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Tower of God

Tower of God quotes from the webtoon Tower of God, a Tasle Uzer story by SIU (Slave In Utero)

Small text== Star Wars: Legacy == Someone needs to create the comic book series including the Star Wars: Legacy comic book series.

Generation Kill

I'm somewhat surprised there's not a page for Generation Kill, either the book or the movie. Would someone mind making one?

Full Metal Panic!

A collection of quotes would be greatly appreciated.

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Peter Reilly Eats Fish And Catches Eels Eels Catch Alligators, Father Eats Raw Potatoes. The word, "preface", spelled forwards and backwards.

Logical view of the godhead

What has been lacking in the world since the fall of the ancient world is a logical view of

the godhead. To the Greek and Roman mind the gods were utilitarian; that is they

offered convenient place to appreciate human archetypes. Sin and redemption from sin

had nothing to do with the gods. The classic Greek and Roman gods did not offer recompense in life

nor a heavenly afterlife as reward. Rather morality was determined by your service to humanity whether 

it was in the form of philosophy, science, art, architecture, engineering, leadership, or conquest.

In this way humanity could live up to great potential instead of wasting their energy on worship, and false promises

John R. Gregg, Sex, The Illustrated History; Through Time Religion and Culture, Vol. !.

== World History ==Church Degrades Woman's Position

For almost a thousand years after the fall of Rome the Catholic Church’s control of

society and law guaranteed that woman’s position was degraded to that of a second class

citizen, far below the ancient Roman standard. Every literary reference depicts women as

inferior, unworthy of inheritance, foolish, lustful and sinful. The Church ordained wife beating

and encouraged total obedience to fathers and husbands. Women generally could not own land, join a guild,
nor earn money like a man. Despite all this, a series of events unfolded, the crusades, rebirth of classical ideas,
the printing press, the Reformation, and the Renaissance, all of which began to move womankind forward.

John R. Gregg, Sex, The Illustrated History; Through Time Religion and Culture, Vol 1.

World History: Valentien's Day

The Roman Lupercalia festival of the New Year became an orgiastic carnival. A lottery

ceremony ensued where men chose their sexual partners by choosing small bits of paper

naming each woman present. Later the Christians, trying to incorporate and tame this

sexual festival substituted the mythical saint Valentine; and ‘the cards of lust’ evolved

into the valentine cards we exchange today.

John R. Gregg, From Sex, The Illustrated History; Through Time Religion and Culture

World History: Early Christianity debases women

The few books the early Christian church chose for the New Testament ignored women’s roles in the life of Jesus

and in the early Church. After the fall of Rome, Church control of society and law saw to it that woman’s position
was degraded to that of second-class citizen. Every early reference speaks of women as inferior, unworthy of inheritance,
foolish, lustful, and sinful. Wife beating was encouraged, and total obedience to fathers and husbands was ordained.
Women generally could not own land, join a guild, inherit property, hold public office, or earn money like a man.
A wife was ordered to submit to sex with her husband whenever he wished even if he had leprosy.
Both husband and wife were ordered to continue marital relations, even though the Church disliked it
because the prelates feared the primal urge to evil would lead to worse kinds of sex.

John R. Gregg, From: Sex, The Illustrated History; Through Time, Religion and Culture. Vol.1.

World History Do Women have Souls?

The early Church continued to degrade woman to her “proper status”. Following the Jewish Talmud and the writings of the early Catholic fathers, such as Augustine, they rescinded the Roman rights of women,

which were not generous anyway. The early Catholic Church deliberately reduced women to a chattel who must submit
meekly to their husbands.  Every good Christian woman should hide her charms, veil herself and abjure cosmetics, 

for every attractive woman was a threat to male salvation. The Council of Macon in 585 CE spent weeks debating whether women could be classified as members of the human race and even whether Christ died for women, who many doubted had souls. JohnR. Gregg, From: Sex, The Illustrated History; Through Time, Religion and Culture. vol 1.

World History: Concepts of women through the ages

Jewish and biblical stories of women are ancient Semitic archetypes which have had a profound impact 
on the way women have been viewed down through the centuries. The compilers and writers of the Jewish holy books 
give two polarized concepts of woman: the good, the chaste, the mother, contrasting sharply with the seductress, the harlot, the deceiver. 
Polarized concepts of woman as ”virgin", mother or whore” will continue through Christianity and Islam and reverberate into the 21st century,
informing ways men view women and even ways women view themselves. Women are viewed narrowly as either evil or good. Woman is no longer the ancient holy creator of life,
the sustainer, the transformer; rather she is viewed as one dimensional good or bad. This leads to a limiting view of woman and reduces her.
It is then easy for the patriarchy to diminish her to a chattel. These concepts have led to deep psychological scars on both men and women because
neither is able to operate without guilt. For instance, even the title seductress, has dual associations. Is she to be highly desired as a partner
or reviled as immoral? In the West the popularity of the “Victoria Secret” lingerie store demonstrates that a “good girl” cam purchase “bad panties”.
This is because concepts like these are inured in our culture, whether the good girl and her man can both be happy with themselves using the purchase
is a totally different question. John R. Gregg, From: Sex, The Illustrated History, Through Time, Religion and Culture, Vol.1.

