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L'infinito! Nessun'altra questione ha mai toccato così profondamente lo spirito umano; nessun'altra idea ha stimolato altrettanto fruttuosamente il suo intelletto; tuttavia nessun altro concetto ha più bisogno di essere chiarito come quello di infinito.
Infinity! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
David Hilbert
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On avait mis les morts à table
On faisait des châteaux de sable
On prenait les loups pour des chiens.
Tout changeait de pôle et d'épaule
La pièce était-elle ou non drôle
Moi, si j'y tenais mal mon rôle
C'était de n'y comprendre rien.
Louis Aragon
"You can't try telling me it's healthy to live in a cave - only coming out at night, dressed like a bat, to beat people up ..."
('Batgirl' and 'Batman' by DC Direct / 'Batgirl' based on art by Carmine Infantino)
30 Days of Perception - Day 4
Using my senses, my intellect and my emotions to perceive what is before me. Allowing myself to be lost in my first perception of what I see.
No need to ask, or even to know what this is, just enjoy the sensations it evokes!
The continuing lack of light forces me to work with a high ISO.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
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The Light in the Dark
While I was reading the magic mushrooms were growing
HKD
Glückspilze
Während ich las – für viele viele Jahre – wuchs das Licht in der Dunkelheit.
So wurde ich ein richtiger Glückspilz… ;-)
HKD
Zur Infio:
Die wunderschönen Fliegenpilze habe ich gestern im Garten unter einer Birke fotografiert. Es scheint ein gutes Pilzjahr zu sein. Auch die braunen Birkenschwammerl sind sehr zahrlreich erschienen.
Der Fliegenpilz wird auch Glückspilz genannt. Das geht noch auf die Zeit der Schamanen und Kräuterweiber zurück, die diesen Pilz auch für die Induzierung einer Trance einsetzten. Da es bei diesen Ritualen wie berichtet, häufig zu Lachanfällen kam und wohl auch noch kommt, hielt man die Reisenden für glücklich...
Die Schamanen waren natürlich auch glücklich, diesen Reisepilz zu finden, denn für sie war er ein Mittel, Visionen zu empfangen, was für ihren Stamm überlebensnotwendig war, z. B. um Jagdwild aufzuspüren, Heilkräuter gegen Krankeiten zu finden oder eine neue Wasserquelle usw. Da der Pilz also sehr hilfreich und begehrt war, wurde sein Auffinden stets als glücklicher Umstand gewertet.
Und so bin ich ein richtiger Glückspilz! Unter der Birke stehen 8 Pilze, die allerdings schon von den Schnecken entdeckt wurden... Vielleicht ist eine Schamanenschnecke dabei... ;-)))
HKD
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Dark Night of the Soul
Alter Ego: Alpha
Name: Buster Calloway
Allegiance: Villain
Powers:
* Super strength, durability, stamina and senses
* Superhuman intellect
* Thick skin
* Large sharp fangs
* Wolf abilities
Weapons:
* His teeth
Key Weakness: He's not very agile and doesn't like to get his paws bloody. He's actually not a fighter but is able to hold his ground due to his abilities.
Origin:
Buster is a genetically modified wolf who's genetics were stolen from Bad Wolf by T.O.X.I.N. this was to replicate and make the beast more ferocious and controlled. However as a result from the treatment Busters brain developed rapidly allowing him to grow smarter than even some of the lead scientists there who he observed from his cell. With his knowledge and powers he escaped their facilities and decided to overthrow them and anyone who tried to stop him. He knew A.N.G.E.L. had spies amongst them so he began recruiting runaways like himself to amass his own private army to carry through his plans.
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♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♫♪Music ◎ TUNE ◎ Music♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♫♪
First verse, uh, I'm on 'til I'm on a island
My life's ridin' on the Autobahn on autopilot
Before I touch dirt, I'll kill you all wit' kindness
I kill ya, my natural persona's much worse
You've been warned if you've been born or if you can form
Slap up a cop and then snatch 'im out of his uniform
Leave him wit' his socks, hard bottoms and bloomers on
And hang him by his balls from the horn of a unicorn
Y'all niggas' intellect mad slow, y'all fags know
Claimin' you bangin', you flamin'
Bet you could light your own cigarette witcha asshole
Me and Shady deaded the past, so that basically resurrected my cash flow
I might rap tight as the snatch of a fat dyke
Though I ain't wrapped tight
My blood type's the '80s!
My '90s was like the Navy, you was like the Bradys
You still fly kites daily!
Catch me in my Mercedes
Bumpin' "Ice, Ice Baby, " screamin' Shady 'til I die
Like a half a pair of dice, life's crazy
So I live it to the fullest 'til I'm Swayze
And you only live it once, so I'm thinkin' 'bout this nice, nice lady
Wait, no, stop me now 'fore I get on a roll (Damn)
Let me tell you what this pretty little dame's name is, 'cause she's kinda famous
And I hope that I don't sound too heinous when I say this
Nicki Minaj, but I wanna stick (My penis in your anus!)
You morons think that I'm a genius
Really I belong inside a dang insane asylum, cleanin', try them trailer parks
Crazy, I am back, and I am razor-sharp, baby
And that's back wit' a capital B wit' an exclamation mark
Maybe you should listen when I flip the linguistics
'Cause I'm'onna rip this mystical slick shit
You don't wanna become another victim or statistic of this shit
'Cause after I spit the bullets, I'ma treat these shell casings like a soccer ball
I'ma kick the ballistics! So get this dick, I'ma live this
I'm livin' life in the fast lane
Movin' at the speed of life and I can't slow down
Only got a gallon in the gas tank
But I'm almost at the finish line, so I can't stop now
I don't really know where I'm headed, just enjoyin' the ride
Just gon' roll 'til I drop and ride 'til I die
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
Yeah
My whole goal as a poet's to be relaxed in orbit
At war wit' a bottle, this Captain Morgan attacks my organs (C'mon)
My slow flow is euphoric, it's like I rap endorphins (Woo!)
I made a pact with the Devil that says "I'll let you take me
You let me take this shovel, dig up the corspes, Jack Kevorkian" (C'mon)
Go 'back and forth in more beef that you can pack a fork in
I'm livin' the life of the infinite enemy down
My tenement, too many now, to send my serenity powers
Spin 'em around, enterin' in the vicinity
Now
Was called Eminem, but he threw away the candy and ate the rapper
Chewed him up (Pt!) and spitted him out
Girl, giddy-up, now get, get down
He's lookin' around this club and it looks like people are havin' a shit fit now
Here, little t-t-trailer trash, take a look who's back in t-t-town
Did I s-st-stutter, motherfucker? Fuck them all
He's shuts the whole motherfuckin' Walmart d-d-down every time he comes a-r-r-round
And he came to the club tonight wit' 5'9? to hold this bitch down
Like a motherfuckin' chick underwater, he's tryna d-dr-drown
Shawty, when you dance, you got me captivated
Just by the way that you keep lickin' 'em dicks like her lips I'm agitated, aggravated
To the point you don't suck my dick, then you're gonna get decapitated
Other words, you don't fuckin' give me head, then I'm have to take it
And then after takin' that, I'ma catch a case, it's gon' be fascinatin'
It's gon' say "The whole rap game passed away" on top of the affadavit
Graduated from master debater slash massive masturbator
To Michael Jackson' activator (Woo!)
