The Astrology Podcast • Feb 27, 2025 • Monthly Astrology ForecastsA deep dive into the astrology forecast for March of 2025, with astrologers Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock, in episode 480 of The Astrology Podcast. March is one of the most active and important months of 2025, which includes Venus and Mercury going retrograde in Aries, eclipses in Virgo and Aries, and Neptune moving into Aries at the very end of the month. We spend the first hour of the episode talking about the astrology of news and events that have occurred since our last forecast, and then in the second hour we transition into talking about the astrology of March. Chris’ New Horary Astrology Course https://theastrologyschool.com Austin’s Website https://austincoppock.com Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:51 Quick Overview of March 00:03:13 News Section Begins 00:04:32 US News & Mars Retro in Cancer 00:47:14 Airline Crashes 00:52:19 Kendrick Superbowl 00:58:53 Oscars Controversy 01:04:20 Crypto Scam & Hack 01:06:22 Luigi & Mars Stations 01:10:26 SNL 50th Anniversary 01:13:51 Fyre Festival 2 01:16:44 New Horary Course 01:23:15 Forecast begins 01:23:24 Leaving Mars Retrograde 01:26:57 Venus retrograde 01:44:15 Mercury Retrograde 01:51:27 Lucky Date for March 01:54:59 Eclipse in Virgo 02:14:34 Venus and Mercury Cazimi 02:18:01 Mercury and Venus Return to Pisces 02:25:02 Eclipse in Aries 02:51:48 Austin’s Projects 02:54:45 Chris’ New Horary Course 02:56:37 Credits
March 2025: MASSIVE Shift Into POWERFUL Aries Energy!
World Astrology Report • Feb 27, 2025 What does the month of March 2025 promise for you and for the wider world? In this World Astrology Report forecast episode, we’ll focus on the main developments of the month, aiming to give you a concise run-down of what you need to know—before it happens. NS Lyons – “American Strong Gods”: https://open.substack.com/pub/theuphe… Lunar Shadows III by Dietrech Pessin: https://www.amazon.com/Lunar-Shadows-… The members-only extended version of the video features a bonus section on the lunar gestation cycle. To access that video, as well as ad-free extended versions of all my videos going back to mid-May, sign up as a member of World Astrology Report. You also get access to a private forum, the WAR Room, and regular members-only livestreams. Join here: https://www.worldastrologyreport.com/ I’m also now available for a small number of private consultations. Members receive a 20% discount on fees. Book a session here: https://www.worldastrologyreport.com/… Picks of the month: Venus retrograde (March 2 – April 13) Lunar eclipse in Virgo (March 14) Mercury retrograde (March 15 – April 7) Aries season (March 20 – April 20) Pluto opp. Vulcanus (March 23) Solar eclipse in Aries (March 29) Neptune in Aries (March 30 – October 22) Featuring music from ThatTrack™ – 30,000 tracks. One simple license. thattrack.com https://www.thattrack.com/tracks?trac… Time codes: 0:00 Introduction 0:56 Looking back 5:37 Venus retrograde 10:40 Lunar eclipse in Virgo 13:43 Mercury retrograde 15:24 Aries season 18:49 Pluto opp. Vulcanus 21:14 Solar eclipse in Aries 25:27 Neptune in Aries
Harpa Dei • May 24, 2024 • MARKUSKIRCHE In Jerusalem, the Lord always surprises us…. When we asked the Syrians if we could record a video in their church, our intention was to film a chant of the Syro-Malankara rite. But the deacon asked us very fervently to sing with them the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic (the language that our Lord spoke here on earth and that the Syriac Christians still use in parts of their liturgy). When two Syriac monks joined us, we spontaneously made this recording. According to Syriac tradition, the “House of St. Mark”, where this chapel is located, is the place where the Last Supper and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles took place. We would like to dedicate this song to our beloved Heavenly Father and ask that all people come to know, honor and love Him. In a special way, we would like to include in our prayers all the persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
An Expanded Translation by Dr. Rocco A. Errico:
“Our Father who is everywhere
Your name is sacred.
Your kingdom is come.
Your will is throughout the earth
Even as it is throughout the universe
You give us our needful bread from day to day,
And you forgive us our offenses
Even as we forgive our offenders.
