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"Chinese socialism is founded upon Darwin and the theory of evolution." Mao Tse-tung (1893 – 1976). Kampf um Mao's Erbe (1977.)
Some of the famous atheists in the atheist Hall of Shame.
Stalin, Marx, Lenin, Kim Jong IL, Mao, Kim Jong Un, Pol Pot, Kruschev, Brezhnev, Honecker, Ceaușescu
Atheism proved itself, in the 20th century, to be the most horrendous, barbaric, murderous and criminal ideology the world has ever experienced. Countless millions suffered and died at the hands of this hideous ideology, they must never be forgotten.
The promised atheist/socialist utopia ... the idea of an atheist Heaven on Earth resulted in a diabolical Hell on Earth.
Who, but a complete idiot would want to resurrect such a monstrous, no-hope philosophy?
Present day, so-called 'new' (improved?) atheists (and communists) try to disassociate themselves from the disastrous record of the world's, first ever, official, atheist states, established in the great, atheist experiment of the 20th century.
But all the examples we have of official, atheist rule are horrendous. And, the tyranny still continues, wherever atheism is the dominant, ruling ideology, as in North Korea.
The ‘new’ atheists try to blame the 20th century’s persecution and brutality completely on communism. They claim it had nothing to do with atheism.
But, although communism is a disastrous economic system, there is no intrinsic reason why it should be brutal, or why it should hate religion, or why it should destroy churches and persecute and murder millions of Christians and people of other faiths.
That is the hallmark of atheist ideology, not of an economic system.
Communism is fatally flawed as an economic system. And, as it thrives on envy, class hatred and division, it is a an anathema to Christianity, and any other religion which preaches love for everyone. Consequently, it is the ideal bedfellow for atheism, but that is different from requiring an intrinsic hatred of God and religion as a matter of state, endorsed policy. That is essentially an atheist ideal.
If communists weren't atheists, why would they outlaw and attack all religion? Karl Marx, the founder of communism, hated religion, because he was also an atheist. He understood that communist, dialectic materialism, class war etc. is incompatible with most religions, so, it could be argued, that to be a bona fide communist, he also had be an atheist.
Lenin was a self-declared atheist who, together with his Soviet Bloc, atheist successors, tried to eliminate religion with brutal repression and wholesale murder.
Thus, history tells us that the atheist experiment has been tried and, from beginning to end, was a brutal and diabolical failure. The new atheists may say: “it's nothing to do with us gov.”
But who wants to risk such devastation again, by giving the atheist ideology another chance? Only a complete idiot would want to take that gamble.
However, it was only to be expected and it could easily have been predicted beforehand, that the inevitable result of atheism's lack of an absolute ethical or moral yardstick would be to wreak havoc on the world - and that is exactly what it did. .
Atheism hasn't changed at all in that respect, because it can't.
Atheism and secular humanism categorically reject the concept of intrinsic right and wrong. Therefore, the ephemeral values, moral relativism and situational ethics of atheism are the ideal recipe for abuse.
We can see from the belligerent, intolerant, rabble rousing rhetoric and anti-religious ranting of today's militant, new atheist zealots, that the leopard hasn't really changed its spots. Let no one doubt it - atheism has an horrendous and hideously, barbaric record... we must never let it happen again.
Moreover, it is a singularly perverse ideology that motivates its adherents to waste so much time of the only life they believe they have, trying to convince everyone else that they are doomed to eternal oblivion. The ultimate reward for atheists is to never know if they got it right, only if they got it wrong.
There is certainly no moral or rational defence for the atheist cult, past or present.
But what do atheists themselves say about their ethical and moral values?
They claim that they DO have an ethical and moral yardstick, and cite the Humanist Manifesto as representing the ethics and moral code of atheism.
So is it really true?
The Humanist Manifesto looks good at first glance, but like most proposals atheists have come up with, when examined closely, it is full of holes.
Problems, problems ....
1. You don’t have to sign up to the Humanist Manifesto to be an atheist.
2. Even if you do sign up to it, there is no incentive to follow it. No reward for following it, and no penalty for not following it. You are not going to be barred from being an atheist because you reject or break the rules of the Humanist Manifesto. It is not enforced in any way.