Meanin' I'm on fire off the top, might wanna back up the data
Runnin' over hip-hop in a verbal tractor-trailer
Homie, this sick, you can normally ask a hater
Don't it make sense, these shell casings is just like a bag of paper
Drop in the lap of a tax evader (Homie, they spent)
Now make that ass drop like a sack of potatoes
What, girl, I'm the crack-a-lator
Percolator to this party, be my penis ejaculator later
Tell ya boyfriend that you just struck paydirt
You rollin' wit' a player, you won't be exaggeratin' when you sayin'
I'm livin' life in the fast lane
Movin' at the speed of life and I can't slow down
Only got a gallon in the gas tank
But I'm almost at the finish line, so I can't stop now
I don't really know where I'm headed, just enjoyin' the ride
Just gon' roll 'til I drop and ride 'til I die
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
"On turning over the large stiff pages of a folio volume, or the yellow leaves of a manuscript, in short, a poem, a code of laws, a confession of faith, what is your first comment? You say to yourself that the work before you is not of its own creation. It is simply a mold like a fossil shell, an imprint similar to one of those forms embedded in a stone by an animal which once lived and perished. Beneath the shell was an animal and behind the document there was a man. Why do you study the shell unless to form some idea of the animal? In the same way do you study the document in order to comprehend the man; both shell and document are dead fragments and of value only as indications of the complete living being. The aim is to reach this being; this is what you strive to reconstruct. It is a mistake to study the document as if it existed alone by itself. That is treating things merely as a pedant, and you subject yourself to the illusions of a book-worm. At bottom mythologies and languages are not existences; the only realities are human beings who have employed words and imagery adapted to their organs and to suit the original cast of their intellects. A creed is nothing in itself. Who made it? Look at this or that portrait of the sixteenth century, the stern, energetic features of an archbishop or of an English martyr. Nothing exists except through the individual; it is necessary to know the individual himself. Let the parentage of creeds be established, or the classification of poems, or the growth of constitutions, or the transformations of idioms, and we have only cleared the ground. True history begins when the historian has discerned beyond the mists of ages the living, active man, endowed with passions, furnished with habits, special in voice, feature, gesture and costume, distinctive and complete, like anybody that you have just encountered in the street. Let us strive then, as far as possible, to get rid of this great interval of time which prevents us from observing the man with our eyes, the eyes of our own head.[...]A language, a law, a creed, is never other than an abstraction; the perfect thing is found in the active man, the visible corporeal figure which eats, walks, fights, and labors. Set aside the theories of constitutions and their results, of religions and their systems, and try to observe men in their workshops or offices, in their fields along with their own sky and soil, with their own homes, clothes, occupations and repasts, just as you see them when, on landing in England or in Italy, you remark their features and gestures, their roads and their inns, the citizen on his promenades and the workman taking a drink. Let us strive as much as possible to supply the place of the actual, personal, sensible observation that is no longer practicable, this being the only way in which we can really know the man; let us make the past present; to judge of an object it must be present; no experience can be had of what is absent. Undoubtedly, this sort of reconstruction is always imperfect; only an imperfect judgment can be based on it; but let us do the best we can; incomplete knowledge is better than none at all, or than knowledge which is erroneous, and there is no other way of obtaining knowledge approximatively of bygone times than by seeing approximatively the men of former times."
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine -- Introduction to the History of English Literature
Ganesha is the remover of obstacles, the patron of the arts and sciences, and the deva of intellect and wisdom in the Hindu pantheon.
....in un mondo che libero non è
The courage to be free , in a world that isn't free
Cavalli selvaggi a Pizzo d'Evigno , Liguria
....l'intelletto annulla il fato. Finché uno pensa è libero...( Ralph Waldo Emerson )
Libertà significa responsabilità. Ecco perché molti la temono
( George Bernard Shaw )
Freedom means responsability. That's why a lot of people fear it.
..Intellect defeats fate. Until a person thinks, is free...
1. I, the pure, stainless and infinite Consciousness beyond maya, look upon this body in action like the body of another.
2. The mind, the intellect, the senses, etc. are all the play of Consciousness. They are unreal and seem to exist only due to lack of insight.
3. Unmoved by adversity, a friend of all the world in prosperity, without ideas of existence and non-existence, I Live free from misery.
4. Inactive am I, desireless, clear as the sky, free from hankering, tranquil, formless, everlasting and unmoving.
5. I have now clearly understood that the five elements, the three worlds and I myself are pure Consciousness.
6. I am above everything ; I am present everywhere ; I am like space; I am that which (really) exists; I am unable to say anything beyond this.
7. Let imaginary waves of universe rise or fall in me who am the ocean of infinite Consciousness ; there is no increase or decrease in me.
8. How wonderful that in me, the infinite ocean of Consciousness, waves of jivas (individual souls) rise, sport for a while and disappear according to their nature.
9. The world which has come into existence on account of my ignorance has dissolved likewise in me. I now directly experience the world as supreme bliss of Consciousness.
10. I prostrate to myself who am within all being, the ever free Self abiding as inner consciousness.
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Yoga Vasishta Sara - SELECTED VERSES - Meditation on the Self
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Painting by Nicolas Poussin
“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
- H.G.Wells, War of the World's
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Thank you.
"....minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes..."
“It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.”
Henry David Thoreau
"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. " ~Victor Hugo
"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul." ~Gaston Bachelard
EXPLORED - January 28, 2012, via Explore at #269 on Fluidr.
My friendship with Katie goes back over a decade, and continues to evolve in deeply meaningful ways. Since she's a notable personality on Flickr, many of you know her to be witty, sexy, charming, charismatic and vivacious. She is all that, but in addition, she's a person of deep intellect, wisdom, empathy and character. We are opposites in many ways, as she attracts people like bees to honey with her extroverted life-of-the-party personality, whereas I, as an introvert, am more inclined toward quieter pastures . . . . but as the old saying goes, opposites attract! Here we are sharing a glass of wine in Rehoboth Beach. We were up early the next day to play a round of golf!
Sailing to Byzantium
That is no country for old men.
The young, in one another's arms, birds in the trees,
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
by William Butler Yeats - More
history:
krazmacher is a legendary warrior , has a gold indestructible armor forged by the god of iron with the lava of the volcano krazorm hence the name , the armor can be worn only by the most powerful warrior and brave land named maicher once worn the armor became part of it so his name became krazmacher .
characteristics:
strength = 10
speed = 7
Intellect = 7
Power = 9
destroyal = 6
I built krazmacher taking an idea from trasformers 4 optimus prime and I recreated his weapons , in the head instead of using the yellow piece to detach the head I wanted to create it because I did not color would stand out well in the end than the sword and shield I added a small dagger gold to add something more .
I am proud to be a human being.
A human like everyone else in this planet.
A human who does not make distinctions in terms of race, gender, intellect, religion, beliefs, and culture.
A human who respects others and in doing so earns respect from them.
A human who respects the law and does not expects or demand special treatment.
A human who values and believes in God, family, morals, and life, above all, but also respects those who think different.
A human who is saddened by division and injustice and hopes that one day humanity will learn to live in harmony.
Will we ever learn that there are so many things that we have in common to focus in the few things that we don't?
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Siento orgullo por ser un ser humano.
Un humano como todos los demás en este planeta.
Un humano que no hace distinciones en términos de raza, género, intelecto, religión, creencias y cultura.
Un humano que respeta a los demás in al hacerlo se gana el respeto de ellos.
Un humano que respeta la ley y que no espera o reclama trato especial.
Un humano que valora y cree en Dios, la familia, la moral y la vida, sobre todas las cosas, pero que también respeta a los que piensan diferente.
Un humano que se entristece con la división e injusticia y espera que algún día la humanidad aprenda a vivir en armonía.
¿Será que algún día aprenderemos que tenemos demasiadas cosas en común como para enfocarnos en las pocas en las que diferimos?
Christie Pits Park, Toronto ON 10 May 2021
Doug Ford is the premier of Ontario. He has proven electable, but not much of an intellect. Once in power, has no idea what to do with it. It is unfair to insult his waistline, but legitimate to object to his government.
Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.
- Freeman Patterson
By Indian artist Satish Gujral (1925 – 2020)
Part of an exhibition in the MAS museum in Antwerp in 2023.
Satish Gujral was an internationally acclaimed artist, muralist, sculptor, architect and writer. In his quest for a unique Indian artistic identity, free of European influences, Gujral came to be known as one of the pioneers of modernism in post-Independent India.
During the course of his seven-decade career, he also designed several notable buildings, including the Belgium Embassy in New Delhi.
Photo = top part. A variety of materials were assembled in a geometric composition. The work is an attempt by Gujral to combine modern design with the traditional use of colour of India.
"Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
-- Leonardo da Vinci (Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Doctor Doom: You are too late, as usual! Without Richards' mind guiding you, I have moved you three like pawns! And now you are here merely to witness my triumph!!
Human Torch: Not while we have breath, Doom!! I'll turn that oversized doohickey into slag!!
Doctor Doom: AAHAHA!! Please try!
Invisible Woman: Johnny, no! It may set off a chain reaction!
Doctor Doom: Ah, Susan, you at least have a semblance of intellect!
The Thing: Enuff with all this malarkey!! One good punch!! That'll settle it!!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
This episode of the Bijou Planks has been brought to you out of our desire to say "doohickey" and "malarkey". Thank you.
