Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Author: Baltasar Gracian
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im dyslexic so feel free to tell me when i have made a mistake.
fill free to read my journal id enjoy to read a comment or two.
Name: keven
likes: Art, history, reading. (Ya ya i know im a brain.)
dislikes: peppy up tight people
Bible thumpers A.K.A the ppl that come all dressed up in thair sunday best to your home at 6 in the morning ,on a saterday, trying to get you to 'goin the revivle' or stand singing cathlic chirtch songs at your door after you have told them to go away respectfuly
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its not like im trying to piss some one off by saying that an please dont take offince to it but still having some one you do not know show up and preach at you is not my idea of a nice wake up call. if wanted to be preached at i would go live with my parents.
movies:
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And...
Ann Rice movies.
steven kings good for an old movie.
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the addams family
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rocky horror picture show
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music: im not really picky about music as long as its not country or rap cuse that both piss me off. I dont like heiring about your tractor broke an wife is sleeping with the mail man or 'o i went out an shot this man cuse he sayed somthing i did not like an my B!#*(-) left so im going to cry to the world about it.(FYI: this is only what i thank if you do not agree its fine but dont bad mouth me.)
bands: Cradle of filth------korn------
Bondage Goat Zombie by Belphegor------
funny songs lol : http://www.playlist.com/playlist/additem/332799505
food: japanese styal
sexuality: Bi
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the black plague cominaly known as the black death or the
Bubonic plague.
1348
out of the East, the Black Death reached the shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a rampage of death across Europe unprecedented in recorded history. By the time the end of the epidemic three years later, anywhere between 25% and 50% of Europe's population had fallen victim to the pestilence.
The plague presented itself in three forms.
1)The bubonic variant (the most common) derives its name from the swellings or buboes that appeared on a victim's neck, armpits or groin. These tumors could range in size from that of an egg to that of an apple.
Although some survived the painful ordeal, the manifestation of these lesions usually signaled the victim had a life expectancy of up to a week. Infected fleas that attached themselves to rats and then to humans spread this bubonic type of the plague.
2) pneumonic plague - attacked the respiratory system and was spread by merely breathing the exhaled air of a victim. It was much more virulent than its bubonic cousin - life expectancy was measured in one or two days.
3)the septicemic version of the disease attacked the blood system.
Having no defense and no understanding of the cause of the pestilence, the men, women and children caught in its onslaught were bewildered, panicked, and finally devastated.
bodies of Bubonic Plague or Black Death victims were thrown on to the death cart. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries victims of the Bubonic plague (Black Death) would be sealed in their houses. The houses would be locked and bolted from the outside. The victims were not allowed to leave and neither was anyone else allowed to enter. This action was tantamount to signing a death warrant for the whole family and one of the terrible consequences of the disease. Any victim of the Bubonic Plague or Black Death would have to obtain a ' Certificate of Health ' to resume normal life - if they recovered...
The workers pushing the death carts are the death cart labourers and the watchman.
Watchmen were allocated to watch the ' plague houses ' and the only means of sustenance was for the victims to lower baskets from an upper window for the watchman to put food into it. Plague Pits were rapidly dug. These pits were approximately 20 feet deep - the width of the pit would continue to be extended as the outbreak of the Bubonic plague (Black Death) spread. A consequence of continued outbreaks was that even old Plague Pits were re-opened. The death cart labourers generally undertook their gruesome work at night and the bodies were hurried out of the house wrapped in any kind of improvised shroud.
Since China was one of the busiest of the world's trading nations, it was only a matter of time before the outbreak of plague in China spread to western Asia and Europe. In October of 1347, several Italian merchant ships returned from a trip to the Black Sea, one of the key links in trade with China. When the ships docked in Sicily, many of those on board were already dying of plague. Within days the disease spread to the city and the surrounding countryside. An eyewitness tells what happened:
"Realizing what a deadly disaster had come to them, the people quickly drove the Italians from their city. But the disease remained, and soon death was everywhere. Fathers abandoned their sick sons. Lawyers refused to come and make out wills for the dying. Friars and nuns were left to care for the sick, and monasteries and convents were soon deserted, as they were stricken, too. Bodies were left in empty houses, and there was no one to give them a Christian burial." (this relates to this picture.)
