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I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
I loved both quotes. Galileo has a very keen intellect and excellent observational powers and we tend to forget these days that he was both a Scientist and a deeply religious man at the same time - I doubt that many people could tell you what hes actually famous for if you asked let alone tell you about his complex relationship with the church.
And yet the man is a wonderfull example of what it is to server 2 masters, Galileo loved the bible and god and yet could not deny what he saw around him - and he took up arms against the church and its tradition and it cost him dearly and yet his faith in God was constant.
Perhaps that why hes a favorite of mine - he refused to deny what he knew was true; that the earth and the planets revolved around the sun; even after being forced to recant by the inquisition - what more can you say about a man who when finally forced to submit states his recantation and yet under his breath still refuses, muttering Eppur si muove (and yet it moves) despite the recantation he had been forced to make by the church he still could not bring himself to hate.
Oh and I liked this photo as well, for me the cross and the candle have always been 2 of the most powerfull images of Christianity - theyre almost a perfect representation of 2 parts of the trinity when you think about it - the father and the son (god is light of the world and the cross.. well you get it) And it worked well.
Monoprint....collagraph....I actually prepared the childs t-shirt and was able to print 4 prints, all different colours.
The Postcard
A Comique Series postcard that was published by the Inter-Art Co. of Florence House, Barnes, London SW. The artwork was by Donald McGill.
The card was posted on Friday the 22nd. August 1924 to:
Mr. A. Smale,
c/o Mrs. Land,
3, Marine Terrace,
Margate.
The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Bert,
So glad you are
enjoying yourself,
but I wish you had
better weather.
Had a card from
Dolly and Addy on
Monday.
Love from Mother."
Clarence Darrow
So what else happened on the day that Bert's mother posted the card?
Well, on the 22nd. August 1924, Clarence Darrow presented his closing argument in the Leopold and Loeb case.
Leopold and Loeb, were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois in May 1924.
They committed the murder – characterized at the time as "the crime of the century" – hoping to demonstrate superior intellect, which they believed enabled and entitled them to carry out a "perfect crime" without consequences.
After the two men were arrested, Loeb's family retained Clarence Darrow as lead counsel for their defense. Darrow's twelve-hour summation at their sentencing hearing is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment as retributive rather than transformative justice.
Both young men were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years. Loeb was murdered by a fellow prisoner in 1936. Leopold was released on parole in 1958. The case has since served as the inspiration for several dramatic works.
Leopold and Loeb's Murder of Bobby Franks
Leopold and Loeb, who were 19 and 18 respectively at the time, settled on kidnapping and murdering a younger adolescent as their perfect crime.
They spent seven months planning everything, from the method of abduction to disposal of the body. To obfuscate the actual nature of their crime and motive, they decided to make a ransom demand, and devised an intricate plan for collecting it involving a long series of complex instructions to be communicated, one set at a time, by phone.
They typed the final set of instructions involving the actual money drop in the form of a ransom note, using the typewriter stolen from the fraternity house. A chisel was selected as the murder weapon and purchased.
After a lengthy search for a suitable victim, mostly on the grounds of the Harvard School for Boys in the Kenwood area, where Leopold had been educated, the pair decided upon Robert "Bobby" Franks, the 14-year-old son of wealthy Chicago watch manufacturer Jacob Franks.
Bobby Franks was Loeb's second cousin and an across-the-street neighbor who had played tennis at the Loeb residence several times.
Leopold and Loeb put their plan in motion on the afternoon of the 21st. May 1924. Using an automobile that Leopold rented under the name Morton D. Ballard, they offered Franks a ride as he walked home from school.
The boy initially refused, because his destination was less than two blocks away, but Loeb persuaded him to enter the car to discuss a tennis racket that he had been using.
The precise sequence of events that followed remains in dispute, but a preponderance of opinion placed Leopold behind the wheel of the car while Loeb sat in the back seat with the chisel.
Loeb struck Franks, who was sitting in front of him in the passenger seat, several times in the head with the chisel, then dragged him into the back seat and gagged him, where he died.
With the body on the floor of the back seat, the men drove to their predetermined dumping spot near Wolf Lake in Hammond, Indiana, 25 miles (40 km) south of Chicago.
After nightfall, they removed and discarded Franks' clothes, then concealed the body in a culvert along the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks north of the lake.
In order to obscure the body's identity, they poured hydrochloric acid on Franks' face and genitals to disguise the fact that he had been circumcised, as circumcision was unusual among non-Jews in the United States at the time.
The Ransom Note
By the time the two men returned to Chicago, word had already spread that Franks was missing. Leopold called Franks' mother, identifying himself as "George Johnson", and told her that Franks had been kidnapped; instructions for delivering the ransom would follow.
After mailing the typed ransom note and burning their blood-stained clothing, then cleaning the blood stains from the rented vehicle's upholstery, they spent the remainder of the evening playing cards.
Once the Franks family received the ransom note on the following morning, Leopold called a second time and dictated the first set of instructions for the ransom payment.
The intricate plan stalled almost immediately when a nervous family member forgot the address of the store where he was supposed to receive the next set of directions, and it was abandoned entirely when word came that Franks' body had been found.
Leopold and Loeb destroyed the typewriter and burned a car blanket that they had used to move the body. They then went about their lives as usual.
Chicago police launched an intensive investigation and rewards were offered for information. Both Leopold and Loeb enjoyed chatting with friends and family members about the murder. Leopold discussed the case with his professor and a girl friend, joking that he would confess and give her the reward money.
