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Mourning over and due respect shown for the death of Betty Windsor and ahead of the coronation of her hereditary successor is as good a time as any to reflect on the Crown.
Putting aside the status of the Monarch of the (cough, cough) United Kingdom and the Realms, King Charles III has styled himself as: His Majesty Charles the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of his other Realms and Territories, King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. Indeed, all of this is so archaic that The Firm still feels the need to Style old mate as Carolus in the long dead Latin — Chas or Chuck to we peasants!
Conflict of interest! Cast your mind back to Charles I of England. He lost his head over the appointment by God business. Have we learned SFA? George Santayana famously noted (sic) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect and it is well to examine with your intellect whether to claim appointment by God then go to war in defence of the same deity isn't a bit of a problem. Logically if God falls, like the loss of ravens from the White Tower, then poof, so goes the monarchy.
I simply refuse to get into the silly arguments about the Koh-i-Noor and Cullinan baubles. As the property of others and theirs to give away to Victoria and her eldest son, title would seem to have been surrendered long ago. Of course, anyone might return a gift. It seems that history has not treated these stones well and they are diminished in their stature by the hands of man in their cutting. Sending back a used trinket ought to be seen as an insult!
Adopting Charles III as King of Australia is doubly problematic. Sure, the 17th and 18th century Acts relating to succession were patched up with a bit of race tape in 2013 to give the girls a go, but Australia is still constrained to have a Head of State descended from what is essentially a white family of former Germans who aren't Roman Catholics but must be members of the Anglican Church! Our own people, our first human population cannot, under our own laws, become the Head of State of their own country. Shame!!
So, here in the Treasury in the North Tower of the Uppsala Cathedral are reminders to maintain the chastity of our intellect. The crowns of King Johan III and his wife Queen Catherine for all their gold, garnets, sapphires, pearls and emeralds didn't save them from the human condition. We waste our talent and diminish our culture by slavish adherence to the superstition of regal superiority. Reflect on the Crown; give it a break!
I've always had a thing for glasses - even though my sight is actually fine - so I thought I would try out a cute librarian meets flamenco dancer look, matching the glasses and hair with my baby blue Dotti party dress that swayed around my hips and barely covered my bum as I had a dance in the living room!
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.
(pardon me, this is from last year, I am surrounded by boxes ready for moving so couldn't do a new one this time!)
Presidium Gurgaon’s masters of debate and reasoned expression have won the Inter School
BEHES Debate championship. They have qualified for national level Finals. Their
intellect, reasoning and quick-witted replies gave them a well deserved win.
More than 200 students from schools all over Delhi, participated in the championship
and Presidians outshined them and won a total of 14 medals-6 Gold, 5 Silver and 3
Bronze. They proudly claimed the Championship Gold trophy and the Overall Best Speaker
trophy.
The winners are:
1. Prarthita Nath of Grade XII, won a Gold medal, the Overall Best speaker trophy and
her team won the Championship trophy.
2. Nuti Yadav, from Grade XII, won Gold medal and her team won the Championship trophy.
3. Kshirin Rao, from Grade XII, won a Silver medal and her team won the Championship
trophy;
4. Naisha Kamboj, from Grade VIII, won Gold medal.
5. Arahant Vishnu Saini, from Grade VII, won a Gold medal.
6. Ayush Rahul Savdekar, from Grade VI, won a Gold medal.
7. Raghav Sharma, from Grade IV, won a Gold medal.
8. Laiba Rahman, from Grade XI, won a Silver medal.
9. Joeell Singh, from Grade IX, won a Silver medal.
10. Bhavika Gupta, from Grade VIII, won a Silver medal.
11. Ria Bhargava, from Grade VII, won a Silver medal.
12. Pari Shukla, from Grade VII, won a Bronze medal.
13. Megha Chauhan, from Grade XII, won a Bronze medal.
14. Aakriti Sidhu, from Grade IX, won a Bronze medal.
15. Prisha Sinha, from Grade VII, won a Bronze medal.
16. Nischal Parwani, from Grade VII, won a Bronze medal.
Congratulations to our young debaters and their mentors.
#BeWhatYouWantToBe
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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.
