God bless you, 'Mouth. God bless you for all you've endured and all the ragged truth that comes forth from your mouth and keyboard, for all of us to hear and read.
You finally crystallized in my mind why I like reading Guttermouth. She writes ragged truth. It cuts through the layers of "politeness" that I've surrounded myself, sometimes to my detriment.
This has been clear since the beginning. GM is uniquely good at this blackboard-scratching, cannot-be-avoided incision to the truth. Yet eloquent while (often) being deliberately coarse. I read a lot, and her voice is unique. It needs greater distribution, for sure. It will come, but it always takes more time than one wishes. Thanks for doing this despite personal distractors, GM. Many of us check first every day to see if you have posted something. (All of your comments on other stacks, while often just as good, do not get you a pass...lol.)
Very true. The things I say out loud that always get me in trouble, the things everyone else tells me, "You just say the things we think." It's wonderful to hear someone else with the guts to tell the story.
I almost missed the book spine - that book should be required reading for every American! Rand Paul absolutely despises the guy, and he's already said he's going to hold Fauci to account. We'll see. A GOP Congress is an obvious prerequisite for any investigation. Regardless, I can't fucking stand Fauci. I think he's done more harm to the country than any other individual in American history.
We need to let them know that it's a priority- "if elected I expect you to pursue or support efforts to investigate or prosecute Fauci and others."
Swamp creatures that get elected live only to be re-elected. The electorate needs to remember that as long as there continue to be elections, we should be setting fucking ransom demands and not just showing up.
I mean, old age probably won't take that long from the way he looks these days.
If enough of us are out there to remind him that we intend to ruin his legacy and see him remembered if not punished as a monster, maybe that'll stress his heart some.
If I got a personal letter every single day of my life calling me a lying murderer, I'd probably start to feel it in the ol' telomeres after a while.
If he actually got his beloved shots, we've got a head start.
Eerie as it is, one can't help but wonder if modern technology couldn't put more zest into the story by addressing the subject matter in a short animated film.
The guy does seem to have such a massive ego, and usually folks like that are fragile. I don't think this rat is, though. Not, at least, to anything the untermenschen might have to say about him.
And you have a conscience and a sense of responsibility. Faux-chi has nothing of the sort, so I'm not sure he's capable.
ps -- So many people think TPTB got saline shots. If that's so, I can't help but wonder how badly Newsome had to piss someone off to get a real one.
I don't know anyone except for Brothermouth, who is teetotal, who did not drink heavily. I was even vaguely aware of it with our neighbors, because in NYC, you see everyone else's garbage every week. :)
With you brother. My policy is if it doesn't need to be refined or distilled or otherwise messed with, it's ok. Now if someone could send me some coca plant seeds I'm good to go.
I have often thought, from what I've heard from people with experience, that I would really enjoy coke, if I could ever experience it in a clean, moderated way.
I have never enjoyed weed, though I've really tried; in my youth it either did nothing at all or felt awful. My recent experiences are that it's become way too strong and is just mentally overpowering- I tried an edible with a friend during lockdown and just zonked out for hours and hated myself for it.
Amazing, Guttermouth. May I suggest "Still Punching Away" for the title of your autobiography?
Truth will win out in the end; it cannot be suppressed forever. Fauci's legacy will be that of Lysenko's, I have no doubt. Unfortunately, we will have to endure the hagiographical phase first.
I never imagined writing an autobiography, though several times in my life I've wanted badly to ghost-write OTHER people's biography. My Japanese professor's husband, who (if he is still alive, and I would probably have been told otherwise) is about 104, lived through some of the most tumultuous times in Japanese modern history, with WW2 being only one of them. He told me long stories about a decade ago about running with the proto-Communists in Japan when socialism arrived in the youth culture in the 20s, and how he quit just in time and most of his friends ended up hung.
If you'd feel comfortable sharing in your stack, I'd really be interested in reading more about the dramas you've experienced.