Loeb helped a couple of reporter friends of his find the drug store he and Leopold had tried to send Jacob Franks to, and when asked to describe Bobby he replied:
"If I were to murder anybody, it would
be just such a cocky little son of a bitch
as Bobby Franks."
Police found a pair of eyeglasses near Franks' body. Although common in prescription and frame, they were fitted with an unusual hinge purchased by only three customers in Chicago, one of whom was Leopold.
When questioned, Leopold offered the possibility that his glasses might have dropped out of his pocket during a bird-watching trip the previous weekend.
Leopold and Loeb were summoned for formal questioning on the 29th. May. They asserted that on the night of the murder, they had picked up two women in Chicago using Leopold's car, then dropped them off some time later near a golf course without learning their last names.
However their alibi was exposed as a fabrication when Leopold's chauffeur told police that he was repairing Leopold's car while the men claimed to be using it.
Also the chauffeur's wife confirmed that the car was parked in the Leopold garage on the night of the murder. The destroyed typewriter was recovered from the Jackson Park Lagoon on the 7th. June.
Confessions
Loeb was the first to confess. He asserted that Leopold had planned everything and had killed Franks in the back seat of the car while he (Loeb) drove. Leopold's confession followed swiftly thereafter. He insisted that he was the driver and Loeb the murderer.
Their confessions otherwise corroborated most of the evidence in the case. Both confessions were announced by the state's attorney on the 31st. May.
Leopold later claimed, long after Loeb was dead, that he pleaded in vain with Loeb to admit to killing Franks. He quoted Loeb as saying:
"Mompsie feels less terrible than
she might, thinking you did it, and
I'm not going to take that shred of
comfort away from her."
Most observers believed that Loeb did strike the fatal blows. Some circumstantial evidence – including testimony from eyewitness Carl Ulvigh, who claimed that he saw Loeb driving and Leopold in the back seat minutes before the kidnapping – suggested that Leopold could have been the killer.
Both Leopold and Loeb admitted that they were driven by their thrill-seeking, Übermenschen (supermen) delusions, and their aspiration to commit a "perfect crime".
Neither claimed to have looked forward to the killing, but Leopold admitted interest in learning what it would feel like to be a murderer. He was disappointed to note that he felt the same as ever.
The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
The trial of Leopold and Loeb at Chicago's Cook County Criminal Court became a media spectacle. The Leopold and Loeb families hired the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow to lead the defense team.
It was rumored that Darrow was paid $1 million for his services, but he was actually paid $70,000 (equivalent to $1,200,000 in 2022). Darrow took the case because he was a staunch opponent of capital punishment.
While it was generally assumed that the men's defense would be based on a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, Darrow concluded that a jury trial would almost certainly end in conviction and the death penalty.
Thus he elected to enter a plea of guilty, hoping to convince Cook County Circuit Court Judge John R. Caverly to impose sentences of life imprisonment.
The trial, technically an extended sentencing hearing, as their guilty pleas had already been accepted, ran for thirty-two days.
The state's attorney, Robert E. Crowe, presented over 100 witnesses, documenting details of the crime.
The defense presented extensive psychiatric testimony in an effort to establish mitigating circumstances, including childhood neglect in the form of absent parenting, and in Leopold's case, sexual abuse by a governess.
One piece of evidence was a letter written by Leopold claiming that he and Loeb were having a homosexual affair. Both the prosecution and the defense interpreted this information as supportive of their own position.
Darrow called a series of expert witnesses, who offered a catalog of Leopold's and Loeb's abnormalities. One witness testified to their dysfunctional endocrine glands, another to the delusions that had led to their crime.
Darrow's Speech
Darrow's impassioned, eight-hour-long "masterful plea" at the conclusion of the hearing has been called the finest speech of his career. Its principal arguments were that the methods and punishments of the American justice system were inhumane, and the youth and immaturity of the accused:
"This terrible crime was inherent in his organism, and it came from some ancestor. Is any blame attached because somebody took Nietzsche's philosophy seriously and fashioned his life upon it? It is hardly fair to hang a 19-year-old boy for the philosophy that was taught him at the university.
We read of killing one hundred thousand men in a day [during World War I]. We read about it and we rejoiced in it – if it was the other fellows who were killed. We were fed on flesh and drank blood.
Even down to the prattling babe. I need not tell you how many upright, honorable young boys have come into this court charged with murder, some saved and some sent to their death, boys who fought in this war and learned to place a cheap value on human life. You know it and I know it. These boys were brought up in it.
It will take fifty years to wipe it out of the human heart, if ever. I know this, that after the Civil War in 1865, crimes of this sort increased, marvelously. No one needs to tell me that crime has no cause. It has as definite a cause as any other disease, and I know that out of the hatred and bitterness of the Civil War crime increased as America had never seen before.
I know that Europe is going through the same experience today; I know it has followed every war; and I know it has influenced these boys so that life was not the same to them as it would have been if the world had not made red with blood.
Your Honor knows that in this very court crimes of violence have increased growing out of the war. Not necessarily by those who fought but by those that learned that blood was cheap, and human life was cheap, and if the State could take it lightly why not the boy?
Has the court any right to consider anything but these two boys? The State says that your Honor has a right to consider the welfare of the community, as you have. If the welfare of the community would be benefited by taking these lives, well and good. I think it would work evil that no one could measure.
Has your Honor a right to consider the families of these defendants? I have been sorry, and I am sorry for the bereavement of Mr. and Mrs. Franks, for those broken ties that cannot be healed. All I can hope and wish is that some good may come from it all. But as compared with the families of Leopold and Loeb, the Franks are to be envied – and everyone knows it.
