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I just minted Bridge to Base, celebrating the start of @BuildOnBase bringing billions of people onchain. It’s Onchain Summer. https://onchainsummer.xyz
When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart. For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost. When I'm feeling most ghost-like, it is your remembering me that helps remind me that I actually exist. When I'm feeling sad, it's my consolation. When I'm feeling happy, it's part of why I feel that way. If you forget me, one of the ways I remember who I am will be gone. If you forget, part of who I am will be gone. ~Frederick Buechner (Book: Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary
Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they have found theirs. Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else! When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfill our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach. Many of us would have been, or at least might have been, done, tried something, if... If we had known who we really were. ~Julia Cameron (Book: The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart https://amzn.to/3o32Ysw)
There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked. “Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.” So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all. Author Unknown
"It gladdens me to know that Odin prepares for a feast. Soon I shall be drinking ale from curved horns. This hero that comes into Valhalla does not lament his death. I shall not enter Odin’s hall with fear. There I shall wait for my sons to join me. And when they do, I will bask in their tales of triumph. The aesir will welcome me. My death comes without apology. And I welcome the Valkyries to summon me home.” — Ragnar LothBrok Ragnar Lothbrok was a fearless Viking hero who ransacked England and France and fathered the Great Heathen Army. There were known as the Norsemen.
IGALA SETTLERS IN EDO STATE Igala settlers are found in Illushi, Ifeku, Iyenlen, Ekperi, Ubiaja, Igboha, Anegbete and Agenebode. It might interest you to know that Agenebode and Anegbete are just by the river side opposite Idah, the ancestral homes of all Igalas. So, Igala fishermen and fishwives (women buying/selling fish) had been camping across the river Niger in these areas temporarily until some made there a permanent home. According to history, Igala settlers in Illushi crossed river Niger directly from Idah and settled in IlIushi/Iloshi. Igala settlers in Ifeku migrated from Iyaño, Ibaji LGA of Kogi state. They were sent to fetch some ropes for building the house of the king but did not go back home (Ifiku or Ifikwu means to fetch ropes. Ikwu or iku is rope). Ekpeli/Ekperi Igalas migrated from Ifeku Igalas. Ikpoha Igalas migrated from Ifeku Igalas. Iyenle, Anegbete and Agenebode Igalas were said to have migrated from Idah to these areas, some in groups while joined later by some persons for their fishing and farming ocupations. Ubiaja Igalas were from Ukwaja in Idah LGA of Kogi state, as confirmed by them during their recent visit to Attah Igala in his palace. In almost all these places, Igala language is still used for communication among the Igala settlers. Igala tribal names are used by some too. Pls note that other tribes are also in these areas with the igala settlers. Up till today, Iyano people still hold "family" meetings with people of Ifeku, Ekpeli and Ikpoha, they all share the same culture, greetings, festivals, etc.
MUMMIES FOR SALE Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, 1865 । During the Victorian era of the 1900s, Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt threw open the Gates of Egypt’s history for the Europeans. At that time, mummies were not accorded the respect that they deserved from the European elites and in fact, mummies could be purchased from street vendors (as shown in the picture) to be used as the main event for parties and social gatherings that took place in the 18th century. The elites of the era would often hold “Mummy Unwrapping Parties”, which, as the name suggests, had the main theme in which a Mummy would be unwrapped in front of a boisterous audience, cheering and applauding at the same time. During that period of time, the well-preserved remains of ancient Egyptians were routinely ground into a powder and consumed as a medicinal remedy. Indeed, so popular was pulverized mummy that it even instigated a counterfeit trade to meet demand, in which the flesh of beggars was passed off as that of ancient mummified Egyptians. As the Industrial Revolution progressed, so Egyptian mummies were exploited for more utilitarian purposes: huge numbers of human and animal mummies were ground up and shipped to Britain and Germany for use as fertilizer. Others were used to create mummy brown pigment or were stripped of their wrappings, which were subsequently exported to the US for use in the paper-making industry. The author Mark Twain even reported that mummies were burnt in Egypt as locomotive fuel. As the nineteenth century advanced, mummies became prized objects of display, and scores of them were purchased by wealthy European