https://www.abi.org/feed-item/examining-donald-trump%E2%80%99s-chapter-11-bankruptcies
https://asic.gov.au/for-business/small-business/closing-a-small-business/illegal-phoenix-activity/
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tirsdag den 15. oktober 2024
Trump And The STRATEGY of Bankruptcies
søndag den 13. oktober 2024
Identifying With One's Genitals
The myths of Women and cats, BIG cats, go far back, here it is the ancient goddess, Cybele who sits enthroned with her lions
The cult of the penis/phallos in some old religions is something very strange and contradictory as it (often) includes an eradication of the functioning of the organ. For instance one of the most interesting and intriguing Magna Maters (and there are several!) of ancient times, Cybele, had a eunich lover, Attis, whom she - testicles or not - loved dearly. Not only did she have this eunich lover, but her priests also were eunichs which indicates that to worship this high ranking goddess one had to give up one's maleness ....
When one thinks of the orgies that are part of the worship of her it gets quite weird: WHAT were all these eunichs doing to please the goddess??? Male gods, like e.g. Allah, promises their followers endless sexual exploits with virgins, but Cybele prefers eunichs for her orgies. That gives rise to thoughts about some of the symbolic implications of the genitals.
John Wayne Gacy (1942-1994), the "Killer clown", seems to have been obsessed with the male member. Not only did he rape, torture and murder at least 33 young men, but in prison he drew several drawings, some of the male member. OK, there is a nude woman, but still, it's the penis and its presumed drive that seems to have first priority. It sort of encompasses everything that goes on in the head of the man who is depicted in the drawing.
Men worshipping male genitals obviously identify with their penis in a manner women don't with their vagina, but some may be as obsessed with their breasts as e.g. John Wayne Gacy were with the male genitals. That, for instance, goes with our old friend, Cybele, who were depicted as "many-breasted". And, as we know, female genitals are not excluded to what is kept secret under a woman's skirt, jeans or whatever: Woman not only has sex and gives birth, but she is also nurturing. Her role is so much bigger than the male's, but I suspect that men identify more with their sexual appendage than women do with their genitals.
In a badge an enormous phallus is the "stepping ground" of what, presumably, is a woman who is pushing a wheelbarrow, loaded with penises. It's from 1375-1450 CE, but how is it to be interpreted? Is it an (aggressive, man-hating???) woman who has cut of a bunch of phalli and now is fleeing with her loot or someone who in one way or another is a worshipper of men and/or male sexuality???? As I think the figure resembles a man more than a woman I suspect that this is in reality a male who, like e.g. John Wayne Gacy, is out to worship what he sees as the symbol of himself.
Who were the worshippers of the vagina figures, known as "Sheela Na Gig", from the Middle Ages that are to be found throughout most of Europe? And what was the purpose of them? It's weird that there hasn't been much about them in the old annals. Theories are that they were meant to ward of evil spirits as they are often positioned over doors or windows that might give them access. However, that doesn't really explain HOW that would work: Were those evil spirits in awe of the female and her magic genitals or were they disgusted by the way they were displayed? As the figures are not "Vagina Dentata" and the face of them don't look scary I doubt they were meant to frighten off demons or the like.
As of today there still aren't any definite interpretation of these figures. Which to me looks like a proof that we don't know as much about the beliefs and religions of the past as we ought to know ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata
https://www.webmd.com/women/anatomy-function-care-conditions-clitoris
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024834
https://www.academia.edu/16882536/Phallic_Worship_In_Ancient_Religions
https://www.gaudiumivfcentre.com/blog/sperm-cramps-its-causes-symptoms-diagnosis-and-prevention/
https://newatlas.com/medical/male-birth-control-stk333/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/male-drone-bee-dying/
https://www.wafb.com/2024/08/01/la-becomes-first-legalize-surgical-castration-child-rapists/
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/creep-claims-setting-firework-tied-33681441
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10778012241279816
https://www.genderedspecies.com/
https://www.theoi.com/Phrygios/Attis.html
Wikipedia
fredag den 11. oktober 2024
And "It Came True ...."
