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Cuando se ve una MARIPOSA NARANJA, la simbología para el observador incluye sentimientos de felicidad, alegría, idealismo, vida, sol y conciencia. Estos seres también se asocian con la salud, el bienestar, la amabilidad, la cortesía, la vivacidad y la pasión.
Cuando se trata de la pasión, el significado simbólico de la mariposa naranja puede ser positivo, ya que anima a la persona que la ve a mantenerse centrada en un proyecto o a seguir adelante con un plan de acción.
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When an ORANGE BUTTERFLY is seen, the symbology for the observer includes feelings of happiness, joy, idealism, life, sun and consciousness. These beings are also associated with health, well-being, friendliness, courtesy, vivacity, and passion.`
When it comes to passion, the symbolic meaning of the orange butterfly can be positive, as it encourages the person who sees it to stay focused on a project or to follow through with a plan of action.
La photographe franco-marocaine Leïla Alaoui, grièvement blessée dans l’attentat de Ouagadougou, est morte lundi 18 janvier au soir. Elle se trouvait au Burkina Faso dans le cadre d’une mission pour l’ONG Amnesty International.
Une pensée à cette jeune femme : photographe engagée et talentueuse.
RÉFLEXION :
Voici une bi nationalité ... qui devrait alors nous faire réfléchir au delà des idéalismes politiques revanchards, simplistes et manipulateurs .
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The Franco-Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui, seriously injured in the attack in Ouagadougou, died Monday, January 18 evening. She was in Burkina Faso as part of a mission for the NGO Amnesty International.
A thought to this young woman, committed and talented photographer.
REFLECTION :
Here is a bi nationality ... which should then make us think beyond political idealism revenge, simplistic and manipulative.
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Bronze portrait head of a mature man
From Delos (“Palaestra of Granite”)
Early 1st c. BC.
A Distinctively realistic face of an anonymous figure carrying the burden of ephemeral thoughts and everyday concerns. Wrinkles on the forehead, on the edges of the eyes, melancholic expression of a wet look, made more lively by the color variegation of the eyes, are characteristics that contrast the idealism of the classic rule.
The head of the man is inclined towards his left shoulder. The hair, in small curly locks, frames the fleshy face of a mature man. The inlaid eyes gaze upwards and into the distance. The modelling of the flesh in many planes attests to a great sculptor.
The portrait is unique because on the one hand it is in the “psychological” style of Demosthenes, on the other hand it is one of a heroic demeanor, like the ones of Alexander the Great, combined with an expressive facial treatment.
Both the perspective of capture and the editing were made with respect in the magnificent art of this classical Masterpiece.
In The Centre for Crazy Tuesday
If discard idealism, it is maybe one of the most flower-friendly way to make bouquets
And can you see these different emotions behind this smile?
Ten Lessons from the American Robin
1. It’s good to be common
The American Robin is one of the most common and widespread native birds in North America. This large population gives robins great resilience in the face of ecological and climatic challenges.
Build the movement!
2. Adapt to where you are
Robins are found from steamy southern swamps to the Alaskan tundra. Their remarkable ability to adapt to local conditions and resources is the secret of their success.
Frame your message with regard to local conditions
3. And also have one special skill
For all their adaptability, robins also have a specialized skill: their earthworm-hunting behavior, which opens up a rich resource few other birds exploit.
Know your special talent and make the most of it
4. ‑Figure out how to take advantage of the dominant paradigm
Robins thrive in part because of their ability to make the most of human environments, nesting in our backyards and foraging on our lawns.
Don’t be afraid to make alliances and to engage with mass media
5. Be alert for phonies
Robins are among the few birds able to detect and toss out the eggs of the parasitic Brown-headed Cowbird, thus protecting their nests from invaders.
Welcome only those who truly share your values
6. Know when to move on
Throughout their wide range, robins exhibit facultative migration – that is, they adjust their winter residency to conditions. In a cold winter, they head south; if the next year is mild, they may remain resident all year.
Know when to stage a tactical retreat, in order to win another time
7. Produce lots of young
Robins often produce two broods of offspring per year. That gives them a huge advantage compared to less fecund species.
There’s no substitute for the energy and idealism of the young when building a movement.
8. Be confident
Robins are often described as “bold,” “confident,” and “confiding,” in contrast to related birds like the shy Varied Thrush. There is no doubt that the outgoing behavior of robins has contributed greatly to their success.
Believe in your cause whole-heartedly, and others will too.
9. Be friendly
In addition to their boldness, robins appeal to us because they’re friendly – even if they’re keeping us company in the garden in order to snatch up earthworms!
A friendly, positive approach will gain many more listeners than one wrapped in doom and gloom.
10. Sing!
For many of us, the rich warbling song of the robin announces the arrival of spring, lifting our spirits after the hard winter. Isn’t a beautiful message what we all want to hear?
No matter what, sing!
Pepper Trail is a naturalist and writer in Ashland, Oregon.
Nguyễn Thái Học (1902–1930) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and the founder of the Vietnamese Nationalist Party (Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, VNQDĐ). Born in Vĩnh Tường province in northern Vietnam, then under French colonial rule, he grew up in a modest but educated family and showed early intelligence, idealism, and a strong sense of justice.
During his youth, he witnessed the oppression and exploitation of the Vietnamese people by French authorities, which shaped his conviction that only freedom and unity could save his nation. In 1927, at the age of 25, he founded the VNQDĐ, aiming to achieve Vietnamese independence through organized revolutionary action.
Nguyễn Thái Học was a determined yet conscientious leader. He believed in the power of collective action and the responsibility of revolutionaries to protect and guide their people. He organized the **Yên Bái uprising in 1930**, a coordinated attempt to overthrow French rule. Unfortunately, the revolt was betrayed and suppressed. Many revolutionaries were captured or killed, and Nguyễn Thái Học himself was sentenced to death.
On June 17, 1930, at just 28 years old, he was **executed by the French authorities**, standing firm in his convictions. His final words, calling for the enduring freedom of Vietnam, became legendary and inspired generations of patriots. Nguyễn Thái Học remains a symbol of courage, sacrifice, and unwavering dedication to justice, representing all those who gave their lives resisting oppression and fighting for the rights of their people.I publish this series of figures to awaken consciences and remind young people and the world that the people, the oppressed, must remain united to resist injustice. All those who have truly defended the rights of others in one way or another have often been killed. This series honors their courage, sacrifices, and dedication, showing that fighting for justice is a responsibility that continues today.