and American private collectors as tourist souvenirs. For those who could not afford a whole mummy, disarticulated remains – such as a head, hand, or foot – could be purchased on the black market and smuggled back home. So brisk was the trade-in mummies to Europe that even after ransacking tombs and catacombs there just were not enough ancient Egyptian bodies to meet the demand. And so fake mummies were fabricated from the corpses of the executed criminals, the aged, the poor, and those who had died from hideous diseases, by burying them in the sand or stuffing them with bitumen and exposing them to the sun. Mummy brown was originally made in the 16th and 17th centuries from the white pitch, myrrh, and the ground-up remains of Egyptian mummies, both human and feline. As it had good transparency, it could be used for glazes, shadows, flesh tones, and shading. Artists believed that when bitumen and mummified flesh were used in oil paint it wouldn’t crack or dry. Mummy Brown eventually ceased being produced in its traditional form later in the 20th century when the supply of available mummies was exhausted. Mummia or mummy is either a substance used in the embalming of mummies or a powder made from ground mummies, used as a “medical preparation”. Ancient Egyptian mummy-making often utilized asphaltum (Persian: mumiya) as an ingredient for filling the empty body cavities once the organs were removed. In the Middle Ages, the resin that had been used on ancient Egyptian mummies was believed to have superior medicinal and chemical value to regular asphaltum, and the resulting demand for the ingredient caused the term to be applied to the dead bodies required to harvest it as much as to the ingredient itself. Jewel Fitila
The Omu of Okpanam, whose name was not recorded, photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1912. Okpanam is an Enuani Igbo town near Ahaba (Asaba) in Delta State, Nigeria today. The Omu [awe-mu] are titled women who control markets and are spiritual protectors to the Obi, the king, in Igbo communities west of the Niger River, typically among the Enuani, and in the past in Onicha (Onitsha) and Osomari on the east bank of the Niger River. There is one Omu in each community with the institution. The Omu work closely with diviners performing rites for the community and are the authorities over the opening of markets and resolving disputes within the market. The Omu depending on the community and period take titles typically reserved for men and also dress like men, as a consequence women who are post-menopausal are preferred for the role because such women in Igbo society could achieve the same status as men. As is custom in most communities, the Omu was not allowed to be married to a man, Omu were known to marry wives to assist them and have children for them. Colonialism greatly reduced the power of the Omu in the market and over society in general due to gender bias in the indirect rule system, colonialism was also partly the cause of the disappearance of the institution in some Igbo communities. Today there are many Omu who are still active in their roles...
ÒGBÓRÍ ELÉMÒSÓ: A HISTORY OF A YORUBA TOWN Ògúnlolá was the name of the brave hunter and an expert archer, he was said to be of Ibariba descent. In the mid-17th century, he migrated with his wife, Èsùu to the present site known today as Ọ̀gbómòsó, he first settled under a tree called Ajagbon (still standing near the king’s palace). Later on, Ògúnlolá discovered that there were people who have settled in that area before him, he then went to introduce himself and fortunately, they were also hunters just like him, they were; Aale, Onisile, Orisatolu, offense, and Akande. Though, Ògúnlolá established his dominance over his fellow hunters, the brave men agreed to form a society called Alongo in other to protect the settlement from wild animals and slave raiders. It was on this initiative that Ògúnlolá killed an Ijesa itinerant trader, thinking he was a slave raider. Ògúnlolá was jailed because of this capital offence. While he was awaiting his trial, a troubling report of a dreadful attack on Oyo-Ile spread through the palace, and among the prisoners, it was said that a certain warrior called “ELÉMÒSÓ” is wreaking havoc and causing great tension. Being a fearless warrior himself, Ògúnlolá offered his services to the Alaafin, he promised that he would bring elémòsó’s head if granted freedom. Upon his release, Ògúnlolá crept into the opposition camp and shot elémòsó with an arrow before beheading him. He brought the head to the Alaafin and the whole kingdom rejoiced. The Alaafin persuaded him to stay in Oyo-Ile but he insisted, he said to the Alaafin “e jé kín lo má ṣe òhún”, “let mẹ go and stay far away”. This was how the title “Soun Ọgbomoso” was coined. Ògúnlolá returned to his settlement a nobleman, having been decorated and greatly rewarded by the Alaafin for his bravery. Later, travelers started referring to the settlement as “ìdóo eni tí ó gbórí elémòsó” meaning the settlement of him who beheaded Elemoso, and this was how the present-day Ogbomoso derived its name. The story was adapted into a movie by Chief Lérè Paimo who played the role of Ògúnlolá.
