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I admit it, I love playing with light, as if that wasn't abundantly apparent by now?! This was two years with the D3400, and so I have come to realise that, sometimes it's worthwhile going back over old stock, seeing how far you have come and rediscovering old gems. People think revisable exercising is secular only for exams and tests, yet in life progress is always wanton for revision, essentially the retracing of one's steps as a more valuable an exercise than prevailing progress. As they say, it's not always the arriving at the destination but the experience of the journey itself, reliving it can be truly magical.
I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)
I was stood under a bridge when I took this, some solid ground gave some good support for the tripod right next to the pillar with some black graffiti adorning it. It was perfect to get a good urban view over the highway at ground level, it also represented a good point of reference to limit the angle and get some good stills and ICM.
I hope everyone had a great weekend and so as always, thank you!
So this is my first attempt at dashboard LE photography as a change for "Where the Wild Lights Are"; but guess who only cleaned the window on the outside **sheepishly raises arm** however, it was a good first attempt and as I have always said, in photography you either get the shot you want, or you learn and you never stop learning in all respects.
This on my way back from Berlin heading back to Storkow, we came up behind this truck and I asked my partner in crime, Vera, to go a little faster and get behind it, but unfortunately it then changed lane hence the drag over to the left, BUT, I feel the spirit of the imagine image is not lost.
Well, I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)
Tragedy has struck, my beloved D5600 has developed several faults at once thus I have had to send it back, and it's refund or find another. The LV was completely distorted, the menu screen was faulty and the focus was no longer sharp. Seems the circuitry was starting to fall apart. It'll be at least a week before I hear back from the supplier but they were good enough to pay for the shipping as it was well within the 3 year guarantee.
Thus I decided to go a bit rhetoric 80's whilst digging through my archives, this one I took in 2019 with my old D3400 outside of a technical college in Berlin city. There were these multi coloured cuboids all slowly changing colour, so setting this to a longer exposure time wasn't working, the 1 second was to try and define all the alternative colours, without them blending into one.
I exploded the saturation and was greeted with, having originally tweaked the WB, with a colourful contradiction of dystopia and colours into one.
I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you!
Another for the "Where the Wild Lights Are" project and again from the LE dashboard attempt from Berlin to Storkow. This is something I will look to attempt again when I get my camera back; unfortunately the issue with such an attempt is dust, vibration, focus and bug guts. What is also the challenge is getting the "triangle" right, that is of course, ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture; everything is in motion, the subject, the camera (albeit within a vehicle) plus the greatest problem is the differing lights conditions / intensity / angle / etc, that is encountered within each and every LE.
The best method I conjured is to set the Shutter Speed to BULB, put the ISO to 400, Aperture to 10f-stops and then say a little prayer to the universe, affix the camera with your hands to the dashboard, securing it as best as possible and go for it. This photo though was at 30 seconds as the environment was constantly changing so thus I decided to sit back and allow30 seconds to run through and then see what I had, this is it.
Think of it like this, it's a 3 course meal of differing cuisines whilst moving at top speed, you smell, eat and digest all in a matter seconds of which it all conglomerates not one singular experience / image.
So now, I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you!
So my foot finally healed up and the weather improved enough for me to find the motivation to get out the door again, I had been itching for days to get another of the abstract project I am working on for "Where the Wild Lights Are" , I took a good few the other night and will post them up over time, some more extreme than others. Let's just see what works.
Oh and yes, my fancy ass titles as well!
I got these mad ideas from a book I read when I was a child called "Snigglets" now a Snigglet is any word not currently in the English dictionary but should be, usually used as an improvised adjective to describe odd and funny circumstance. When the internet came about a website was setup where people could send in their made up words, mine was "Frustrastab" which is for the moment when a device is not working fast enough or at all, so the user aggressively stabs repeatedly the function button in the vain hope, that'll make it work any faster, such the elevator or the lights at a pedestrian crossing and so on!
I hope everyone's week is off to a great start and so as always thank you! :)
Back in November I decided to push forward with the collection for "Where the Wild Lights Are" and went to a good spot full of traffic lights, trucks, lots of traffic and illuminated sign posts, for another words, just add lights! I want to carry on playing around with it but I have since moved to Storkow in Brandenburg outside of Berlin, so may have to do some serious walking to get to another highway to add some more. But I am used to covering long distances.
I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)
Moscow, Russia, 2018.
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
― Leo Tolstoy
"The former crematorium of Wedding is listed in Berlin as a historically protected building. Built between 1909 and 1910, it was the first crematorium in Berlin, and the third in the former Prussia. Its presence testifies to changing cultural norms around death in the modernised Germany of the early 20th century, whereby cremation became an alternative to burial as a funereal form.
This change reflected the work of numerous freethinker movements at the end of the 19th century, that resulted in crematoriums gradually being built all over Germany. Alongside civil marriages and undenominational education, the legal acceptance of cremation was one of the freethinker’s main goals. In the face of massive resistance from the established Church, the first cremation took place in the liberal duchy of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha and thereafter became increasingly accepted as an expression of progress and secularisation. (...) 17 metres in height, the cupola, which was once the mourning hall, is the heart of the building. Its outstanding characteristics are the octogonal floor plan and the mansard roof."
“I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.”- Criss Jami
~Robert Green
A view of Pittsburgh through the railing on the Hot Metal Street Bridge in the South Side.
Enjoy your week, and have a great Monday!
On the same road and same truck as...
...for "Where the Wild Lights Are", this truck ended up as a pareidolia phenomena which wasn't my original idea, simply following this truck with my camera, hooked to the side of the car on an LE, and this is the result. The name "Dragonemon" is the hybrid of Dragon and Demon as I couldn't decide what it was so I guess it's a play on word.
