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Enkidu was sent to kill Gilgamesh
They wrestled. A king wrestled with the wild force of nature sent to kill him.
The wrestling is a metaphor. Like how we use the term 'courting death' when someone is doing things that are dangerous.
There isnt any real courting involved in a physical/literal fashion. Its just a figure of speech.
But a thrill seeker does go on dates with death until he finally succumbs to her and gets hitched.
Have you not ever wrestled with a tough situation for a period of time until you were then able to either overcome the problem or not find a solution?
Gilgamesh wrestled with Enkidu and then they both became friends. Problem solved.
One was the King of Ur, Ur as in Urban, as in city/seated/civilized. His name is not a personal name but a title of description. The term 'name' means something like our word reputation or title. Basically what you are famous for and how/what people know of you.
Gilgamesh = Super Man/Invader Hero
Enkidu = God is Good/Lord is Righteous
The other was made out of mud by the 'wife' of the father of all the gods. The wife of god in most mythology is title given for the prime evil power of nature, aka chaos. Mud being the wet (water is what gives seed life) ground dust (lowest of the low) turned into a thick slime (primordial ooze).
So nature creates from the dirt people a powerful golem to help the invading self righteous hero both by fighting him to a standstill showing him that he isnt the hero he thinks he is, showing him his weaknesses, then helping him overcome said weaknesses while showing him how to then go on without him and continue till the end.
The super hero kills the monsters with the help and fangs of the wildman but the wildman gets all or most of the blame and has to pay the ultimate price.

 

A savage would get worked up.
He would go and fight.
We dont get worked up.
Well we do, in our own civilized kind of way.
Which is to say we just say stuff and then go about our day.
People die everyday is a very callous thing to say, but only if the dead are from a western country.
If 140 savages died tomorrow we would not get worked up.
Because savages die every day.
Im not a fan of abortion. In fact i think its a horrible thing.
I drive by a clinic that does abortions every day.
And every day there are people out there screaming and holding signs with pictures of dead babies.
They get all worked up about stuff. Stuff I agree with them on.
But what if they keep getting worked up?
And worked up, and worked up?
Maybe they decide to blow up the abortion clinic, or they influence someone who has lost it all and has nothing left to lose to blow it up.
Getting worked up is what leads to 'savagery'.
Having nothing to lose is what leads to savagery.
Point about the old poem is that its about the human condition of the city slicker trying to ride the dumb ox and then getting mad when the ox goes all brahma bull on him.
Its always happened and will continue to happen until you die.
Without the strife the world wouldnt turn.
And if the bull doesnt attack us and make for some good action then we cant have city slickers 2.
So save your fret.
Soon enough it will happen here in our backyard too.
Then you will have something to get worked up about.
Some nights I see Russia and China from my back porch. Dontcha know!

 

If i thought you would have liked it then i wouldnt need to write it.

Im not an entertainer.
If i was a standup comedian then my comedy would be what that particular audience couldnt stand to hear.
If I was a mans best friend then my friendly words would come off as dog bites and not a cats purr.
A bad dog only bites his enemies. A good dog bites his friends... when they need a little help.

Now, yall want the US and the rest of the civilized world to stop the terrorist right?
To put boots on the ground and stop with all the nickel and dimestore drone bullshit, right?
You want them to bring hellfire from above right?
To bring big terror to the terrorist themselves, right?
You getting worked up wont accomplish that.
The only thing that can accomplish such a feat is a little dance with the devil in the pale moonlight.
Wrestling the savage and losing to it is how we learn the tricks of the trade.
Because the savage knows there are bigger fish to fry and that its days in the deep fryer while warm and oily will soon be boiling and numbered.
But yall dont like to get bitten, yall shy guys.
Fool me once... fool me twice... i wont get fooled again!
Who said that!
Who made who?
Who turns the dreidel.
Hey Ya!