Nigerian Explorer Discovers Lake in Leicester, UK and Challenges Colonial Narratives In a bold move to challenge colonial narratives that have long claimed the discovery of African landmarks, a Nigerian man living in the United Kingdom has discovered a new lake in Leicester, East Midlands, and named it Iyi Ojemba. Mazi Uba Acho, a native of Igbo Naton in West Africa, posted on Facebook about his discovery, highlighting the absurdity of the colonialist mindset that sought to claim discovery of places already known to local communities. He cited examples of Mungo Park's claim to discovering the River Niger in Nigeria and David Livingstone's claim to discovering the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls in Zambia and Zimbabwe. By discovering and naming the new lake in Leicester, Mazi Uba Acho is taking a stand against the erasure of African knowledge and history. He urges others to put it on record, teach it to their children, and take pride in their heritage. This act of reverse colonialism serves as a powerful reminder that knowledge and discovery are not exclusive to any one race or culture, and that we must celebrate and value the contributions of all communities. It is a call to action for Africans to take pride in their history, knowledge, and heritage, and to challenge the narratives that seek to erase them. #unitedstatesofafrica
According to Bamileke tradition the Succession and inheritance rules are determined by the principle of patrilineal descent. According to custom, the eldest son is the probable heir, but a father may choose any one of his sons to succeed him. An heir takes his dead father’s name and inherits any titles held by the latter, including the right to membership in any societies to which he belonged. And, until the mid-1960s, when the law governing polygamy was changed, the heir also inherited his father’s wives a considerable economic responsibility. The rights in land held by the deceased were conferred upon the heir was not obliged to share this with other family members. The ramifications of this are significant. First, dispossessed family members were not automatically entitled to live off the wealth of the heir. Siblings who did not share in the inheritance were, therefore, strongly encouraged to make it on their own through individual initiative and by assuming responsibility for earning their livelihood. Second, this practice of individual responsibility in contrast to a system of strong family obligations prevented a drain on individual financial resources. Rather than spread all of the inheritance maintaining unproductive family members, the heir could, in the contemporary period, utilize his resources in more financially productive ways such for savings and investment. Finally, the system of inheritance, along with the large scale migration resulting from population density and land pressure, is one of the internal incentives that accounts for Bamileke success in the nontraditional world. • • • Notable of the Fo de Bamendjou, West province, Cameroon. Photo: Alfred Weidinger/Flickr
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ANCIENT YORUBA PEOPLE CIVILIZATION __ One of the great achievements of the Yoruba was their urban culture. “By the year A.D. 1300,” says a modern scholar, “the Yoruba people built numerous walled cities surrounded by farms”. The cities were Owu, Oyo, Ijebu, Ijesa, Ketu, Popo, Egba, Sabe, Dassa, Egbado, Igbomina, the sixteen Ekiti principalities, Owo and Ondo. Yoruba metal art of the mediaeval period was of world class. One scholar wrote that Yoruba art “would stand comparison with anything which Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece and Rome, or Renaissance Europe had to offer, created with techniques which are loss today.” In the mid-nineteenth century, William Clarke, an English visitor to Nigeria, remarked that: “As good an article of cloth can be woven by the Yoruba weavers as by any people . . . in durability, their cloths far excel the prints and home-spuns of Manchester.” The recently discovered 9th century Nigerian city of Eredo was found to be surrounded by a wall that was 100 miles long and seventy feet high in places. The internal area was a staggering 400 square miles #genericultra
THEY ARRIVED. They had the Bible and we had the land. And they said to us: Close your eyes and pray." And when we opened our eyes they had the land and we had the Bible. 1. - THEY SAID THOU SHALL NOT KILL... But they murdered over 8 million of our brothers. 2. - THEY SAID YOU SHALL NOT STEAL... But they stole our riches, gold and silver. 3. -THEY SAID THOU SHALL NOT LUST THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE. But they raped married women, teenagers and girls. 4. - THEY SAID YOU SHOULDN'T LIE... But they cheated with the cross in their hand.... Strange fruit hanging from the tree
"The year that Okonkwo took eight hundred seed yams from Nwakibie was the worst year in living memory. Nothing happened at its proper time; it was either too early or too late. It seemed as if the world had gone mad. The first rains were late and when they came, lasted only a brief moment... The drought continued for eight market weeks and the yams were killed... The year had gone mad. When the rains finally returned, they fell as it had never fallen before. Trees were uprooted and deep gorges appeared everywhere. That year, the harvest was sad, like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable and rotting yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. Okonkwo remembered that tragic year with a cold shiver throughout the rest of his life. It always surprised him when he thought about it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. He knew he was a fierce fighter, but that year had been enough to break the heart of a lion. "Since I survived that year," he always said, "I shall survive anything."" - Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"Crowfoot stood and watched as the white man spread many one dollar bills on the ground. “This is what the white man trades