I was actually shocked in the Justice League movie that after Darkseid is introduced as the ultimate baddie, he gets his ass swiftly handed to him and dragged away off of Earth.
And then he’s swinging an axe around? Yes, it felt wrong.
Wesley and Willow are preparing a spell. There's a bubbling jar in front of Willow.
WILLOW : Look, it's working.
WESLEY : I thought Delothrian's Arrow was used to *protect* good magicks.
WILLOW : It is.
WESLEY : So, how can you use it to break The Jar?
The Muo-Ping is A Sacred Object : It's Holy.
WILLOW : It's GLASS, therefore CRUNCHABLE.
The Sacred's what's INSIDE. "All life a container..."
WESLEY : "...For the heart of all life." You've studied the Daharim.
WILLOW : It had to be something specific. There's lots of jars in the world—can't shatter them ALL. I mean, you COULD, but Good Things come in jars : Peanut butter, jelly, those two-headed fetal pigs at the natural history museum. (Wes doesn't respond) Come on, everybody loves fetal pigs.
WESLEY : (leans forward) Sorry. I think my sense of humor's trapped in a jar somewhere.
WILLOW : Does seem like you've given in to the grumpy side of the force.
WESLEY : A lot's happened. Not just Angelus. I've been—I've changed. I've seen A Darkness in myself. I'm not sure you'd even begin to understand—
WILLOW : I flayed a guy alive and tried to Destroy The World.
WESLEY : Oh. So... (stands, doesn't make eye-contact)
WILLOW : Darkness. Been there.
WESLEY : Yeah. Well, I never flayed... (seems sickened) I had a woman chained in a closet.
WILLOW : Hey.
WESLEY : That doesn't compare.
WILLOW : No, Dark. That's Dark. You've been to A Place.
WESLEY : You seem exactly the same as when I left. No other major changes I'm not up on?
That all occurs before he became Top God, and was still only A General and Battle-Lord Commander for The Throne, not The Master of Apokalips — hence him leading troops into battle on The Field, and using his ARMS, which he never does.
Usually, Darkseid, The New Gods and their planets inhabit the realm of The Abstract; they are Gods, not aliens, so remember the key insight from Predator, Alien, Batman vs. Superman AND both versions of Justice League : “If it bleeds, We can Kill it.”
The Pre-Historic, Hyperborean Age Darkseid (that has no armour) takes a battle-axe wound to the shoulder, swung by wielder of The Anti-Life Equation, bleeds profusely and has to be dragged away from The Battlefield by his own clerics; Superman takes a God-Killing Axe to the shoulder, swung by Steppnwolf, shatters The Blade and suffers no injury whatsoever — since gods are Ideas, they can’t have emotions, only behaviours — they just DO things; so when A God swings an axe at you, it isn’t in a murderous rage because he hates you and wants you to die (which is The Anti-Life Equation), but just because murdering people with An Axe is What He Does : that is His Nature.
Darkseid’s final line in the 4 Hour version is “We Will Use The Old Ways.” — meaning military conquest, rather than colonisation and territorial expansion through terraforming, information-management and Ideology : having rediscovered The Anti-Life Equation on Earth, he is going to have to capture The Earth intact if he wants to claim it, which means that he has to re-descend into the physical realm by coming here, in person, and that renders him vulnerable (and killable, just like Steppenwolf, who has just been executed by the Justice Leaguers, with his head falling through The Boom-Tube to land at Darkseid’s feet.
Even Thanos bleeds, after all —
He lives a bounded existence, WITHIN Time and Space,
and that means that he has Limits and Finitude,
and CAN Die, and CAN be Killed, which means
that he IS Mortal, and is NOT Invincible or Unbeatable :
Darkseid : (to a Batman in the DCAU in 2006) FLEE.
