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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post Question Regarding the FofD 1 week, 1 day ago · View
These are two important questions. As to your first one, of course they could appear almost anywhere, but I think you are meaning particularly, under what circumstances can we expect them. Of course they are not wholly predictable but I would say there are two conditions in which they typically appear: 1. When we are [...]
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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post The Warrior’s Day Out 2 weeks, 2 days ago · View
Please do not think any kind of reprimand was intended. I was merely trying to clarify. I know you are very aware of how many things are woven together, but some if our newer sisters may not be. Thank you also for leading us with an example of the humility we all need if we [...]
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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post The Warrior’s Day Out 2 weeks, 3 days ago · View
My feeling on this matter is that your ceremony was part of what the grumms were reacting to, and that it was also part of a pattern of advance. What the other parts are I am not certain, though I think I have some idea. Aristasia also requires a maid to renounce all foreign allegiances on [...]
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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post Thoughts on Traditon after dividing Miss Elizabeth’s Necklace 3 weeks, 1 day ago · View
When one says that all morality is “opinion”, really the point is that all morality oustide thamë is opinion. Thamë represents an absolute, although it does not necessarily represent that absolute in the same form for all peoples. However, in a normal society, there is a “morality” – a thamë – which everyone in that society [...]
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Lady Aquila posted a new activity comment: 3 weeks, 1 day ago · View
I liked the rather neat coinage ”Angelotheism” used in today’s follow-up post. It is a necessary addition to the English language which has had not means of distinguishing between the legitimate worship of Dea in Her Angels or Powers – or ”Goddess-forms” if we must – and the illegitimate denial of the One in a mere worship of demigods.
Christianity, like all Abrahamic religions is not Angelotheist, because while it recognizes the Archangels, it does not worship them as God. Aristasian religion, like Hinduism and most ”native” religion, accepts that the Janyati are both separate from Dea and one with Her – that is, at one level we can look on them as independent ”beings”, but ultimately we must recognize them as Aspects, or Faces of Dea Herself.
In reply to - Minami Kohime posted an update: Oh, dear. Did you see this charming letter the Mother-God site received? http://bit.ly/dkDNfU I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Do people who write like that expect to be taken seriously? · View -
Lady Aquila commented on the blog post Twitter and Facebook Badges 3 weeks, 3 days ago · View
Leaving aside the rather dreary and predictable “Marxist” explanation, this is a very interesting phenomenon and is found in most civilizations. Why is that? One thing that is clear is that, unlike the “evolutionist” moderns, most people at most times believe ancient language to be superior to later language. They believe it to have a higher [...]
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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post Aristasia on Facebook, Twitter 3 weeks, 6 days ago · View
Rayati. “Twitterism” (thinking in sound-pecks) is certainly a phenomenon in late Telluria, but it is part of a much more complex phenomenon. Many Tellurians, it is true, seem to have lost the power (or the discipline) to think in anything other than simplistic slogans, but those slogans come from somewhere and the ideas behind them [...]
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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post Twitter and Facebook Badges 3 weeks, 6 days ago · View
Posting this for Miss Finesmith: Rayati, I was reading the Heart Wire discussion on Twitter and Facebook. I have a strong aversion to both. Miss Esmeralda Czeret said something that reminded me of another thing- Miss Esmeralda Czeret wrote: Technics are ideologically neutral. They are only as good or as bad as the uses to [...]
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Lady Aquila posted an update: 2 months, 1 week ago · updated 1 month, 1 week ago · View
Philosophy of History: A German gentleman (playing, in the way only a certain type of gentleman does at being possibly a girl) has commented with all the arrogance of the current Tellurian ”historical mind” on the story of Myrine, first Queen of the Amazons over at All-Girl Worlds.
What is rather interesting is the answer that the admin has given, which really tackles the whole fallacy of modern Tellurian ”historism” economically and amusingly.
*Examines sword to see if it needs sharpening*
Normally this sort of matter would irritate and anger me, but I find myself only raising a cultured eyebrow at the arrogance of some — and their haughty assumption that they are amusing. Perhaps this is snobbish of me, but I consider such arguments as this gentleman has presented to be not worth my time or the effort of becoming entrangled in it: for one thing, Tellurians tend to always think of a comeback, however lame and droll, and for another, they’ll get by perfectly happily thinking they are right — and so much more the fool them. They like to think that, just because they can see it, touch it, and claim ownership to it, that something is real. That, and I’m just bad at debating, hee hee.