Symbols and their meaning
PENTACLE or PENTAGRAM (FIVE-POINTED STAR pointing up): A standard symbol for witches, freemasons, and many other pagan or occult groups. To witches, it represent the four basic elements (wind, water, earth and fire) plus a pantheistic spiritual being such as Gaia or Mother Earth. The pentagram is also "used for protection. to banish energy, or to bring it to you, depending on how it's drawn," wrote a Wiccan visitor.
PENTAGRAM (FIVE-POINTED STAR pointing down): Used in occult rituals to direct forces or energies. Often represents satanism, the horned god or various expressions of contemporary occultism, especially when a goat-head is superimposed on the inverted pentagram.
ANARCHY: Popular among school aged children today, this symbol for anarchy fits the message that pervades the most popular video games, role-playing games, movies and television. The lines of the "A" often extend outside the circle. To many satanists and other fast-growing occult groups it represents their slogan, "do what thou wilt." A former occultist explained that it represents the ASMODEAS: a demonic force driving teenagers toward sexual perversion and suicide.
ASTROLOGICAL CHART: used by medieval alchemists in divination. Notice the symbol of the intellect and of the planet (and Roman god) Mercury inside the center "triangle" (see above). This triangle is surrounded by a hexagram and two smaller triangles positioned as male and female energy - and seven more concentric "circles". Compound symbols within magical codes and names inside multiple circles have been used by occultists and sorcerers in many parts of the world. It is still used in African witchcraft.
WISHBONE: Civilizations dating back to the 4th Century (Etruscans, Romans... Britain, America) have held turkey or chicken wishbone contest. Pulling the dry turkey or chicken bone until it snapped ("lucky break"), they believing the winner's wish or dream would come true. In today's increasingly superstitious culture, many believe that this symbol will "catch" their dreams, bring good luck, and make their wishes come true. As in contemporary witchcraft or magic, the object becomes a channel of "good" energy. Astrology and horoscopes link it to Saggitarius. It might also be confused with the Lambda (looks like a lower case, upside-down "y"), the Greek letter adopted by the International Gay Rights Congress in 1974 as the global symbol of homosexual "pride".
Vlad Tepes or also known as Vlad the Impaler is a legendary story. The country where Dracula resided in derived its name from the geographic position beyond the Carpathian Mountains, which are full of dense forestation. Early travelers to the region described the country as "trans-silva" which literally means "over-forest" in Latin. The region's close proximity to the Black Sea means that it is very vulnerable to invasion from the Ottoman Turks' to the southeast and the Tatar's Golden Horde on the northeast. If the infidels gained control of the region, they could have free access to central Europe; making it a region of great political significance. Vlad Tepes was born in either November or December of the year 1431 in the fortress of Sighisoara, Romania. Vlad Dracul, father to Vlad Tepes, was the military governor of Transylvania. Appointed by the emperor Sigismund who had been initiated into the Order of the Dragon roughly a year before. The Order of the Dragon, a semi-military and religious society, was created by the Holy Roman Emperor and his second wife Barbara Cilli in 1387. These knights had one main goal and that was to protect the interests of Catholicism and to crusade against the Turks. This is important to Dracula's history because Vlad Dracul received the name "Dracul" means "Dragon or Devil" in the Romanian Language. "Dracula" means "son of the Dragon or the Devil." The Order of the Dragon also had official attire consisting of a black cape over a red garment which is said to be worn only on Fridays or during the commemoration of Christ's Passion.
Between 1436 and 1437 Dracul became the prince of Wallachia which was one of the three Romanion provinces. Dracul resided in the palace of Tirgoviste. Vlad Tepes lived for six years at this location until he and his younger brother Radu were taken hostages by Sultan Murad II. Dracula stayed here in Turkey until 1448 while Radu stayed until 1462. The Turks set Dracula free after Dracul, Vlad Dracul, was assassinated in 1447. The assassination was organized by Vladislav II. Mircea, Dracul's eldest son and older brother to Dracula had also been tortured to death by the boyars of Tirgoviste. Mircea was buried alive after being blinded by red-hot irons.It is said that it is during this time that Dracula started to feel little remorse for the loss of life by torture or any other means of death and studied the Turks art of torture. It was also written that it was much better for a prince to be feared than to be loved.