I hope everyone is well and so as always thank you! :)
Das Stiefmütterchen ist auch eines der Stadtsymbole der japanischen Stadt Osaka.
Es ist auch das Symbol der Freidenker und im Mittelalter das Symbol für gute Gedanken.
Violet (Viola)
The pansy is also one of the urban symbols of the Japanese city of Osaka.
It is also the symbol of freethinkers and in the Middle Ages it was the symbol of good thoughts.
Attemp with achromat Zeiss-Ikon 5 Dpt.
wikipedia English: Heinz Oberhummer
GWUP Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (nicht zu verwechseln mit: "Österreichische Gesellschaft für Parapsychologie und Grenzbereiche der Wissenschaften")
Wikipedia Deutsch : Heinz Oberhummer
Science Busters (Oberhummer, Gruber, Puntigam): "XXL Weihnachtsspecial" (youtube)
Lichterkette wiederaufladbare Batterien Zeitung "Standard" oil stick indigo Gelstift weiß
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There have always been, and will always be, those whose hopes and desires are not restrained by the customs of their day. Individuals for whom the accepted norm is a challenge, not a boundary.
We call these people ‘freethinkers’ – the dreamers and muses who have the power to change the world. And more often than not, they do…
A starry design of the ambitious team who made what Rolls-Royce is today.
THE DREAMERS MEET
As the twentieth century was born, a burgeoning ‘motoring-set’ emerged from the Piccadilly-based ‘Automobile Club of Great Britain’ in London.
Prominent were Charles Rolls, aristocratic showman and partner of self-made engineering genius Henry Royce. Also, Claude Johnson, the Automobile Club’s original first secretary and John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, a pioneer of automobile journalism.
And Charles Robinson Sykes, a bohemian artist and sculptor. His friendship with the maverick group led to his creating the ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ – an emblem that has stood as an internationally-recognized symbol of perfection ever since.
Theirs was a band whose thirst for experience made the London’s elite appear timid in comparison. And at its magnetic core was Eleanor…
AN ICON IS BORN
In 1909, Eleanor Thornton’s presence was crystallized in the form of an ornamental figurine, by the artist Charles Sykes. A figurine that, to this day, is an exclusive addition to every Rolls-Royce motor car, to encapsulate the pursuit of personal liberty, and freedom from conformity. Challenging the social conventions of the time, her appearance became instantly iconic. Known from then on as the Spirit of Ecstasy, she leans forth towards the wind, arms outstretched, her dress billowing as if in flight. A symbol of dreams – of energy, grace and beauty – the Spirit of Ecstasy embodies the heights pursued by a unique and progressive group of friends. And it remains a tribute to their vision and everything their timeless legacy stands for.
Now, her aura is free to imbue the dreams of all whose imaginations are fired by her legacy. As Charles Rolls’ desire permeates those creations that still bear his name, every statuette that slices the air atop a Rolls-Royce personifies Eleanor’s own tilts at freedom.
Whenever luxury affords us the chance to enjoy that same illusion, we will be in the company of Eleanor’s spirit. Leading now, just as she did then. Transcending time for each new generation – a guiding light for the fearless. For those who would change the world, she is the star to set their course by.
Our muse.
The audacious Spirit of Ecstasy.
An interesting tidbit I learned yesterday from a friend and fellow photographer, Roland Bogush flic.kr/ps/oioWC was that Charles Rolls was the first British citizen to die in a plane crash while he was flying a Wright Flyer in 1910 after it disintegrated in flight.
Grabstätte der "Freidenker" auf dem Friedhof Brockeswalde
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Tomb of the "Freethinkers" at the Brockeswalde cemetery (Note. The inscription is: Let the spirit be free - and the faith without coercion)
She is making bread, but what is this woman thinking about? Her husband? What she was reading by the fire last night? When I ask that question, I think of Spinoza, the 17th century European freethinker. Let's toss our assumptions about her aside. So I asked NotebookLM to do a podcast about how new ideas in the 17th century found their way to the middling sort in England.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Re2uHfnjXhT0rZuS8Coy41kfIkg_N9iV...
Five barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) perched on a utility wire, with blue clear sky in the background. All of them except one are facing away from the morning sun.
Librepensador es una persona que sostiene que las posiciones referentes a la verdad deben formarse sobre la base de la lógica, la razón y el empirismo en lugar de la autoridad, la tradición, la revelación o algún dogma en particular.
Freethinker is a person who holds that positions concerning the truth must be formed on the basis of logic, reason and empiricism instead of authority, tradition, revelation or some particular dogma.
And all of those people saw how it grew, the spirit of power, to become an awesome force, as day after day she and the companion sisters brought solace to the lepers, those most sadly afflicted of God's creatures, from whom the rest of mankind shrank in fear and revulsion. Each day, seven days a week, she and he company she led gave selfish humankind yet more examples of selflessness. In the presence of such charity, the most rabid bigot, the most liberated freethinker, even the most ambitious of politicians, must be humbled. As Robert Louis Stevenson would testify only five years later, after he had seen Mother Marianne and the sisters attending the lepers at Molokai, in their presence "even a fool is silent and adores."
