... because that is what it is. You are being dominated sexually.
"Know the Sex Ritual" = 1918 jewish-latin-agrippa ( ie. Spanish Flu )
The maverick politician puppets are all finally wearing masks because they can't stop grinning. The rituals of the Eyes Wide Shut party have been partially externalized. Earth has been openly declared a single giant harem. Everybody is now an odalisque of the Empire, whether they know it or not. As long as you wear the mask you declare yourself a submissive sex slave of the state.
"The Church of the Venus" = 1,619 jewish-latin-agrippa
Below are the results of a multispectral matching operation across multiple ciphers, against my dictionary files - the closest matching spells to the word 'domination'. Following after are a similar set of results, but the latter matches are performed against my custom hand-entered lexicon files (ie. personal spellbook). The purpose of these result-sets is to examine the possibility of 'manufactured words', ie. the possibility that the lexicon is a structure encoded with intent, and contains numerically-indexed semantic association (ie. an enciphered mind-map). From another perspective, regardless of the truth of that hypothesis, all these spells listed below might - to persons of a certain mindset, perception or psychology, and to various degrees - represent, reflect, or oppose (in some fashion or other), the notion of 'domination'. For example, a kabbalist movie scriptwriter might pick names and traits for his evil mastermind character from the list below (or derive them from anagrams thereof), in order to subtly encode the character's name with the intent he has for that character. 17 matches
admonition
11 matches
innominate
10 matches
marination
moderation [ EDIT - a new article just appeared, see here ]
nationwide
windburned
windscreen
9 matches
enlargement
importance
inapparent
middlemost
neoplastic
pleonastic
renominate
repurchase
superclean
8 matches
centralism
circumflex
clitorides
comeliness
conception
concessive
cumbersome
desolation
escarpment
evangelist
execration
forestland
freakishly
friendlily
greensward
hereabouts
illiteracy
incremental
indisposed
melodramatic
nucleation
overridden
paederasty
permeative
prosimian
reprovable
rheumatoid
shrivelled
wanderings
wordsearch
7 matches
accusingly
activation
aggression
alongshore
binoculars
bloodiness
bluebottle
capricious
casualness
cavitation
conjecture
Cornishman
cummerbund
demotivate
discounted
dishwasher
divisional
embroidery
endogamous
Evangelist
exasperate
excavation
foreshadow
grasslands
hierophant
indentured
inimitably
languisher
leopardess
libidinous
microlight
munificent
nutcracker
patchiness
performance
phylogenic
picaresque
rhapsodise
saltshaker
senatorial
singletree
strabismal
terraform
transferal
undeterred
unfiltered
unhandsome
6 matches
abundantly
affectively
alkalinity
allelopathic
anagrammatical
annuitant
arrestor
astonished
Berkshires
bookseller
bristols
brutalize
burnisher
calamitous
chautauqua
Christlike
colouring
consortia
craftiness
croakiness
crosshatch
daintiness
deepfrozen
equalizer
equivalence
eugenically
fishmonger
flagellation
heedlessly
Hellenizer
historical
horselaugh
Illinoisan
importer
incitation
infiltrate
innumerable
interlope
isolation
lithograph
litigative
matrilineal
misnumber
mortgagor
nightlight
nineteenth
nonacceptance
orphanhood
permanency
phonologic
plasterer
precentor
privateer
problematic
procurer
proleptic
purloined
reappoint
recitation
reclusive
reimport
repletion
revarnish
revolvable
sanctions
scantness
sequencing
skinflint
solecistic
sovereign
stabiliser
staleness
steersman
strangler
Tajikistan
uncollected
unhonored
unladylike
unshakably
Westphalia
Windermere
5 matches
abrasively
accompanist
apologist
behavioural
benevolent
Bridgeport
Chautauqua
chrysalis
cirrhoses
classicist
clickstream
commonweal
consignor
craziness
demoniacally
dilettanti
driftwood
efficiently
ellipsoidal
empiricism
encyclopedic
endearingly
energizing
epidemically
epinephrin
exterior
fasciculus
firstling
flannelette
frequency
genealogist
genotypic
guillemot
heterodox
horoscope
humanness
hungrily
hydration
identically
inclusive
initialize
inspirit
introject
irritably
jarringly
Marquesas
megavitamin
mesmerism
monoclonal
monsieur
nativist
necrology
noblewoman
nonjoiner
nursling
optimism
orthopaedic
pisspot
preadjust
precocity
presidium
Princeton
prisoner
providing
pufferfish
Quakerism
regrowth
reluctant
remodelling
responder
reticulate
rounders
sacristy
secretary
signature
soapsuds
somerset
stirring
suctional
syntactic
throwing
transmit
trapezoid
trillium
unedifying
unionism
unmindful
valediction
visitant
vitiator
vulgarise
waitress
4 matches
adaptational
Adventist
aesthetician
allotrope
amorality
annulment
antipathy
apportion
bachelorette
backstory
beseechingly
bluepoint
boondoggler
borrower
candytuft
carbuncular
chairwoman
comparison
confessor
conquest
continent
contorted
contractable
costumer
courtside
customer
determinate
diffidently
distorted
droopily
dyspepsia
ecumenicism
elocution
encouraging
endothermic
etherealize
executive
facilitator
footnoted
frostbite
generalship
globetrot
governor
groveller
guernsey
haemorrhoid
hastiness
history
holocaust
honorary
Humphrey
imponderable
inconceivable
intersex
jottings
junglegym
likeableness
literally
litterbug
logroller
magisterial
malthouse
masterpiece
miscount
Monsieur
necrological
nonillion
nonnative
nosiness
nutation
outspend
painkilling
palindromic
Palmcorder
paparazzi
paronymic
partially
pepperoni
perambulate
performer
perishables
perpetual
Philippine
phonetician
pliableness
posture
preprandial
Presidium
prostate
punchbowl
pustule
putative
pyromanic
queenship
reduplicate
results
retrofire
ritualise
Rotterdam
sciatically
Secretary
sentiency
sexiness
sforzati
shyster
sixtieth
slideshow
smallness
Somerset
soreness
spouter
stalwart
standout
starlight
subsidize
sweetener
synagogue
tattooer
tayberry
tenuity
textiles
timekeeping
totemism
transaxle
trouncer
turnkey
turnpike
twister
ulcerous
uncharitable
unground
unharmful
unhealthy
Unionism
unloving
unpracticed
unsubtle
untidily
uplifting
Valparaiso
veritably
virtues
voiceover
volcanology
volitive
vulcanism
warmonger
weaponize
whistler
whodunit
windsurf
wintery
workforce
worldling
yoghurt
3 matches
acquittance
affixation
alphabetize
antifascism
antonymic
apoplexy
apparatchik
articulated
beatification
Bialystok
botanically
brachycephalic
bullyboy
Cagliari
calcitic
cardinalship
chesterfield
chickenhearted
chinoiserie
choreograph
Christly
cinematize
clumsily
coextensive
congregant
conjuror
constancy
Continent
contrary
convolutedly
coriander
cotyledonous
courgette
courtly
crossbow
Cuisinart
cuspidate
dangerously
debonairly
decalcification
deliberation
dependably
depreciator
dereliction
dilapidation
diphthongal
directorial
domesticate
dubiosity
eavestrough
emotionally
enquiring
expectorant
expectorate
fairylike
flauntingly
foolishness
formatting
fundholding
furniture
geriatrician
Governor
grownup
Guayaquil
Guernsey
haberdashery
headteacher
hipsters
Holocaust
homogenised
ignitible
indivisible
internment
ionizer
Jacobinical
justifiable
keystone
laddishness
laparoscopy
lavatory
lyonnaise
machinery
manoeuvre
Marinduque
methicillin
misshapenly
momentum
monkshood
Monongahela
muezzin
mugginess
mugwump
mulberry
mythmaker
mythomane
Neptunian
nervous
nonaddicting
nontoxic
overleapt
overplay
overstuffed
overtone
participial
peevishness
playlist
politely
polygamy
predication
prevalently
prosecutor
Proteus
protocol
proviso
psychosexual
pudginess
purview
rearrange
rectilinear
remainder
resolver
rosemary
rosewood
schoolbook
schoolboy
Shavuoth
shrewdly
shrimping
silicosis
skimpily
slaphappy
slenderly
slumlord
sogginess
somnolence
spacewalker
spoonbill
stairlift
stalagmitic
standardise
stockily
stonily
stumpy
summery
summons
sunnily
swankily
swarthy
swiftly
taxonomic
teachableness
theorist
thermally
thickheaded
thrombotic
Thurrock
Tocqueville
tootsy
trichinae
Tuesdays
twinkly
unaddressed
uncertified
unconverted
unprotected
unquenchable
unseemly
unstably
unwoven
Uruguay
varsity
volleyer
voyageur
waxiness
Whistler
Whitsun
womenfolk
wordplay
wouldst
wrongly
All prime matches
abscission
absurdly
acknowledgeable
admonition
aesthetics
allegorize
altogether
anecdotist
antifreeze
appreciably
archetypic
auctioneer
audiometer
Aurelius
awareness
bastardly
bemusedly
bloodstain
bottoms
Bratislava
Brittonic
brusque
cannibalistic
caoutchouc
capacitative
carbonation
Churchillian
circumambience
citrous
clockwork
closedown
cluttered
conceptual
considering
contour
contrived
cookhouse
cornrow
crouton
cultist
declutter
degeneration
degenerative
delusional
deterrent
dilettante
disavowal
disinvite
disputable
distort
downlight
downlow
draughty
drippings
efficiently
elaboration
elaborative
enlightener
epidemically
epitomise
erectness
estuarial
excogitate
exhibitor
fairground
farinaceous
ferocious
firelighter
following
foresighted
frizzle
glassily
glassware
Hauptmann
Hellenistic
hellishly
hoovering
horologer
housewife
hurtful
huskily
iconoclast
illiterate
inadmissible
indignity
ingenious
innominate
inquest
intermesh
invariant
jointly
joyriding
judicious
Leoncavallo
lezzy
licitness
likability
limitedly
Lorenzo
lowdown
maladjusted
manifoldly
Marilynn
metabolize
meteorite
metricize
mistreat
mobilizer
mounter
moviemaker
network
nonjoiner
notation
occlusion
occlusive
opalescent
orientated
oubliette
outlands
pallidness
Penobscot
pervert
philological
pietistic
polymer
popinjay
populate
Powys
preaddress
predominance
preschool
President
president
proxy
psychobabble
publisher
purslane
racketeering
Rastafarian
relocation
remount
renounceable
republish
resilient
revaluate
rubberize
Salvadoran
scallywag
scapegoater
schoolmate
seduction
seductive
seemingly
seizure
seventeen
shamateur
shrimping
sightseer
sixty
solemnise
sophist
soulful
spoorer
spumoni
stagnancy
steeply
stemware
stinter
submergible
suburbs
subvent
sukiyaki
supernal
suspect
Taurus
teamwork
telecaster
thataway
titanium
Tonkinese
transcribe
Trenton
trilobite
twirler
unadvisable
uncollected
underpay
underrated
undersell
undressed
univalve
unjointed
unreason
untwine
Vespasian
vibrator
violist
vitalize
voiceless
vulcanised
Weizmann
Western
western
Whitney
windrow
workmate
worrier
worsted
yachtsman
zesty
Custom hand-entered lexicon files matches (out of 150,0000 entries from headlines, article text, comments, and my own stream of consciousness spell-entry (ie. the database into which go all my gematria calculations you see in my main writings). These are mostly in original entry order within each match-category (my program that performs these matches intentionally does not sort the final results alphabetically) Some of the results represent experimentation with spell augmentations, and other weirdness, and might not make much sense out of context. The capitalization is not consistent, as I often enter a spell multiple times, each time with differing capitalization to test how it affects the bacon cipher results Spells that are capitalized appear in italics, regardless of whether they are proper nouns or not.: 16 matches
Phone home — NASA calls Voyager 2, and the spacecraft answers from interstellar space The spacecraft is so far south it can only talk to one Earth-bound antenna.
"The Spacecraft" = "I am the Dark Lord" = "A Social Distance" = 1,911 squares
"The Spice Craft" = "The Number" = 470 jewish-latin-agrippa
What Is a Super Typhoon, and Why Are They So Dangerous? Massive storms like Goni, which hit the Philippine islands on Sunday, could be a glimpse of our future.
A comprehensive Jehovah's Witness speak dictionary.
The further I get from being mentally in the harder it's getting for me to remember the new speak that JWs employ. I decided to document everything I can remember and figured I would make it public in case anyone else can contribute or make use of this. I really want this to be as accurate as possible. So please call me out if I am making any assumptions, if anything is incorrect, outdated, or misrepresented and I will change it. I want someone who has never heard of JWs before to be able to use this as a reference to understand what they're saying. New words and phrases:
Anointed - Exactly 144,000 people will be faithful enough to go to heaven when they die, they are called the anointed. They are hand selected by Jesus. "Can you believe Sister Smith is one of the anointed?"
Babylon the Great - Synonym False Religion. All religions that are not JWs, especially other Christian religions. Can also refer to practices deemed pagan. "I used to be Catholic, then I got out of Babylon the Great."
Bad Association - Negative connotation. Anyone who is not a JW, or is a JW but does not live up to your standards of spirituality. People you should not befriend or spend time with. "We used to invite Jimmy over for pizza nights, but based on the movies he watches he's bad association."
Bethel - Usually the world headquarters in New York, sometimes a branch office in a specific place. "We are visiting Bethel this weekend, then going to Canada Bethel next weekend."
Bethelite - Someone who volunteers for Bethel. Either physically at a branch office or over the internet. "I cannot wait to hear the Bethelite's talk."
Branch Office - Local headquarters of JWs assigned to specific countries. "We wrote a letter to the brothers in the Mexico branch office."
Brazen Conduct - Anything done disrepectfully, against the recommendation of the Elders, causing someone to stumble, or having a bad attitude. Practically, a catch-all term. "We asked her to wear more modest clothing, but she didn't listen. Now we must take action due to her brazen conduct."
Call - Synonymous with Return Visit. A person visited again and again by a specific publisher. Typically with the goal of starting a Bible study. "I have three calls to make today." or "I reported 5 return visits last month."
Circuit - A group of congregations in a geographic area overseen by a Circuit Overseer.
Circuit Assembly - A twice yearly meeting that is larger than a regular meeting and smaller than a convention. All congregations in a circuit attend. Typically one or two days long and hosted by the Circuit Overseer. Baptisms happen at assemblies and conventions. "This year's circuit assembly program was exactly what I needed to hear."
Circuit Overseer - Abbreviated CO, The man assigned to oversee a group of congregations for three years, called Circuit Work. Reports to the Governing Body. "The CO is visiting us this week."
Coordinator of The Body of Elders - Or just Coordinator formerly Presiding Overseer. The Elder who oversees the entire congregation. He is not supposed to have any special authority above regular Elders, and instead is in an administrative role. "I heard your brother was appointed Coordinator of your congregation."
Conscience Matter - A decision not clearly outlined in the scriptures, up to the individual to decide the best course. While no decision is considered wrong, conscience matters often determine if someone is exemplary or not, and therefore if they can have privileges. "I would love to grow a bread, and I know it's a conscience matter, but I want to be an MS someday so I am not growing one."
Disfellowship - Synonymous with Disassociate for all practical purposes. Someone who has either left JWs or was kicked out by the Elders. All JWs are supposed to shun this person as punishment. "It's sad that Sister Smith was disfellowshipped, I wonder what she did wrong?"
District Overseer - Abbreviated DO. No longer in use, formerly oversaw a group of circuits and COs.
Do Not Call - A person or household that should not be contacted while in service. "Skip house 327, they're do not calls."
Elder - One of the men selected to oversee a congregation. Any individual is not considered a leader, however the group as a whole lead the congregation. "If you have doubts about your faith you should talk to an Elder."
Elder Body - The group of Elders who lead a congregation and follow the COs instructions. "The Elder Body is responsible to maintain the cleanliness of the congregation."
Faithful Slave, The - Currently refers to the Governing Body exclusively. Formerly meant all anointed people. "The Faithful Slave directs Jehovah's organization."
Family Head - (1)The man in charge of the family, especially their spirituality. Typically the fathehusband of the family. "Family heads are tasked with making good decisions for their family." (2) Sometimes called Spiritual Head of The Family, this can apply to a baptized son or, in cases when no men are in the family, the baptized mother. In charge of the family's spirituality. *"Since my dad is not a JW, my mom studies with us as our spiritual head."
Family Worship - Replaced one meeting at the Kingdom Hall weekly. Intended for the Family Head to have a Bible Study with his family. "I can't go to the movie, we have our Family Worship on Tuesday nights."
Fornication - Any sexual contact outside of a heterosexual marriage, sometimes includes oral or anal sex within a marriage. Considered a serious sin. "The World doesn't have the same morals we do when it comes to fornication."
Field Service - Synonymous with Service and Door to door work. A specific form of ministry when a group of JWs visit everyone in an assigned territory. "We always go in service on Saturday mornings."
Gilead - School for JW missionaries. "My best friend was just accepted into Gilead"
Great Crowd - Everyone who survives the Great Tribulation and Armageddon and enters the paradise without dying. "Armageddon sounds scary but I want to be a part of the great crowd."
Great Tribulation, The - Prior to Armageddon but after all false religions are destroyed. the Tribulation will be a very difficult time on earth and governments will try to destroy Jehovah's Witnesses. "We need to be ready for the Great Tribulation by always obeying the Faithful Slave today."
Group Overseer - An Elder who works with a specific group of JWs, especially in the ministry. "Our group overseer wants to work with us today."
Governing Body, The - Established in the 70s as the ruling body for JWs. Considered the only spokesperson of Jehovah God today. "The brothers of the governing body are tasked with providing spiritual food by Jehovah."