World History: Julius Caesar on Masturbation

The great Julius Caesar, often on the military trail, without female companionship says of masturbation:

“To the lonely it is company; to the forsaken it is a friend;
to the aged and to the impotent it is a benefactor. 

They that are penniless are yet rich,

in that they still have this majestic diversion"  

From: John R. Gregg's Sex, The Illustrated History, Through Time, Religion and Culture, vol.1.

World History: Creating the Dark Ages

"St" Augustine, the greatest early Christian “thinker” said: “This is the disease

of curiosity… It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those

secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man

should not wish to learn.” With these words, Augustine set the spirit and tone for the Dark Ages to come.

John R. Gregg, From: Sex, The Illustrated History; Through Time, Religion and Culture. Vol.1.

World History: The Phallus of Creation becomes corruption

The early Christian Church attacked the ancient phallus of creation, worshiped for millennia.

To them it became the organ of uncontrollable lust be suppressed in all of Europe.
"St" Augustine’s proclamations would proliferate all over Europe, promoting a self-loathing expanding like a plague across the continent.
Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant religions all inherited this lasting legacy for Western culture,
enduring even after the partial eclipse of Catholic Church ideology in the Renaissance.

John R. Gregg, From: Sex, The Illustrated History, Vol.1.

World History::Christian shift from real life to a promised fairy tale.

When the early Christian Church began touting the spirit as the only thing of importance,

a catastrophic shift occurred. In all ancient cultures, woman was linked with birth, sexuality,

and the sacredness of all life. As Mother Goddess, she was revered as life-giver. For ancient peoples, except the Egyptians, the spirit world and afterlife were dim unattractive places.

It was life on earth that mattered. Christianity changed this by offering a fairy story of a heaven
that was much better than life on earth. The Church shifted focus from the material world to an imaginary one.
In this view the Great Mother became a menacing demoness. Womankind is now characterized as untrustworthy, a temptress of

the flesh: a force to be feared, and inextricably linked to evil. John R. Gregg, From: Sex, The Illustrated History; Through Time, Religion and Culture.Vol.1.

World History: Was Mary Magdaline Christ's successor?

The Gnostic Gospel of Philip actually describes Mary Magdalene as Jesus’ sexual partner. It also associates Mary Magdalene with Sophia, “holy wisdom”. This rejected gospel lists five initiatory rite; Baptism, Chrism, (anointing) Eucharist, Redemption, and the highest of all, the “Bridal Chamber “. All Gnostics, not only Jesus, became “Christs” when they were anointed. The section describing the Bridal Chamber rite has been lost. The gospel does describe Mary Magdalene as “the Woman Who Knows All “. It states that he who is anointed possesses the “All’. It also says “Understand what great power undefiled sexual intercourse possesses”. Is this an allusion to a type of Tantric rite practiced by Jesus and the Gnostics? Could Mary Magdalene really have been priestess of a Goddess cult, initiating Jesus in mysteries? Even in the traditional gospels the twelve male disciples are portrayed as rather “dim bulbs” who frequently “knew not what he meant”. Could an aware Christ really have chosen such an ignorant and uncomprehending group of men to begin a universal movement? Very early in Christianity there was a conflict between Mary Magdalene as leader and interpreter of the new sect and the Peter fraction that was jealous of Mary’s influence. Scholars of the early Church had to choose between Mary and the equalization of women and Peter and the continued degradation of women. Decisively they chose to continue Jewish and Greco-Roman attitudes toward women as sinful and valued no higher than property. Both these cultures had traditionally kept women in a subservient position and the new teachings allowed them to continue doing so. By 360 CE they had succeeded in either proscribing or destroying all books indicating that Mary Magdalene had been Christ’s closest follower-partner-chosen leader. They even made sure to diminish her to the position of prostitute, reducing her to a person of no import whatsoever. John R. Gregg, From Sex, The Illustrated History; Through Time, Religion and Culture, Vol.1.

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catch a fish from muddy waters - Cyrus Arian Pars

Meaning - used during conflict negotiations with you being the party not at fault. approach the situation with view that it is an opportunity for a win can be obtained benefiting the overall strategy. Not as just conflict to resolve.

Swan and the trumpet

I remember an old book ripe with quotes

The Cask of Amontillado

"No Answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth only a jingling of the bells."

The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

The Cask of Amontillado

"He had a weak point — this Fortunato — although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit."

The Cask of Amontillado

"I broke and reached him a flagon of De Grave. He emptied it at a breath. His eyes flashed with a fierce light. He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand."