies, firing thousands of workers. In the end the Treuhand didn’t make any money for the German government at all: it took in a mere €34bn for all the companies in the east combined, losing €105bn.

In reality, the Treuhand became not just a tool for privatisation but a quasi-socialist holding company. It lost billions of marks because it went on paying the wages of many workers in the east and kept some unviable factories alive – a positive aspect usually drowned out in the vilifications of the agency. Because Kohl and, during the summer of 1990, Schäuble weren’t Chicago economists keen on radical experiments but politicians who wanted to be re-elected, they pumped millions into a failing economy. This is where parallels with Greece end: there were political limits to the austerity a government could impose on its own people.

The lesson Schäuble learned – and which is likely to influence his decision-making now – is that if you act the pure-hearted neoliberal you can still get away with decisions that don’t make perfect economic sense. If Schäuble is acting tough with Greece right now, it is because his electorate wants him to act that way; it’s not just that he doesn’t care about the Greek people, he wants people to believe he doesn’t care, because he sees the political advantage in it.

But Schäuble should have learned from history that the Treuhand gamble had catastrophic psychological consequences. Even though the agency was run by Germans, who spoke German, still it was seen by many in the east as an occupying force.

Schäuble’s idea of foreign countries controlling Greek assets and moving them abroad is an even more humiliating concept for any country. Schäuble comes across as a tough and sober accountant. In fact he is just an ordinary politician repeating old mistakes.

Σάββατο 26 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

"Do not vote the best, vote the pious"

Another bishop telling his flock (that is how they are called by their priests) not to vote for the best, but for the pious. That is 30 per cent of the Greek population. For the politicians it is easier to pretend they are pious, than to prove that they are competent.
 
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Παρασκευή 25 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

German Sharia Police

There is the article from BBC and I went further to the German site of the magazine 'Der Spiegel' to read some more. It reads that the instigator wasn't fully acquitted. He should have enrolled the demonstration and another court had to decide about it. The group was acquitted, because neither did they look like a militant group nor did they have an intimidating appearance. So probably next time they want to play police of some kind, they have to announce it formally, enroll it to the authorities, figure out the starting point, the route and the finish goal, the authorities have to consent, be guarded by real policemen and then they can demostrate what is bothering them anyway they please.
I don't know if the people responsible for this, have such a great sense of humour, the prosecutors who lodged an appeal don't seem to have the same taste of humour.

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Spiegel


Yule the Pagan celebration of Winter Solstice

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The Pagan celebration of Winter Solstice (also known as Yule) is one of the oldest winter celebrations in the world.

Ancient people were hunters and spent most of their time outdoors. The seasons and weather played a very important part in their lives. Because of this many ancient people had a great reverence for, and even worshipped the sun. The Norsemen of Northern Europe saw the sun as a wheel that changed the seasons. It was from the word for this wheel, houl, that the word yule is thought to have come. At mid-winter the Norsemen lit bonfires, told stories and drank sweet ale.

The ancient Romans also held a festival to celebrate the rebirth of the year. Saturnalia ran for seven days from the 17th of December. It was a time when the ordinary rules were turned upside down. Men dressed as women and masters dressed as servants. The festival also involved decorating houses with greenery, lighting candles, holding processions and giving presents.

The Winter Solstice falls on the shortest day of the year (21st December) and was celebrated in Britain long before the arrival of Christianity. The Druids (Celtic priests) would cut the mistletoe that grew on the oak tree and give it as a blessing. Oaks were seen as sacred and the winter fruit of the mistletoe was a symbol of life in the dark winter months.

It was also the Druids who began the tradition of the yule log. The Celts thought that the sun stood still for twelve days in the middle of winter and during this time a log was lit to conquer the darkness, banish evil spirits and bring luck for the coming year.

Many of these customs are still followed today. They have been incorporated into the Christian and secular celebrations of Christmas.

Πέμπτη 24 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

How they fool innocent young people to become monks!


