Ladonia Herald issue 51, May 2002

51st issue, May 2002

THE GROWTH OF LADONIA

The last month has been very busy in Ladonia because of all interest from all over the world. The number of citizens is now more than 5.900, a number that is increasing very fast; around 2.500 applies are not considered. The administration in Ladonia is doing what is possible but it will take some time and we ask applicants to be patient. Those applying for a nobility title have to wait even longer: they will first be registered as common citizens.

REPORT FROM THE MINISTER OF INTERNET

Following the latest developments, I find a brief report is in order. As your Internet Minister in charge of Ladonia's website, I am well aware of the great interest shown in Ladonia from time to time. During the days of reporting by the BBC, Reuter, CNN, and others, on state secretary, Ladonia and the Pakistani, the website sustained roughly 25,000 hits from all over the world. And this in only 5 to 6 days! These are brilliant results compared to our regular statistics of an estimated 100 to 200 hits per day.

Anders Löwdin,
Minister of Internet, Ladonia

PAKISTAN

The reason for the strong attention on Ladonia is due to all the applies from Pakistan. It is very difficult to inform (most) of these applicants that they cannot find job and housing in Ladonia. More than 3 000 pakistanis have applied and this occurrance was made into international news. Media all over the world spread the message. Thus Ladonia is greatful to the pakistanis. We are now informing on our website the limits of being a citizen. This has not stopped the traffic from Pakistan, but it has decreased, but not stopped, actually spread to some other countries (India, Nepal and Algeria).

The difficulties in communicating with some of the Pakistan citizens:

”why u offer citizenship what does it mean????????
lot of people misunderstand it what is the purpose of this application foarm ?????/

why u offer this citizenship y u offer this ?many people misunderstand it plzz.. tell me what is the purpose of this ??????????????/”

-And we are not able to give a clear answer. What is the purpose with a nation? Does nations exist? We know that a lot of areas in the world have been given names, declarations, governments, national pride etc. But the purpose? To show DIFFERENCE?

COAST GUARD BOAT

As you might remember the swedish authorities hit Ladonia on the 9th of December removing the rather small piece Omfalos. To better our defence, our most dear Keith P. Ryan has arranged that the coast is held clear with this vessel:

378-foot High Endurance Cutter (WHEC)

Number in service Coast Guard-wide: 1
Length: 378 feet
Beam: 43 feet
Displacement: 3,250 tons
Power Plant: Two diesel engines/two gas turbine engines

The 378-foot High Endurance Cutter class is the largest cutter ever built for the Coast Guard. It is powered by diesel engines and gas turbines, and has controllable-pitch propellers. Equipped with a helicopter flight deck, retractable hangar, and the facilities to support helicopter deployment, this cutter was introduced to the Coast Guard inventory in 1997. Highly versatile and capable of performing a variety of missions, this cutter can operate throughout the world's oceans.

THE CABINET OF LADONIA

Ministers come and go in Ladonia, here is the list of our active ministers:

LADONIA CABINET

President Fernando Rodrigues
Kicki Hankell (Sweden) Vice President, Minister of Guardian Angels

Anders Loewdin (Sweden) Minister of Internet

Dr Andras Palotas (Hungary) Minister of Intelligence

Betsy Thaggard (Texas) Minister of Poke Sallet

E. Bock (Sweden) Minister of Health

Brad Grissom Minister of Digression

Carlos (Spain) Minister of Fiesta

Elis Holm (Sweden) Minister of Fireworks

Fernando Gelbard (Argentina/USA) Minister of Surrealism

Fredrik Larsson (Sweden) Minister of Art

Horatius (Sweden) Minister of Sophistry

James Hartman (USA) Minister of Future Science

Lars Vilks (Sweden) State secr

Countess Madeleine (USA) Minister of Tennis and Figure Skating

Lord Peter Kimay (Sweden) Minister of Subaquatic Territories

Peter Lundgren (Sweden) Minister of Revolution

Placito Miceli Minister of Assurance

Thomas Diestel (Sweden) Minister of Accomodation and Tourism

Tiit (Sweden) Minister of Brain

Tim Neale (England) Minister of Zen

Count Torby (Sweden) Minister of History

Vera Porad Falk (Sweden) State Graphic, Minister of Extraordinary Affairs

PROJECT IN MAY

Hannes Schwed from Austria will perform a project in Ladonia in the beginning of May. The picture is showing his plan. It is about architecture in Ladonia.

HARTMAN’S CROSS

Our minister of future James Hartman has produced his special cross. Marquis Hartman control a part of Ladonia: Hartmanburg.

MINISTER CARLOS AND TOM HANKS

Minister of Fiesta, Carlos from Madrid, conquered Colosseum a short time ago and made it into a ladonian colony. Several Italians have written to Ladonia being very upset about the intrusion. The only difference is that it was former called Italian, now Ladonian. Carlos has found support from Tom Hanks for Ladonia.

PROPOSAL FOR NAMES IN LADONIA

The Metaphant: a large rauk nearby the sea (you find it as you look along any shore in Ladonia) in all angles looking like as a two-snouted elephant with a third eye in the forehead. It is said that the god Atomas had a quarrel with his wife Two-Tung while making an offspring. The result became a two-snouted elephant with… Well! The child, a living symbol of divided wholesomeness, went out in the world and so came to the shores, the place on the border, of Ladonia. As he stood there it became evening and he had two thoughts: to go home and to stay. And so he did. That´s why he still stands there, still on his way exploring countryside, still on his way home.