I know of several people who, at some time of their life, went to see an astrologer, a fortune teller or a psychic medium. Maybe something like that is not in these years, but when it was it was quite common to ask about someone's zodiac sign, to discuss their horoscope, etc., etc.. Also some may have went by the popular horoscopes of magazines for advice about what to do, although they were not personal: A zodiac sign would be set out to cover the fortune of everyone who was born within a specific month which of course turns it into nonsense. Still, I know of some who might tell their friends that they can't lunch, meet, get out of bed, go to the dentist or whatever on a specific day, (e.g. the 11th of October 2024!), because they read a horoscope in a magazine that told them to "keep it low" on that day.
Maybe
they also had a discussion with "The Spirit of the Ouija Board" which
actually may be great fun if one doesn't take it as genuine information about the future ....
Presumably, all of these divinations "come from above": Good or bad, one's fate is a birthday gift which outline rules for one which must be obeyed to please those godly powers which are assumed to control the fate of humans and animals. All the divinations are seen as means to steer out of trouble whenever that's possible by warning people of "getting out of bed or whatever" on these dangerous days.
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When the friend and diviner of Alexandra, the last Zarina of Russia, Grigorij Rasputin, said that if a member of the Romanov family murdered him all of them would be dead within a couple of years it looked like a prediction that came true: He was murdered, and so was the entire Romanov family. However, first and foremost what he said must be seen as a warning and (perhaps) nothing but that. Actually, that is the problem with most of these divinations, predictions, etc. which "come true": There are no proofs that they are anything but happy coincidences.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/study/misc/perkins_chart.cfm
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe/bible/bible-prophesies
https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/The-Bible-Gods-Word-or-Mans/Prophecies-That-Came-True/
Wikipedia
søndag den 29. september 2024
AMAZON being WEIRD???????????????
Recently I published five ebooks with Amazon and I felt good about it. However, after some WEIRD experiences I'm thinking of deleting my account, never as much as visiting Amazon again. Why??? Well, I know that these years authors are facing difficulties in the publishing world, and one should be on the look-out when it comes to whom one trusts with one's works. As it is, I've lost much of my trust in Amazon over something other authors also may have experienced WITHOUT KNOWING IT ....
When I visit my publishing page on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=else+cederborg&i=digital-text&crid=3486ZV5RBVHE4&sprefix=%2Cdigital-text%2C146&ref=nav_signin) on the computer I'm using right now it looks like this:
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All of my books are published within KDP, and NONE of them are KUs (: Kindle Unlimited). That is at it should be as that is what I chose. However, when I visit my page on another one of my computers this page - all by itself - turns into what is or looks like KU: The book prices change, some even diving to 0:
When I tried to check out my settings for KU, I found a note that my account doesn't have that. Then WHY are my books - which HAVE NEVER BEEN KU - presented as if that's what they are?????
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Some might say, never mind, it's only for three months, and you have your own ISBN Number so you'll be OK. No, I shall NOT be OK, because what I see when I'm not logged in is what people visiting my page, i.e. guests and/or customers, see is the KU-page with the very, very low prices. I never set out to earn a lot of money, but I never intended to "sell books for nothing" ....
So, what is Amazon up to?????????????????? I tried to get access to what is called "Support", but was very disappointed as the individual I told of my problem didn't do anything to solve it ....
tirsdag den 24. september 2024
CATTELENA: Black Spinster In Tudor England
I admit that I was quite surprised to learn about the 16 Africans living in the small village of Almondsbury close to Bristol in England. How did they get there? One of them was Cattelena who seems to be the best known of this group of Africans. She left possessions which secured her name through the inventory of them after she died in 1625. It's obvious that she wasn't poor in the go-hungry-sense of the word:
"She is described as ‘Cattelena, a negra deceased of Almonsbury in the county of Gloucester, single woman & in the diocese of Bristol’. Her inventory includes cooking utensils, clothes, bedding, tablecloth, and a candlestick. However, Cattelena’s most prized possession was a cow."