-Pilgrim & Exile; Mother Marianne of Moloka'i,
by Sister Mary Laurence Hanley, O.S.F. and O.A. Bushnell, pg 174
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-The Arc in the Sky, Pt. 1 "Jazz": III. Cherubim & Palm-Trees, by Kile Smith
I am tagged by three lovely people ( காவியம்/kaaviyam, Artistic A!!ure, ranjini----)
I have no way out now. ;-)
Here are 16 things about me :
1. A rolling stone that gathered no moss
2. I can move my ears
3. I am a teetotaller
4. A secret shared with me will go to the grave with me
5. I wrote and made a book, with cartoons, stories & articles when I was four. Asked my father to help me get it published,but he was helpless
6. I remember things that happened since the age of 1
7. I sing while I take bath & sometimes when I am driving
8. Takes not less than 3 baths a day
9. Former President of Taiwan, Late Chiang Ching Kuo was my penfriend
10. I was named when I was 2 & I was also involved in finding a name. I suggested a strange name,'Honi'
11. In school, used to make false confessions to help my friends from getting punished for their mischieves
12. I get migraine headaches
13. I am not a good public speaker
14. My favourite drink is water
15. A freethinker
16. My travel bag is always packed & ready
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Part of: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away - An ENSO (Japanese: circle, Japanisch: Kreis) a day .... " Aktion Kreis Tagebuch A circle diary - Start of the 365-days Project: 1. September // 8. 1. 2015: Selfportrait "Je suis Charlie" (mirror writing, Spiegelschrift: Abklatsch) Portrait: Pastellstifte auf Transparentpapier, "Ich bin Charlie" auf die Stirn geschrieben, Circle: blue gouache, das Blau der Brights, Schüttung: rote Tinte
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Pencil & Micron 01 & 03 ink pens.This morning, my husband read an old article on climate change and forwarded it to me: www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/mar/01/scienceofclim...
I read it and was inspired to check it out some more. I drew the above while while watching the video below, just now. It's another interesting perspective.
It is just a word but for me it is one of the most important things in life. I'm absolutely a freethinker and try as hard as I can that nothing sets limits to my mind and soul. Even if it means to stay alone.
Without my freedom I'm no one, just a walking peace of meat.
Being free for me means being alive.
Il Monte Amiata visto da Montenero d'Orcia - Grosseto = Mount Amiata seen from Montenero d'Orcia - Grosseto
© Riccardo Senis, All Rights Reserved
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Peace, love and rainbows... what more could you want? :)
These are my contribution to the Etsy Freethinkers' idea that we should carry at least one item in our shop which promotes peace and tolerance.
HILL COUNTRY
"Hill Country" is a vernacular term applied to a region including all or part of twenty-five counties near the geographical center of Texas. In the geomorphological sense, the Hill Country represents in large part a dissected plateau surface. It is bordered on the east and south by the Balcones Escarpment, on the west by the relatively undissected Edwards Plateau, and on the north by rolling plains and prairies. The elevations range from less than 1000 feet in the south and eastern areas of the Hill Country and generally rise toward the north and west to reach more than 2500 feet in Schleicher and Kerr counties, with most areas ranging between 1400 and 2200 feet. Lying in the transition zone between humid and semiarid climates, the Hill Country experiences both wet and dry years; at Fredericksburg eleven inches of precipitation was recorded in 1956 and forty-one inches the next year. The vegetation originally consisted of a parklike, open forest dominated by several types of oak, giving way in places to expanses of shinnery, to prairie, or to dense juniper (colloquially called cedar) brakes. Both mesquites and junipers have expanded as the environment has been disturbed. In the cultural sense the Hill Country has been a meeting ground of Indian, Spaniard, Mexican, hill southern Anglo, and northern European. The Apaches and their successors, the Comanches, left little imprint but did retard Spanish colonial activities in the region. As early as 1860 the partition of the Hill Country between the two groups that were to dominate it—hill southern Anglos and Germans—had been accomplished.
Between 1840 and 1850 significant numbers of settlers, mostly southern mountaineers, had been attracted to the Hill Country, particularly to Williamson, Hays, Comal, and Gillespie counties. Settlers from the mountain states of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri composed the largest nativity groups within the rural, immigrant, Anglo-American population of these counties. The initial settlement of the remaining Hill Country counties occurred in the decade before the outbreak of the Civil War, as migration into the hills continued on a larger scale. According to a count of the 1860 manuscript census the leading states of origin for the Anglo-American population were still Arkansas and Tennessee. In the 1880 census the trend remained the same, supporting the claim that migration from the Ozark, Ouachita, and Appalachian states was largely responsible for the settlement of the Hill Country.
But the southern mountaineers were not solely responsible for the peopling of the Hill Country. Germans, mainly hill Hessians and Lower Saxons, introduced in the middle 1840s by the Society of Nobles (see ADELSVEREIN), occupied a corridor stretching 100 miles northwestward from New Braunfels and San Antonio through Fredericksburg as far as Mason, along the axis of an old Indian route known as the Pinta Trail, later called the Upper Emigrant Road. The towns of Fredericksburg, Comfort, Boerne, and Mason all bear a strong German cultural imprint, as do numerous neighboring hamlets and farms. By 1870 the population of Gillespie County was 86 percent German, Comal 79 percent, Kendall 62 percent, and Mason 56 percent. Each river valley in the German-settled portion of the Hill Country developed its own distinctive subculture, particularly in the religious sense. The Pedernales valley in Gillespie County is a Lutheran-Catholic enclave abounding in dance halls and ethnic clubs; the Llano valley in Mason and western Llano counties is dominated by German Methodists, who avoid dancing, drinking, and card playing; and the Guadalupe valley of Kendall County is the domain of freethinkers who maintain the only rural stronghold of agnosticism in Texas. Other European groups in the Hill Country include Silesian Poles, who settled at Bandera in the 1850s; Alsatians, who spread up from the Castroville area, following streams such as Hondo Creek; and Britishers, who came as sheepraisers to Kerr and Kendall counties. Blacks are largely absent in the Hill Country, though a few tiny freedmen colonies, such as Payton Colony in Blanco County, occur. Hispanics form a relatively small minority throughout the Hill Country.
