Wednesday, July 13, 2011

This book is cool.



His middle name is Gustav, not "Gustavus".  That's an amateur hour mistake.  Is Gustavus even a real name?
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Posted by Jeff Rients at 11:47 AM
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  1. James Maliszewski12:20 PM

    "Gustavus" is just the Latinized version of "Gustav," so it is real.

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  2. Falconer12:41 PM

    It just says "This video is private." :(

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  3. Jeff Rients1:00 PM

    Ding dang it! That should be fixed now. Sorry for the idiocy.

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  4. Jay1:01 PM

    Not only is "Gustavus" a real name, it's an instituion of higher learning in south central Minnesota: Gustavus Adolphus College.

    A fine school--my sister is a graduate from there.

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  5. Allandaros2:31 PM

    Gustavus Adolphus was not just a namesake for colleges, but one of Sweden's most badass kings and military leaders.

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  6. Jay3:18 PM

    Also, it's pronouced "gus-TAY-vus".

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  7. Aaron E. Steele4:38 PM

    thats a badass book, did you actually read the thing, or was it used mostly for the crazy illustrations

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  8. Kent6:00 PM

    That was a really cool video but you didn't provide a link. Who was that?

    I have had a copy of The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious for many years. I was attracted by its far out weirdness. I thought I was being told secrets. It might be a more practical work to buy that the red book.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Archetypes-Collective-Unconscious-Collected-Works/dp/0415058449

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  9. gdbackus8:14 PM

    Wow! Never heard of that. I think that Aion may have come from around the same period of Jung's life - very strange read. (no cool pictures tho)

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  10. richard1:46 AM

    Frederick Gustavus Burnaby - of interest to all gamers.

    But Gustavus Adolphus went by Gustav except in publications, just like Hugo Grotius introduced himself in person as Huig de Groot.

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  11. Jeff Rients10:21 AM

    " did you actually read the thing, or was it used mostly for the crazy illustrations"

    I didn't have time to read much before the library wanted it back. But you can get a jist of its contents by reading Jung's shorter visionary work, Seven Sermons to the Dead, which he felt nicely encapsulated the main theme of the Red Book revelations.

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  12. Jay2:02 PM

    Apologies! My last comment wasn't meant to sound as pretentious/douchey as it came across.

    It's just my Pavlovian response after having my sister correct me over, and over, and over...

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  13. Kent6:45 PM

    Oh I get it. It was you Jeff. I thought you were more of dweeb.

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