As pet names were common for cows one may wonder why Cattelena's cow didn't have a name. After all, it must have been the source of sustenance for her, as it gave her milk and butter. Also she may have sold dairy products in the village. The worth of this cow has been made up to be: "Catellena’s cow was worth £3 10 shillings, £460.32 in today’s money. In 1625, the year Cattelena died, this would have also bought you 10 stones of wool, a quarter of wheat, and was the equivalent of 70 days of skilled labour."
To be the owner of a cow may have been the way Cattelena survived as a citizen in a small village because, without making her "rich", it must have kept her free of grave money troubles. It seems that she was a well-to-do spinster who happened to be black, but that leads to a question: How did she - and the other 15-16 black citizens - end up in England????
Being
a spinster wasn't that unusual, as c. 30% of the English adult female
population is supposed to have been single. What was special about
someone like Cattelena was that she, single as she was, lived in her own
home, although she may not have been the owner, but rented it. Not more
than 5% of single women below the age of 45 were head of their
households which she seems to have been.
By the way, the total of the possessions listed on Cattelena's inventory came to £6 9s 6d (: £851.59). As she presumably wasn't toiling as a servant, but simply lived off her cow she did quite well ....
https://schoolhistory.co.uk/early-modern/cattelena-of-almondsbury/
https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/black-tudors/0/steps/224781
Wikipedia
søndag den 22. september 2024
Whatever Made The Toad Hop?
Whatever made the toad hop?
He wasn’t tickled or spun like a top
Why did he make such long strides
When nothing threatened his toad-hides?
Maybe he sang to annoy me
I shouted as loud as I could: Stop, let it be!
But no, he did not stop his infamous noise
Well, that was his own choice
A singing and quacking toad is at danger
The stork wants his lunch without anger
He grabbed Mr. Toad to swallow him in one gulp!
Poor Mr. Toad cried out but nobody stopped the stork
Down he went in the throat of the stork
Even down into his stomach, singing all along
Poor, poor Toad bore no vengence or regrets
He just sang and danced as down he went
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fredag den 20. september 2024
Camille Claudel, Sculptor, Muse And Mistress
This young woman doesn't look happy, but when one sees her soulful and beautiful face it speaks volumes both of an interesting personality as well as a difficult life: Camille Claudel (1864-1943). As so many other talented women she dreamed of giving vent to her artistic visions, although her mother found her ambitions of becoming a sculptor very unladylike and tried to curb them. However, Camille had her way and she went to Paris to study at The Academie Colarossi which not only allowed female students, but also gave them the opportunity to work with nude, male models. (At that time Ecole des Beaux-Arts barred women from enrolling to study). Alfred Boucher became her mentor and friend for three years, and he was the one who introduced her to the famous sculptor Augusta Rodin in 1883. Much to her mother's chagrin the 18 years old Camille not only became his muse, but also his mistress. This relationship gave her access to the artistic circles of Paris, but it was seen as scandalous, not least by her family.
August Rodin, c. 1875–80
It's well-known that many
of Rodin's works were made in collaboration with Camille, but typically for that time, Rodin received the honors. Camille wasn't recognized as the artist she was, and she also had to share her famous lover with another woman, the mother of his son. In 1898 she suffered a miscarriage and broke off her sexual relationship with him. At the same time she seems to have developed some kind of psychological problems, smashing some of her works, withdrawing from society now and then which gave her mother the opportunity to have her locked up in a mental asylum for the rest of her life.
Another reason for her changed attitude may have been that Rodin, who had been of help to her, started to oppose some of her ideas and see to it that she didn't get the opportunities she deserved. That didn't condemn her to an eternal obscurity: In 2017 she was sort of being "re-discovered", and today her works are exhibited in several famous museum. Also she now has her own museum, southeast of Paris: Musée Camille Claudel which holds approximately half of her artworks.
Camille Claudel in her studio with a plaster model of "Perseus and the Gorgon"
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-woman-of-genius/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Claudel
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