Helper - A man in charge of a department at Bethel, reports to the Governing Body.
Judicial Committee - 3 to 5 Elders who meet with a person accused of a serious sin. They decide if the sin happened, if the sinner is repentant. They also determine what, if any, punishment is warranted including disfellowshipping. "I am meeting with a Judicial Committee to discuss the time I watched porn."
Kingdom Hall - Equivalent to a church. Local meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses. Does not include the congregations that meet there. Buildings are built, maintained, and sold as directed by the branch office. "It is exciting that we are combining two Kingdom Halls into one on the other side of town."
Last Days Starting in 1914 onward, a short amount of time before Armageddon arrives. People will increasingly abandon God and good morals during this time. "Did you see the latest school shooting? These are certainly the last days."
Ministerial Servant Abbreviated MS. Has some authority in the congregation but less than an Elder. Often viewed as a stepping stone to becoming an Elder and a good goal for young men. "As soon as I am out of high school I want to be a Ministerial Servant."
Need Greater Places where JW presence is low are called Where the Need is Greater. Someone who temporarily travels to one of these places to participate in the ministry is called a need greater. "I have a week of vacation from work, so we are going to where the need is greater."
New Light - A changed doctrine or policy. "Jehovah constantly provides new light for us to learn about."
New World Translation - The official JW translation of the Bible. Written anonymously and differs from other translations. Considered the most accurate translation by JWs. "You can learn the truth from a KJV, but the NWT has God's name put back in it."
Older One - An elderly person, typically a long time JW.
Other Sheep - Anyone who has the Earthly Hope. Meaning they are not going to heaven after they die, but will go to the paradise earth. "I would love to go to heaven but I am one of the other sheep."
Personal Study - Recommended studying of JW materials in free time. Can including reading magazines, watching videos, or reading the Bible and other books. "After talking to Brother Sanchez I realized I need to step up my personal study."
Reinstated - No longer disfellowshipped. JWs are no longer required to shun. "Brother Kowalski has been reinstated."
Region Formerly District, a group of circuits.
Regional Convention Formerly District Convention an annual three day long meeting, usually held in a stadium. All congregations from a region are expected to attend their assigned convention. Each year's program has a specific theme. "My favorite part about the conventions are the dramas!"
School for Kingdom Evangelizes - Formerly Bible School for Christian Brothers and Ministerial Training School. A special school for publishers who want to do more for Jehovah's Witnesses. After attending this school they are assigned, often to a remote congregation or, if male, as a Circuit Overseer. "My goal is to attend School for Single Brothers when I can, so I am staying single."
Serious Sin - An action that that is forbidden to JWs and can get you disfellowshipped. They are broadly defined and include fornication, non-neutrality, and brazen conduct. "He felt compelled to confess his serious sin to the Elders."
Service Overseer The Elder who organizes the ministry in a congregation, also collects everyone's hours monthly and sends them to the branch office. "Make sure to turn your service time into the service overseer today."
Service Year - September - August. The time during which a Pioneer must meet their hour quota.
Society, The - No longer in use. (1)The entire organization of Jehovah's Witnesses. "The Society takes care of its members." (2) The Watchtower Bible Tract Society, the corporation originally founded that became Jehovah's Witnesses.
Spiritual Weakness - Someone who is not considered a good JW is spiritually weak. Usually blamed on a lack of personal study. "We need to encourage spiritually weak ones."
System of things Synonym Old System or Wicked Old System. The time we live in now, including all human history. Everything between the Garden of Eden and the New System. "I can't wait for this old system to be gone."
Paradise - (1) "The paradise." Synonymous with The New System and The New World. JW version of heaven on earth. Everlasting life and pet tigers. The reward for nearly all loyal JWs. "Jehovah will give his servants everlasting life in the paradise earth." (2) "A paradise" The Garden of Eden, "Adam and Eve lived in a paradise."
Pioneer - (1)Regular Pioneer. A JW who commits to spend the majority of their time in the ministry annually. Considered a significant privilege. (2) Auxiliary Pioneer. a JW who who commits monthly to spend a specific number of hours in the ministry. "I am using my spring break to pioneer this month."
Prison Witnessing - Meetings held inside of prisons to convert prisoners.
Publisher - A baptized JW who is active in the ministry. "Our Hall has 100 publishers."
Scarlet Colored Beast - Specifically The United Nations. Will attempt to destroy all religion then Jehovah's Witnesses in particular. "It is only a matter of time until the scarlet beast turns on us."
Spiritual Food - Sometimes "spiritual Food at the proper time" (1) Guidance from Jehovah that must be regularly reviewed to stay faithful as a Christian. (2) The publications, videos, and talks from JWs. "The meetings are designed to provide us with spiritual food at the proper time."
Theocratic Ministry School - Sometimes just The School. A weekly meeting. Bible readings, short talks, and demonstrations are assigned to JWs to prepare. Most parts handled by men. " I want to participate in the school but I am too afraid."
Truth, The - Jehovah's Witness doctrine or organization. "I was so unhappy before I found the truth."
Unbaptized Publisher - Someone who has not yet been baptized, but is considered a JW and is allowed to participate in the ministry. A step toward getting baptized. "My Bible study just became a publisher and want to get baptized this summer."
Unbelieving Mate - A spouse of a JW who is not a JW. Typically applied to men. "Wendy's husband is unbelieving."
Unevenly Yoked - Typically applied to marriage. JWs shouldn't marry or otherwise "yoke" themselves to weaker JWs or non-JWs. "You may be lonely, but if you marry a non believer you will be unhappy from being a unevenly yoked."
Universal Sovereignty - The issues that Satan raised in the garden of Eden and the book of Job, namely that Jehovah is not fit to rule. Is answered by remaining faithful as a Jehovah's Witnesses no matter what. "We must always obey Jehovah so that we can answer the question of universal sovereignty."
Young One Depending on context, either a child, teenager, or young adult. Sometimes all of them. 'This program is aimed at our young ones."
Redefined words and phrases:
Apostate - (1) People who spread lies and misinformation about JWs. (2) Any information from non-JW sources, all of which is considered to be untruthful. "Be careful reading news articles on the internet, you may be stumbled by apostate lies."
Armageddon - Impending event that will kill all non-JWs on the planet. Possibly some will be spared and some JWs will be killed. Viewed as a good thing. "I cannot wait for Armegeddon to happen."
Baptism - Declaring your loyalty to Jehovah's Organization, then getting dunked fully under water by an Elder. Indicates you are a Jehovah's Witnesses forever and can be called Brother or Sister. Typically must be around 10 or older to get baptized. "I am so happy that your little sister got baptized that weekend."
Bible Study - Studying a JW publication. Some publications are meant for non-members studying in their home with JWs, others are meant for members and are studied in Kingdom Halls. "The Bible Teach book shows us what the Bible really means."
Brother - (1) Baptized male JW. (2) All JWs, usually "The Brothers". "We love all of the brothers very much."
Christian - (1) Any religion that involves Jesus. (2) Sometimes First Century Christians* refers to the original Christians who, supposedly, worshiped the exact same way JWs do today. "We can see evidence for the Governing Body in the way First Century Christians handled matters."
Christendom - All Christian religions that are not JWs. Has a negative connotation. "All of Christendom's churches are misleading people under Satan's influence."
Clean - Sometimes Cleanliness. (1)Physically clean and uncluttered, tidy. A requirement to be a JW. (2) Sometimes Spiritual Cleanliness. Only observe the "pure" teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses and avoiding any teachings from other religions or organizations. "Don't become unclean by participating in holidays or holding political opinions."
Dating - Deciding if you will marry a specific individual or not. "I really want to get married so Chelsea and I are dating."
Dedication - Required prior to baptism. Privately dedicate your life to Jehovah in prayer.
Drama - Outdated. An audio recording played at a convention with people on the stage acting along with it.
Evolution - An attempt by Satan to discredit Jehovah. An erroneous conclusion based on the adaptability of life. Considered to be completely unsupported by evidence. "We know Jehovah created the animals and gave them the ability to adapt, but humans are special."
Exemplary - Someone who appears to represent the ideal Jehovah's Witness and qualifies for privileges. "I wouldn't talk to Johnny, he's not exemplary and his attitude could rub off on you."
Faith - A conviction based on careful research of evidence. "We do not have blind faith, we have faith that we have the truth."
Fear of God - A healthy fear of displeasing God.
Generation - Sometimes Overlapping Generation. A group of people and anyone born while people from the group are alive. "The 1914 generation will see Armageddon."
God's Kingdom - A government established in heaven in 1914 with Jesus as king. Will rule on earth for 1,000 years after Armageddon.
Inactive - A publisher who has not gotten any hours in the ministry in the last 6 months. "We should talk to Sister Diane, she's been inactive for a while."
Interested - A person who is curious about JWs but is not a member and may not have an official Bible Study yet. "My co-worker is interested so I invited him to the meeting."