This is the description that accompanied this, hope it fits:I got the inspiration for this sculpture while thinking about my own place in the world and it struck me how privileged I am to be made up really of millions of different living things that have died and somehow become part of my own body, and how someday I'll join that cycle once I die and become a part of the earth again and get spread out potentially among millions of other creatures. I chose a classic female figure with an attempt at realism but with a sense of idealism and abstraction to really represent what I thought evoked a motherly image and also a sense of wonder at the beauty of the human form. She and her metal appendages and garden can be interpreted however the viewer wishes. Some that I have seen myself in the sculpture primarily include the human body represented as dead in the dirt, but growing into and becoming new life in the beautiful flowers and now growth spewing out the top, or perhaps the human is partially morphed into a type of tree and as part of photosynthesis and part of the energy cycle of the plants. I could also see it as a more abstract representation of energy radiating out of a female form (simplified of course, sans a few limbs and a head), showing the direct invisible connection between all living and dead things all the time. But see it however you want! I think it's great that the whole thing will not last long, is really only temporary itself, but it is unfortunate that those flowers really will not survive long in those conditions. I expect the daffodils may last the longest, and I love how they provide a nice simple counterpoint to the other varieties. The title comes from a quote from the late writer/philosopher/speaker Terence McKenna that I really think sums up my own personal philosophy that partially inspired this work , which I first heard (of all places) as a sample on a song by the electronic group Shpongle, and really I am stealing from them here but it is a great quote so I still wanted to use it.:
“Nothing Lasts. Nothings Lasts. Everything is changing into something else...
William Blake said that 'nothing is lost.' Nothing is lost. And I really believe that.
And we all move on.”
The wrong side of the tracks; a poor or less prestigious part of town.
The expression, American in origin, comes from the idea of a town divided by a rail-road track.
In 1929 , Thorne Smith wrote ‘In most commuting towns…there are always two sides of which the tracks serve as a line of demarcation. There is the right side and the wrong side. Translated into terms of modern American idealism, this means, the rich side and the side that hopes to be rich.’
Suffering, in all it's varied forms, is what exactly?
A compounding of fractured soul, so matter-of-factly,
She said that He Himself said,
That surgery is an art gallery of faith instead
Masterpieces where health invariably decreases
Swan songs of broken hearts where love ceases
To enliven home truth's of carefree surrealism
One empty soul does not make another idealism,
Minimal is the grey day that paves the way for darkness
Looming on the horizon of unseen weathering blackness
A colossus of sky with the upper land
Nature the only card, saviour, and prophet to hand
Fear may only be a feeling, but the feeling is beyond fear itself
As they say, depression is expectant as we each try to find oneself
In the mire of news, be it the betrayal of the health of our citizens
Or just the assassination of natural resources wealth, that bloody well glistens
In the headlights and highlights of our obit we now live in memory alone
"A Song for Departure" plays upon the mind that cannot find adequate words to bemoan
The lack of attention paid to the well-being of Mother Nature, ageism spammed!
We are seeking the revolution for the revolving Earth whose door's are jammed
By the annual quagmire of festive exposure by all means time is spent!
Here by the grace of God, we breathe in life, in a place, in grace Heaven sent
It's tempting to stop reading, as it is to cease listening, turning a blind eye as well, why not?
But dare I say, it's nigh on impossible for very long to do the whole damned lot!
Mother Nature, She is suffering can't you see upon this obdurate land
We tune-in to be deceived, ghost hunters and faithful followers of a new kind of religious brand
Detect only what the illusion alludes to in the lost art of heart and soul
In part, life is already obfuscated with it's own toxins, we're the decade on parole
1988, 1998, 2008, I remember well, the future that is coming too soon
Here before tomorrow ever knows what to do with itself, we must find the answers to be in tune
Petty arguments wage wars within the minds of boys whose toys have been confiscated by ignorance
A belief of faith cannot be true if it sees red at every turn, nor can it bring hope for the children in whom we bestow what kind of continuance?
Benevolence is awaited with a youthful eagerness that has grown old waiting on the wings of fighters
Knives replace fists that substitute backs for tables in the cities full of such blighters
Intervention risks life and death for the removal of compassion brings the hooded underworld
That has now come up to grab society by the ruddy throat twirled
A society indeed, un-policed and unappeased the x-factor of fearless nerves
Can no longer meet with the supply, that which steals warns of what it serves
We're a breed apart though we never used to be and never should be
Walking tall when we should be down on our damned knees begging for forgiveness until we all finally agree
So the trepidant beggars of belief peaceably fly in the face of popular opinion,
For the standards of today will invariably fail the tests of time and ever-changing dominion
If you feel the force of scientific tribulation, will it numb the senses of tomorrow
Can the government's diet, passed fit for us all, sustain us through political sorrow?
If a smile should pass your face someday, cherish it's presence upon the lifestyle that forgot how to use it
Wear yourself well, but for the love of life we must address what does reciprocally befit.
by anglia24
09h55: 02/10/2008
©2008anglia24
Grasmere
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Quaint spaces embody a sense of peaceful stability and calm surpassing mere idealism.
Among the sources of Western esotericism, the Hermetica is the most prominent. It is a collection of writings on cosmology, astrology, alchemy, and magic, and it has its origins in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. The Hermetica is attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and magic, is a significant figure in the Hermetica. Greeks in Egypt came to identify Thoth with their god Hermes.
Hermetism, in its ancient context, is closely related to pagan Neoplatonism. Neo-Platonists practiced Theurgy, a form of pagan mystical practice and magical ritual. The concept of theurgy came from the Chaldean Oracles, which describe the physical world as a prison from which the higher human soul must escape.
Gnosticism is a heresy from the early Christian era. The word Gnosticism comes from the Greek word gnosis, meaning “knowledge” or “insight,” and it pertains to hidden or secret spiritual knowledge. Gnostics believe that their souls are trapped in an imperfect world and that through esoteric knowledge they can be freed from the prison of this material world.
During the Italian Renaissance, a priest named Marsilio Ficino taught new spiritual concepts of Platonism and the Hermetica. This caused a revival of Neoplatonism and Hermetism. During this time, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola blended Kabbalah with Hermeticism. Then came figures such as Johannes Reuchlin, Johann Trithemius, and Henry Cornelius Agrippa, who mixed forms of Hermeticism with Neoplatonism, Neopythagoreanism, magic, astrology, alchemy, and Cabala. After came John Dee, who was an advisor to Elizabeth I. He immersed himself in astrology, alchemy, and Cabala. John Dee and Edward Kelley collaborated in angel magic for several years. And an influential figure in medicine named Paracelsus, combined alchemy with Hermetic and Neoplatonic ideas to form his medical theories. The Emerald Tablet, one of the oldest alchemical writings, played a major role in Renaissance esotericism. The saying, “as above, so below,” comes from the Emerald Tablet.
