Thank you, I’ always trying to use a good wording, but when writing
in the English language it’s a little bit more difficult for me than in
German and it particularly takes more time. When writing in my home
language, especially in some chats, I drew the words faster than “Billy
the kid” his sixgun! But in English I think I better shun any
wordfight…..
To answer your question about witches is a
little bit difficult, because it’s a theme that leads from the medieval
age till our century, only in some different facets. Concerning the
ancient witches, Heinrich Kramer, James Sprenger and all the others
self-constituted witch-finders in England, Germany, the Netherlands and
not to forgot the most cruel of all, Torquemada of Spain. In my eyes
they’re all alike at the bottom, they use the definition of “witch,
heretic, magician," and so on, as a synonym for people they are afraid
of. For people they can’ t understand cause their minds are too
small. And so these people may be a potential danger for their social
position, or better their personal might. So they must vanish! The
easiest and best way was to denounce them to be in conspiration with
some dark forces of the evil. The rest will be done by the public
opinion. And, proofed by the history, it worked very well.
The
women of this times only had the additional problem, that in the eyes
of the medieval clerics they should have to do absolute nothing with
any kind of science or so. And if they did anyhow, they must be not
normal woman, they must be something strange. So the clerics decided:
“Let’s call them witches, amour of demons.” The males didn’t have
this fundamental problem, so they must be extremely strange to get the
privilege to be denounced as a magician or a heretic. But a few
succeeded,like Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei or Michele de Nostredame .
And
not to forget Jaques de Molay and Geoffroy de Charnay, burned at the
stake with many others of the Templar Knights by King Phillipp IV of
France. Certainly for being heretics and sodomists to gather the
peoples at Phillips side. The truth was that Phillips kingdom was
totally out of money and he wanted to have the big treasures of the
Templars to restore his decrepit situation. And to gather the people
was very easy, cause many of them also had bank loans at the Templars.
So
that’s my opinion about the real character of the so called witches
only a substitute for inconvenient people, who have had the pity to be
at the wrong time at the wrong place. But this only could happen in
the medieval times, the century of enlightenment changed all this.
Today science and analysis are established and such things like
denouncing an other cause he only has an other opinion about some things
is impossible
Isn’t it ???
Here is a small fairytale:
Once
upon a time in the Land of the unlimited options there was a famous
wizard. He was very ingenious, and his King was in a great dangers to
get smashed by an evil enemy. So the king demanded the wizard to build
him a weapon that is strong enough to destroy the enemy and to save
his kingdom. The wizard was a great patriot and using all his magic
spells and with the help of many fairies and dwarfts he finally succeded
!
He has build the weapon for the king and he called her “Trinity”
But
in the moment, the wizard tested the weapon the first time, he
immediately realized what he has done! Like Prometheus, he had stolen
the divine fire from the gods, to give it to the ignorant mankind.
Afraid of what’ he had done he said: “Now I’m become Death, the
destroyer of worlds.” But it was to late, the king takes the weapon
and won his war.
A few years later there was another enemy
that bothers the king. Again he went to the wizard and demands a
weapon much stronger than the last one to smash the new enemy like he
did with the last. The wizzard refused and said: “No, my king, I
failed last time, the result will blame my soul for ever I will never
do it again!”
By hearing this the king gets angry and he
will bring the wizard to a tribunal. He will accuse him to be
a...what’s the hell what??? A wizard? a witch? a heretic????
No,no,no -times had changed, this words are mega out, none of them will
convince the people, the king needs a new slogan.
Night
after night,he reflected to find a new outrage, he can blame at the
wizard with. -Finaly one of his advisers hat a brilliant idea: “Let’s
call him and all the others in our kingdom, that have dissenting
opinions “Kommunists!”
This works as well, as calling
someone a “witch” in the medieval age, suddenly all the people of the
kingdom are against the commendable wizard, he lost all his privileges
and was send to exile for retirement.
Nice fairytale, isn’t it ?
It’s
a fairytale that happened in a century long, long ago. And It’s
nice, cause it has ended peacefully, the king gets his weapon from an
other wizard, but the enemy also has a wizards with the same talents.
He also builds his king the weapon, and he also had the same twinges
of concience. His king also accused him and send him to exile. But a
few years later mankind recognised the earnings of the two wizards. The
first one got rehabilitated and decorated with a price for his merits
to control this kind of weapons and the other wizard was decorated
with the Nobel Price of Peace.
I think this solution is
much better then the medieval one, maybe mankind is growing more and
more out of her kiddy shoes. Perhaps in another two or three centurys
she will be adult. And adults uses witches only in fairytales for their
childrens and not as victims to hide their own fears and imperfections.
This
Fairytale above also bring us to the other Theme. Both of the wizards
are like Faust,they sold their souls to a “Mephisto like” person to
get more knowledge of the “What the world fits together in her
interior core.” Faust recognized what kind of sacrilege he has done,
in the moment his “Gretchen” died in prison.
The two
wizards in the moment, they broke the seal, that fits the “world”
together. A third wizard didn’t had have such compunctions, he first
sold his soul to a demon, to get the money to play with his fancy toys,
doesn’t matter what this toys will harm. When the demon gets out of
money, this wizard immediately resold his soul to the king, to get more
money so he can build bigger toys. This wizard wasn’t accused at all,
he was decorated with everything the king can offer, and he always was
the public's darling, till he died in prosperity and glory.
He
never reflected, what one of his inventions will cause, he never
worried about, where the workers will come from, that are building his
toys, he never wasted one thought, where the money is coming from, if
only it comes in time.
The first two wizards are only
remembered by a few scientists and historians. The third one will be in
the minds of mankind forever, cause he was the one who brought the man
to the moon! The first two wizards were accused for being “witches.”
The third one was honored and adored.
Now my two final questions:
First: Which one of them is the better one ?????
Second: Must a “witch” or a wizard always be the bad one ?????
And
to make the answers a little bit more difficult, just like Pauline
Réage did by disclaiming the last chapter of “Story of O”. Be sure, If
I had been the third wizard, I did just like him, cause I also like to
play with expensive toys………
Have a nice time
Jonny wizard of the words
(Not to confound with J.Robert Oppenheimer, Andrei Sacharow or Wernher von Braun)
Oh
I’ve forgotten a little Item concerning you, I always had the feeling,
you remembers me to someone, that may also be the reason, I send the
mail to you, not your profile, it was your picture. Now I’d found it in
the deepest bytes of my memory. It was in the early 1970 th In a
cinema, the movie was called “Soldier blue” The voice of the singer was
fascinating, as well as the Lyrics of the song. After the movie I
baught the record of the kanadian singer at the cinema box office. The
picture of the singer was at the cover. Buffy Sainte Marie. Just have a
look at youtube for her
“Soldier blue.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ZinGhUZ_8
and
her most popular song which is always ascribed to Donovan, but written
by her and perfect fitting to the fairytale above "Universal
Soldier." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWsGyNsw00&feature=related
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