Irregular - A publisher who has not gotten any hours in the ministry in one or more of the previous 6 months. "I wonder why Brother Klien has been irregular recently?"
Jehovah - The common English translation of YHWH, the name of God the Father. Not part of a trinity and never refers to Jesus.
Headship - A scriptural principal referring to the subservience of women to men, and men to Jesus. Women can only teach in front of other women and must wear a head covering while doing so, never in front of baptized men. "I had to pray before service this meeting because no brother were out, so I wore a handkerchief as a head covering to respect headship."
Letter Writing - A form of ministry where letters are written and sent to people.
Love - (1) The good feeling you get when you do everything Jehovah wants. Absent when you are doing something wrong. "I felt so guilty when I was missing meetings, but when I am here I can feel Jehovah's love." (2) Affection toward other people, expressed correctly. "We love our son, so we are shunning him until he comes back to Jehovah." (3) Agape Love Literally loving the unlovable. Applied as blanket love given to all fellow JWs. "We send our greetings along with agape love for the brothers."
Marked - Someone who is not follow the Elder's instructions, but is not sinning enough to be disfellowshipped. For example, dating or marrying a non-JW. The person is shunned outside of the Kingdom Hall, but their name is not directly mentioned. "Someone is dating a nonbeliever. That person is marked."
Meditation - Thinking deeply about Bible topics, recommended after reading the Bible. "I had to really meditate on this week's Bible reading to understand it."
Meeting - Equivalent to a church service. A program typically held in a Kingdom Hall as directed by the branch office. "I never miss meetings, they are too important."
Ministry - Synonymous with Witnessing. Recruiting people to be JWs, often under the guise of "Bible education" or "helping with life's troubles". "I went in the ministry with brother Johnson today."
Modest - Sometimes Modesty. (1) Clothing that is neither tight nor revealing, usually applied to women. "That blouse is too low cut to be modest. (2) Not taking credit for personal success. "When complimented on his talk, Brother Smith modestly gave the credit to Jehovah."
Organization, The - Generally, the religious and corporate entity overseen by the Governing Body known as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Political - Considered a serious sin in the form of Violating Christian Neutrality or just Neutrality. Politics includes joining a political party, voting, or having specific opinions on governments. Does not include paying taxes. "Why would anyone put trust in the politics of this world?"
Principles - Unwritten rules that the Bible implies and must be followed, especially if one wants to be considered exemplary. "After meditating on the principles of how Jehovah views violence, I gave up video games and sold my PS4."
Privileges of Service - Or just Privileges. Anything during a meeting other than sitting and listening. Includes hold microphones, reading the Bible, ministry, and giving talks. Most are only available to men. Can be revoked if for any reason you are no longer exemplary. "I am trying to reach out for more privileges in the congregation."
Reach Out - Putting yourself in a position where you can receive more privileges. Expected of men. However reaching out too far is considered presumptuous. "I show up to each meeting 20 minutes early because I am reaching out."
Reproof - After confession a sin to the Elders they may take away all privileges and make a note in your file. You are reproved either for a specific time or until the Elders decide otherwise. (1)Private reproof. Only the Elders know you were reproved. (2)Public Reproof. Your name is announced publicly as being reproved.
Sister - A baptized JW woman. "You should find a nice sister to marry."
Stumbled - (1)Being so offended you leave JWs. (2)Being at fault due to offending someone else, can be for any reason. "You should wear a longer skirt or you could stumble some of the brothers."
Talk - Similar to a sermon. A specific outline to be delivered by a brother at a Kingdom Hall, Assembly, or Convention.
Theocratic - Related to God's Kingdom or his organization on Earth. "We do well to focus on theocratic matters."
World, The - Any organization that is not JWs. "Satan controls the world."
Worldly - Anyone who has never been a JW. "Wordly people do not know the joy of serving Jehovah."
TL;DR: President Adeoun's Unityist government has, in the past few years, presided over both a vast expansion of the educational system and the ideological indoctrination of Nigeria’s youth. Since the Foundation’s takeover of the Nigerian government, its grip has inexorably tightened over Nigerian society. Nowhere has that effect been better exemplified than education in Nigeria. President Adeoun sees education as the key to the future of Unityism in Nigeria and the future of Nigeria as a whole. The children must be taught the correct ways or the country will be led astray. The first and foremost campaign undertaken by President Adeoun has been increasing the rates of primary school enrollment and getting literacy to 100%. There are many reasons that parents fail to send their children to school whether it be the difficulty, the expense, the opportunity cost, or fears about security. All of these reasons have now been addressed. With the country long stabilized and the security forces more competent and well-funded than ever before, fears for their children’s safety should be alleviated. Strict punishments in a judicial system more efficient and willing to sentence than ever before have deterred some criminals while economic growth has removed the financial concerns some criminals faced when deciding to turn to a life of crime. Meanwhile, large-scale teacher hiring campaigns and school construction efforts have improved the quality of education while also bringing schools much closer to home making it easier for parents to send their children to school. Funding for the indigent has eliminated expensive school fees that accompanied the free education the state provides. Though those who can afford to pay still must pay, cost is no longer an issue for those who cannot. Additional programs to help poorer students have been set up to provide them with at least one square meal a day while school is in session, thereby giving the poorest parents in Nigeria an additional incentive to send their children to school by removing a mouth that they have to feed. However, the stick must accompany the carrot. While education has always been compulsory in Nigeria, it has never been legally enforced though the government had always possessed the authority to use that power. Now it is time to use it. Crippling financial fines for failing to send children to primary school for education now force all except the wealthy to send their children to school; the wealthy themselves may be targeted by unavoidable jail time (and additional scrutiny by security services) that provide a different reason to send their children to a state school. Of course, those reforms were introductory ones merely designed to increase primary school enrollment. So much more must be done to completely overhaul Nigeria’s failing educational system. One of the most important reforms in the recent past has been the Educational Unification Act which was an unprecedented act giving the national government unlimited power in the realm of education, taking away that responsibility from states. State schools have been federalized and state ministries of education absorbed by the federal Ministry of Education. The centralization of power in Nigeria continues. With full authority over educational matters, the national government has moved towards nationalization of all private schools in the country to consolidate education under the reins of the Foundation. Now that all schools follow the national diktat, the federal government has been able to impose universal standards for all schools that have simplified educational processes and reduced redundancies in educational funding. The overall quality has been vastly improved with regional focuses within the national education program allowing even the states that were already ahead educationally-speaking to continue improving the quality of their education. While this has led to greater efficiencies and costs-savings, more funding was needed to improve the decrepit state of Nigerian education. Therefore, President Adeoun had accompanied these nationalization reforms with major boosts to educational funding within Nigeria. Billions of dollars of additional tax revenue, all that the state can spare, has been invested in the country’s educational infrastructure, whether primary schools or universities. There should be a school for every village, a teacher for every 40 children, and a university for all those that want to attain a higher education. This also has the beneficial side effect of reducing the number of Nigerians who go overseas for a college education and return with liberal ideas about government that harm the Nigerian people. Afterwards, a national curriculum was decided for the thousands of schools under state administration. Subjects that were previously taught included English, Christian religious knowledge, Islamic knowledge studies, agricultural science, home economics, and one of the three main indigenous cultures/languages in the country. President Adeoun saw these courses as an example of the failing state of Nigerian education. Religious and ethnic sentiment in the country must be stamped out; we are all Nigerians after all aren’t we? Courses have been reorganized into English, Mathematics, Basic Science, Home Economics, Cultural Studies, and Social Studies. A fundamental knowledge of the STEM-field will improve Nigeria’s technological capabilities over the long-run while a deeper study of English (a mandatory class) will ensure nation-wide literacy and intelligibility. The focus of this new primary school educational curriculum will be cultural and social studies. Combined, these two are the building blocks of indoctrination within the Nigeria which will promote loyalty to the state, nationalistic and pan-West African sentiment, and inculcate a sense of devotion to Unityism within Nigeria’s children. While there are many who would oppose Unityism at the present within Nigeria, their children will grow up with Unityist thought in their minds. The new generation will help Unityism root itself so deeply within Nigeria that the country and Unityism could become synonyms. Major reforms to the curriculum of secondary and tertiary schools have continued the increased emphasis on nationalism, Unityism, and STEM fields. However, while secondary schools had fallen into line, tertiary schools had more entrenched opposition within them. They have always been centers of liberal thought which has been the reason for Nigerian national decay. Many of their professors taught treasonous thoughts that poison the minds of their students in the name of freedom and liberty. If any civil unrest arose in Nigeria, it would likely originate from university campuses where well-organized student unions without jobs to attend to and families to feed might be lured to sedition by criminal elements within Nigerian society. Aware that university students in Nigeria often belong to influential families whom it would be unwise to move against, the government has moved slowly to reorient teaching in colleges to promote Unityism rather than liberal values. Dissident professors have been fired and if they prove too unruly, even arrested (disappeared into a re-education camp). Classes in the social sciences have seen government-mandated changes to their curriculum which have emphasized nationalist history, nationalist thought, pan-West Africanism, and Unityist tenets. Meanwhile, there has been heavy promotion of college Unityist organizations which have now become the most influential student group at most universities. New universities founded in the recent education drive have let the government organize them in the most pro-Unityist fashion possible with Unityist professors and the most socioeconomically and nationally diverse student body ever seen in Nigeria’s history. Poor university students will remember the government’s generosity while they are indoctrinated with Unityist thought at college. Tertiary educational institutes in Nigeria have turned from hotbeds of liberal agitation to centers for Unityist thought. May Unityism live forever. Though schools can help in educating Nigeria’s youth, indoctrination must be constant. A few dozen hours a week is not enough to guarantee the security of the youth’s thoughts. Parents may seek to spread poisonous values to their children. Religious leaders may rail against the godless Unityists when they themselves have been abandoned by God. President Adeoun, the ever-wise leader, has emphasized the role of the Future, the Foundation’s youth wing, in helping train Nigeria’s youth to become Nigeria’s new leaders, workers, and thinkers. Though not mandatory, it has been made very clear that there are severe consequences for failing to enroll in the Future for all citizens of Nigeria. Intense pressure from their schools, social consequences of failing to enroll (with membership youth sports facilities, internships, and jobs dependent on membership in the Future along with social isolation of children not in the Future), and investigations of parents who fail to enroll their children in the Future are all methods the government has undertaken to ensure enrollment is as comprehensive is as possible without resorting to legal penalties. The Future itself has grown into an organization that holds summer camps for children of all ethnic groups and social classes, an organization that brings Nigerian children regardless of their backgrounds together into an inclusive social environment, an organization that teaches essential skills to the Nigerian youth through a Unityist lense, and an organization that provides a vast variety of charity services to the Nigerian people through volunteer actions and work groups that have aided in labor efforts to defend against desertification and improve infrastructure. Recognizing that many families need their children for agricultural activities, participation in the Future is often flexible with volunteer actions by Futurists that oftentimes build a new well, help teach best management practices for agriculture, or simply harvest crops, greatly aiding smallholder farmers in Nigeria (and tying them ever closely to the Foundation).
