Edmund Hillary famously writes "it's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves".
I wonder if we actually 'conquer' anything.
Conquering- Conquistador- honky-tonker
On one day we may climb to the top, on another day the weather and mountain will refuse any climber.
On one day we may master our energies/ drives/ desires. On another day those energies and desires may just be pulling in different directions.
I was 7. Visiting friends of dad on a farm. The adults had spoken and laughed about the bull. It was a topic people found funny. The bull had a limp and would fall over from time to time. As a kid I followed what the adult found funny. So
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A creation myth from the Abrahamic religions. As like most of those stories it follows a hetero-sexual , monogamist slant with a big dose of Misogyny. You know the woman is the temptress and encourages the fall... blah blah blah. Although, maybe an avenue to reappropriating this story from misogyny is