Christian theosophy emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in reaction to the strict orthodoxy of the Lutheran Reformation. Jacob Boehme was the figure behind the start of this movement. His ideas influenced intellectual movements such as Romanticism and Idealism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Platonism and Hermeticism are an essential part of theosophy. Rosicrucianism also arose in the seventeenth century. “From its obscure origins, the Rosicrucian myth would inspire literature, eighteenth-century Masonic adaptations, the rituals of the Golden Dawn, the leading magical order of the modern occult revival, and still exerts a powerful mystique today.”
Many secret societies formed in the eighteenth century, with their different esoteric beliefs. Many of these societies had relationships with the various Masonic lodges. Continental Freemasonry latched onto many of the esoteric ideas of these societies. The higher degrees of Freemasonry usually incorporated themes of theosophy, Rosicrucianism, and alchemy. Therefore, in the eighteenth century, Freemasonry was a major conduit for the spread of Western esotericism.
Emanuel Swedenborg had a great influence on eighteenth-century theosophy and was a major player in the development of modern esotericism. The Enlightenment influenced esoteric ideas, and they were accepted by many eighteenth-century illuminists. Then came Franz Anton Mesmer, who developed the theory of animal magnetism. His legacy can be traced to the early beginnings of modern Spiritualism. Animal magnetism was rooted in esoteric traditions. A key figure in animal magnetism was Justinus Kerner. His work became well-known throughout Europe. Another key figure was Baron Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy, who used animal magnetism to “unlock the secrets of magic.” His ideas influenced modern occultism. Helena Blavatsky, one of the founders of modern Theosophy, was a big fan of Dupotet. She also linked animal magnetism to magic. A man named James Braid coined the term “hypnotism” to describe animal magnetism. Hypnosis played a major role in the development of modern psychology. (Though they stripped the occult “ideas” from animal magnetism (hypnotism), I consider hypnotism to be an occult “practice.” Both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung experimented with hypnosis.
In the mid-nineteenth century, occultism was introduced to America, predominantly through forms of animal magnetism, Swedenborgianism, and Freemasonry. Animal magnetism was introduced to America by Charles de Poyen. It quickly spread among occultists and spiritualists and was often combined with Swedenborgian ideas. Then came Andrew Jackson Davis, who communicated with a spirit he later identified as Swedenborg. He wrote a book called The Principles of Nature, which utilized Swedenborg’s ideas. His book sold many copies and became one of the founding texts of modern Spiritualism. Out of animal magnetism came the movements of New Thought and Christian Science, which integrated traditional Christian ideas with nineteenth-century metaphysical traditions. Next came modern Spiritualism, with its entertaining showmanship (self-moving furniture, self-playing musical instruments, and body levitation). Although the concepts of Swedenborg and animal magnetism were part of modern Spiritualism, the movement emerged independently of these influences.
The modern occult revival of the nineteenth century was complex. Romanticism sparked interest in the mysterious and unknown, thus creating an interest in animal magnetism, Spiritualism, and magic. A man named Eliphas Lévi became a pioneering figure in this Western occult revival. Lévi mixed ideas of animal magnetism with his philosophy of magic. Lévi used the Kabbalah and the Tarot as a source of magical symbolism. Much of modern occultism recognizes the Tarot as a root of mystical symbolism and imagery. Aleister Crowley believed himself to be a reincarnation of Lévi. Helena Blavatsky was also a fan of Lévi. In the second half of the nineteenth century, a Freemasonry order called the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia was founded. In turn, some of its members founded the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn produced various offshoots, impacting Western esoteric traditions during the twentieth century.
Arthur Edward Waite came out of the Golden Dawn. He was a poet, scholar, mystic, and occultist. He was a prolific writer on esoteric matters. He was also a co-creator of the Rider-Waite TAROT card deck, which is one of the most popular Tarot decks. Aleister Crowley also came out of the Golden Dawn. Crowley wrote “The Book of the Law,” which stated, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!” Crowley used sex magick as a major tool for his magical system. Crowley referred to himself as the Great Beast 666. “Gerald Gardner, the founder of modern witchcraft, introduced Crowleyan magick into the neopagan Wiccan movement.” Dion Fortune, who had a great impact on modern Western esotericism, also came out of the Golden Dawn. She was one of the most influential twentieth-century occultists and ceremonial magicians. She had a significant influence on both later ceremonial magic and Wicca. “She was perhaps one of the first occult writers to approach magic and hermetic concepts from the psychology of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.”
The Theosophical Society was founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. Blavatsky combined elements of Neoplatonism, Renaissance magic, Kabbalah, Freemasonry, ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman mythology and religion, Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta into her religious system. Her new religious movement played a major role in the spread of esoteric traditions in the modern era, and it was likely the biggest Influence behind the modern occult revival. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Theosophy gained a large international following. Her work prepared the foundation for what is now known as the New Age movement.
Alice A. Bailey authored many books on Theosophy. She was one of the first writers to use the term New Age, and her works have significantly influenced the New Age movement. Alice and Foster Bailey founded the Lucifer Publishing Company, which was later named the Lucis Publishing Company. (The Theosophical Society had also used the name “Lucifer” for its early magazine.) World Goodwill, which is part of Alice Bailey’s Lucis Trust, is an accredited Nongovernmental Organization with the Department of Public Information at the United Nations. The Lucis Trust is also on the Roster of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Carl Jung, the famous psychiatrist, had a profound impact on the world of psychology and spirituality. Esoteric traditions profoundly shaped Jung’s understanding of the human psyche. Gnosticism deeply resonated with Jung’s theories. His ideas have had a significant influence on the New Age movement. Western esotericism gained renewed momentum from Jung’s implied spiritualization of the psyche.
“Ever since Plato’s separation of the body and the soul, Western esotericism has traced a path in which the soul has been granted some share in divinity.” Hermetism, Neoplatonism, and modern-day Western esotericism provide people with a vision of the cosmos in which their soul has divine purpose. With the popularity of New Age and neopagan philosophies in the West today, esoteric traditions will continue to evolve and lay claim to some sort of enlightened gnosis.
I think that modern esotericism will lead down the road to Alice Bailey’s vision of a world religion—the fusion of faiths. This concept has been around for a long time. Here is the concept: a one-world government is needed to unite mankind in order to create a world of peace and prosperity (political Gnosticism). To accomplish a one-world government, all religions must unite under one umbrella (spiritual Gnosticism). Many groups have been working towards this goal, such as the Parliament of the World’s Religions, the International Association for Religious Freedom, the World Congress of Faiths, Nostra Aetate, and Religions for Peace.