3. It borrows any desirable ethics, it may have, from Judeo-Christian values, there is no atheist, moral code per se.
Atheism is the ideology of naturalism. Genuine, naturalist, ethical values are basically the Darwinian, ‘law of the jungle’. Progressive evolution and improvement through the survival of the fittest/strongest, and the elimination of any who are weaker or unable to adapt - nature red in tooth and claw, In societal terms - the most powerful, wealthiest, most influential, most cunning, dominate and rule for their own benefit. Anything else in the Humanist Manifesto is actually a contradiction of social Darwinism and naturalism. Any socially desirable or compassionate ethics, which may be included in the H.M, are wholly inconsistent with atheist, materialist, naturalist, and evolutionist ideology.
4. By far the biggest flaw in the Humanist Manifesto is the fact that it is entirely ephemeral. It advocates 'situational ethics' and 'moral relativism'. And that major flaw makes it a worthless scrap of paper.
Why?
Because .....
Situational ethics is based on what people want or find desirable, not on any adherence to what is intrinsically right or wrong.
A good, example of humanist style, situational ethics in practice, is the gender selection abortions now being blatantly carried out in abortion clinics in Britain. It primarily discriminates against female babies, who are especially targeted for killing, because most of the parents who want it, prefer to have boys for cultural reasons.
The abortion clinics openly admit to it happening, and claim it is legal.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pro-choice-aborti...
The abortion act of 1967 certainly did not intend that, and the Government admits it was not intended.
So we have a Government that knows it is going on, it also knows it is not what the abortion law intended, yet it is still reluctant to do anything about it.
Why?
Because it is wedded to the secularist concept of situational ethics, i.e. whatever people want, people get. Any concept of intrinsic right and wrong has to take a back seat, to whatever is the spirit of the times. And that is an example happening right now, in a so-called democracy.
The Nazi persecution of the Jews and other races they considered ‘inferior’ became popular through brainwashing of the public, and was eventually supported by a good proportion of the public.
Hitler cleverly used situational ethics to do what he had persuaded people was right and good.
So, all in all, the Humanist Manifesto and its purported ethical values, is a very dangerous document.
It gives carte blanche to any so-called ethical values, as long they become the fashionable or consensus opinion. Whatever people want, people get, or what a government can claim people want, they are justified in giving to them.
And for that reason it would not stop; a Lenin, a Stalin, a Hitler, a Mao, or a Pol Pot, even if they had signed up 100% to abide by the Humanist Manifesto.
In fact, the 20th century, atheist tyrants even called their regimes ... Democratic People's Republics. They claimed they were representing people's wishes, and thus carried out their 'situational ethics' on behalf of the people.
What about the common, atheist tactic of highlighting alleged crimes and wrongdoing committed by Christians?
The point is ....
Christians who do wrong, go against the teachings of Christianity. It is recognised as ‘sin’. If they blatantly and deliberately go against the intrinsic moral values and teaching of Christianity, they forfeit the right to continue to call themselves Christian. And they can even be excommunicated by the Church, if they fail to admit their actions are wrong.
And, without sincere sorrow and repentance, they don't get to go to the Christian Heaven.
End of story!
Atheists who do wrong, go against nothing, unless it is against the law of the land.
You cannot be chucked out of atheism for doing wrong, you cannot even be censored by atheism for doing wrong, it is a complete free for all, you can simply act with impunity according to your own desires and opinion. Atheists don’t recognise sin, right and wrong is not intrinsic or absolute. Atheism has no, unchanging, moral code. Right and wrong is, ultimately, just a matter of opinion
The atheist 'heaven' is right here on earth, and far from being a 'heaven' it is an horrendous nightmare. Anyone with any sense would call it a hell.
And even the law of the land need not stop atheists .....
Whenever, atheists get into a position of power they change the law to suit their situational ethics. Then they can do whatever they want.
That is what Stalin and all the other atheist tyrants did in their people's DEMOCRATIC republics.
And the atheist thirst for blood does not cease when they live in the so-called 'real' democracies, it is simply sanitised by atheist inspired, situational ethics.
They use their 'humanist' ethics to change the law, accompanied by 'newspeak' and propaganda.
So that what was once considered evil, is not only made legal, it is actually turned around so it is considered a virtue.
The wholesale and brutal slaughter, of the most vulnerable in society ... millions of unborn babies, is callously shrugged off as necessary, for 'free choice'.
Of course murder is always a free choice for the killer, only the dangerous, warped, atheist style, situational ethics could value a killer's free choice to kill, above the victim's right not to be killed, and make murder legal.