As a kid, I loved hearing old-timers recount stories of the Depression and war. My Mom was a little girl when she had a front row seat for the contest between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht for her village in Poland. Poor Mom; it definitely left a mark. From her stories, a lifelong fascination for history, especially the world-altering drama of WW2, began in me. It always baffled me when people would say that they thought studying history was boring.
Damn. This got me to upgrade my sub. I so know that feeling down there on the floor. It was the first time I ever had something sort of like panic attacks, not being able to trust my head, which had been my favorite place to be. Getting through the day, afraid it would come back at night, and then feeling that floaty ungrounded feeling in the morning. And the first times wearing a mask in a store, almost passing out from that sense of being asphyxiated and thinking, people won't go along with this, right, I'm not the only one? But they did. Being lectured by my daughters as if they were suddenly the cautious, caring parents and I was the rebellious kid. Offering to get the vaccine if even one of them would promise me she wouldn't. Didn't work.
I've done a lot of episodes on the data (got one removed by YT--warm, warmer...) and I've done a couple on RFK's book specifically, but the one that your essay made me think of responds to Battleground Melbourne, which one of my viewers in Australia asked me to watch. I felt it slam into me like a bag of golf balls. That exact despair you're talking about, the film captures in a way that's very real. Here's my take on it: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/down-under-torn-asunder.
I've known many people who have struggled with panic disorders, but I've never had the experience myself. When I've observed it it always seems to me almost like a- if you'll forgive the metaphor- demonic possession, where your body is going absolutely crazy in ways you should be able to control, and you're confused and frightened by simply what it's doing even as you're trying to get back in the driver's seat.
I would've thought myself the least likely person to get them, but your description is apt. My oldest would notice my eyes getting that glassy, pinwheel look. But I did find out all three daughters had anxiety strategies. For one, meditation apps and then animal documentaries. The next one, Bob's Burgers before bed. And the third one had little blue pills a friend had given her four years ago, that she gave me. She'd only taken one once, and since then knowing she had them was enough to keep her from spinning out of control. That did the trick for me without ever taking them. But it is exactly what you say, feeling like I wasn't in charge of my mind, like when I didn't realize how long edibles take to hit and took too much, and there was no way down but through. I hate having my head turn on me.
wow i feel like i havnt lived yet the shit you have been through.
where did this quote come from? its spot on. “reorganize ourselves to have even more direct, unelected authority while shuffling a few executives around like paedophile priests in their parishes”
Gods Above and Below!... they must have been watching me since I was quite young . Gadzooks. I once ( only once) told a friend of mine all the things that had occurred in my life. When I turned my face back to her, she was in tears and said " You've survived that...how are you still sane?! " to which I answered " That's quite an assumption "
I'm totally ripping you off, just so ya know... I have a ' well-textured Soul'
Thank you, sister ours, for sharing both your life and your talents! 💜
You're welcome. I've been trying to concentrate my thinking on practical action and thinking outside the box where that's concerned, so expect me to nudge myself further in that direction and less of the philosophizing.
I'm pretty black pilled about anyone being held accountable for their crimes over COVID and the "vaccines". Half the evil fucks can't even be voted out of office as there appears to be a dearth of any alternative wether it's Canada, Aus, UK etc.
Even Trumpy tied his destiny to the "vaccines" with Warp Speed. I have no doubt when the serious injuries get too bad to hide it'll be "Trump's Vaccine" again and there will be shameless rewriting of history to suit. Just watch.
Don't be. We may not get the full measure of vengeance or justice we crave, but I don't believe it is beyond us at this point.
I understand your feelings and I'm not one to preach blind faith. But as a fellow pessimist, hope feels rational at this moment; allow yourself some of it, at least as a motivator.
The only earthly justice we will likely be able to exact. And it must be legal and relentless. But with the sober understanding that "legal" and "rule of law" may be fluidized by the demons in power.
Others in the comment section have expressed gratitude for your writing, and especially this one, much more eloquently and succinctly than I ever could.
The tale of Tyr and Fenris, and the eventual chaining of the latter teaches an important thing or two. While Tyr certainly is god of war (I'd argue warfare rather than battle, but that's splitting hairs more or less - can't have one without the other after all) and law, he is as you say also god of justice.