Nietzsche’s murder of God is an element of parousiastic Gnosticism, which seeks to destroy everything that is perceived as unjust (imperfect), and to replace it with a just (perfect) order through the power of human means and intellect. Therefore, the Christian God of the West has to go, and so does Western democracy. Just like the murder of God, Nietzsche’s transformation of man into the superman is an attempt to murder man. “Historically, the murder of God is not followed by the superman, but by the murder of man.” The Marxists must destroy capitalism and instate communism, thus killing off bourgeois society. They are trapped in this world of capitalism; thus, their world is a prison. The Marxists are trapped in a system of private property and must transcend private property, abolishing it forever. Marxists must transcend the evils of this capitalist world and evolve into the “socialist man”/“communist man.” They must destroy the current system to gain their utopia. Indeed, “socialism is man’s positive self-consciousness,” his gnosis.
“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. The entire movement of history, just as its actual act of genesis—the birth act of its empirical existence—is, therefore, for its thinking consciousness the comprehended and known process of its becoming.” – Karl Marx
“The positive transcendence of private property as the appropriation of human life, is therefore the positive transcendence of all estrangement—that is to say, the return of man from religion, family, state, etc., to his human, i.e., social, existence.” – Karl Marx
Political Gnosticism is seen in communism and National Socialism. Political Gnosticism is alive and well today, with affluent people and organizations who want to transform our world into their utopian dream. The United Nations, with its Sustainable Development Goals, is the chief example. The World Economic Forum is another. Through their gnosis, they can bring peace and prosperity to the world.
“Queer theory brings knowing and being into the education of young children.” In queer theory, people are born (trapped) in the wrong body; their bodies are prisons. “Young people are absorbing the idea that the physical body is not part of the authentic self—that the authentic self is only the autonomous choosing self. This is ancient Gnosticism in new garb.”
Transhumanists want mankind to transcend into the superman. Man is trapped in this mortal body, but the goal is to someday attain immortality. They will use technology and super intelligence to solve man’s problems, to bring about a perfect world of peace and prosperity.
The Bible warns about the forming of a future one-world religion—the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. It warns of a one-world cashless currency system, which will be connected to the Mark of the Beast. Without this one-world digital ID Mark, which will be located on the right hand or forehead, a person will not be able to buy or sell. The man who implements this system will be the Antichrist. His Mark will plunge mankind into the first stages of transhumanism. Those who refuse this transformation into the superman will be put to death—the murder of man. The Western religion of Christianity will be replaced with the worship of Caesar (the Beast). Western democracy will be replaced with totalitarianism.
The gnosis: if you eat the fruit, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God.
Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. Oscar Wilde. The Decay of Lying. Essay. Title explanation see below.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Source Wikipedia.
Title explanation
Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde, who opined in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay, written as a Platonic dialogue, Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life's imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may realise that energy."
What is found in life and nature is not what is really there, but is that which artists have taught people to find there, through art. As in an example posited by Wilde, although there has been fog in London for centuries, one notices the beauty and wonder of the fog because "poets and painters have taught the loveliness of such effects...They did not exist till Art had invented them." Source Wikipedia.
The Decay of Lying - Oscar Wilde
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I've always been a dreamer. I mean sleep dreams, not the other kind. But my dreams always seemed sporadic and manifested largely in short bursts. Almost like TV commercials of short duration and limited scope. Some months ago this changed into a full-on movie length format. The moment I fall asleep, even if just for a few minutes, entire storylines play out as if scripted by highly imaginative writers. There are plots, characters, situations, and on and on. Usually there's a beginning, middle, and end, although some of it gets a little murky. I always wonder if that's how the dream went, our if the murkiness has more to do with my in avidly to recall every nuance. Dreams have a way of fading with each passing moment after one awakens. But these dreams have a lasting effect, and I can often recall details hours or days later. The dreams can involve actual life events, however they are after all dreams so there's still the element of anything goes (such as the ability to spontaneously levitate off the ground, or my favorite offshoot is taking a long jump and managing to keep my feet off the ground for minutes; oh how I love that feeling!). The characters that appear to me include a variety of people from real life, as you might imagine. But they freely consort interact with dead people, people from my distant past, as well as famous people and often Hollywood actors. Bizarre combinations and connections that, at least in the dream, seem perfectly normal. The weirdness usually only develops when I analyze the dream through there lens of wakefulness. And so it goes, every night. It's a wonderful metaphor for how I often see the world around me, both photographically and in real interactions. The harshness or reality juxtaposed against the surreal dreamworld. And my constant desire to surf that boundary line.
When My Mind is Still
When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart,
I remember things too easily forgotten:
The purity of early love,
The maturity of unselfish love that asks --
desires -- nothing but another's good,
The idealism that has persisted through all the tempest of life.
When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart,
I can find a quiet assurance, an inner peace, in the core of my being.
It can face the doubt, the loneliness, the anxiety,
Can accept these harsh realities and can even grow
Because of these challenges to my essential being.
When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart,
I can sense my basic humanity,
And then I know that all men and women are my brothers and sisters.
Nothing but my own fear and distrust can separate me from the love of friends.
If I can trust others, accept them, enjoy them,
Then my life shall surely be richer and more full.
If I can accept others, this will help them to be more truly themselves,
And they will be more able to accept me.
When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart,
I know how much life has given me:
The history of the race, friends and family,
The opportunity to work, the chance to build myself.
Then wells within me the urge to live more abundantly,
With greater trust and joy,
With more profound seriousness and earnest service,
And yet more calmly at the heart of life.
-Paul Beattie
This gentleman is a Junior Firefighter, in other words he is a firefighter in training. When I saw him close up and how young he actually is - selling flowers to raise funds for MY local fire department - I was totally humbled that a young man like this might risk his life one day to save someone such as myself.
So there you have it: Hats off to firefighters (from my on-going "Hats Off Series"/set.)
By the way, our son works with the firefighters and police as an EMT through Southwest EMS. For the service they provide each of us - often taken for granted, my hat's off to them ALL.
Pope Benedict XVI's message to the Franciscan family, April 18, 2009
Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Franciscan family!
With great joy I welcome you all at this happy and historic occasion that has gathered you all together: the eighth centenary of the approval of the "protoregola" [monastic rule] of St. Francis by Pope Innocent III. Eight hundred years have passed, and those dozen friars have become a multitude, scattered all over the world and now here, by you, worthily represented. In recent days you have gathered in Assisi for what you wanted to call the "Chapter of Mats" to recall your origins. And at the end of this extraordinary experience you have come together with the "Signor Papa" [Lord Pope], as your seraphic founder would say. I greet you all with affection: the Friars Minor of the three branches, guided by the respective Ministers General, among whom I thank Father José Rodriguez Carballo for his kind words, the members of the Third Order, with their Minister General; the Franciscan women religious and members of the Franciscan secular institutes, and knowing them spiritually present, the Poor Clares, which constitute the "second order."