The callous slaughter of the unborn, which in most cases, was not even put to the people democratically (it was imposed on them by a handful of secularist politicians, lawyers and bureaucrats), is accompanied by the usual atheist lies and devious propaganda.
Doctors acting illegally over abortions get off scot-free ....
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2609950/Scandal-doctors-...
So the secularists simply laugh off democracy, it doesn't stop them, if it gets in the way of their ideology, they just ignore it, like they do with science.
"Democratic societies" how do they impact on situational ethics?
We see, in practice, that democracy is treated with utter contempt .....
Why ask the people? They are apparently not qualified to consider such difficult matters of right and wrong, like whether babies should live or die? You can't give those ignorant peasants, plebs and rednecks a vote on it, ... leave it to the secularist EXPERTS and their wonderful, situational ethics based on 'reason' and 'science'.
We are told by atheist moralists that the unborn baby is not fully human, it is only a blob of jelly, which has, and deserves, NO rights. As usual, they deliberately ignore, or twist, the scientific facts.
And we are also told, anyone who supports the rights of the unborn babies not to be brutally ripped limb from limb is evil and a ‘far right’ fanatic, because they are interfering with free CHOICE.
So the atheist leopard certainly hasn't changed its deceitful, devious, brutal and murderous spots, even in so-called 'real' democratic societies. It simply legalises and sanitises evil and murder and makes it appear good.
Then it can claim atheism is extremely ethical and virtuous, with its own, beautiful, humanist code of morals and conduct .... Yeah Right!
Remind you of anyone?
Always remember ....
Atheist/humanist so-called ethics and morals depend entirely on OPINION, and that is why they are so extremely dangerous.
Atheism has no moral or ethical yardstick, no concept of God-given, human rights ... only OPINION.
But WHOSE opinion?
My opinion?
Your opinion?
Or maybe Richard Dawkins opinion?
Or Sam Harris's opinion?
Or how about Barrack Obama's opinion?
Or why not STALIN'S or POL POT'S opinion?
So don't be fooled by the relentless chorus from the 'new' atheists and humanists, that atheism has its own code of ethics and morals, their code of ethics is based on the OPINION of one or more of the following ... whoever is: the most vociferous, the most charismatic, the most cunning, the most influential, the most powerful, the wealthiest, the most successful propagandist, the most persuasive, the most repressive, or the most brutal.
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Unjust laws/evil laws (such as legalised abortion) are effectively null and void. They should not be accepted by any right-thinking person. In any just society, the legalisation of abortion has to be regarded as a crime against humanity, and those guilty will surely be held to account by a more enlightened society.
“civil law cannot contradict right reason without losing its binding force on conscience. Every humanly-created law is legitimate insofar as it is consistent with the natural moral law, recognized by right reason, and insofar as it respects the inalienable rights of every person”. —St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 95, a. 2.w
Why satanism is now on the center stage in the culture war.
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EUbabel. The shocking occult symbolism of the European Union.
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Unique in the world, the Ideal Palace has inspired artists for more than a century. Independent from any artistic trend, built with no architectural rules, the Ideal Palace has been admired by the Surrealists and is considered as an Outsider Art work. He has been classified Historical Monument in 1969 by André Malraux, French Minister for Cultural Affairs at that time under Naïve Art
It was windy - not the ideal conditions to shoot weeds that are hard to focus on when they're still. In the end it's okay because it's all about the bokeh, right? ;0)
Trabajo realizado para la empresa de publicidad Mater Consulting de Elche.
Fotos para el catálogo de Ideal Garden.
Σεπτέμβριος 2013.
Σημείωση: Το σημείο λήψης της φωτογραφίας απεικονίζεται στο χάρτη, αλλά η yahoo ενδέχεται να μην αναφέρει τη σωστή ονομασία της περιοχής.
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15η ποδηλατική ανάβαση Υμηττού με αφετηρία το Πάτημα Χαλανδρίου (246m), ανάβαση έως την κορυφή Εύζωνα (1010m) και επιστροφή στο Πάτημα.
Η κορυφή του Υμηττού έχει μέγιστο υψόμετρο 1026 μέτρα, αλλά εκεί βρίσκεται το ραντάρ και δεν επιτρέπεται η πρόσβαση.
Η ποδηλατική διαδρομή ήταν η εξής: Πάτημα, Αγία Παρασκευή και μέσω της οδού Ανατολικής Μεσογείου έφτασα στο μοναστήρι του Αγίου Ἰωάννου του Κυνηγού.