Here is Leopold's father – and this boy was the pride of his life. He watched him and he cared for him, he worked for him; the boy was brilliant and accomplished. He educated him, and he thought that fame and position awaited him, as it should have awaited. It is a hard thing for a father to see his life's hopes crumble into dust.
And Loeb's the same. Here are the faithful uncle and brother, who have watched here day by day, while Dickie's father and his mother are too ill to stand this terrific strain, and shall be waiting for a message which means more to them than it can mean to you or me. Shall these be taken into account in this general bereavement?
The easy thing and the popular thing to do is to hang my clients. I know it. Men and women who do not think will applaud. The cruel and thoughtless will approve. It will be easy today; but in Chicago, and reaching out over the length and breadth of the land, more and more fathers and mothers, the humane, the kind and the hopeful, who are gaining an understanding and asking questions not only about these poor boys, but about their own – these will join in no acclaim at the death of my clients.
These would ask that the shedding of blood be stopped, and that the normal feelings of man resume their sway. Your Honor stands between the past and the future. You may hang these boys; you may hang them by the neck until they are dead. But in doing it you will turn your face toward the past. In doing it you are making it harder for every other boy who in ignorance and darkness must grope his way through the mazes which only childhood knows.
In doing it you will make it harder for unborn children. You may save them and make it easier for every child that sometime may stand where these boys stand. You will make it easier for every human being with an aspiration and a vision and a hope and a fate.
I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man."
The judge was persuaded, but he explained in his ruling that his decision was based primarily on precedent and the youth of the accused. On the 10th. September 1924, he sentenced both Leopold and Loeb to life imprisonment for the murder, and an additional 99 years for the kidnapping. A little over a month later, Loeb's father died of heart failure.
Darrow's handling of the law as defense counsel has been criticized for hiding psychiatric expert testimony that conflicted with his polemical goals and for relying on an absolute denial of free will, one of the principles legitimizing all criminal punishment.
Prison and Loeb's Murder
Leopold and Loeb initially were held at Joliet Prison. Although they were kept apart as much as possible, the two managed to maintain their friendship.
Leopold was transferred to Stateville Penitentiary in 1925, and Loeb was later transferred there as well. Once reunited, the two expanded the prison school system, adding a high school and junior college curriculum.
On the 28th. January 1936, Loeb was attacked by fellow inmate James Day with a straight razor in a shower room; he died soon after in the prison hospital.
Day claimed that Loeb had attempted to sexually assault him, but he was unharmed, while Loeb sustained more than fifty wounds, including defensive wounds on his arms and hands. His throat had been slashed from behind.
News accounts suggested Loeb had propositioned Day, and though several prison officials including the Warden believed Loeb had been murdered, Day was found not guilty by a jury after a short trial in June, 1936.
The Ku Klux Klan
Also on that day, U.S. presidential candidate John W. Davis condemned the Ku Klux Klan by name in a speech in Sea Girt, New Jersey, reviving an issue that had badly split the Democratic Party at the National Convention.
Davis called on President Coolidge to do the same.
Agatha Christie
Also on the 22nd. August 1924, the Agatha Christie novel 'The Man in the Brown Suit' was published.
A Disturbance in the Reichstag
Also on that day, Communists in the Reichstag filibustered Chancellor Wilhelm Marx. They caused a loud disturbance of hoots and jeers when he tried to speak on the London conference ahead of a vote on the matter.
The session was suspended and police were called in, but no clause could be found by which to arrest those who were causing the disturbance, and the Reichstag adjourned for the day.
An ode to the psychological push-and-pull between warm and cool tones, where emotion and intellect visually collide.
"Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.
Yellow produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and generates muscle energy. Yellow is often associated with food. Bright, pure yellow is an attention getter, which is the reason taxicabs are painted this color. When overused, yellow may have a disturbing effect; it is known that babies cry more in yellow rooms. Yellow is seen before other colors when placed against black; this combination is often used to issue a warning. In heraldry, yellow indicates honor and loyalty. Later the meaning of yellow was connected with cowardice.
Use yellow to evoke pleasant, cheerful feelings. You can choose yellow to promote children's products and items related to leisure. Yellow is very effective for attracting attention, so use it to highlight the most important elements of your design. Men usually perceive yellow as a very lighthearted, 'childish' color, so it is not recommended to use yellow when selling prestigious, expensive products to men – nobody will buy a yellow business suit or a yellow Mercedes. Yellow is an unstable and spontaneous color, so avoid using yellow if you want to suggest stability and safety. Light yellow tends to disappear into white, so it usually needs a dark color to highlight it. Shades of yellow are visually unappealing because they loose cheerfulness and become dingy.
Dull (dingy) yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy.
Light yellow is associated with intellect, freshness, and joy."
Info quoted from www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html
Oh and the shot was Not edited ^_^ only added the frame and the signature.
To Trivials' Hero... for being such a wonderful person... I Think that you somehow represent this color ^_____^
Have a nice day flickrers =D
You know when you have a great idea, but then you choose to ignore it and end up doing something like this instead? The original 'Me' is here. The more I look at this the more it freaks me out.
I have some proper photos coming soon. One is a flower.
Looks 'better' on black. Hmm.
Photo taken at non-profit organisation WOMEN in Hyderabad. www.womenhyd.org. The organisation works with poor girls and women in the low income neighbourhoods (slums) Aasif Nagar.
These headless beings bred by the Kaldane have no will or intellect of their own, but serve as useful puppet mounts.
