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View of Half Dome from Sentinel Bridge over Merced River, Yosemite Valley, California
With Autumn approaching, I really miss the two days I spent wandering in the place Lincoln called "inviolable," the best way mother nature showcased her beauty.
Богоматір Оранта (мозаїчний образ в соборі Київської Софії). Софійський собор – пам’ятка української архітектури і монументального живопису часів України-Русі (11-е століття). Одна з найголовніших християнських святинь Східної Європи, історичний центр Київської митрополії.
Мозаїчна вівтарна ікона Софійського собору «Богородиця Оранта», яку кияни назвали «Непорушною стіною», уособила духовну, молитовну, захисну функції культу Божої Матері. Царицю небесну вшановували як свою покровительку.
Широко розплющені очі Богоматері, її спокійний відчужений погляд, великі риси обличчя – це ознаки аскетичного стилю. Її руки піднесені вгору – туди, де у куполі зображений Вседержитель Христос.
Літописні джерела й фольклорні твори свідчать, що в народній релігійній свідомості Божа Матір сприймалася як заступниця за новонавернений народ. Кияни вважали її покровителькою міста, яка захищала Київ від ворожої сили, з’являючись на міських мурах, визволяючи киян із половецького полону. У народі «Богородицю Оранту», центральний образ Софійського собору, дотепер називають «Непорушною стіною».
«Тема Богородиці набула надзвичайно широкого розвитку в київській художній культурі; адже середньовічне суспільство вважало Київ богообраним і богохранимим градом, а Лавру — уділом Богородиці, тобто свята земля, яка знаходиться під Її особливим заступництвом.
Сюжети «Богоматір Оранта Нерушима Стіна», «Софія Премудрість Божа», «Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці», «Богородиця Печерська з предстоячими прпп. Антонієм і Феодосієм», «Благовіщення», «Богородиця Всіх Скорботних Радість», «Собор Пресвятої Богородиці» отримали особливу київську редакцію.»
/Рижова Ольга Олегівна, дисертація на здобуття наукового ступеня доктора мистецтвознавства/
Мозаїка «Богоматір Оранта» у просторі вівтаря собору святоі Софії в Києві, близько 1018 року.
Оранта (від лат. orans — «той, що молиться») — один із основних типів зображення Божої Матері. Оранта зображувалася з піднятими вгору руками — жест адорації (молитви). Це один із найдавніших жестів, що звернений до Бога, і означав благання, прохання. Молитва Оранти звернена до Христа-Вседержителя (Пантократора).
Мозаїчний образ Богоматері Оранти XI століття у соборі Київської Софії. Вона зображена у надвівтарній частині на загальному мозаїчному фоні. Стоїть на чотирикутному золотому камені з піднятими руками. Освячена 1049 року.
Над образом Богородиці грецькою мовою слова з Книги псалмів: «Бог серед… [міста], воно не похитнеться; Бог йому допоможе перед світанком» (Пс. 45:6) Вона — символ вічного Києва. Це уявлення відобразилося у народному повір'ї: «Допоки в Софії є Оранта, стоятиме й Київ».
Другой источник прочтения:
«По периметру дуги апсиды проходит греческая надпись, которая еще раз подчеркивает предстательство Богоматери: «ὁ Θεὸς ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς καὶ οὐ σαλευθήσεται·βοηθήσει αὐτῇ ὁ Θεὸς τὸ πρὸς πρωΐ πρωΐ – Бог посреди ея и не подвижется: поможет ей Бог утро заутра» (Пс. 45:6).»
Оранта вдягнена у царські шати Володарки світу. На ній пурпурово-золотий мафорій (плащ), синій хітон і червоні чобітки. На червоному паску біла хустка, вишита золотом і багряницею. Обабіч німба є надпис «ΜΡ» і «ΘV» (від грец. Μήτηρ θεών — Богоматір).
Величественный образ Богородицы высотой 5,45 метра в алтарной апсиде. Вогнутая поверхность самой апсиды отражает свет таким образом, что создается иллюзия сияния золотого фона вокруг фигуры Богоматери. Это дополнительно подчеркивается кубиками смальты, которые вставлены в штукатурку фона под разными углами.
Façades, comme les pages d'un ouvrage ouvrant ou fermant leurs fenêtres à nos imaginations intangibles.
Rue de Saint Claude
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Facades like the pages of a book opening or closing their windows to our inviolable imaginations.
Saint Claude Street
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See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!
See, they return, one, and by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmur in the wind, and half turn back;
These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe," inviolable.
Gods of the wingèd shoe!
With them the silver hounds,
Sniffing the trace of air!
Haie! Haie!
These were the swift to harry;
These the keen-scented;
These were the souls of blood.
Slow on the leash,
Pallid the leash-men!
Ezra Pound
1885 - 1972
We received quite a lashing from Winter Storm Nadia over the past week, but in the end all things pass, and when they did, we were left with the graceful, gentle, simplicity of a quiet winter morning.
Nevada City CA
The dignity of man is inviolable.
It is the duty of all state authorities to respect and protect them.
Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar.
Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt.
Le donne che leggono sono pericolose / Women who read are dangerous
Le donne che leggono sono pericolose... Perché non si annoiano mai, qualunque cosa accada hanno sempre una via di fuga, se ne infischiano se le fai troppo soffrire perché loro s'innamorano di un altro libro, di un'altra storia, e ti abbandonano. Le donne che leggono sono pericolose perché nutrono i loro sogni e non c'è nulla di più rivoluzionario di una donna che sogna di cambiare la propria vita, se lo fa, farà la rivoluzione, se non lo fa seminerà il terrore.(Daria Bignardi)
---- Da il libro Le donne che leggono sono pericolose di Elke Heidenreich, Stefan Bollmann --- Ma perché la lettura dovrebbe essere pericolosa? Perché porta a pensare e riflettere, quindi potenzialmente a scardinare alcuni dogmi che dovrebbero essere inviolabili. Se le donne leggono romanzi dove le eroine vivono una vita migliore e più dignitosa, potrebbe venir loro in mente di ribellarsi. E gli uomini di un tempo non amavano le donne pensanti o ribelli. Le donne dovevano sfornare figli, allevarli, cucinare e pulire. Non leggere. Non pensare. Leggere oggi da molte persone è considerata una noia, un obbligo, una costrizione; per leggere si deve faticare, bisogna far funzionare parecchi neuroni oltre che molti muscoli del corpo: bisogna pensare a che cosa si leggere e fare un grande sforzo, ovvero immaginare quello che non vediamo ma che ci viene descritto a parole. E' molto più semplice accendere la TV o per i più “moderni” il computer o lo smarphone e connettersi a Internet per far trascorrere il tempo; si fa meno fatica, non bisogna nemmeno prestare molta attenzione a quello che le immagini o i brevi testi ci trasmettono. Siamo costantentemente bombardati da fotografie, video, pubblicità e brevi messaggi che la nostra soglia di attenzione è diventata molto scarsa. Non finiamo di leggere una riga o di guardare una foto che ecco che la bacheca scorre e ce n'è già un altra, un nuovo aggiornamento. Le donne leggono più degli uomini. Leggere è faticoso. Comunque sia pazienza, leggere è meraviglioso.
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Women who read are dangerous ... Because they never get bored, whatever happens they always have an escape route, they don't care if you make them suffer too much because they fall in love with another book, another story, and they abandon you. Women who read are dangerous because they feed their dreams and there is nothing more revolutionary than a woman who dreams of changing her life, if she does it, she will make the revolution, if she doesn't she will sow terror (Daria Bignardi )
---- From the book Women reading are dangerous by Elke Heidenreich, Stefan Bollmann --- But why should reading be dangerous? Because it leads to thinking and reflecting, therefore potentially breaking up some dogmas that should be inviolable. If women read novels where heroines live a better and more dignified life, they might think of rebelling. And the men of the past did not like thinking or rebellious women. Women had to churn out children, raise them, cook and clean. Do not read. Do not think. Read many people today is considered a boredom, an obligation, a compulsion; to read you have to work hard, you have to work several neurons as well as many muscles of the body: you have to think about what you read and make a great effort, or imagine what we do not see but that is described in words. It's much easier to turn on the TV or for the more "modern" computer or smartphone and connect to the Internet to spend time; it's less tiring, we don't even have to pay much attention to what the images or short texts convey to us. We are constantly bombarded with photographs, videos, advertisements and short messages that our attention span has become very low. We don't finish reading a line or looking at a picture that here is the bulletin board running and there is already another one, a new update. Women read more than men. Reading is tiring. However patience, reading is wonderful.