Publisher or Platform? It Doesn't Matter. “You have to choose: are you a platform or a publisher?” It’s the question that makes us pull out our hair and roll our eyes. It’s the question that makes us want to shout from the rooftops “IT DOESN’T MATTER. YOU DON’T HAVE TO CHOOSE” We’ll say it plainly here: there is no legal significance to labeling an online service a “platform” as opposed to a “publisher.” Yes. That’s right. There is no legal significance to labeling an online service a “platform.” Nor does the law treat online services differently based on their ideological “neutrality” or lack thereof. There is no common law or statutory significance to the word “platform.” It is not found in Section 230 at all. Some of the “You’re a platform!” mania is likely the fault of the companies themselves. Some have used the word “platform” to distinguish themselves, who primarily published user-generated content, from those who primarily published their own content, and/or actively edit and curate the content of others. They self-identified as “platforms” mostly to justify what was perceived as their hands-off approach to content moderation, particularly with respect to decisions not to remove hateful and harassing speech from their sites. It’s fair to call out the big social media companies for holding themselves out as purely passive conduits (which is what some seem to mean when they call themselves “platforms”) when they actually moderate a ton of user content every day, and pretty much always have. Our work on the Santa Clara Principles reflects the human rights implications of content moderation, even though we support the First Amendment right of intermediaries to curate their sites. But as a legal cudgel against perceived political bias, which is how the “admit it you’re a publisher not a platform” screed has most frequently been used, it is a meaningless distinction. When politicians like Sen. Ted Cruz demand that Twitter identify itself as either a “publisher” or a “platform,” they usually make this false distinction in the entirely erroneous context of 47 U.S.C. § 230, the provision of U.S. law that grants broad immunity from liability to online intermediaries when such liability would be based on the speech of others. Rather than enshrine some significance between online “platforms” and “publishers,” Section 230 intentionally nullifies any distinction that might have existed. Contrary to popular misconception, immunity is not a reward for intermediaries that choose the path of total neutrality (whatever that means); nor did Congress enact Section 230 with an expectation that Internet services were or would become completely neutral. Section 230 explicitly grants immunity to all intermediaries, both the “neutral” and the proudly biased. It treats them exactly the same, and does so on purpose. That’s a feature of Section 230, not a bug. So online services did not self-identify as “platforms” to mythically gain Section 230 protection—they had that already. Unlike “publisher” (more on that below), there is no common law or statutory significance to the word “platform.” It is not found in Section 230 at all. The word “platform” doesn’t even appear in any published Section 230 judicial opinions until 2004, and there and in most subsequent cases, the court simply quoted the descriptive language from the parties’ briefs in which it was used mostly as a synonym for “website.” Starting around 2010, courts did start using the word “platform” to describe internet services through which users interacted, much like courts used the terms “portal” or “website” previously and thereafter. Moreover, regardless of Section 230, it is completely common to be both a “publisher” and a “platform” at the same time—a publisher of your own content and a platform for the content of others. Newspapers have historically done this and continue to do so—a publisher of the articles they write themselves and a platform for the content they publish but did not write themselves—letters to the editor, wire service articles, advertisements, op-eds, etc. And online publications and websites continue to do so now, mixing their own content with that generated by users. In fact, it is really difficult to find any online service close to the user end, that is services like social media and email clients with which the user directly and openly interacts, that is solely a conduit for user speech, without any speech of its own. One doesn’t really find pure conduits like this until quite deep in the infrastructure layer of the Internet—like ISPs, domain name services, content delivery networks (CDNs), and email servers. And even that at depth, takedowns are not uncommon. The specious publisher-platform argument is also historically off-base. Historically, there is some legal distinction between “publishers” and more passive “distributors” of others’ speech, and “distributors” is perhaps what those who yearn for “neutral platforms” are referring to. But “distributors” was just a subcategory of “publishers” and both bore liability. So, what is the legal difference between “publishers” and “distributors”? One is always a “publisher” of their own words, the stuff they write and say themselves. That is completely uncontroversial. The controversy and confusion arise around republication liability, the idea that you are legally a “publisher” of all statements of others that you republish even if you accurately quote the original speaker and attribute the statement to them. So, if you accurately and directly quote someone in an article you have written, and the quoted statements defame someone, you can be liable for defamation for republishing those statements. This applies to any content in your publication that you did not write yourself, like letters to the editor, advertisements, outside editorial, wire service stories, etc. Legally, you are responsible for all of these statements as if they were your own creations. This legal concept of republication liability is an old concept inherited from English common law. But it appears that up until 1824, accurate attribution was a full defense. A subcategory of these “publishers” are “distributors.” Since at least 1837, republication liability has extended also to mere distributors of speech—the 1837 case Day v. Bream dealt with a courier who had delivered a box of libelous handbills—if it could be proved that they knew or should have known about the illegal or tortious content. This “distributor” liability was widely applied to newsstands, booksellers, and libraries. The American version of this knowledge-based “distributor” liability is commonly associated with the US Supreme Court’s 1959 decision in Smith v. California, which found that a bookseller could not be convicted of peddling obscene material unless it could be proven that the bookseller knew of the obscene contents of the book. Outside of criminal law, US courts imposed liability on distributors who simply should have known that they were distributing actionable content. So “distributor liability” applied to those like booksellers, newsstands, and couriers who merely served as fairly passive conduits for others’ speech, and “publisher liability” applied to those who engaged with the other person’s speech in some way, whether by editing it, modifying it, affirmatively endorsing it, or including it as part of larger original reporting. For the former, group, the passive distributors, there could be no liability unless they knew, or should have known, of the libelous material. For the latter group, the publishers, they were treated the same as the original speakers they quoted. Because one was treated a bit better if they were a passive distributor, the law actually disincentivized editing, curation, or reviewing content for any reason. One of the primary purposes of Section 230 was to remove this disincentive and encourage online intermediaries to actively curate and edit their sites without being so penalized. Former Rep. Chris Cox, one of the co-authors of Section 230, recalls finding it “surpassingly stupid” that before Section 230, courts effectively disi
This list does not include generic Imperial NPCs with common professions, Fighter's Guild or Mage’s Guild people, Imperials in inaccessible areas (such as the Clockwork City), or general bandit groups. Some fillers have been sought from Wikipedia to cover a minor description or general explanation as to what each rank or title includes/means. Hakoshae, the Magnate and the Potentate have been excluded as they are next to nonexistent, or feel irrelevant. You can read some tidbits about them here: 12345 Overall, to make this document, I went through all of the Imperial NPCs since Dragonhold (944 when this document was in the making), all contraband items, all books in found in the game (including crafting motifs, the eidetic memory, shalidor’s library and non categorised books), all costumes, all pets and mounts as well as all quest items, unique items and other items. Are there missing items or titles? More than likely. I covered what I could find. If you have any further additions that you happen to stumble over, please leave me a message on Twitter! Or here on Reddit.