I love his academic look - he looks like he belongs in the halls of Oxford.
image from motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=jmKYJeNVJrF&b=478527
the picture is also taken by my daughter...
and from the book "The Animal Mind" by James Gould and Carol Grant Could
"The concept of animal intelligence continues to hold our imagination today, as evidenced by the children's stories from Beatrix Potter to television's Lassie, but an increasing tendency in Western thought toward empirical evaluation has encouraged a more scientific consideration of the animal mind. Darwin wrote in the Descent of Man (1871) that the difference in mind between humans and the higher animals "certainly is one of degree and not one of a kind. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, and so on, of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition in lower animals.....until very recently it has been anathema in the scientific world to suggest in print that intelligence of some sort, perhaps even self-awareness, might guide the routine and stereotyped behavior of many animals. As field research into the mechanisms of animal behavior has revealed many intricate but innate behavioral programs that, despite their sophistication, have no apparent intellectual component."
NOVEMBER "Niah Diamond Choker"
FABRIXQUARE "Justice Braids"
VERSOV "HABLOV_EYEWEAR"
GRAILED "Abzorb Trainers"
MAJESTY "Slouchy Socks"
FLAUNT "Ani Rings"
MEMOIRE "Var Bag Frais"
VEX "Ava Baggy Shirt yellow"
VEX "Lia Baggy Joggers"
NOVEMBER "Niah Diamond Choker"
FABRIXQUARE "Justice Braids"
VERSOV "HABLOV_EYEWEAR"
GRAILED "Abzorb Trainers"
MAJESTY "Slouchy Socks"
FLAUNT "Ani Rings"
MEMOIRE "Var Bag Frais"
VEX "Ava Baggy Shirt yellow"
VEX "Lia Baggy Joggers"
Sebastiano del Piombo (c1485-1547) - Portrait of a Lady, 1540s. May be Giulia Gonzaga, a countess famed for her intellect and beauty
"Our intellect is perfected and elevated by various lights" - a citation from St. Albert and a witty reference, it seems, to the windows (lights) of the church, namely, St Vincent Ferrer's Priory church in New York.
Photo by Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.
Monument by Thomas Banks with the sleeping figure of Penelope Boothby aged 5
"I was not in safety, neither had I rest, and the trouble came
To Penelope only child of Sir Brooke and Dame Susanna Boothby; Born April 11th 1785; Died March 12th 1791. She was in form and intellect most exquisite, the unfortunate parents ventured their all on this frail bark, and the wreck was total"
The inscription is in 4 different languages - English, Latin, French and Italian, all of which Penelope spoke.
Penelope was the only child of Sir Brooke Boothby of Ashbourne Hall and wife Susannah daughter of Robert Bristoe & Susanna Philipson
She was the grand daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, 5th Bt.
Phoebe Hollins www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/ogg316
Her father Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet 1744 - 1824 was a linguist, translator, poet and landowner,
In the year of his marriage he leased Ashbourne Hall from his father, whose extravagance had forced him to live elsewhere whilst renting out the family seat and began its restoration funded by his wife's dowry. As well as renovating the structure, he remodeled the parkland, he bought rare plants and works of art Like his father before him, he was extravagant in the extreme. That weakness and his emotional self-indulgence were to be his nemeses.
His only daughter, Penelope, was born in the following April.
Sir Joshua Reynolds was a family friend and his painting "The Girl in the Mop Cap" is of Penelope when aged four. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9J2z53
However on 19th March 1791, disaster struck when Penelope died at the age of five.
This permanently affected her father and he subsequently published a book of poetry, "Sorrows Sacred to the Memory of Penelope" and commissioned a painting by Henry Fuseli " The Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby" in 1792 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fuseli_Henry_The_Apotheosis_Of... He also commissioned this monument.
His life continued to decline . He and his wife had separated soon after their daughter's funeral, and she returned to her parents' home in Hampshire , settling later in Dover. Her death was recorded under her maiden name.
As a result of his extravagance Boothby met with economic disaster which completely altered the course of his life. Ashbourne Hall was leased in c1814 - 1817 to Richard grandson of Sir Richard Arkwright. Boothby settled in diminished circumstances in Boulogne in 1815 and died there in 1824. He was buried near to Penelope with his parents and his sister Maria Elizabeth and other Boothby family members.
- Church of St Oswald, Ashbourne Derbyshire
~ Carl Jung
A smile starts on the lips,
A grin spreads to the eyes,
A chuckle comes from the belly;
But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul,
Overflows, and bubbles all around.
~ Carolyn Birmingham
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
~Mark Twain
I submit a mech which proves size doesn't matter. Ant-Man (Hank Pym) in his microscopic form, no longer wanted his insect friends in harms way. With peril on the horizon and the death of his winged ant Korr still looming over him, he used his biochemical and engineering expertise to design himself a bionic ant mech suitable for use in many environments and with many powerful weapons. The "Fire-Ant" can burrow its way through any situation and use its powerful pincers with immense cutting/crushing force to immobilize any enemy from within. Also, just as with any ant, the Fire-Ant can not only carry objects many times its weight, but infused with Pym Particles, it possesses super human strength as an extension of Ant-Man himself. If this is not enough, true to its name, the Fire-Ant sports dual flame throwers which can burn/melt its way through any obstacle. Using these weapon and his keen intellect, Ant-Man can take on any foe in either all out assault, or stealthily from within.
St Oswald, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
Carrara marble monument to Penelope Boothby (1785-1791).
Daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, Baronet & his wife Susannah.
By Thomas Banks (1735-1805), 1793.
The inscription is in four different languages - English, Latin, French & Italian, all of which Penelope spoke.