And you let us not enter into materialism.
But you separate us from error.
Because yours are the kingdom, the power and the song and praise.
A “memento mori” reminder to a Roman general was a phrase, usually whispered by a slave during a triumph procession, that said “Remember you are mortal” (“Memento Mori” in Latin), serving as a reminder to the victorious general not to become too arrogant due to their success and to acknowledge their human limitations despite their glory.
Key points about the “memento mori” practice for Roman generals:
Purpose:To prevent hubris and overconfidence by reminding the general that they were not invincible and would eventually die.
Who would say it:A slave, often called an “auriga”, would stand behind the general during a triumph parade and whisper the phrase in his ear.
Translation:“Memento Mori” translates to “Remember you must die”.
Historical context:This practice was rooted in Stoic philosophy, which emphasized the importance of accepting one’s mortality and living a virtuous life.
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Memento mori (Latin for “remember (that you have) to die”)[2] is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death.[2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity, and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.
The most common motif is a skull, often accompanied by bones. Often, this alone is enough to evoke the trope, but other motifs include a coffin, hourglass, or wilting flowers to signify the impermanence of life. Often, these would accompany a different central subject within a wider work, such as portraiture; however, the concept includes standalone genres such as the vanitas and Danse Macabre in visual art and cadaver monuments in sculpture.
Memento is the second-person singularactivefutureimperative of meminī, ‘to remember, to bear in mind’, usually serving as a warning: “remember!” Morī is the presentinfinitive of the deponent verbmorior ‘to die’.[3] Thus, the phrase literally translates as “you must remember to die” but may be loosely rendered as “remember death” or “remember that you die”.[4]
History of the concept
In classical antiquity
The philosopher Democritus trained himself by going into solitude and frequenting tombs.[5]Plato‘s Phaedo, where the death of Socrates is recounted, introduces the idea that the proper practice of philosophy is “about nothing else but dying and being dead”.[6]
The Stoics of classical antiquity were particularly prominent in their use of this discipline, and Seneca‘s letters are full of injunctions to meditate on death.[7] The Stoic Epictetus told his students that when kissing their child, brother, or friend, they should remind themselves that they are mortal, curbing their pleasure, as do “those who stand behind men in their triumphs and remind them that they are mortal”.[8] The Stoic Marcus Aurelius invited the reader (himself) to “consider how ephemeral and mean all mortal things are” in his Meditations.[9][10]
In some accounts of the Roman triumph, a companion or public slave would stand behind or near the triumphant general during the procession and remind him from time to time of his own mortality or prompt him to “look behind”.[11] A version of this warning is often rendered into English as “Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal”, for example in Fahrenheit 451.[12]
In early Christianity
Several passages in the Old Testament urge a remembrance of death. In Psalm 90, Moses prays that God would teach his people “to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom” (Ps. 90:12). In Ecclesiastes, the Preacher insists that “It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart” (Eccl. 7:2). In Isaiah, the lifespan of human beings is compared to the short lifespan of grass: “The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass” (Is. 40:7).
The expression memento mori developed with the growth of Christianity, which emphasized Heaven, Hell, Hades and salvation of the soul in the afterlife.[13]
In Europe from the medieval era to the Victorian era
Dance of Death (replica of 15th-century fresco; National Gallery of Slovenia); Representing the universality of death regardless of class or job
Christian Theology
The thought was then utilized in Christianity, whose strong emphasis on divine judgment, heaven, hell, and the salvation of the soul brought death to the forefront of consciousness.[14] In the Christian context, the memento mori acquires a moralizing purpose quite opposed to the nunc est bibendum (“now is the time to drink”) theme of classical antiquity. To the Christian, the prospect of death serves to emphasize the emptiness and fleetingness of earthly pleasures, luxuries, and achievements, and thus also as an invitation to focus one’s thoughts on the prospect of the afterlife. A biblical injunction often associated with the memento mori in this context is In omnibus operibus tuis memorare novissima tua, et in aeternum non peccabis (the Vulgate‘s Latin rendering of Ecclesiasticus7:40, “in all thy works be mindful of thy last end and thou wilt never sin.”) This finds ritual expression in the rites of Ash Wednesday, when ashes are placed upon the worshipers’ heads with the words, “Remember, Man, that you are dust and unto dust, you shall return.”