with; this is his buffalo robe. Just as you trade skins, we trade with these pieces of paper.” When the white chief had laid all his money on the ground and shown how much he would give if the Indians would sign a treaty, Crowfoot took a handful of clay, made a ball out of it and put it on the fire. It did not crack. Then he said to the white man, Now put your money on the fire and see if it will last as long as the clay. The white man said, No….my money will burn because it is made of paper. With an amused gleam in his eyes the old chief said, Oh, your money is not as good as our land, is it? The wind will blow it away; the fire will burn it; water will rot it. But nothing will destroy our land. You don’t make a very good trade. Then with a smile, Crowfoot picked up a handful of sand from the river bank, handed it to the white man and said, You count the grains of sand in that while I count the money you give for the land. The white man said, I would not live long enough to count this, but you can count the money in a few minutes. Very well, said the wise Crowfoot, our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not perish as long as the sun shines and the water flows, and through all the years it will give life to men and animals, and therefore we cannot sell the land. It was put there by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not really belong to us. You can count your money and burn it with a nod of a buffalo’s head, but only the Great Spirit can count the grains of sand and the blades of grass on these plains. As a present we will give you anything you can take with you, but we cannot give you the land.” Chief Crowfoot : Blackfoot Confederacy
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Keanu Reeves was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister has leukemia. And with everything that has happened, Keanu Reeves never misses an opportunity to help people in need. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants; One cried because he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 and on the same day Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the woman's bank account; He also donated stratospheric sums to hospitals. In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him. After winning astronomical sums for the Matrix trilogy, the actor donated more than $50 million to the staff who handled the costumes and special effects - the true heroes of the trilogy, as he called them. He also gave a Harley-Davidson to each of the stunt doubles. A total expense of several million dollars. And for many successful films, he has even given up 90% of his salary to allow the production to hire other stars. In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours. Most stars when they make a charitable gesture they declare it to all the media. He has never claimed to be doing charity, he simply does it as a matter of moral principles and not to look better in the eyes of others. This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: To be a good person. Keanu Reeves’ father is of Native Hawaiian descent.
Trading Lessons From The Art Of War: Here are ten principles I believe we can translate to trading the markets. “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War The markets can defeat us when it appears strong when it is extremely overbought and due for a reversal or it appears weak but is extremely oversold and due for a bounce. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War A trader must know both their own weaknesses and strength and their trading system’s positive expectancy thoroughly. If you are self aware and know how your system works you don’t need to stress over the results of your next 100 trades. “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War A trader should not be trying to beat the market they should be going with the flow of price action. “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War Don’t talk about your positions and don’t try to make predictions and have strong opinions, just trade your strategy with focus and discipline and make money quietly. “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War Don’t fight trends that are taking place only enter at the moment of a new break out of a range. “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War Extreme market moves and volatility can create some of the best trading opportunities. “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War Profitable traders first win by backtesing, doing historical chart studies, and creating a trading system with a positive expectancy model, then they start trading real money. Unprofitable traders just start buying and selling based on random opinions and hope to make money. “Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War Find repeatable patterns in the price action of the markets that you can use to create profitable trading signals for. “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu A larger watchlist of stocks and markets provides more opportunities for profitable trades across additional charts if they backtest well. “Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: 1. He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. 2. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. 3. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. 4. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. 5. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War There are five essentials for profitable trading: 1. There is a time to trade and time not to trade, you must know the difference to make money. 2. A trader must know how to trade in different types of markets, uptrends, downtrends, sideways, and volatile. 3. A trader must not let their emotions be moved to lose discipline by euphoria after wins or depression after losses. 4. A trader’s primary job is to have the patience to wait for their signals and not chase price action. 5. That trader who can follow their profitable system without being led astray by their ego or emotions will find success.