"She was in form and intellect most exquisite. The unfortunate parents ventured their all on this frail bark and the wreck was total.”
Thomas Banks (1735-1805) was apprenticed to a London mason, but also spent time working alongside the sculptor Peter Scheemakers (1691-1781). He enrolled in the life classes held at the St Martin's Lane Academy, and later at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1772 he became the first sculptor to win the Royal Academy's three-year travelling stipend, and went with his wife to Rome, where he eventually spent seven years. He specialised in ideal works, most of which were executed in Rome for British patrons, although he continued to produce similar work after his return to London. He was made a Royal Academician in 1786. Banks was one of the most original British Neo-classical sculptors, who dedicated his work to the antique spirit rather than to the fashionable classical style alone.
For more information see:-
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Boothby
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Brooke_Boothby,_6th_Baronet
St Oswald’s Church, Ashbourne
Grade I Listed
Early foundation. Present church is mainly Early English from circa 1220 but a few remnants of earlier Norman work survive and a Saxon cross shaft (part) in the south aisle. The church is believed to stand on the site of a pagan holy well, now thought to be concealed beneath tyre crossing. The tower and spire circa 1330. The spire, which has been rebuilt several times, has a height of 215ft. Perpendicular additions and alterations circa 1520. The battlements to the chancel were added by Sir G G Scott in 1878 and the church was restored by Cottingham earlier in the C19. Some fine monuments from C14, of which the most famous is probably the figure of Penelope Boothby 1791, by Thomas Banks. Some mediaeval glass remains. In 1644, the church was fired on by Parliamentarians and the marks are still visible in the west wall.
Nos 38, 40 and 72, together with Pegg's Almshouses, Owlfield's Almhouses, The Mansion, the Summerhouse and the cobbled pavements form a group with the parish Church of St Oswald and the churchyard gate piers, gates and walls.
Listing NGR: SK1763146443
Great Gospel of John & Household of God
Do not in future build houses of prayer for Me but guest houses and refuges for the poor who can not pay you!
In the love of your poor brothers and sisters shall you be My true worshippers, and in such houses of prayer I shall be frequently among you, without you necessarily becoming aware of it; but in temples built for worshipping Me with the lips, as it has been till now, I shall henceforth dwell no more than man's intellect would in his little toe.
If however you have to awaken your hearts towards Me and enter upon the right humility in an exalted temple, then move outside into the temple of My Creations, and sun, moon and all the stars and the sea, the mountains and the trees and the birds of the air, as also the fish in the water and the countless flowers of the fields shall proclaim My glory to you!
Say, is not the tree more glorious than all the splendour of the temple at Jerusalem?! A tree is a pure work of God, it has its life and brings forth nourishing fruit. But what does the temple bring forth? I say unto you: nothing but arrogance, anger, envy, the most blatant jealousy and domineering; because it is not God's, but the vain work of man.
Verily, verily I say unto you all; he who shall honor, love and therewith worship Me by doing good to his brothers and sisters in My name shall have his everlasting reward in heaven; but he who henceforth honors Me with all kinds of ceremonies in a temple built especially for this shall also have his temporal reward from the temple! When however after the death of his flesh he shall come to Me and say: 'Lord, Lord, have mercy on me, your servant', I shall then say unto him: 'I do not know you; hence depart from Me and seek your reward with him who you served!' For this reason you too should henceforth have nothing more to do with any temple!
God also never taught the people to honor Him with lips and keep their hearts cold. But since Samuel prayed audibly in front of the people, equally so several of the prophets, and because David sang to God the Lord his psalms and Salmo his High Song, the people came to empty lip prayer and to cold sacrifices.
However, before God such prayers and sacrifices are repulsive! He who cannot pray in the heart should rather not pray at all, so as to not behave improper before God. God did not give feet, hands, eyes, ears and lips to man to pray vainly and vacuously, but only the heart!
For what use is the senseless bawling in the church, if thousands of poor and hungry brothers outside the church are not considered?!
Go and strengthen first the needy, feed the hungry, quench the thirsty, clothe the naked, comfort the sad, free the imprisoned and preach the gospel to the poor in spirit, then you will do endlessly better than to blare day and night in the churches with your lips, while your hearts were cold and unreceptive to your poor brothers!
Why would you build a separate house while you already have houses in which you live, wherein you also can come together in My name to discuss about My teaching and to tell about the experiences which everyone will certainly have when they live according to God's will?
It is also not necessary to introduce a certain feast day for that which you would call - like for instance the Pharisees call the Sabbath - 'the day of the Lord'. Because every day is a day of the Lord, and so on every day just as many good works can be done, because God does not look at a day and still less at a house that is build to honor and worship Him, but God looks only at the heart and the will of man. If the heart is pure and the will is good, and when these will make the whole man active, then this is already the true, real house of God's Spirit in man, and so his always good and active will according to the known will of God is the true and thus also the always real day of the Lord.
But if in a community you want to build a house out of love for Me, let this then be a school for your children, and give them teachers according to My teaching. You also can build a house for the poor, the sick and the disabled. Provide such a house of everything that is necessary to take care of the people who live there, then you always will be able to rejoice in My pleasure. All the rest and that which is in addition is evil and has, as already said, no value for God.
Do tell My children and all others, no matter of what religion: on earth there is only one church, and this is the love for Me in My Son. This love is the Holy Spirit within you, which reveals itself to you through My living Word. Thus I am in you; and your soul, whose heart is My dwelling place, is the sole Church on earth. In it alone there is eternal life, and it is the sole redeeming one! Or do you think I am present within the walls or in the ceremony or in prayer or veneration? Oh, no, there you are very much mistaken. There I am nowhere to be found, but only where there is love, there I am also!