The first Ecumenical Council was convened in 325, in Nicaea, under Emperor Constantine the Great.
This Council was convened against the false teaching of the Alexandrian priest Arius, who rejected the Divinity and the eternal birth of the second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Son of God, from God the Father; and taught that the Son of God is only above creation.
The Council was attended by 318 bishops, among whom were: St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Bishop Jacob of Nisybia, St. Spyridon, St. Athanasius the Great, who was still a deacon at that time, and others.
The council condemned and rejected the heresy of Arius and confirmed the inviolable truth - dogma; The Son of God is the true God, born of God the Father before all ages and as eternal as God the Father; He is begotten, not made, and is one with God the Father.
So that all Orthodox Christians could know exactly the true teaching of the faith, it was clearly and concisely stated in the first seven lines of the Creed.
At the same Council, it was decided to celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the first spring full moon, it was also decided that priests should be married, and many other rules were established.
“Перший Вселенський Собор був скликаний у 325 р., в Нікеї, при імператорі Костянтині Великому.
Скликаний цей Собор був проти лжевчення олександрійського священика Арія, який відкидав Божество і предвічне народження другої Особи Святоі Трійці, Сина Божого, від Бога Отця; і вчив, що Син Божий є тільки вище творіння.
На Соборі брало участь 318 єпископів, серед яких були: Святий Миколай Чудотворець, Яків єпископ Низибійський, Святий Спиридон , Святий Афанасій Великий, що був у той час ще в сані диякона та інші.
Собор засудив і відкинув єресь Арія і затвердив непорушну істину – догмат; Син Божий є істинний Бог, народжений від Бога Отця перше всіх віків і так само вічний, як Бог Отець; Він народжений, а не створений, і єдиносущний із Богом Отцем.
Щоб всі православні християни могли точно знати істинне вчення віри, воно було ясно і коротко викладено в перших семи рядках Символу Віри.
На цьому ж Соборі було постановлено святкувати Пасху у першу неділю після першого весняного повного місяця, визначено було також священикам бути одруженими, і встановлені були багато інших правил.”
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Berber camp for a magical night. Somewhere near Tangier, Morocco.
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"... In the desert everything silences and surprises. Night happens sudden, profound, unfathomable and a massacre of doubts alerts us to become a magical thrilling.
A place with no name that feels as a heart and dresses us with an inviolable, magnanimous solitude, to give character to our existence. Here everything is absolute.
Life is always provisional and seems improvised and loaded on the shoulders of the enchantment of an imortal instant .
Without compromises, everyone is just and only himself.
Thousand ways... all invisible, unsuspected, without traces or footprints pursue routes without hours lost in the restlessness of the dream, in the thrill of the existential own will. Here the soul grows up. As the desert itself.
Eloquence and splendor of the Earth's last secret ... "
Alda Cravo-Saüde, in 'Diário das Águas' ( 'Diary of Waters')
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....which is called "Zettai Ryoiki"(絶対領域)a.k.a "Perfect Zone" in Japanese, that is based on a Slang which came from the Japanese animation "Neon Genesis EVANGELION"
”Absolute" in this context contains the meaning of "Inviolable Sanctuary"
Human dignity is inviolable.
Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar - laut der Deutschen Verfassung.
Sigilo y misterio sacramental, cauto silencio e inviolable conocimiento. Celosía del alma y frontera de emociones; filro de remordimientos que se pulen con la lima de la expiación que siempre reconcilia.
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Christian Song | Praise the God Full of Authority | "Only by Fearing God Can Evil Be Shunned"
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Introduction
God’s disposition is majestic and wrathful.
He’s not a lamb to be slaughtered by anyone.
He is not a puppet, played by anyone as they like.
Nor is He air, ordered around by people.
If you really believe in God
you should have a heart that fears God.
You should know that God’s essence is something that cannot be offended.
Offense may be caused by a word or thought,
a doctrine or theory, or some vile activity.
It may be caused by some mild behavior which is acceptable by morality.
But once you offend God, you have lost your chance to be saved,
and your end days will come soon.
This is something fearful indeed.
If you don’t know God can’t be offended,
you may not fear Him, but will offend Him always.
You cannot fear God if you don’t know how,
nor follow His path to fear God and shun evil.
Once you become aware in your heart and recognize that God is inviolable,
then you will know exactly what it means to fear God and shun evil.
Once you become aware in your heart and recognize that God is inviolable,
then you will know exactly what it means to fear God and shun evil.
You should know that God’s essence
is something that cannot be offended, cannot be offended.
Offense may be caused by a word or thought,
a doctrine or theory, or some vile activity.
If you really believe in God’s existence,
you should have a heart that fears God.
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
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El Salvador (Spanish: República de El Salvador, literally meaning "Republic of the Savior"; original name in Nahuatl was Cōzcatlān) is the smallest and also the most densely populated country in Central America. It borders the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras. It lies on the Gulf of Fonseca, as do Honduras and Nicaragua further south.
It has a population of approximately 7.2 million people as of 2009. The capital city of San Salvador is, by some distance, the largest city of the republic. In 2001 El Salvador dropped its own currency, the colón, and adopted the U.S. dollar instead.
History
Before Spanish conquest
Before the Spanish conquest, the area that now is El Salvador was composed of three great indigenous states and several principalities. The indigenous inhabitants were the Pipils, a tribe of the nomadic people of Nahua settled down for a long time in central Mexico. The region of the east was populated and governed by the Lencas. The North zone of the Lempa Hi River was populated and governed by the Chortis, a Mayan people.
Early in their history, the Pipil became one of the few Mesoamerican indigenous groups to abolish human sacrifice. Otherwise, their culture was similar to that of their Aztec and Maya neighbors. Remains of Nahua culture are still found at ruins such as Tazumal (near Chalchuapa), San Andrés, and Joya de Cerén (north of Colón).
Spanish conquest
The first Spanish attempt to subjugate this area failed in 1524, when Pedro de Alvarado was forced to retreat by Pipil warriors. In 1525, he returned and succeeded in bringing the district under control of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which retained its authority until 1821, despite an abortive revolution in 1811. It was Alvarado who named the district for El Salvador ("The Savior.")
Independece
The first "shout of independence" in El Salvador came in 1811, at the hands of criollo elite. Many intellectuals and merchants had grown tired of the overpowering control that Spain still had in the American colonies, and were interested in expanding their export markets to Britain and the United States. The Indigenous uprisings aimed at Spanish subjugation plagued the territory at this time, and they were re-interpreted by the Republicans to serve their purpose and show popular support for independence. Thus a movement grew amongst the middle class criollo and mestizo classes. Ultimately, the 1811 declaration of independence failed when the vice royalty of Guatemala sent troops to San Salvador in order to crush the movement. However, the momentum was not lost and many of the people involved in the 1811 movement became involved in the 1821 movement.
In 1821, El Salvador and the other Central American provinces declared their independence from Spain. When these provinces were joined with Mexico in early 1822, El Salvador resisted, insisting on autonomy for the Central American countries. Guatemalan troops sent to enforce the union were driven out of El Salvador in June 1822. El Salvador, fearing incorporation into Mexico, petitioned the United States Government for statehood. But in 1823, a revolution in Mexico ousted Emperor Agustín de Iturbide, and a new Mexican congress voted to allow the Central American provinces to decide their own fate. That year, the United Provinces of Central America was formed of the five Central American states under Gen. Manuel José Arce.
In 1832, Anastasio Aquino led an indigenous revolt against creoles and mestizos in Santiago Nonualco, a small town in the province of San Vicente. The source of the discontent of the indigenous people was lack of land to cultivate. The problem of land distribution has been the source of many political conflicts in Salvadoran history.