Memento mori has been an important part of ascetic disciplines as a means of perfecting the character by cultivating detachment and other virtues, and by turning the attention towards the immortality of the soul and the afterlife.[15]
The most obvious places to look for memento mori meditations are in funeral art and architecture. Perhaps the most striking to contemporary minds is the transi or cadaver tomb, a tomb that depicts the decayed corpse of the deceased. This became a fashion in the tombs of the wealthy in the fifteenth century, and surviving examples still offer a stark reminder of the vanity of earthly riches. Later, Puritantomb stones in the colonial United States frequently depicted winged skulls, skeletons, or angels snuffing out candles. These are among the numerous themes associated with skull imagery.
Another example of memento mori is provided by the chapels of bones, such as the Capela dos Ossos in Évora or the Capuchin Crypt in Rome. These are chapels where the walls are totally or partially covered by human remains, mostly bones. The entrance to the Capela dos Ossos has the following sentence: “We bones, lying here bare, await yours.”
Timepieces have been used to illustrate that the time of the living on Earth grows shorter with each passing minute. Public clocks would be decorated with mottos such as ultima forsan (“perhaps the last” [hour]) or vulnerant omnes, ultima necat (“they all wound, and the last kills”). Clocks have carried the motto tempus fugit (“time flies”). Old striking clocks often sported automata who would appear and strike the hour; some of the celebrated automaton clocks from Augsburg, Germany, had Death striking the hour. In the private sphere, some people carried smaller reminders of their own mortality. For example, Mary, Queen of Scots, owned a large watch carved in the form of a silver skull, embellished with the lines of Horace, “Pale death knocks with the same tempo upon the huts of the poor and the towers of Kings.”
In the late 16th and through the 17th century, memento mori jewelry was popular. Items included mourning rings,[16]pendants, lockets, and brooches.[17] These pieces depicted tiny motifs of skulls, bones, and coffins, in addition to messages and names of the departed, picked out in precious metals and enamel.[17][18]
During the same period, there emerged the artistic genre known as vanitas, Latin for “emptiness” or “vanity”. Especially popular in Holland and then spreading to other European nations, vanitas paintings typically represented assemblages of numerous symbolic objects such as human skulls, guttering candles, wilting flowers, soap bubbles, butterflies, and hourglasses. In combination, vanitas assemblies conveyed the impermanence of human endeavours and of the decay that is inevitable with the passage of time. See also the themes associated with the image of the skull. The 2007 screenprint by the street-artist Banksy “Grin Reaper” features the Grim Reaper with acid-house smiley face sitting on a clock demonstrating death awaiting us all.[19]
In the European devotional literature of the Renaissance, the Ars Moriendi, memento mori had moral value by reminding individuals of their mortality.[20]
Music
Apart from the genre of requiem and funeral music, there is also a rich tradition of memento mori in the Early Music of Europe. Especially those facing the ever-present death during the recurring bubonic plaguepandemics from the 1340s onward tried to toughen themselves by anticipating the inevitable in chants, from the simple Geisslerlieder of the Flagellant movement to the more refined cloistral or courtly songs. The lyrics often looked at life as a necessary and God-given vale of tears with death as a ransom, and they reminded people to lead sinless lives to stand a chance at Judgment Day. The following two Latin stanzas (with their English translations) are typical of memento mori in medieval music; they are from the virelaiAd Mortem Festinamus of the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat from 1399:
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur, Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur, Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur. Ad mortem festinamus peccare desistamus.
Ni conversus fueris et sicut puer factus Et vitam mutaveris in meliores actus, Intrare non poteris regnum Dei beatus. Ad mortem festinamus peccare desistamus.
Life is short, and shortly it will end; Death comes quickly and respects no one, Death destroys everything and takes pity on no one. To death we are hastening, let us refrain from sinning.
If you do not turn back and become like a child, And change your life for the better, You will not be able to enter, blessed, the Kingdom of God. To death we are hastening, let us refrain from sinning.
Danse macabre
The danse macabre is another well-known example of the memento mori theme, with its dancing depiction of the Grim Reaper carrying off rich and poor alike. This and similar depictions of Death decorated many European churches.