And laws are not necessarily justice, nor is justice always legal.
(Compulsory tangent: Oh, for jews and moslems and such where the law derives directly from their god's (or gods plural as both jews and arabs were initially pandeists and polydeist and copied the dominant civilisations upon the fringes of which they existed as barbarians).)
Anyway. Tyr tricks Fenris, putting his arm in the monster's jaws as security and proof of trustworthiness. And when the gods put Gleipner around Fenris' neck, he bites down, claiming the security. Fenris means "the wolf of the bogs", emphasising that if enemies come at you when you are on a bog you are ore or less dead, since there's no cover and the spongy uneven ground makes it impossibe to run, especially outrun a wolf which can pad on top of the soggy moss and peat.
Another name for Fenris is Vanagandr (Ván-ag-andr), which means, roughly translated, "the beast from the river Ván". I mention it because that very river, its source and the bogs which feeds into it runs nearby here, and there have always been wolves in these forests, as have men and women judged "Varg i Veum", a term which to my knowledge lacks a straight corresponding term in english. The translation comes to, literally: "Wolf in the Holy place", but the meaning is someone convicted of a crime from which there is no chance of any redemption, fine or anything else that can make it good. Slaying someone after having invited them into your home with a promise of peace for example, or committing rape without paying the fine (typically triple bridal price or even more, which in today's money would be damages to the tune of $250 000 or more, though value conversions between non-monetary societies and ours are tricky at best).
Which in a roundabout way meanders to a certain dr Fauci. Tyr and asarna (aesir as it is in english) tricks Fenris in violation of an oath, the crime of oathbreaking being necessary to trap the beast.
The moral being that even just, if unlawful, actions have a great cost. And that's not going into interpreting Hate ("He who hates") and Skoll Hróvitnisson ("Son of the proud wolf"), the children of Fenris, and how they are fated to devour the Sun and the Moon come Ragnarök.
Rest assured, dr Fauci has only the giants and trolls or Hel's table to choose from, when his Doom comes due.
I'm so glad I caught you online and commenting while this was fresh in my head- can you tell me anything about the concept of "mandhælg" or "mannhelgi" as my textbook puts it?
My reading explains it as a legal concept (not explained in great depth) but it also seems to be metaphysical/spiritual as well- I'm probably being overly speculative but it seems to equate to the English notion of "the soul's right to breathe" (liberty)?
Regarding "varg i veum," there's actually a very good English analog, at least when I first learned the concept: outlaw.
My notion of Tyr's sacrifice of his arm was as a classic example of pragmatism. Given Tyr's nature I have to think he understood the cost. Everyone is susceptible to 'greater good' thinking.
Ehm, so I was coming off a mountain high (meaning we've been out hiking the last few days, looking at petroglyphs from 7 000BC when the Baltic Sea was 250+ meters higher than today) when I wrote that. Let's see here (rummage grumble fumble tumble)...
Outlaw we had back then too, as "lawless"/laglös though the concept there was wholly secular; Varg i Veum added the nature of sacrilege to the verdict, making it worse because it meant the condemned couldn't even be used as a sacrifice - not even fit for Hel's table.
As a swede I'd spell it manhelgd due to differences in pronounciation between scandinavian tongues, the meaning would be man as in either male or human, both are possible depending on context, and helgd as in holy, sacred and consecrated.
So a place where manhelgd has been declared by the proper authority (probably some old as the mountains gnarly man or wizened crone with a single tooth hard as diamond jutting forth from a black maw of age) would be a place where all crimes committed between men there would count as much worse - say breaking a finger would count as cutting the hand off or drunken manslaughter in a rough and tumble counting as full murder.
Calling "peace on the Ting" would make the land set aside for the Ting be consecrated/made sacred for as long as the Ting lasted. Also, travellers to and from the Ting where covered by this for at least some distance, if not all the way home. (Though "what happens in the forest stays in the forest"...)
Manhelgd can also be understood like this: no man has any right to lay hands on any other man (unless proper forms have been followed, say insults leading to fighting talk). So a first punch may have been a crime or not, depending.
The oldest fragment of pre-christian law reamining, that has not been communicated across the gulf of aeons via later transcription is the Law of Insults, also called Heathen's Law.
It states that a man is obligated to answer any slur on his honour and any insult to his manhood in kind, and to challenge the insulter to a fight - this must be done before witnesses. If he does not answer in kind and issue a challenge, the inslut stands as truth and he loses his voice at the Ting until the next Ting after. If he does answer with a challnge and the insulter declines the fight, the reverse is true and the initially insutled party may proclaim "So-and-so is not a man, he does not have a man's heart" to all he meets. The challenge is to be fought as agreed upon, at a crossroad or similar area where men are liable to meet.
This little sidetrack may shed some light on the need for rules such as manhelgd and the like, seeing as your reputation was basically all the gurantee you had for fair treatment - act unmanly and be treated thereafter (and that may well mean what we would lable bullying - the weak were supposed to understand their station).
I am of the somewhat "internet tough guy"-belief that had we still retained laws and traditions for duels of honour in the West, business and politics would look a lot better, especially if we're talking bare knuckle fighting/wrestling. Imagine Al Gore and George Bush duking it out on the Senate floor, no rounds, until one of the cries 'Uncle'! Trump and Biden would have been over inside 3 seconds.
Well, then that makes us both "tough guys." I think the main reason our elites have become so thoroughly depraved is that they are completely insulated from the consequences of their words, and have no stakes in the consequences of their actions. If they literally had blood to spill, they would be more cautious, more wise, or both.
As a follow on to Larry Kramer's letter to Fauci, they became friends. This is an excerpt from Kramer's NYT obituary: "In recent years Mr. Kramer developed a grudging friendship with Dr. Fauci, particularly after Mr. Kramer developed liver disease and underwent the transplant in 2001; Dr. Fauci helped get him into a lifesaving experimental drug trial afterward."
I find it particularly operatic that he ends up making Kramer beholden to him for his life.
I stumbled across that letter by accident just by searching for "write a letter to Doctor Fauci" to try and get a line on whatever his fan mail address is.
The sheer amount of simping that STILL seems to be going on for him blows my mind.
Guttermouth, you are a remarkable human being. I know this from what you share with us!!! Fauci will fry in Hell, but I want to see his suffering, a hell on earth. I want him to suffer consequences that I can witness or at least read about. But as you say, he is not the only one. There are so many, and I wish congealed blood in their veins for them all!!!
God bless you, 'Mouth. God bless you for all you've endured and all the ragged truth that comes forth from your mouth and keyboard, for all of us to hear and read.
You, too. I'm grateful for however it is that we all happened to come together over this, and I'm glad we did.
I value each and every individual I've come to know here. Quality human beings, all.
Thank-you. --- It depends on the day how "quality" I am. 😉😊😋
I vary by the day on What quality I am.
Being optimistic, expansive, cynical, loving, and straight up asshole are just some of my exhinited " qualities"
You finally crystallized in my mind why I like reading Guttermouth. She writes ragged truth. It cuts through the layers of "politeness" that I've surrounded myself, sometimes to my detriment.
Thanks, unkie Doug. That is my entire hope.
This has been clear since the beginning. GM is uniquely good at this blackboard-scratching, cannot-be-avoided incision to the truth. Yet eloquent while (often) being deliberately coarse. I read a lot, and her voice is unique. It needs greater distribution, for sure. It will come, but it always takes more time than one wishes. Thanks for doing this despite personal distractors, GM. Many of us check first every day to see if you have posted something. (All of your comments on other stacks, while often just as good, do not get you a pass...lol.)
Very true. The things I say out loud that always get me in trouble, the things everyone else tells me, "You just say the things we think." It's wonderful to hear someone else with the guts to tell the story.
I almost missed the book spine - that book should be required reading for every American! Rand Paul absolutely despises the guy, and he's already said he's going to hold Fauci to account. We'll see. A GOP Congress is an obvious prerequisite for any investigation. Regardless, I can't fucking stand Fauci. I think he's done more harm to the country than any other individual in American history.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/how-fauci-wrecked-the-pandemic-response
We need to let them know that it's a priority- "if elected I expect you to pursue or support efforts to investigate or prosecute Fauci and others."
Swamp creatures that get elected live only to be re-elected. The electorate needs to remember that as long as there continue to be elections, we should be setting fucking ransom demands and not just showing up.
What if it takes so long the little rat's gone from old age?
I suppose that somewhere in the universe there just had to be a good candidate to receive justice via the ol' Pope Formosus treatment.
I mean, old age probably won't take that long from the way he looks these days.
If enough of us are out there to remind him that we intend to ruin his legacy and see him remembered if not punished as a monster, maybe that'll stress his heart some.
If I got a personal letter every single day of my life calling me a lying murderer, I'd probably start to feel it in the ol' telomeres after a while.
If he actually got his beloved shots, we've got a head start.
Also, have you seen the painting of that trial? Omigod.
I had a look-see.
Eerie as it is, one can't help but wonder if modern technology couldn't put more zest into the story by addressing the subject matter in a short animated film.
Ohhh! No, but now I want to!
The guy does seem to have such a massive ego, and usually folks like that are fragile. I don't think this rat is, though. Not, at least, to anything the untermenschen might have to say about him.
And you have a conscience and a sense of responsibility. Faux-chi has nothing of the sort, so I'm not sure he's capable.
ps -- So many people think TPTB got saline shots. If that's so, I can't help but wonder how badly Newsome had to piss someone off to get a real one.
I drank more in the first 9 months than I have my entire life. there I said it. It was either that or I was going to hurt some people.
I like all your ideas on this post. I have been doing most of them, but you have inspired me to continue on.
I agree with you; now is the time to turn up the dial.
Thanks for the post and all the laughs.
I don't know anyone except for Brothermouth, who is teetotal, who did not drink heavily. I was even vaguely aware of it with our neighbors, because in NYC, you see everyone else's garbage every week. :)
If I hadn't quit drinking prior to it starting I'd probably be dead by now.
Smoked a shitload of weed though.
Weed doesn't count. Never has imo. It's straight from nature's bounty
With you brother. My policy is if it doesn't need to be refined or distilled or otherwise messed with, it's ok. Now if someone could send me some coca plant seeds I'm good to go.
I have often thought, from what I've heard from people with experience, that I would really enjoy coke, if I could ever experience it in a clean, moderated way.
I have never enjoyed weed, though I've really tried; in my youth it either did nothing at all or felt awful. My recent experiences are that it's become way too strong and is just mentally overpowering- I tried an edible with a friend during lockdown and just zonked out for hours and hated myself for it.
I've never met ANYONE who has done coke, that if you put a line in front of them, they're gonna say, no thanks.
It releases more dopamine than any other substance on the planet.
I'm just glad it's expensive.
The spirit of weed doesn't like me either, Gutter. My very first anxiety attack happened whilst I was communing with that particular spirit.
MY MAN..WOMAN!
like your style...;)
Amazing, Guttermouth. May I suggest "Still Punching Away" for the title of your autobiography?
Truth will win out in the end; it cannot be suppressed forever. Fauci's legacy will be that of Lysenko's, I have no doubt. Unfortunately, we will have to endure the hagiographical phase first.
Hang in there. God bless you.
Thanks and blessings as always to you, doc.
I never imagined writing an autobiography, though several times in my life I've wanted badly to ghost-write OTHER people's biography. My Japanese professor's husband, who (if he is still alive, and I would probably have been told otherwise) is about 104, lived through some of the most tumultuous times in Japanese modern history, with WW2 being only one of them. He told me long stories about a decade ago about running with the proto-Communists in Japan when socialism arrived in the youth culture in the 20s, and how he quit just in time and most of his friends ended up hung.
If you'd feel comfortable sharing in your stack, I'd really be interested in reading more about the dramas you've experienced.