The Central American federation was dissolved in 1838 and El Salvador became an independent republic.
Geography
El Salvador is located in Central America. It has a total area of 8,123 square miles (21,040 km²) (about the size of New Jersey). It is the smallest country in continental America and is affectionately called the "Tom Thumb of the Americas" ("Pulgarcito de America"). It has 123.6 square miles (320 km²) of water within its borders.
Several small rivers flow through El Salvador into the Pacific Ocean, including the Goascorán, Jiboa, Torola, Paz and the Río Grande de San Miguel. Only the largest river, the Lempa River, flowing from Guatemala and Honduras across El Salvador to the ocean, is navigatable for commercial traffic.
Volcanic craters enclose lakes, the most important of which are Lake Ilopango (70 km²/27 sq mi) and Lake Coatepeque (26 km²/10 sq mi). Lake Güija is El Salvador's largest natural lake (44 km²/17 sq mi). Several artificial lakes were created by the damming of the Lempa, the largest of which is Embalse Cerrón Grande (135 km²).
El Salvador shares borders with Guatemala and Honduras. It is the only Central American country that does not have a Caribbean coastline. The highest point in the country is Cerro El Pital at 8,957 feet (2,730 m), which shares a border with Honduras.
Other info
Oficial Name:
Républica de El Salvador
Independence:
From Spain September 15, 1821
- from the UPCA 1842
Area:
21.041 km2
Inhabitants:
6.810.000
Languages:
Kekchí [kek] 12,286 in El Salvador. Alternate names: Quecchí, Cacché. Classification: Mayan, Quichean-Mamean, Greater Quichean, Kekchi
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Lenca [len] Ethnic population: 36,858 in El Salvador (1987). Town of Chilango. Classification: Unclassified Nearly extinct.
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Pipil [ppl] 20 (1987). Ethnic population: 196,576 (1987). Municipio of Dolores, Ocotepeque Department, near the El Salvador border. Extinct in Honduras. Alternate names: Nahuat, Nawat. Dialects: Not intelligible with Isthmus Nahuatl of Mexico. Classification: Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Aztecan, General Aztec, Pipil Nearly extinct.
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Salvadoran Sign Language [esn] Alternate names: El Salvadoran Sign Language. Classification: Deaf sign language
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Spanish [spa] 5,900,000 in El Salvador (1995). Alternate names: Español, Castellano. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian
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Extinct languages
Cacaopera [ccr] Extinct. Department of Morazán. Dialects: Close to Matagalpa. Classification: Misumalpan
Capital city:
San Salvador
Meaning country name:
Its national name is the Republic of El Salvador. In Spanish, it is "República de El Salvador". The country was named after the Spanish word for "The Savior", in honor of Jesus Christ.
The Pipels, who arrived from central Mexico, most famous one known as "Atlacatl" renamed the area Cuscatlán", because of the lush fertility of the land. Cuscatlán translates as "Land of Precious Jewels" in the native indigenous tongue known as Pipil-Nahuat (Nahuatl in central Mexico).
"The saviour" in Spanish, named after Jesus.
Description Flag:
The flag of El Salvador was adopted on September 27, 1972. It is based on the flag of the United Provinces of Central America and was initially adopted in 1822, abandoned in 1865, reinstated in 1912, and last confirmed in 1972.
The two blue stripes represent the oceans that bathe the Central American coasts: the Pacific and the Atlantic. The white stripe represents peace.
There are two versions of the flag, one containing the National Coat of Arms and the other the words "DIOS UNION LIBERTAD" (Spanish: God, Union, Liberty). The one bearing the Coat of Arms is used by the government or state organizations. The other version is used for civil purposes. Both flags have a 3:5 aspect ratio.
From 1865 to 1912, a different flag was in use, based on the flag of the United States, with a field of alternating blue and white stripes and a red canton containing white stars.
Coat of arms:
The coat of arms of El Salvador has been in use in its current form since 15 September 1912. Its center consists of a triangle, in which five volcanoes rise out of the sea. They symbolize the five member states of the United Provinces of Central America. Above the volcanoes is a red Phrygian cap on a staff before a golden sun and the date 15 September, 1821, Independence Day of El Salvador. Over it is a rainbow. Behind the coat of arms there are five flags representing the flags of the Federal Republic of Central America raised. Under it, there is a scroll which states the national motto of El Salvador: Dios, Unión, Libertad (Span., "God, Union, Liberty"). All of this is surrounded by a laurel garland, which is tied together under the national flag. The garland is divided into 14 different parts, which symbolize the 14 Departaments, the Salvadorian subnational administrative units. All this is surrounded by golden letters, which form the Spanish words REPÚBLICA DE EL SALVADOR EN LA AMÉRICA CENTRAL (English: Republic of El Salvador in Central America).
Motto:
"God, Union, Liberty"
National Anthem: Himno Nacional de El Salvador
CHORUS
Saludemos la patria orgullosos
de hijos suyos podernos llamar;
y juremos la vida animosos,
sin descanso a su bien consagrar.
FIRST VERSE
De la paz en la dicha suprema,
siempre noble soñó El Salvador;
fue obtenerla su eterno problema,
conservarla es su gloria mayor.
Y con fe inquebrantable el camino
del progreso se afana en seguir,
por llenar su grandioso destino,
conquistarse un feliz porvenir.
Le protege una ferrea barrera
contra el choque de ruin deslealtad,
desde el día que en su alta bandera
con su sangre escribió: ¡LIBERTAD!
CHORUS
SECOND VERSE
Libertad es su dogma, es su guía
que mil veces logró defender;
y otras tantas, de audaz tiranía
rechazar el odioso poder.
Dolorosa y sangrienta es su historia,
pero excelsa y brillante a la vez;
manantial de legitima gloria,
gran lección de espartana altivez.
No desmaya en su innata bravura,
en cada hombre hay un héroe inmortal
que sabrá mantenerse a la altura
de su antiguo valor proverbial.
THIRD VERSE
Todos son abnegados, y fieles
al prestigio del bélico ardor
con que siempre segaron laureles
de la patria salvando el honor.
Respetar los derechos extraños
y apoyarse en la recta razón
es para ella, sin torpes ámanos
su invariable, mas firme ambición.
Y en seguir esta línea se aferra
dedicando su esfuerzo tenaz,
en hacer cruda guerra a la guerra;
su ventura se encuentra en la paz.
CHORUS
English translation
CHORUS
Let us salute the motherland,
Proud to be called her children.
To her well-being let us swear
Boldly and unceasingly to devote our lives.
(repeat)
Devote our lives! (repeat 4 times)
FIRST VERSE
Of peace enjoyed in perfect happiness,
El Salvador has always nobly dreamed.
To achieve this has been her eternal proposition,
To keep it, her greatest glory.
With inviolable faith, she eagerly follows
The way of progress
In order to fulfil her high destiny
And achieve a happy future.
A stern barrier protects her
Against the clash of vile disloyalty,
Ever since the day when her lofty banner,
In letters of blood, wrote "Freedom",
Wrote "Freedom", wrote "Freedom".
CHORUS
SECOND VERSE
Freedom is her dogma and her guide;
A thousand times she has defended it,
And as many times has she repelled
The hateful power of atrocious tyranny.
Her history has been bloody and sad,
Yet at the same time sublime and brilliant,
A source of legitimate glory
And a great lesson in Spartan pride.
Her innate bravery shall not waver:
In every man there is an immortal hero
Who knows how to maintain the level
Of the proverbial valour of old.
CHORUS
THIRD VERSE
All are self-denying and faithful
To the tradition of warlike ardour
With which they have always reaped fame
By saving the motherland's honour.
To respect the rights of others
And base her actions on right and justice
Is for her, without infamous intrigue,
The constant and most firm ambition.
And in following this line she persists,
Dedicating her tenacious efforts
In giving hard battle for battle;
Her happiness is found in peace.