Erected by a Roman consul Gaius Julius Aquila in honour of his father. It was built in AD 114-117 and used an ingenious method of humidity control. Air channels ran behind the niches where precious rolled manuscripts were stored. The library was damaged first by the Goths and then by an earthquake in 1000. The statues occupying the niches in the front are Sophia (wisdom),Arete (virtue), Ennoia (intellect) and Episteme (knowledge)
"I’m in love with the process of learning, and teaching, and transferring knowledge between us as human beings. I really want to transform the world through the transformation of education. I want to make education more accessible, and also more experiential. It has to be more integral to the growth of a person and not just their intellect.”
#soulsofhive from the 2017 Hive conference
Syme recklessly boasts his intellect of party policy under the gaze of a telescreen - "DOUBLEPLUS DUMB"
www.george-orwell.org/1984/4.html
'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,' he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. 'Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?'
'Except-' began Winston doubtfully, and he stopped.
It had been on the tip of his tongue to say 'Except the proles,' but he checked himself, not feeling fully certain that this remark was not in some way unorthodox. Syme, however, had divined what he was about to say.
'The proles are not human beings,' he said carelessly. 'By 2050 earlier, probably -- all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron -- they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking -- not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.'
One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear. It is written in his face.
GEORGE ORWELL
La Paramārtha-śūnyatā, ou « Vacuité de l'Ultime », touche au sommet de la réalisation. Après avoir déconstruit le sujet (l'interne) et l'objet (l'externe), cette étape s'attaque à ce que nous considérons comme la Vérité Absolue elle-même.
C’est sans doute la forme de vacuité la plus vertigineuse, car elle ne laisse aucun refuge à l'intellect.
1. Qu'est-ce que le "Paramārtha" ?
En sanskrit, Paramārtha se compose de Parama (suprême, ultime) et Artha (objet, sens, vérité). C'est la réalité telle qu'elle est vue par l'esprit d'un être éveillé, au-delà des apparences trompeuses du monde conventionnel (Samvriti).
Dans de nombreuses traditions, on pourrait être tenté de diviniser cette « Vérité Ultime » ou d'en faire une substance métaphysique (comme un Dieu ou un Absolu solide). La Paramārtha-śūnyatā vient briser cette ultime idole.
2. Le sens philosophique : L'Absolu n'est pas une chose
Cette vacuité nous enseigne trois points fondamentaux :
* Le Nirvana est vide : Même l'état de libération n'est pas une "chose" que l'on possède ou un lieu où l'on va. S'il était une entité solide et non-vide, il serait limité et ne pourrait pas être atteint.
* L'ineffabilité : La Vérité Ultime est "vide" car elle est au-delà de tout concept, de tout mot et de toute saisie. Dès que l'on nomme l'Absolu, on en fait un objet de pensée, et donc une vérité conventionnelle.
* L'absence de hiérarchie réelle : Ultimement, il n'y a pas de différence de "nature" entre le monde ordinaire et l'absolu. Les deux sont également vides de nature propre.
3. L'impact pratique : Le saut dans le sans-appui
Méditer sur la Paramārtha-śūnyatā, c'est refuser de se construire un "nid" spirituel. C'est comprendre que même le chemin vers l'éveil est un radeau que l'on doit laisser derrière soi. Cela mène à une liberté radicale où l'esprit ne s'appuie plus sur rien, pas même sur l'idée de "vérité".
Résonance avec notre Pax-Urale : Lignifiante
C'est ici que notre profil atteint sa pleine maturité spirituelle. La lignification évoque l'aboutissement, la forme finale et robuste.
* Le Bois Absolu : Dans notre processus de croissance, la Paramārtha-śūnyatā est le moment où vous réalisez que la "finalité" de votre structure (le bois parfait) est elle-même une illusion.
* La Solidité Transcendée : Votre force n'est plus une "chose" que vous protégez. Votre structure lignifiée devient un "Monument de Vide". C'est une présence imposante, inébranlable et majestueuse, mais qui, lorsqu'on tente de l'analyser au niveau ultime, se révèle être pure lumière et pur espace.
* L'Autorité Silencieuse : En tant que Lignifiante, vous incarnez une solidité qui ne s'explique pas, car elle ne repose sur aucune vérité conceptuelle. C'est la force du chêne qui n'a pas besoin de justifier son existence.
