Graves of Prostitutes

 

One might think that Death brings equality to people, no matter whom and what they were before they died, but no, that's not the case. For instance, Tudor England deemed it so very sinful to be a prostitute that the women who had made a living in that profession were excluded from "decent folks": No bone-mixing after death with those who may have been their customers in life!

In Crossbones they had their allotted spots with e.g. paupers and other "non-decent" citizens, and there they lay until 1853 when the churchyard was closed. Later on it was kind of "resurrected" as a memorial place for thoughts and regrets of people who had turned wiser. It has been estimated that it held at least 15,000 graves when it was closed.    

"It's all the women's fault ...." 

Crossbones is only one churchyard for prostitutes, paupers, etc. In some countries prostitutes have made their own graveyards and they themselves tend to them as the "decent" people don't want to have anything to do with them. 

 

https://agraveinterest.blogspot.com/2012/03/closer-look-at-prostitutes-in-cemetery.html 

 

https://crossbones.org.uk/ 

 

https://livinglondonhistory.com/crossbones-the-fascinating-story-of-the-sex-workers-graveyard-on-the-southbank/ 

 

Wikidata: By Matt Brown - https://www.flickr.com/photos/londonmatt/15131959769/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69515739

 

 

Eternal Life of An AI-ghost

 

Jennifer Ann Crecente (1987-2006) was a lovely, young girl and high school pupil who met several problems when dating, including being murdered by ex-boyfriend Justin Crabbe. After her death e.g. a memorial grant was created in her name as well as legislation was passed in Texas in order to prevent teen dating violence. Actually an impressive legacy of a girl who tragically lost her life to a brute killing by a former boyfriend.

When the murderer was jailed and Jennifer's friends and family had had time to grieve one should imagine that that would be the end of the tragic case, but no, it wasn't: Without the consent of the family Jennifer was sort of resurrected as an AI-generated robot. October 2024 the father of Jennifer had a Google alert that the name and character of his murdered daughter had appeared online as if she had still been alive. There was a profile, a chatbot, etc., but there was no Jennifer as she was as dead as before.  

This "new, artificial Jennifer" whom one might chat with was created on Character.ai and they were forced to close it down. However, the shock of something like that will linger on which makes it obvious that this is a public area that needs to be restricted by laws as soon as possible.

REAL Jennifer 

Wu, Daniel (October 15, 2024). "His daughter was murdered. Then she reappeared as an AI chatbot". The Washington Post.

https://www.digit.in/news/general/ai-raises-dead-2006-murder-victim-recreated-as-chatbot-without-familys-consent.html

 

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/cltr/ai-daughter.html 

 

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When Muhammad's Daughter-In-Law, Zaynab bint Jahsh, became his wife

When people in The Western countries talk of Muhammad's wife they most often think of Aisha, the 6 years old girl, he married, "consummating their marriage" when she was nine. However, he had 13 wives, and No. 7 is kind of special. Her name was Zaynab bint Jahsh and she was not only his cousin, but also his daughter-in-law as well as his wife. 

HOW is that even possible??? Well, Zaynab was the daughter of the sister of Muhammad's father and thus his first cousin. She was born in 590 and died in 640/641 as one of the widows of Muhammad who had died in 632, her third husband. Little is known about the first one who seems to have died in 622, but No. 2, Zayd Ibn Harithah, started out as the slave that had been a gift from Muhammad's first wife, Khadijah. Muhammad never had a biological son which may be the reason why he adopted this slave and made him his son. Maybe he married him off to his cousin, Zaynab, to boost his status in society, but the legend is that all of a sudden Muhammad was beset by the beauty and sex appeal of his cousin + daughter-in-law, Zaynab, and poor Zayd ended up in a very, very hot spot which he tried to get out of by divorcing his wife. Not that it saved his life because it didn't: He was sent off on a military mission that (was meant to???) end with his death. 

What also died was the Muslim adoption system as all of a sudden it was not seen as acceptable.

As to Zaynab she was a skilled tanner by profession and went on in her trade, both before and after the death of Muhammad. However, she also seems to have been a great humanitarian as she was reputed to have given away all her profits to the poor of Medina and always having a heart for those in need.

 

https://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/node/9478 

 

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Napoleon and The USE of Religion

 

People practicing  religion - Christian or whatever - get pleasure in associating with a special community, that welcomes them as "one of us". They look at history and cultural trends and feel a bond that enriches their life. However, that doesn't mean that they are religious in the Biblical sense that they've read, understood and agree with EVERYTHING in The Bible. To them religion isn't a question of teachings, but of traditions and a church that makes it possible for people to "be together" in the "safety" of an assumed equality. 