CHORUS
Internet Page: www.elsalvador.com
E.Salvador in diferent languages
eng | ast | cat | cor | cym | dan | dsb | est | eus | fao | fin | fry | hsb | ina | isl | ita | jav | jnf | lin | lld | mlt | nld | nor | que | roh | ron | rup | scn | sme | spa | swa | swe | vor | wln | zza: El Salvador
bre | ces | frp | hrv | hun | slv: Salvador
afr | fra | por | tur: Salvador; El Salvador
deu | ltz | nds: El Salvador / El Salvador
aze | bos: Salvador / Салвадор
ind | msa: El Salvador / السالۏادور
kaa | uzb: Salvador / Сальвадор
kin | run: Ele Salvadore
lav | mlg: Salvadora
pol | szl: Salwador
arg: El Salvador; O Salbador
bam: Ɛlisaliwadɔri
crh: El Salvador / Эль Сальвадор
epo: Salvadoro
fur: Il Salvadôr
gla: El Salbhador
gle: An tSalvadóir / An tSalvadóir
glg: O Salvador
glv: Yn Salvador
hat: Salvadò
ibo: El Salvadọ
kmr: Salvador / Салвадор / سالڤادۆر
kur: Salvador / سالڤادۆر
lat: Salvatoria
lit: Salvadoras
mol: El Salvador / Ел Салвадор
nrm: Saint-Sâoveu
oci: Lo Salvador
rmy: El Salvador / एल साल्वादोर
slk: Salvádor
slo: Elsalvador / Елсалвадор
smg: Salvaduors
sqi: Salvadori
srd: El Salvadòr
tet: Salvadór
tgl: Salbador
tuk: Salwador / Сальвадор
vie: En-san-va-đo
vol: Salvadorän
wol: Salbadoor
alt | che | chm | chv | kbd | kir | kjh | kom | krc | kum | mon | oss | rus | tyv | udm | ukr: Сальвадор (Sal'vador)
bak | bel | tat: Сальвадор / Salvador
bul | mkd: Ел Салвадор (El Salvador)
abq: Сальвадор (Salvador)
kaz: Сальвадор / Salvador / سالۆادور
srp: Ел Салвадор / El Salvador
tgk: Салвадор / سلودار / Salvador
ara: السلفادور (as-Salfādūr); إلسلفادور (Ilsalfādūr)
fas: السالوادور (Elsālvādor)
prs: السلوادور (Elsalvādōr)
pus: السلوادور (Ilsalwādor); اېلسلوادور (Elsalvādor)
uig: سالۋادور / Salwador / Сальвадор
urd: ال سلواڈور (Al Salvāḋor); ایل سلواڈور (Æl Salvāḋor); ایل سالواڈور (Æl Sālvāḋor)
div: އެލް ސަލްވަޑޯ (El Salvaḋō)
heb: אל-סלודור / אל-סלוודור (El-Salvadôr); אל-סאלוואדור (El-Sâlvâdôr); אל-סלואדור (El-Salvâdôr); אל-סלבדור (El-Salṿadôr); אל-סאלבאדור (El-Sâlṿâdôr)
lad: איל סאלב'אדור / El Salvador
yid: על סאַלװאַדאָר (El Salvador)
amh: ኤል ሳልቫዶር (El Salvador); ሳልቨዶር (Salvädor)
ell-dhi: Ελ Σαλβαδόρ (El Salvadór); Σαλβαντόρ (Salvantór)
ell-kat: Σαλβαδώρ (Salvadṓr); Σαλβαδόρ (Salvadór); Σαλβαντόρ (Salvantór)
hye: Սալվադոր (Salvador); Էլ Սալվադոր (Ēl Salvador)
kat: სალვადორი (Salvadori)
hin: एल-साल्वाडोर (El-Sālvāḍor); एल-साल्वेडोर (El-Sālveḍor); सलवाडोर (Salvāḍor); सैल्वैडोर (Sælvæḍor); अल साल्वाडोर (Al Sālvāḍor)
ben: এল সালভাডোর (El Sālbʰādor); এল সালভাদর (El Sālbʰādôr); সালভেডর (Sālbʰeḍôr)
pan: ਈਲ ਸਾਲਵੇਡੋਰ (Īl Sālveḍor)
kan: ಎಲ್ ಸಾಲ್ವಡಾರ್ (El Sālvaḍār)
mal: എല് സാല്വഡോര് (El Sālvaḍōr)
tam: எல் சல்வடோர் (El Čalvaṭōr); எல் சால்வடார் (El Čālvaṭār)
tel: ఎల్ సాల్వడోర్ (El Sālvaḍār); ఎల్ సాల్వడర్ (El Sālvaḍar)
zho: 薩爾瓦多/萨尔瓦多 (Sà'ěrwǎduō)
jpn: エル・サルヴァドル (Eru Saruvadoru); エルサルバドル (Erusarubadoru)
kor: 엘살바도르 (Elsalbadoreu)
bod: སར་ཝ་དོར་ (Sar.wa.dor.)
mya: အယ္ဆာဗေဒုိ (Ɛsʰabedo)
tha: เอลซัลวาดอร์ (Ēnsânwādɔ̄[r])
khm: អែលសាល់វ៉ាឌ័រ (Ælsalvādŏr); អែលសាវាឌ័រ (Ælsāvādŏr); អែលសាលវ៉ាឌ័រ (Ælsālvādŏr)
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Grundgesetz Artikel 1
(mit Schatten von Ästen eines Baumes)
Plagada de historia.Desde la Edad de Piedra.
Triple muralla. En los acantilados del Atlántico.
Varios kilómetros de perímetro. Ni Sir Francis Drake fue capaz. Ni vikingos, ni turcos ni berberiscos, ni ingleses ni franceses.
Bueno, hay que reconocer que los portugueses se apoderaron de ella cierto tiempo, por ser gallegos secesionistas.
Fortaleza de Monterreal. Bayona Galicia. Monte do Boi.
Pisada por Julio César, tras los celtas Herminios, refugiados en las Cíes. Pedro Madruga, el Princípe Negro, primer príncipe de Gales, el Duque de Lancaster, Isabel y Fernando, Felipe II, Carlos V...etc., hasta que Fraga Iribarne la convirtió en Parador Turístico.
Ahora ya se puede visitar en chanclas, visera y tarjeta Visa.
Y dormir y comer a tutti plan, contemplado el Atlántico en bermudas.
Y degustar almejas a la marinera con cuchillo y tenedor.
(Cosa harto complicada, y hortera).
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A weight of Awe not easy to be borne
Fell suddenly upon my spirit, cast
From the dread bosom of the unknown past,
When first I saw that family forlorn;
Speak Thou, whose massy strength and stature scorn
The power of years – pre-eminent, and placed
Apart, to overlook the circle vast.
Speak Giant-mother! tell it to the Morn,
While she dispels the cumbrous shades of night;
Let the Moon hear, emerging from a cloud,
At whose behest uprose on British ground
That Sisterhood in hieroglyphic round
Forth-shadowing, some have deemed the infinite
The inviolable God that tames the proud.
William Wordsworth 1822
- by Abraham Lincoln, upon seeing photos of Yosemite Valley by 19th century American landscape photographer Carleton Watkins
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North Dome and Half Dome in sunset, Yosemite Valley, California
In a certain sense, Adam's sin was a sin arising from inquisitiveness, if such an expression be admissible. Originally, Adam saw contingencies in the aspect of their relationship to God and not as independent entities. Anything that is considered in that relationship is beyond the reach of evil; but the desire to see contingency as it is in itself is a desire to see evil; it is also a desire to see good as something contrary to evil. As a result of this sin of inquisitiveness - Adam wanted to see the "other side" of contingency - Adam himself and the whole world fell into contingency as such; the link with the divine Source was broken and became invisible; the world became suddenly external to Adam, things became opaque and heavy, they became like unintelligible and hostile fragments. This drama is always repeating itself anew, in collective history as well as in the life of individuals.
A meaningless knowledge, a knowledge to which we have no right either by virtue of its nature, or of our capacities, and therefore by virtue of our vocation, is not a knowledge that enriches, but one that impoverishes. Adam had become poor after having acquired knowledge of contingency as such, or of contingency in so far as it limits. We must distrust the fascination which an abyss can exert over us; it is in the nature of cosmic blind-alleys to seduce and to play the vampire; the current of forms does not want us to escape from its hold.
