The negligible factor in problems of legislation.

(385–303BC) Chinese philosopher one of the principal interpreters of Confucianism.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: mencius quotes)

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree

(also: everything)

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

Tasks performed out of necessity or in exhange for currency
(also: chores)
(also: career)

(n.) a stuck-up self-important upper-class twit who probably had a silver spoon in every orifice since day one and had daddy's money to bail them out of whatever trouble they got themselves into, and who lords their fancy education over working class folk to play at being more sophisticated than they really are.

bitter? oh. a tad.

etymology: the word comes from 'toffee-nose,' an aptly-named medical condition commonly resulting from the disease called syphilis

Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

(adj.) a symbolic way to represent the many functions and capabilities of an entity, especially the infinite nature of the divine.

bulgaria (thracian knight):

rome (janus):

india (gayatri):

japan (ashura):


on slavic god, triglav (literally meaning 'three headed'): http://sms.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/17/03_sms17_Dynda.pdf
iconography of thracian knight: http://icc-online.arte-ct.ro/vol_03/12.pdf
The Three-Faced Representation of the Holy
Trinity: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=kerverbook
Pagan Origins of the Three-Headed Representation of the Christian Trinity: https://www.jstor.org/stable/750313?seq=1
Not So Unorthodox: A Reevaluation of Tricephalous Images of the Trinity: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0040563918766704?journalCode=tsja&

THE BICEPHALIC HUMAN HEAD IN POST-PALEOLITHIC SCULPTURE (~20 different pieces):http://www.museoorigini.it/pagina60.html
UK's largest complete Doom painting restored in a Salisbury parish: https://www.salisbury.anglican.org/news/a-201cremarkable-revelation201d



(also: polycephaly)
(also: bicephalous), (also: tricephalous), (also: multicephalous)
(also: gods and goddesses)
(also: be not afraid)

The process by which hardened figurines and statues are created, beginning with brown goop and ending with a finished, painted, ceramic object.

Most commonly seen in the form of illuminated trees and piggy banks, though nearly anything can be found in a ceramic form.

(n.) the stuff that makes a great man or woman.
(v.) "I will my life forward." "I will (to) keep my promises."

(also: willing)
(also: voluntary)
(also: volition)

A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction and unbounded incapacity.

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”
― Robert Marley

(n.) a word used in wishful thinking to describe a condition of increased order and technological progress with time.

the supposed end result of extropy will be the achievement of some kind of technological singularity. fingers crossed, i suppose.

(also: everything)
(also: dominic toretto)

(n.) a way of saying "creature" with an excess of saccharine folksy American charm

Teeth sharpener!

to look at products longingly

Place where you dont have to cover yourself, place of understanding, place of an agreement, certainty. In this regard, there are a lot of homeless people and a lot that ypu can do for them
(also: friendship)

the no-longer-used name for a large part of germany (with some bits, ah, borrowed from poland)

prussia was known for not liking austria, and may as well be the origin of the german reputation for dourness and industriousness, not to mention fancy elaborate uniforms. bad things tend to happen for the rest of the world when germans decide to start reliving the good old prussian days

(n.) a probably nonexistent cosmic force that supposedly determines whether chance-based outcomes are positive or negative. the central figure in a strange modern religion usually practiced in casinos and stock exchanges