Trying out each of the 3 starters although I already know I want to go Nomad and have him go as full out melee.
Corporate, if I play, is all intellect and tech.
It is the Age of Steam!
The Crew of the "SKY TERROR" are a wretched band of Zombie Pirates. Their Zeppelin reigns Torpedoes, bombs and death from above.
Lead by their Nefarious Captain "Oberon Black" they are the scourge of the English Channel .
They prey on the coal ship steamers which toil between England and France, consuming the brains of some of their captives while selling off the rest as cattle to their undead compatriots.
THE CREW
The Ships Brute – Kang
Blessed with limited intellect but fearsome strength and appetite, Kang is forced to wear a divers helm to stop him from eating all the prey the crew capture. His eagerness to get at lunch makes him the perfect one man boarding party. He acts as leader of the Vanguard, although slow he is nigh on unstoppable!
Gunner "Torpedo" Jim Jones.
Consigned to the lower reaches of the "Sky Terror" Torpedo cuts a lonely and forlorn figure. He passes his spare time painting murals on the ships ordinance. He is only truly happy when is he let above deck to polish his prized deck guns or better still to let them loose upon the living.
Captain Oberon Black
The captain suffers from the malaise of airsickness, an affliction which leaves him with the most unpleasant of attitudes.
A vile and treacherous individual, utterly ruthless, driven by a hatred of the living and a love of violence. Although he bears the scars from many battles he refuses to let Nurse Love assist him with the replacement of his missing limbs or eyeball. Instead he enjoys the extra malice that he can inflict with his saw hand and cast iron stomper leg. The Captain runs a tight ship and owns the most lucrative vessel in the meat trade.
Nurse Love
The mysterious Nurse Love was originally a prisoner aboard the "SKy Terror" she tried to tend the other prisoners when her ship was captured but alas she succumbed to a bite from one of her patients. Now in undeath she is tasked with the job of repairing and fixing up the crew of the "Sky Terror". sowing on a new digits here and there or back filling the holes in a sailors gut. A spinster in life she refuses to accept the same fate in death. She hopes to kindle a romance with the Captain. Seduced by the allure of his power and prestige, she has offered him her heart (and indeed several other peoples too) in an as yet unsuccessful attempt to woo him.
Master-Bosun Zim Sarson.
His eternal service to the Captain was forfeit after being tricked into signing a long term employment contract in life. Accursed are the department of Inhuman Pirate Resources! In death he seeks to replace the captain and put an end to his servitude. A troublesome crew member he is always undermining the captain and trying to put his oar in…
Accessories are TLG with a dash of brickwarriors for good measure.
Started many moons ago but only finished today as an entry to the Eurobricks zombie competition category D.
Ganesha è una divinità molto amata ed invocata, poiché è il Signore del buon auspicio che dona prosperità e fortuna, il Distruttore degli ostacoli di ordine materiale o spirituale; per questa ragione se ne invoca la grazia prima di iniziare una qualunque attività, come ad esempio un viaggio, un esame, un colloquio di lavoro, un affare, una cerimonia, o un qualsiasi evento importante. Per questo motivo è tradizione che tutte le sessioni di bhajan (canti devozionali) comincino con una invocazione a Ganesha.
Ganesha is widely revered as the remover of obstacles, the patron of arts and sciences and the deva of intellect and wisdom. As the god of beginnings, he is honoured at the start of rituals and ceremonies. Ganesha is also invoked as patron of letters and learning during writing sessions
"May Ganesha bring you joy, love, and peace."
('Ganesha' by Four Horsemen / 'Figura Obscura')
Diorama by RK
Reed Richards is a founding member, and the leader, of the Fantastic Four. Richards has a mastery of mechanical, aerospace and electrical engineering, chemistry, all levels of physics, and human and alien biology.
He is the inventor of the spacecraft that was bombarded by cosmic radiation on its maiden voyage, granting the Fantastic Four their powers. Richards gained the ability to stretch his body into any shape he desires.
Mister Fantastic acts as the leader and father figure of the Fantastic Four, and although his cosmic ray powers are primarily stretching abilities, his presence on the team is defined by his scientific acumen, as he is officially acknowledged as the smartest man in the Marvel Universe.
This is particularly a point of tragedy in regards to his best friend, Ben Grimm, who he has constantly tried to turn back into his human form but who typically remains a large, rocky creature called the Thing.
He is the husband of Susan Storm, father of Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards, and mentor of his brother-in-law, Johnny Storm.
Born in Central City, California, Reed Richards is the son of Evelyn and Nathaniel Richards. Nathaniel was a scientific genius, and Reed inherited a similar level of intellect and interests.
A child prodigy with special aptitude in mathematics, physics, and mechanics, Reed Richards was taking college-level courses when he was 14.
He attended such prestigious universities as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Columbia University, and the fictional Empire State University. By the age of 20, he had several degrees in the sciences under his belt.
It was at Empire State University that he met Benjamin J. Grimm. Reed had already begun designing a starship capable of traveling in hyperspace. Sharing his plans with his new roommate, Grimm jokingly volunteered to pilot the craft.
Also while at State U he met a brilliant fellow student, Victor Von Doom. In Richards, Doom met the first person who could match him intellectually; regarding Richards as his ultimate rival, Doom became increasingly jealous of Richards. Determined to prove he was better, Doom conducted reckless experiments which eventually scarred his face and would lead him to become Doctor Doom.
During the summer months, Reed rented a room in a boarding house owned by the aunt of a young woman named Susan Storm, who was an undergraduate student at the time. Reed fell in love with Sue instantly and began courting her.
Ultimately, Reed was too distracted from his work on his dissertation due to his romance with Sue and decided that the best thing for the both of them was to move out of Marygay's home.
Moving on to Harvard, Reed earned Ph.D.s in Physics and Electrical Engineering while working as a military scientist, all this by the age of 22. He also worked in communications for the Army.
Three years later, in his mid-20s, Reed used his inheritance, along with government funding, to finance his research. Determined to go to Mars and beyond, Richards based the fateful project in Central City.
Susan Storm moved into the area, and within a short time, found herself engaged to Reed. Reed's old college roommate, Ben Grimm, now a successful test pilot and astronaut, was indeed slated to pilot the craft.
All seemed well; however, when the government threatened to cut funding and cancel the project, Reed, Ben, Sue, and Sue's younger brother Johnny, agreed to sneak aboard the starship and take it up immediately.
They knew they had not completed all the testing that had been planned, but Reed was confident they would be safe. Ben was initially skeptical about the unknown effects of radiation, while Reed theorized that their ship's shielding would be adequate to protect them.
It was on Reed's initiative that the fateful mission which had Susan Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm accompanying him into space took place. When their ship passed through the Van Allen belt they found their cockpit bombarded with nearly lethal doses of cosmic radiation.
Reed had neglected to account for the abnormal radiation levels in the belt's atmosphere. The cosmic rays wreaked havoc on the starship's insufficient shielding and they were forced to return to Earth immediately.
When they crash-landed they found that their bodies were changed dramatically. Reed's body was elastic and he could reshape any portion of his body at will. At his suggestion, they decided to use their new abilities to serve mankind as the Fantastic Four.
Reed was chosen to lead the group, under the name "Mr. Fantastic". He later told his daughter, by way of a bedtime story, that the reason he suggested they become adventurers and gave them such outlandish costumes and names as "Mister Fantastic" and "The Thing" was that he knew they would likely be hated and feared for their powers without such an over-the-top public image.
Richards was a veteran of World War II who had served behind enemy lines in occupied France, and the goal of his space mission was a crewed space flight to the moon before the Communists were able to. Later, the challenge was getting there before the Chinese Communists and to explore the interstellar areas of the red planet and beyond.
Reed and Sue "were kids together" and Sue was the "girl next door" who Reed left behind to go fight in the war. Sue was thirteen years old when she first met Reed, who was in his early twenties, at her Aunt Marygay's boardinghouse.
Leadership of the Fantastic Four
The early career of the Fantastic Four led Mister Fantastic to a number of discoveries, and had their first encounters with many unusual characters. In the team's first appearance, they battled the Mole Man. They then battled the Skrulls. Soon after that, the team encountered the Sub-Mariner. They then had the first of many battles with Doctor Doom. They later journeyed to a subatomic world. Soon after that, they encountered Rama-Tut. They then battled the Molecule Man.