Forms can be snares just as they can be symbols and keys; beauty can chain us to forms, just as it can also be a door opening towards the formless.
Or again, from a slightly different point of view: the sin of Adam consists in effect of having wished to superimpose something on existence, and existence was beatitude; Adam thereby lost this beatitude and was engulfed in the anxious and deceptive turmoil of superfluous things.
Instead of reposing in the immutable purity of Existence, fallen man is drawn into the dance of things that exist, and they, being accidents, are delusive and perishable.
In the Christian cosmos, the Blessed Virgin is the incarnation of this snow-like purity; She is inviolable and merciful like Existence or Substance; God in assuming flesh brought with Him Existence, which is as it were His Throne; He caused it to precede Him and He came into the world by its means. God can enter the world only through virgin Existence.
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Frithjof Schuon
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
XXXII
"THE LEAVES, like women, interchange
Sagacious confidence;
Somewhat of nods, and somewhat of
Portentous inference,
The parties in both cases
Enjoining secrecy,—
Inviolable compact
To notoriety."
Emily Dickinson
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Strictly speaking doctrinal knowledge is independent of the individual. But its actualization is not independent of the human capacity to act as a vehicle for it. He who possesses truth must none the less merit it although it is a free gift. Truth is immutable in itself, but in us it lives, because we live.
If we want truth to live in us we must live in it.
Knowledge only saves us on condition that it enlists all that we are, only when it is a way and when it works and transforms and wounds our nature even as the plough wounds the soil.
To say this is to say that intelligence and metaphysical certainty alone do not save; of themselves they do not prevent titans from falling. This is what explains the psychological and other precautions with which every tradition surrounds the gift of the doctrine.
When metaphysical knowledge is effective it produces love and destroys presumption. It produces love, that is to say the spontaneous directing of the will towards God and the perception of "myself" - and of God - in one's neighbour. It destroys presumption, for knowledge does not allow a man to overestimate himself or to underestimate others. By reducing to ashes all that is not God it orders all things.
All St. Paul says of charity concerns effective knowledge, for the latter is love, and he opposes it to theory inasmuch as theory is human concept. The Apostle desires that truth should be contemplated with our whole being and he calls this totality of contemplation "love".
Metaphysical knowledge is sacred. It is the right of sacred things to require of man all that he is.
Intelligence, since it distinguishes, perceives, as one might put
it, proportions. The spiritual man integrates these proportions into his will, into his soul and into his life.
All defects are defects of proportion; they are errors that are lived. To be spiritual means not denying at any point with one's "being" what one affirms with one's knowledge, that is, what one accepts with the intelligence.
Truth lived: incorruptibility and generosity. Since ignorance is all that we are and not merely our thinking, knowledge will also be all that we are to the extent to which our existential modalities are by their nature able to participate in truth.
Human nature contains dark elements which no intellectual
certainty could, ipso facto, eliminate...
Pure intellectuality is as serene as a summer sky - serene with a serenity that is at once infinitely incorruptible and infinitely generous.
Intellectualism which "dries up the heart" has no connection
with intellectuality.
The incorruptibility - or inviolability - of truth is bound up neither with contempt nor with avarice.
What is man's certainty? On the level of ideas it may be perfect, but on the level of life it but rarely pierces through illusion.
Everything is ephemeral and every man must die. No man is
ignorant of this and no one knows it.
Man does not always accept truth because he understands it; often he believes he understands it because he is anxious to accept it.
People often discuss truths whereas they should limit themselves to discussing tastes and tendencies ...
Acuteness of intelligence is only a blessing when it is compensated by greatness and sweetness of the soul. It should not appear as a rupture of the equilibrium or as an excess which splits man in two. A gift of nature requires complementary qualities which allow of its harmonious manifestation; otherwise there is a risk of the lights becoming mingled with darkness.
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Frithjof Schuon: Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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Image: Descent from the Cross, Novgorod school (late 15th c.)
Sam ist ja, wie ihr euch erinnert, seid April bei mir eingezogen.
Das Zusammenleben ist akzeptable, aber distanziert.
Schön ist das nicht. Ich gebe mir alle Mühe ihm Vertrauen zu vermitteln, ihm zu zeigen, dass ich es gut mit ihm meine.
Er hat sich vor ein paar Tagen einen starke Bisswunde im Gesicht zugezogen. Leider durfte ich es mir nur von weitem ansehen.
Ich hoffe sehr, er verletzt sich nicht ernsthaft, weil ich keinen Chance sehe ihn zum Tierarzt zu bringen.
Ich sehne mich sehr nach einer Katze wie Leo es war. So anschmiegsam und menschenbezogen.
Strictly speaking doctrinal knowledge is independent of the individual. But its actualization is not independent of the human capacity to act as a vehicle for it. He who possesses truth must none the less merit it although it is a free gift. Truth is immutable in itself, but in us it lives, because we live.
If we want truth to live in us we must live in it.
Knowledge only saves us on condition that it enlists all that we are, only when it is a way and when it works and transforms and wounds our nature even as the plough wounds the soil.
To say this is to say that intelligence and metaphysical certainty alone do not save; of themselves they do not prevent titans from falling. This is what explains the psychological and other precautions with which every tradition surrounds the gift of the doctrine.
When metaphysical knowledge is effective it produces love and destroys presumption. It produces love, that is to say the spontaneous directing of the will towards God and the perception of "myself" - and of God - in one's neighbour. It destroys presumption, for knowledge does not allow a man to overestimate himself or to underestimate others. By reducing to ashes all that is not God it orders all things.
All St. Paul says of charity concerns effective knowledge, for the latter is love, and he opposes it to theory inasmuch as theory is human concept. The Apostle desires that truth should be contemplated with our whole being and he calls this totality of contemplation "love".
Metaphysical knowledge is sacred. It is the right of sacred things to require of man all that he is.
Intelligence, since it distinguishes, perceives, as one might put
it, proportions. The spiritual man integrates these proportions into his will, into his soul and into his life.
All defects are defects of proportion; they are errors that are lived. To be spiritual means not denying at any point with one's "being" what one affirms with one's knowledge, that is, what one accepts with the intelligence.
Truth lived: incorruptibility and generosity. Since ignorance is all that we are and not merely our thinking, knowledge will also be all that we are to the extent to which our existential modalities are by their nature able to participate in truth.
Human nature contains dark elements which no intellectual
certainty could, ipso facto, eliminate...
Pure intellectuality is as serene as a summer sky - serene with a serenity that is at once infinitely incorruptible and infinitely generous.
Intellectualism which "dries up the heart" has no connection
with intellectuality.
The incorruptibility - or inviolability - of truth is bound up neither with contempt nor with avarice.
What is man's certainty? On the level of ideas it may be perfect, but on the level of life it but rarely pierces through illusion.
Everything is ephemeral and every man must die. No man is
ignorant of this and no one knows it.
Man does not always accept truth because he understands it; often he believes he understands it because he is anxious to accept it.
People often discuss truths whereas they should limit themselves to discussing tastes and tendencies ...
Acuteness of intelligence is only a blessing when it is compensated by greatness and sweetness of the soul. It should not appear as a rupture of the equilibrium or as an excess which splits man in two. A gift of nature requires complementary qualities which allow of its harmonious manifestation; otherwise there is a risk of the lights becoming mingled with darkness.
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Frithjof Schuon: Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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Image: The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins - William Blake
Gospel Movie Clip | "Break Through the Snare" (7) - How God Saves Man From the Influence of Satan
Introduction
The Bible says, "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God" (1 Peter 4:17). In the last days, Almighty God
expresses all the truth which purifies and saves man and He shows to us His righteous, majestic and inviolable disposition. God's work of judgment in the last days is done to save man so they can break away from the influence of Satan and truly turn back to God. All God's chosen people who accept Almighty God's work of judgment all gradually come to see clearly the factual truth that the pastors and elders' service of God actually defies God, see clearly their hypocritical and truth-hating antichrist natures and therefore they break away from the confusion and control of the pastors and elders and truly return before God. By listening to God's chosen people's Testimonies
of their experiences of judgment before the seat of Christ, you will be brought to an understanding of God's work of judgment in the last days.
