Category: Goddesses

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Revisit Mount Horeb: Hellenistic

10/6/2019

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank RMH: Hellenistic

Part 11 of 13

“… We weren’t done.”
“That wasn’t a native Gus.”
“Looked like one.”
“I saw what you mean.”
“Quiver right?”
“Maybe.”
“Who was it Reb?”
“It’s art Yank.”
“Let Art be Reb.”
“I mean -”
“- Who was it?”
“A goddess.”
“Who?”
“Athena maybe.”
“Athena?”
“Perhaps Artemis.”
“They’re Greek.”
“Hellenistic.”
“Greek to me.”
“The image is a circle because it’s a commemorative coin.”
“I was gonna embarrass myself in front of a goddess.”
“It looks like a native Gus.”
“Thanks for the diversion.”
“Sure.”
“Did that happen?”
“Like a story.”
“Why Cowpens?”
“Congress thought Morgan did a special thing.”
“Congress? …”

*Next Up: 7 October and part 12 of Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Revisit Mount Horeb: Comitia Americana.

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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Revisit Mount Horeb: Truths

9/26/2019

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank RMH: Tell

Part 6 of 13

“… Here we are Reb.”
“Perfect.”
“Almost.”
“What Yank?”
“No goddess.”
“Like before.”
“Slab’s still there.”
“And Thunderbolt’s in the shadows.”
“Reb – what were you gonna say about Tell-Lie-Vision and the thirty Thousand?”
“That Tell-Lie-Vision is now our ally.”
“It wasn’t?”
“No.”
“Why now Reb?”
“It needs the truth.”
“It tells lies with visions.”
“Yet lies need truths.”
“An example.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank: Lie

“Camp life Gus.”
“Rife with rumors.”
“Twenty-four seven.”
“Things that disturb.”
“And entertain.”
“With nonsense.”
“Those are Tells Gus.”
“The camp takes on the Tells.”
“Everyone gets all Telled-up.”
“And then?”
“The Tell becomes real.”
“The Lie becomes real Reb.”
“Correct.”
“Camp gets mutinous.”
“Sound familiar?”
“Does Johnny.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank RMH: Vision

“Then the Vision.”
“Like fire you said.”
“Spreads like that Gus.”
“And?”
“The whole camp gets to believing the Lie.”
“A correction coming.”
“That’s how Tell-Lie-Vision will help us in the future.”
“Sounds like a fulcrum.”
“Nice.”
“And the Lies have the Truths stuck in the air.”
“And all constitutional questions begin and end with the thirty Thousand.”
“It’s We the People Reb.”
“It’s the Electoral College Yank.”
“The Seventh Amendment.”
“Article the first of the Bill of Rights.”
“The first veto and Usurpation Day.”
“And 17 September.”
“Good thinking Reb.”
“Thanks Yank.”
“Where’d our sign go?”
“The goddess?”
“Yeah …”

*Next Up: 27 September and part 7 of Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Revisit Mount Horeb: Daniel Morgan.

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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Revisit Mount Horeb: To Live the ‘Merican Dream

9/22/2019

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank RMH: To Live the 'Merican Dream

Part 5 of 13

“… We get to live the dream.”
“Say that again Reb.”
“We get to live the dream Yank.”
“Live?”
“The dream.”
“How can we live again Johnny, we dead.”
“What about Crate?”
“You said I died.”
“You did.”
“So we can’t live again.”
“Crate means something Gus, something about you.”
“Be clear Johnny.”
“The thirty Thousand is our dream Yank.”
“I know.”
“You had dreams too, the dreams of Augustus Kotka.”
“I don’t remember them.”
“But you had them.”
“You had dreams too then, the dreams of Jonathan Rebel.”
“Yank, like Knowbody said, it’s time, time we live the ‘Merican dream.”
“The thirty Thousand.”
“Right.”
“And see where the Constitution leads Johnny.”
“It matters ‘cuz it’s true.”
“Speaking of true, what about Tell-Lie-Vision.”
“What about it?”
“Tell-Lie-Vision and the thirty Thousand?”
“I see your point.”
“And?”
“Let’s go see Thunderbolt.”
“Idea excellent.”
“After you Gus.”
“Okay … and bye Lil Man …”
[Bye.]

*Next Up: 26 September and part 6 of Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Revisit Mount Horeb: Truths.