As the team leader, Mr. Fantastic created numerous exotic devices and vehicles for the team to use such as clothing made of 'unstable molecules' so that it can be used with their powers safely. Furthermore, he often leads the team into daring expeditions such as into the Negative Zone in addition to opposing evil. Also, he has felt personally responsible for Ben Grimm's grotesque change and has labored off and on to reverse it permanently.
Under his guidance, the team went on to become Earth's most celebrated band of heroes. Together, they would save the world countless times. Ever driven by his quest for knowledge, Reed is believed by most to be the Earth's foremost intelligence. There is little he cannot create, fix, or understand given time. The patents and royalties on his inventions alone have funded the group over the years.
However, there are drawbacks to his association with the team. Chief among them is the team's violent encounters with Doctor Doom, who believes that Reed was responsible for the accident that scarred him.
Doom has never forgiven Reed and has sworn revenge. Doom has even gone as far as transforming Reed into a monstrous freak, attacking Reed's children and attempting to seduce Sue.
Subplots and story arcs
After many adventures as the Fantastic Four, Reed married Sue. Not long after that, the team encountered the Inhumans for the first time. They next encountered Galactus and the Silver Surfer.
Reed then opened a portal to the Negative Zone for the first time. Soon, the team first battled the Psycho-Man. Before long Reed and Sue had a baby, Franklin; the team battled Annihilus right before Franklin's birth. Franklin was a mutant with incredible powers, but, due to the cosmic ray alteration to his parents' DNA, they manifested while he was still very young (in the Marvel world, most mutants like the X-Men get their powers while teenagers).
Franklin appears to have power that can rival a member of the Celestials; almost immeasurable power in the body of a small child.
Under the constant pressure of their dangerous life, the couple briefly separated, and Reed further alienated Sue by shutting down Franklin's mind in order to prevent his power from causing global catastrophe; Sue Storm initiated divorce proceedings but the two were reconciled soon after.
Reed also saved Galactus's life during the course of his adventures. He then bought the Baxter Building.
Later, he was tried by the Shi'ar for saving Galactus's life, but the charges were dropped when Eternity briefly granted all those attending the trial a moment of 'cosmic awareness' that allowed them to understand that Galactus was necessary for the continued well-being of the universe.
Reed's battle with Gormuu prior to getting his powers was recounted. Just after that, Reed was reunited with his father in an alternate timeline. Some time later, Reed and Sue retired from the Fantastic Four, and then joined the Avengers, although Reed's past experience as leader of the Fantastic Four meant that he had trouble adjusting to following Captain America's lead regardless of his respect for the other man. Eventually, Reed and Sue did rejoin the Fantastic Four.
In the course of fighting an alien called Hunger, Doctor Doom was seriously injured. The Fantastic Four were also part of the battle against Hunger and Doom asked for his old enemy to take his hand. At that point they both disappeared in a flash, leaving nothing but ashes. It would appear as if the two sworn enemies had fittingly died in each other's hands.
However, unknown to anyone else at the time, Reed and Doom had actually been thrown back into the time of barbarians and onto an alien world by a being called Hyperstorm, Reed's grandchild from an alternate future, the child of Franklin Richards and Rachel Summers, daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey.
They were so far into the past, and with no technology, that even their brilliant minds couldn't find a way back home. Doom was captured and held prisoner by Hyperstorm. Reed wandered aimlessly for about a year.
Meanwhile, the rest of the FF recruited Scott Lang as scientific advisor. They even confronted an insane alternative version of Reed called the Dark Raider who was traveling from reality to reality, destroying all the various versions of himself after his own failure to save his world from Galactus in their original confrontation.
A while later, the remaining members of the FF along with the Sub-Mariner, Lyja and Kristoff Vernard found themselves trapped in the same era as their Reed and Doom.
They found Reed but faced a new problem: during his time alone, Reed had resigned himself to the reality that it was impossible for his old friends to stage a rescue and attacked them but soon realized that these truly were his friends.
After returning to their own time period, he sought Galactus, as he was the only being in the Universe who could defeat Hyperstorm. Upon Hyperstorm's defeat at the hands of Galactus, the FF returned to the present day where they continued their lives, not only as a team, but as a family.
Onslaught and Heroes Reborn
Shortly after their return, the FF were confronted by a being called Onslaught. Onslaught took control of an army of Sentinels and invaded New York City, hunting down every mutant being he could find.
Onslaught wished to add the abilities of the ultra-powerful Franklin Richards to his own. Only through the apparent sacrifice of the Fantastic Four's own lives and that of many of the heroes in the Marvel universe was Onslaught finally vanquished.
The heroes would have died then and there if not for Franklin, who created an alternate reality for them to reside in. Completely oblivious to what had taken place, Reed and his compatriots relived most of their lives.
In their absence the Fantastic Four's headquarters, Four Freedoms Plaza, was annihilated by a super villain group called the Masters of Evil, posing as heroes, The Thunderbolts.
One year later, Franklin returned with his family along with the other heroes from the parallel reality. Reed was overjoyed to see his son again, but he and the rest of the FF found themselves without a home. They moved into Reed's storage warehouse on Pier 4, overlooking the East River.
Making this their home, the Fantastic Four continued with their lives, eventually managing to move back into the Baxter Building.
It has emerged that Reed is one of the members of the "Illuminati", unknown to his wife. He is also in possession of the "Power" gem of the Infinity Gauntlet.
Pro-Registration
In the Civil War event, Reed Richards is one of the leading figures, along with Iron Man, on the side which is in favor of the Superhuman Registration Act.
He speculates that this will lead to conflict with his wife, which came true when a clone of Thor, created by him and Tony Stark, went out of control and killed Goliath and nearly killed all the rest of the Secret Avengers until Sue Storm stepped in and saved them.
Soon after, Sue left Reed, along with Johnny, to join the Secret Avengers in hopes that it would drive Reed to end the conflict quickly.
Shortly before the events of Civil War, Peter Parker demanded to see the conditions inside the detention facility designed by Reed to hold unregistered superhumans.
After being escorted to and from the prison by Iron Man, Parker returns with more doubts than ever about whether he is on the right side and asks Reed why he supports the Superhuman Registration Act, a question Reed answers by telling the story of his paternal uncle, Ted.
Reed remembers his uncle, who was a professional writer, as "funny", "colorful", and "accepting". As a boy, Reed loved spending time with Ted. Unfortunately, Ted was also "an eccentric" and "stubborn".
Because he had a career in the arts and because he stood out, Ted was called before HUAC, imprisoned on contempt of Congress charges for six months, and was unable to find work after he'd served his sentence.
He was even shunned by Reed's father. Ted lost everything, which Reed says finally "killed him" without going into greater detail. Richards opines that his uncle was wrong to take such a stand, to pick a fight he couldn't win, and to fail to respect the law.
However it was revealed that the real reason for supporting the registration act is due to his development of a working version of Isaac Asimov's psychohistory concept.
His application of this science indicates to him that billions will die in escalating conflicts without the presence of the act. In the final battle of the war, he is shot by Taskmaster, saving Sue Storm's life. With Reed on the brink of death, a furious Sue crushes Taskmaster with a telekinetic field.
Reed survives, however, and Sue returns to him in the aftermath of the battle, having been granted amnesty. Seeking to repair the damage done to their marriage as a result of the war, Sue and Reed take time off from the Fantastic Four, but ask Storm and the Black Panther to take their places in the meantime.
World War Hulk
Within the midst of Civil War, Reed Richards learned from a brief conversation with Mastermind Excello that the Hulk is not on the planet where the Illuminati attempted to exile him.
After a conversation over the good the Hulk has done for humanity, Reed tells Iron Man of what happened to the Hulk and also states that the Hulk has friends, and "may God help us if they find him before we do".
Within the aftermath of Civil War, Reed Richards had been keeping tabs on Mastermind Excello and when the She-Hulk learned about the Hulk's exile, Reed Richards sends out Doc Samson to confront her when he sees her meeting with Mastermind Excello.
Then Reed is seen with Tony Stark as Iron Man. Both men were trying to convince Sentry to fight the Hulk, thinking that the calm aura that the Sentry produces may be able to stop the Hulk's rampage.