[ He does, and successfully avoid The Omega Effect finder-beams by stomping-out a stray Parademon that was NOT in Darkseid’s initial firing-line-of-SIGHT to use as a Judas Goat decoy/UnHuman-Shield ]
Darkseid : Impressive. NOBODY Has Ever AVOIDED My Omega-Beam BEFORE —
[ my emphasis ]
(Turns His Gaze towards Luthor, who is swatting-down parademons by double-handgunning it, John Woo-style)
I Wonder if The Other One is as Agile — ( He begins to harden His Stare (like Paddington))
( Luthor has the preternatural sense that The God of All Evil is LOOKING at him, shits himself, abandons The Battlefield and runs away — )
Darkseid : Excellent Strategy.
#JamesRobinson
#RupertSheldrake
#BlueTits
#MorphoMeMeticField
#TheBatmanThe
“All blue tits are connected – at least somehow.
A couple of apes are sitting on a lonely hilltop somewhere, let’s say Africa, and together they learn a new skill. Before long, this new ability will have spread in waves across the entire planet.
The acquired knowledge then pervades the entire species, becoming part of the collective memory of all apes in the process. British biologist Rupert Sheldrake is convinced that all animals of the same species worldwide can draw on a vast library of once acquired practical knowledge. What a wonderful thought.
Rupert Sheldrake has attempted to prove his theory in various experiments. In Japan, a group of apes learned to break open a fruit using a stone. At almost the same time, other groups in Congo and New Guinea began exhibiting the same behavior. In England, blue tits learned to diversify their diets by pecking open the aluminum lid on milk bottles left on doorsteps by the milkman. Within a short space of time, blue tits throughout England, up into Scotland and even as far afield as Sweden and the Netherlands were opening milk bottles using the same technique. Blue tits have a flight radius of 15 miles. None of them could have flown to Sweden and taught their Nordic cousins the new trick there. By the same token, none of the Scottish blue tits could have travelled to southern England and learned the skill first hand.
Another example: A dog owner leaves his office at 5 p.m. every day, gets into his car and drives home. At the precise moment he hops into his vehicle, his dog – a loving companion for 9 years – heads straight to the gate at the bottom of the garden and waits impatiently with tail wagging. One day, the dog owner isn’t feeling well, and leaves work early at 2 p.m. His dog then unexpectedly gets up in the kitchen and scurries down to the gate in the garden. The man’s wife laughs and calls out “Your body clock’s not ticking right today.” A short time later, the man’s car pulls up in the garage. So how did the dog know? What connects blue tits to other blue tits and apes to other apes is the fact that they belong to the same species and can draw on the same collective memory of nature. In contrast, the human owner shares a close emotional bond with his dog. The dog knows when its owner is coming. This isn’t due to once acquired knowledge, but the entwinement of feelings and contact – something the British biologist Rupert Sheldrake calls morphic fields, or the memory of nature.
According to this, every tool acquired somehow quickly becomes something everyone can draw on: newly-learned knowledge and intensive feelings are transferred into the consciousness of all animals of a specific species, whether blue tits or apes, and can even cross between species as with the human and the dog. How else to explain that weird moment, as it so often happens, when I think intensively of an old friend whom I haven’t seen in a long while and decide to write him a letter, only for the phone to ring, and it’s him! … or my wife.”
Have you considered that there aren't just infinite parallel versions of comic book realities in 2d but infinite HIGHER versions of them as well? There could be 3d, 4d, 5d, 6d and so on versions of the DC and Marvel universes and continuities going on forever even beyond infinity, the higher dimensions the more deep and complex the realities are going so far beyond what even your mind could comprehend
I was actually shocked in the Justice League movie that after Darkseid is introduced as the ultimate baddie, he gets his ass swiftly handed to him and dragged away off of Earth.
And then he’s swinging an axe around? Yes, it felt wrong.
Wesley and Willow are preparing a spell. There's a bubbling jar in front of Willow.
WILLOW : Look, it's working.
WESLEY : I thought Delothrian's Arrow was used to *protect* good magicks.