At the not so tender age of 17, Mustafa Hassan lent a small armey of Turkish cavalry and troops to Dracula which he then used to seize the throne of Wallachia. However, Vladislav II reclaimed the throne from Dracula two months after. Dracula, barely 25 at this time, finally claimed victory over his father's assassin and his mortal enemy in July of 1456. Dracula had his longest reign of terror at this time, 6 years, in which he molded his terrible and cruel reputation. He assumed the throne under the passing of an ominous comet which marked a bad future for his reign.
Dracula set his rage on the boyars who were responsible for his father and brothers' deaths. On Easter Sunday of what is said to be 1459, Dracula commanded a great feast where he impaled all of the older members of the boyar families and forced the survivors to march with no rest to Poenari which was 50 miles long. Those who survived this test were then forced to build a fortress later referred to as Castle Dracula.
Dracula used some of the most grotesque torture techniques known. He often had people skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed plus many others. He also liked to dismember people by cutting off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs. His favorite method of torture was impalement. "Tepes" actually means "The Impaler" in the Romanian language. He used any crime such as lying, stealing and killing as excuses to impale someone. To prove his methods would create a better society, Dracula placed a golden cup in his town square which would be used to quench the thirst of travelers but may never be stolen. The cup remained here always refilled but never stolen in all of Dracula's reign. Dracula considered the poor and sick as bad as thieves/killers. It is said that Dracula invited all of the people that fit this unfortunate category to a great feast. Shortly after the great feast was over, Dracula ordered the entire hall to be boarded up and set on fire immediately. No one survived.
In the early months of 1462 Vlad led a quite risky campaign against the Turks, led by Sultan Mehmed II whose forces out numbered Vlad's troops tremendously. Vlad managed by impossible odds to secure many victories by the winter of 1462. Outraged by this, the Sultan decided to send out all of his troops, an army approximately three times the size of Dracula's, to finally gain control of Walachia and claim it as a Turkish province. Vlad by this time had no alliances so he simply retreated to Tirgoviste. However this was not before he burned his own villages and poisoned the wells in hopes of starving his enemy and maybe even poisoning some with the wells' water. When Sultan Mehmed II finally reached Dracula's stronghold, he found that the 20,000 Turkish troops that Dracula had captured were now impaled on stakes, which was later given the name "The Forest of the Impaled." This horrific feat was the turning point of this battle. The Sultan and his army then proclaimed defeat and dropped the battle. This is when Dracula's own brother Radu took upon him a Turkish army which he then allied himself with Dracula's rivals and pursued Vlad Tepes to Poenari Castle along the Arges River.
In legend, this is when it is said that Dracula's wife committed suicide by throwing herself into the river. Vlad used a secret passage located in the fortress which deposited him into the mountain region in order to escape and exact his revenge at a later time.
Helped by some peasants, Vlad fled to Transylvania to meet the new king of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus. To Dracula's amazement and horrible shock, he was imprisoned by the new king. Dracula escaped sometime in 1475 and gained control of Walachia for a third and final time.
Supposedly in December of 1476, Dracula was assassinated and his head was cut off and sent to the Sultan of Constantinople. However due to various other accounts of the precise time of Dracula's death and the fact that his body was never found gave way to myths of his existence. I was told that he was buried at Snagov. During Dracula's reign, he is said to have impaled between 40,000 to 100,000 victims. He is also still revered as a hero in Romania today mainly for his resistance to the Turks.
The Codex Gigas
The Codex Gigas (English: Giant Book, ) is the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world. it is also known as the devils bible because of a large illustration of the devil on the inside and the legend surrounding its creation. said to of been created in the early 13th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia(modern Czech Republic).
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