Jackassjamboree - No Such Thing As Mystery

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A modern mask representing one of the Perchten, followers of Perchta, sometimes leader of the Wild Hunt.

And this is why I had a terror of masks as a child.

A sign at the Cambodia Trust's Kompong Chhnang rehabilitation centre, reassuring clients that all services are free of charge.

When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

Two-sided amulet. On the front, the Raising of Lazarus. On the reverse are three lines of Greek magic words.

Jerusalem, Bible Lands Museum. Soft gray stone, 33 mm.

Magic amulets with Christian imagery were produced by an unusual workshop operating in 5th-century Palestine. Most of the amulets were crudely cut from very soft stones that could be easily carved with a sharp tool rather than with the drills used by experienced gem cutters. All were pierced to be worn suspended. The amulets generally draw on popular Christian imagery, including the Sacrifice of Isaac, the Raising of Lazarus, and Jesus with the apostles

Although some of the inscriptions on the amulets are in Greek, other inscriptions are badly blundered or in a pseudo-script, sometimes imitating Hebrew. The amulet makers appear to have had a superficial knowledge of both pagan and Jewish magic but were evidently serving Christian clients.

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Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Ain't That Good News - 1964)

I was born by the river in a little tent Oh, and just like the river I been a runnin' ever since It's been a long, a long time coming but I know A change gon' come, oh yes it will It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die 'Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time coming but I know A change gon' come, oh yes it will I go to the movie, and I go downtown Somebody keep tellin' me "don't hang around" It's been a long, a long time coming, but I know A change gon' come, oh yes it will Then I go to my brother And I say "brother, help me please"  But he winds up knocking me Back down on my knees There been times that I thought I wouldn't last for long But now think I'm able to carry on  It's been a long, a long time coming but I know A change gon' come, oh yes it will