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A majority vote in any of Canada's 14 jurisdictions may suspend the core rights of the Charter.
Other rights such as section 6 mobility rights, democratic rights, and language rights are inviolable.
Winter forest is inviolability.
It has no sounds.
No color.
No life.
The forest is sleeping now.
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SIGMA 17-50mm / F2.8 EX DC OS HSM with Nikon D7100
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I have always been fascinated by the concept of "time". Its inviolability, its transience. It allows us to understand change.
At Pastor Charles Calvin's house, there is much preparation for the Thanksgiving meal. One of his twin daughters, Betsy Calvin, is working with the grinder.
"There you go, Pa, I think you've fixed it!"
"Let's test it, Betsy. I know you want your measurements to be precise."
"It always reminds me, all of creation works on God's order, Pa. We're able to know and work with such accuracy because of how He designed it."
"Well, said, Betsy. God's truth defines reality. All we do every day, how we operate, from the smallest things to the most grand, all obey the truth of God's design."
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Ask anyone today, "What is truth?" and you’re sure to start an interesting conversation. Try it on a university campus and you’re likely to receive laughter, scorn, and derision. The concept of truth has clearly fallen on hard times, and the consequences of rejecting it are ravaging human society. So let’s go back to the starting point and answer the question: What is truth?
One of the most profound and eternally significant questions in the Bible was posed by an unbeliever. Pilate—the man who handed Jesus over to be crucified—turned to Jesus in His final hour, and asked, “What is truth?” It was a rhetorical question, a cynical response to what Jesus had just revealed: “I have come into the world, to testify to the truth.”
Two thousand years later, the whole world breathes Pilate’s cynicism. Some say truth is a power play, a metanarrative constructed by the elite for the purpose of controlling the ignorant masses. To some, truth is subjective, the individual world of preference and opinion. Others believe truth is a collective judgment, the product of cultural consensus, and still others flatly deny the concept of truth altogether.
So, what is truth?
Here’s a simple definition drawn from what the Bible teaches: Truth is that which is consistent with the mind, will, character, glory, and being of God. Even more to the point: Truth is the self-expression of God. That is the biblical meaning of truth. Because the definition of truth flows from God, truth is theological.
Truth is also ontological—which is a fancy way of saying it is the way things really are. Reality is what it is because God declared it so and made it so. Therefore God is the author, source, determiner, governor, arbiter, ultimate standard, and final judge of all truth.
The Old Testament refers to the Almighty as the “God of truth”.
"Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have ransomed me, O Lord, God of truth." Psalm 31:5
When Jesus said of Himself, “I am…the truth” (John 14:6), He was thereby making a profound claim about His own deity. He was also making it clear that all truth must ultimately be defined in terms of God and His eternal glory. After all, Jesus is “And He [Jesus] is the radiance of His [The Father's] glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.” Hebrews 1:3
Jesus is truth incarnate—the perfect expression of God and therefore the absolute embodiment of all that is true.
Jesus also said that the written Word of God is truth. It does not merely contain nuggets of truth; it is pure, unchangeable, and inviolable truth that according to Jesus, “cannot be broken”. (John 10:35)
Praying to His heavenly Father on behalf of His disciples, He said this: "Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth." John 17:17
Moreover, the Word of God is eternal truth “which lives and abides forever” (1 Peter 1:23).
Of course, there cannot be any discord or difference of opinion between the written Word of God (Scripture) and the incarnate Word of God (Jesus). In the first place, truth by definition cannot contradict itself. Second, Scripture is called “the word of Christ” (Colossians 3:16). It is His message, His self-expression. In other words, the truth of Christ and the truth of the Bible are of the very same character. They are in perfect agreement in every respect. Both are equally true. God has revealed Himself to humanity through Scripture and through His Son. Both perfectly embody the essence of what truth is.
Remember, Scripture also says God reveals basic truth about Himself in nature. The heavens declare His glory (Psalm 19:1). His other invisible attributes (such as His wisdom, power, and beauty) are on constant display in what He has created (Romans 1:20). Knowledge of Him is inborn in the human heart (Romans 1:19), and a sense of the moral character and loftiness of His law is implicit in every human conscience (Romans 2:15).
Those things are universally self-evident truths. According to Romans 1:20, denial of the spiritual truths we know innately always involves a deliberate and culpable unbelief. And for those who wonder whether basic truths about God and His moral standards really are stamped on the human heart, ample proof can be found in the long history of human law and religion. To suppress this truth is to dishonor God, displace His glory, and incur His wrath.
"18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." Romans 1:18-20
Still, the only infallible interpreter of what we see in nature or know innately in our own consciences is the explicit revelation of Scripture. Since Scripture is also the one place where we are given the way of salvation, entrance into the kingdom of God, and an infallible account of Christ, the Bible is the touchstone to which all truth claims should be brought and by which all other truth must finally be measured.
An obvious corollary of what I am saying is that truth means nothing apart from God. Truth cannot be adequately explained, recognized, understood, or defined without God as the source. Since He alone is eternal and self-existent and He alone is the Creator of all else, He is the fountain of all truth.
If you don’t believe that, try defining truth without reference to God, and see how quickly all such definitions fail. The moment you begin to ponder the essence of truth, you are brought face to face with the requirement of a universal absolute—the eternal reality of God. Conversely, the whole concept of truth instantly becomes nonsense (and every imagination of the human heart therefore turns to sheer foolishness) as soon as people attempt to remove the thought of God from their minds.
That, of course, is precisely how the apostle Paul traced the relentless decline of human ideas in Romans 1:21-22: “Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools.”
There are serious moral implications too, whenever someone tries to dissociate truth from the knowledge of God. Paul went on to write, “Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting” (Romans 1:28).
Abandon a biblical definition of truth, and unrighteousness is the inescapable result. We see it happening before our eyes in every corner of contemporary society. In fact, the widespread acceptance of all forms of iniquity that we see in our society today is a verbatim fulfillment of what Romans 1 says always happens when a society denies and suppresses the essential connection between God and truth.
If you reflect on the subject with any degree of sobriety, you will soon see that even the most fundamental moral distinctions—good and evil, right and wrong, beauty and ugliness, or honor and dishonor—cannot possibly have any true or constant meaning apart from God. That is because truth and knowledge themselves simply have no coherent significance apart from a fixed source, namely, God. How could they? God embodies the very definition of truth. Every truth claim apart from Him is preposterous.
Elaborate epistemologies have been proposed and methodically debunked one after another—like a long chain in which every previous link is broken. After thousands of years, the very best of human philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, James, and others) have all utterly failed to account for truth and the origin of human knowledge apart from God.
In fact, the one most valuable lesson humanity ought to have learned from philosophy is that it is impossible to make sense of truth without acknowledging God as the necessary starting point.
Truth is not subjective, it is not a consensual cultural construct, and it is not an invalid, outdated, irrelevant concept. Truth is the self-expression of God. Truth is thus theological; it is the reality God has created and defined, and over which He rules. Truth is therefore a moral issue for every human being.
How each person responds to the truth God has revealed is an issue of eternal significance. To reject and rebel against the truth of God results in darkness, folly, sin, judgment, and the never-ending wrath of God. To accept and submit to the truth of God is to see clearly, to know with certainty, and to find life everlasting.
-Excerpt from 'What Is Truth?'
John MacArthur, Grace To You, 2008
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Happy Thanksgiving 2022 as we at Paprihaven celebrate gratitude through God through the Psalms!
Previous Thanksgivings from Paprihaven:
2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
“J’aimerais qu’il existe des lieux stables, immobiles, intangibles, intouchés et presque intouchables, immuables, enracinés; des lieux qui seraient des références, des points de départ, des sources.” Georges Perec.
“I would like there would be stable, immovable, inviolable places, untouched and almost untouchable, unchanging, rooted; places which would be references, starting points, sources.”)