The Niben Aristocracy wore golden Laurel Coronets 12
The Imperial Knights were synonymous to militaristic nobles who held no commanding power in the Imperial Legions. Read more in Military Titles → General Facts
Noble families were titled as House [Family Surname], and often referred to as The [Family Surname]s 123
Citizens could have their citizenship revoked and property seized by the government if they failed to meet requirements set by the (local) ruling authorities
In ancient Rome, the upper classes and some wealthy individuals lived in a type of house called Domus. This can be seen in ESO’s Domus Phrasticus, a house that belonged to Phrastus of Elinhir
The Elder Council Or otherwise referred to as the Imperial Council, It is the foremost administrative body in the Cyrodilic government. Their responsibilities ranged from taxation, infrastructure and minor legislation (which the Emperor could veto). The Council’s actions are governed by the Elder Council Charter. Decrees and call for arms from lower governing bodies were ratified/sanctioned after the Elder Council’s approval. Imperial forces that invaded and who took control of said provincial areas are called Imperial Occupation Authorities. Members of the Elder Council were called Councilors, with a Chief Councilor among them. During times when there was no EmperoEmpress, a High Chancellor, the head of the Elder Council, undertook their mantle. The Elder Council could seize control of military forces of the Empire. At times of war, the Chancellor donned a traditional armour when engaging in battle. Imperial Battlemages from the Shadow Legion could earn the prestige of being promoted to the unit’s leader, and thus become an advisor to the Elder Council. The Imperial Battlemage should not be confused with the regular Imperial Battlemage. Ambassadors from provinces were part of some Council meetings, in which they could express their concerns and voice demands against Imperial actions. Other attendees included the High Magistrate. You can find one of the surviving Councilors in the Alliance Bases in the Imperial Sewers. Decisions made by the Elder Council are seen to by various smaller councils, ministers, governors and local authorities. Transactions and expenditures made in the Imperial Council’s name were recorded to a Register of Accounts and Holdings. Legionary’s Council Military matters were to be brought up with the Legionary’s Council. Their meetings do not appear to occur on a frequent basis, considering their only scheduled meeting was said in the Second Seed (May) to be scheduled in First Seed of next year (March). The grade of direness to the topics they would handle is relatively unknown.
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King/Queen A title given to a monarch who governed over an Imperial Province
Duke/Duchess In the Roman Empire, Duke was used in contexts signifying a rank equivalent to a captain or a general. What duties the title carry in ESO are left ambiguous
Baron/Baroness Implied to be a “warrior, nobleman”. Perhaps the first step of minor nobility that a peasant in the Empire could obtain after their service or pillaging during war.
Council of Civic Planning- a party concerned with the development and design of land use and the built environment, infrastructure, transportation and distribution networks. Imperial Architect is a term used for some of its members. The greatest Cyrodilic (?) architect was summoned by the Ayleids to construct a great hall.
Minister of Punition- mentioned only. Probably someone who decided what manner of punishment prisoners would receive
ProvincialGovernor - a governor who possesses unlimited authority and often extorted the population. Such could be seen with the taxation increase put in place by Fortunata ap Dugal and her reign in Anvil 123
Governor- an elected official to be a chief administrator of Imperial law in a certain area
Exchequer- a government department responsible for taxation/receiving and giving out public money. Also referred to as a treasury
Agent-Inspector (of the Imperial Trade Service) - Imperial Inspectors who survey incoming goods, deciding whether or not they should be allowed within the Empire’s borders or be banned
Prefects ranged from low to high-ranking military or civil officials (a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department). This was the third highest officer in the Roman Legion, and was usually in charge of training a legion. They could also command a cohort of auxiliaries. Prefects were above the Thin Stripe Tribune (Major, LT Colonel/Colonel). The Count of Anvil (Ephrem Benirus) served as an Imperial Prefect of said city 1234
It is implied that certain craftsmen (such as enchanters) require licenses to operate
Consul - a diplomat. They attended state dinners, concerns of Imperial citizens and spoke with provincial officials (such as councilors). Those with military careers could change the latter into that of a consul
Praetor - in ancient Roman times, they served as a magistrate below the consul. They had chiefly judicial functions
Emissary- a person sent as a diplomatic representative on a special mission
Imperial Census- mentioned by Quintus Verres when old abandoned ruins were filled with Imperials, despite past claims of there not being any. A census is an official count or survey, especially of a population
Chief Archivist - not sure whether or not this should be here or beneath the Arcane University. Chief Archivists were the head archivists, maintaining, appraising, arranging and describing records of the past. Chief Archivists were known to utilise spell ciphers to decode or mask the contents of books.
Subcurator of Ancient Theology and Paleonumerology - a curator is traditionally someone who is a keeper of a gallery, museum, library or archive. They are charged with an institution’s collection and interpretation of heritage material. This one specialises in religion and the study of the occult ancient significance of numbers
The Chair of Vexillology - the main leader (?) for the study of flags. Did you know that Imperial vessels, particularly those of the early First Empire, carried their unique banner into battle while hung suspended from a tall pole by a crossbar?
Scholar Emeritus - the former holder of an office, especially a university professor, who has retired but allowed to retain their title as an honour.
University of Gwylim An ancient scholarly organisation, dedicated to practical pedagogy
Legionary’s Gazette- a journal/newspaper, seemingly used to spread propaganda. The gazette uses the Latin words AuctorVeritas (“authoscholaoriginator” and “truth”) as a title for the original author
This video visually breaks down the structure of the Roman Legions, while this article explains the structure in a simplistic fashion. The listed rank further below can be found in ESO. As some of them were lacking explanations altogether, modern military ranks and those of the Roman Legions (Roman Empire) have been used to add further information in for descriptions of their duties and responsibilities. This can be confusing, however, as there are “double ranks”. This means that both the old Roman Legion ranks and their modern equivalents have been simultaneously included in the game. I did not include the Alliance War Ranks among the Imperial Legion military titles, even if some are based off of them. I found the following misleading or lacking points among the Alliance War Ranks that can raise eyebrows:
The rank of Centurion (which would equal Captain in modern times) surpasses the rank of Major in Alliance War Ranks. This should not be the case
Outside of PvP, there are no NPCs bearing the rank of a Brigadier
Depending on the Tribune, listing the Prefect below or above them can be/is wrong
For some reason, Palace Guard ranks (Praetorian, Palitine and August Palitine) are included in Alliance War Ranks. There are no NPCs bearing any of these ranks in ESO. The closest equivalent to the three would be that of the Imperial Guard
While each Alliance has their own Grand Warlord (Zimmeron, Sorcalin and Dortene), Imperials lack this entirely
Overlord and Grand Overlord do not exist anywhere but in PvP
General Facts
Enemies of the Legion could take advantage of the fact that Legion troops liked to know that the Gods were on their side. Holy symbols could/were transported among some Legions for this purpose
Legionary Academies could hold a place of honor among Imperial military families
Imperial Knights represented the upper echelons of the Imperial Legions, though did not serve as field commanders. They are a militaristic noble. Colovian Knights could perhaps be counted among them
The leadership of the Legions was encouraged by Magus-General Septima Tharn to make memorable examples of disloyal soldiers, disobedient prisoners or uncooperative civilians who had been conquered
Some Legions could have their own animal mascots, such as the Second Legion
Every cohort (a unit of ~480 men) includes a cadre) of spellcasters known as Imperial Battlemages, who are part of the Shadow Legion, a specialised military spellcasting division
A 33rd cohort is mentioned in ESO, while Roman Legions were known to only have 10 in a single Legion. If there were 33 cohorts, the number of men would equal to ~ 16’000 in a single Legion, instead of the standard ~ 5000 men in the Roman Empire. Even if the first Legion was twice the size of any other Legion, it still only consisted of 10 cohorts). This means that the Centurion who wrote the letter should have been placed in the Third Legion instead
Quartermaster- usually a senior soldier in charge of supervising stores or barracks, and distributes supplies and provisions
Legion Paymaster- a member of the Imperial Legion who pays severance to families who have lost loved ones in the Legion. The payment is granted every month, though it is unclear for how long severance is paid
Surgeon - doctors who served in the Imperial Legion. 12 It is unclear if surgeons were deployed alongside healers or if they stayed on the sidelines
(Number) Legion Surplus - Legion members who sell military surplus to noncombatants. The material must not have any significant military application. The acquired gold is used to pay for means to aid in getting back to the Legion
The Fuju-fuse Sect is one of the eleven that traditionally comprise the mainstream Nichiren Buddhist movement in Japan. Like the others, it derives its ultimate scriptural authority from the Lotus Sutra and considers Nichiren (1222-1282) as its religious founder; its sectarian originator is Nichiō (1565-1630). Like the others, also, it sees itself as the only legitimate heir to Nichiren's teaching, making this claim on the basis of unwavering fidelity to Nichirne's instructions that his disciples should not accept (fuju) alms from, and his devotees should not give (fuse) alms to nonbelievers of the Lotus Sutra. Whether or not this was so unambiguously asserted by Nichiren has been a matter of controversy, but it is nonetheless true that all Nichiren sect [sic] agreed to abide by it. Adherence to this admonision [sic] was, after all, a means by which purity of faith could be maintained and an effective way to draw others to the Lotus faith. Source
There are a couple main things going on in this passage, IMHO. First of all, there is a precedent for not accepting donations from unbelievers, dating back to Nichiren:
On this occasion the shogunate offered to build him a large temple and establish him on an equal footing with all the other Buddhist schools, but Nichiren refused. He instead again refuted the errors of the shogunate. Source
Nichiren refused because he wanted to be the ONLY one, not just another of equal standing. So, since the shogun clearly did not believe Nichiren was exclusively correct, Nichiren would not accept his donation. And from "The 26 Admonitions of Nikko", #6 and #22:
Lay believers should be strictly prohibited from visiting [heretical] temples and shrines. Moreover, priests should not visit slanderous temples or shrines, which are inhabited by demons, even if only to have a look around. To do so would be a pitiful violation [of the Daishonin's Buddhism.] This is not my own personal view; it wholly derives from the sutras [of Shakyamuni] and the writings [of Nichiren Daishonin].