In the late 1970s a study was made to determine the extent and intensity of the Hill Country as a perceptual region. Almost three-quarters of the people in the region so designated identified "Hill Country" as the popular name for the area
COW CREEK
COW CREEK (Burnet County). Cow Creek rises eight miles southeast of Burnet in southeast central Burnet County (at 30°40' N, 98°09' W) and runs southeast for twenty-one miles to its mouth on Lake Travis, a mile above Lago Vista in Travis County (at 30°29' N, 98°01' W). The creek, which is intermittent in its upper reaches, traverses generally flat to rolling terrain with local escarpments and steep slopes and benches. Local soils of shallow clay and sandy loams support juniper, live oak, mesquite, and grasses.
Source: tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rbclt
HILL COUNTRY
"Hill Country" is a vernacular term applied to a region including all or part of twenty-five counties near the geographical center of Texas. In the geomorphological sense, the Hill Country represents in large part a dissected plateau surface. It is bordered on the east and south by the Balcones Escarpment, on the west by the relatively undissected Edwards Plateau, and on the north by rolling plains and prairies. The elevations range from less than 1000 feet in the south and eastern areas of the Hill Country and generally rise toward the north and west to reach more than 2500 feet in Schleicher and Kerr counties, with most areas ranging between 1400 and 2200 feet. Lying in the transition zone between humid and semiarid climates, the Hill Country experiences both wet and dry years; at Fredericksburg eleven inches of precipitation was recorded in 1956 and forty-one inches the next year. The vegetation originally consisted of a parklike, open forest dominated by several types of oak, giving way in places to expanses of shinnery, to prairie, or to dense juniper (colloquially called cedar) brakes. Both mesquites and junipers have expanded as the environment has been disturbed. In the cultural sense the Hill Country has been a meeting ground of Indian, Spaniard, Mexican, hill southern Anglo, and northern European. The Apaches and their successors, the Comanches, left little imprint but did retard Spanish colonial activities in the region. As early as 1860 the partition of the Hill Country between the two groups that were to dominate it—hill southern Anglos and Germans—had been accomplished.
Between 1840 and 1850 significant numbers of settlers, mostly southern mountaineers, had been attracted to the Hill Country, particularly to Williamson, Hays, Comal, and Gillespie counties. Settlers from the mountain states of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri composed the largest nativity groups within the rural, immigrant, Anglo-American population of these counties. The initial settlement of the remaining Hill Country counties occurred in the decade before the outbreak of the Civil War, as migration into the hills continued on a larger scale. According to a count of the 1860 manuscript census the leading states of origin for the Anglo-American population were still Arkansas and Tennessee. In the 1880 census the trend remained the same, supporting the claim that migration from the Ozark, Ouachita, and Appalachian states was largely responsible for the settlement of the Hill Country.
But the southern mountaineers were not solely responsible for the peopling of the Hill Country. Germans, mainly hill Hessians and Lower Saxons, introduced in the middle 1840s by the Society of Nobles (see ADELSVEREIN), occupied a corridor stretching 100 miles northwestward from New Braunfels and San Antonio through Fredericksburg as far as Mason, along the axis of an old Indian route known as the Pinta Trail, later called the Upper Emigrant Road. The towns of Fredericksburg, Comfort, Boerne, and Mason all bear a strong German cultural imprint, as do numerous neighboring hamlets and farms. By 1870 the population of Gillespie County was 86 percent German, Comal 79 percent, Kendall 62 percent, and Mason 56 percent. Each river valley in the German-settled portion of the Hill Country developed its own distinctive subculture, particularly in the religious sense. The Pedernales valley in Gillespie County is a Lutheran-Catholic enclave abounding in dance halls and ethnic clubs; the Llano valley in Mason and western Llano counties is dominated by German Methodists, who avoid dancing, drinking, and card playing; and the Guadalupe valley of Kendall County is the domain of freethinkers who maintain the only rural stronghold of agnosticism in Texas. Other European groups in the Hill Country include Silesian Poles, who settled at Bandera in the 1850s; Alsatians, who spread up from the Castroville area, following streams such as Hondo Creek; and Britishers, who came as sheepraisers to Kerr and Kendall counties. Blacks are largely absent in the Hill Country, though a few tiny freedmen colonies, such as Payton Colony in Blanco County, occur. Hispanics form a relatively small minority throughout the Hill Country.
In the late 1970s a study was made to determine the extent and intensity of the Hill Country as a perceptual region. Almost three-quarters of the people in the region so designated identified "Hill Country" as the popular name for the area
1651-1695, Mexico.
Nun, scholar, poet, writer
She came from a Catholic family in the small village of San Miguel de Nepantla, near Amecameca (modern-day México State). Christened Juana Inés Ramírez, she was a great lover of literature and learned Latin before she was ten. She was exceptional not only for her intelligence but also because girls in 17th century Ibero-America rarely received schooling. By the age of fifteen, Juana was considered a child prodigy and became a lady-in-waiting to the viceroy's wife in 1664. Her life in the palace was a decisive influence, as her work is full of references to courtly life.
After four years in the viceroy's court, and seeking freedom to pursue knowledge, Juana decided to become a nun. She entered the Convent of San Jerónimo, where she remained until her death in 1695. By her own account, life in the convent indeed gave her freedoms that she would never have had if she had married, as was expected of respectable women. For instance, she often held discussions about natural science with intellectuals in her private suite, and devoted much of her time to writing poems and plays.