~ 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
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.
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)
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
~ Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. ~
- Dean Koontz
~ The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. ~
- Meryl Streep
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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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.
[an] intellect...cool and unsympathetic, regarded this pooch with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew her plans
The Cultural Event was organized on the occasion Suryadatta Group of Institutes Foundation Day at Suryadatta Bavdhan campus, Pune. The event was inaugurated by Director and Founder Chairman Prof. Dr. S. B. Chordiya.
The cultural event is an intra college level event where all the Colleges under the banner of Suryadatta Group of Institutes participate that blends intellect, grace and creative flair.
These two day events comprised of wide range of cultural events that included Dances ( solo and group Theme dances, Traditional dances, Folk dances, Bollywood numbers and contemporary dances) Singing, (Indian Carnatic Vocal, Indian Classical and Western) and Instrumental numbers.
The students of @Suryadatta College of Hospitality Management, Travel and Tourism whole heartedly participated in the Cultural event which was also a competition.
They performed the following:
Rajasthani Puppet Folk Dance – This was a unique dance where the dancers painted faces on their torsos and covered their faces with a t-shirt. They then performed a puppet dance on a Rajasthani folk song. The performance was appreciated by the judges and audience and they won the prize in the ‘Group dance’ category.
Fusion Group Dance –The students performed a specially choreographed dance on Bollywood songs of the 70s, 80s and 90s. They imitated popular stars Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz , Sharmila Tagore, Kajol and Shahrukh Khan and wore costumes befitting their roles.
Solo Kathak – Awakening for Shiva was performed by Shubham Sirsam. He performed the Tandav in the Kathak mode. It was highly appreciated by the judges.
Belly Dancing of the Middle East – performed by Bhakti Pagare who is also a Dance India Dance semi finalist. The dance was a very good rendition of the Middle Eastern equivalent
Women Empowerment- A Musical skit on how important it is to empower women. An empowered woman is able to stand up against atrocities. She is not a helpless person and can stand up for herself. This was wonderfully depicted by a combination of appropriate music and dance. The skit was selected for the Finals.
Sab ka Malik Ek – A one act play on Secularism, which showed that ‘God is one’ and that all religions actually worship the same God so therefore all religions should live in harmony and peace with each other. This play was beautifully enacted by the students and won them a standing ovation from the judges and audience. The Chairman Dr. S.B. Chordiya appreciated it so much that the students were requested to enact it again during the National Conference on “ Educate to Elevate “
Learn game? What do these people know. I’d rather be myself. I don’t need to be a man for I am sensitive. And I will find a sensitive girl who likes me. One who will appreciate me for my gentleness and intellect. These fuckers are wrong, because I have seen it happen and … oh, right...
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I'm thrilled to announce that for the first time in my life, I can call myself a Dad. My daughter Isabella was born on January 10th, 2013 and our lives have been enriched ever since. This is a picture I took of my wife holding our baby's head - This was taken with my 50mm f/1.2 lens, and I love the bokeh at f/1.2. I converted to B&W in Silver Efex Pro.
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions.
I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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
See my site for more choices, information about yantras and to purchase of original or prints gallerylotus.com/Also for information on intuitive consultations done worldwide go here gallerylotus.com/intuitive-reading/. A yantra is a mystical, ancient visual diagram that powerfully evokes specific qualities-this one communication, clarity of mind etc.... Qualities such as abundance, self-love, peacefulness and generosity are increased when they are used in meditation. Each one has specific qualities.Yantras are sacred geometry similar to mandalas. They are utilized in a type of yoga (yogic) meditation especially as one develops the upper chakras.
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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects." - Oscar Wilde
I've been told once or twice before that one should exercise caution when choosing friends, acquaintances and enemies. The people who make up these catagories are a reflection of yourselves. Pieces of yourself can be seen in the people you surround yourself with.
When you look at the people in your life what do you see?
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Not entirely sure where the inspiration for today's photo came from, it didn't turn out as nicely as I would have liked but I doubt I'll come back to this idea later on, so I thought I'd better go ahead and post this.
Thanks to Nard for posing with me today. Thanks for coming down from your hyper fit long enough to sit still for the camera :)
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