Ashanti Gold Dust Container (Kuduo) Ashanti (Asante) People, Ghana 19th century. Vessels such as this example of cast brass known as kuduo were used by wealthier Ashanti (Asante) people of Ghana to store valuables such as ritual objects and gold dust. Others might have been buried with people of status. Some might have been used to hold a mixture of shea butter (derived from a natural oil extracted from the but of the shea tree) and gold dust used to adorn the corpses of high-status chiefs.
The Flying Dutchman.. The Flying Dutchman was an infamous supernatural ghost ship. Originally, the Dutchman held the sacred task of collecting all the poor souls who died at sea and ferrying them to the afterlife. During the Golden Age of Piracy, the Dutchman would become a ship feared by many across the seven seas. According to legends and lore, the Flying Dutchman was given to Davy Jones by his love, the sea goddess Calypso, who gave Jones the duty of ferrying the souls who died at sea into the next world. After ten years, Jones would be free to come ashore to be with Calypso. But whenever Davy Jones came ashore, Calypso was nowhere to be found. This ultimately resulted in Jones carving out his own heart, and locking it in the Dead Man's Chest. Jones abandoned his duty, instead wreaking havoc on the seas and unleashing the Kraken upon many vessels. He also preyed on wayward sailors lost at sea who wished to avoid death and final judgment, press-ganging them into his crew, eventually becoming part of the Dutchman itself. Many years later, the crew of the Black Pearl would run afoul of the Flying Dutchman due to Jack Sparrow's debt with its captain. Sparrow tried to escape service aboard the Dutchman by possessing Jones' heart. The heart later found its way into the possession of Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, who would use the Flying Dutchman and its crew to lead his armada in the War Against Piracy. This eventually forced a confrontation with the Brethren Court off the coast of Shipwreck Island. The Flying Dutchman became locked in a titanic battle with the Black Pearl. In the midst of the chaos, Will Turner stabbed the heart of Davy Jones, thereby killing Jones and replacing him as the new captain of the Dutchman. With the death of Davy Jones, both the Flying Dutchman and its crew returned to their former forms. They aided the pirates in destroying the HMS Endeavour, defeating Beckett. After the battle, Turner took on fulfilling the duty for which the Dutchman was originally designed for. Approximately two decades later, the curse aboard the ship was broken, thus leaving the current status of the ship, its crew, and its purpose unknown. https://pirates.fandom.com/wiki/Flying_Dutchman
In ancient Greece, women were forbidden to study medicine for several years until someone broke the law. Born in 300 BCE, Agnodice cut her hair and entered Alexandria medical school dressed as a man. While walking the streets of Athens after completing her medical education, she heard the cries of a woman in labour. However, the woman did not want Agnodice to touch her although she was in severe pain, because she thought Agnodice was a man. Agnodice proved that she was a woman by removing her clothes without anyone seeing and helped the woman deliver her baby. The story would soon spread among the women and all the women who were sick began to go to Agnodice. The male doctors grew envious and accused Agnodice, whom they thought was male, of seducing female patients. At her trial, Agnodice, stood before the court and proved that she was a woman but this time, she was sentenced to death for studying medicine and practicing medicine as a woman. Women revolted at the sentence, especially the wives of the judges who had given the death penalty. Some said that if Agnodice was killed, they would go to their deaths with her. Unable to withstand the pressures of their wives and other women, the judges lifted Agnodice's sentence, and from then on, women were allowed to practice medicine, provided they only looked after women. Thus, Agnodice made her mark in history as the first Greek female doctor, physician and gynecologist. This plaque depicting Agnodice at work was excavated at Ostia, Italy. Source: Science Explorist
Thoughts are only thoughts. They are not you. You do belong to yourself, even when your thoughts don't. But your thoughts 'are' you. I think therefore I am, right? No, not really. A fuller formation of Descartes's philosophy would be "Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum." "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am." Descartes wanted to know if you could really know that anything was real, but he believed his ability to doubt reality proved that, while 'it' might not be real, he was. - Turtles All The Way Down, Novel by John Green. Because consciousness has its developmental basis in a matrix, it has the nature of being derived, of being something secondary, "the son of the mother," the sum of the contents of the unconscious that have been made conscious. Its subject is the ego, which is always smaller than the whole. This, however, is the