Given her background as an educated, outspoken woman, and born in an environment of a native population that eternally fought against Spanish domination, it is not surprising that Sor Juana wrote literature centered on freedom. In the poem "Hombres necios" she rebels by defending a woman's right to be respected as a human being. "Hombres necios" (Stubborn men) criticises the sexism of the society of her time, and pokes fun at men who condemn prostitution, as men are those who benefit the most from its existence. She also has a philosophical approach to the relative immorality of prostitution. This was exemplified when she posed the question, 'Who sins more, she who sins for pay or he who pays for sin?' In the romantic comedy entitled Los empeños de una casa about a brother and a sister entangled in a web of love, she writes using two of her most prominent themes, love and jealousy. Yet, these emotions are not presented in a moralizing way, but in the spirit of her lifetime interests, the pursuit of liberty and knowledge.
Fortunately for Sor Juana, at first her outspoken stance incurred the pleasure of the Roman Catholic Church. Her outspokeness was especially dangerous for her when one considers the historical context – it was the time of the Counter Reformation and anyone who challenged society's values could easily get into trouble with the all-powerful Church. Later, things came to a climax in 1690, when a letter was published that attacked Sor Juana's focus on the sciences, and suggested that she should devote her time to theology.
In response, Sor Juana wrote a letter entitled Respuesta a Sor Filotea in which she defended women's right to any education they desired. But she soon found that the Catholic Church was not at all sympathetic to her views. The Archbishop of Mexico joined other high-ranking officials in condemning Sor Juana's "waywardness". Finally around 1693 Sor Juana appears to have decided to stop writing, rather than risk any further censure. There is no evidence of her actually renouncing her devotion to letters, and the documents of self-humiliation to which she supposedly put her name in 1694 have the tone of mere rhetorical formulae (one of these is signed "Yo, la peor del mundo" (I, the worst woman in the world)). However, she was forced to sell all her books, an extensive library of some 4,000 volumes, as well as her musical and scientific instruments. In April 1695, plague hit the convent, with great loss of life. Sor Juana contracted the disease and died at four in the morning on April 17.
Text from: www.answers.com/topic/sor-juana-in-s-de-la-cruz-1
Image from: www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/
Her image now graces the 1000 peso. Of course, being a freethinker, she has yet to be canonized or even beatified.
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
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Sup guys .. been viewing and commenting all your great works rather late in the last days .. my apologies. Got loads and loads of work to do at the moment .. it’s the end of the year.
I was on the highest part of St. Paul’s Cathedral to get this shot .. when the clouds came in like this .. i just had this vision on how it would look like .. might not be for everybody .. but i like it a lot.
EXPLORED! December 9, 2010 (Highest Rank #484). Thank you guys .. for showing interest to this one .. well appreciated
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HILL COUNTRY
"Hill Country" is a vernacular term applied to a region including all or part of twenty-five counties near the geographical center of Texas. In the geomorphological sense, the Hill Country represents in large part a dissected plateau surface. It is bordered on the east and south by the Balcones Escarpment, on the west by the relatively undissected Edwards Plateau, and on the north by rolling plains and prairies. The elevations range from less than 1000 feet in the south and eastern areas of the Hill Country and generally rise toward the north and west to reach more than 2500 feet in Schleicher and Kerr counties, with most areas ranging between 1400 and 2200 feet. Lying in the transition zone between humid and semiarid climates, the Hill Country experiences both wet and dry years; at Fredericksburg eleven inches of precipitation was recorded in 1956 and forty-one inches the next year. The vegetation originally consisted of a parklike, open forest dominated by several types of oak, giving way in places to expanses of shinnery, to prairie, or to dense juniper (colloquially called cedar) brakes. Both mesquites and junipers have expanded as the environment has been disturbed. In the cultural sense the Hill Country has been a meeting ground of Indian, Spaniard, Mexican, hill southern Anglo, and northern European. The Apaches and their successors, the Comanches, left little imprint but did retard Spanish colonial activities in the region. As early as 1860 the partition of the Hill Country between the two groups that were to dominate it—hill southern Anglos and Germans—had been accomplished.
Between 1840 and 1850 significant numbers of settlers, mostly southern mountaineers, had been attracted to the Hill Country, particularly to Williamson, Hays, Comal, and Gillespie counties. Settlers from the mountain states of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri composed the largest nativity groups within the rural, immigrant, Anglo-American population of these counties. The initial settlement of the remaining Hill Country counties occurred in the decade before the outbreak of the Civil War, as migration into the hills continued on a larger scale. According to a count of the 1860 manuscript census the leading states of origin for the Anglo-American population were still Arkansas and Tennessee. In the 1880 census the trend remained the same, supporting the claim that migration from the Ozark, Ouachita, and Appalachian states was largely responsible for the settlement of the Hill Country.