I am pleased to welcome some Franciscan bishops, and in particular I greet the bishop of Assisi, Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, who represents the Church of Assisi, the home of Francis and Clare, and spiritually, of all the Franciscans. We know how important it was for Francis, the link with the bishop of Assisi at the time, Guido, who acknowledged his charisma and supported it. It was Guido who presented Francis to Cardinal Giovanni of St. Paul, who then introduced him to the Pope and encouraged the adoption of the Rule. Charism and institution are always complementary for the edification of the Church.
What should I tell you, dear friends? First of all I would like to join you in giving thanks to God for the path that he has marked out for you, filling you with his benefits. And as Pastor of the Church, I want to thank him for the precious gift that you are for the entire Christian people. From the small stream that flowed from the foot of Mount Subasio, it has formed a great river, which has made a significant contribution to the universal spread of the Gospel. It all began from the conversion of Francis, who, following the example of Jesus "emptied himself" (cf. Phil 2:7) and, by marrying Lady Poverty, became a witness and herald of the Father who is in heaven. To the "Poverello" [little poor man], one can apply literally some expressions that the apostle Paul uses to refer to himself and which I like to remember in this Pauline Year: "I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And this life, I live in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of God who has loved me and given himself for me" (Gal. 2:19-20). And again: "From now on let no one bother me: for I wear the marks of Jesus on my body" (Gal 6:17).
Francis reflects perfectly the footsteps of Paul and in truth can say with him: "For me, to live is Christ" (Phil 1:21). He has experienced the power of divine grace and he is as one who has died and risen. All his previous wealth, any source of pride and security, everything becomes a "loss" from the moment of encounter with the crucified and risen Jesus (cf. Phil 3:7-11). The leaving of everything at that point becomes almost necessary to express the abundance of the gift received. A gift so great as to require a total detachment, which itself isn't enough; it requires a entire life lived "according to the form of the holy Gospel" (2 Tests, 14: the Franciscan Sources, 116).
And here we come to the point that surely lies at the heart of our meeting. I would summarize it as follows: the Gospel as a rule of life. "The Rule and life of the Friars Minor is this, to observe the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:" this is what Francis writes at the beginning of his Rule (Rb I, 1: FF, 75). He defined himself entirely in the light of the Gospel. This is his charm. This is his enduring relevance. Thomas of Celano relates that the Poverello "always held himself in the heart of Jesus. Jesus on the lips, Jesus in his ears, Jesus is his eyes, Jesus in his hands, Jesus in all the other members [...] In fact finding himself often traveling and meditating or singing about Jesus, he would forget he was traveling and would stop to invite all creatures to praise Jesus" (1 Cel., II, 9, 115: FF115). So the Poverello has become a living gospel, able to attract to Christ men and women of all ages, especially young people, who prefer radical idealism to half-measures. The Bishop of Assisi, Guido, and then Pope Innocent III recognized in the proposal of Francis and his companions the authenticity of the Gospel, and knew how to encourage their commitment for the good of the Church.
Here is a spontaneous reflection: Francis could have also not gone to the Pope. Many religious groups and movements were forming during that time, and some of them were opposed to the Church as an institution, or at least didn't seek the Churches' approval. Certainly a polemical attitude towards the hierarchy would have won Francis many followers. Instead, he immediately thought to put his journey and that of his companions into the hands of the Bishop of Rome, the Successor of Peter. This fact reveals his true ecclesial spirit. The little "we" that had started with his first friars he conceived from the outset inside the context of the great "we" of the one and universal Church. And the Pope recognized and appreciated this. The Pope, in fact, on his part, could have not approved the project of the life of Francis. Indeed, we can well imagine that among the collaborators of Innocent III, some counseled him to that effect, perhaps fearing that his group of monks would end up resembling other heretical groups and pauperisms of the time. Instead the Roman Pontiff, well informed by the Bishop of Assisi and Cardinal Giovanni of St. Paul, was able to discern the initiative of the Holy Spirit and welcomed, blessed and encouraged the nascent community of "Friars Minor."
Dear brothers and sisters, eight centuries have passed, and now you have wanted to renew this gesture of your founder. You are all sons and heirs of those origins, of that "good seed" which was Francis, who was conformed to the "grain of wheat" which is the Lord Jesus, died and risen to bring forth much fruit (cf. Jn 12:24). The saints propose anew the fruitfulness of Christ. As Francis and Clare of Assisi, you also commit yourselves to follow the same logic: to lose your lives for Jesus and the Gospel, to save them and make them abundantly fruitful. While you praise and thank the Lord who has called you to be part of such a great and beautiful family, stay attentive to what the Spirit says to it today, in each of its components, to continue to proclaim with passion the Kingdom of God, the footsteps of your seraphic father. Every brother and every sister should keep always a contemplative mood, happy and simple; always begin from Christ, as Francis set out from the gaze of the Crucifix of San Damiano and from the meeting with the leper, to see the face of Christ in our brothers and sisters who suffer and bring to all his peace. Be witnesses to the "beauty" of God, which Francis was able to sing contemplating the wonders of creation, and that made him exclaim to the Most High: "You are beauty!" (Praises of God Most High, 4.6: FF 261).
Dear friends, the last word I would like to leave with you is the same that the risen Jesus gave to his disciples: "Go!" (cf. Mt 28:19, Mk 16:15). Go and continue to "repair the house" of the Lord Jesus Christ, his Church. In recent days, the earthquake that struck the Abruzzo region has severely damaged many churches, and you from Assisi know what this means. But there is another "ruin" that is far more serious: that of people and communities! Like Francis, always start with yourselves. We are the first house that God wants to restore. If you are always able to renew yourselves in the spirit of the Gospel, you will continue to assist the pastors of the Church to make more and more beautiful the Church's face, that of the bride of Christ. The Pope, now the same as then, expects this of you. Thank you for coming! Now go and bring to all the peace and love of Christ the Savior. May Mary Immaculate, "Virgin made Church" (cf. Greetings to the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1 FF, 259), accompany you always. And may my Apostolic Blessing, which I cordially impart to all of you here present, and the entire Franciscan family, support you as well.
[Translation by Matthew Pollock]
[The Holy Father greeted the Franciscans in various languages. In English, he said:]
I am pleased to welcome in a special way the Minister Generals gathered with the priests, Sisters and Brothers of the worldwide Franciscan community present at this audience. As you mark the Eight-hundredth anniversary of the approval of the Rule of Saint Francis, I pray that through the intercession of the Poverello, Franciscans everywhere will continue to offer themselves completely at the service of others, especially the poor. May the Lord bless you in your Apostolates and shower your communities with abundant vocations.
© Copyright 2009 -- Libreria Editrice Vaticana
an old man stands stark against the vibrant backdrop of an advertisement featuring a young woman in a crimson dress. his weathered features speak of many decades lived, a silent testament to resilience against the glossy idealisms of youth and beauty promoted behind him. the city breathes around them, these two figures, juxtaposed in their existence, creating a silent dialogue between what is worn and what is eternally youthful.
"Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live."
The curves of time: The memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer
2000, p. 176.
Poster Noise and Resistance - a documentary about the DIY punk scene... Interviews with Bands and activists like CRASS (GB), SEEIN RED (NL), ANTIMASTER(MEX), ACTIVE DISTRIBUTION (GB), What We Feel (RU), Sju Svara Ar( SWE),
Antimaster (MEX), La Casa Fantom (NW), Transicion (ESP) uvm...
check the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JezfrIN-LYE&feature=related
Punk has grown up and is now called DIY ( = Do It Yourself ) :
A globally interconnected scene, built on autonomy and solidarity, has declared war on capitalism and the status quo :
" We want more than we find in this society and at the same need a lot less than it offers. "
Whether they are squatters in Barcelona, antifascists in Moscow, queer inhabitants of Berlin's self-governed trailer
parks, Dutch unionists, or ageing activists of England's CRASS collective - they can all be brought down to one
common denominator : their protest and music as their means and tool to express it.
" Maybe music can't change the world, but it can be a soundtrack ! "
Consequently, two filmmakers set off on a journey through subcultural Europe.
In an authentic and complex contemporary document, they tell about members of the DIY scene in different countries -
about the protagonist's motivations, their shared aspirations and ideas of utopia and how they - manoeuvring
between reality and idealism - create a parallel universe that functions under its own rules.
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY BY JULIA OSTERTAG & FRANCESCA ARAIZA ANDRADE
all about the film:
artwork - seven resist
The true alchemy lies not in turning base metal into gold, or in finding immortality. When I come to think of it, being immortal and having infinite wealth would bring no absolution. Not to me at least (I think). It is possible that this concept of alchemy is just another metaphor. So what is true alchemy? I believe it is being able to cleanse your perception from a mundane materialistic reality and then delivering your being into a spiritual reality. I don’t mean spiritual strictly in a religious sense (cant say I’m a very religious person)…however what I mean by ‘spiritual reality’ can best be defined by what Einstein put forth as the purpose of life (putting aside all religions) “is to live for your fellow man”. To me that’s simple and sensible enough. A spiritual reality that is poetic and not chaotic. Idealistic, I know… and like all the dinosaurs of idealism perhaps, may never be unearthed? Such a defeating thought. But I believe we are all alchemists, and we all hold the philosopher’s stone deep within us…and with it we can turn base metal (mundane materialistic reality) into gold (spiritual poetic reality)…all you need to do is open up your fucking pineal gland. Our collective unconscious has been tainted by the week’s top notch product advertising commercials…BUY BUY BUY!!! Fucking monkeys!! Monkeys killing monkeys over pieces of the ground!(TOOL) Monkeys wearing their pride while their genitals hanging down exposed. Capitalism is slavery…globalization is the new mask of imperialism. No alchemy can deliver us from this…not unless our collective unconscious has been first cleansed. Yes we are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine…and the machine is bleeding to death(GY!BE)…I think I will dig a hole in the ground, and bury myself with the dinosaurs of idealism…maybe I just don’t get “IT”…I’ll never let “IT” get me anyway…I think my migraine just got worse. Hope you all have a good fucking day!!!
Midlothian, Scotland
The church was built by William Sinclair, a son of the Earl of Orkney, in the 1400s. The Sinclairs original name was St.Clair revealing the Norman connection to the family. A prior Sinclair was killed in a battle in Spain while attempting to bring the heart of Robert The Bruce to the Holy land for burial. He is buried in the chapel crypt.
.. the chapel has long been associated with both the ancient Templars and the Freemasons of today
The Knights Templar themselves had a long, controversial and colourful history. Though they began in the spiritual idealism of the early Crusades, in time they amassed great wealth in the Holy Land and became known for their excesses. “To drink like a Templar“ was an adage of the day. They were eventually accused of heresy and sorcery by the church. Their order ended in dissolution and disgrace with the burning at the stake of their leader and Grand Master, Jacques de Molay in Paris. It is said he died defiant, condemning both the pope and the church!
If you are a history buff like me there is more on the mystery of the chapel here:
Fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries ,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),
a patient better driver,
a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals
(never washing spiders down the plughole),
keep in contact with old friends
(enjoy a drink now and then),
will frequently check credit at
(moral) bank (hole in the wall),
favors for favors,
fond but not in love,
charity standing orders,
on Sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants),
car wash
(also on Sundays),
no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,
nothing so childish - at a better pace,
slower and more calculated,
no chance of escape,
now self-employed,
concerned (but powerless),
an empowered and informed member of society
(pragmatism not idealism),
will not cry in public,
less chance of illness,
tires that grip in the wet
(shot of baby strapped in back seat),
a good memory,
still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick,
that's driven into
frozen winter shit
(the ability to laugh at weakness),
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics.
Sample looping in background:
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- John Galsworthy.
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If uniqueness is used as the measuring parameter, the Middle North Falls or Marion County, Oregon will be in anyone’s top 10 list of waterfalls in the pacific northwest. During our first visit to Oregon, we got delayed getting to this fall and couldn’t even see the trailhead at night. So, when we planned a second trip to Oregon I was careful to allocate extra time and we reached the trailhead just as the sunset was about happening.
In our panic, we started hiking in the wrong direction and lost about 10-15 mins before realizing our mistake. After returning to the hike and finding the correct trail, we managed to reach the falls with some light still around.
Unfortunately, the standout feature of the waterfall, the wide curtain like span of the falls was not present. Later I find out that this fall has no prescribed shape and changes dramatically based on the volume of water in North Silver Creek. Plus, summer is not the best time for waterfall photography in Oregon, the best time is late spring or fall. Hopefully, I get to visit this beautiful place again.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jatte (F304) is a painting made by van Gogh of a favored area on the Seine near Asnières. It was made during a period where he explored the use of "dots" of paint set alongside contrasting colors, influenced by Georges Seurat, who introduced Pointillism. In 1885 Seurat made A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and used a technique of placing colored dots on a work which led a movement called "Neo-Impressionism", or "Divisionism" and "Pointillism". Van Gogh was one of the artists later called "Post-Impressionists" who was influenced by Seurat's style that rejected realism and idealism to create a new genre based upon abstraction and simplicity. Van Gogh learned from Seurat the beauty in simplicity and a means to convey messages in a more optimistic, light way than was his work in the Netherlands. While he could not match Seurat's precision, aspects of Pointillism were integrated into van Gogh's work.
# Immanuel Kant is one of the influential German philosophers of his time. He was born in the Prussian city of Königsberg, which is today's Kaliningrad located in present day Russia.
