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UPDATE: New mail from Spock Vulture 05/05
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reesylou
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 		UPDATE: New mail from Spock Vulture 05/05
Subject: ipsum nomen res ipsa

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whaT will happen if he doesn't appEar?!

Then our world will disappeaR, and so will i.

how cAn he let that happen?!

he Doesn't understand that he's the one who has the poweR to stop it. he simply can't imAgine that one little boy Could be that important.

is it really me?

maybe he doesn't know what He has to do!

what do i have to do?!

he has to give Me a new name. he's already chosen it, he just has to call it out.

it's only a story, it's not real. it's only a Story.





Ok.. Take the capitals coz they look odd:
TETRADRACHMS


There is also a new message from the trains mailing list

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2003 7:24 pm
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 		well, THAT's annoying.

isn't that the name of the coin on the splash pic at www.chasingthewish.com?

Big Pic of it
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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

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 		"ipsum nomen res ipsa" = "the name itself is the thing itself"

I.N.R.I- like on Jesus' cross.

hmm...don't know what it means though.
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Wolf
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Quote:
he has to give Me a new name. he's already chosen it, he just has to call it out.


Shades of "The Neverending Story!"

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2003 8:37 pm
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cemgate
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I think the whole thing is from the NeverEnding Story (pays to have kids sometimes:)

FYI his name is Bastian (as in Sebastian)

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2003 9:30 pm
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 		Re: UPDATE: New mail from Spock Vulture 05/05
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Atreyu: whaT will happen if he doesn't appEar?!

ChildEmpress: Then our world will disappeaR, and so will i.

Atreyu: how cAn he let that happen?!

ChildEmpress: he Doesn't understand that he's the one who has the poweR to stop it. he simply can't imAgine that one little boy Could be that important.

Bastian to himself as he's reading the storybook: is it really me?

Atreyu: maybe he doesn't know what He has to do!

Bastian: what do i have to do?!

ChildEmpress: he has to give Me a new name. he's already chosen it, he just has to call it out.

Bastian: it's only a story, it's not real. it's only a Story.



Not that it makes a diff. at all, but this is dialogue between Atreyu and the child Empress in regards to Bastian (A mortal child who must rename her to save their world). He is reading a story book when he realizes the story is referring to him.

And the new name that Bastian gives her is MOON CHILD.

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jax wrote:
"ipsum nomen res ipsa" = "the name itself is the thing itself"


Unless of course MOON CHILD (The New Name given to the Empress) has something to do with the above quote.

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Wolf
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 		Oh, jeez, I wasn't being SERIOUS.

I've never read it, only seen the movie...but I'll take full credit Laughing

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2003 9:50 pm
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isn't that the name of the coin on the splash pic at www.chasingthewish.com?

Big Pic of it

Does the tetradrachm have much significance if ctw? Or is that picture the only time it's come up? Pardon my ignorance...

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 		Sorry... the above post is from me - didn't mean to post anonymously!

PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2003 7:49 am
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 		coin
quote from journal, april 24th:

"Today I sat in the doorway of a boarded up building with my hat at my feet. When I put it out, I dropped a few coins in -- two pennies and some foreign coin that's been in the bottom of my pocket forever. "

possible reference to tetradrachm?

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2003 4:36 pm
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 		More on INRI
"ipsum nomen res ipsa" is often abbreviated as I.N.R.I. or INRI.

I found 2 curious links refering to the Freemasons' usage of INRI:
http://users.rcn.com/occult/occulus/i.html says:

"Freemasonry supplies two more variations: Igne Nitrum Roris Invenitur and the Hebrew Iammim Nour Rouah Iabescheh ("Water, Fire, Wind, Arid"). If Fire is the Will, then when we say "Nature is renewed by Fire," we mean that the Will alone has control over the universe."

http://bluepyramid.tripod.com/index/id14.html says:

"INRI had been used as an alchemical allegory by Freemasons for years by the GD's time - it was interpreted variously as Igne Natura Renovatur Integra ('by fire is all nature renewed intact'), Igne Nitrum Roris Invenitur ('the nitre of dew is found by fire'), and probably a few other ones."

It doesn't lead me anywhere, but I did find the link to Freemasonry interesting given we started out with a Masonic distress call...

Perko

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