Four horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Electronic Collage band Noble Gas did a graphic based upon the Four Horseman, called "The Legend of Johnny Spray" http://www.noble-gas.com/johnnysprayx.html.
. The Four Horsemen were a professional wrestling stable from National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling. In the Li Tang Dynasty, in order to create a connection to Laozi as the ancestor of the imperial family, he was given a posthumous name of Emperor Xuanyuan (玄元皇帝), meaning "Profoundly Elementary;" and a temple name of Shengzu (聖祖), meaning "Saintly/Sagely Progenitor.". presidential election, the Bush/Cheney campaign argued that American leadership should not "change horses in midstream." Opponents played upon the idiom by referring to the four horsemen ("don't change horsemen in the middle of an Apocalypse."). Laozi is also known as:. During the 2004 U.S. Laozi's personal name may have been Li Er (李耳, Lǐ Ěr or Li Ehr), his courtesy name may have been Boyang (伯陽), and his posthumous name was Dān, (聃) which means "Mysterious.".

Also, the computer game HeXen II features one of the four horsemen at the end of each of the four continents through which the player travels. Thus, "Laozi" can be translated roughly as "the old master.". The computer game Nethack features Famine, Pestilence and Death as the final enemies of the player character, himself assimilated to War. Lao (老) means "venerable" or "old." Zi (子) translates literally as "boy," but it was also a term for a rank of nobleman equivalent to viscount, as well as a term of respect attached to the names of revered masters. Each of the girls died in a way that pertains to the name she accquires, for instance, the girl who becomes Famine died of anorexia, and the girl who becomes Pestilence died of an exotic disease. The name Laozi is an honorific title. The webcomic End Times by Bailey Piling and Philip Rigby portrays four young girls who died on the same day as becoming the four horsewomen. Laozi's most famous follower, Zhuang Zi, wrote a book that had a great deal of influence on Chinese Literati, through the ideas of individualism, freedom, carefreeness, and, even if the author never speaks about it, art, which may well be the cornerstone of Chinese aesthetic.

He has since returned to the name Angel. Although Laozi does not have as deep an influence as Confucius does in China, he is still widely respected by the Chinese and his thoughts are studied in many places all around the world. Worthington soon threw off Apocalypse's influence and rejoined the X-Men as Archangel. Many of the aesthetic theories of Chinese art are widely grounded in his ideas and those of his most famous follower : Zhuang Zi. The most notable of these was Warren Worthington III, the X-Man once known as Angel. After Worthington's wings were cut off in the Mutant Massacre, Apocalypse surgically grafted mechanical wings to his body and dyed his skin blue, transforming him into the horseman Death. They served as a starting point for cosmological or introspective meditations. In the universe of Marvel Comics, Apocalypse is a supervillain, an enemy to the X-Men, and whenever he resurfaces he typically converts four mutants into his Horsemen, including Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. The writings attributed to him are poetical, dense and often obscure.

Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.". As with most other ancient Chinese thinkers, his way of explaining his ideas often uses paradox, analogy, appropriation of ancient sayings, repetition, symmetry, rhyme, and rhythm. These are only aliases. Laozi also indicated that codified laws and rules result in society becoming more difficult to manage. In dramatic lore, they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. Laozi believed that violence should be avoided when possible, and that military victory was an occasion to mourn the necessity of using force against another living thing, rather than an occasion for triumphant celebrations. They were so dubbed by sports writer Grantland Rice in his account of the Notre Dame-Army game October 18, 1924, at the Polo Grounds in New York City: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. Actions taken in accordance with Tao (Nature) are easier and more productive than actively attempting to counter it.

The "Four Horsemen of Notre Dame" were the legendary backfield of Notre Dame's 1924 football team, namely quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, fullback Elmer Layden and halfbacks Jim Crowley and Don Miller. He emphasized a specific "Tao", which often translates as "the Way," and widened its meaning to an unnameable inherent order or property of the universe: "The way Nature is." He highlighted the concept of wei-wu-wei, or "action through inaction." This does not mean that one should sit around and do nothing, but that one should avoid explicit intentions, strong will, and proactive action; one can reach real efficiency by following the way things spontaneously increase or decrease. The Clash also recorded a song entitled Four Horsemen on their album London Calling. If we refer to this book, we can draw in a few lines what and how Laozi was thinking. The horsemen referenced in the lyrics are Time, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. The book is a mystical treatise covering many areas of philosophy, from individual spirituality to techniques for governing societies. Metallica's 1983 CD Kill 'Em All features a song called "The Four Horsemen". Laozi's famous work, the Tao Te Ching, has been widely influential in China.