Η ανηφορική διαδρομή συνεχίστηκε για 800 περίπου μέτρα ακόμη ενώ ο δρόμος σε αυτό το τμήμα γίνεται πιο στενός.
Στο τέλος αυτής της ανηφόρας υπάρχει στενή αριστερή στροφή, αλλά για την πορεία προς την κορυφή ακολούθησα στα δεξιά ένα βατό χωματόδρομο.
Στο τέλος του χωματόδρομου αυτού συνάντησα ξανά άσφαλτο και ακολούθησα μια νοητή παράλληλη πορεία με τον Περιφερειακό του Υμηττού (σε αρκετά μεγαλύτερο υψόμετρο με τον Περιφερειακό). Μετά από μερικά χιλιόμετρα θα συναντήσω το κεντρικό δρόμο που οδηγεί στην κορυφή του Τρελού όπως έλεγαν οι παλιοί τον Υμηττό.
Η ποδηλατική αυτή διαδρομή περνά και από το μοναστήρι των Tαξιαρχών ή μονή Αστερίου όπως το γνωρίζουν πολλοί και βρίσκεται σε υψόμετρο 600 μέτρων σε κατάφυτο περιβάλλον.
Λίγο μετά τη μονή υπάρχει ένα όμορφο διάσελο με οπτικό πεδίο σε Μεσόγεια και σε λεκανοπέδιο Αθήνας.
Από το διάσελο αυτό ο τερματισμός της πορείας απείχε 5,5 χιλιόμετρα.
Τα τελευταία 3 χιλιόμετρα είναι εκτός δάσους σε εκτεθειμένη στα καιρικά φαινόμενα πλαγιά του βουνού.
Το 19ο χιλιόμετρο της ποδηλατικής ανάβασης διανύθηκε πάνω στην κορυφογραμμή του βουνού με άπλετη θέα σε όλο το νότιο, δυτικό και βόρειο ορίζοντα.
Στην επιστροφή από τα 1015 μέτρα του βουνού στο Πάτημα Χαλανδρίου η δύση του ηλίου χρωμάτιζε με έντονα χρώματα το βουνό.
Το χαρακτηριστικό της σημερινής διαδρομής ήταν πως δεν είχε τίποτα να ζηλέψει από μια ευχάριστη καλοκαιρινή ημέρα. Χλιαρή ζέστη σε όλη τη διάρκεια της ανάβασης, αλλά στο κατέβασμα που είχε πέσει ο ήλιος πρόλαβε σε ρεματιές του Υμηττού να δημιουργηθούν ψυχρές λίμνες...
Νηνεμία σε όλη τη διαδρομή ενώ λίγο η ζέστη λίγο η υγρασία δεν αφήσαν πολλά περιθώρια για χάζεμα μακριά από την Αττική...
Συνολικός χρόνος ποδηλασίας 3 ώρες (χωρίς τα διαλείμματα) και συνολικά χιλιόμετρα διανυθέντα 38.
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Μάιος 2013 - 8η ποδηλατική ανάβαση Υμηττού:
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Μάρτιος 2013 - 7η ποδηλατική ανάβαση Υμηττού:
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Ιανουάριος 2013 - 6η ποδηλατική ανάβαση Υμηττού:
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Νοέμβριος 2012 - 5η ποδηλατική ανάβαση Υμηττού:
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Οκτώβριος 2012 - 4η ποδηλατική ανάβαση Υμηττού:
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Σεπτέμβριος 2012 - 3η ποδηλατική ανάβαση Υμηττού:
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Μάιος 2012 - 2η ποδηλατική ανάβαση Υμηττού:
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Vestido camisero WADOS Talla L (ideal para usar con calzas o jeans). La usé poquísimas veces, está en muy buen estado. Precio en notas. Consultas SÓLO AL MAIL: catorange@rocketmail.com
Another cold day for photos, but it was bright and clear. However, this outfit was ideal for a day like today.
Placa: LMV0D26
Modelo: Marcopolo Audace - Mercedes Benz OF-1721L BT5
Cidade: Rio de Janeiro/RJ - Brasil
2019
Dandelions are ideal for testing the b/w sensor of the Pentax Monochrome and the macro capablities of the Pentax DA 16-85
An Ideal Husband
The present possibilities for humor in the plays of Oscar Wilde seem to lie almost entirely in the humor with which they are played. Somehow, the whipped-cream witticisms of the Wilde characters sound banal today, and the chief fun to be had from his stuffed shirts is in a sly spoof of their Victorian ways. Yet, for some unaccountable reason, Sir Alexander Korda has chosen to film the ancient Wilde play, "An Ideal Husband," as though its people were the most consequential of folks and its ridiculously old-fashioned problem as vital as atomic power.