44:41 in Greek no subtitles



A monk says at 44:41 that children should before anything else confess. After that 2 fathers of 2 monks are interviewed saying that after their sons had confessed to one priest somewhere, they were sent (advised) to confess to a certain monastery. The second professor seemed to have known everything about them, although they had never met before. Then comes the sign of Madonna, who shows who is the choosen one to be a monk and cannot refuse, because there will no second chance and he will face the wrath of Jahweh.

Τετάρτη 23 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

Happy now Mmes. and Messrs. modern Greek Orthodox of 2015 CE?

The Greek Holy Synod is against the existence of homosexuality. Some were wondering, if the usually loud bishops were an exception. The Holy Community of the Holy Mountain is against homosexuality. Some so called moderate like Nikolaus of Mesogaia and Laureotiki and Paulus of Siatista are against it and some who are unknown like Ignatius of Larissa, Paul of Glyfada and Alexander of Mantineia are against the existence of it. I don't know how they think they are going to prevent it, but ...

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Source in Greek for the Holy Mountain

Paul of Glyfada

Nikolaos of Mesogaia

Ignatios of Larissa

Alexander of Mantineia

Paul of Siatista

Some self-specified Christian Orthodox begin to awaken. However Christian Orthodoxy is a product of an Empire and it's Church.

Vasilis Leventis

Stavros Theodorakis

George Liagkas
 

Bishops arguing, whether one should spit at "sinners and loosers" or not

The most moderate bishop so far says one should not spit at loosers and sinners.

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Mourning because of a law

A bishop said that the Greek town Aigio had to pass 2 days in mourning, because a law was voted that granted some rights to homosexual pairs. How about paying taxes, so that the Greek State has money to invest, the people get some jobs and gain money for their families? Unemployment and bankruptcy are the problems that young couples face not if some homosexuals want some civil rights.

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Greek Archbishop says that only Greek Orthodox are normal!

The people of the Church have a way of life (the Greek Church of course) and whoever doesn't conform with it, is deviating from life.
Furthermore he said the Church isn't interested in what is good for the nation, but the patriots and nationalists and so on, will do as if they didn't hear anything about it.
Then again he suppresses the fact that the Greek Church wanted further subjugation to the Ottoman Empire and quotes wrongly a statement, which most probably has never been uttered. The man who is supposed to have said it couldn't read or write newspapers himself, so most probably he didn't know exactly what he was supposed to have said. Even if there is a correction some days letter, it is difficult to find out.

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Τρίτη 22 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

What will come next, Parthenon maybe?

The Roman August at the time of Tetrarchy Galerius built a temple dedicated to Zeus in Thessaloniki Greece in 311 CE. After a century or more this temple was turned to a Christian Church as it was the policy of the Christian Emperors and especially of Justinian. It is listed as World Monument by UNESCO. The Central Council of Archaeologists, which is under the authority of the Ministry of Civilisation and Sports, decided that a cross should be placed, because it was used as a Church for many centuries. So was Parthenon of Akropolis of Athens by the way, should  a restoration of Parthenon as the Church of Panagia Athiniotissa be awaited? In 1995 a mob of priests and Christian believers stopped a concert by force, destroyed a piano of a musician called Sakis Papadimitriou, because they wanted to turn the monument into a Church. Now the radical left, mayor and ministry have granted the Christian Church a mass once a month. That for the beginning.



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The Church pays nothing and does nothing and they ...

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A Greek charity for orphan children must pay till the end of this year 65 thousand Euros. The Church because of it's so called charities, never pays a cent and there are always scandals coming up, the last one being about a sexual abuse. The Church is so rich, if it would pay taxes, that would be a great help.

Σάββατο 19 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

Christian Jihad: Women that murder gays go to paradise!



This is a Christian Greek Orthodox monk living for more than 55 years on the 'Holy Mountain'. About the influence of monks in Greece, there is the incindent with the satirical site Elder Pastitsios. He is against democracy, in favour of the nazi party 'Golden Dawn', he makes the accusation that the Gospel 'John' makes in 8:44 and his last sentence is that women who kill gays go to paradise.

Σάββατο 12 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

In which part of the world may people act, like Greek bishop do?