It is traditional to offer a small token donation when one visits a temple.
You must not accept offerings from slanderers of the Law.
That means everyone who wasn't in their group. So those two cover the giving of donations to non-Nichiren groups and the "receiving of offerings" from non-Nichiren groups. Clearly, there is a basis for the "fuju-fuse" stance both within Nichiren Shoshu, from whom SGI learned everything it ever knew about Nichirenism, and other Nichiren sects. That bit about "purity of faith" within intolerant religions, whether they be fundagelical Christianity or Soka Gakkai/SGI, it seems that this whole concept of "purity of faith" appears tied to the most extremist views. Whichever is the most extreme in its intolerance gets to claim "purest faith" or "true heir" or whatever. It only goes in that direction - in the direction of extremism. There was a competing movement, though - ju fuse. Under that doctrine, while they were forbidden from giving anything to foul heathen unbelievers, they were permitted to receive donations from them! This is really the pragmatist approach, because if the government decides to bestow some largesse upon the group, they can accept it. Under ju fuse, that large temple the government offered Nichiren, that he turned his nose up at? They'd have had a doctrinal basis for accepting it, while still keeping ALL their stuff for themselves otherwise. Best of all possible worlds, right? There was a situation in 1532:
The extent of Hokkeshu[Nichiren Lotus Sutra supremacy believers]-organized machishu [townspeople] unity was powerfully demonstrated during a threatened attack by Ikko [government] forces in the summer of 1532. For days, thousands of townsmen rode or marched in formation through the city in a display of armed readiness, carrying banners that read Namu-myoho-renge-kyo and chanting the daimoku. This was the beginning of the so-called Hokke ikki 法举—J (Lotus Confederation or Lotus Uprising). Allied with the forces of the shogunal deputy, Hosokawa Harumoto, they repelled the attack and destroyed the Yamashma Honean-ji, the Ikko stronghold. For four years the Hokkeshu monto [community] in effect maintained an autonomous government in Kyoto, establishing their own organizations to police the city and carry out judicial functions. They not only refused to pay rents and taxes, but according to complaints from Mt. Hiei—also forcibly converted the common people and prohibited worship at the temples of other sects. Recognition of the Lotus as the final source of authority in effect created a moral space exterior to that of the ruler and his order, wherein that order could be transcended and criticized.
Nichiren likewise fancied himself above the government as he sought to be acknowledged as ruler over all. This belief has obviously persisted among Nichiren devotees. THIS is why Makiguchi and Toda and Shuhei Yajima, along with 19 other Soka Kyoiku Gakkai members, were imprisoned - it was because they were promoting belief that the Emperor wasn't authorized to rule and make decisions for the country. That's why the charge against them was lèse majesté, or treason. They fancied that their religious beliefs ELEVATED them above the Emperor! It's exactly the same as how fundagelical Christians like to claim they're only answerable to "god's law" and thus are free to ignore secular law whenever it suits them. There's no difference at all.
We have already noted that Lotus exclusivism could take the form of resistance to the ruling authority. Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the so-called Nichiren fuju fuse 不受不方& movement of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Fuju fuse一 “to neither receive nor offer”一 refers to the principle that believers in the Lotus Sutra should neither receive alms from nor bestow alms upon nonbelievers (even the ruler himself)，whether in the form of material donations or religious services. Although, as noted above, occasional compromises had been made in the early history of certain Nichiren communities, this principle had been widely honored during medieval times. Under the Ashikaga, the Hokke sect several times sought and obtained exemptions from participating in bakufu-sponsored religious events. Matters had changed, however, by 1595，when Toyotomi Hideyoshi demanded that a hundred monks from each of the ten sects take part in a series of monthly memorial services for his deceased relatives, to be held before a great Buddha image he had commissioned at Hoko-ji on Higashiyama. Although cooperation was clearly a violation of orthodox principle, involving participation in non-Hokkeshu ceremonies (an act of complicity in “slandering the Dharma”），the performance of religious services for the nonbeliever Hideyoshi, and the reception of his offerings in the form of a ceremonial meal, the Hokke sect was at the time in a poor position to refuse. It had never fully recovered from the blow dealt it in 1536 as a result of the hokke ikki, and had suffered further suppression by Oda Nobunaga. A hastily gathered council of the leading Nichiren prelates in Kyoto agreed that refusing Hideyoshi would be dangerous, and decided to participate just once in deference to his command before reasserting the sect’s policy. In actuality, however, most of the Nichiren temples continued to participate for the full twenty years that the observances continued. Virtually the only dissenting voice was that of Bussho-in Nichio 仏性院日奥（1565-1630)，abbot of Myokaku-ji. Isolated at first by his refusal to participate, Nichio was compelled to leave his temple and depart Kyoto. Years later, in response to criticism that Hideyoshi would have destroyed the Hokke temples had the sect failed to comply, Nichio replied that the essence of the sect lay, not in its institutions, but in the principle of exclusive devotion to the Lotus: Refusing to accept offerings from those who slander the Dharma is the first principle of our sect and its most important rule. Therefore the saints of former times all defied the commands of the ruler to observe it, even at the cost of their lives.... If we fail to defy the ruler’s stern command, how will we meet great persecution [for the Dharma's sake]? If we do not meet such persecution, the sutra passage “not begrudging bodily life” becomes false and meaningless.... If our temples are destroyed because we uphold [our sect’s] Dharma-principle, that is [still in accord with] the original intent and meaning of this sect. What would there be to regret?
In time Nichio's position began to win support, and the Nichiren sect became deeply divided between the proponents of fuju fuse and the supporters of ju fuse 受不施(receiving but not offering), a conciliatory faction that maintained it was permissible to accept offerings from a ruler who had not yet embraced the Lotus Sutra.
You'll notice that the Ikeda cult is firmly on the ju fuse side:
Ambitious construction programs for its spiritual headquarters (to be "100 times bigger in seven years") at the foot of historic Fuji and business headquarters in Tokyo merely suggest the extent of its financial operations. Soka Gakkai is soliciting and granting investment requests "even from nonbelievers," says Fujiwara. Source Jeffrey Hunter has appropriately termed the fuju fuse stance “institutionally radical,” because it “affirm[s] absolutely the claims of religion over the state, of its own truth over that of all other Buddhist and nonBuddhist teachings, and of religious over secular imperatives in the lives of its monks and lay followers”. For fuju fuse proponents, as for Nichiren centuries earlier, the idea of the Lotus as a truth transcending all other claims provided a basis for resistance to ruling authority that was not otherwise available in the political theory of the times. This subversive potential of Lotus exclusivism is noted, obliquely, in the virulent anti-Nichiren polemics of Shincho (1596-1659)，a onetime Nichiren priest who converted to the Tendai sect: In particular, the sacred deity revered in the present asre is the great manifestation of the Toshogu [i.e., the deified Tokugawa Ieyasu], worshipped on Mt. Nikko. However, the followers of Nichiren slander him, saying, “Lord Ieyasu rewarded the Pure Land sect but punished the Nichiren sect. His spirit is surely in the Avici hell. [The authorities] have expended gold and silver in vain, causing suffering to the populace, to erect a shrine unparalleled in the realm that in reality represents the decline of the country and houses an evil demon.” ... Are they not great criminals and traitors? Recognition of the Lotus as the final source of authority in effect created a moral space exterior to that of the ruler and his order, wherein that order could be transcended and criticized. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu, and later Tokugawa shoguns—men who sought to bring the entire country under their rule—were not slow to perceive the threat, and took special pains to break the autonomy of the Nichiren sect. This is not to suggest that Nichirenist exclusivism is inherently subversive of authority. For a counter-example one need merely look to the four years of Hokke monto rule in Kyoto, when they used their exclusive truth claim to justify imposing their own authority on others.
Oh, they love all the power when they control it.
