Spanish Inquisition

What the most pressing danger of the state could not gain from the citizens, it was affected by religious zeal.

for the state or for the prince few would have drawn the sword but for religion the merchant the artist the peasant all cheerfully flew to arms for the state or for the prince even the smallest additional impost would have been avoided but for religion the people readily staked up at once life fortune and all earthly hopes it trebled the contributions which flowed into the exchequer of the princes and the armies which marched to the field and in the ardent excitement produced in all minds by the peril to which their faith was exposed the subject felt not the pressure of those burdens and the privations under which in cooler moments he would have sunk exhausted the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew's, procured for the Prince of Orange, the Admiral Collini, the British Queen Elizabeth, and the Protestant Princes of Germany, supplies of men and money from their subjects to a degree which at present is inconceivable.

But with all their exertions, they would have effected little against a power which was an overmatch for any single adversary, however powerful.

At this period of imperfect policy, accidental circumstances alone could determine distant states to afford one another a mutual support.

And so it carried on.

But cycles, long shot, whatever drives them, the pandemic, when the pandemic came, I remember vividly standing up in 20, in 2020 at the Eller Economics Conference in Dublin and saying, "The cycle's coming to an end, right? Something's gonna happen." No one expected the Spanish Inquisition.

Well, you coulda, you coulda told us, Rob.

Yeah.

You fake the wound and hand the reader the diagnosis.

And we found two of them sitting inside the first handful of pages of a hundred page puzzle from a man who named himself after the Spanish Inquisition's chief interrogator.

No coincidence, I don't think.

Well, rather at least it's no coincidence I'm comfortable with.

They're knowing they're going to sneak in with Matthew Stafford.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

No, but you're not going to.

Sliding door is very nice.

Nobody expected New England.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

The Packers beat Seattle, and the Packers are going back to the Super Bowl.

So I guess I'm next.

The same inventor is said to have constructed a flute player that would move its fingers in the proper manner to produce a certain melody.

later on another ingenious mechanician constructed a writing boy who would go through all the motions of writing accompanied by the proper movement of fingers arms and eyes and so perfectly was this piece of mechanism adapted to the purpose for which it was intended that when the boy and his father, who invented and constructed him, were traveling and giving exhibitions in Spain, they were both arrested for being in league with the powers of darkness and subjected to the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition.

The officials tortured the father, but not the offspring of his genius, for the writing boy was merely a highly organized machine containing nothing more wonderful than the ordinary cuckoo clock.

The materialism of the age in which these geniuses and philosophers lived led them to suppose that the problems of life would be solved by mechanics and chemistry.

Bizaglos have experienced some of the densest, heaviest weight of humanity's historical trauma.

Marked by the horrors of 1492 Spanish Inquisition, brutal North African expulsions, and deep systemic displacement, the world continuously targeted this lineage, transactionally projecting its collective guilt, shadow, and fear onto them.

turning them into the ultimate archetypal scapegoat.

Conversely, the oppressor embodies the opposite type of pain by projecting their pain, their self-hate, onto the collective physically and holding them accountable to it, while masochists internalize their pain, projecting it onto themselves physically by equating the divine with martyrdom.

Well, they got better.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition or the nice guys on business.

Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony or the nice guys on business.