But the southern mountaineers were not solely responsible for the peopling of the Hill Country. Germans, mainly hill Hessians and Lower Saxons, introduced in the middle 1840s by the Society of Nobles (see ADELSVEREIN), occupied a corridor stretching 100 miles northwestward from New Braunfels and San Antonio through Fredericksburg as far as Mason, along the axis of an old Indian route known as the Pinta Trail, later called the Upper Emigrant Road. The towns of Fredericksburg, Comfort, Boerne, and Mason all bear a strong German cultural imprint, as do numerous neighboring hamlets and farms. By 1870 the population of Gillespie County was 86 percent German, Comal 79 percent, Kendall 62 percent, and Mason 56 percent. Each river valley in the German-settled portion of the Hill Country developed its own distinctive subculture, particularly in the religious sense. The Pedernales valley in Gillespie County is a Lutheran-Catholic enclave abounding in dance halls and ethnic clubs; the Llano valley in Mason and western Llano counties is dominated by German Methodists, who avoid dancing, drinking, and card playing; and the Guadalupe valley of Kendall County is the domain of freethinkers who maintain the only rural stronghold of agnosticism in Texas. Other European groups in the Hill Country include Silesian Poles, who settled at Bandera in the 1850s; Alsatians, who spread up from the Castroville area, following streams such as Hondo Creek; and Britishers, who came as sheepraisers to Kerr and Kendall counties. Blacks are largely absent in the Hill Country, though a few tiny freedmen colonies, such as Payton Colony in Blanco County, occur. Hispanics form a relatively small minority throughout the Hill Country.
In the late 1970s a study was made to determine the extent and intensity of the Hill Country as a perceptual region. Almost three-quarters of the people in the region so designated identified "Hill Country" as the popular name for the area
THIS IS FOR YOU:
After several months in the hospital I have finally come home.
I am not able to do much at the moment, but it`s a start.
I believe that I have been given a second chance.
The road has been long, but I am very fortunate to have come this far
and it is all thanks to you and my wonderful family.
I cannot seem to find the words to describe what I would like to say to you.
I am so touched by everything you have done for me.
For you, this may have been a small act of kindness, but for me, it has been a big life-changing helping hand.
And so, I will say this -
“At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
— Albert Schweitzer
Thank you and in my son`s own words- "Bless you all, your kindness will never be forgotten."
I thank you all from the bottom of my heart:-
Armon Aeon, AntarticaSlade, Enrique Shergood, Antone`, Maiclo (Pelerin Marie-Claude), Cassandra 204, Mari and Natalie, Jennifer Beinhacker, Paul Boudreau, Shelly 70 Resident, Takis, Joe Vance, Amba Coltman, Thus Yoots, Rob Goldstein, Yvo, Daniel Arrhakis, Kelly, Skip Staheli, Berpala, Pifou, VeraJane Vickers, Xia Firethorn, Belua Broadfoot and Elsie, Abstractartangel77, Mareea Farrasco, Niani Resident, Karen Kleis, Awesone Fallen, Freyja Merryman, Langkawi, JMB Balogh, Lynn (LP Photo), Betty Rogan, Skippy Beresford, Bamboo Barnes, DonnazMagicalPix, Xandra M, Serg Sonnino, Ilyra Chardin, Stormy seas, Becca`s SL Moments, Pretty Parkin, Fingol GreyHaven-Guena, Elo, Adriano Art For Passion, Bird Luik, Abihaska Moore, Alexandra Rudge, Edinei Montigelli, Maya Eidolon, Mr. Happy Face-Peace, Meilo Minotaur, Vesper Dreamscape, Arialee Miles, Brenda Clarke, Trinity Yazimoto, Carlos Malo, DragonFlyDreams88, Bambi Chicque Of BamPu Legacies, Duchess Flux, Marti Bono, Lameato Feliz, John Russell, Steve Taylor, Carol, RavenstarrSL, Vanleen Brooks, Dino, Paul Cowie, R.E Schmitt, Tony Hammond, Ria Adamski, SteveJ442, Kato Salyut, Selvy82, Diana Thorold, Violetta Inglewood, Lam Erin, Rose Arisen, Darys Laine, Cleide, Eva Siba, Jo, Nine Inch Nails, Lemon Art, Thea, MouradianR, Henk Sijgers, Magic Thoughts Photography, Steven Hromnak, Dulce Estrella, Pea2015, Brilliant Hues, Cacau Martiel, Trav H, Yusuf Ramazan, Katerina Chatnoir, Ytala Vaccaro Alexander, Imagejoe, Sharonatje Romano, Jun Sagittaire, Max Romero, Jamisson Burnstein, Natahaha, PewPew Zero, Pullkatt, Joeylin, Ian Thurlby, Susy Smiles, Roiben Sweetwater, Wild Alchemi, Darth Kline, Dianne Lacourciere, Shikhar.S, Christina Often Absent, Sera Galaxy, Literastud Tim, Nebula McAuley, Corfus, Madeleine Andretti, TJ Brown, Annia S, Miko Shin Do, Pink RayneSL, GillaGiha, Jewell Wirefly, Angyel, Serei Guena GreyHaven, Vangelis Tzertzinis, Guenhael Rio, Emericus Durden, MichaelNinoDelmar, All Munich, Gerry@art, Kacey Macbeth, Englepip, Peonylover48, Kyla Vixen, Maria Donata, Glauco Ulcigrai, Jorge Daniel Segura, Images_from_piet, Halina Reshetova, Carlos Luis, Chopay, Azim Landar,
Shelly, Hal Halli, Peace, ℳɑʀγ, AdN[Addme], Dagmar, Pete Huu, Andraus Thor, Marianne Chlench, BridGeT, Michiel Bechir, Denn Mystic, Pink Sky, Ivica Lasic, Annie Klavinham, Nessuno, Tommy N, Leana, Marilu` OFF/on, Cam Boy,Lissy Ba, Kiana Jarman, Raikkovn Rai, Ana Librillana, Miele Tarantal, Bernd Kretzer, Ana-Marija Veg, First NameAndrea, Pat H, JP Freethinker, Miles Cantelou, Rhea Choral,