# He is known for his ideas in the fields of Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics and Logic.
# His 3 major works are : Critique of Pure Reason (German: Kritik der reinen Vernunft), in 1781 which was his Magnum Opus; Critique of Practical Reason (German: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft), in 1788 and Critique of Judgment (German: Kritik der Urteilskraft), in 1790.
# His philosophy on ethics (Kantian ethics) is considered central in Deontology. His major work, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten), in 1785, explained his philosophy on morality.
# He believed himself to be a compromise between the Empricists and Rationalists of his time and thought that human understanding of Metaphyics can be enhanced or bettered through our study of Epistemology, which is the study of the nature of human knowledge.
# Kant's ideas are studied as Kantianism, and include ideas such as the Categorical imperative, Transcendental Idealism, Deontological Morality, Synthetic A Priori, Noumenon, Schema, Sapere Aude, Nebular hypothesis.
# Though not regarded as a Political Theorist, Kant used his ideas to expound some political views like the classical republican theory which was explained in his work Science of Right.
# The Kingdom of Ends is another thought experiment of Kant which he explained in his work Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. His is a hypothetical kingdom based on his idea of morality taking shape from the Deontologically moralistic idea of the Categorical Imperative.
Yes this is suburbia...where I was born and raised...white picket fences abound...suburbia is one form of idealism, but is it ideal? That is up to the individual to decide...
suburbia is a cultural phenomenon, the development in my state dates back to post WWII
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”
Marriage statistics are disheartening to look at.
Half of marriages end in divorce. It's a fact, but it isn't the full reality. The statistics don't even take "seperations" into account. A lot of people are legally married and yet no longer together. It just costs too much money for the lawyer fees and they don't want to deal with the hassle. I know 3 couples that are in that situation.
So MORE than half of marriages fail.
Yet people are getting married every day even though the odds are clearly against them succeeding.
Why is that?
I guess it's for the same reason Eric and I got married. We want to believe that we're going to be the small percentage bracket that makes it to the end. The old couple on the park bench holding hands and gazing into eachother's sagging watery eyes still with the love and passion that we feel today.
I really believe we will. You can chalk it up to youthful idealism, but thats how I feel in my heart. I look forward to growing old with Eric.
I found these Tiny dolls in a small box of knick knacks I unpacked today. I'm not sure where they came from! I used them to test out the macro function on my Nikon.
It's hard to ignore how they both look a little afraid and uneasy.
- From Walled city to World city - 9 November 1989 -
Freely Walking the Line along the 1.3 kms of History and Art
Once,it was the Berlin Wall - Now, it’s the longest open-air Gallery in the world.The East Side Gallery takes a section of the Berlin Wall and makes it an open-air Gallery.
Immediately after the "Wall of Shame" came down,118 artists from 21 countries began painting the East Side Gallery.
Berlin was a divided city for nearly thirty years;the two parallel walls dominated by watchtowers,guards,barbed wire and the zone between them,called "the death strip",became history.
East and West Berliners made history that night of November.They climbed over the concrete walls,crowded through the narrow border crossing points and retook their city in its entirety.Touching were the moments of this historical event when East & West Berlin reunified.
However,after the Iron Curtain came down more and more walls are going up in the world.They come in steel and concrete,with watchtowers and barbed wire.
The only frontier that has ever existed is the self.
Man is a "hive minded" species by nature.
I recall Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" and wonder if
Good fences make good neighbours ...
"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down." ...
Why all those new divisions ?
Why Mankind is building separation barriers in an era when Globalisation was supposed to tear the barriers down ? History shows that walls rarely do what they set out to do.
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Isaac Newton
Well,I know in my heart of hearts that this is classic Wishful Thinking or an informal Logical Fallacy as subconscious desires appear through assumptions of truth ...
Yet,I will never give up hoping for Peace throughout the World ...
* Just some thoughts of superannuated idealism ...
* We should care more about the substance of the world than its shadow ...
This is the high point of a hike/scramble to the domes directly above Corona Arch. If you think I came here for the view, you are only partially correct, as my main goal was to transcend the limitations of Earthly existence. In other words, I was hoping to achieve Enlightenment.
In keeping with the incoherent teachings of my spiritual guru, the Bhagwan Hotair Windbag of Antelope, I am in full-body contact with the rock, hoping to channel its psychoramic penumbra through my body so that I might achieve a Higher Plane of Existence. But why here? The answer is clear: the rock is Moabian sandstone, the mineral possessing wondrous powers (and thus the best medium for seeking Cosmic Knowledge). By lying in this position for 7.1 hours without moving in the slightest, I was able to rid my mind of all Earthly thoughts and approach Nirvana. I was hoping to get all the way to Nirvana, but was thwarted in my attempt by a vicious irony. Let me explain.
You see, my curvature was maintained in honor of Corona Arch, which is behind and about 200 feet (60m) below me. But as the Bhagwan says (on page 1348 of "The Sacred Paths to Oneness"), when honoring a sandstone arch, one should be as high as possible. As is plainly evident, I was not on the highest ground, which is about ten feet (3m) behind me. The added elevation---about three feet (0.9m)---would have validated my attempt, but my lying there would have placed me closer to the precipice of Bootlegger Canyon, and that would have caused an unpleasant level of agitation based on my fear of heights. Agitation interferes with attempts to rid the mind of Earthly thoughts, so positioning myself at the summit would have rendered my effort completely wasted. Thus I had to temper my idealism so that I might have at least a minimum of success in seeking Blessed Awareness. As you might expect, this compromise produced only a much-reduced capability for Enlightenment: for a brief moment I understood why the closing of a Ziploc bag does not generate harmful amounts of static electricity.
With that sense of mental enhancement I finished my lunch and retraced my steps to the trailhead. I wonder if it is permitted to seek Enlightenment when under the influence of calming medication…
Photographed during a cross-country hike from Potash Road to the sandstone domes above Corona Arch .
Honey, you're familiar, like my mirror years ago
Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on his sword
Innocence died screaming; honey, ask me, I should know
I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door
Babe
There's something wretched about this
Something so precious about this
Where to begin?
Babe
There's something broken about this
But I might be hoping about this
Oh, what a sin
To the strand, a picnic planned
For you and me
A rope in hand for your other man
To hang from a tree
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22nd August 2019 - Starting with the photography conditions... Two diffused Red spots and a smoke machine.. great!! I have a Canon 7D mkII, which is a crop sensor sport camera coupled with a L series 70-200mm F2.8 so every shot is at 6400iso in this light, bring the noise... After much googling i came across a jolt from the past (2012) and Googles free download of the Nik Collection. This PS install is a gift from the Gods themselves for low light photographers that can't afford a full frame camera... Install it and have a play with 'dfine2', wow!!