The Johnny Cash song "The Man Comes Around" quotes relevant lines from the Book of Revelation (lyrics (http://www.hit-country-music-lyrics.com/johnnycashlyrics-mancomesaround.html)). Some of the modern controversies concerning Laozi's life include:. It totes itself as the only example of a Roast Beef Western. Laozi's response to the soldier's request was the Tao Te Ching. Anti-virus software is represented as a pair of doves. Until this time, Laozi had shared his philosophy in spoken words only, as was also the case with Socrates, Jesus, the Buddha and Confucius (whose Analects were most likely compiled by disciples). The four horsemen are used as the visual representation of a computer virus within a virtual reality game. The fight between the horseman and the main characters of Red Dwarf represents the attempt to destroy the virus. These accounts have a guard at the western-most gate convincing Laozi to write down his wisdom before heading out into the desert.

There is a representation of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse (as cowboys) in Episode 3, Series 6 of the British television comedy, Red Dwarf. Some accounts claim he travelled west on his water buffalo through the state of Qin and from there disappeared into the vast desert. The famous four horsemen turned up in an episode of The Young Ones (television series), and lamented that they were tired of playing Travel Scrabble. Afterwards, Laozi resigned from his post, perhaps because the authority of Zhou's court was diminishing. Some think this also compares himself to war, though Londo isn't making the comparison consciously (or at least not obviously so), and that it is foreshadowing for events to come later on in the series. Taoist legend claims that these discussions proved more educational for Confucius than the contents of the libraries. In the space opera Babylon 5 by JMS the Centauri Prime Minister Londo Mollari compares his wives to Earth mythology by calling them Pestilence, Famine, and Death. The latter strongly opposed what he felt to be hollow practices.

Johnny is a paradoxical character; he is both a stone cold criminal and a very well-educated man who intelligently speaks three languages. According to these stories, Confucius, over the following months, discussed ritual and propriety, cornerstones of Confucianism, with Laozi. In the 1993 film Tombstone, the character Johnny Ringo ominously translates this line to his gang, which, seconds before, was screamed by a Mexican priest before he was shot in the head by Ringo. Confucius intentionally or accidentally met him in Zhou, near the location of modern Luoyang, where Confucius was going to browse the library scrolls. On the televison series, Highlander, the Four Horsemen were actually a band of four Immortals whos raped and pillaged throughout the Bronze Age and, under their leader, Kronos, attempted to reunite and bring chaos to the world in the modern era. According to the tradition, and a biography included in Sima Qian's work, Laozi was an older contemporary of Confucius and worked as an archivist in the Imperial Library of the Zhou Dynasty court. In an episode of the television show, Hercules: the Legendary Journeys, the Archangel, Michael unleashes the Four Horsemen, and the end of the world is averted by Hercules. Some legends say he was born with white hair, having spent eight or eighty years in his mother's womb, which is given as an explanation for his title, which can be both read as "the old master" and "the old child".

There is an early episode of the television show, Charmed, where the horsemen fail to end the world. Tradition says he was born in Ku Prefecture (苦縣 Kǔ Xiàn) of the state of Chǔ (楚), which today is Lùyì County (鹿邑) of Henan province, in the later years of Spring and Autumn Period. Both are based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ib��ez about World War I. Nevertheless, he has become an important culture hero to subsequent generations of Chinese people. The Vincente Minnelli version has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. His historical existence is strongly debated, as is his authorship of the Tao Te Ching. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is the title of a 1961 film by Vincente Minnelli and of a lesser-known 1921 film by Rex Ingram. Little is known about Laozi's life.

The Clint Eastwood film Pale Rider makes multiple references to the verse above. . The series deal with the different incarnations of various powers including War, Nature and Satan. He is credited with writing the seminal Taoist work, the Tao Te Ching (道德經), and became a popular deity in the Taoist religion's pantheon. The first book of the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony with the title On a Pale Horse deals with the story of a man who accidently kills death and has to take over his job and life. Chinese tradition states that he lived in the 6th century BC but many modern scholars claim that he may have lived in approximately the 4th century BC, during the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Periods. The Four Horsemen are personified by creatures called Shadowen, and instead of horses they ride serpent-like creatures. Laozi (Chinese 老子, also spelled Lao Zi, Lao Tzu, or Lao Tse) is a major figure in Chinese philosophy whose historical existence is debated.

A reference to the Four Horsemen is made in The Talismans of Shannara, a 1993 fantasy novel and part of a series. Taoist Lord Laozi (老子道君). Like Death, the other horsemen have a personality beyond the job; War, for instance, is married with three kids: Panic, Terror and Clancy. Senior Lord Taishang (太上老君 Tàishàng Lǎojūn). The latter introduces the fifth horseman (Kaos (or Chaos)), who left before they became famous (akin to a Fifth Beatle). Senior Lord Li (李老君). Pratchett's Discworld series also features the Four Horsemen, most notably in Sourcery and Thief of Time. Senior Lord (老君)