Gallery
Romanmosaic representing the Wheel of Fortune which, as it turns, can make the rich poor and the poor rich; in effect, both states are very precarious, with death never far and life hanging by a thread: when it breaks, the soul flies off. And thus all are made equal. (Collezioni pompeiane. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli)
Prince of OrangeRené of Châlon died in 1544 at age 25. His widow commissioned sculptor Ligier Richier to represent him in the Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon, which shows him offering his heart to God, set against the painted splendour of his former worldly estate. (Church of Saint-Étienne, Bar-le-Duc)
Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors includes a distorted image of a skull across the bottom of the painting.
The salutation of the Hermits of St. Paul of France
Memento mori was the salutation used by the Hermits of St. Paul of France (1620–1633), also known as the Brothers of Death.[21] It is sometimes claimed that the Trappists use this salutation, but this is not true.[22]
Colonial American art saw a large number of memento mori images due to Puritan influence. The Puritan community in 17th-century North America looked down upon art because they believed that it drew the faithful away from God and, if away from God, then it could only lead to the devil. However, portraits were considered historical records and, as such, they were allowed. Thomas Smith, a 17th-century Puritan, fought in many naval battles and also painted. In his self-portrait, we see these pursuits represented alongside a typical Puritan memento mori with a skull, suggesting his awareness of imminent death.
The poem underneath the skull emphasizes Thomas Smith’s acceptance of death and of turning away from the world of the living:
Why why should I the World be minding, Therein a World of Evils Finding. Then Farwell World: Farwell thy jarres, thy Joies thy Toies thy Wiles thy Warrs. Truth Sounds Retreat: I am not sorye. The Eternall Drawes to him my heart, By Faith (which can thy Force Subvert) To Crowne me (after Grace) with Glory.
Much memento mori art is associated with the Mexican festivalDay of the Dead, including skull-shaped candies and bread loaves adorned with bread “bones”.
This theme was also famously expressed in the works of the Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada, in which people from various walks of life are depicted as skeletons.
Another manifestation of memento mori is found in the Mexican “Calavera”, a literary composition in verse form normally written in honour of a person who is still alive, but written as if that person were dead. These compositions have a comedic tone and are often offered from one friend to another during Day of the Dead.[23]
Contemporary culture
Roman Krznaric suggests memento mori is an important topic to bring back into our thoughts and belief system; “Philosophers have come up with lots of what I call ‘death tasters’ – thought experiments for seizing the day.”
These thought experiments are powerful to get us re-oriented back to death into current awareness and living with spontaneity. Albert Camus stated “Come to terms with death, thereafter anything is possible.” Jean-Paul Sartre expressed that life is given to us early, and is shortened at the end, all the while taken away at every step of the way, emphasizing that the end is only the beginning every day.[24]
Similar concepts across cultures
In Buddhism
The Buddhist practice maraṇasati meditates on death. The word is a Pāli compound of maraṇa ‘death’ (an Indo-European cognate of Latin mori) and sati ‘awareness’, so very close to memento mori. It is first used in early Buddhist texts, the suttapiṭaka of the Pāli Canon, with parallels in the āgamas of the “Northern” Schools.
In Japanese Zen and samurai culture
In Japan, the influence of Zen Buddhist contemplation of death on indigenous culture can be gauged by the following quotation from the classic treatise on samurai ethics, Hagakure:[25]
The Way of the Samurai is, morning after morning, the practice of death, considering whether it will be here or be there, imagining the most sightly way of dying, and putting one’s mind firmly in death. Although this may be a most difficult thing, if one will do it, it can be done. There is nothing that one should suppose cannot be done.[26]
In the annual appreciation of cherry blossom and fall colors, hanami and momijigari, it was philosophized that things are most splendid at the moment before their fall, and to aim to live and die in a similar fashion.[citation needed]
New Thinking • Feb 27, 2025 Federico Faggin created the self-aligned MOS silicon-gate technology, which made possible memory chips, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor. He designed the Intel 4004, 8008, and 8080 microprocessors, as well as the Zilog Z80 and Z8 processors. In 2010, he received the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor the United States confers for achievements related to technological progress. He is author of Silicon: From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness, and also Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature. His website is http://www.fagginfoundation.org/ This open-ended conversation focuses on the relationship between free will, consciousness, and the quantum field. Faggin argues that many of our current social problems result from society’s false view of reality, based on an outdated understanding of physics. 00:00 Introduction 05:20 Free will 09:36 The field of electrons is conscious 16:07 We are observer, observed, and agent 24:37 One 31:24 Everything is entangled with everything 34:07 Ethical implications 40:16 The problem of scientism 45:35 Do you work for all, or for yourself? 47:14 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on February 5, 2025)
New Thinking • Feb 28, 2025 This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in February 1987. It will remain public for only one week. Joseph Campbell (1904 – 1987) was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell’s best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the “monomyth.” Here he describes his overall vision of the role of mythology in culture. Now you can watch all of the programs from the original Thinking Allowed Video Collection, hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove. Subscribe to the new Streaming Channel (https://thinkingallowed.vhx.tv/) and watch more than 350 programs now, with more, previously unreleased titles added weekly. Free month of the classic Thinking Allowed streaming channel for New Thinking Allowed subscribers only. Use code THINKFREELY.
