Spike wrote:<br>>Better times are coming. <br><b><font size="2"><br></font>"Give us a king to lead us,"</b><font size="2"><b> (1 Samuel 8:1-22)</b><br><br></font><b>Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what's
incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."<br><br></b><b>A world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise,
the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of
the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who
knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!<br><br></b><b>Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality... and fall.<br><br></b><b>Muad'Dib's teachings have become the playground of scholastics, of
the superstitious and the corrupt. He taught a balanced way of life, a
philosophy with which a human can meet problems arising from an
ever-changing universe. He said humankind is still evolving, in a
process which will never end. He said this evolution moves on changing
principles which are known only to eternity. How can corrupted
reasoning play with such an essence?<br><br>Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward
aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade
this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more
and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class —
whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial
empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.<br><br></b><b>You will learn the integrated communication methods as you complete the next step in your mental education.
This is a gestalten function which will overlay data paths in your
awareness, resolving complexities and masses of input from the mentat
index-catalogue techniques which you have already mastered. </b><b>Your
initial problem will be the breaking tensions arising from the
divergent assembly of minutiae/data on specialized subjects. Be warned.
Without mentat overlay integration, you can immersed in the Babel
Problem, which is the label we give to the omnipresent dangers of
achieving wrong combinations from accurate information.<br></b><b><br>Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no
risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion
real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward
degeneration from the original revelation?<br></b>
<b><br>Most civilization is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by
teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to
bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence
in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the
existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You
tame.<br><br>Spike, for the next time you go riding on your motorcycle... lol This is a Warhammer 40k tech-priest quote...<br><br>
When uttering the incantation, mark well that the rod is upon and not
within the intake. The second incantation should not be uttered until
all the fumes have come forth, then the way shall be clear for the
sacred words to penetrate unto the heart of the engine. If the mounting
be hot say the third rune, if it be cold the fourth rune is more
appropriate. For then the wrath of the engine will be aroused...</b><br><br>