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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 02:08 PM
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47. Yes
I haven't given up I will resist with my last breath which will be a fuck you to some fascist thug.. But the perception management and control this system of corruption has over people is astounding...And it IS a Gordian Knot.

As for the Gordian Knot, here's the legend:

A man named Gordius, his wife, and their son Midas rode in an oxcart into the town that would soon be known as Gordion. A legend had foretold just such a coming by oxcart of a savior king, so Gordius was proclaimed ruler.The cart that had brought them was put in a Temple to Zeus, and it was said that anyone who could untie the knot of cornel bark which fastened the cart pole to the oxen yoke would rule all of Asia.

The knot may in fact have been a religious knot-cipher guarded by Gordion's priests and priestesses. It may have symbolized the ineffable name of Dionysus and its secret would have been passed on through generations of priests and revealed only to the kings of Phrygia.In any case, Alexander the Great came along, defeated the Phrygians in battle, captured their fortress, and therefore had access to the remainder of Asia.

I see the episode of the Gordion Knot not so much as a symbol of Alexander's impetuousness as of his clear-headedness: he had Gordion in the bag, so why waste time untying knots?

And this time They THINK we are knotted up,and we THINK we are bagged.. But WE need to let the Cat out inside us,that disobedient,willful wild eyed radical, and claw this fucking shit down.
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