WILLOW : It is.
WESLEY : So, how can you use it to break The Jar?
The Muo-Ping is A Sacred Object : It's Holy.
WILLOW : It's GLASS, therefore CRUNCHABLE.
The Sacred's what's INSIDE. "All life a container..."
WESLEY : "...For the heart of all life." You've studied the Daharim.
WILLOW : It had to be something specific. There's lots of jars in the world—can't shatter them ALL. I mean, you COULD, but Good Things come in jars : Peanut butter, jelly, those two-headed fetal pigs at the natural history museum. (Wes doesn't respond) Come on, everybody loves fetal pigs.
WESLEY : (leans forward) Sorry. I think my sense of humor's trapped in a jar somewhere.
WILLOW : Does seem like you've given in to the grumpy side of the force.
WESLEY : A lot's happened. Not just Angelus. I've been—I've changed. I've seen A Darkness in myself. I'm not sure you'd even begin to understand—
WILLOW : I flayed a guy alive and tried to Destroy The World.
WESLEY : Oh. So... (stands, doesn't make eye-contact)
WILLOW : Darkness. Been there.
WESLEY : Yeah. Well, I never flayed... (seems sickened) I had a woman chained in a closet.
WILLOW : Hey.
WESLEY : That doesn't compare.
WILLOW : No, Dark. That's Dark. You've been to A Place.
WESLEY : You seem exactly the same as when I left. No other major changes I'm not up on?
WILLOW : (shrugs) Just little things.
So, uh, Fred. What's HER story?
https://youtu.be/fd3Qx8vjVM0?si=C_HPfeQ_mPSg46Lx
That all occurs before he became Top God, and was still only A General and Battle-Lord Commander for The Throne, not The Master of Apokalips — hence him leading troops into battle on The Field, and using his ARMS, which he never does.
Usually, Darkseid, The New Gods and their planets inhabit the realm of The Abstract; they are Gods, not aliens, so remember the key insight from Predator, Alien, Batman vs. Superman AND both versions of Justice League : “If it bleeds, We can Kill it.”
The Pre-Historic, Hyperborean Age Darkseid (that has no armour) takes a battle-axe wound to the shoulder, swung by wielder of The Anti-Life Equation, bleeds profusely and has to be dragged away from The Battlefield by his own clerics; Superman takes a God-Killing Axe to the shoulder, swung by Steppnwolf, shatters The Blade and suffers no injury whatsoever — since gods are Ideas, they can’t have emotions, only behaviours — they just DO things; so when A God swings an axe at you, it isn’t in a murderous rage because he hates you and wants you to die (which is The Anti-Life Equation), but just because murdering people with An Axe is What He Does : that is His Nature.
Darkseid’s final line in the 4 Hour version is “We Will Use The Old Ways.” — meaning military conquest, rather than colonisation and territorial expansion through terraforming, information-management and Ideology : having rediscovered The Anti-Life Equation on Earth, he is going to have to capture The Earth intact if he wants to claim it, which means that he has to re-descend into the physical realm by coming here, in person, and that renders him vulnerable (and killable, just like Steppenwolf, who has just been executed by the Justice Leaguers, with his head falling through The Boom-Tube to land at Darkseid’s feet.
Even Thanos bleeds, after all —
He lives a bounded existence, WITHIN Time and Space,
and that means that he has Limits and Finitude,
and CAN Die, and CAN be Killed, which means
that he IS Mortal, and is NOT Invincible or Unbeatable :
If it Bleeds, We can Kill it.
Superman bleeds, Darkseid bleeds,
Batman bleeds, Metron does not.
Darkseid : (to a Batman in the DCAU in 2006) FLEE.
