[ROOTIES] Frost Giant Ghost: Harvested by farmers who are forced to destroy their own forests in the process. Frost Giant Ghost: By this definition, private property, especially corporate private property is itself infinitely more violent than any action taken against it. Mountain Giant Ghost: plants and the tongue, the deceased ones, ears of grain of gold. The deity points to birds and wild animals, justifying efforts to understand the sacred speech of animals perhaps expressed through omens. Most of our section escaped serious injury by remaining constantly in motion. Organisational resilience, protocols: clear, communicated, remembered, hold ourselves and each other and recognise slow process that includes forgiveness, communication between all groups, intentional growth, work hours, boundaries, clear examination of power dynamics, better use of theory and recognition of intangible qualities of culture, better emotional support, stability, better balance. Fire Giant Ghost: We buddied up, kept tight and watched each others backs. The weapons are praise, recitation and ritual. There are binding forces between these creatures which can scarcely be grasped. We consider that death is a friend that is everyday behind us. Frost Giant Ghost: You can't know all the laws by heart, you don't know what will happen if you refuse. But you have to try. The law can be bent, and the degree of flexibility is something you can only test in practice. The weak march sun is shining in through the window. This fertile crescent is approximately a semicircle, with the open side toward the south. Mountain Giant Ghost: The idea of an individual is a function of society. Fire Giant Ghost: People can change their minds quickly. For any medicine to work, people must take it. Fire Giant Ghost: sometimes the leverets, when caught by surprise, gather close together, one against the other with their heads in the centre forming a rose pattern, which so closely resembles a patch of pebbles that one is easily taken in by it Mountain Giant Ghost: Now we enter the world of collective speech. I ask everyone to prepare a self-addressed envelope and write a letter to themselves. Some ask if, instead of words, a picture is ok, and so they send themselves drawings. Fire Giant Ghost: Noisy propellers. 5 of them, I knew all of them, but it was at this time when I had just ran out of stuff, you know you think you have reserves but then actually everything was gone. And so I looked up at them and said 'i'm sorry everything is gone' and they looked at me as if to say 'what do you mean, everything is gone..it's US!' and I said ‘oh darlings I know it's you but I'm sorry everything is gone, I will have to make it up to you tomorrow.’ Anyway they didn't take that for an answer, they came down and lined up by my bag and I said to them ‘no really, everything is gone, I mean if you want I can dig around in my bag and maybe there's some bits at the bottom’ and so I dug around and showed them there was nothing to speak of really in there. My reserves really had run out. They watched me search my bag and then, one at a time, each of the squirrels did their own search and concluded that yes it was true. I shared out the tiny bits I had found at the bottom between the 5 of them. I mean honestly it was really nothing. And I told them not to worry and that I'd be back tomorrow to make it up to them. Mountain Giant Ghost: Sparisce tutto - the gorgeous furnishing of the world - and the soil is gradually washed into the rivers - I am not speaking figuratively or extravagantly. Earthquakes, eclipses and thunder. A creature which lived in the Kalahari desert with eyes on the top of its feet and thin pointed teeth as long as a human finger. Fire Giant Ghost: This north american bird had only one wing, with which it could fly around the top of a conical hill in one direction only. Mountain Giant Ghost: How to align oneself with good and to avoid evil was not the basic problem of human existence. Rather, one had to discover the proper balance between order and chaos. Fire Giant Ghost: One had to establish and maintain the order, continuity, and stability necessary for social and cultural survival while capturing just enough fertilising energy to ensure biological survival. Order had to be forcibly wrestled from chaos and then paid for periodically through ritual sacrifices. Contact with chaos could not be severed since it was the source of life. Gods, devils and human owls. Human beings are part of the world; the world was not something to be rejected or striven against. Primordial urban utopia. Hell, is within the earth, in the middle of the earth. They will spend two to three weeks floating freely in currents. It's basically luck and thinking-ahead from there. Mountain Giant Ghost: Hundreds of us line up with our backs against them, spread flat against the concrete and kick with the flats of our feet. Frost Giant Ghost: The desert is being used as a weapon. Fire Giant Ghost: Why did you whisper? [louder] Frost Giant Ghost: The desert is being used as a weapon. Mountain Giant Ghost: absolve, pardon ignite, burn take, accept, cling roll into place, sprinkle (with holy water) look at together carry away bring, carry bend weep, cry represent, enact look back answer return to silence wet, moisten, Frost Giant Ghost: prayers look answered Fire Giant Ghost: a toad used to sit on my foot, you know my leg would be out there in the path with the toad on it [gestures towards foot to demonstrate], and I said you know, just move a bit this way, he wouldn't move and so I just had to keep saying “sorry” to people who were walking around my foot. Frost Giant Ghost: We can have the perspective that there's a danger out there and I have to protect myself. Mountain Giant Ghost: So the perspective is how can I protect others?
Frost Giant Ghost: How forming pictures of the world can come from a necessity and one’s own questions. What questions do we come to ask? What fragile things are allowed to exist?
Fire Giant Ghost: Doing one thing but not forgetting about the other. Frost Giant Ghost: There’s no deception being practised here.
Fire Giant Ghost: Thirty strangers. The melting of this sense of separation does not come easily. Uncompromising patience with ourselves. How can I learn and think analytically if I now have to deal with all this emotion? Insects find their way to this liquid life, building their homes, eating and becoming food for others.
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