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05-24-2011, 02:25 PM
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That's actually not wrong. The goat's head in the world of the Occult is a very highly meaningful image. The icon of the inverted pentagram;




represents Satan, aka the god "Lucifer" from the ancient Roman Pagan tradition translates quite literally to the "Bearer of Light". "Lucifer" is generally considered the savior to Pagans for the 'spiritual light' he brought to mankind in the form of knowledge of his origins and knowledge of Occult Magic (in some opinions, a foolish decision as this knowledge has as much possibility to be abused for negative, selfish purposes as it does benevolent, thus the "God" Lucifer is considered the Devil in Christian tradition)

The point is, that Occult magic is well-known and practiced all throughout the world, especially in business, through forms of highly-symbolic logos and insignias which are felt to have magickal power.

The goats head, as shown above, in the direction it is pointing (downward) is considered as 'submissive' or 'feminine' position in Occult magick. Pointing upward, aka the 'Delta' position, is represents power and the masculine. And indeed, it is well known in occult circles that the triangle in the downward position in fact reflects the woman's womb.

I would delight in writing a whole article about occult meanings in commercial symbolism, but even confined the the automotive industry would be several pages.
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The problem with that is that every country has their fair share of this shit. I don't judge British culture based on The Daily Mail or Big Brother.
Please do. They're sufficiently popular to be an embarrassment.
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Yes. We like to spend all of our time sat in pubs drinking lager and eating fish and chips whilst riding around in black taxis and red double decker buses.
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05-25-2011, 04:38 AM
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I'm just gonna leave this here and walk away,


The World might owe you but American's owe the World a hell of a lot more.
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Just shut up scrabtrapman, before you make yourself sound like even more of an idiot.
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Not possible.
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I'm just gonna leave this here and walk away,
Yeah, i think that video was meant to make people laugh not boost American egos. Did you miss the parts where it made fun of us.


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Let's not forget the slave trade.
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You mean that thing Europe was apart of.
And started.
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And America carried on into the late 1800s.

Any way ignore that, I was just purposefully trying to be a dick, I'll remove those bits if you like.
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Just shut up and we'll be happy.


So... Flags!
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People from England are snobs with horrible teeth.
That one's true though.

Bhutan has a cool flag, though the dragon does appear to be grasping several disembodied breasts.


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So... Fags!
Well that's calling the kettle black.
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i would like to go see scottland, one of my old teacher's went there and said it was beautiful (although i dont know much of my family down there)
Never been to Scottland before, I have been to Scotland though which is very nice.
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Bhutan has a cool flag, though the dragon does appear to be grasping several disembodied breasts.
Those are clearly... dragon balls.

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Okay, here i go:

I live in Egypt...



In Cairo, The city of a thousand minarets.



Coat of arms:

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What does the writing under the eagle say?
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Fuck yeah. Texas: home of retarded highway systems, top tier hispanic food and simultaneous jackassery/hospitality.

Also:

Ironically, I'd aimlessly made a bracelet of that exact color scheme about two weeks before I ever learned of the term "pansexual." I make a lot of bracelets (very nice looking ones for the record), but rarely without some sort of intended symbolism. Funny coincidence #174 of my life.

Also also: Fuck yeah @ the Team America theme. One of the greatest musical accomplishments of this generation. It's an overflow of win.
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England, obviously.

West Midlands:


Staffordshire:


Lichfield:


i think i've got that right.
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Been a while since I've seen the Staffordshire Knot.
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Croatia before :
Flag


Coat of arms



Croatia today:

flag



coat of arms



Rijeka:

Flag



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historical flag

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What does the writing under the eagle say?
It says "Arab Republic of Egypt"
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Been a while since I've seen the Staffordshire Knot.
i talk about it quite a lot with my grandfather. don't know why, just a point of interest for us.

and just to be an irritating, pedantic bastard: it's actually Stafford knot, not Staffordshire. although i only found that out myself a couple years back.
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Ah, well I might as well say that off term time I live in the West Midlands, Staffordshire etc etc



Stafford.

It's about twenty miles from where MA lives, I used to commute to his town for school until I outgrew the need for help.
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