Zaza-Do it with passion or not at all, LaLa Rocha, れもん, Gray Halostar, Fanette Crystal, Yana, Edie Q, Manuel Poza, Talija, Sunsakuka, Owl. Dragonash, Mike111 Miles, Rosane Nunes, Luane Petry, Kat..Trying To Catch Up, Robin, Gartruth Garmonbozia, Soul Crimson, Carolina Kroll, Rainbow Mubble, Cherise Abonwood, Ravenrouge19, Eriko Littlebird, Allesist Klaar, Dodo Ahanu, angelus Capra, Diamantine Ruby, Tamarind Silverfall, Gewn enchanted, Iruki.L, Alex Sar, Marco Pagot, Just...Eve, Misa Kaory, Jeanette Reinoir, Vitos Davi, Andy Kobel, Leana, Alice Alicja, Bri4nn4, Ermandalee, Laurella Benoir, Piraiyah Novikov, Peter..(Hipea), Mel Li, Dimitri Haritun, Thierry Musette, Carlos J M Martinez, Leonorah Beverly, Franzisko Hauser, Jarrod Wolf, Camilla Ask, Shane12353, Sandi Benelli, Andrei Aldanau, Trinityyy, Daniel Renverseau, Fhe'nix, Olliphoto, GDstudio.com, Pooch, Bernardo Del Palacio, Carmen Tulum, Nemi1968, Blaastoff, Fofina-Do good and good will come, PaulO Classic, YD,
Nette-Tysm for all visits, Gislaadt Art, Nayra31 Collas, Misterm98, Reg Ramai, Genny_Love, *RAH, LɊƲƦɋ , 2PiRadians, Leica Arado, Violetta Inglewood, Silvana Bottoni, Þórunn Þorsteinsdóttir, Jodie Whitman, Maria Donata.
My Family and friends at home:-
My son Jake (thank you for your time here too), Pete, Susy, Anne, Jo and Franco, Shakua and Aranck, Gina, Bob, Noreen, Ginger, Rob and Vinny, Nigel and Carolyn, Sid and Robbie,
Mehrunisha, Steve and Zandra, JB and Nico, Andrew and Gilly, Jas and Kulvinder, Patrick and Sarah, Gwynham and Brenna, Jenna, Guy and Ruby, Trapper, Geoff, Joao and Yumi, Mandy, Yug, Sahara, Juan, Nyima, Jerry, David and the Stonehnenge Riverside Project Crew, Jez and everyone at Crawley Creatures.
MY IMAGE:-
Here is something I made a while back.
An almagamation of my hand painted, photographic and digital media.
Aspiring to achieve a slight three dimensional effect :-
Watercolour on paper.
A digital face has been added and edited.
My butterfly photos taken at the World Butterfly Project in Hertfordshire and the Eden Centre in Cornwall.
My work means so little in comparison to the support you have all given to me. Thank you so much.
Secularism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Secular (disambiguation).
Secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries. One manifestation of secularism is asserting the right to be free from religious rule and teachings, or, in a state declared to be neutral on matters of belief, from the imposition by government of religion or religious practices upon its people.
Another manifestation of secularism is the view that public activities and decisions, especially political ones, should be uninfluenced by religious beliefs and/or practices.
Secularism draws its intellectual roots from Greek and Roman philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius and Epicurus; from Enlightenment thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine; and from more recent freethinkers and atheists such as Robert Ingersoll and Bertrand Russell.
The purposes and arguments in support of secularism vary widely. In European laicism, it has been argued that secularism is a movement toward modernization, and away from traditional religious values (also known as secularization). This type of secularism, on a social or philosophical level, has often occurred while maintaining an official state church or other state support of religion. In the United States, some argue that state secularism has served to a greater extent to protect religion and the religious from governmental interference, while secularism on a social level is less prevalent. Within countries as well, differing political movements support secularism for varying reasons.
Translaton:
Freezing and starving
for the war?
Lower energy prices!
Stop sanctions and
arms supplies!
Peace with Russia!
Free Thinkers
German Free Thinkers Association
“A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing”
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Here's to hoping 2009 is a year of free thinking, but perhaps a year of more doves and fewer hawks.
Explore #9 and FP
**Although the thought is appreciated, please no graphic awards or invites**
HILL COUNTRY
"Hill Country" is a vernacular term applied to a region including all or part of twenty-five counties near the geographical center of Texas. In the geomorphological sense, the Hill Country represents in large part a dissected plateau surface. It is bordered on the east and south by the Balcones Escarpment, on the west by the relatively undissected Edwards Plateau, and on the north by rolling plains and prairies. The elevations range from less than 1000 feet in the south and eastern areas of the Hill Country and generally rise toward the north and west to reach more than 2500 feet in Schleicher and Kerr counties, with most areas ranging between 1400 and 2200 feet. Lying in the transition zone between humid and semiarid climates, the Hill Country experiences both wet and dry years; at Fredericksburg eleven inches of precipitation was recorded in 1956 and forty-one inches the next year. The vegetation originally consisted of a parklike, open forest dominated by several types of oak, giving way in places to expanses of shinnery, to prairie, or to dense juniper (colloquially called cedar) brakes. Both mesquites and junipers have expanded as the environment has been disturbed. In the cultural sense the Hill Country has been a meeting ground of Indian, Spaniard, Mexican, hill southern Anglo, and northern European. The Apaches and their successors, the Comanches, left little imprint but did retard Spanish colonial activities in the region. As early as 1860 the partition of the Hill Country between the two groups that were to dominate it—hill southern Anglos and Germans—had been accomplished.