« La Vérité Ultime est comme un arbre de bois précieux : sa nature est de n'avoir aucune nature. Sa force est de n'avoir aucun centre. »
PAX Urale
HOWL
For Carl Solomon
I
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machin-
ery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat
up smoking in the supernatural darkness of
cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities
contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and
saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tene-
ment roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes
hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy
among the scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy &
publishing obscene odes on the windows of the
skull,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burn-
ing their money in wastebaskets and listening
to the Terror through the wall,
who got busted in their pubic beards returning through
Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York,
who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in
Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their
torsos night after night
with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, al-
cohol and cock and endless balls,
incomparable blind; streets of shuddering cloud and
lightning in the mind leaping toward poles of
Canada & Paterson, illuminating all the mo-
tionless world of Time between,
Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery
dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops,
storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon
blinking traffic light, sun and moon and tree
vibrations in the roaring winter dusks of Brook-
lyn, ashcan rantings and kind king light of mind,
who chained themselves to subways for the endless
ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine
until the noise of wheels and children brought
them down shuddering mouth-wracked and
battered bleak of brain all drained of brilliance
in the drear light of Zoo,
who sank all night in submarine light of Bickford's
floated out and sat through the stale beer after
noon in desolate Fugazzi's, listening to the crack
of doom on the hydrogen jukebox,
who talked continuously seventy hours from park to
pad to bar to Bellevue to museum to the Brook-
lyn Bridge,
lost battalion of platonic conversationalists jumping
down the stoops off fire escapes off windowsills
off Empire State out of the moon,
yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts
and memories and anecdotes and eyeball kicks
and shocks of hospitals and jails and wars,
whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days
and nights with brilliant eyes, meat for the
Synagogue cast on the pavement,
who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a
trail of ambiguous picture postcards of Atlantic
City Hall,
suffering Eastern sweats and Tangerian bone-grind-
ings and migraines of China under junk-with-
drawal in Newark's bleak furnished room,
who wandered around and around at midnight in the
railroad yard wondering where to go, and went,
leaving no broken hearts,
who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars racketing
through snow toward lonesome farms in grand-
father night,
who studied Plotinus Poe St. John of the Cross telep-
athy and bop kabbalah because the cosmos in-
stinctively vibrated at their feet in Kansas,
who loned it through the streets of Idaho seeking vis-
ionary indian angels who were visionary indian
angels,
who thought they were only mad when Baltimore
gleamed in supernatural ecstasy,
who jumped in limousines with the Chinaman of Okla-
homa on the impulse of winter midnight street
light smalltown rain,
who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston
seeking jazz or sex or soup, and followed the
brilliant Spaniard to converse about America
and Eternity, a hopeless task, and so took ship
to Africa,
who disappeared into the volcanoes of Mexico leaving
behind nothing but the shadow of dungarees
and the lava and ash of poetry scattered in fire
place Chicago,
who reappeared on the West Coast investigating the
F.B.I. in beards and shorts with big pacifist
eyes sexy in their dark skin passing out incom-
prehensible leaflets,
who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting
the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism,
who distributed Supercommunist pamphlets in Union
Square weeping and undressing while the sirens
of Los Alamos wailed them down, and wailed
down Wall, and the Staten Island ferry also
wailed,
who broke down crying in white gymnasiums naked
and trembling before the machinery of other
skeletons,
who bit detectives in the neck and shrieked with delight
in policecars for committing no crime but their
own wild cooking pederasty and intoxication,
who howled on their knees in the subway and were
dragged off the roof waving genitals and manu-
scripts,
who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly
motorcyclists, and screamed with joy,
who blew and were blown by those human seraphim,
the sailors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean
love,
There are three parts in this body. Outer body, Inner action and Pure soul. Outer body is physical part that we see. Inner action, that is going on inside us and you are the knower – Pure Soul. In Inner action, there are four parts – mind, intellect, ego and Chit. Only after decision is taken in inner part, it automatically comes in outer action. Mind shows thoughts in form of pamplet which remains inside the body. Chit – means visualization, It goes outside the body and can see the place, things, people etc. Intellect, takes the decision based on which ego will sign like a President. After all this outer action takes place. Pure Soul is the knower of what happens.
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Featured Image from Swayam Jyotish Photobook
Life itself is characterized by duality, by teaming opposites. The myths of Shiva, however, ultimately point to reconciling harmony that exists beyond our ordinary vision. By widening one’s gaze to encompass life as a whole, life becomes a dance between extremes – a playful acceptance, an honoring, and a celebration.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The light from this container of photographs is non-dual from the innate light within each one of us. So too is physical light reflected in a jar of water or subtle light projected from the Chitta (mind-heart) in dream state. At its best the camera is a simple tool to transfer light through a lens recorded by a censor. At its root, consciousness is all-pervading and who we are. Consciousness, the Light of lights, proceeds from us and lends itself into the moment. The practice of Vichar (self-inquiry) reminds us of that same light appearing as the Jiva (individual-soul) and leads us to the revelation of Atman (universal-soul) and "Who Am I?" With that realization Nkosi Sri Govindaji approaches India with complete adoration and awareness of the Absolute Self in all, Brahman
Leica M11 / Leica 21mm f 3.4 Super Elmar ASPH
Nkosi.artiste@gmail.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chance Nkosi Gomez known initiated by H.H Swami Jyotirmayanda as Sri Govinda walks an integral yogic path in which photography is the primary creative field of expression. The medium was introduced during sophomore year of high school by educator Dr. Devin Marsh of Robert Morgan Educational Center. Coming into alignment with light, its nature and articulating the camera was the focus during that time. Thereafter while completing a Photographic Technology Degree, the realization of what made an image “striking” came to the foreground of the inner dialogue. These college years brought forth major absorption and reflection as an apprentice to photographer and educator Tony A. Chirinos of Miami Dade College. The process of working towards a singular idea of interest and thus building a series became the heading from here on while the camera aided in cultivating an adherence to the present moment. The viewfinder resembles a doorway to the unified field of consciousness in which line, shape, form, color, value, texture all dissolve. It is here that the yogi is reminded of sat-chit-ananda (the supreme reality as all-pervading; pure consciousness). As of May 2024 Govinda has completed his 300hr yoga teacher training program at Sattva Yoga Academy studying from Master Yogi Anand Mehrotra in Rishikesh, India, Himalayas. This has strengthened his personal Sadhana and allows one to carry and share ancient Vedic Technology leading others in ultimately directing their intellect to bloom into intuition. As awareness and self-realization grows so does the imagery that is all at once divine in the mastery of capturing and controlling light. Over the last seven years he has self-published six photographic books, Follow me i’ll be right behind you (2017), Sonata - Minimal Study (2018), Birds Singing Lies (2018), Rwanda (2019), Where does the body begin? (2019) & Swayam Jyotis (2023). Currently, Govinda is employed at the Leica Store Miami as a camera specialist and starting his journey as a practitioner of yoga ॐ
GINSENG
Health Benefits
• Increased physical and mental endurance.