With the aid of the rest of the Fantastic Four, Storm, and the Black Panther, Reed is able to create a machine that projects an image of the Sentry and recreates the hero's aura of calm.
He uses the machine on the Hulk just as he is about to defeat the Thing, but the Hulk knows it is not the real Sentry and destroys the machine. In a last line of defense, Sue Storm tries to protect her husband by encapsulating the Hulk in an energy field while pleading with him to spare Reed. The Hulk does not listen and is able to easily exert enough strength against her force field to cause Susan to collapse and experience a nosebleed from the stress, dooming Reed to the Hulk's wrath.
Reed is later seen among the various heroes that the Hulk defeated so far, within the depths of the Hulk's Gladiator arena located within Madison Square Garden.
He and all of the heroes are implanted with "obedience disks" that are used to suppress their powers.These disks are the same that were used upon the Hulk during his time on Sakaar.
The Hulk orders Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic to face off in battle. Richards, after having the upper hand on Stark, is then given the thumbs down by Hulk, instructing Richards to kill Stark.
However the Hulk spares their lives, showing them that he proved his point to the world. They survived the encounter by Hulk's mercy and the timely intervention of the Sentry.
The Illuminati are partially cleared from the responsibility of Sakaar's destruction when Miek, one of the Hulk's alien allies, admits he saw the Red King forces breach the ship's warp core. Miek kept quiet to initiate what he felt was Hulk's destiny as the "Worldbreaker".
Secret Invasion
Mister Fantastic is at the Illuminati's meeting discussing the threat of the Skrulls when the Black Bolt with them is revealed to be a Skrull in disguise.
Mister Fantastic and Hank Pym autopsy the body of the Skrull who impersonated Elektra (with Reed pretending to be seeing the corpse for the first time, thus keeping the secret of the Illuminati).
After completing the dissection, Reed claims to have discovered the secret of how the Skrulls have been able to conceal their identities. Before he can elaborate, "Hank Pym" reveals himself to be a Skrull and shoots Richards with a weapon that violently leaves his elastic body in a state of chaotic disarray similar to Silly String.
After that, it is shown that a Skrull assumed Reed's form in order to successfully ambush and capture Sue Richards, to facilitate an attack on the Fantastic Four's headquarters.
A conscious but still mostly shapeless Reed Richards is seen being forcibly stretched in all directions to cover the floor of a medium-sized arena aboard a Skrull ship, with all of the seats filled by Skrull onlookers.
He is freed by Abigail Brand, and then travels with her to the Savage Land and uses a device to reveal all the Skrull invaders present.
After helping the Avengers to defeat the imposters and return to New York, Reed aids the heroes and villains of Earth in their battle against the Skrulls.
Dark Reign
Mister Fantastic aids the New Avengers in the search for the daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones.
He and the rest of the Fantastic Four are magically reduced to television signals by the chaotic activities of the Elder God Chthon, to prevent them from intervening, though after Chthon is defeated, he and the other three are turned back.
Norman Osborn is a man well aware that Reed is one of the few that have intellect exceeding even his own and thus poses a great threat to his carefully constructed shadow world.
Osborn sends H.A.M.M.E.R. agents to shut down the Fantastic Four and capture them, expelling them from the Initiative and stripping them all their rights.
Taking place a week from the Secret Invasion, which has caused Richards to seriously reevaluate his own life and the life he has built for his family, resulting in turbulent internal conflicts.
Richards, as he takes a long, hard look at the life, is prompted to construct a machine that is capable of bending reality itself, to do so.
Agents from H.A.M.M.E.R. arrive just as Reed activates the machine, interfacing with the Baxter Building's power supply, resulting in an energy fluctuation that sends Sue, Ben and Johnny back to the prehistoric era, fraught with dangers, which manifest in the form of the First Celestial Host.
Reed searches for answers which can only be found in alternate timelines as the three find themselves in a super hero Hyborian-age civil war; Franklin and Valeria are the only ones available to confront the agents Osborn sent.
Richards studies other parallel Earths to see if any found a peaceful solution to the Civil War, which resulted from the Superhuman Registration Act.
Reed peers into different worlds, some more bizarre than our own, to see what they did differently. This is an insightful look into where the Marvel Universe has gone in the past "year" (in Marvel time) and to see who was at fault, if anyone.
Reed meets with the other five Illuminati to handle the problem. Ultimately, after seeing about a million alternate Earths, he had concluded that there was no way for the Civil War to be resolved but that he, as the cleverest man in the Marvel Universe, had a responsibility to put things right.
But before turning the machine off, he searches for other realities where they have the same machines he is using; the machine locates them and the people he finds tell him that they can help him.
Reed Richards reappeared, refusing to give Hank Pym an invention previously left in the care of the Fantastic Four, following Bill Foster's untimely death, causing the Wasp to lead the team of Mighty Avengers to retrieve the device.
Then, Pym's attempting to knock down the Baxter Building (due to Loki's manipulations, likely) sows further displeasure and leads to a direct conflict between the Fantastic Four and Loki's Mighty Avengers.
This conflict eventually ends in a new base for the Mighty Avengers and a shockingly disturbing alliance of the Dark Reign.
A new character is then seen, a ruler known as the Unspoken, one more powerful than any other in the universe, to the point he had to be erased from history, and how his return will impact the planet and the cosmos beyond, in the War of Kings.
After the Secret Invasion and some time into the Dark Reign, in the War of Kings, when Blastaar is about to open the portal to Earth, on the other side in Camp Hammond, Star-Lord and the Guardians tell Reed Richards and others to never open the portal, or they will face the wrath of Blastaar.
Mister Fantastic agrees and says they will not open the portal and then asks who they are. Star-Lord replies, "We're the Guardians of the Galaxy" before leaving.
Future Foundation
Tragedy strikes the team when Johnny is apparently killed in the Negative Zone. As the Fantastic Four recover from Johnny's apparent death, Mister Fantastic grows disillusioned at how scientists see science and its applications.
Therefore, he creates a new team, the Future Foundation, to help create a better future for mankind.
However, the team's initial tasks are complicated when they are forced to deal with the 'Council of Reeds', a group of alternate versions of Reed Richards who lack his morality or family that became trapped in the FF's reality after an accident with Reed's dimensional portal.
The Quiet Man
After Johnny is returned and the team resume using the Fantastic Four name, they are systematically attacked by the mysterious Quiet Man, a figure who reveals that he has been behind many of the villain attacks the FF have faced over the years, now stepping forward to take a more active role as he shuts down Johnny's powers, frames the Thing for murder, has Reed and Sue Richards declared unfit guardians for their children, and then abducts Reed with the intention of framing him for a series of attacks committed by the heroes created in Franklin's pocket universe.
However, Reed is able to defeat the Quiet Man's plan to proclaim himself the hero who defeated Reed's 'attack' on the world when he realizes that the Psycho-Man - one of the Quiet Man's allies - intended to betray him, forcing Reed and the Quiet Man to work together to deactivate the Psycho-Man's equipment.
Secret Wars
During the Secret Wars storyline, Reed is one of the few survivors of Earth-616 to come through with his memories intact, hiding in a 'life raft' with various other heroes and eventually released by Doctor Strange.
Learning that the new 'Battleworld' is now ruled by Doctor Doom, who has absorbed the power of various Beyonders and Molecule Men to become a virtual god, Reed and the other heroes disperse across Battleworld to come up with a plan.
Reed eventually starts working with his counterpart from the Ultimate Marvel universe who calls himself Maker. The two find themselves disagreeing on their methods, with Reed preferring to find a way to save the world while Maker is more focused on killing their enemy, Reed countering his other self's accusations that he is weak by musing that he simply has things to care for outside of himself.
In the final confrontation, Reed and the Maker discover that the source of Doom's power is the Molecule Man (Owen Reece), but although the Maker attempts to betray Reed by transforming him into the appearance of an ape, Reece reverses the Maker's attack and turns him into pepperoni pizza.
When Doom comes down to confront Reed, Reed challenges Doom as Reece temporarily deprives Doom of his new god-level powers, Reed proclaiming Doom to be nothing more than a coward for taking control of what was left of existence rather than trying to reshape it.