driving force behind the becoming conscious of these contents. [The world exists only insofar as consciousness is present]. If the sense of the dynamic brought forth by the ego is lost, the ego takes itself to be the sole creator and ultimate commander. - Alfred Ribi, The Search for Roots: C.G. Jung and the Tradition of Gnosis (The Septem Sermones ad Mortuos). It is a sort of conscious understanding, but it is not individuation. Individuation is the accomplishment through life. For instance, say a cell begins to divide itself and to differentiate and develop into a certain plant or a certain animal; that is the process of individuation. It is that one becomes what one is, that one accomplishes one's destiny, all the determinations that are given in the form of the germ; it is the unfolding of the germ. - C.G. Jung, Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934 by C.G. Jung (Princeton University Press 1997), Vol. 2, p. 758. This [diamond] body is a symbol for a remarkable psychological fact which, precisely because it is objective, first appears in forms dictated by the experience of biological life – that is, as fruit, embryo, child, living body, and so on. This fact could be best expressed by the words "It is not I who live, it lives me." The illusion of the supremacy of consciousness makes us say, "I live." Once this illusion is shattered by a recognition of the unconscious, the unconscious will appear as something objective in which the ego is included. - C.G. Jung, Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower: The Fulfilment. CW 13: Alchemical Studies, par. 76. Art: Soonpongsri Kamchorn
Carl sagan’s thought about books: “When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A book is made from a tree. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” -Carl Sagan, Cosmos
THE AFRICAN TWA PEOPLE The Batwa people of Central Africa and the Great Lakes are the original ancient dwellers of the forests. Together with the Kalahari San people of southern Africa, the Twa people – indigenous to the Great Lakes and to Central Africa – are regarded as the earliest Homo sapiens human ancestor. Their origin story takes back to about 200,000 years ago. The earliest records of pygmies were made by the ancient Egyptians well over 4000 years ago. They described the short stature Batwa people living near the “Mountains of the Moon” extolling their abilities as dancers of the Gods and story tellers. Homer and Aristotle also made mention of them. The Twa frequently made migrations to ancient Kemet (Egypt), as the kings and nobles held them in high regard. Many Twa achieved elite status in Kemet. They inspired the short stature ancient Egyptian deities: Bes and Ptah. Bes Bes was tremendously popular in ancient Egypt. He was worshipped in both royal and ordinary homes, where he was associated with many of the good things in life: sex, drinking, music, and merriment. He also had an important protective function, and was often invoked during childbirth (hence his appearance in the divine birth house at Dendera). Ptah Ptah was regarded as the craftsman deity and creator God in ancient Kemet, a form of Amen-Ra. The attributes of Father Ptah as a craftsman and creator god were possibly inspired by the ancient origin of the Twa and their natural dexterity, skills and craftsmanship. Imhotep, the short stature vizier and first architect and physician in Kemet was said to be the son of Ptah. In ancient times, the Batwa were believed to have supernatural/magical powers and to have a special relation to the gods. In the Nile Valley, they participated in religious rituals where they performed as 'god's dancers.' According to ancient records, Pharaoh Pepy II (c. 2284 - 2184 BC) was immensely grateful to one of his high officials (Harkuf) for bringing a "Dwarf" to Kemet from "the spirit land," the name with which the ancient Egyptians named the lands in its southern territories. The Twa/Khoisan were also known as elves, midgets, or pygmy (a slur on small people of African Descent). Their history predates the Greco Roman Judeo timeline history of Adam and Eve by thousands of years. According to researchers, the Twa traveled and settled over the Earth many thousands of years ago, spreading to Northern Ireland, Germany, the rest of Europe, and the Asian continent. They are recorded to be responsible for the Druid societies and the legends of the Leprechaun. One of the cultural influences the Druids/Twa had was the fact that they were known for their hair, which many grew into locks that looked like snakes. Records say the hairstyle was replicated by the Queens and Kings of ancient Kemet (Egypt/Nubia) with the snake image worn as a Menes head claw. The skills and craftsmanship of the Twa – the earliest mound builders – were thought to be magical, especially on foreign lands. These days, many Twa have been driven out of the forest due to agriculture. They make a livelihood as labourers, hunters, farm guards, potters, sculptors, and other forms of craftsmanship. In Africa, the Batwa are mostly found in the Great Lakes region: Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi.