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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Revisit Mount Horeb: Lil Man

9/20/2019

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank RMH: Lil Man

Part 3 of 13

“… Look Reb.”
“What did you expect?”
“That Lil Man would be gone.”
“Why leave Gus?”
“True.”
“People should picnic here.”
“They should Reb.”
“It’s like a garden.”
“Of spirits and stones.”
“Trees too.”
“What’s Lil Man about Reb?”
“Dwarf Stars don’t do much Yank.”
“Explode you said.”
“They can.”
“What’s it still doin’ here?”
“It’s just light Gus.”
“More than light Johnny.”
“More than Crate?”
“No.”
“Gus?”
“Yeah.”
“What’s on your mind?”
“Knowbody … he said something else Reb.”
“What?”
“Well, …”

*Next Up: 21 September and part 4 of Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Revisit Mount Horeb: Time.

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Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Er

2/19/2017

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka OOW Resurrection

Part 9 of 13

“It’s a story Gus.”
“Great!”
“Shall we walk and talk?”
“On our way time ‘eh?”
“Time.”
“Okay – but what’s Er?”
“A soldier.”
“So what did Er do?”
“Lots.”
“Like what?”
“Resurrection.”
“Rise again?”
“So sayeth Plato.”
“Plato ends The Republic with a resurrection story?”
“Plato does.”
“What happened?”
“There was a battle and Er fell on the field.”
“Okay.”
“Ten days later they find the battlefield.”
“Yikes.”
“Right, ’cept Er’s body is not decayed.”
“Irrational.”
“Plato then says that two days later, while on the funeral pyre, Er comes back to life.”
“Jesus.”

Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW Afterlife

“Right Yank.”
“But before Jesus.”
“By 350 years.”
“That’s like from Columbus to our time Johnny.”
“True.”
“Does Er just scare ‘em?”
“He tells the people of his soul’s journey.”
“To where?”
“Afterlife.”
“The dead?”
“Yes, and the newly to be born.”
“Both?”
“It’s a long journey Gus.”
“What was Plato up to Johnny?”
“Order again.”
“So Er saw Judgement Day.”
“Others, not his.”
“Okay: so?”
“It was a big deal to Plato.”
“Why?”

Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW Necessity

“Cosmos.”
“Explaining good government wasn’t enough.”
“Plato wanted to explain it all.”
“Plato wanted to replace Athena.”
“Hey there is a goddess.”
“Where?”
“Necessity.”
“The mother of all invention is a goddess?”
“She is and she concludes Plato’s Republic.”
“I knew it.”
“Knew what?”
“Goddesses.”
“They’re resilient.”
“Like fate.”
“Plato would agree Yank.”
“Go figure. Hey there’s a fork ahead Johnny.”
“There sure is.”

*Next Up: 26 February and part 10 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Fork.

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Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Family

1/29/2017

Augustus Kotka OOW Rest

Part 6 of 13

“Rest here Reb?”
“Sure Yank.”
“Just wanted to clear the bend.”
“Cleared.”
“Gladys and Lee’s this is.”
“It is.”
“Did they homestead the place?”
“No Gus, a few generations before them did.”
“When Reb?”
“It’s a farm of 14 acres.”
“Sounds normal.”
“Not much anymore.”
“So when did it become 14 acres?”
“In the 1870s.”
“After.”

Jonathan Rebel OOW Reason

“Yes, after.”
“What would Plato have said Johnny?”
“About homesteads?”
“Family I suppose I mean – and places like this.”
“For Guardians Gus -”
“Military.”
“- Family was to be abolished, as well as private property.”
“Weird.”
“Got Plato noticed.”
“What about Athena Reb?”
“Goddess of Reason.”
“Okay.”
“Family and property were defended.”
“How?”
“She had a sort of nickname, Athena Promachos.”
“Meaning?”
“She who fights in front.”
“Skirmisher.”
“Nice.”
“So Athena was a fighter and Plato a writer.”
“Yes.”
“Did this Lee here have a nickname Reb?”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka OOW Rise

“Spoon.”
“Whether Spoon?”
“Spoon’s around.”
“Spirit – I remember.”
“US Army too.”
“Right.”
“Wonder why we’re here?”
“Rest Reb.”
“Something else Gus.”
“You mean like why are we here?”
“Yes.”
“We could be any place.”
“True.”
“Gladys and Lee raised a family here, yes?”
“They did.”
“To raise a family is to rise.”
“Praiseworthy words Yank.”
“Spoon was military.”
“He was.”
“Like a Guardian.”
“Fair enough.”
“Then what would Plato's Republic have not liked about this?”