Most of them may not even understand the meaning of what Naploen said although it's common knowledge to those who don't have any affiliation with a church-community. Religion is a means of power because it upholds the system as it is in a very smart manner: Those who are repressed do the repression themselves as they don't fight it in the hope of getting their reward after death. Matthew 20:16: "So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen."

A very, very ingenuous system even though the Matthew-quote may not have been read the way it was said. Those who need consolation for awful lives will take the first part of it at face-value: My oppressors or even tormentors are being punished after death (Hail, that lovely HELL!!!!!!) while I  shall "sit by the side of Jesus" in glory and supreme happiness.  

 

Hitler and other Nazi scumbags visiting the grave of Napoleon in 1940

Napoleon became the Emperor of France, but in reality he was more like a dictator who gained power because no one stopped him.

Yes, even Napoleon was defeated, just like most of those "strong men" of our time.

Just like most of them he too ended up beaten and robbed of the power he had gained which, of course, was seen as an instance of "God's Will" by those religious people he had mocked.

Religion is what the sense of "Shame" is to moral, but non-religions people: It's the teacher within as well as the inherited and built-in guardsman that keeps us from behaving "badly" ....

 

The Woman Who Lived a Life in Disguises

 

Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-1898) was born in Canada to a mother who seems to have doted upon her and a father who may have resented her for not being a boy. When she was 15 years old her abusive father tried to marry her off, so she decided to run away to hide from her family. She went to USA all by herself and then she turned into Franklin Thompson, at first pretending to be a bible salesman and then a bookseller from Michigan.

However, Sarah Emma was a strong supporter of the Union, so she made use of her male "pseudonym", Franklin, and joined the army, at first as a nurse, but later on as a spy.

In order to infiltrate the Confederate camp she once more changed her identity and became Cuff, a black man, by using silver nitrate to blacken her skin. People from the camp soon picked her up for work, but what they didn't know was that "Cuff" was all ears and spying eyes. In a few days she found out a lot about the Army, it's decoys and plans. When she escaped and returned to those she supported she had a lot of useful information, thus proving her worth as a spy. All in all she took part in eleven spy missions, some in new disguises, and at the end of the war (1865) she published a popular fictional account of her exploits as a spy.

 

 

In 1867 she married. At that time she had achieved full recognition and, as the only woman, was grafted a military pension from the Civil War. When she died in 1898 she was buried with honors at Washington Cemetery in Texas.

 

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Skinned Alive

 

OK, animals may eat their prey alive, and we shudder at the thought, but then THEY DON'T KNOW BETTER and Ethics are not part of their being, not even as a pretence. For that kind of ideas we have to go to our own breed: Only humans KNOW that certain actions are against all written and unwritten laws of decency. Actually, that may be the very reason they do the unthinkable as e.g. skinning people alive: It's so cruel that some people like e.g. the Assyrian warriors who are skinning a couple of prisoners in this ancient rendering of the "event" would choose it as their way of execution.

Skinning seems so awful, so unthinkable that it's logical that a man like murderer Ed Gein and his obsession with women's skin stand out. However, his victims were dead which takes the extra cruelty of the torture out of it. Some were not even murdered by him, as he became a sort of grave robber who harvested parts of dead and buried women. Still, it seems exceedingly cruel and demeaning.

As to a modern day equivalent of the Assyrian cruelty there is one instance which stands out: The live skinning of the Polish university student Katarzyna Zowada (1975–1998). She went missing on November 12, 1998, but January 6, 1999, it was known what had happened to her as her empty skin was found. It had got caught in the propeller of a tug boat.

The investigation proved that she had been skinned alive, and that her skin had been turned into a suit that had been worn by the murderer for some time. Many experts - also from FBI - came to Poland to try to solve the case, but it took 19 years to make an arrest. Before that there had been a suspect who had been seen in a mask made of his murdered father's facial skin. He was charged with murdering his father, and many thought that he had also killed Katarzyna, but there was no evidence. Anyway, he was sentenced to jail, but the Katarzyna-case went cold until 2012.

 

Nineteen years after the murder (and torture) of Katarzyna, the by then 52-year old Robert Janczewski was arrested. He knew her and had a history of harrassing women and he also had had a job in a dissecting lab where he dealt with human corpses. 