Patrik Hallberg

AT THE END OF THE DAY
A word from our Minister of Health

I felt I had to immerse myself in Nature. I climbed down to Ladonia. Some people had attempted to destroy a stone wall from the early half of the 80-ties. I was happy to throw and carry the stones and rocks back, and get some exercise. There was the sound of bouncing rocks and soon the Sun emerged behind veils in the until this late afternoon hour overcast sky. Also people begun to gather with Friday evening romantic pick-nick baskets. The tall driftwood and other kind of wood towers of Nimis, about 30 feet high or more, were overlooking it all, and further in the background, Arx, built of stone and concrete, looked like a number of strange dinosaurs on the shoreline at the shoulder of the steep mountain slope, brownish purple in its spring guise, the rocks grey or creamy pink, with some dark overgrowth of algae close to the water, as well as greenish coverings and a quite white layer in places, of possibly crystallised salt , probably from the winter storms. This was the first time I saw the creative process as a constant organising power, with or without the knowledge or consent of its vehicle, the person inspired with this in mind I climbed the mountain, away from Ladonia where the Universe is constantly reborn, sweaty and panting with aching calves, through naked shrubbery and over brownish golden leaves, to the highest nearby Swedish summit Håkull, attending to my belly abatement program, necessary in my age and in my shoes, where food is far too easy a compensation for lack of interesting company when our department people are busy working.

The only thing we all have in common, with everybody living today, and with everybody who ever lived here on this earth, is The Unfathomable that which we cannot see and cannot imagine. Out of that enigma, that grants our existence, we all come, as well as all of creation supported by very intricate organisations and self-organising systems, fields, morphogenetic or what you could think of all this fabulous nature around is a constantly growing ray of creation. We follow it consciously or unconsciously, as helpers or as building material not only mountains and oceans have been constructed, naked silhouettes of tree trunks and branches in spring, darkening indigo skies and stars behind those intricate intertwined, woven twisted lines and shadows, but also our emotions, our tears, our joys are part of it, finer materials for uses we maybe never can even attempt to dream of. This is all going on in front of our eyes, and we understand nothing.

Our thinking is seriously flawed. We think in exclusive categories. All our theories and teachings are built on that. We are trinity-blind. We only see two alternatives at a time either or, real numbers or imaginary numbers, etc. We debate whether we have no individual mind, or whether I am justified to refute that statement. Truth of the matter is that both alternatives will be wrong only on such a high level of being, ascribed to saints, where quantity is no longer a limiting conditioning, where it is not this OR that, but instead this AND that, and where both alternatives are equally valid (!) one may have one's own mind, or give it up, both are possible. Below this level, the debate never ends, and one has to choose a position, which will encounter incessant irritating proofs of its limitations. We overlook will! It enters everything. So we can never have one without the other, but to have one, and not the other, a third something must enter that which we cannot see the arbitrator free will, the Reconciling principle in Trinity, alongside Affirming and Denying. If we only could grasp this, we suddenly would realise the presence of a wonderful depth dimension in the world.

What maybe is the most difficult thing to understand is that there really isn't any barrier ahead to learn to negotiate there is the void where we must carry the ray of creation further ourselves, with our own individualities, our own once in the future awakened creative minds or spirits and there are souls that have walked before us. In a way we cannot understand, the world is very intimately based on this sometimes called the Anthropic Principle when only visible or historic people are considered. The world will grow with us if our strength and development permit, if not on this free level, then maybe through us sometimes people seem very creative, but when they start to theorise about their activities, they simply go boring and blind they are inspired, but don't really know what they are doing. I know at least one such person the architect of Ladonia.

TODAY'S PLANNED WALK & CLIMB (13 April 2002):
THE RAY OF CREATION IS THE SAME AS JUNG'S COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS.
Yes.

WALK 16 April 2002 rather late, near 7 p.m. quite a resistance to set out, but, I parked at the western side of the mountain, walked up to Himmelstorp, then up to Håkull in cold, drizzly rain, thereafter steep down east of Sadelberg there, reversing my path the last 5 days, suddenly the clear vision; on a nasty cold rainy and north-east windy evening, on the steepest slope down towards the unruly and already dusky sea below, visible between naked trees:

Thought is not really „thought‰ at all. It is SIMPLY THE SEAT OF CREATIVITY, usually unoccupied, or claimed by something else "out there" Here ideas in flash are possible. Everything here is flash and with no effort if at all. It is not whats usually meant by „thinking‰ and what's been called, mockingly, "wiseacring", chewing and rechewing old known facts, like an incessant idling of the engine of a motor car.

And then the simplest kind of creativity is Science imitating the functional aspect of what is already, so to speak, created by God! This would correspond to moving brain activity, the master imitator and then art emotional brain and religion in our better moments the same sexuality the same but thinking, creativity, will, at disposal, or touched, at least. That must be much more powerful like the magic of all the stars in the sky behind the wet grey thick clouds tonight&Mac183;

Thereafter accross slippery rocks to Nimis, up and back. Home by 9 p.m.

To the peoples of all the world,
the Ministry wishes a beautiful late April.

(P.S. I am afraid, our latest revelations about thinking renders the "logomere search" a our Brain Ministry obsolete - the logomere is only a dream and cannot exist as a general principle.)

Emanuel von Bock, Minister of Health in Ladonia

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