Official poster from the Wochenspruch der NSDAP series, 16 February 1941. The inscription reads: “The Führer is always right”
The Führerprinzip (German pronunciation: [ˈfyːʀɐpʀɪnˌtsiːp]ⓘ, Leader Principle) was the basis of executive authority in the government of Nazi Germany. It placed the Führer‘s word above all written law, and meant that government policies, decisions, and officials all served to realize his will. In practice, the Führerprinzip gave Adolf Hitler supreme power over the ideology and policies of his political party; this form of personal dictatorship was a basic characteristic of Nazism.[1] The state itself received “political authority” from Hitler, and the Führerprinzip stipulated that only what the Führer “commands, allows, or does not allow is our conscience,” with party leaders pledging “eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler.”[1][2]
According to Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, the Nazi German political system meant “unconditional authority downwards, and responsibility upwards.”[3] At each level of the pyramidal power structure the sub-leader, or Unterführer, was subordinate to the superior leader, and responsible to him for all successes and failures.[4][1] “As early as July 1921,” Hitler proclaimed the Führerprinzip as the “law of the Nazi Party,” and in Mein Kampf he said the principle would govern the new Reich.[5] At the Bamberg Conference on 14 February 1926, Hitler invoked the Führerprinzip to assert his power,[6] and affirmed his total authority over Nazi administrators at the party membership meeting in Munich on 2 August 1928.[4]
The Nazi government implemented the Führerprinzip throughout German civil society. Business organizations and civil institutions were thus led by an appointed leader, rather than managed by an elected committee of professional experts. This included the schools, both public and private,[7] the sports associations,[8] and the factories.[9] Beginning in 1934, the German armed forces swore a “Führer Oath” to Hitler personally, not the German constitution.[10] As a common theme of Nazi propaganda, the “Leader Principle” compelled obedience to the supreme leader who—by personal command—could override the rule of law as exercised by elected parliaments, appointed committees, and bureaucracies.[11] The German cultural reverence for national leaders such as King Frederick the Great (r. 1740–1786) and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (r. 1871–1890), and the historic example of the Nordic saga, were also appropriated to support the idea.[12] The ultranationalist “Leader Principle” vested “complete and all-embracing” authority in the “myth person”[6] of Hitler who, as Rudolf Hess declared in 1934, “was always right and will always be right.”[1]
Ideology
The political science term Führerprinzip was coined by Hermann von Keyserling, an Estonian philosopher of German descent.[13] Ideologically, the Führerprinzip considers organizations to be a hierarchy of leaders, wherein each leader (Führer) has absolute responsibility in, and for, his own area of authority, is owed absolute obedience from subordinates, and answers to his superior officers; the subordinate’s obedience also includes personal loyalty to the leader.[14] In both theory and practice, the Führerprinzip made Adolf Hitler supreme leader of the German nation.[15]
The total state
By presenting Hitler as the incarnation of authority—a saviour-politician who personally dictates the law—the Führerprinzip functioned as a color of law legalism that conferred executive, judicial, and legislative powers of government on the person of Hitler as Führer und Reichskanzler, the combined leader and chancellor of Germany. For example, following the 1934 Night of the Long Knives, Hitler justified his violent political purge of Ernst Röhm and the Strasserite faction of the Nazi Party as a matter of German national security, and stated: “In this hour, I was responsible for the fate of the German nation and was therefore the supreme judge of the German people!”[16]
As a proponent of the Führerprinzip, the German legal theorist Carl Schmitt defended the political purges and the felony crimes of the Nazis individually, and the Nazi Party collectively, because the Führerprinzip stipulated that the Führer’s word supersedes any contradictory law.[17][18] In the book The Legal Basis of the Total State (1933), Schmitt said the Führerprinzip was the ideological and political foundation of the Nazi German total state, writing:
