For a longer commentary on this passage, see “Even Zeus Suffers…” on Painful Signs Homer, Iliad 16.431-461 “As the son of crooked-minded Kronos was watching them, he felt pity And he addressed Hera, his sister and wife: “Shit. Look, it is fate for the man most dear to me, Sarpedon, To be overcome by Patroklos, […]
Next time someone calls you a fool worshipping the ancient Gods because They “don’t care about humanity”, remember the fact that Zeus once cried tears of blood for His son Sarpedon.
Happy Sunwait to those celebrating it! This modern celebration that began in Sweden counts down towards the Winter Solstice and the Yuletide season. You can learn more here:
Today I thought we’d have some fun. There’s a one-liner that I’ve seen go around over the years that I always thought was cheesy. It goes a little something like this:
“I once played Poker with some Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died!”
From what I have read, this joke was thought up by a man named Steven Wright. Well, Steve, my condolences to you but now you have me wondering. Out of all of the possible combinations, what hand of Tarot cards in a full house could be interpreted as four people dying? That’s what I invite the audience to do today. Which of you can come up with the best possible combination that would predict our friend Steve losing four friends? The person with the most convincing answer will win a free surprise gift.
For those who might need an explanation for what a full house is: a full house is when you have three cards of the same rank with another two cards of a different but matching rank. For instance, if you had three sixes and two kings.
To keep things reasonable and true to the premise, we’re only counting cards that have equivalents in a modern playing card deck. So no Major Arcana. The obvious exception of course being the Knights and Pages who became replaced by the Jacks. They may be used but regular rules apply to them. You can’t have a Knight and a Page be the two Jacks in your hand. It’s either two Knights or two Pages.
Animal Behaviorists say cats wake humans up during the night because they worry our longer sessions of sleep could mean we are dead.
*A human sleeps during the middle of the night and is then woken by their cat*
Human: “Tabby? What’s the matter? Are you hungry?”
Cat: “Human! I feared you had fallen! You must not slumber so long for we must be ready for battle at a moment’s notice. The barbarian cats from across the street might make their move today. By the might of Sekhmet and Bast, we shall prevail!”
*Cat scampers out of the room shouting “DUA SEKHMET! DUA BAST!”*
The Stone Pillar 