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Omfalos 1/1000 of Ladonian constructions. It is 1,60 m high. |
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| CONCLUSIONS FROM THE TRIAL | ||||
| As most of our readers already know the decision of the city court was in favour of Ladonia. Nimis and Arx were acquitted. The Omfalos, the navel and center of the world, shall be removed. One can understand this as a part of Swedish nationalism. It is also strange that this verdict pointed out state secretary Lars Vilks as the responsible artist of this sculpture. He did not make it - it is an excellent work of Feidias Laidippes - but he confirmed the status of this piece as an artwork, a readymade. The gesture seemed to be enough for the judge and in doing that he has probably understood, though in a rather strange way, how contemporary art is made. Feidias is not very happy to loose the honour of being the one who made the physical work. We might have a break through of postmodern attitudes to art within the law. The readymade gesture is stronger than the physical. Art is the idea. Using this example an artist can easily gain access to a lot of impressive things. The artist can e.g. confirm the status of Royal Castle in Stockholm as an artwork, and snap-snap he is the owner of it. But there are many questions that remains. Has Omfalos already been moved? There is a piece quite like the old Omfalos but it seems as it is not the same. The decision of the court can be appealed. We will know more about it in the middle of October. |
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| Some quotes from the verdict (Mål nr Ä 3345-99) | ||||
| "The earlier works of construction indicates, with strength, that Vilks also have constructed Omfalos. Also the circumstance that Vilks has declared Omfalos as his work and that it suits into the idea of revolting and transgression of rules which basically is a part of Vilks art speaks for this. That the pillar suddenly would show up as Vilks has explained does not carry the character of the truth." This is the moment when the authority finds itself being a part of the creation. And judge Svensaeter has composed a piece of literature transgressing the divided world of reality and fiction. "The enforcement officer could without communication with the owners burn Nimis and blow up Arx. It is not possible to remove the constructions without destryoing them. To do this without giving the owners a possibility to express their opinions would be incorrect in a state governed by law and order." There is much of dramatic in this statement. We find the poet Svensaeter moving from forceful destruction to a state of harmony. |
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| A COMMENT BY THE MINISTER OF IDLENESS | ||||
| Especially appreciated was the Dear Secretory´s stance that "he wouldn't have one inkling who had made and erected the Omphalos..!". Ain't that masterly. Long live the Art of Ladonia! Sigwhig Lord Remember: Uselessness is always worth it! |
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| MINISTER SANDOR FROM HUNGARY | ||||
| Minister Sandor reports about the homepage for Ladonia in Hungary: "The Ladonia site will be changed a bit. It will be at the http://euroastra.com/ladonia and the http://www.clubnet.hu as well. We both think that the Ladonia-page in Hungary will be our mutual task in the future." More than 500 of the 4.500 citizens of Ladonia are living in Hungary! |
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| A POSTCARD FROM INGRID IN GERMANY | ||||
| Ingrid Hilgeroth visited Ladonia this summer and sent these pictures: | ||||
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| HARTMANBURG | ||||
| Marquis James Hartman has developed Hartmanburg in Ladonia. You can find his work with pictures and music on: http://www.homestead.com/FUTURESCIENCE/knighthood.html He has also declared the 29th of October to be the Hartmanburg Day. It is the first day of LAdonfest99, part of a 3 day event, like October Fest in Germany. |
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| MISS LADONIA 2000 |
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| Miss Ladonia - Miss Grigoria - is Ladonia Beauty Queen of the 1900. We are now opening a competition for Miss Ladonia 2000. Everyone is welcome to send us suggestions. We need a picture. Fine prices, much honour and a central place on our homepage are to be won. | ||||
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| LADONIA SOCCER TEAM | ||||
| We have a coach for the Ladonian soccer team: Shadi Abbas. He is now responsible for finding the necessary players. We ask good Ladonian soccer players to get in touch with the coach: sasse15@telia.com We have the intention of forming an international team with players from all parts of the world and local teams |
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| WORDS FROM A CITIZEN | ||||
| Daniel Currie Hall from Toronto has contributed some interesting sentences to Ladonia: "Amor vincit insomnia" --Christopher Frye I can translate music from one language to another. I can believe six impossible things before breakfast. I offer the following advice: Always look both ways before Schönfinkeling a three-place predicate. |
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| A ROSE HAS NO TEETH | ||||