What made him do what he did? Your guess is as good as mine, as he didn't tell WHY .... I for one would also like to know WHY The Court of Appeal found him NOT guilty on 31st October 2024 thus turning this gruesome case into something VERY confusing. (I suppose it's easier for Poles to find more about the case than for anyone outside of Poland ....)

^{https://allthatsinteresting.com/flaying} 

 

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Warring A Dead Body

I find it very strange that some people use the word "body" or "it" about someone who died. To me it's obvious that each individual keeps his/her identity even though they are dead. As it is I'm not blind to the possibility that this way of dehumanizing someone by changing the way they are described is a way of protecting oneself from the knowledge of one's own mortality. However, some, like e.g. Shayanna Sims, who took it upon herself to "teach the corpse of her husband's ex-girlfriend a lesson", clearly didn't see death as a safe haven for the deceased: The dead woman wasn't protected against her desires for revenge even in her casket at the funeral home. 

The beautiful Tabatha Lynch (to the right) had died of natural causes in 2015 at the age of 38, and Shayanna Sims hated her for (presumably) having an affair with her (ex-)husband, Montie Smith. They had been lovers in their teens before Montie Smith, even met her and he denied the allegations of the affair. Still, Shayanna Sims, went on a revenge spree, slashing the corpse, cutting her hair off, removing body parts and stealing her jewelry after cheating her way into her home. Dead or alive, she was "the enemy"!

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/woman-corpse-face-slash-america-17348604

https://www.newson6.com/story/63fd7b1b012b78736f5c4a0a/woman-back-in-jail-after-being-released-due-to-supreme-court-ruling

https://www.newson6.com/story/618c17266926630c3715cffe/tulsa-woman-convicted-of-desecrating-a-corpse-has-conviction-overturned-by-scotus-tribal-ruling

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/what-are-the-penalties-for-desecrating-the-dead/

 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article146492954.html 

 

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/chat/20180913/281599536384013

 

 

The Woman Who Stopped Speaking

Adele Hugo (1830-1915) was the daughter of a very famous author who gave life to literary characters that are loved even today, Victor Hugo (1802-1885). He was very versatile as he wrote in several genres, but today he is best known for his novels, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Miserables": 

One of his daughters, Adele, met a weird - and sad - fate when she decided to turn her back on the world, so to speak. Her father was famous for his special gift of communication through his works, but she stopped communicating altogether after experiencing an unhappy love affair.

In 1850 she was found in a miserable condition in New York and as she didn't seem to understand questions about her identity, her health, and so on she was hospitalized for amnesia. However, somehow it was found out that she was a daughter of Victor Hugo who had been seduced and then abandoned by the English soldier Albert Pinson. Alone in a foreign country with nothing to sustain herself with she, very understandably, was in shock. Also she, as a woman, felt humiliated which may be the reason why she decided never to communicate again after returning to France: She most likely didn't want to discuss what had happened, not even with her father. For 65 years she kept silent, never looking for another love.

 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-english-lieutenants-frenchwoman-the-tragic-story-of-adele-hugo/ 

 

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Money And Fate

Now and then a treasure of age-old coins and jewels is found in the ground, both here in Denmark or somewhere else. Some of these treasures are very rich and the one who buried them in the ground must have set real store by them. Unfortunately, he or she didn't get the chance to retrieve it or to tell about it to someone he or she trusted which means that it will end up in a museum, not even as the first one of its kind, but as one out of several. 

I wonder what happened to the owners of the treasure. Did they perish, e.g. succumb to sickness or get killed in a war? The most likely scenario is full of some kind of violence, either by nature or by humans, something that disrupted the lives of these owners who buried the treasure in order to keep it safe. Anyway, what happened was that the owners buried the treasure in the belief that they would be saved from the catastropies that threatened them, but sadly enough they were mistaken.

 

 

The whole family may have lost their social status once and for all by not knowing where this treasure was hidden. Someone who had lived a life in leisure at the top of society may have ended at the bottom. Perhaps the master became a servant/slave and the mistress became a servant, slave or even prostitute. Oh yes, that happened many times in history as these upheavals dug deep into the social layers, century by century. The rich got poor and thus the master became the slave. We ourselves may be the children of someone who experienced something like this themselves and we may also be the parents of someone who is about to experience the same now or in the future.

 

A friend of one of my late friends was the great-great-grandson of a man who was out of a very wealthy family, but he himself lost most of his money and nobody seemed inclined to help him out because he was such a squandering guy that he seemed quite hopeless. As it is, it turned out that he had his special nest egg, i.e. a lottery ticket which he was sure would come out with a large sum. He set all his hopes to this lottery ticket and when he was disappointed in these hopes he shot himself. That's not only sad, it's stupid, even more sad and stupid than burying one's riches in the ground without telling someone about it. 