The strength of the National Socialist State lies in the fact that it is [ruled] from top to bottom and in every atom of its existence ruled and permeated with the concept of leadership [Führertum]. This principle [of leadership], which made the movement strong, must be carried through systematically, both in the administration of the State and in the various spheres of self-government, naturally taking into account the [ideologic] modifications required by the particular area in question. But it would not be permissible for any important area of public life to operate independently from the Führer concept.[18]
Political cohesion
For the Nazi Party, the “Leader Principle” was considered integral to political cohesion. In July 1921, to affirm personal control of the Nazi Party, Hitler confronted Anton Drexler—the original founder of the Nazi Party—to thwart Drexler’s proposal to unite the Nazi Party with the larger German Socialist Party. Fervently opposed to this idea, Hitler angrily left the Nazi Party on 11 July 1921. However, understanding that the absence of Hitler would destroy the party’s credibility, party committee members accepted Hitler’s demand to replace Drexler as party chairman, and Hitler rejoined.[19][20]
The increased number of party members split into two ideological factions; the northern faction of the Nazi Party championed the Third position politics of Strasserism (revolutionary nationalism and economic antisemitism), and was led by Otto Strasser and Gregor Strasser; the southern faction of the party followed Hitler’s brand of Nazism, and was led by Hitler himself. The two factions greatly disagreed about the Führerprinzip, and whether or not it was an essential principle for the party. On 14 February 1926, at the Bamberg Conference, Hitler defeated all factional opposition and established the Führerprinzip as the managing principle of the Nazi Party.[21]
Leader Principle in action
The Führerprinzip allowed Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, and Rudolf Hess to politically purge the Nazi Party on the Night of the Long Knives in summer of 1934.
In 1934, Hitler imposed the Führerprinzip on the government and civil society of Weimar Germany in order to create the Nazi state.[22] While the fascist government did not require the German business community to adopt Nazi techniques of administration, it did mandate that businesses rename their management hierarchies using the politically correct language of the Führerprinzip ideology.[8]
Hermann Göring said to British ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson that, “When a decision has to be taken, none of us counts more than the stones on which we are standing. It is the Führer, alone, who decides”.[23] Following the adoption of the “Führer Oath” by the German armed forces in 1934, Hitler wrote a public letter to Defense Minister Werner von Blomberg, saying, “Just as the officers and soldiers of the Wehrmacht bind themselves to the new state in my person, so shall I always regard it as my highest duty to defend the existence and inviolability of the Wehrmacht in fulfillment of the testament of the late field marshal and, faithful to my own will, to anchor the army in the nation as the sole bearer of arms.”[10]
Propaganda
Nazi propaganda films promoted the Führerprinzip as a basis for the organization of the civil society of Germany. In the 1933 film Flüchtlinge, the hero rescues refugee Volga Germans from Communist persecution by a leader who requires unquestioning obedience.[24]Der Herrscher altered the source material to depict the hero, Clausen, as the stalwart leader of his munitions company, who, when faced with the machinations of his children, decides to disown them and bestows the company to the state, confident that there will arise a factory worker who is a true leader of men capable of continuing Clausen’s work.[25] In the 1941 film Carl Peters the protagonist is a decisive man of action who fights and defeats the African natives to establish German colonies in Africa, but Peters is thwarted by a parliament who does not understand that German society needs the Führerprinzip.[26]
At school, adolescent boys were taught Nordic sagas as the literary illustration of the Führerprinzip possessed by the German heroes Frederick the Great and Otto von Bismarck.[27]
This was combined with the glorification of the one, central Führer, Adolf Hitler. During the Night of the Long Knives, it was claimed that his decisive action saved Germany,[28] though it meant (in Goebbels’s description) suffering “tragic loneliness” from being a Siegfried forced to shed blood to preserve Germany.[29] In one speech Robert Ley explicitly proclaimed “The Führer is always right.”[30] Booklets given out for the Winter Relief donations included The Führer Makes History,[31][32] a collection of Hitler photographs,[33] and The Führer’s Battle in the East[34] Films such as Der Marsch zum Führer and Triumph of the Will glorified him.