| Roses have generally no teeth. But they have in Ladonia. Roses are very common in the country. The evidence of teeth in roses has been constructed by Wittgensten but is only accepted in Ladonia: "A new-born child has no teeth. - A goose has no teeth - A rose has no teeth - This last at any rate - one would like to say - isobviously true! It is even surer thant that a goose has none. - And yet it is none so clear. For where should a rose´s teeth have been? The goose has none in its jaw. And neither, of course, has it any in its wings; but no one means that when he says it has no teeth. - Why, suppose one were to say: the cow chews its food and then dungs the rose with it, so the rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast. This would not be absurd, because one has no nation in advance where to look for teeth in a rose." (Philosophical Investigations) The ultimate evidence is to be found in three objects all of them to be seen in the book of Arx (page 229). Two single teeth, strongly reminding us of a cow´s teeth and half a jaw of the same specimen. Wttgenstein is not talking nonsense! |
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| AT THE END OF THE DAY A word from our Minister of Health |
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| Some reflections from The House of Health, washed out into the allmighty sea several years ago and effective as never before. The court now wants us to remove Omphalos as well, so what? The two greatest obstacles to health and wholeness are Scolasticism and Sentimentality. Needing us for purposes of His Own, the Devil keeps us like cattle and punishes us with various hurts - in order that we might react, and thus stay confined in a reactional Lower Part of our Minds - as behind barbed wires. Dao we all know as Chinese Wisdom and in Swedish State Liquor Stores it's also known as a quite cheap brand of Portugese Red Wine, something everybody can afford. But the taste of Higher Realms is something quite beyond the most expensive and exquisite of any Grand Old Matured Wine. A most sympathetic and lovely young man forwarded our department of health 29 email pages of channelled "wisdom" from "the source of all" by a sage called Barry Martin - in whom he had placed all his youthful faith - about the near end of the world and a collective most happy surge of mankind to altogehter higher dimensions. I have seen too many trvelling sages who claim to trance-convey insights from higher dimensions (usually 4th or 5th) and appear like split off personality fragments of their own in disguises of various UFO captains and suchlike and I have come accross too many books about indispensable insights that say more about the enthousiasm of their authors than anything even near coherency. Mr Martin poses with handsome modesty, but he is not exactly very modest at all, through channelling "the source of all" makes him a concealed confident messenger of God! I have heaps of questions for Mr Barry Martin but I'll pick just a few - I wonder what exactly does he mean with us "spiralling out of time", a frequent triumphant phrase of his that goes without any definition whatsoever. Mr Martin's source can be no scientist nor philosopher. He quotes many by media and politicians created misunderstandings about climate changes in typically sweeping gestures, and he exchibits great fascination about distant stars like the Pleiades and the Pyramides - he is romantic but very common, just like you and me, nothing too special about his alledgely channelled knowledge. Also like most everybody, he loads his insights with heavy portions of guilt and disaster. And he is far too seriously specific about the oddest of details (which I have no desire to repeat). Mr Martin claims his conveyed channellings confirm old Mayan prophecies about the world's end around the year 2012. However - since the present moment for the ancients who made them isn't the same present moment we have, at this present moment - the ancient prophecies hardly could apply. It is as simple as that. They meant a lot to the ancients, but mean very little to us. Only if the Universe had been alltogether deterministic, the prophecies would have had a theoretical chance, and the Universe doesn't seem deterministic. Already in "dreambody work" (Jungian and Process Oriented Psychology) we can observe how this entirely unconditioned thing - will - beyond conditioning time and space and eternity even - that is 1,2,3,4,5 - 6 dimensions - how will tries to intervene with the course of "material events". Mr Barry Martin also indicates "must reads" to all beautiful young men and women with open hearts and naive brains and asks his readers on the 29th and final page to have "trust and faith" - another sign of things being not quite in order - neccessary inner growth comes from personal initiative and work on oneself. Relinquishing control and believing illusions are cardinal errors leading to confusion and maybe irreperable halts in spiritual development. I do not question that such an opus as Mr Barry Martin's can act as a dream signal in a definite personal situation, and then take on a whole lot of numinosity - and meaning even - that enigmatic mysterious experience - but on a general scale, I am afraid, Mr Martin's channelings are all too much like useless stuff from "the lower astral" (to use a spiritualist term), and at best what people instinctively ignore, but at worst, directly harmful for spiritual growth. With many trembling words of warning, you can come to the house of health, but you will find the house of health is not there, it's washed away long ago, the site is there, the house is not, you will find yourself at the site, only, all alone, and the sea, because yourself need to find the miraculous herb in the abyss, it is real, but nobody can find it for you, you must work to find it, like King Gilgha´mesh, and you cannot give it away to anybody else, no matter how loving you might be, you only can create conditions for others to begin quests of their own, like the violent and merciful sea when it washed our house of health away. E. von Bock, Minister of Health |
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Created : 1999-10-01