As a kid, I loved hearing old-timers recount stories of the Depression and war. My Mom was a little girl when she had a front row seat for the contest between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht for her village in Poland. Poor Mom; it definitely left a mark. From her stories, a lifelong fascination for history, especially the world-altering drama of WW2, began in me. It always baffled me when people would say that they thought studying history was boring.
Damn. This got me to upgrade my sub. I so know that feeling down there on the floor. It was the first time I ever had something sort of like panic attacks, not being able to trust my head, which had been my favorite place to be. Getting through the day, afraid it would come back at night, and then feeling that floaty ungrounded feeling in the morning. And the first times wearing a mask in a store, almost passing out from that sense of being asphyxiated and thinking, people won't go along with this, right, I'm not the only one? But they did. Being lectured by my daughters as if they were suddenly the cautious, caring parents and I was the rebellious kid. Offering to get the vaccine if even one of them would promise me she wouldn't. Didn't work.
I've done a lot of episodes on the data (got one removed by YT--warm, warmer...) and I've done a couple on RFK's book specifically, but the one that your essay made me think of responds to Battleground Melbourne, which one of my viewers in Australia asked me to watch. I felt it slam into me like a bag of golf balls. That exact despair you're talking about, the film captures in a way that's very real. Here's my take on it: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/down-under-torn-asunder.
I've known many people who have struggled with panic disorders, but I've never had the experience myself. When I've observed it it always seems to me almost like a- if you'll forgive the metaphor- demonic possession, where your body is going absolutely crazy in ways you should be able to control, and you're confused and frightened by simply what it's doing even as you're trying to get back in the driver's seat.
Guttermouth, here's a very well-documented case of demonic possession that hit the media a few years ago:https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/01/25/the-disposession-of-latoya-ammons/4892553/
This was extremely interesting reading. Especially with all the secondary witnesses (children's services, medical staff) attesting to the phenomena.
I would've thought myself the least likely person to get them, but your description is apt. My oldest would notice my eyes getting that glassy, pinwheel look. But I did find out all three daughters had anxiety strategies. For one, meditation apps and then animal documentaries. The next one, Bob's Burgers before bed. And the third one had little blue pills a friend had given her four years ago, that she gave me. She'd only taken one once, and since then knowing she had them was enough to keep her from spinning out of control. That did the trick for me without ever taking them. But it is exactly what you say, feeling like I wasn't in charge of my mind, like when I didn't realize how long edibles take to hit and took too much, and there was no way down but through. I hate having my head turn on me.
wow i feel like i havnt lived yet the shit you have been through.
where did this quote come from? its spot on. “reorganize ourselves to have even more direct, unelected authority while shuffling a few executives around like paedophile priests in their parishes”
will volunteer to be on the firing squad
That was just me articulating what they ACTUALLY do when they say "make changes to regain public trust."
And thank you. I think a well-textured soul is needed to catch the eye of the gods. :)
Gods Above and Below!... they must have been watching me since I was quite young . Gadzooks. I once ( only once) told a friend of mine all the things that had occurred in my life. When I turned my face back to her, she was in tears and said " You've survived that...how are you still sane?! " to which I answered " That's quite an assumption "
I'm totally ripping you off, just so ya know... I have a ' well-textured Soul'
Thank you, sister ours, for sharing both your life and your talents! 💜
Thanks for writing this, Gutter. I'm sure I'm not the only one who needed to read it.
You're welcome. I've been trying to concentrate my thinking on practical action and thinking outside the box where that's concerned, so expect me to nudge myself further in that direction and less of the philosophizing.
I'm pretty black pilled about anyone being held accountable for their crimes over COVID and the "vaccines". Half the evil fucks can't even be voted out of office as there appears to be a dearth of any alternative wether it's Canada, Aus, UK etc.
Even Trumpy tied his destiny to the "vaccines" with Warp Speed. I have no doubt when the serious injuries get too bad to hide it'll be "Trump's Vaccine" again and there will be shameless rewriting of history to suit. Just watch.