Inspired by Reed's words, Reece transfers Doom's power to him, with Reed recreating the former Earth-616 before he, Susan, their children, and the rest of the Future Foundation move to use Franklin and Reed's powers to rebuild the multiverse.
eturn to Prime Earth
Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, and the Future Foundation were later confronted by the Griever at the End of All Things after Reed had expended most of his Beyonder-based energies while Franklin was left with only limited reality-warping abilities.
Due to the Griever causing the collapse of 100 worlds, the Future Foundation had to make a stand even after Molecule Man was killed. When Mister Fantastic tricked the Griever into bringing their Fantastic Four teammates to them, Thing and Human Torch were reunited, and every other superhero that was part of the Fantastic Four showed up as well.
Faced with these numbers, the Griever was eventually driven back when most of her equipment was destroyed, forcing her to return to her universe or be trapped in this one, while the heroes were able to repair the damaged equipment to create a new teleporter to send them all home.
Powers and abilities
Reed Richards gained the power of elasticity from irradiation by cosmic rays. He has the ability to convert his entire body into a highly malleable state at will, allowing him to stretch, deform, and reform himself into virtually any shape.
Richards has been observed as being able to utilize his stretching form in a variety of offensive and defensive manners, such as compressing himself into a ball and ricocheting into enemies, flattening himself into a trampoline or a parachute to catch a falling teammate, or inflating himself into a life raft to aid in a water rescue.
He can willfully reduce his body's cohesion until he reaches a fluid state, which can flow through minute openings or into tiny pipes. Reed is also able to shape his hands into hammer and mace style weapons, and concentrate his mass into his fists to increase their density and effectiveness as weapons.
Having an elastic-like texture allows Reed protection from damage. He can be punched with incredible force, flattened, squished, and still re-form or survive without any form of sufficient injury.
Reed's control over his shape has been developed to such a point that he has been able to radically alter his facial features and his entire physical form to pass among human and non-humans unnoticed and unrecognized.
He has even molded himself into the shapes of inanimate objects, such as a mailbox. He rarely uses his powers in such an undignified fashion. However, he appears to have no qualms about stretching out his ears, taking the shape of a dinosaur, becoming a human trampoline, or inflating his hands into pool toys to entertain his children.
The most extreme demonstration of Reed's powers is when at one point he was able to increase his size and mass to Thing-like proportions which also increased his physical strength.
Assuming and maintaining these shapes used to require extreme effort. Due to years of mental and physical training, Reed can now perform these feats at will. His powers (and those of the Red Ghost) were also increased when they were exposed to a second dose of cosmic rays.
Maintaining his body's normal human shape requires a certain degree of ongoing concentration. When Reed is relaxed and distracted, his body appears to "melt in slow motion" according to Susan Storm.
Being forcefully stretched to extremes during a short span of time (by a taffy-puller-type machine or a strong character, for example) causes Reed to suffer intense pain and the temporary loss of his natural elastic resiliency.
He possesses other weaknesses too; a great shock to his body - for example, from the likes of Doctor Doom when he constructs around him - can make his body so rubbery he loses motor control. Enough energy can reduce him to a liquid state in which he is immobile.
Mister Fantastic's strength comes more from the powers of his mind than the powers of his body; indeed, he once told Spider-Man that he considers his stretching powers to be expendable compared to his intellect.
Some accounts have implied that his intellect may have been boosted by his powers, as he once visited an alternate universe where his other self-had never been exposed to cosmic rays and was notably less intelligent than him, though purely human versions of Reed that are as or even more intelligent than himself have been shown, particularly among the Council of Reeds.
Tony Stark has commented that Reed's ability to make his brain physically larger (via his elastic powers) gives him an advantage, though this seems to be meant more as a joke. That said, scenes from the same event show Reed "inflating" his skull as he calculates the power output of Tony's Repulsor-battery heart implant.
For virtually his entire history, Mister Fantastic has been depicted as one of the most intelligent characters in the Marvel Universe.
A visionary theoretician and an inspired machine smith, he has made breakthroughs in such varied fields as space travel, time travel, extra-dimensional travel, biochemistry, robotics, computers, synthetic polymers, communications, mutations, transportation, holography, energy generation, and spectral analysis, among others.
However, he is never afraid to admit when others have greater expertise in certain fields than him, such as recognizing that Doctor Octopus possesses greater knowledge of radiation, that Hank Pym is a superior biochemist, or that Spider-Man can think of a problem from a biology perspective where he would be unable to do so, since his expertise is in physics.
Richards has earned Ph.D.s in Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering. His patents are so valuable that he is able to bankroll the Fantastic Four, Inc., without any undue financial stress.
Mind control is rarely effective on him and when it does work, it wears off sooner than it would on a normal person, due to what he describes as an "elastic consciousness".
However, this intelligence can be a handicap in his dealings with magic, as it required an intense lesson from Doctor Strange and facing the threat of his son being trapped in a hellish environment for Reed to fully acknowledge that the key to using magic was to accept that he would never understand it.
Richards is also an accomplished fighter due to his years of combat experience with the Fantastic Four, and has earned a black belt in judo.
Following the Battleworld crisis, Reed acquired the powers of the Beyonders that were once wielded by Doom, but he relied on his son Franklin's creativity and new powers to help him recreate the multiverse after the incursions destroyed the other parallel universes.
Equipment and technology
Although the Fantastic Four have numerous devices, crafts, and weapons, there are some items that Reed Richards carries with him at all times.
Fantastiflare: Launches a fiery "4" into the sky that is used during combat situations to let other members of the group know their location.
Uniform Computer: Like all the Fantastic Four's costumes and the rest of Reed's wardrobe, his suit is made of "unstable molecules". This means that the suit is attuned to his powers, which is why Johnny's costume doesn't burn when he "flames on", Sue's costume turns invisible when she does, and Reed's costume stretches with him.
The costume also insulates them from electrical assaults. In addition, the team's uniforms are also, in essence, wearable computers. Their costumes have a complete data processing and telemetry system woven into the material of the uniform on a molecular level.
This forms a network with the entire team, providing a constant, real-time uplink of everyone's physical condition as well as their location and current situation.
The suit is capable of displaying data and touch-pad controls on the gauntlets. Its sensors can track all of the team's uniforms and provide a picture of their immediate vicinity.
The suit has an intricate scanner system which can detect things around the wearer, from how many people are in the next room to what dimension or planet they are on.
Reed can also up-link the bodysuit to any computer by stretching his fingertips to filament size and plugging them into an I/O data-port. With this, Reed can establish a fairly comprehensive database of any computer's cybernetic protocols and encryption algorithms.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Alter Ego: Reed Richards
Publisher: Marvel
First appearance: The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961)
Created by: Stan Lee (writer)
Jack Kirby (artist)
Le 900e anniversaire en 2022 de la nomination de Suger, abbé de Saint-Denis en 1122, est l’occasion de revisiter la théologie de la lumière. Fernand Schwarz, philosophe et anthropologue, décrit ce phénomène qui a engendré, avec le passage de l’art roman à l’âge gothique, un changement important dans la construction des cathédrales.
Nous publions ici des extraits du troisième chapitre de l’ouvrage de Fernand Schwarz Symbolique des cathédrales, symboles et lumière (1), chapitre consacré à Suger, l’abbaye de Saint-Denis et la théologie de la lumière.
L’abbaye de Saint-Denis, un destin royal et une œuvre théologique
En l’an 1124, l’abbaye de Saint-Denis, gardienne des reliques du saint martyr qui avait converti la France au christianisme au IIIe siècle et était vénéré à l’époque comme le patron de la maison royale, est solennellement proclamée par Louis VI, sanctuaire national de France (elle a servi de caveau à certains de ses illustres rois, et a été en outre le témoin du sacre de Charlemagne). En clair, on promet à Saint-Denis un destin équivalent à celui de Rome ou de Constantinople.
Suger conçut la cathédrale de Saint-Denis comme une œuvre théologique, qui s’inspirait largement des écrits de la figure légendaire du saint et martyr Denys, que l’on confondait à l’époque avec Denys dit l’Aréopagite, métaphysicien de la lumière qui inspira le XIIe siècle.
Toute chose participe de la lumière divine
Pour Denys, la lumière est le premier principe de cette métaphysique. Il fait ici référence à la splendide théologie de la lumière de l’Évangile selon saint Jean, dans laquelle le logos divin est conçu comme la lumière véritable qui brille dans les ténèbres et qui est à l’origine de toutes choses. « Je suis la lumière du monde ; celui qui me suit ne marche point dans les ténèbres mais aura la lumière de la vie ». Évangile selon saint Jean, VII, 12.