It is hard to figure this blunder, for Sir Alex is a smart and urbane man whose humor has been in working order in his previous British-made films. And he has certainly put a lot of effort into this current job, now on the Roxy's screen. Yet, with all the solemnity and pomposity that even Oscar found supremely dull, he has turned out a handsome film in color with a conspicuously antiquated plot.
Believe it or not, Sir Alex—the gentleman, mind you, who made such previous charming pictures as "Vacation From Marriage" and "The Private Life of Henry VIII"—is here concerned with the story of a painfully righteous British Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs whose brilliant career and domestic happiness are suddenly jeopardized by a scheming woman's blackmail. And, as though this were not sufficiently trying as a subject for serious concern, he has included as an equally ponderous burden the Wildean sub-plot of a Victorian courtship between two young things.
Handled with elegant derision in both the acting and the camera's attitude, there might be some charming entertainment of a sardonic order in this old wheeze. But with Hugh Williams playing the blackmail victim in an insufferably stiff and artless way, with Diana Wynyard playing his good wife like the lady in "Cavalcade" and with Paulette Goddard playing the siren among a lot of stuffy English swells as though she were the gal who lived next to the firehouse, it fizzles with a dull, distressing plop. Michael Wilding's eccentric exercising of his elbows, his eyebrows and his jaw as the gay gent who makes most of the wisecracks is fantastic and painful, too, and Glynis Johns, Sir Aubrey Smith and Constance Collier fall in with the heavy furniture.
If Sir Alex had put into his treatment as much style as is in the costumes, as much flavor as is in the velvet settings, this film could have been—but why say more?
AN IDEAL HUSBAND, screen adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play by Lajos Biro; directed and produced by Sir Alexander Korda for London Film Productions, and release by Twentieth Century-Fox. At the Roxy.
Mrs. Cheveley . . . . . Paulette Goddard
Lord Goring . . . . . Michael Wilding
Lady Chiltern . . . . . Diana Wynyard
Mabel Chiltern . . . . . Glynis Johns
Lady Markby . . . . . Constance Collier
Lord Caversham . . . . . Sir Aubrey Smith
Sir Robert Chiltern . . . . . Hugh Williams
Lady Basildon . . . . . Harriette Johns
Mrs. Marchmont . . . . . Christine Norden
Vicomte de Nanjac . . . . . Michael Anthony
Phipps . . . . . Allan Jeayes
BOSLEY CROWTHER New York Times 15 January 1948
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This Bit comes from when the Americans were filming their version of the play “an Ideal Husband”
A couple of newspapers picked up on it at the time.
The film was shot on several sites, including an Italian waterfront.
At the end of the week it was their custom to have a “wrap” party celebrating the end of the week’s shoot.
The ball scene had been filmed that day and most of the cast attended the get-together still in costume. This included 3 of the minor actresses who had bonded during the filming.
After the revelry was dying out, these 3 decided to go it alone, leaving the stage room to hit several of the bars and a casino located on the riverfront. Making a decidedly poor decision, they opted to wear the elegant gowns and shimmering jewelry they had donned for the stylish ball act( much of which was later cut from thye movie, including their roles) .
Needless to say the young trio of pretty actresses garnered a considerable amount of male attention as they made their rounds. They left their last stop in the wee early hours of the morning only to discover they taxi they had paid to wait for them had vanished. A dapper young man with a foreign accent that made the girls swoon came upon the young ladies, and after they explained their predicament, offered some aid. He invited them to a back room off a nearby alley to wait while he brought his private car around, suggesting that it would be a place of refuge to stay warm from the cool ocean air( only one of the actresses had a wrap).
About ten minutes after he had left them a masked man burst in brandishing a wicked looking blade. He demanded their ”jools” and “perses” than after receiving their valuables, had them strip down to their silky undergarments. He then bundled the lot and ran off. They could hear tires screeching off in the night. The dapper male never returned, and it was hours before their pitiful cries of help were heard by a passing vagrant, who after making sure they had nothing more of value, disappeared, than must have had a change of heart, for he summoned a patrolman to help them.