War crime defense
At trial in Israel in 1961, the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann said that the Führerprinzip excused his actions because he was obeying superior orders.
In the aftermath of the Second World War (1937–1945), at the Allied war-crime Nuremberg Trials (1945–1946) of captured Nazi leaders in Germany, and at the Eichmann Trial (1961) in Israel, the criminal defence arguments presented the Führerprinzip as a concept of jurisprudence that voided the military command responsibility of the accused war criminals, because they were military officers following superior orders.
In the book Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Hannah Arendt said that, aside from a personal desire to improve his career as an administrator, Eichmann did not manifest antisemitism or any psychological abnormality. That Eichmann personified the banality of evil given the commonplace personality Eichmann displayed at trial, which communicated neither feelings of guilt nor feelings of hatred whilst he denied personal responsibility for his war crimes. In his defense, Eichmann said he was “doing his job”, and that he always tried to act in accordance with the categorical imperative proposed in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant.[35]
Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything.
The claims in a Translation may seem outrageous, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week.
1) Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore truth is all that is. Truth being all is therefore total, therefore whole, therefore complete, therefore full, therefore sated, therefore fat and happy. I tbink therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, i cannot be other than Truth, therefore I, being, am Truth being. Since I, being, am Truth being, therefore I, being, have all the attributes of Truth: Therefore I, being, am total, whole, complete, full, sated, fat and happy. Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I, being, am Truth, therefore Truth is mind. (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)
2) Some parents would rather kill their children than see them grow.
Word-tracking: parent: to procure, to curate, to take care of, to manage child: dependent kill: end, make dead, make stop, cease grow: mature, ripen, read, reap, harvest corrupt: to break
3) Truth being all is therefore without limit, therefore infinite, therefore eternal. Since Truth is infinite and eternal, there is no beginning or ending to truth, therefore Truth is birthless, deathless. Since Truth is birthless, there are no children in truth, there are no dependents in truth. Since there are no children (no dependents) in truth, there are no parents in Truth. I think my father wanted to make me dependent on him so he could keep me under his control. But since there are no dependents in truth and since there are no parents in truth, therefore Truth takes care of Itself OR Truth controls Itself OR Truth is the only care-giver, Since Truth is the only care-giver, and since there are no dependents in truth, therefore Truth is an independent parent to Itself. Truth being whole, complete, full, sated, fat and happy, truth does not need to grow, ripen or mature. Therefore Truth is always ripe for the harvest. Since Truth is deathless, there is no killing in truth, therefore Truth is unceasing
4) Truth is birthless, deathless. There are no children in truth, there are no dependents in truth. There are no parents in Truth. Truth takes care of Itself. Truth controls Itself. Truth is the only care-giver, Truth is an independent parent to Itself Truth is always ripe for the harvest. Truth is unceasing
5) Truth cares for Itself unceasingly.
Weekly Invitational Translation Group invites your participation. If you would like to submit a Translation on any subject, feel free to send your weekly Translation to zonta1111@aol.com and we will anonymously post it on the Bathtub Bulletin on Friday.
ClassicSoulRadio • Feb 1, 2012 In 1983, at the NBA All-Star Game, Marvin Gaye stole the show with his singular rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” At the time, singing the anthem was for the most part a straightforward job — shoulders square, sing it straight like the hymn that it is. But for this game, Gaye took the anthem to a new level. Lon Rosen remembers it well — he was the director of promotions for the Los Angeles Lakers, the team hosting the All-Star game that year. He says Gaye’s one rehearsal was bumpy. By this point in his life, Gaye was battling a serious drug addiction. And on game day, the singer was running perilously late. But then the lights dimmed, and Gaye made history. One year later, Marvin Gaye was dead, shot by his own father.
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