NUBA PEOPLE: AFRICA`S ANCIENT PEOPLE OF SOUTH SUDAN The Nuba people are one of the African people with the most blackest phenotype and originators of wrestling game in the world. By Leni Riefenstahl.
Tallest man in Uganda by name Shipä.
THE AMAZING STORY OF LAGBAJA AND WHY HE COVER'S HIS FACE WITH A MASK (Concluding part) The saxophone is Lagbaja’ s favorite instrument, which he taught himself. In 1991, he created his first modest band in Lagos, Nigeria, after mastering the saxophone. The band was a regular performer at Lagos’ Sea Garden venue. Their music was influenced by 1960s high life music as well as Western jazz percussion instruments like the talking drum and congas, which featured significantly in their tunes. The band had built up enough local support and was earning gigs at the French Institute after performing at the Sea Garden for a period. The band’ s first album, ” The Colours Of The Rhythm, ” was published in 1992. He continued to release music after that, but his breakthrough came in 2000 with the release of the double album ” We and Me. ” The playlist was harsh in its criticism of Nigerian politicians and asked that they be transparent. It also urged unity and brotherhood in the country. Ego Iheanacho accompanied him on the vocals for the tunes. The album’ s popularity spurred him to create more, and his songs were well received by fans at the time. Lagbaja is currently married with children, however there are no images of his wife online. His wife’ s identity is a well guarded secret, so those hoping for photos of Lagbaja’ s wife will be disappointed. You won’ t discover much information about his children, however Moyosade, one of his daughters, is well- known. In the year 2013, Moyosade married Olamide Oblilana in Opebi, Lagos. The ceremony was attended by Lagbaja without his mask, but visitors were not allowed to take photographs. Moyosade is believed to work for a company in the United States as a management specialist. She earned a master’ s degree in business administration from Pennsylvania State University. Without a doubt, Lagbaja has found success as a musician and will be remembered as one of Nigeria’ s musical superstars. He and his family now reside in Manhattan, New York City, in the United States. A source revealed to NaijaGists the reason why Lagbaja never unmask his face. According to the source: “This is not Lagbaja, I know him. Why are you even trying to unmask him? He has his reasons for wearing the mask. He used to be in the choir in one Baptist Church in Ilorin and his parents are prominent Baptist members. His family opposed his decision to sing that kind of music. They believed that he wanted to disgrace them because of their position in the church. That was why he put the mask”. The Ologundes are from Ijagbo near Offa in Kwara State. Source: Nigeria Stories— Twitter
You are looking at the DOOR OF NO RETURN in Goree island, Dakar, Senegal, West Africa. 🇸🇳 Many Africans walked through this door on chains on their way to the antebellum of the Americas to be enslaved 40Oyears ago. Once they walked through this door, never would you see your family and friends again. Their complete way of life were destroyed as soon as they walked through this door.
10 Lessons from the book “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” 1. The root cause of our suffering is our own thinking. 2. Stop thinking and end your problems. 3. Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. 4. Our feelings do not come from external events, but from our own thinking about the events. 5. If you want to find the truth, look for simplicity. 6. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. 7. To a mind without the limits of thinking, anything is possible. 8. If your mind is completely full of old thinking, it is impossible to have any new thoughts come into your mind to create the change you seek. 9. Thought is not reality; yet it is through thought our reality is created 10. People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
“I would love to see entrepreneurs building small use cases and iterating. Many ideas will fail but the point is to build fast, keep iterating and learning. Lens makes it easier and less risky to experiment.” @stani.lens at #ETHDenver
Ladi Kwali (1925-1984), the woman on the Nigeria 🇳🇬 twenty naira note. She was born in the village of Kwali, Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was a common occupation among women. She was so skilled that her work became known in Europe, Britain and America. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, her work was displayed in London at the Berkeley Galleries. She became Nigeria's best - known Potter, was awarded a decorate and was made MBE in 1963 despite not having a formal education.