Pour Denys, la création est une action illuminatrice, et l’univers déjà créé ne pourrait exister sans la lumière. Si la lumière cesse de briller, tout ce qui existe tombe dans le néant. Il rappelle que la création est la révélation de Dieu et que toutes choses créées sont des « lumières » qui témoignent par leur existence de la lumière divine et permettent ainsi à l’intellect humain de Le percevoir.
Dieu est lumière et chaque être reçoit et transmet cette lumière selon une hiérarchie conçue par Dieu. [… ] La lumière physique sert à créer des analogies avec la lumière transcendante pour que l’esprit des hommes s’éveille. Tout objet, comme toute créature, réfléchit la lumière divine, tout revient donc à Dieu par le biais des choses visibles. Cette conception est à la base de la pensée gothique. Ainsi s’est établie la connexion entre la métaphysique de la lumière et l’esthétique de la lumière.
Dans son traité de métaphysique, Denys affirme que la lumière divine qui irrigue le monde assure l’union entre les êtres créés.
La cathédrale de Suger : l’expression d’une métaphysique
Suger entreprend la construction de son église avec l’objectif d’en faire un sanctuaire.
Certes, Suger veut forger une alliance entre l’Église et la couronne qui permette à l’Église et à la France de propager un nouvel art de vivre, alliance de spiritualité et de matérialité dans la cité : ce nouvel art doit permettre la rencontre du profane et du sacré. Mais l’essentiel pour lui est de construire un temple dont Dieu serait l’auteur et le guide. D’où l’importance de recourir à la théologie, à une vision métaphysique plutôt qu’à des techniques, pour servir de modèle à la nouvelle église, la cathédrale. Pour les bâtisseurs d’alors, la technique vient au second plan, elle sert à exprimer l’idée.
Contrairement à ce qu’on croit d’habitude, le trait distinctif de l’art nouveau médiéval n’est pas la voûte en croisée d’ogives ni l’arc en ogive ou l’arc-boutant. Tous ces éléments ne sont que des moyens de construction qui se retrouvent dans l’architecture pré-gothique.
[… ] Ce qui n’était qu’un artifice technique devient le moyen d’ouvrir des baies, de faire tomber les cloisons pour que toute l’église « resplendisse d’une lumière ininterrompue ». Depuis le chœur jusqu’à la porte, la lumière se diffuse sans obstacle. Cette cohésion lumineuse reflète l’unité de l’univers dont parlait Denys.
[… ] Néanmoins, deux aspects de l’architecture gothique sont sans précédents : l’utilisation de la lumière et un rapport original entre la structure et l’apparence, la fonction et la forme, qui donnera naissance à l’église mystique. Ces deux caractéristiques obéissent à une conception métaphysique et pas à un étalage de trouvailles techniques qui existaient déjà auparavant et que les maîtres gothiques n’ont fait que mettre à profit pour exprimer leur vision de l’harmonie cosmique.
L’utilisation de la lumière : la communion du Ciel et de la Terre
L’emploi de la lumière dans l’édifice gothique, dans son rapport à la substance matérielle des murs, est diamétralement opposée à celui de l’église romane ; la lumière dans le roman sert à mettre en évidence le contraste entre la substance concrète, lourde et sombre, et la lumière elle-même, symbole de l’esprit. Lumière et matière s’opposent comme le bien et le mal.
Le mur gothique donne par contre l’impression d’être poreux. La lumière s’infiltre à travers et le pénètre en se fondant avec lui et en le transfigurant, La matière apparaît de plus en plus légère et la lumière de plus en plus présente.
Toute l’architecture est conçue pour vider la matière des murs et la remplacer par d’immenses verrières translucides. La cathédrale gothique devient ainsi un monument dédié à la transparence. Le ciel et la terre entrent en intime communion grâce à la lumière qui traverse toutes les parties de l’édifice. La matière n’est plus impénétrable, elle devient la substance porteuse du Verbe-Lumière et l’ascension des flèches dans leur légèreté défie la gravité terrestre.
« [… ] Les nefs latérales, les tribunes, les déambulatoires, les chapelles du chevet deviennent plus étroites et moins profondes tandis que les murs extérieurs sont traversés par des lignes entières de verrières. Vues de l’intérieur, les verrières perdent leurs définitions comme si elles fusionnaient, verticalement et horizontalement, dans une sphère continuelle de lumière produisant une zone de contraste lumineux derrière toutes les formes tangibles du système architectural. » (La Catedral gotica, Otto von Simson, page 26 )
L’Abbaye de Saint-Denis, la porte du Ciel
[… ] Saint-Denis est la première église dont la façade soit conçue pour évoquer l’idée que le temple est, en termes liturgiques, la porte du Ciel. Ce motif sera ensuite repris par toutes les cathédrales. Il s’inspire de l’idée que l’art chrétien doit figurer la vie éternelle, telle une porte qui conduit la pensée vers les vérités ineffables.
[… ] La porte dorée de Saint-Denis est le signe qui permet à l’esprit confus de s’élever vers la vérité, de progresser du matériel à l’ineffable. En contemplant la lumière, l’âme « ressuscite de son immersion dans la matière ». (Suger, « De son administration », XXVII, 89)
La présence, dans le tympan central, de la résurrection des morts ne doit pas être comprise dans son sens eschatologique habituel. Elle sert également à exprimer l’illumination qui se produit chez celui qui passe de ce monde à la contemplation de Dieu.
Le rôle de la lumière
[… ] Grâce au savant rapport qu’il établit entre la hauteur et la profondeur, l’abbé Suger recrée un véritable circuit de prière, « circuitus oratorium », qu’il emplit de lumière en créant de nouvelles fenêtres : « Toute la chapelle majeure se trouve empreinte d’une merveilleuse lumière constante qui pénètre à travers les fenêtres sacrées ». (Suger, « De la consécration », IV, 225)
Les verrières gothiques sont nées. Pour la première fois, on réduit la surface des murs au bénéfice de la lumière, on fait tomber les cloisons, un principe qui est la grande conquête du gothique. La régularité du tracé, avec les rayons qui partent du centre de la chapelle majeure, permet ainsi à la lumière d’entrer pour la première fois sans entraves à travers les vitraux des chapelles absidiales.
La conception de la nef, restée inachevée, est aussi lumineuse que le chevet et l’édifice tout entier dégage une extraordinaire impression de luminosité. Il inspirera les cathédrales de Noyon, de Senlis et surtout Notre-Dame de Paris.
[… ] Pour Suger, la lux nova, qu’il introduit dans l’intérieur de l’église, est associée au Christ lui-même. C’est pourquoi il qualifiera les fenêtres portant les vitraux de « très sacrées et miraculeuses ». Comme le suggère un de ses amis, Hugues de Saint-Victor, un vitrail est la démonstration visuelle de la théologie de Denys.
Les vitraux sont comme des voiles, qui occultent et révèlent en même temps l’ineffable.
Pour Suger, suivant les traces de Denys, tout l’univers est comme un voile éclairé par la lumière divine. Le temple devient ainsi l’image d’un univers transparent. Les fenêtres ne sont pas conçues comme des ouvertures dans un mur, mais comme des surfaces translucides portant les formes du sacré qui irradient dans tout l’édifice.
Grâce à Suger, l’art gothique et la lumière se développèrent et apportèrent un renouveau dans la construction des édifices religieux en France et en Europe, ajoutant une dimension symbolique et de connaissance très importante. Suger fut un précurseur dans de nombreux domaines qui firent de lui un homme éclairé (2).