Don't be. We may not get the full measure of vengeance or justice we crave, but I don't believe it is beyond us at this point.
I understand your feelings and I'm not one to preach blind faith. But as a fellow pessimist, hope feels rational at this moment; allow yourself some of it, at least as a motivator.
"Haunt the son of a bitch"
The only earthly justice we will likely be able to exact. And it must be legal and relentless. But with the sober understanding that "legal" and "rule of law" may be fluidized by the demons in power.
Others in the comment section have expressed gratitude for your writing, and especially this one, much more eloquently and succinctly than I ever could.
Thank you for writing this.
The tale of Tyr and Fenris, and the eventual chaining of the latter teaches an important thing or two. While Tyr certainly is god of war (I'd argue warfare rather than battle, but that's splitting hairs more or less - can't have one without the other after all) and law, he is as you say also god of justice.
And laws are not necessarily justice, nor is justice always legal.
(Compulsory tangent: Oh, for jews and moslems and such where the law derives directly from their god's (or gods plural as both jews and arabs were initially pandeists and polydeist and copied the dominant civilisations upon the fringes of which they existed as barbarians).)
Anyway. Tyr tricks Fenris, putting his arm in the monster's jaws as security and proof of trustworthiness. And when the gods put Gleipner around Fenris' neck, he bites down, claiming the security. Fenris means "the wolf of the bogs", emphasising that if enemies come at you when you are on a bog you are ore or less dead, since there's no cover and the spongy uneven ground makes it impossibe to run, especially outrun a wolf which can pad on top of the soggy moss and peat.
Another name for Fenris is Vanagandr (Ván-ag-andr), which means, roughly translated, "the beast from the river Ván". I mention it because that very river, its source and the bogs which feeds into it runs nearby here, and there have always been wolves in these forests, as have men and women judged "Varg i Veum", a term which to my knowledge lacks a straight corresponding term in english. The translation comes to, literally: "Wolf in the Holy place", but the meaning is someone convicted of a crime from which there is no chance of any redemption, fine or anything else that can make it good. Slaying someone after having invited them into your home with a promise of peace for example, or committing rape without paying the fine (typically triple bridal price or even more, which in today's money would be damages to the tune of $250 000 or more, though value conversions between non-monetary societies and ours are tricky at best).
Which in a roundabout way meanders to a certain dr Fauci. Tyr and asarna (aesir as it is in english) tricks Fenris in violation of an oath, the crime of oathbreaking being necessary to trap the beast.
The moral being that even just, if unlawful, actions have a great cost. And that's not going into interpreting Hate ("He who hates") and Skoll Hróvitnisson ("Son of the proud wolf"), the children of Fenris, and how they are fated to devour the Sun and the Moon come Ragnarök.
Rest assured, dr Fauci has only the giants and trolls or Hel's table to choose from, when his Doom comes due.
I'm so glad I caught you online and commenting while this was fresh in my head- can you tell me anything about the concept of "mandhælg" or "mannhelgi" as my textbook puts it?
My reading explains it as a legal concept (not explained in great depth) but it also seems to be metaphysical/spiritual as well- I'm probably being overly speculative but it seems to equate to the English notion of "the soul's right to breathe" (liberty)?
Regarding "varg i veum," there's actually a very good English analog, at least when I first learned the concept: outlaw.
My notion of Tyr's sacrifice of his arm was as a classic example of pragmatism. Given Tyr's nature I have to think he understood the cost. Everyone is susceptible to 'greater good' thinking.
Ehm, so I was coming off a mountain high (meaning we've been out hiking the last few days, looking at petroglyphs from 7 000BC when the Baltic Sea was 250+ meters higher than today) when I wrote that. Let's see here (rummage grumble fumble tumble)...
Outlaw we had back then too, as "lawless"/laglös though the concept there was wholly secular; Varg i Veum added the nature of sacrilege to the verdict, making it worse because it meant the condemned couldn't even be used as a sacrifice - not even fit for Hel's table.
