Is there a way to lawfully avoid paying income taxes?

Or can I pay someone to help me with this?

All of these definitions denote some sort of closeness, usually benign. Such are listed on most etymology sites. But as usual, a more obscure context hides in the shadows, waiting to flip one's perception of everything.

In chess, a checkmate occurs when a king is placed into a position where he cannot escape; this is given in Persian as shāh māt — the king is at a loss. However, when the Arabs borrowed this phrase, it became al-shāh māta — the king has died.¹ The verb māta is the version that made its journey towards Europe and beyond.

It is rather funny that mate and checkmate look to have been popularized around the same time, starting around the 14th century. Other words come to mind: 

- matar ("to kill" in Spanish and Portuguese)

-- matador ("killer" in Spanish; in bullfighting, they kill bulls)

- mort (French for "death" or "to have died" --, such as in the phrase "Le roi est mort, vive le roi!" - The king has died, long live the king, which originated from 1422

It looks as if the term mate carries darker implications than what are usually known to us. For one, since a shipmate is below a captain in rank, one could interpret this as them being able to be disposed of by their superiors. Additionally, it's ironic that mating is considered as bringing life to new friends², love, and babies, when the aforementioned contexts show it to mean cutting down those parts of life.

Thanks for reading! Me is open to discussion of this matter! More to come!

¹Moghadam, M. E. (1938). A Note on the Etymology of the Word Checkmate. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 58(4), 662–664. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/594376

²The presence of friendliness or cordiality does not denote friendship; amity looks like the most fitting term (like with amend or ameliorate)

Besides the use of person¹ and child², this looked benign. Then me looked down:

"adulter. An adulterer; one who has carnal intercourse³ with the wife⁴ of another."

"adulterant. An impure, debased, or cheaper substance put into or mixed with another substance."

"adulterare. To commit adultery; to adulterate; to forge; to falsify."

Along with variants of the terms above, "adult-" overall indicates something being changed with the addition of another, often with a negative connotation.

So then, what does being an "adult" actually mean?

Throughout our lives, we become affected by various conditions, which leads us to becoming quite different to when we were babies. In an anti-natural system like most experience, we become corrupted and lose sight of our sovereignty; we become more "adult" over time.

This harks back to a phrase me heard elsewhere: "There are those who grow up and those who grow old". There are grown-ups and there are adults. It's pretty ironic that youths⁵ tend to say the former, but this is also what me chooses⁶ to use when talking about those of a certain age.

When it comes to these deceptions, a chance is never passed up on to mock⁷ us.

Other than that, thanks for reading! Feel free to discuss! More to come!

¹The Guide on here has many pages on this topic.

²A child is not simply the offspring of a man and woman, nor even a young man/woman at all! It is a corporation!

³Intercourse also describes commerce or trade (Ballentine's Law 1933). Despite the common usage, it does not mean sex!

⁴Previous inquiry on this term

⁵Almost said kids here, but recalled that this describes young goats, which might have more sinister contexts.

⁶Almost said prefers here, but a quick lookup showed other meanings:

• To give priority or precedence to (a creditor).
• To present (a charge) against a defendant before a court. (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition)

⁷"Mocking the victim" is a frequently used tactic for making fools of others* and evading responsibility from wrongdoing.

     *look at pg.24 for more specifics

While looking up medical terms, me noticed that medical terminology itself contains strange diction, such as in prefixes. Of course phamarc- is suspicious, as it relates to poison and sorcery (pharmakeia). But others are more subtle, like  metric (measurement) and metrium (layer of uterus); proctor (lawyer or someone who takes charge over another) and procto- (rectum). Even ambu- in, say, ambulance, apparently translates to water in Sanskrit (a water-lance, in this case relates to Poseidon -> Jupiter (Jove) in Roman -> Saturn -> cross (unfolded cube of Saturn) -> the sign on an ambulance).

Considering that the El-ites use such vulgarities in maritime terminology (refuse and depos(e)it), are these choices deliberate? Methinks it could be the case...

Thanks for reading! More to come!

     Ballentine's Law (1933 specifically) is the gift that keeps on giving! While glancing through the 'A' section, me spotted 3 terms that stood out to me: arraignment, arrangement and affreightment.

     Arraignment is defined as "The act of bringing an accused before a court to answer the charge made against him by indictment, information, or complaint."

     For arrangement (apparently used to be called a 'composition'), it is "the proceeding to which a debtor, in failing circumstances but not hopelessly insolvent, may have his financial affairs adjusted in the bankruptcy court and be rehabilitated" as well as "the plan worked out in the proceeding whereby rehabilitation may be accomplished."

     Before getting to affreightment, me will ask 1 question followed by 2 comments:

- Why are these words so similar looking? (one could even switch out the letters in arraignment to make it look like an arraingment; quite uncanny!)

- it's funny that an arrangement requires an arraignment (both imply that some sort of tort** was involved).

- It looks like 'making plans' is not the same as 'making arrangements'.

     As for affreightment, we are told that it is "An agreement by the owner of a vessel to employ the vessel for the carriage of specific goods belonging to one person or many persons."

- With that, it looks like freight is also a maritime term (vessels are not the same as boats; check the thread One of the People on Public Waterways in the forum).

-- What should we call freight trains now? Guess it depends on what they're taking with them (not like they're freighters).

--- It doesn't help that those who are tasked with assisting with luggage on trains are called porters!

     It is straight up insanity how often we are fed deception, particularly in colloquial language!

     If there are more terms and such that thou has observed, discuss them! Me welcomes all input!

     Thanks for reading! More to come!

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* Weird how this term may relate to maritime; a solvent blends another substance (solute, sounds like salute) into itself; water is a common solvent and common theme in the legal system, given that it is inspired by admiralty maritime jurisdiction

** A tort is a civil offense, not to be conflated with harm, loss, and fraud in Natural and Common Law

*** If an air carrier is a U.S. citizen (look up Is thou an 'air carrier'? on this site), what does that make the carriage within the same system?

Do we know what "husband" and "wife" really mean? While scanning Ballantine's law, me saw that "husband" is also a farming term (i.e. husbandry). In this definition, it is referred to as "legal" and "de facto" (same with wife).

Are these still acceptable in a colloquial context? Partner doesn't feel right (business partner), but me's not sure of other terms to use. The closest me's found are "marītus" (husband) and "uxor" (wife). Both can be found here: https://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/. 

What will next year bring? (hope it brings luck for thee!)