Paris, Clok’s serie (tentative d’épuisement) of Belleville, bar, rue de Belleville (street art by Fred le Chevalier), February 2013.
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The portrayed reality of people’s lives is vying for attention these days. Hence, staying committed to oneself can be challenging. The perfection of the others frequently dazzles the view because it continuously demonstrates the brighter side of life.
The appearance of the visible usually covers reality with a veil. It obscures the view. Thus, one only perceives what should be seen: The beautiful, the exciting, the impressive, the extraordinary, and the desirable – a representation of the brighter side of life.
Sometimes this concept is hard to see through. Because when searching for a place in life, it is a demanding task to understand what is more appearance than substance. Hence, the other side always seems to be brighter, and self-doubts start spreading around.
Yet, most people create a presence that represents only a part of the truth. It only seems so inviolable because nobody bothers to look behind it. When digging a little, one can quickly notice that what is seeable is not as bright as it wants us to believe.
acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2016
The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.
It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain. To act or speak violently out of spite, chauvinism, or self-interest, to impoverish, exploit or deny basic rights to anybody, and to incite hatred by denigrating others - even our enemies - is a denial of our common humanity. We acknowledge that we have failed to live compassionately and that some have even increased the sum of human misery in the name of religion.
We therefore call upon all men and women ~ to restore compassion to the centre of morality and religion ~ to return to the ancient principle that any interpretation of scripture that breeds violence, hatred or disdain is illegitimate ~ to ensure that youth are given accurate and respectful information about other traditions, religions and cultures ~ to encourage a positive appreciation of cultural and religious diversity ~ to cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings, even those regarded as enemies.
We urgently need to make compassion a clear, luminous and dynamic force in our polarized world. Rooted in a principled determination to transcend selfishness, compassion can break down political, dogmatic, ideological and religious boundaries. Born of our deep interdependence, compassion is essential to human relationships and to a fulfilled humanity. It is the path to enlightenment, and indispensible to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful global community.
(Charter for compassion, founded by Karen Armstrong)
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter and poet
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El principio de compasión permanece en el corazón de todas las tradiciones religiosas, éticas y espirituales, y siempre nos pide tratar a los otros como nos gustaría ser tratados. La compasión nos impulsa a trabajar sin cansancio para aliviar el sufrimiento de nuestros semejantes; nos motiva a dejar de lado el egoísmo y aprender a compartir y nos pide honrar la inviolable santidad de cada ser humano, tratando a todos, sin excepción, con absoluta justicia, equidad y respecto.
Es además necesario en la vida pública y en la privada abstenerse de causar dolor de manera sistemática y categórica, actuar o hablar de manera violenta, obrar con mala intención, manejarse priorizando el interés personal, explotar o denegar los derechos básicos e incitar al odio denigrando a los otros – aunque sean enemigos - actuar de manera contraria, implica negar nuestra humanidad. Reconocemos haber fallado en vivir con compasión y sabemos que alguien ha incluso incrementado la miseria humana en nombre de la religión.
Por eso pedimos a hombres y mujeres ~ restaurar la compasión al centro de la moralidad y de la religión ~ volver al antiguo principio que afirma que cualquier interpretación de la escritura que incite a la violencia, el odio o al desprecio, es ilegítima ~ garantizar a los jóvenes una información positiva y respetuosa sobre otras tradiciones, religiones y culturas ~ estimular a una positiva apreciación de la diversidad cultural y religiosa ~ cultivar una empatía consecuente con el sufrimiento de los seres humanos, hasta con aquellos que consideramos enemigos.
En nuestro mundo polarizado hay una necesidad urgente de transformar la compasión en una fuerza clara luminosa y dinámica. Arraigada en la determinación de trascender el egoísmo, la compasión puede romper las fronteras políticas, dogmáticas, ideológicas y religiosas. Nacida de nuestra profunda interdependencia, la compasión es esencial para las relaciones humanas y para la realización de la humanidad. Es el camino hacia la claridad, indispensable para la creación de una economía justa y de una comunidad global y pacifica.
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慈憫宣言>內文如下
慈憫心為所有宗教信仰、道德價內、與精神傳統的核心,它總是呼喚我們力行 「己所欲,施於人」的道理。慈憫心敦促我們永不厭倦地致力於減輕同胞們的 苦痛,不以自我而以他人為世界的中心,禮敬每一個人內在不容侵犯的神性, 並且以內對的公正、平等、與尊重,毫無例外地對待每個個體。
同時在公共場合和私人生活中,我們也必需不斷地以同理心,避免將痛苦加諸 於他人。因心懷憤恨、沙文主義或為了自利而言行粗暴,減少、剝奪或者否定 任何人的基本權利,甚至藉由詆毀他人而挑起仇恨 (即使是對我們的敵人),這些都是違反人性的行為。我們承認,自己無法常保 一顆慈憫心,有些人甚至假借信仰之名,陷人們於更悲慘的境地。
因此,我們鼓勵所有的男女重拾慈憫心,並以其為道德與信仰的中心;回歸古 訓所言,所有導致暴力、仇恨或輕蔑的經典詮釋,皆為曲解,以確保青年學習
到不同傳統、信仰與文化當中,正確且受敬重的訊息;同時也鼓勵正向的態度 ,去理解文化與信仰的多元性;以同理心憐憫所有人的苦痛,甚至對我們視為
敵人的人亦不例外。
在這個兩極化的世界中,我們亟需讓慈憫成為一股澄澈、閃耀且活躍的力量。慈憫根植於我們超越一己之私的堅定決心,它能打破政治、教條、意識形態與
信仰的藩籬。慈憫滋生於人與人之間,相互深刻的倚靠,是人際關係與為人之 道能否圓滿的重要因素。慈憫心帶領我們成就智慧,也是造就一個公正的經濟
體與和平的地球村,所不可或缺。
Strictly speaking doctrinal knowledge is independent of the individual. But its actualization is not independent of the human capacity to act as a vehicle for it. He who possesses truth must none the less merit it although it is a free gift. Truth is immutable in itself, but in us it lives, because we live.
If we want truth to live in us we must live in it.
Knowledge only saves us on condition that it enlists all that we are, only when it is a way and when it works and transforms and wounds our nature even as the plough wounds the soil.
To say this is to say that intelligence and metaphysical certainty alone do not save; of themselves they do not prevent titans from falling. This is what explains the psychological and other precautions with which every tradition surrounds the gift of the doctrine.
When metaphysical knowledge is effective it produces love and destroys presumption. It produces love, that is to say the spontaneous directing of the will towards God and the perception of "myself" - and of God - in one's neighbour. It destroys presumption, for knowledge does not allow a man to overestimate himself or to underestimate others. By reducing to ashes all that is not God it orders all things.
All St. Paul says of charity concerns effective knowledge, for the latter is love, and he opposes it to theory inasmuch as theory is human concept. The Apostle desires that truth should be contemplated with our whole being and he calls this totality of contemplation "love".
Metaphysical knowledge is sacred. It is the right of sacred things to require of man all that he is.
Intelligence, since it distinguishes, perceives, as one might put
it, proportions. The spiritual man integrates these proportions into his will, into his soul and into his life.
All defects are defects of proportion; they are errors that are lived. To be spiritual means not denying at any point with one's "being" what one affirms with one's knowledge, that is, what one accepts with the intelligence.
Truth lived: incorruptibility and generosity. Since ignorance is all that we are and not merely our thinking, knowledge will also be all that we are to the extent to which our existential modalities are by their nature able to participate in truth.
Human nature contains dark elements which no intellectual
certainty could, ipso facto, eliminate...
Pure intellectuality is as serene as a summer sky - serene with a serenity that is at once infinitely incorruptible and infinitely generous.
Intellectualism which "dries up the heart" has no connection
with intellectuality.
The incorruptibility - or inviolability - of truth is bound up neither with contempt nor with avarice.
What is man's certainty? On the level of ideas it may be perfect, but on the level of life it but rarely pierces through illusion.
Everything is ephemeral and every man must die. No man is
ignorant of this and no one knows it.