Recently a Greek actor died and I don't know if it was known while he lived, he was a pair with another male actor. I don't know any actors, so I don't know any gossip. Parallel to this the Greek government is obliged to recognise contracts signed between homosexual pairs. So the actor alive tried to influence the proceedings to go one way, an opposing conservative political advisor, there were some reactions, until a Metropolit chose to intervene. Metropolit of Dimitsana and Aigialeia, Ambrosios Lenis.
He tried to find the worst insults to characterise people, who defend human rights. The advisor made a remark on his facebook page and everybody read it. The same people don't say anything against the archpriest. A representative of the or a community of homosexuals said they were going to sue him; nothing else was said by anyone.
The funny thing is that he said he has sent to the left wing government a book, he says it is profound, about Ancient Greece. The true Christians don't read ancient Greek books, unless they are quoted in a Christian text. The book he has sent is written by an author, who writes about all sorts of conspiracy theories including aliens, supernatural beings and devils, using all kind of forgeries that have existed and interpreting real texts in the most absurd way.
Christians and Marxists use the same trick. They quote ancient Greek texts their very own way, so that they fit to their teaching and so they try to mislead the opponent.

Both sources in Greek.

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Σάββατο 5 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

A Greek Bishop’s Anti-Semitic Tirade


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A Greek Bishop’s Anti-Semitic Tirade
By Robert Mackey December 22, 2010 1:30 pm December 22, 2010 1:30 pm
Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus.

Updated | 7:19 p.m. Leaders of Greece’s small Jewish community objected on Wednesday to televised remarks by a Greek Orthodox bishop who blamed the country’s financial problems on a conspiracy of Jewish bankers and claimed that the Holocaust was orchestrated by Zionists.

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece complained to church authorities about the anti-Semitic remarks made by the Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus during an interview on Greek television on Monday, according to a statement (in Greek) on the group’s Web site.*

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that the bishop “said that there is a conspiracy to enslave Greece and Christian Orthodoxy. He also accused international Zionism of trying to destroy the family unit by promoting one-parent families and same-sex marriages.”

According to the news agency, when the bishop was then asked, “Why do you disagree with Hitler’s policies? If they are doing all this, wasn’t he right in burning them?” he replied: “Adolf Hitler was an instrument of world Zionism and was financed from the renowned Rothschild family with the sole purpose of convincing the Jews to leave the shores of Europe and go to Israel to establish the new Empire.” He added that Jewish bankers like “Rockefeller, Rothschild and Soros control the international banking system that controls globalization.”

Greece’s Jewish community is ancient, but only about 10,000 Greek Jews survived the Holocaust.

The president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, called for the bishop to be fired in a statement sent to reporters on Wednesday. He added: “It is completely unacceptable that someone senior in a mainstream European religious denomination can make such repulsive and hate-filled claims.”

The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants sent this statement to The Lede:

    Holocaust survivors are aghast at the hate-filled remarks of Metropolitan Seraphim and call on the Greek Orthodox hierarchy to remove him from his position. We also demand that the Greek government prosecute him under its laws against incitement to hatred. Greece itself, which suffered grievously under Nazi occupation, is slandered by Metropolitan Seraphim’s bigotry. His remarks constitute a brutal assault on the memory of all Nazi victims, Jew and non-Jew.

Earlier this year, the bishop wrote to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to demand that Elton John be stripped of his knighthood for telling Parade magazine, “Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man.” The bishop also complained to Britain’s ambassador to Greece about the singer’s “unacceptable and absurd” comment, which, he said, had caused “deep pain and bitterness.”

*Thanks to the reader who sent us a link to video of the complete interview with the bishop from Mega TV in Greece. Even non-speakers of Greek can clearly see the shock on the face of the television host (at about 13 minutes into the interview) when the bishop explained his theory of Zionist complicity in Adolf Hitler’s extermination of the Jews.

