| Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. /Albert Einstein |
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The city court in Malmö decided that the enforcement officer can destroy Omfalos, the 1,60 m high pillar, marking the center of the world. Thus count Ehrensvärd, representing the landowner, has one a small but distinct victory. He can remove 1/1000 of the constructions existing in Ladonia.
This could look like the end of Omfalos. But it shouldn’t. The landowner believes that Omfalos is a real object, but is it? Of course it stands there with a certain mass and height, but its most important part is its poetic properties. The landowner’s brutal way of looking at the piece: ”It is made of concrete and stone and illegal” should not be the way to handle the center of the world. But we can ask if poetic force is enough for saving Omfalos. We will see within a few weeks. An object that in one way exists and in another hardly so, is difficult to extinguish.
Would it be possible to send an aircraft to hit Omfalos? It could be of interest though probably the aircraft would not go deeper than one inch into the pillar.
”I say absolutely no to this question. We don´t need violence from mediochre minds. We need new solutions and new thinkings in a new world for solving current problems.”
(One must say that countess Kicki is a good politician, ”new solutions and new thinkings” – will we ever hear about them?)
Betsy Thaggard, minister of Poke Salett:
”I take the September 11 attacks personally, as they pre-empted my birthday for 2001 and who knows how many years to follow. (The good news is that without birthdays, I don't have to age. Dark attempt at humor, I know, but that's the way we cope out here in Anthraxland.)
No planes, please. They might mistake Nimis for a Red Cross outpost or something.”
(Absolutely intelligent comments!)
President Fernando is short and direct:
”A big NO to the war.
Long live Ladonia!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!!!!!!!!”
Countess Madeleine, minister of Tennis and Figure Scating:
”No to US Aircraft in view of mistakes already made. A crash or accidentally dropped bombs is not what I wish for Ladonia. Let us fight terrorism by not provoking it through thoughts, words and deeds.”
Thomas Diestel, minister of accomodation means:
”that ladonia has to stay neutral. if u.s. airforce however, really need to try to land their planes on the steep hills of ladonia, on their way to fight terrorism in afganistan, i think it is ok!”
Count Torby, lord of roses, minister of history gives this view:
”No to US Aircrafts, but maybe yes to let president Bush sit on the beach of Ladonia, thinking a little bit about what he is up to... ”
Peter Lundgren, minister of constant revolution:
”As Minister of Constant Revolution I want to make it completely clear that my idea of Constant Revolution does not include any acts of terror more violent than farting in a police station (in Australia recently a man was fined by the police for this, but the fine was later withdrawed by a judge who said that there was no way of proving that the farting was done on
purpose or not). This raises the question if public farting should be allowed in Ladonia, or if it should be forbidden and maybe punishable by a fine.
When it comes to US aircrafts I think that the only aircrafts that should be given permission to land on Ladonian territory should be air baloons of any nationality, and maybe even only after each application for landing permit has been thoroughly discussed in the Cabinet.
Pro pace et fraternitate gentium!”
Our new minister of zen Tim Neale (Sheriff of Nothing) gives a reply to this:
”The Ministry of Zen is neither constructive or destructive because it is beyond logical oposites such as those. In practical terms the Ministry will promote personal well-being and enlightenment by any (and often contradictory) means which are not to the detriment of sentinent beings. A popular method will be self indulgence - the roads of excess lead to the
palaces of wisdom.
As for farting - farting is very zen-like in so far as it requires little/no effort or thought and is of the moment - often to the exclusion of everything else.
But farting in public should not be allowed in Ladonia because if it were illegal it would be much more fun. Coughing is legal/socially acceptable and how funny is that? Maybe we could have an age limit where it is only legal to fart after the age of say 50. This would create even more tension to fuel existing fart humour. What about a Ladonian National Fart Day? Or a place in Ladonia where farting is permissable for all - Fart Rock (which could also give rise to a new kind of music). It could also be a method of national defense - pacing the boundaries, occasionally breaking wind and saying a warning out loud - "I fart in your general direction".