Between 1840 and 1850 significant numbers of settlers, mostly southern mountaineers, had been attracted to the Hill Country, particularly to Williamson, Hays, Comal, and Gillespie counties. Settlers from the mountain states of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri composed the largest nativity groups within the rural, immigrant, Anglo-American population of these counties. The initial settlement of the remaining Hill Country counties occurred in the decade before the outbreak of the Civil War, as migration into the hills continued on a larger scale. According to a count of the 1860 manuscript census the leading states of origin for the Anglo-American population were still Arkansas and Tennessee. In the 1880 census the trend remained the same, supporting the claim that migration from the Ozark, Ouachita, and Appalachian states was largely responsible for the settlement of the Hill Country.
But the southern mountaineers were not solely responsible for the peopling of the Hill Country. Germans, mainly hill Hessians and Lower Saxons, introduced in the middle 1840s by the Society of Nobles (see ADELSVEREIN), occupied a corridor stretching 100 miles northwestward from New Braunfels and San Antonio through Fredericksburg as far as Mason, along the axis of an old Indian route known as the Pinta Trail, later called the Upper Emigrant Road. The towns of Fredericksburg, Comfort, Boerne, and Mason all bear a strong German cultural imprint, as do numerous neighboring hamlets and farms. By 1870 the population of Gillespie County was 86 percent German, Comal 79 percent, Kendall 62 percent, and Mason 56 percent. Each river valley in the German-settled portion of the Hill Country developed its own distinctive subculture, particularly in the religious sense. The Pedernales valley in Gillespie County is a Lutheran-Catholic enclave abounding in dance halls and ethnic clubs; the Llano valley in Mason and western Llano counties is dominated by German Methodists, who avoid dancing, drinking, and card playing; and the Guadalupe valley of Kendall County is the domain of freethinkers who maintain the only rural stronghold of agnosticism in Texas. Other European groups in the Hill Country include Silesian Poles, who settled at Bandera in the 1850s; Alsatians, who spread up from the Castroville area, following streams such as Hondo Creek; and Britishers, who came as sheepraisers to Kerr and Kendall counties. Blacks are largely absent in the Hill Country, though a few tiny freedmen colonies, such as Payton Colony in Blanco County, occur. Hispanics form a relatively small minority throughout the Hill Country.
In the late 1970s a study was made to determine the extent and intensity of the Hill Country as a perceptual region. Almost three-quarters of the people in the region so designated identified "Hill Country" as the popular name for the area
So tired of hypocritical, egotistical, label placing, lying, cheating, lazy Mofos. Stop telling me who I am!!!! I already know! Morons.
I Love Mankind..... it's people I can't stand.
Charles Schultz
Who is under attack next?? Snoopy??????
Snoopy is racist. Didn't y'all know that? He doesn't associate with German Shepherds.
Ridiculous.
reader`s letter: she writes that she does not understand that freedom of press allows to joke about things that are holy for others and she wants constitutional penalties for satire about religion.
Leserbrief: " ... verstehe ich nicht wieso Pressefreiheit das Recht bedeutet, konsequenzenlos zu verhöhnen was für andere Menschen heilig ist. Hierfür sollten rechtsstaatliche Strafen eingeführt werden"
Haderer: "Wenn die Aufklärer vor 250 Jahren Grenzen akzeptiert hätten, würden noch heute Scheiterhaufen brennen."
Part of: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away - An ENSO (Japanese: circle, Japanisch: Kreis) a day .... " Aktion Kreis Tagebuch A circle diary - Start of the 365-days Project: 1. September / 9. Jänner 2015: Leserbrief: heute,/ Gerhard Haderer: Österreich.
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#CharlieHebdo #charlie #hebdo #JeSuisCharlie #jesuischarlie #ParisShooting
Back of the T-shirt, blue selfportrait drawn on transparent paper, newspaper clips, cotton self dyed
Auf dem blauen Boden in der blauen Spiegelküche: Rückseite Baumwoll T-Shirt, blaues Selbstporträt auf Transparentpapier gezeichnet, Baumwolle selbstgefärbt rot, Nähnadel, Kreuzstich, Zeitungsausschnitte TAZ Die Tageszeitung 10./11. Jänner. Stofffarben
#CharlieHebdo #charlie #hebdo #JeSuisCharlie #jesuischarlie #ParisShooting #NousSommesCharlie
Part of: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away - An ENSO (Japanese: circle, Japanisch: Kreis) a day .... " Aktion Kreis Tagebuch A circle diary - Start of the 365-days Project: 1. September / 11. Jänner 2015 - Tag 2 der 6 Tage Aktion mit einem getragenen T-Shirt // Prokrustes
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I happened to notice this old building tucked into the urban sprawl just south of Milwaukee. Being nosy I checked it out. It was a meeting house of the Freethinkers, a group that included Christians as well as atheists and agnostics. Below is the sign in front of it and a shot of the tiny cemetery next to it. If you're interested you can read about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painesville_Chapel
#CharlieHebdo #charlie #hebdo #JeSuisCharlie #jesuischarlie #ParisShooting
auf dem blauen Boden in der blauen Spiegelk Küche: recycling eines Baumwoll Leiberls weiß, Stofffarben: blau rot schwarz, Schuhabdrücke, Etikett: Crown TAZ 10./11. Jänner
Part of: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away - An ENSO (Japanese: circle, Japanisch: Kreis) a day .... " Aktion Kreis Tagebuch A circle diary - Start of the 365-days Project: 1. September / 10. Jänner 2015 - Tag 1 der 6 Tage Aktion mit einem getragenen T-Shirt // Prokrustes
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