That being said, however, bravo to Madamoiselle l’Editrice! How elegant to be able to be polite and correct the good gentleman at the same time. I find myself wondering if he has seen it, and if so, what he thinks.
What an interesting retaliation given to this, ’Mark’. It was quite well done.
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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post There but my heart is longing for.. 1 month, 1 week ago · View
Of course the birds Miss Sushuri lists are not the only birds related to each of the janyati. Sai Thamë, for example is also very strongly associated with the pavanelle (brunette peahen) the nightingale and the swallow, Sai Vikhë with birds of prey in general. Nor are birds necessarily exclusive. The nightingale also has strong Candric [...]
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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post The Drama of the Garden 1 month, 1 week ago · View
I have been thinking about this question of cactus flowers. It is one indeed that was considered in a famous Tellurian poem: . Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. . Of course “desert” does not mean a dry sandy place, but the idea is the [...]
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Lady Aquila posted an update: 2 months ago · updated 2 months ago · View
Pink and Blue - Have you heard the story that is going around Telluria? That not long ago blue was for girls and pink was for – well, some other kind of being? As with many journalistic Tellurian yarns the rumor is greatly exaggerated and needs to be put to death! Which the fine ladies at The Chapel of Our Mother God have just done:
Pink IS a special color – not just a light red. That is why so many languages have a special name for it (often rose, rosa etc.) when there are no special names for light-blue, light-orange etc.
In Aristasia, pink is one of the colors of Sai Sushuri (along with green). The interesting thing to me is that while pink for girls and blue for bee-oh-whys does not make any special symbolic sense in Telluria (it should be pink for girls and RED for bee-oh-whys), pink for blondes and blue for brunettes has always been the rule in Aristasia and should be, because chelani are ruled by Sai Sushuri and melini by Sai Thamë.
So next time you hear folks say blue has always been a feminine color, remember that is quite right. It is the brunette color and very feminine. Pink for bee-oh-whys, on the other hand, is nonsense.
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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post Of Heads and Hats 2 months, 1 week ago · View
I do hope the ache went away! How charmingly you put these great adventures of yours (for they are indeed great for so small a mushroom).
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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post The Nature of Confusion… 2 months, 1 week ago · View
Reading your words, Miss DreamWalker (or if you are Novaryan, should I perhaps say DreamWalker-chei) and yours, Kohime-chei, I felt moved to quote this passage from The Clew of the Horse, one of the Sutras of The Gospel of Our Mother God:
47. Thou art not thy body, nor is thy body any portion of thee. [...]
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Lady Aquila posted a new activity comment: 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Interesting on this score is the current extreme hatred of ”hypocrisy” in Telluria. I think it was La Rochefoucauld who said ”hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue”. With regard to modern telluria one might say – rather less elegantly – ”Hypocrisy is the indication that while one may not be virtuous one is still morally sane”.
Quite obviously it is best to both preach and practice virtue. But modern Tellurian ”anti-hypocrisy” essentially says ”If you can’t practice virtue perfectly you must not preach it. It also adds the implicit clause ”And remember that if you dare to preach virtue your actions will be subjected to extremely close scrutiny”.
The object, of course, is to suppress the preaching of virtue in a society that is not at all fond of it. The result (with which a moral-anarchist society is by no means displeased) is that people tend, to justify the sins they practice because it would be too terrible to be caught disapproving of them when one does not completely avoid them.
Let us shame the devil with the simple and obvious truth. To depart from virtue is human frailty. But to deny virtue is diabolical.
In reply to - Esmeralda Czeret posted an update: Apropos of a discussion I overheard this afternoon: girls who are beginning to civilise themselves, and even girls who have been hard at work on the project for some time, often fall into the error of thinking: ”I am Aristasian, and I like X. Therefore, X must be sound.” And then [...] · View -
Lady Aquila commented on the blog post Please give me your blessings… 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
I am not sure if anyone has expressed concerns to you privately, but please let me make things clear. In the first place, I do understand what you are doing, and I have no hesitation in giving my blessing to your excellent work. I am sure others will do so too. I know that what [...]
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Lady Aquila commented on the blog post Bridging the Gap 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Rayati honored Miss Rhys. I am a shade confused by this post as it appears to be a reply to something, and yet there is no indication of anything it might be a reply to. Please forgive me if I have blundered into a private correspondence, but since it was posted publicly I thought it [...]
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Lady Aquila and Sushuri-chei are now friends 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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Lady Aquila and Minami Kohime are now friends 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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Lady Aquila and Niami Anuxine’ are now friends 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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