As a swede I'd spell it manhelgd due to differences in pronounciation between scandinavian tongues, the meaning would be man as in either male or human, both are possible depending on context, and helgd as in holy, sacred and consecrated.
So a place where manhelgd has been declared by the proper authority (probably some old as the mountains gnarly man or wizened crone with a single tooth hard as diamond jutting forth from a black maw of age) would be a place where all crimes committed between men there would count as much worse - say breaking a finger would count as cutting the hand off or drunken manslaughter in a rough and tumble counting as full murder.
Calling "peace on the Ting" would make the land set aside for the Ting be consecrated/made sacred for as long as the Ting lasted. Also, travellers to and from the Ting where covered by this for at least some distance, if not all the way home. (Though "what happens in the forest stays in the forest"...)
Manhelgd can also be understood like this: no man has any right to lay hands on any other man (unless proper forms have been followed, say insults leading to fighting talk). So a first punch may have been a crime or not, depending.
The oldest fragment of pre-christian law reamining, that has not been communicated across the gulf of aeons via later transcription is the Law of Insults, also called Heathen's Law.
It states that a man is obligated to answer any slur on his honour and any insult to his manhood in kind, and to challenge the insulter to a fight - this must be done before witnesses. If he does not answer in kind and issue a challenge, the inslut stands as truth and he loses his voice at the Ting until the next Ting after. If he does answer with a challnge and the insulter declines the fight, the reverse is true and the initially insutled party may proclaim "So-and-so is not a man, he does not have a man's heart" to all he meets. The challenge is to be fought as agreed upon, at a crossroad or similar area where men are liable to meet.
This little sidetrack may shed some light on the need for rules such as manhelgd and the like, seeing as your reputation was basically all the gurantee you had for fair treatment - act unmanly and be treated thereafter (and that may well mean what we would lable bullying - the weak were supposed to understand their station).
I am of the somewhat "internet tough guy"-belief that had we still retained laws and traditions for duels of honour in the West, business and politics would look a lot better, especially if we're talking bare knuckle fighting/wrestling. Imagine Al Gore and George Bush duking it out on the Senate floor, no rounds, until one of the cries 'Uncle'! Trump and Biden would have been over inside 3 seconds.
Well, then that makes us both "tough guys." I think the main reason our elites have become so thoroughly depraved is that they are completely insulated from the consequences of their words, and have no stakes in the consequences of their actions. If they literally had blood to spill, they would be more cautious, more wise, or both.
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I wonder if that was an "attack" or was it due to the Stacks' having insufficient bandwidth to support the traffic?
This was a fantastic essay! I stood up clapping several times.
Excellent!
Thank you.
As a follow on to Larry Kramer's letter to Fauci, they became friends. This is an excerpt from Kramer's NYT obituary: "In recent years Mr. Kramer developed a grudging friendship with Dr. Fauci, particularly after Mr. Kramer developed liver disease and underwent the transplant in 2001; Dr. Fauci helped get him into a lifesaving experimental drug trial afterward."
Read it here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/larry-kramer-dead.html
Can't open any NY Times articles behind the paywall and won't give them a flat dime to do so.
I'm glad Fauci converted his rival. I'm happy for both of them. I hope it keeps him warm at night.
I cannot attach a pdf here.
In any case, Fauci converted Larry Kramer- in spite of the harsh letter. Fauci is a demon, not only in Minecraft.
I finally got to read it, thanks.
I find it particularly operatic that he ends up making Kramer beholden to him for his life.
I stumbled across that letter by accident just by searching for "write a letter to Doctor Fauci" to try and get a line on whatever his fan mail address is.
The sheer amount of simping that STILL seems to be going on for him blows my mind.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220520025434/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/larry-kramer-dead.html
Use wayback machine. Sometimes it works for paywalls, sometimes not. Usually works for NY Slimes.
Guttermouth, you are a remarkable human being. I know this from what you share with us!!! Fauci will fry in Hell, but I want to see his suffering, a hell on earth. I want him to suffer consequences that I can witness or at least read about. But as you say, he is not the only one. There are so many, and I wish congealed blood in their veins for them all!!!