[ He does, and successfully avoid The Omega Effect finder-beams by stomping-out a stray Parademon that was NOT in Darkseid’s initial firing-line-of-SIGHT to use as a Judas Goat decoy/UnHuman-Shield ]
Darkseid : Impressive. NOBODY Has Ever AVOIDED My Omega-Beam BEFORE —
[ my emphasis ]
(Turns His Gaze towards Luthor, who is swatting-down parademons by double-handgunning it, John Woo-style)
I Wonder if The Other One is as Agile — ( He begins to harden His Stare (like Paddington))
( Luthor has the preternatural sense that The God of All Evil is LOOKING at him, shits himself, abandons The Battlefield and runs away — )
Darkseid : Excellent Strategy.
#JamesRobinson
#RupertSheldrake
#BlueTits
#MorphoMeMeticField
#TheBatmanThe
“All blue tits are connected – at least somehow.
A couple of apes are sitting on a lonely hilltop somewhere, let’s say Africa, and together they learn a new skill. Before long, this new ability will have spread in waves across the entire planet.
The acquired knowledge then pervades the entire species, becoming part of the collective memory of all apes in the process. British biologist Rupert Sheldrake is convinced that all animals of the same species worldwide can draw on a vast library of once acquired practical knowledge. What a wonderful thought.
Rupert Sheldrake has attempted to prove his theory in various experiments. In Japan, a group of apes learned to break open a fruit using a stone. At almost the same time, other groups in Congo and New Guinea began exhibiting the same behavior. In England, blue tits learned to diversify their diets by pecking open the aluminum lid on milk bottles left on doorsteps by the milkman. Within a short space of time, blue tits throughout England, up into Scotland and even as far afield as Sweden and the Netherlands were opening milk bottles using the same technique. Blue tits have a flight radius of 15 miles. None of them could have flown to Sweden and taught their Nordic cousins the new trick there. By the same token, none of the Scottish blue tits could have travelled to southern England and learned the skill first hand.
Another example: A dog owner leaves his office at 5 p.m. every day, gets into his car and drives home. At the precise moment he hops into his vehicle, his dog – a loving companion for 9 years – heads straight to the gate at the bottom of the garden and waits impatiently with tail wagging. One day, the dog owner isn’t feeling well, and leaves work early at 2 p.m. His dog then unexpectedly gets up in the kitchen and scurries down to the gate in the garden. The man’s wife laughs and calls out “Your body clock’s not ticking right today.” A short time later, the man’s car pulls up in the garage. So how did the dog know? What connects blue tits to other blue tits and apes to other apes is the fact that they belong to the same species and can draw on the same collective memory of nature. In contrast, the human owner shares a close emotional bond with his dog. The dog knows when its owner is coming. This isn’t due to once acquired knowledge, but the entwinement of feelings and contact – something the British biologist Rupert Sheldrake calls morphic fields, or the memory of nature.
According to this, every tool acquired somehow quickly becomes something everyone can draw on: newly-learned knowledge and intensive feelings are transferred into the consciousness of all animals of a specific species, whether blue tits or apes, and can even cross between species as with the human and the dog. How else to explain that weird moment, as it so often happens, when I think intensively of an old friend whom I haven’t seen in a long while and decide to write him a letter, only for the phone to ring, and it’s him! … or my wife.”
https://open.prodir.com/en/2019/02/all-blue-tits-are-connected-at-least-somehow/
https://youtu.be/4cG4BNJBXBU?feature=shared
The Antidote for The Omega Effect is,
by The Way — no, Seriously — to get someone
on New Genesis to intercede on Your Behalf, by
persuading Highfather to SHOOT YOU (from Up There)
with an ALPHA-Bullet…. That’s Why He’s The KING —
And We’re just all Schmucks, by comparison….
Have you considered that there aren't just infinite parallel versions of comic book realities in 2d but infinite HIGHER versions of them as well? There could be 3d, 4d, 5d, 6d and so on versions of the DC and Marvel universes and continuities going on forever even beyond infinity, the higher dimensions the more deep and complex the realities are going so far beyond what even your mind could comprehend