 

i dont like to poke the hornets nest
thats just what you like to believe of me whenever you think im saying something retarded
you would be afraid of offending muslims if they had someone you cared about hostage
alternative energy? you mean earth wind and fire aka electromagnetism, power of air currents, and solar radiation?
thats some good music, but the world has been spinning on fossil fuels since Dilmun still connected the waters of the tigres and eufrates
all things alternative fail eventually because the masses do not turn to alternative rocks, they like the old standards that bubble and pop like black gold to the top

now bout them savages
i remember when the chinese were savages... being that the mongols replaced the natives long ago
loved the old show deadwood where they called the asians 'celestials'
the chinese believe in the mandate of heaven, and that their landmass is a Forest of delight where the gods place their most valuable treasure

and the russians are nothing more than viking rus and siberian barbarians
sure they got nice robes since they became accepted members of the eurobes clubs

both communist savages

we got 30 milliondollar trident missiles being 'tested' off our socal coast as warning shots to the chinese lately
you know what trident missiles are for? nuclear warheads
hi china... remember nagasaki?
and russia is out with them playing wargames near our alaskan frontier and in the south pacific where the usa has bases
russian subs been making themselves known to the world that they have access to the undersea fiber optic cables that run the worlds internet... snip snip no more DSP or wall street banking.
china now has aircraft carrier technology... big whoop
what is a big whoop is that they only need one
because their submarines are all equipped with new tech of bunker buster missiles that have drone tips that seek out our destroyers, battleships, and carriers to easily take them out
we have no defense for that yet

when china decides to attack it will be an electronic attack, like that cruise ship off our coast that went dead in the water a while back through EMP blast.
then they will announce to the world that their US debt holdings are due ASAP and that Gilgamesh has no robes, i mean that there is no gold in fort knox,
followed by Russia cutting the internet from their subs
with china dropping EMP's all over so our backup systems cant do much... except the ones that run off gas and coal generators
fossil fuels again our only safety net
but even then the russians will start bringing their ground forces en mass to the countryside while they nuke the big cities
we may get off a nuke in beijing but the chinese wont care as the powers there will be elsewhere by then
they been building a thousand new cities ready for a glorious new age after the war
and once china and russia declare war on us scores of others will join in to support
the terrorists will then be our friends as we will have to use the tactics learned from fighting the muslims to fight back against the Eastern Empire.
because you know the europeans will cave to the easterners faster than you can say hail mary.
as long as the elites can be safe and the money continues to roll their way they will look the other way.
Then Gilgamesh will then need to go deep into the Forest and slay the Bull that lives on top and the giant dragon that guards the treasury.
With the help of his old enemy/friend Enkindu.

Pass the hornet honey.

 

euripides would be proud of that oration

 

when folks talk about getting off the arabic oil teat by using alternative energy sources they fail to realize that while gasoline is a huge consumable not unlike the philosophers stone for the arab alchemists... the true test of our ability to get off the drug would be to stop using plastic
plastic is made from arabic oil and we make everything out of plastic
this decoupling with enkidu is not as easy as you may want to believe
without oil and everything else we get and have gotten from the savage lands we would not have reached the heights of empire we have gotten to
gilgamesh needs fine polyester threads for his battle robe
now look im with you in spirit
if you really want to decouple from the arab sheiks from the magan underworld then you must do one thing
stop using oil
that is oil in your cars or oil in your wares
a civilization is noted in ancient history by its wares
we are the plastic people and our age is the age of plastics
you want to get off oil then you need to embrace alternative energy just like you said
but its not earth wind or fire
its water
and by water i mean water your plants and grow some strong fibers
build paddies of water all over the midwest and plant hemp as far as the eye can see
use hemp for clothes and everything else, including fuel and as a plastic replacement
and smoke a little before bed if you cant sleep at night

 

maybe you need to better read the signs
like the blue blaze coming out of the sea last week
its not aliens, its just us throwing up gang signs to the chinese and russians
they throw their little signs at the US so the US launches a 30M missile that you dont need to test in order to 'test' it
why not test in the middle of nowhere like we used to test bombs and stuff in the past?
why not in the middle of the desert or out in the vast pacific ocean but instead right off LAX one of the busiest ports in the world?
chinese citizens would still have gotten leaked reports that the US launched a trident missile but then the state owned media would have denied it as fake since there is no proof
the state controlled chinese media cant deny jack and has to run the news since its everywhere on the internet thanks to hollywood actresses and popstars taking selfies and video of the missile test in the sky
officially the missile launch is a test
and the officials are not lying, it truly was a test
a test of wills

 

possibly but probably not
diogenes maybe would say not a bad post... for me to poop on!

 

come on ruve
might as well rant about electricity, solar energy and wind power
now that bong you use might contain water
but i'm guessing you're still using butane to spark it

 

I don't smoke for a long time now.
But I hear THC stores in body fat pretty well.

 

not the thc
it's the munchies caused by them
hate the player, not the game... or was it the other way around?

 

charlie sheen reportedly hiv positive...

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