(1) Ouvrage publié aux Éditions du Palais, 2012, 186 pages. Ce livre a été réédité plusieurs fois : Symboliques des cathédrales, visages de la vierge (Éditions du Huitième jour en 2002), Symbolique des cathédrales, symboles et lumière(aux Éditions Nouvel angle en 2009) Symbolique des cathédrales, miroirs de l’univers (aux Éditions du Palais, 2012)
(2) Lire l’article de Marie-Agnes Lambert, Il y a 900 ans, Suger était nommé abbé de Saint-Denis dans la revue page…
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Ce magnifique ouvrage abondamment illustré raconte l’histoire des cathédrales depuis l’époque paléo-chrétienne jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Chaque cathédrale fait l’objet de deux pages. Se rajoutent des dates clés, des témoignages artistiques (peinture, littérature, cinéma…), des évènements liés à ces édifices (effondrements, incendies, tremblements de terre…), les techniques de construction avec les types de matériaux utilisés, l’apport de grands hommes influents (Suger, Gaudi, Perret industrialisation (carrières de pierre, forêts, utilisation de l’acier et du béton…) ou bien grands hommes influents (Suger, Gaudi, Perret, Viollet-le-Duc,…). Par un architecte, expert et chargé de mission auprès du Ministère de la Culture, spécialiste de la construction et de la stabilité des bâtiments anciens.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of "meanings."
~ Susan Sontag
A staple of fantasy warfare, orcs comprise the largest single contingent of the evil forces. Given that orcs are rather limited in their intellect and training, the great majority become foot soldiers to form the bulk of the front lines and the casualties. There are a few orcs, however, who manage to excel in other areas.
One of these is the orc tracker. By nature, orcs in general are not particularly observant or detail oriented, but some are found to possess these qualities. When these skills are combined with their excellent senses of smell and hearing, they make for good trackers.
The orc tracker will rarely be mistaken for a stalker. They track but they employ little to no stealth. More like baying hounds, they typically run ahead while tracking, yelling and screaming in excitement. And just as the noise of the hounds will frighten a prey into leaving cover, so the loud cacophony of a group of orc trackers can route a camp of enemies before the soldiers even arrive.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment. HG-Wells.
Set fire to your intellect, let it burn so brightly that even the unknowns know you're the torch bearer.
"Put you heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
~ Swami Sivananda
The solidly built gate, proved no match to the superior intellect, size, and, strength of Super Squirrel. He's also able to bring a smile, maybe just a little one, to those who need it.
I was following this hawk as he moved from one tree to another and on to a third near the water. I was using a monopod. I figured the bird would eventually head out over the water and set up for that. The hawk got ready to jump but rather than going to the water she/he headed toward me, landing in the grass less than 20 feet away from me! The hawk rummaged through the grass for a few seconds and then took off. During all of this action I am fumbling with the monopod, trying not to pole vault down the hill. The solution was to rotate the camera 45 degrees or so. The struggle yielded poor quality images except for this as the bird leaves with the hapless vole/mouse. I couldn't straighten the image without losing some of the bird so I left it uncropped with just a bit of sharpening and levels. Next time I will not try to out think a superior intellect.
Bold - Pepper Potts / Iron Woman
Italics - Tony Stark / Iron Man
Underlined - TV News
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2 monts after the Hawkeye - Iron Woman fight.
"More reports are coming in of the Iron People seen hovering above the cities. As of right now, there is no official proof that these "people" even exist. One witness stated that they saw a "Flying robot with glowing red hand and feet.". Another said that they had seen the exact same thing, only that "The robot was a woman and her arms were shining black.". We now go live to Andy Klasser at the scene."
I shut off the TV and continue to tinker with my gauntlet.
"I was watching that!"
I pick up the remote and turn the TV on, turning down the volume.
"Sorry."
"Try it again. Reverse the sequence this time."
I press a button on my gauntlet, causing a holographic screen to pop up from it. Tapping the screen, I configure my gauntlet to set out a miniature EMP. It begins to glow red, then fizzles out after a few seconds, taking the red glow with it.
"Still not working."
"Just fool around with it. We have time."
It's been 2 months since we fought Hawkeye. In the end, Pepper had Jarvis drop him off somewhere in the Amazonian Rainforest. With supplies. Also, since her suit (and my organs) was damaged beyond repair, we decided to start fresh - meaning that we're now located at the top of Potts Tower. She's converted a part of her office into a lab, paying for all the equipment with Potts Consolidated's applied science division's funding.
Also, I never realized how similar in age we were. I've grown closer to her since I'm now her personal assistant, sleeping downstairs in one of the tower's apartments. I never really realized how independent she was either. She build her own things, runs her company by herself, and even cuts her own hair (She gave herself a shorter cut so it would feel better in her helmet). She's also oddly attractive in some angles.
"Hey, talk to me. Is it working yet?"
"Yeah, I think so."
I press the same buttons on my gauntlet, only allowing the power to go to 50% this time. It glows, then sends out little red lightning bolts out of my fingertips.
"It's working."
"Thank god for that. Hey, check this out."
Pepper walks over, hugging an oversized chestpiece and a robotic arm.
"It's the Mark 3. Runs on something called U.L.T.R.O.N. This way, you can have Jarvis. Oh, also, I took your suggestions and added in some black to the armor. Not as horrible as I thought."
"Glad you like it."
She continues on and tells me that ULTRON stands for:
Utility - non-Lethal - Transducing - Robotic - Operating - Nous
Meaning that it can convert energy, it's self-aware, and that it's made of pure intellect and reason. Scary.
"Hey, get back to work. We have things to do."
I spin back and begin to take off my armor. I place it on the table and take out a screwdriver, unscrewing the bolts in the side of the gauntlet. My chest begins to irritate me, so I scratch it, only to realize that that part of my torso is made of metal. I disregard it and continue to work on my armor, just as Pepper is working on hers.
Somehow, I feel like this isn't just the end of my old life, but the beginning of a strange new life just over the horizon.
I'm excited.
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Wanted to end the volume on a high note. As you can probably tell, all the words in ULTRON's name are legitimate words. Google them. Anyways, I wanted to write from Tony's perspective to finish up the volume, just to get that sense of "teamwork" going on between the two (it's hard to explain). Hope you guys enjoyed it, and feel free to give me feedback in the comments.
See you soon,
Zach
'I' am not Mind, and not dependent on its power
Mind is just a tool through which I manifest myself.
'I' am not servant of Mind, but its Master
Intellect, behaviour, conduct, desire and all other mental faculties
can be separated from 'I' and what that remains is 'I'
'I' am unborn, immortal, homogeneous
'I' am the power, 'I' exist...
- Anuj Nair
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Zeyon: One of the last Great Beings Know as the Ventrillions. Zeyon is One of if Not the most powerful being in the Multiverse Capable of taking on Huge armies Single handily, His Super speed ,Strength, time Manipulation , strategic Capabilities , And Genius intellect Make him A match for anyone!
The Rab'rigar were incorporated into the Hive around 200 years ago. Their planet had been annexed prior to this, however the Rab's skill as technicians wasn't appreciated until local Hive troops started noticing stolen equipment. After raiding villages they found stolen equipment assembled taken apart and assembled into new machinery. So started the path to incorporation. These Rab'rigar although small and weak are exclusively valued by the Hive for their intellect. That being said many choose to incorporate cybernetic body parts to improve their physical shortcomings.
The Rab'rigar are also known for being musical and not being able to distinguish their reflection in a mirror from another of their kin.
Ganesha also known as Ganapati and Vinayaka, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon in India!
Although he is known by many attributes, Ganesha's elephant head makes him easy to identify.
Ganesha is widely revered as the remover of obstacles,the patron of arts and sciences and the deva of intellect and wisdom.
As the god of beginnings, he is honoured at the start of rituals and ceremonies.
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History
The John Rogers who bought Riverhill in 1840 was an only child, with a modest fortune, and a fine intellect. He became a classics scholar, a scientist and a friend of Charles Darwin. He was one of the first members of the Royal Horticultural Society and a patron of the plant collectors of the day.
He chose Riverhill because its sheltered situation offered an ideal lime free hillside where he could hope to establish newly introduced trees and shrubs. From his garden notebook, it can be seen that planting started in 1842. Subsequent generations, continued the planting and in 1910 Colonel John Middleton Rogers created what is now known as ‘The Wood Garden’ a fine collection of Japanese Maples, Rhododendrons and Azaleas. His wife, the infamous Muriel, created many additions including the now hidden Rock Gardens.
Until the beginning of the 2nd World War, eight full time gardeners kept Riverhill looking immaculate. Since the war years, however, a shortage of manpower and a lack of money has meant that the garden was allowed to deteriorate, with many parts of the original planting lost to everyday use and visitors.
Today, four generations of the Rogers family live at Riverhill,
The estate is managed by Edward Rogers (Great-great-great-grandson of the John Rogers who bought Riverhill in 1840) and his wife, Sarah.