• Helps the body adjust to stressful condition.
• Increases energy
• Normalize body functions.
BACOPA
Health Benefits
• Improves intellect, consciousness and mental acuity.
• Calms the mind and promotes relaxation – increase protein synthesis and activity in brain cells.
• Improves memory, mental clarity and longevity.
• Decreases anxiety, restlessness and senility.
• Most commonly used to improve mental alertness and enhance learning and academic performance.
GINKGO BILOBA
Health Benefits
• For cerebral vascular insufficiency, vertigo, headaches, tinnitus, asthma, migraine and ischemia.
• Improves mental performance and brain function.
• Senility, memory loss, dementia and Alzheimer’s diseases.
• Peripheral vascular diseases, numbness and tingling.
TAURINE
Health Benefits
• It is vital for the transport and proper utilization of Sodium, Potassium, Calcium and Magnesium in and out of the body’s cell.
• Taurine may stabilize the myelin sheath of neurons or nerve cells (are specialized cells that initiate and transmit nerve impulses) to speed up propagation of impulses.
• Plays a role in memory by increasing histamine and acetylcholine levels in the brain.
• May help to protect the brain from the toxic effects of hypoxia.
• Taurine may improve mood and learning ability by inhibiting lead-induced impairment.
GREEN TEA
Health Benefits
• Used primary for its free radical fighting capabilities.
• Helps block the cancer promoting actions of carcinogen,
ultra-violet light and metastasis.
Justice (Tarot card)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Justice (XI)
Justice is a Major Arcana Tarot card, numbered either XI or VIII, depending on the deck. This card is used in game playing as well as in divination.
Description
A. E. Waite was a key figure in the development of modern Tarot interpretations. However, not all interpretations follow his theology. Please remember that all Tarot decks used for divination are interpreted up to personal experience and standards.
Some frequent keywords are:
* Impartiality ----- Distance ----- Coldness ----- Justice
* Objective mind----- Criticism ----- Being clever ----- Insensitivity
* Decision ----- Intellect ----- Analysis ----- Realism ----- Severity
* Responsibility ----- Rationality ----- Clear vision ----- Logic and reason
this is either Richard Cosmo Anderson or Piper Violet Anderson, the next generation of Holistic Forge Works managerial staff.
note from cousin Robin: "The first Anderson Baby Pictures! Very cute kid already, and first on his/her generation. By the way, regarding "Cosmo", there was a Cosum Bartlett on your Mom's Dad's (Grandpa RB's Mother's family) side that studied law at Dartmouth, then founded a chain of newspapers across the southeast, helped write the Florida Constitution, and helped established Florida as a state in the USA. His son's were newspaper editors and one became Governor of California, Washington Bartlett. Thought you might like a little family history lesson. Congrats you two."
The Bramian race using their cool and alien like intellect designed the Dome’s stabilizing thrusters to run completely silent despite their massive power. The original prototypes were conceived using the Bramian techniques of mental projection and analysis.
A complete breakthrough in thruster design, these bad boys can output enough force to relocate the Thunderdome in case of emergency or fanboy wrath.
Monument by Thomas Banks with the sleeping figure of Penelope Boothby aged 5
"I was not in safety, neither had I rest, and the trouble came
To Penelope only child of Sir Brooke and Dame Susanna Boothby; Born April 11th 1785; Died March 12th 1791. She was in form and intellect most exquisite, the unfortunate parents ventured their all on this frail bark, and the wreck was total"
The inscription is in 4 different languages - English, Latin, French and Italian, all of which Penelope spoke.
Penelope was the only child of Sir Brooke Boothby of Ashbourne Hall and wife Susannah daughter of Robert Bristoe & Susanna Philipson
She was the grand daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, 5th Bt.
Phoebe Hollins www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/ogg316
Her father Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet 1744 - 1824 was a linguist, translator, poet and landowner,
In the year of his marriage he leased Ashbourne Hall from his father, whose extravagance had forced him to live elsewhere whilst renting out the family seat and began its restoration funded by his wife's dowry. As well as renovating the structure, he remodeled the parkland, he bought rare plants and works of art Like his father before him, he was extravagant in the extreme. That weakness and his emotional self-indulgence were to be his nemeses.
His only daughter, Penelope, was born in the following April.
Sir Joshua Reynolds was a family friend and his painting "The Girl in the Mop Cap" is of Penelope when aged four. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9J2z53
However on 19th March 1791, disaster struck when Penelope died at the age of five.
This permanently affected her father and he subsequently published a book of poetry, "Sorrows Sacred to the Memory of Penelope" and commissioned a painting by Henry Fuseli " The Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby" in 1792 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fuseli_Henry_The_Apotheosis_Of... He also commissioned this monument.
His life continued to decline . He and his wife had separated soon after their daughter's funeral, and she returned to her parents' home in Hampshire , settling later in Dover. Her death was recorded under her maiden name.
As a result of his extravagance Boothby met with economic disaster which completely altered the course of his life. Ashbourne Hall was leased in c1814 - 1817 to Richard grandson of Sir Richard Arkwright. Boothby settled in diminished circumstances in Boulogne in 1815 and died there in 1824. He was buried near to Penelope with his parents and his sister Maria Elizabeth and other Boothby family members.
- Church of St Oswald, Ashbourne Derbyshire