This comment was followed up by minister Lundgren again:
”In response to the Sheriff (is he elected yet?) just let me explain that I consider "nothing" just to be an arbitrary distinction depending on the existence of "something". But............I´m not going in to a debate about Zen, because it will undoubtly lead to "nothing" and would be completely meaningless, which probably would give any zen-zealot zestful zatisfaction. What I think is needed is Revolution, and that can only be achieved by action. (But revolution can also be very zen-like, if you interpret the term as a motion that comes back to the same place after making a full round, hence really achieving nothing, except making a nice round-trip.)
With a lead-filled snowshoe
The Minister of Constant Revolution
(and the self-proclaimed Guardian of Something)”
(To conclude: If anyone wants to bomb in Ladonia it has to be announced in good time, the cabinet will discuss the matter. Thoroughly.)
The Walls (Waaalll) --- "By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed for seven days. --- God was determined to wipe out the idol worship and practices in Canaan. God began the conquest of Canaan with this miraculous victory at Jericho, where the walls came tumbling down!"
Here is 20 month old Joshua. Both parents knew nothing of the relationship to Ladonia at that time.
You can read more about the true story of Jericho at:
http://childrensermons.com/sermons/jericho.htm
| Little Joshua |
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A word from our Minister of Health
...like reflections from the esoteric srtudies of the Ministry of Health in Ladonia in this Autumn 2001...
...Nikolaj Berdjajev states in his 'Meaning of History', that theories and philosophies and attempts to correct the world or what you will are whatever they are, but history marks reality, that what actually was and happened...Leave that behind... We have heard the exclamations before, "Death to...", they used to resonnate from Bolsjevist ranks, now they issue from extatic fundamentalists, able to think in black or white, adhering to the only world religion the founder of which actually was a warrior. I just returned from a visit to my favourite university town Tartu, in Estonia, where I saw a newspaper article about Muslim terrorism and Bolsjevism - just as Bolsjevism had been the means of old archaic Russia to enter the modern era, it said, so would fundamentalism be the same for the archaic Muslim world, with immense suffering, mainly for their own people, like the ill reputed famines and prosecutions in Sovjet Russia, or life in Afghanistan, or the nightly massacres in Algerian villages... Suggestibility is a general "abnormal" trait in humanity, and especially when it issues from some "truth revealing intellectualism" or other. Mankind is fast asleep... as Christ said from the cross, "Lord, forgive them, they don't know...". Tartu is such a beautiful and magic place, and I am only now beginning to realise that just about a third of the real original magic is left after the war half a century ago - and still - the saved part has such beneficial atmosphere for art and theater and inspiration and learning and...
>From olden times in old Persia, from Zarathustra, we have inherited knowledge about the obligation to serve the Œgood forces&Mac226; in cosmos in their struggle against the Œevil forces&Mac226;. Please note the subtlety involved &Mac246; man is not created exclusively for the sake of his own personal enjoyment, but for a cosmic purpose, to serve the Œgood forces&Mac226;. This is advanced philosophy. Now, New Age people may be invited to communicate with spirits &Mac246; I have witnessed such sessions with my own senses &Mac246; and the spirits roam about in the world of spirits, the „astral world‰ or alam-i arwah in Arabic &Mac246; or in the 'unknown' of psychology. People of wisdom know how dangerous it is to indulge in negative emotions. Doing so we carry with us an air of unwanted God knows what. When one is desperate beyond control, or caught in a culture clash and identifies with the side taht's going to end up with the shorter end of the stick, one may become very negative, and attract all kinds of stuff from the world of spirits, which may invade one, possess one &Mac246; I have had scientific opportunities to study cases of near possession as well as complete possession &Mac246; they are scary and fascinating &Mac246; but, but &Mac246; if our role is to serve the good forces, and we attract the evil ones, become possessed by them &Mac246; would that explain a lot of what we have seen lately? Since people who live in two worlds only, the so called "conscious" one where we basically react to forthcoming impulses, according to pre-established patterns, and in dreams from the 'unknown' &Mac246; without yet developed Selves of their own from a third and subtler world still &Mac246; if unhappy, they might become incarnated allies to negative forces &Mac246; since a real Self, undivided and powerful, is a luxory - in the hearts of most people there dwells no soul at all, there dwells a horse, a horse ready to react instantly, at two different commands, right! or left!
To All Peoples in the World, of All Religions, Including the Ladonian Pole Star Celebration Vigil Brothers and Sisters, Greetings from the Heart of the Ministry and its soon already quite omniscient Director,
Doktor Emanuel von Bock