Yet at those times when Nichiren followers have found themselves on the margins of ruling power structures, Lotus exclusivism has often provided a moral basis for challenging the authority of those structures. With the suppression of the fuju fuse movement, that moral basis was obscured; Nichiren temples, like those of all Buddhist sects, were subsumed under bakufu control.
Fast forward a couple of centuries:
Some two hundred years later，amid the intellectual and social ferment that accompanied the decline of the bakufu and the entry of foreign influences into Japan, the conflict between accommodative and confrontational Nichirenist positions would reemerge. Attempts had already begun within the Nichiren tradition to codify doctrine based on Nichiren’s writings, independently of the strong Tendai influence that had pervaded its seminaries during the Tokugawa period. Crucial to such reformulations was the question of what role shakubuku should play in the changing era. [S]cholar Udana-in Nichiki, one of the pioneers of modern Nichiren sectarian studies, argued forcefully for abandoning traditional shakubuku in favor of the milder shoju. ... Nichiki argued that shakubuku was inappropriate in an age when changing one’s sectarian affiliation was prohibited by law. Criticizing other sects was also apt to provoke anger, making people adhere all the more firmly to their original beliefs and preventing them from learning the True Way. An effective expedient in Nichiren’s time, shakubuku was now an outmoded approach that could only provoke contempt from educated people. Elsewhere, Nichiki wrote that the shakubuku method was readily misused by those deficient in scholarship and patience, and that those attached to its form often lacked the compassion that represents its true intent. Moreover, their arrogant attacks on other sects could drive previously innocent people to commit the sin of slandering the Lotus Sutra.
When does a "TRUE teaching" need to be modified to suit changing societal tastes? But notice that those same criticisms of arrogance and lacking compassion are routinely raised against Christian evangelists, whose rudeness, discourtesy, and disrespect drive their targets even farther away from converting.
Moreover, in Nichiren’s time Japan had been a country that slandered the Buddha Dharma, and so shakubuku was appropriate; now it was a country evil by virtue of its ignorance of Buddhism, so shoju was preferred. Nichiki listed several occasions after the supposed 1551 turning point when, in his opinion，blind attachment to shakubuku had needlessly brought down on the sect the wrath of the authorities.
But doesn't that smack of "expedient means"? Ikeda likewise sought to override Nichiren's insistence upon shakubuku as an expedient means of gaining more followers for his cult and thereby more power for himself.
Nichiki even asserted that the Rissho ankoku ron, long regarded as the embodiment of Nichiren's shakubuku practice, no longer suited the times...in rejecting the Rissho ankoku ron for its connection with shakubuku, Nichiki also rejected its premise that the tranquility of the nation depends on establishing the True Dharma. If so, this represents a far greater departure from Nichiren’s teaching than the mere adoption of a different form of propagation.
Nichiki sounds eminently reasonable and rational. Jump ahead to the last half of the 19th Century:
Along with the resurgence of hardline Lotus exclusivism, this period saw new forms of Nichirenist rhetoric linking shakubuku to militant imperialism. An early and influential example was Tanaka Chigaku + 智 学 （1861-1939). Tanaka is said to have become disillusioned with the accommodating shoju approach of the new Nichiki-school orthodoxy, which he saw as contradicting Nichiren’s claim for the sole truth of the Lotus. The new Meiji era, when sectarian affiliation was no longer restricted by law, impressed Tanaka as the perfect moment for a revitalization of shakubuku. He left the academy and eventually became a lay evangelist of “Nichirenism” (Nichirenshugi 日蓮王r i)，a popularized Nichiren doctrine welded to nationalistic aspirations. In Tanaka's thought, shakubuku became the vehicle not merely for protection of the nation, but also for imperial expansion. In his Shumon no ishin 宗門之糸隹亲斤(Restoration of the [Nichiren] sect), published in 1901，he wrote: Nichiren is the general of the army that will unite the world. Japan is his headquarters. The people of Japan are his troops; teachers and scholars of Nichiren Buddhism are his officers. The Nichiren creed is a declaration of war, and shakubuku is the plan of attack.... Japan truly has a heavenly mandate to unite the world. Similar rhetoric, likening— even equating— the spread of the Lotus Sutra through shakubuku with the extension of Japanese territory by armed force，recurred in Nichiren Buddhist circles up through WWII. It was linked to broader issues of modern Japanese nationalism, imperialist aspirations, and the position of religious institutions under the wartime government; Nichiren groups were by no means unique among Buddhist institutions in their support—willing or otherwise— for militarism. While such issues are too complex to be discussed here, it should be noted that the understanding of shakubuku proposed during the modern imperial period differed from that of any other era in that it was aligned with, rather than critical of, the ruling powers.
In the postwar period，among the many Nichiren Buddhist denominations, confrontational shakubuku was represented almost exclusively by the Soka Gakkai, which began as a lay organization of Nichiren Shoshu. A descendent of the Fuji school, long isolated from major centers of political power, Nichiren Shoshu was able to maintain an identity as the most rigorously purist of all Nichiren denominations, an orientation the early Soka Gakkai inherited. Although the earlier image of Soka Gakkai as an aggressive, militant, even fanatical organization still persists, it is no longer entirely accurate—since the 1970s, explicit denunciations of other religions have increasingly given way to cultural activities and Soka Gakkai5s peace movement (see Murata 1969 pp. 124-29). In the process, the word shakubuku has undergone a semantic shift and is now frequently used as a simple synonym for proselytizing, without necessarily signifying the rebuking of “wrong teachings.” These changes have come about for a variety of reasons. Mounting external criticism was one. Soka Gakkai came under fire for its political involvement (such as its founding of the Komeito, the Clean Government Party, in 1964) and for problems arising from over-zealous evangelizing (as when new converts would destroy ancestral tablets [ihai 位然] without the consent of other family members in the name of “removing slander of the Dharma” [hobo みびraz•誘法払い]).Other factors contributine to the more moderate stance were a muting of the sense of urgency as the hardships of the postwar years receded, and, most fundamentally, an overall effort at “mainstreaming'” as the organization became solidly established. The shift away from confrontational Nichirenist exclusivism also played a role—though not a central one—in the 1991 schism between Soka Gakkai and its parent organization, Nichiren Shoshu. While the roots of this struggle go back many years, the triggering event seems to have been a speech delivered by Ikeda Daisaku 池田大作（1928- ), Soka Gakkai's honorary president and de facto leader, at an organizational leaders’ meeting on 16 November 1990. Several of the points in this address that were deemed objectionable by the Nichiren Shoshu Bureau of Administrative Affairs were expressions of Ikeda’s desire to modify the confrontational stance of traditionalshakubuku. Ikeda is alleged to have said, for example, that "[statements such as] 'Shingon will destroy the nation’ and ‘Zen is a devil’ merely degrade the Dharma," and that in today’s society Soka Gakkai's peace movement and cultural activities represent the most viable means of propagation. On a later occasion Ikeda reportedly made remarks that unfavorably compared Nichiren’s harsh public image with the gentler image of Shinran [founder of Nembutsu school], and urged that Nichiren’s compassionate side be emphasized as “a requirement of shakubuku from now on.” The Nichiren Shoshu leaders countered that practitioners must follow Nichiren’s teachings and not social opinion the basis of spreading Buddhism in the Final Dharma age is to “repudiate what is false and establish what is right", as indicated in the Rissho ankoku ron. To select only the congenial aspects of Nichiren's teaching, they charged, is to distort it.
Indeed.
This aspect of the present rift—only one of several—may be seen as yet another round in the struggle between confrontation and conciliation that has characterized the entire history of Nichiren Buddhism. Ironically, it is the once-confrontational Soka Gakkai that has assumed the moderate position, while—at least on a rhetorical level—the traditional denomination, Nichiren Shoshu, has become re-radicalized. As this brief overview illustrates, Nichirenist exclusivism is far more complex than mere “intolerance.” It has rarely been purely a matter of religious doctrine (although that too has played a role). At any given time it has been intertwined with specific social, political，and institutional concerns. It served to crystallize resistance to various forms of political authority throughout the medieval period; was suppressed under Tokugawa rule; was revived with a powerfully nationalistic orientation in Meiji; and has been refigured as the basis of a peace movement in the postwar years. Source
So the basic premise of shakubuku is that "No one who does not believe and practice as we do is acceptable" and that this situation must be rectified. Fuju-fuse has played a role here, in upholding the purity of the hardliner orthodox Nichiren doctrine. Somehow, it is said to have helped the fuju-fuse sects attract members, though I don't really understand how that would have worked, but this guy makes the case that it was a vehicle for rebellion against the established social order and the government:
Historian Fujii Manabu sees this increasingly institutionalized exclusivism as the means by which the emerging Kyoto machishu 町衆 (townspeople)—largely composed of Hokke believers—asserted their independence from the older feudal authority represented by the major shrines and temples. (p. 241)
A product of its time, to be sure. But, as the Sho-Hondo situation illustrates, still a potent doctrine.
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