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One of a pair of Volvo B10M-61 Duple 340s supplied new to Compass Royston in 1988, both of which remained on fleet until 1999. E274 NVN, now NIW 7125, passes through Dover Docks on 23rd August, 1997.
Compass design breaking through the chaos. This was worked for the online class with Sharon Boggon, run through joggles.com, class called Sumptuous Surfaces.
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WEMBLEY 26/02/2023 Newcastle United vs Manchester United. Around 160 coaches turned up for the Carabao Cup Final and as usual a good selection of makes and models of varying ages came to have their photos taken by the assembled bus photting community. Highlights for this visit were a pair of McGill's Tourismos, a 1994 Jonckheere Monaco that has recently been on a couple of aid trips to Ukraine, 3x new Volvo 9700s for Sky Coaches, a mysterious Van Hool Astromega, and a suitably decorated minibus in NUFC colours!
Seen in Brighton Seafront on route 47
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"Compass Rose," a mixed media piece. The background picture is a picture of -- wait for it -- garlic knot crumbs in olive oil -- and the top picture is a mirrored picture of a bridge. Both were edited from the mundane into bubblegum magicalness. What kind of world do you think this compass would be for?
The Golden Compass is an anti-Christian movie, based on an anti-Christian book. I agree with this, having read and enjoyed all three books in the series. Note I say enjoyed. I’ve read all sorts of heretical books. They didn’t prevent me from eventually rejecting atheism and finding faith any more than the New York Times did.
Compass in particular is not just any sort of heretical book. It is Gnostic in its theology. The God of Christianity who created the world and angels and the carnal and spiritual natures of man is split, in the Gnostic conception, onto two gods: The Creator who begat angels and human spirits then withdrew from his creation; and the Demiurge who imprisoned the spirit sparks of mankind in gross matter and doomed them to hell while demanding worship as Yahweh. Gnosticism, then, reverses the moral relation between Lucifer the Lightbringer and Yahweh the Demiurge. Obviously this leads directly to Satanism and all sorts of dangerous moral choices. So the fact that Pullman went into Gnosticism didn’t phase me, for I had already encountered the glamor and falseness of the Gnostic worldview, and rejected it.
The Gnostic worldview, and its moral inversion, is also on display in National Geographic’s terrible mistranslation of the Gospel of Judas, a gnostic text that was published last year, and retranslated this year, reversing almost all the controversial conclusions.
And of course the whole conceit behind The DaVinci Code, with Jesus shacking up with Mary Magdalene and founding the Merovingian dynasty, was more Gnostic (in the sense of “hidden knowledge”) claptrap spawned from the same conspiracy theorizing that inspired Holy Blood, Holy Grail. It reduces Jesus to just an ancestor of a European King, rather than the Son of God, and is typical of the Arian heresy that has somehow found its resurgence not only in many modern-day Christian sects but also in Islam.
Back to Pullman. The book that the His Dark Materials reminded me of most was Job, by Robert A. Heinlein, which I read probably 20 years ago. The conceit behind Job is that God and the Devil have a wager over whether the protagonist will end up in Heaven or Hell. The twist is that Hell is actually a nicer place, run by a nicer guy, than Heaven.
I believe that one should find inspiration in the knowledge of what one opposes, not in remaining ignorant of it.
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Seen in Old Steine on route 57
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Compassing the Bellwether 2009
Cut paper on birch panel.
Part of the "Ways of Seeing" show at Black Rat Press.
One of three Compass Bus Enviro 200s operating in Stagecoach "Connect 7" colours in Worthing. YY66 PGK was today operating a service 16.
13th April 2023.
She left yesterday on her adventure - over a year long! First stop is with luckybells in Ohio!
In addition to her T-shirt and sweater outfit that I made, she has a custom box with a protective quilted blanket (great for packing and sleeping! :D), and of course, her dearest confidante, Teddy.
Compass
"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges." - Michelangelo
BA58 GHA, one of six former GHA Coaches Volvo B7RLE Wright Geminis in the Compass Bus fleet, passes through Small Dole on a 100 service this afternoon, 7th May, 2019.
Algoma Compass meeting Steamer Philip R. Clarke at Marine City, MI, on the St. Clair River (August 5, 2018)