Man may have an interest that is quite illusory in accepting the
most transcendent ideas and will readily believe himself to be superior to some other who, not having this interest - perhaps because he is too intelligent or too noble to have it - is sincere enough not to accept them, though he may all the same be more able to understand them than the other who accepts them.
Man does not always accept truth because he understands it; often he believes he understands it because he is anxious to accept it.
People often discuss truths whereas they should limit themselves to discussing tastes and tendencies ...
Acuteness of intelligence is only a blessing when it is compensated by greatness and sweetness of the soul. It should not appear as a rupture of the equilibrium or as an excess which splits man in two. A gift of nature requires complementary qualities which allow of its harmonious manifestation; otherwise there is a risk of the lights becoming mingled with darkness.
Serbian monastery in Kosovo, rumoured on the internet to have been bombed twice by NATO back in 1999, when Serbia's borders were not inviolable like Ukraine's are today.
However, I haven't seen any trace of such an unfortunate event and the young Serbian man who presented the monastery to our group did not mention it. I had intended to ask but the thing slipped out of my mind, unfortunately.
It has amazing mural painting from the 14th century, but photography is forbidden inside.
SOOC (straight out of the camera - except for the signature).
"The selected tree becomes a zapis through the rite of consecration performed by a Serbian Orthodox priest in which a cross is inscribed into its bark. The zapisi (plural) are chosen from large trees, primarily oaks, but also elms, ashes, and pear trees. The zapis is inviolable. Climbing it, sleeping under it, and picking its fruits and twigs, are also forbidden. Even the branches and fruits that fall from the tree should not be collected. A village may have more than one zapis: the main one in the settlement or near it, and several others in the village's fields, usually chosen so that they surround the settlement. Zapis is inherited from the pre-Christian religion of the Serbs, in which it had been used as a temple."
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A horrible cataclysm breaks the tearful ground and the river rushes through the new bed; Through the walls of luminous granite itarare, fearful and violent.
Suddenly he stops to take a breath, here in the dark cave, in the shady silence; But soon he jumps on, rude and noisy, to disappear beyond, elusive and silent.
In the afternoon, the swallows, in wild revolts, threw themselves at the grottoes, the arrows of which were fired, seeking the solitude of spontaneous exile.
And the mystery of the river remains inviolable ...
Nothing escapes from within the unfathomable abyss.
Only the swallows know ... but keep it a secret.
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Other photograph of the set "Love is life" ... waiting to be discovered with you.
This is the magic of those moments before a kiss.
I like very much this shot because they were truly isolated from the rest of the people.
They were suspended on a cloud, invisible and inviolable.
[...]
See, they return, one, and by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmur in the wind,
And half turn back;
These were the "Wing'd-with-Awe",
Inviolable.
[...]
~ Ezra Pound ~
Our weak, uneven breathings,
these dissolving personalities,
were breathed out by the eternal
Huuuuuuuu, that never changes!
A drop of water constantly fears
that it may evaporate into the air,
or be absorbed by the ground.
It doesn't want to be used up
in those ways, but when it lets go
and falls into the ocean it came from,
it finds protection from the other deaths.
Its droplet form is gone,
but its watery essence has become
vast and inviolable.
Listen to me, friends, because you
are a drop, and you can honor yourselves
in this way. What could be luckier
than to have the ocean come
to court the drop?
For God's sake, don't postpone your yes!
Give up and become the giver.
The landscape architect who designed Fairchild was William Lyman Phillips. He was born in 1885 in Massachusetts, and he obtained his landscape architecture degree from Harvard in 1910. His incredible talents landed him a position with the highly regarded landscape architecture firm, Olmsted Brothers. At the age of 25, he began a long association with Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the most outstanding landscape architects in America. In the ensuing years, Phillips worked in the Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. In 1924, he arrived in Florida and in 1933, he started working with the Dade County Parks Department on Greynolds Park and Matheson Hammock Park.
The Landscape Plan
Phillips wrote to Robert Montgomery in December of 1938 with ideas of what a botanical garden could be and how its development could be approached. Phillips became Fairchild’s landscape architect and remained in that position until 1963. He designed the entire Garden, including the Palmetum, which he designed around plots designated for planting based on the genus of palms. He designed the Arboretum section of the Garden based on grouping by families.
Families represented in the Arboretum were based on a list of plants growing in the Botanical Garden of the Atkins Institution in Soledad, Cuba. The entire upland portion of the Garden consisted of 23 acres, including the Palmetum and the Arboretum. Except for the formal elements in the design of the Overlook, its Allée, and the Bailey Palm Glade, Phillips gave the upland portion an informal design treatment, requiring no specific form or character in the vegetation masses. Phillips wanted the plants to vary in kind and size through the years to allow freedom in the choice of plant material. He believed that any formality would limit choice by demanding specific size and form. Only the formal elements, such as those found in the Palm Glade, the Amphitheater, and the Overlook, demanded a certain uniformity of vegetation, which Phillips felt had little to do with the general purpose of creating a botanical collection.
Phillips designed the shape and size of the plots and topography of the Uplands, the Lowlands, and the slope between. In the Arboretum, a system of terraces and stone walls was created to retain fill. To mitigate possible damage from northeast winds in the winter, Phillips planted trees to form a windbreak and made passages between the plots devious to further deflect the wind. A stand of oaks north and south of the Palm Glade provided a good windbreak on the Palmetum side. He designed the Overlook Allée so that sweeping views opened to the left and right, continuing to the Overlook terrace, which offered a very wide vista. The plan for the Lowlands was an articulated complex of openings.
Phillips felt that well-defined openings provided a sense of organization and had a striking visual effect. Open spaces could be compared to rooms and corridors in a gallery, where the walls display items. The Uplands’ 23 acres imposed space limitations, allowing only for small scale openings no wider than lanes or walks. Phillips believed that small landscape areas and close views of the plants were more attractive than wide views, and that walks in the shade would be more agreeable than walks in the sun. The Lowlands provided much larger openings and bolder views. The lakes would constitute inviolable open spaces.
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A friend of Poppy and the lamented Hon. She runs a particularly excellent jewellery business Misha Fine Jewelry. Look it up. It's so good that Tessa bought her hunny some stuff there and we all know how inviolable Tessa's purse is
The North American B-25 Mitchell was an American twin-engined medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation. It was used by many Allied air forces, in every theater of World War II, as well as many other air forces after the war ended, and saw service across four decades.
The B-25 was named in honor of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. By the end of its production, nearly 10,000 B-25s in numerous models had been built. These included a few limited variations, such as the United States Navy’s and Marine Corps’ PBJ-1 patrol bomber and the United States Army Air Forces’ F-10 photo reconnaissance aircraft.
B-25 first gained fame as the bomber used in the 18 April 1942 Doolittle Raid, in which 16 B-25Bs led by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle attacked mainland Japan, four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The mission gave a much-needed lift in spirits to the Americans, and alarmed the Japanese who had believed their home islands were inviolable by enemy forces. Although the amount of actual damage done was relatively minor, it forced the Japanese to divert troops for the home defense for the remainder of the war.
The raiders took off from the carrier USS Hornet and successfully bombed Tokyo and four other Japanese cities without loss. Fifteen of the bombers subsequently crash-landed en route to recovery fields in Eastern China. These losses were the result of the task force being spotted by a Japanese vessel forcing the bombers to take off 170 mi (270 km) early, fuel exhaustion, stormy nighttime conditions with zero visibility, and lack of electronic homing aids at the recovery bases. Only one B-25 bomber landed intact, in Siberia where its five-man crew was interned and the aircraft confiscated. Of the 80 aircrew, 69 survived their historic mission and eventually made it back to American lines.
The majority of B-25s in American service were used in the Pacific. They fought on Papua New Guinea, in Burma and in the island hopping campaign in the central Pacific. There, the aircraft’s potential as a ground-attack aircraft was discovered and developed. The jungle environment reduced the usefulness of standard-level bombing, and made low-level attack the best tactic. The ever-increasing number of forward firing guns was a response to this operational environment, making the B-25 a formidable strafing aircraft.