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Oct 30 2009, 2:49 AM
Ezra1: Tonight we are discussing violence and religion.
Dec 13 2009, 1:13 AM
Ezra1: And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jan 14 2010, 1:21 AM
Ezra1: We are discussing pathworking and the major acrana. What is the power of mythmaking?
Jan 14 2010, 2:13 AM
Ezra1: The Fool embodies whirling wind blowing between worlds. The Fool is pure existence, without substance or form. This spirit falls into the abyss of mortality. This spirit becomes all that is, seems locked into form. Yet this one being rises freely back to the silence of formlessness. The wandering Fool is like a spinning dust-devil that comes from no visible place, assumes a cloud of matter and then vanishes back into the unknown. All other Tarot cards are images frozen in time of the whirling Fool that is b