Two of the ladies had been wearing prop gowns and rhinestones, but the third, a minor relative of the New York Cabot family, had been waering her own designer gown(worth 2000 pounds) and her family diamonds( worth 55000 pounds sterling) So it was generally regarded that the ladies were scammed by a couple of professionals who had been out on the prowl for such prey, knew where to find it, and how to acquire her valuables.
Then, two weeks later another young lady, again unescorted, had decided to do a tour of the same riverfront establishments. She did so after attending a relatives wedding reception. She had met a rather handsome man while out drinking, and the pair had set off for a second bar when a masked man mugged them of their valuables. Including a 30000 lira ring she had worn, and 10000 Lira of other jewellery. Her friend dropped her off at the bar and went for help, disappearing in the night. Her description of the pair matched the ones who had robbed the Actresses.
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from Left to right;
The illustrious Knight of Darkness.
Who has a black Captain Action body and boots. With Flash Gordon's gun.
The head and the suit being the new creation as of 1977. Obviously inspred by the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader.
Red then Blue Zeroids next.
Who are mostly based on the Zogg Zeroid who was included in the Zeroid Commander Action Set from 1969.
Differences being color. And Red and Blue have a little clear dome on top. Where Zogg had a rectangular head with six eye like holes. The right height for R2 D2 they are...
Then the green headed chromey robot is Zem- 21 . Which is the name for the original version of the Zeroid ship dubbed the Star Hawk for STAR Team !
He has a retooled JJ Armes body. Done up in a nice chrome color. Meant to be the C-3PO like character. With the chromed body .
Never had Red or the ship back in the day. ( Sold together ) But had the other 3. And loved them. Knight was my Darth Vader. As I never got a big scale version of DV :)
The Ideal Bar
1968 Atwood Avenue
53704
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many bars/restaurants are required by law to limit capacity limits of patrons, or utilize outdoor patio space if social distancing is not achievable inside. In spring of 2020, under Governor Tony Evers "Safer at Home" order, bars were required to shut down at the end of March through the end of May. These photos document this chapter in our city's history, some have been fortunate to make it through but for some this was the last call.
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Linha: 329 - Bancários x Candelária. Linha municipal do Rio de Janeiro.
Cidade: Rio de Janeiro/RJ.
A really pretty rose, with excellent scent and great vase life when picked. Just a shame it's such a temperamental and disease-prone variety to grow in all but ideal climates! However, the unusually hot spring and summer thus far in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, has resulted the best rose season we've had in our garden.
What is your idea of true beauty?
Mine?
Did you ever look at someone and think they looked beautiful or pretty?
Did you ever look at someone and think they looked ugly or unattractive?
Did you ever talk to these people?
When the beautiful one talked did they sound ugly with their words? They are unattractive
Did the unattractive one sound beautiful with their words? They are beautiful
I have been in a relationship with a good looking man. He awed me to no end in the beginning. When our relationship progressed, he started to become abusive. Cursing, hitting, spitting. You name it. He did it
He became ugly to me. I am talking about on the outside as well as the inside. He was no longer handsome, beautiful, attractive at all. All I saw was an ugly, vile person on the inside and out.
I met a man who I did not give a second look at. He did not attract me at all. He was quite plain. I forgot he even existed until we started to talk more often. The more we talked and smiled together, he started to look attractive to me. The kinder he was to me, the more attracted I was to him. I saw that his eyes were so blue like the sky. His smile made me giggle and feel safe. His body looked very warm and calming. He is the most beautiful man I know. I love to look at each and every line on his face, hands, and body. I catch myself staring at him time and time again. It is beautiful.
Beauty is how people's hearts work, not how they look. Beauty is on the inside and will show on the outside by how the person standing next to you treats another human, animal, flower, or anything on this earth. It is not your clothing, the size of your breasts, muscles, your wallet, the color of your hair, or any superficial thing like that. You can be beautiful!!! To me, you are beauty. I also love a smiling face. Who can resist a smile♥
I never really got chance to do anything with this wrecker as i got offered a cheap E10 shortley after buying this, so the old Atki had to go. I great machine but the steering was very heavy, the body was superb ideal for working off with good access. I wouldn't mind another one of these one day if I win the lottery, of course it would have to have a recovery body on with an A-frame!!!