"You are comprised of 84 minerals, 23 elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells. You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet's most complex living thing. You are not living on Earth. You are Earth.” ~Aubrey Marcus
ETHIOPIAN LUOS WHO FOUGHT IN THE 1896 BATTLE OF ADWA AGAINST ITALIANS A Luo Ethiopian warrior named Obala Nyigwo from Gambela region western Ethiopia poses with a sword given to him by Emperor Menelik II after the Battle of Adwa against the Italians in 1896
Most people know Fela’s mother, but don’t really know much about his father 👴!! Meet Fela Kuti’s father Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (1891-1955) Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (1891-1955) Eminent Nigerian churchman, educationist and administrator, he was the founding president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Africa's largest professional group. He was born on 30 April 1891, to an Egba family in Abeokuta. In 1928 while passing through the then colonial military settlement within Abeokuta,he was asked to remove his hat as he walked past the British Flag. He bluntly refused, and in the process of removing his hat under the threat of a bayonet by a solider,Rev Kuti almost lost an eye. He created a massive uproar after this incident, which compelled the authorities to relocate the military barracks from the main town to Lafenwa (Alamala), on the outskirts of Abeokuta, where it remained till date. He died on 6 April 1955 (aged 63) In Abeokuta, Nigeria Rest in peace ✌️🕊️🕊️
Wolof is a language of Senegal 🇸🇳, the Gambia 🇬🇲, and Mauritania 🇲🇷, and the native language of the Wolof people. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family. Unlike most other languages of Sub-Saharan Africa, Wolof is not a tonal language. The Levi people are also Wolofs . It is the most widely spoken language in Senegal, spoken natively by the Wolof people (40% of the population) but also by most other Senegalese as a second language. Wolof dialects vary geographically and between rural and urban areas. "Dakar-Wolof", for instance, is an urban mixture of Wolof, French, and Arabic. #TellAfrica 🇸🇳 🇲🇷 🇬🇲
**What's new with Lens** *a wild 🥟 appears* @dumpling introduced a vibey experience of curated Lens videos. Check it out: dumpling.lol 🎙️The Lens team joined @gelato to talk about @korudao, the first DAO-controlled account on Lens. If you missed it, catch up here: https://twitter.com/LensProtocol/status/1625825590157639680?s=20 🌀@korudao enables multiple community members who hold a Koru NFT to post from a single Lens account. Useful for brands, communities, and teams of creators. More details here www.gelato.network/blog/i… 🎥 @orbapp enabled video uploads, so you can shoot and post on the go lenster.xyz/posts/0x01-0x0169 🛠️ Coinvise launched a new integration enabling requirements on airdrops to follow a Lens account. https://twitter.com/CoinviseCo/status/1625227144044642305?s=20 📊 @meetvers launched on Lens giving the community access to big data insights and powerful networking algorithms. lenster.xyz/posts/0x98dd-0x1d 🤝 Wagmifund announced a web3 crowdfunding platform https://twitter.com/wagmidotfund/status/1613232244294062080?s=20 📍Pinsta released a new update with tons of new features and fixes, check it out here lenster.xyz/posts/0x016efc-0x01c1 🔥 Bonfire enables you to bring collectors to Lens with one click https://twitter.com/bonfire_tweets/status/1623403567229927425?s=20 Explore the Lensverse t.co/8WVwTecAAz & help contribute to the community by listing your fave projects and features in the comments below. If you want to get more involved, integrate, or build using Lens, @nader.lens and @fabri.lens are here to help you get started
Beautiful pictures of Somali women before Arab culture. The culture of Somalia is an amalgamation of traditions that were developed independently since the proto-Somali era through interaction with neighboring and far away civilizations, including other parts of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Indian subcontinent.
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears. ~Erich Fromm (Book: The Art of Loving https://amzn.to/3Sg0bXW)
🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo: 57 free kick goals 🇦🇷 Leo Messi: 61 free kick goals 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Beckham: 65 free kick goals 🇧🇷 Ronaldinho: 66 free kick goals 🇧🇷 Pelé: 70 free kick goals No player in the history of football has more free kick goals, 77, than Juninho Pernambucano, the greatest set piece taker ever 🐐
'I love boxing. I love the training, the conditioning, the characters who populate the sport, and most of all I love the competition. 'Yeah, but you might get hurt.' Of course you might get hurt. It's fighting, not bowling.' - Evander Holyfield