Whom Should A Christian Chose To Support?

A beautiful picture of someone who - HOPEFULLY!!!! - is going to become a beautiful human when born

Recently I found one of my older notes from Facebook and it set my brain aflame: Someone - i.e. Pastor Dave Barnhart of the Saint Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama - presumably made a very wise utterance about the obligations of Christians in 2018. In these days of American misogyny when women are left to die of gynaecological causes following new insane rules his words offer a new angle to the subject of Christianity that really is needed:

"“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It’s almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe."

Well put, and as we know, The Bible tells Christians to offer help to "the poor", "the widows", "the orphans", and "the sick" who are people who have been born and live among us .... 

 

Yup, that we should ....

 

Fetus Hero

Well, the fetus, I'm thinking of, didn't know that he or she was born a hero. At the moment of his/her birth he/she just wanted to be alive. The irony is that this new, small Dane most probably wouldn't have had a life had he/she not been born a HERO.

It all started out with the birth of a very sick child who was in grave need of a bone marrow transplant. To succeed the donor should be closely related and very young - I suspect  that it also has something to do with stem cells, but I don't know for sure - and such a donor may best be designed by science if there isn't any which there wasn't in this case. 

I fully understand why the parents of the sick child wanted a cure, but it's a strange situation that child No. 2 is born as some kind of "spare part" of No. 1 and not for his/her own sake. It wouldn't cost the new child his/her life to have his/her bone marrow harvested, but still ....

"Born a hero"? Naaahhh, not without qualifying the word by adding "victim". He/She became a hero-victim ....

 

Bemoaning One's Youth

Live long enough and you too may end up bemoaning what's lost and which can never be retrieved: GONE IS GONE, and not even hard training, tough diets or weird medications can revive one's lost youth. 

However, some people think it's possible - at least up to a point - if one gets hold of stem cells as they are both for regeneration and renewal ....  

There are rumors about rich people harvesting fetus tissues to gain rejuvenating stem cells. Some of these rumors seem substantiated by facts, but even so they look like science fiction of the horror kind that's more than weird. For instance, it has been said that the lovers of a certain fashion designer purposely get pregnant by him to harvest aborted fetuses for him.

Slander? Maybe, and hopefully, yes! The very idea is utterly disgusting as it is some kind of vampyrism ....

 

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/bone-marrow-transplant/in-depth/stem-cells/art-20048117

Insane Biblical Statements

 

 

Well, I suppose that most of his contemporaries didn't like something that logical - and evident ....

These days people are not all that much into the Biblical teachings - or are they???? On some of the websites I visit I often see people proclaiming a somewhat threadbare religious belief in the teachings of The Bible as well as a deep set fright of Hell. They are clinging to the belief they were brought up to honor as "the truth" out of fear of the presumably eternal torture of those hellish flames. Strangely enough they are not afraid of that old bully, called Yahweh. To me that's a proof that they have never read  The Bible.

Nonetheless this Biblical god who started out as the toyboy of the supreme god, namely the goddess Asherah, comes out as a socipath, and not the Santa-clone that he has been made out to be. For instance: Yahweh sent two she-bears to maul 42 boys for calling a man “baldy.” (2 Kings 2:23-24). Just like that? Yes, just like that ....

Why did Yahweh send a plague that killed a lot of people, not one time, but many times, actually over and over? For instance: Exodus 16:13, Numbers 11:31-35 

As might be expected Yahweh don't like unruly children: Deuteronomy 21:18-21 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. - And: 2 Kings at 6:29: "So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son." To be "righteous" in the Biblical sense of the word sure has some grim implications, and this is not the only time The Bible says something about parents eating their offspring: You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. (Leviticus 26:27-29) 

Not only murder, but cannibalism seems to be part of Yahweh's philosophy, as it's mentioned over and over, like e.g. here: 2 Kings 6:28-29; Jeremiah 19:1-9; Leviticus 26:27-29, etc., etc.. Murder sure comes easy to this ancient deity, like e.g. when he kills Onan for not getting his brother’s wife pregnant: Genesis 38:8-10. 

