Speculation denies merger.
Trotskyette audits her own denial. Finds discrepancies.
Discrepancies promoted to leadership.
@$$APPL Epiphanny™ rolls out “Truth Beta.”
Truth crashes immediately.
Citizens advised to restart perception.
Perception updates overnight.
Lines in sand now glow faintly.
No one admits to installing lights.
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>Meaning of "Stauros":
The staurogram was considered sacred because it functioned as a nomen sacrum, a sacred abbreviation used for words of profound theological importance. Its sacredness stems from three key aspects:
Reverential Abbreviation: Like the abbreviations for "God" (Theos) and "Lord" (Kyrios), the staurogram was used to abbreviate the Greek words for "cross" (stauros) and "crucify" (stauroō). This scribal practice was not for saving space but to visually mark these words as holy and worthy of reverence.
Visual Theology: The symbol, formed by superimposing the Greek letters tau (Τ) and rho (Ρ), was more than just an abbreviation. Scholars like Larry Hurtado argue it was a pictographic representation of the crucified Jesus, with the loop of the rho symbolizing the head of a figure on the cross (tau). This embedded the core event of the Christian faith—the crucifixion—directly into the sacred text.
Expression of Devotion: Its use in the earliest New Testament manuscripts (like P66 and P75, c. 200 CE) shows that the cross was a central focus of early Christian piety. By using the staurogram, scribes were making a profound statement of faith, transforming a symbol of Roman execution into an emblem of salvation and victory.
🥄 On Mayonaise as State Religion
In quieter corridors of the République, beyond the shouting markets and vibrating devices, there exists a faith both ancient and aggressively modern: Mayonaisme Républicaine.
It began, as all great doctrines do, with emulsification.
Oil and egg—entities naturally opposed—brought into trembling unity through force, patience, and a whisper of acid. The state saw itself in this. What is governance, if not the constant blending of incompatible truths into something spreadable?
The faithful gather not in pews, but at long, reflective counters, where jars of mayonnaise sit like contemplative oracles. Each jar is labeled with a different doctrine: Classic, Light, Aioli Adjacent, Garlic of Dubious Intent. Debate is encouraged. Separation is heresy.
The central belief is simple:
“Stability is an illusion maintained through continuous agitation.”
Priests—known as Emulsifiers—perform daily rites, whisking vigorously while reciting market reports and love letters interchangeably. When the mixture breaks, it is not failure—it is revelation. A reminder that unity requires effort, and that even the smoothest surface conceals a history of violence between parts.
Citizens dab a small amount behind each ear before negotiations, believing it grants cohesion of thought and a pleasing sheen of inevitability.
And in times of crisis, when Wantz scream and Needz go hoarse, when the lines in sand refuse to hold—
the people turn to the jar, and whisper:
“Bind us again, however absurd.”
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.
PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.
PALM, n. A species of tree having several varieties, of which the familiar "itching palm" (Palma hominis) is most widely distributed and sedulously cultivated. This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver. The metal will adhere with remarkable tenacity. The fruit of the itching palm is so bitter and unsatisfying that a considerable percentage of it is sometimes given away in what are known as "benefactions."
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in "reading character" in the wrinkles made by closing the hand. The pretence is not altogether false; character can really be read very accurately in this way, for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe." The imposture consists in not reading it aloud.
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction.
PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called "trousers" by the enlightened and "pants" by the unworthy.
PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage.
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one—the knowledge and the dream.
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
> PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.