Πέμπτη 3 Δεκεμβρίου 2015

Zoroastrian faith returns to Kurdistan in response to ISIS violence

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Zoroastrian faith returns to Kurdistan in response to ISIS violence
By Judit Neurink 2/6/2015


SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region — After over a millennium, the Zoroastrian faith is returning to its original habitat. The Ministry of Religion in the Iraqi Kurdistan capital Erbil has registered the religion, locally known as Zardashti, and suggested to the Kurdish government the ancient faith should be given its own directorate general and its believers be allowed to build new temples.

“Now it’s time,” says Nouri Sharif, one of the initiators of the movement that established a Zoroastrian organization in Europe in 2006 and in March announced in Erbil its official return to Kurdistan. In April, a Supreme Council of Zoroastrians in Kurdistan was founded.

Already active in Iran and India, the movement claims to have some 100,000 followers in Iraqi Kurdistan. This is mainly a reaction to the violence committed by the Islamic State, according to Sharif during an interview in a café in Kurdistan’s second city Sulaimani.

“People see something is imposed on them. They have witnessed suffering from another belief. Now it is the time for our destiny, because we are exhausted. We haven’t seen any good deeds from Daesh, it only gives us death and violence,” he said using Daesh, the Arabic acronym for ISIS.

Zoroastrians follow Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra or locally as Zardasht, who probably lived in the 6th century BC. He was not a prophet like those known in Islam and Christianity, Sharif stressed.

“He was not sent by God as his representative. He was contemplating existence and the universe. Zardasht was a human being full of wisdom. For me he is a prophet, but he brings a philosophy he found himself,” he said. 

He pointed to the little green book in front of him on the table. “This book is a summary of his thoughts. A hundred questions that he raised on existence, religion, God and the universe. It’s not God’s word, but that of humans,” Sharif continued.

Sharif returned five years ago to Sulaimani from Germany to start work on bringing back the religion to Kurdistan, and printed a selection of thoughts to be used for this task. They are taken from the main book of the faith, Avesta.

“Zardasht was one of the first to have called for worshipping one god, the Ahura Mazda… creator of existence,” he said.

An important aspect for attracting people to the faith is the fact that its founder was a Kurd. Not a lot is known about him, Sharif said, apart from that he was born in Urmia (now Iran) and died aged 77 in a fight. “During his life there was opposition,” Sharif said. “Later we were conquered by Alexander the Great, but we regrouped after that, until the total Islamic conquest.”

Already the Zoroastrians have centers in India and in Kerman in Iran.

“We plan to open a third one in Sulaimani. Seminars were held in different towns across Kurdistan, where many people participated,” Sharif said. “Amongst Kurds there is a great level of enthusiasm to go back to the roots; from various levels in the community; professors, politicians and normal people. Hundreds of thousands are interested and this is increasing.”

Sharif said councils have been established in the big cities, but his group is waiting for the licensing process to finish so it can open a center for people to visit.

Temples will be opened too, or in the vocabulary of the faith “attashga,” which means fire house, as fire is considered holy.

“They should be opened on the original locations, like in Darbandighan, Shaklawa, Soran, Chami Rezan, Qishqapan—the king that was buried there was a Zardashti,” Sharif claimed. “We have history to guide us, and will renovate old places.”

But for the moment the group is focused on culture and heritage. “We don’t want to start with the commitments of the religion, binding people to a certain number of prayers per day,” he said.

Even though reviving this pre-Islamic religion and convincing people to leave Islam might enrage Muslims who consider this to be prohibited, Sharif and his group have decided to work out in the open.

“Kurdistan has passed the era of secret practice. We follow the rules and legislations. If we are supported by law, hopefully it will protect us. All the religions have the right to call for worship,” he said.

Even so he knows it could be dangerous.

“We have made our decision, and this cause demands sacrifices. They can only kill and commit violence,” Sharif said referring to Muslim radicals like ISIS. “They could bring arguments, but they do not have the wisdom, that’s why they resort to killing. We are not afraid of them. Their religion is backward.”

Sharif expects that even though the vast majority of Kurds are Muslim, they can live together in peace. “We believe in peaceful coexistence. There is no violence in the origin of our culture. This is another wisdom by Zardasht, who says: ‘I will not draw my sword in troubled times, but light a candle.’”