Peter Broderick.. Looks like Nick Cave, but sings like Neil Young. Plus, he plays multiple instruments to multiple genres. Folk, Disco, Funk, Blues.. Nothing is beyond this young Americans grasp. Tonight it was the eternal spring of the late Arthur Russel's back catalogue of 'Disillusioned Idealism', a vast treasure trove of unfinished goods. Plus Arthur Russel helped create Sleeping Bag Records of the underground classic Kariya 'Baby Let Me Love You For Tonight' fame.
A treasure chest I for one cvan't wait to hear more from
by CybeleMoon aka Hana Hoobinoo
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summer among the fields of wild lupins
The church was built by William Sinclair, a son of the Earl of Orkney, in the 1400s. The Sinclairs original name was St.Clair revealing the Norman connection to the family. William who was considered a ne’er do well by his father was never a Knight Templar. The knights had been dishonoured and disbanded by Pope Clement long before (in 1312)....
.....The Knights Templar themselves had a long, controversial and colourful history. Though they began in the spiritual idealism of the early Crusades, in time they amassed great wealth in the Holy Land and became known for their excesses. “To drink like a Templar“ was an adage of the day. They were eventually accused of heresy and sorcery by the church. Their order ended in dissolution and disgrace with the burning at the stake of their leader and Grand Master, Jacques de Molay in Paris. It is said he died defiant, condemning both the pope and the church!
more fascinating history here:
July 26, 2015
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." - John Galsworthy
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Tomorrow is the birthday of my friend and neighbour, Madeline, and to celebrate I made her some strawberry shortcake cupcakes.
I haven't seen her yet to pass them to her, but I'm sure we'll bump into each other tonight or tomorrow, either way, I'm sure she'll be pleased with the treat!
Otherwise a fairly uneventful but productive Sunday, now I just need to get ready for work tomorrow and I'll be good to go!
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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I invited a Duke grad student from China along with me on my last foray to the Blue Ridge, last Tuesday and Wednesday. My intention was to do some night photography at Max Patch Mountain, though, per typical, my Accuweather app, which is correct plus or minus 100% (think about it) fell squarely into the “minus” category with widespread overcast hunkered over Max Patch into the night. That didn’t matter, because that was the only night available to me, so there we were... and my young charge, so unused to such wilderness, enjoyed every second of his time there, including hiking back in the dark. It had rained heavily on our drive up from Durham, and though the rain had moved off, the result was still evident as we hiked to the top… everything was quite wet.
Who doesn’t enjoy a good hike in the mountains? As a photographer, though, my intent is to hike back with a decent photo or two if at all possible. This was the only obliging composition that night… but it speaks to me. This is the only break in the clouds at sunset. The sun’s warmth reached out far enough through the dreary overcast to affect the wet mountain pass below for mist to rise brilliantly into the sunlight… and in that, I see an allegory to an answer to many prevalent problems facing this nation.
I’ve seen and heard issues of every worldview slung around without order or structure as answers to the problems of life. Everything from pacifism to feminism, to socialism, to pantheism, to pragmatism and much more have been offered as answers to our problems… have you ever noticed how idealism, in general, just anything with ‘ist’ or ‘ism’ attached is more often steeped in Godless opinion regardless of truth? Often, that understanding leads to issues of “social justice”… I’ve come to know that when the words “social” and “justice” come together within those worldviews, it becomes little more than another can of worms that makes things worse… nobody needs that. How do you live rationally in that understanding? The Universe conforms to a moral order, which assumes there is a definition of truth, that being what conforms to reality… absolute truth. What that means is that in order to keep from “cutting against the grain of the Universe (Sin Is Folly, Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.)” we must conform to that reality – that moral order – to make rational sense of this life.
So how do we live to bring such rationality to bear? Abraham Kuyper gives us an approach: “If the battle is to be fought with honor and hope of victory, then principle must be arrayed against principle: then it must be felt that in Modernism the vast energy of an all-embracing life-system assails us, then also it must be understood that we have to take our stand in a life-system of equally comprehensive and far-reaching power.” When you understand the light of God and how it can affect those it reaches out to with warmth and peace and depth and understanding and love, you begin to understand there is a far better answer than the “isms” we’re assailed with.
Here’s a stunning lecture on the subject by Chuck Colson. It’s as relevant now as it was then. Please give it some thought… and get inspired! www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2609&v=qPal82KvVHo
The map function here has lost its mind again. Anyone else experiencing that? Max Patch, the Jewel of the Appalachian Trail, should stand alone as its own location. I shot this from the Carolina side of the state line near there, but the map chose the closest community in Tennessee instead with no way to edit it... keep working on it Flickr!
“Jeg er ikke i stand til at lægge den samme overbevisning i det jeg skriver nu, men det skyldes ikke at min idealisme er svækket, det er bare kendsgerning.” Svend Åge Madsen
aka "City Lights"
El museo ICO, propone un recorrido cronológico por la obra del insigne arquitecto madrileño, que revitalizó la arquitectura de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en España.
Fernando Higueras, entendía que la arquitectura, debía promover la armonía entre el hábitat humano y su entorno natural, un precursor de la sostenibilidad. Una de sus obras más representativas, “La Corona de Espinas.”
El simbolismo del edificio, su carácter, el sistema constructivo, la belleza y complejidad de sus espacios, el idealismo, la armonía y la perfección del mismo, hacen de él una de las obras más significativas de la Arquitectura Española.
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The ICO museum offers a chronological tour of the work of the famous Madrid architect, who revitalized the architecture of the second half of the 20th century in Spain.
Fernando Higueras, understood that architecture, should promote harmony between the human habitat and its natural environment, a precursor of sustainability. One of his most representative works, "The Crown of Thorns."
The symbolism of the building, its character, the constructive system, the beauty and complexity of its spaces, the idealism, harmony and perfection of it, make it one of the most significant works of Spanish architecture.
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Situated on the corner of Washington and Second Streets and within one block of the Obion County Courthouse and City Hall, the Post Office building is an excellent interpretation of Georgian Revival with classical details. When first built in 1913, the Post Office was rectangular and contained one story, basement and mezzanine. Due to the increasing need for additional space to accommodate expanding postal operations, a wing was added and workroom enlarged in 1965. Originally completed under the supervision of Supervising Architect, James Knox Taylor, who served from 1897 to 1912, and constructed by George W. Stiles Construction Company, the Union City, Tennessee Post Office is significant in several respects. Architecturally and most noteably, the building illustrates how Mr. Taylor, who subscribed to classical styles of architecture for government buildings, incorporated the details and idealism of contemporary national trends into local prominence. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 31, 1984.
~All the information above was taken from the original documents submitted to have this building listed on the NRHP:
npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/84003671
Image was taken during my trek to photograph all 95 county courthouses across my home state of Tennessee...now revisiting in order that the courthouses were photographed!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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