Texture: "Rust Never Sleeps" by SkeletalMess
Quite old really this, but I guess I now know an awful lot more about Photoshop to enable me to get something decent out of it. A bit of a texture, some Gaussian Blur and you get something quite evocative. Looe is a really nice place for a break, should you ever wish to go and take a look at Cornwall. There were views there I'd happily spend the rest of my life looking at. Some way right was a house on the market at around £1m and it needed gutting from top to bottom to make it livable - what some people will pay for a harbour view.
"When Life gives you lemons, make lemonade"
For so long, I have just heard this quote and shrugged it off. But lately, I have stated to get it. There are so many things that haven't seemed to go right, or situations that really weren't ideal, or just things just generally suck. But I think all of those lemon situations could (almost always) be turned into lemonade.
I think in every situation, there is always two ways to look at it. For instance, my recent stack (see last photo) I could of just hopped off the bus and gone home in a complete state of embarrassment and sadness, or I could of (dramatic answer) secretly cried while in my seat, or complained to the people on the bus for just staring at me while it happened. OR do what I did do - get back up, get my shoe and waltz (with one shoe on and the other in my hand) to a seat near the back of the bus (my usual seat) and just suck it up. I now look back on the situation and laugh about how silly that whole moment was - like seriously... I even fail at walking. (THIS is pretty much me when I walk). hahaha
So many people have "failed" at something. But most have gotten back and tried again.
For instance:
Albert Einstein: Most of us take Einstein's name as synonymous with genius, but he didn't always show such promise. Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer, but most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics.
F. W. Woolworth: Some may not know this name today, but Woolworth was once one of the biggest names in department stores in the U.S. Before starting his own business, young Woolworth worked at a dry goods store and was not allowed to wait on customers because his boss said he lacked the sense needed to do so.
Akio Morita: You may not have heard of Morita but you've undoubtedly heard of his company, Sony. Sony's first product was a rice cooker that unfortunately didn't cook rice so much as burn it, selling less than 100 units. This first setback didn't stop Morita and his partners as they pushed forward to create a multi-billion dollar company.
Harland David Sanders: Perhaps better known as Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, Sanders had a hard time selling his chicken at first. In fact, his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it.
and my favourite -
Walt Disney: Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney himself had a bit of a rough start. He was fired by a newspaper editor because, "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn't last too long and ended with bankruptcy and failure. He kept plugging along, however, and eventually found a recipe for success that worked.
More of these can be found on 50 Famously Successful People Who Failed At First.
This is also my Yellow entry to the colour project
View Large and on Black. Looks more like a painting, less like a photo. It's supposed to look like a painting, and "over processed".
Watch out, because she's gunna get you. Ok folks, here you go: The first of two insane edits, edited with Corel Painter 9.5. I was going for the "painting" effect. I'm very proud. I think It turned out amazing. If anyone wants to see the originals let me know. Also, my bone structure an everything like that: Not edited. I really do have those type of cheeks, and those lips, and that shaped nose, and those shaped eyes. I just don't have the light green irises, the platinum hair, or the flawless skin. Unfortunately...
Also, this is my alter ego. I really feel if I cracked my personal shell, I would be this daring, dangerous little kitten. Too bad, because that's just my Ideal. I'm far too happy-go-lucky/ real person to pull this off. Oh, only in my dreams. At least I can look it for now. That's the best part about photography: You can just be YOU.
After some comments: I would really like to know how people can rave about photos that are so over processed, like HDR photos, and other 'shopped photos, but when it comes to a photo turned painting (mind you a majority digital artists works this way) or EVERY edit of some woman, gets so much crap. How is adding a dosage of fantasy so horrible in comparison to the extreme edits of fashion photograph? I guess I'm beginning to rant, but I honestly do appreciate the opinions. I just wish people would approach this from a digital artist's P.O.V. rather than a photographers. And by digital artist I don't mean someone who does post processing, and editing, I'm talking about someone who creates art from a photo. What ever though.
PS: When rating photos, don't put something like ':) I like!' with a rating of 4/10. Just an example. It not only pisses me off, but it pisses off EVERYONE who gets ratings like that.
La, la, la. Sorry for the rant, I'm in a pissy mood...
Anyways I was going for something a little elf/ fairy/ nymph ish.
Here is the original. It was dusk out, so I just used the built in flash.
Theater marquee on the main street of Clare, Michigan.
I'm really falling in love with my Autocord TLR again.Too bad about that lens flare (as an old SLR guy, this always trips me up). Still, the amount of detail in the original 6x6 Provia transparency just tickles me to pieces. In the jumbo size note the sign-maker's badge, "Artkraft Lima Ohio."