The Draco of Legio IX Hispana - Limited Edition of 5 Print

© COBRA The Draco of Legio IX Hispana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_IX_Hispana The fate of the Ninth: The curious disappearance of Legio VIIII Hispana by © Duncan B Campbell PhD University of Glasgow, Centre for Open Studies / Department of Adult & Continuing Education, Ex-Tutor https://www.academia.edu/856165/The_fate_of_the_Ninth_The_curious_disappearance_of_Legio_VIIII_Hispana From: Ancient Warfare magazine, Vol. IV, Issue 5, pp. 48-53. A Tegula or roof tile from the drain stamped by the makers "LEG - iX - HIS" West Offices, York - Summer 2011 on © Duncan Stirk Archaeologist Flickr page https://www.flickr.com/photos/dstirk/5884302627/in/photostream The Draco, the Late Roman military standard By © Robert Vermaat http://www.fectio.org.uk/articles/draco.htm VortigernStudies is copyright Robert Vermaat 1999-2011. All rights reserved This artwork was created by me as a tattoo design at the request of my friend Ruslan Smihunov the detective of THE UKRAINE POLICE MAIN DEPARTMRNT OF NPU IN KYIV CITY HOLOSIIV 102 Here are the statements that excited me at the moment of thinking about my artwork: SB 3.8.23: Brahmā could see that on the water there was a gigantic lotuslike white bedstead, the body of Śeṣa-nāga, on which the Personality of Godhead was lying alone. The whole atmosphere was illuminated by the rays of the jewels bedecking the hood of Śeṣa-nāga, and that illumination dissipated all the darkness of those regions. Srimad-Bhagavatam - Third Canto - Chapter 8: Manifestation of Brahmā from Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu https://vanisource.org/wiki/SB_3.8:_Manifestation_of_Brahma_from_Garbhodakasayi_Visnu Vanisource — the complete essence of Vedic knowledge All material by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada copyright © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Images copyright © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, and The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc. Compilation copyright © Bhaktivedanta Library Services a.s.b.l. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” Plato https://www.quora.com/Do-you-agree-with-Platos-saying-courage-is-knowing-what-not-to-fear Tomasio A. Rubinshtein, The Undead Philosopher Courage can also be believing that there is nothing to fear, not only knowing. The relations between “knowing” and “believing” are very problematic in general. There isn’t always certainty that can approve our beliefs or disbeliefs as true or false knowledge. When someone believes something, they believe regardless of whether their belief is true or false knowledge, and even when they say “I know it”, still isn’t evident for the source of belief to be true or false. It is very vague. Courage can go both ways, stupidly and wisely. Both the fool and the wise can claim this quote, but in the end only one of them shall be correct in their assumption, because their knowledge is necessarily true or false. It cannot be both, unless its a hybrid of true knowledge and false knowledge. Either way, one of them has to be correct when using this sentence, for the fool can be courageous and the wise can be a coward, and vice versa. Everything is knowledge; scientific studies can bring and create knowledge the same as Star Wars lore can, for knowledge can be evident or illusionary. However, not every knowledge is true, and not every knowledge is false, and not every knowledge is purely true or false. This is the problem in human understanding, which can be easily deceptive and biased. Anyway, the courageous will necessarily believe that they have nothing to fear, but the courageous can be correct the same as they can be mistaken. Thus I think Plato is not entirely correct or incorrect, for a fool wouldn’t fear a predator the same as the wise wouldn’t fear being alone. Jeremy Pierce, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Le Moyne College (2003-present) Plato doesn’t actually agree with this himself. It comes from Plato’s dialogue Laches, where a number of characters, including Socrates, who usually speaks for Plato, discuss what courage is. One of the characters suggests this definition at one point, but Plato has the other characters give reasons against it as an adequate definition. His ultimate reason for rejecting this definition is his view that you can’t have one virtue without having all of them, and that means courage cannot just be knowing what to fear and what not to fear. Courage might require knowing what to fear and what not to fear, but that means it also requires knowing which things are good and bad, which means loving the right things and valuing the right things, and that ends up being tied up with other virtues. So any definition that tries to capture something specific about courage will fail to capture these other aspects, but if it tries to include those things then it seems you’re not just talking about courage anymore. In the end, they leave the conversation thinking they haven’t come up with a good definition, and they wonder if they even know what courage is, which is an odd conclusion when you think about it, because they couldn’t see that a definition is bad without knowing what courage is. How do you know that a definition of courage is wrong unless you know what courage is to be able to see that the definition isn’t good enough? But Plato and Socrates were after a definition that could cover all cases of courage and not include any that were not courage, and it’s not clear that anyone could ever give such a definition for something like courage. That doesn’t mean we don’t know what it is, just that it can’t be defined in that sort of way, because courage isn’t the sort of thing that has such clear and precise conditions. “One of my tests of character is what a man says about principle. A weak man is always talking of acting on principle. An able man does always the right thing at the right moment, and therein he shows himself to be able.” Adam Weishaupt https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2015/07/04/a-brief-encounter-with-adam-weishaupt-in-1804/ A Brief Encounter with Adam Weishaupt in 1804 BY TERRY MELANSON · JULY 4, 2015 Conspiracy Archive © 2019. All Rights Reserved. Powered by W - Designed with the Hueman theme “Loyaulté me Lie - Loyalty Binds Me.” Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England “The city is lost, but I live!” Constantine XI Palaiologos, last emperor of Byzantium “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” 'To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.'. - Sun Tzu “So That We May Get Close to the Enemy” An unnamed Spartan, after being asked why Spartans fought with short swords Top 10 Witty (and Badass) Quotes from Ancient Sparta https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-witty-badass-quotes-ancient-sparta.php © TopTenz database “Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.” Augustus “Bravery is a kind of spiritual courage.” Dr. Joseph Goebbels. The source: “Die sogenannte russische Seele,” Das eherne Herz (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1943), pp. 398-405. https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb11.htm German Propaganda Archive Calvin College 3201 Burton SE Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546 © 2019 Calvin College | All rights reserved in childhood I was struck by the words of Chaplin The Final Speech from The Great Dictator: You must speak. I can't. You must. It's our only hope. Hope... I'm sorry but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone: Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not misery. We don't want to hate one another. In this world, the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into bloodshed. We have developed speed but have shut ourselves in. Machinery has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost... The aeroplane and radio have brought us closer. These inventions cry out for the goodness in man, cry out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions, millions of despairing men, women and children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say, do not despair. The misery upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took will return to the people. So long as men die liberty will never perish. Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, regiment your lives, tell you what to think and feel, who drill you, treat you like cattle and use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in you. Don't hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural hate. Soldiers, don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty! St. Luke says, "The Kingdom of God is within man." Not in one man nor a group of men, but in all men. In you! You have the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. In the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite, let us fight for a new world, a world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age security. Promising these things, brutes have risen. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to the happiness of all. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us unite! Innah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up, Hannah. The clouds are lifting, the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into a new world, a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and their brutality. Look up, Hannah. The soul of man has been given wings. He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, the glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up, Hannah. Look up! Did you hear that? Listen... Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=great-dictator-the © Springfield! Springfield! database https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/synopsis/articles/29-The-Great-Dictator-s-Speech All photographs from Chaplin films made from 1918 onwards © Roy Export S.A.S. All Rights Reserved. CHARLIE CHAPLIN, the LITTLE TRAMP, certain images on this web site, and the names of some of Mr. Chaplin's films are trademarks and/or service marks of Roy Export and/or Bubbles Inc. S.A. All Rights Reserved. © 2000-2018 Roy Export SAS - Website Design by Charles Sistovaris “If” Context: Spartan reply to King Philip of Macedon The above quote is possibly one of the single greatest uses of language ever recorded. Around 350 BC, King Philip II of Macedon started invading the crap out of Greece. After he had several key footholds under his command, Philip decided to start putting pressure on Sparta, and sent them the following threatening message: “If I win this war, you will be slaves forever.” The Spartan’s sent back a single word in reply: “if”. Other versions of the event involved Philip sending the decidedly more verbose threat, “If once I enter into your territories, I will destroy ye all, never to rise again.” Again, the Spartan’s recorded reply was simply the word “If.” Apparently, the sheer awesomeness of this quote has muddied the waters of history as to the exact wording of Philip’s threat. That’s fine, because the Spartan reply is all we, or anyone else, should care about. Regardless of what exactly Philip said, the message he’d gotten back was clear: stay the hell away from Sparta. Which he did — although Philip sacked most of Greece, he never once set foot in Sparta, and never bothered them again, except for that other time he totally did. Top 10 Witty (and Badass) Quotes from Ancient Sparta https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-witty-badass-quotes-ancient-sparta.php © TopTenz database The special thanks from the artist to Ruslan Khalikov, Haris Hararis, Leo Carter and Kostas Plamos for the new glancing at my artwork! Cordially, © Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan von Miller “Because We are Also the Only Ones Who Give Birth to Men” Gorgo, Queen of Sparta F. https://www.facebook.com/inna.kazimirova.9

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