*Next Up: 5 February and part 7 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Meaning.

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Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Plato

1/8/2017

Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW Pyramid

Part 3 of 13

“… There’s no easy answer for that Gus.”
“’Cept there was no guiding goddess.”
“Right.”
“So that’s one way Plato was different.”
“True Yank.”
“He was no poet.”
“He didn’t like poets.”
“What did Plato like?”
“Order.”
“In his Republic?”
“Most definitely.”
“How so?”
“Imagine Plato’s Republic as a pyramid Gus.”
“Okay.”
“At the base of the pyramid are the Workers – homemakers and crafters of all ages.”
“The people.”
“And above the people are the Guardians.”
“The military.”
“Yes.”
“And above them?”
“The Rulers.”
“That’s not our Republic, is it Reb, like a pyramid?”
“No Gus.”
“What’s ours like?”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka OOW Wagons

“Good question.”
“Got a thought Johnny?”
“I think so.”
“Share it.”
“Perhaps in our language, a Wagon and Horse."
“We know them.”
“Wagons would represent the States.”
“Buildings and roads.”
“Horses would represent We the People.”
“You mean how many Horses matters.”
“Yes Yank.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka OOW Horses

“One Horse pulls differently than a team of Horses."
“And they’re alive.”
“So then government would hold the reins.”
“Sure – and decides on cargo too.”
“Still no goddesses though Johnny.”
“Columbia.”
“True.”
“Wait a second Yank.”
“What?”
“There is another goddess.”
“There is?”

*Next Up: 15 January and part 4 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Freedom.

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Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way of Truth

1/1/2017

Gus and Johnny OOW Reverence

Part 2 of 13

“… She showed him the Truth Johnny?”
“The Way of Truth Gus.”
“As opposed to the Not Is.”
“Right.”
“That’s the nonsense way.”
“Yes.”
“Did Parmenides' goddess say her name?”
“She didn’t.”
“So it could have been any goddess?”
“Sure.”
“Even what we might call an angel.”
“I hear ya Yank.”
“Just trying to put it into our language.”
“Agreed.”
“With respect and all Johnny.”
“Reverence.”

Gus and Johnny OOW Spirits

“Right.”
“That’s how they thought of Parmenides Gus, with veneration.”
“Veneration?”
“Yes.”
“Like a saint Reb?”
“For some in ancient Greece and Italy.”
“Socrates?”
“Correct.”
“I was just guessing Johnny.”
“Good guessing.”
“Did Socrates have a vision too, you know, like Parmenides?”
“Sort of Gus: with Socrates, he claimed a female spirit was always with him.”
“Doing what?”

Gus and Johnny OOW Republic

“Dissuading him from doing.”
“Socrates, did he know Parmenides?”
“Plato says so.”
“Plato of The Republic fame.”
“You know it?”
“Just the word.”
“Republic.”
“Yeah; so did Plato know Parmenides?”
“No.”
“Did Plato know Socrates?”
“He was his student.”
“And a Plato goddess, yes?”
“No, not like the other two Gus.”
“What happened to the goddesses Johnny?"
“Well …”

*Next Up: 8 January 2017 and part 3 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Plato.

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Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Goddesses

12/21/2016

On Our Way Gus Kotka

Part 1 of 13

“That was something Johnny.”
“I’ll say.”
“So he had a vision?”
“Parmenides did, one with two paths.”
“And you say one path was the Is.”
“Correct.”
“And the other Reb, it was called the Is Not.”
“Yes.”
“What was that like?”
“A goddess showed him an inscrutable path.”
“Inscrutable?”

On Our Way Johnny Reb

“Impossible to understand or interpret.”
“You can’t make sense of nonsense.”
“Right Gus.”
“And a goddess told him this?”
“That’s what Parmenides said.”
“This Parmenides Johnny, did others believe him?”
“Back then, yes.”
“Now people don’t say they see goddesses.”
“It’s become uncommon.”
“So you’re saying it could still happen.”
“I wouldn’t doubt it.”

On Our Way Goddesses

“Me either Reb.”
“You ever see a goddess Gus?”
“With you at Mount Horeb.”
“Before Morgan.”
“Right.”
“Any other time?”
“Did I see a goddess?”
“Yes.”
“I suppose so.”
“Makes sense.”
“Really?”
“Seems like you.”
“How so?”
“You spirited Gus.”
“Funny Reb.”
“True.”
“Back to Parmenides’ goddess …”

*Next Up: 1 January 2017 and part 2 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way of Truth.

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