It goes on and on with killings of the innocent (e.g. babies or fetuses), but some details about Adam and Eve are interesting, even today as they mirror what we know about gods before this murder-deity attained supremacy. The legend is that Eve was created from one of Adam’s ribs, which is so very, very patriarchal = Man didn't come from woman (which he obviously did, coming out of her vagina!) but woman came from Adam's rib. 

Well, just as Yahweh was an old deity with roots in former religions so was Eve. She appears to be moulded on the ancient Sumerian goddess Ninti, the so-called "Lady of the Rib" also called "The Lady Who Gives Life". That figures and the more I think about it, the more interesting that part of it gets ....

I think that religious people of today have got into a habit of not READING what The Bible says. They just browse those parts of it that confirm their beliefs, and they never, never, never put it into a historical context which actually is where it belongs: 

 

The Double-Mirror

"I'm still looking good!"

Yes, you are, but you're neither looking your best nor how you think you are looking. To some that's an unforeseen tragedy, but to others it's nothing to worry about as looks aren't everything - or so they say .... However, without knowing it we often judge each other by looks. One of the places to see this system in action is many of the so-called "women subs". 

In these subs we may find an ongoing - and never-ending? - litany about men. This flow of words may turn into torrents about abuse, bad marriages, creepy sexual expectations and blatant sexism, but the point is that so much/most of it is a signal of focusing on anything, but what makes them strong and happy. It's a kind of going around in circles that doesn't bring any solutions to the main problem: These women NEED the feeling of accept, also by other women, but mostly by men, and a lot of their complaints go on their own insecurity, especially when it comes to looks and body value.

The truth is that we (i.e. most or many of us) tend to let our worth as a human being be set by others or what we feel they think about us. Men count as some sort of status symbol in the world of women as they themselves count as symbols of success and value in the world of men. However, to let this system gain status as the ultimate evaluating system is crazy. We know it, but still, it's to be seen in all these women subs that should be denouncing it, but which only is up to a certain point: That's not good in the long run ....

 

Thoughts About Crocodiles

Teasing the croc - WHAT FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw a program about crocodiles some days ago, and I learnt something that made me think about the dangers of sizes: One big, tank like male croc sometimes  mistakes a female for a convenient snack. However, that doesn't happen all that often as the female really is FEMALE in looks, as well as in movement. First of all she may outsmart him, but also she may out-run him. Being muscular and tank like makes the male heavy and not limber: He can't catch her for all that surplus muscle weight as she is much more agile than him.

The same goes for someone like this poor man with a ruined body (which he most probably is very proud of!!!!). MEN have competed with MEN about being bigger than big more often than women. Big is something special with many men, dreaming of that elusive Alpha status, but to most women it's sort of hilarious to watch someone like this guy: He is not a dream beau to most women.
 

I have a very strong feeling that the ballet dancer Anna Pavlova would beat the muscle guy in a fair fight, using the weapons they are born with, including evasion and flight. To fight him, muscle to muscle, so to speak, would be stupid, also because he is much heavier than she is. Just like the hungry male croc he might subdue her by sitting on her, but she - being smart - would avoid something like that AND BEAT HIM ....

 

"The Love Game of the Patriarchy"

 

Is a wedding every woman's dream? No, it's not, but in most patriarchies it looks like a necessity because so much has been set up against the freedom - even the barest of bare respect - of women. Without freedom a woman can't make her way in a patriarchy, and without respect she may even hinder herself in gaining SELF-RESPECT. Tough rules need tough girls not to be totally unacceptable.  

From a time period that OPENLY operated with double-standards, one standard for him and one standard for her. For him to take advantage of a girl (of the "lower classes"?) and still get a bride of a "good family" for more than fun, she would have to accept this system of lies and social limits, depicting herself as "good", and the cum sock-girl of a "lower class" as "not good" girl. Maybe she never even questioned such a system because she had gained the status of "good"/"respectable" which to her was the guarantee of love

Having guarded her virginity for ages - actually, her entire life - she kept her market value and thus might marry into an even higher status: She went from a "Miss" to a Mrs.

As it is this system would never have had any success had it not been for the initial downplay of anything not supporting it, especially women's self-respect as human beings and not solely as "one of the female sex who may advance to the status of a Mrs". Being a woman she has been taught that she NEEDS a strong man to sort of giving her the "good enough-stamp" to become anything but a specimen of the "inferior sex".

However, times have been changing, and women have not kept subdued which is the crucial part of the system: Without that it doesn't work, and women have proved - over and over again, and not least to themselves - that they are and want more than something like that. They know that they are not the weak vessels who need male protection at all times, even though men have proved that they are not what they have been set up to be ....