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Relitto della nave russa Lara, arenata sulla barriera corallina.
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It's amazing how many Mississippians seem not to realize that the flag on the right was (and thankfully is) the enemy of the flag on the left.
I think many latter-day Confederate sympathizers have no idea how far the South (and Mississippi in particular) moved toward an embrace of pure evil in the years leading up to the Civil War. I suspect their sympathies are influenced both by their lack of knowledge of the cause for which Southern governments fought and by the undoubted heroism of the Confederate soldiers who fought so bravely against hopeless odds.
When Mississippi was first admitted to the Union in 1817, its citizens still keenly felt the inherent tension between the statement in the Declaration of Independence that "all Men are created Equal" and the institution of chattel slavery.
In an 1818 decision, Harry v. Decker, 1 Miss. 36, the Mississippi Supreme Court declared, "Slavery is condemned by reason and the laws of nature. It exists and can only exist, through municipal regulations, and in matters of doubt, is it not an unquestioned rule, that courts must lean 'in favorem vitae et libertatis [in favor of life and liberty]'?"
In an 1820 decision, Mississippi v. Jones, 1 Miss. 83, the defendant who was charged with murder for killing a slave, appealed on the ground that a slave was not a human being. The Mississippi Supreme Court resoundingly rejected this argument:
"In this state, the Legislature have considered slaves as reasonable and accountable beings and it would be a stigma upon the character of the state, and a reproach to the administration of justice, if the life of a slave could be taken with impunity, or if he could be murdered in cold blood, without subjecting the offender to the highest penalty known to the criminal jurisprudence of the country. Has the slave no rights, because he is deprived of his freedom? He is still a human being, and possesses all those right, of which he is not deprived by the positive provisions of the law, but in vain shall we look for any law passed by the enlightened and philanthropic legislature of this state, giving even to the master, much less to a stranger, power over the life of a slave. Such a statute would be worthy the age of Draco or Caligula, and would be condemned by the unanimous voice of the people of this state, where, even cruelty to slaves, much less the taking away of life, meets with universal reprobation."
And, it should be noted, the Mississippi Constitution of 1832 forbade the importation of slaves into the state of Mississippi from either abroad or from another state within the United States.
But by the days immediately preceding the Civil War, white Mississippians had wholly lost their moral bearings, as can be readily seen from two astonishing Mississippi Supreme Court cases from 1859.
In the case of George (a slave) v. Mississippi, 37 Miss. 316 (1859), the defendant (George) was convicted of the rape of a 10 year old slave girl and sentenced to hang. The Mississippi Supreme Court reversed the conviction. The Mississippi Supreme Court held that as a slave, the little ten year old girl had no protection against being raped because "the common law has no relation to the rights of slaves, and can afford them no protection." Instead, unless the legislature had passed a law specifically protecting slaves, the Roman laws of antiquity were still applicable, which allowed slaves to be "tortured for evidence, punished at the discretion of their lord, or even put to death by his authority." The 1859 Mississippi Supreme Court did note its 1820 decision of Mississippi v. Jones, which had held that slaves were human beings entitled to protection of the law, but summarily rejected it as "founded mainly upon the unmeaning twaddle, in which some humane judges and law writers have indulged, as to the influence of the 'natural law' [and] 'civilization and Christian enlightenment.'"
George the rapist was allowed to live, with the punishment (if any) for his horrendous crime left solely to the discretion of his owner.
In the case of Mitchell v. Wells, 37 Miss. 235 (1859), the issue was the validity of a bequest of $3,000 in a will of a deceased white Mississippian to a Negro woman who was living in Ohio as a free woman under the laws of that state. The woman was the white man's daughter and he had traveled with her to Ohio, a free state, where he had freed her. Mississippi had passed a law forbidding the emancipation of any slaves within the state of Mississippi. However, this law had been interpreted by the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1840 as allowing slaves to be sent to Liberia for emancipation, as this emancipation occurred outside the borders of Mississippi. See Ross v. Vertner, 6 Miss. 305 (1840).
Despite its precedent in Ross, the 1859 version of the Mississippi Supreme Court contemptuously rejected the daughter's plea that she be allowed to receive her father's bequest. The Mississippi Supreme Court declared the state of Ohio, which had decided that blacks could live as free people within its borders, to be "forgetful of her constitutional obligations to the whole race, and afflicted with a negro-mania, which inclines her to descend, rather than elevate herself in the scale of humanity." It declared blacks to be "an inferior caste, incapable of the blessings of free government, and occupying, in the order of nature, an intermediate state between the irrational animal and the white man." It voided the will's bequest to the Negro daughter because Ohio's attempt to confer rights on black people was morally unacceptable:
"Suppose that Ohio, still further afflicted with her peculiar philanthropy, should determine to descend another grade in the scale of her peculiar humanity, and claim to confer citizenship on the chimpanzee or the ourang-outang (the most respectable of the monkey tribe), are we to be told that "comity" will require of the States not thus demented, to forget their own policy and self-respect, and lower their own citizens and institutions in the scale of being, to meet the necessities of the mongrel race thus attempted to be introduced into the family of sisters in this confederacy?
The doctrine of comity is not thus unreasonable. Like the benign principles of moral duty, which regulate the miniature government of family in social life, it commands no duty, the observance of which will tend to degrade a sister in the family of nations.
If the sister, in violation of morality, and respect for herself, as well as her associates of the old household, will insist on the meretricious embrace, we are neither bound to sanction nor respect it, much less to receive her new associate into our immediate circle."
This passionate embrace of the "right" of one race to exercise totalitarian power over another was at the heart of Mississippian's decision to secede from the United States and to enter into the Civil War. The second paragraph of the Mississippi Secession Convention's Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union reads as follows:
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin."
When I think of the noble sacrifices of the Southern patriots who charged into the hailstorm of cannon balls, grape shot, bullets, and cannister at Gettysburg, I also think of the fact that many of those so bravely giving their lives were fighting for the proposition that black ten year girls could be raped with impunity and fathers have no right to leave their inheritances to their black daughters.
Still, to this Southern white boy, they were brave and noble, so I ultimately share the sentiments of General Grant in the final pages of his autobiography describing his emotions at Appomattox: "I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though it was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse."
My Christmas card
Flat Lay / Knolling by the Calendar
December 25th - Christmas
Collective 52 Photo Project "2017"
Week 51 - Silver, Blue or Gold
Monthly Prompt,
Literary Devices - Allegory
'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens,
a Victorian morality allegory ...
Generosity, kindness, ...
moral ideas associated with Christmas.
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Lisboa – Museo de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
Architecture: Amanda Levete, London
Opening: October 5, 2016
Finished: March 2017
=> MAAT
=> Wikipedia, Deutsch (only German, sorry)
=> Artikel in BauNetz vom 04.08.2016
Funny detail: 'Maat' also is the name of the Egyptian Goddess of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice :-)
In the background the Ponte 25 de Abril.
Because it is a suspension bridge and has similar coloring, it is often compared to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. It was built by the American Bridge Company (opened in 1966) which constructed the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, but not the Golden Gate.
(38.69577, -09.19378); [90°]
Deep into the future, humanity's morality has significantly lowered. In response, one AI has evolved into a machine that guides one to their desires... and to the results of their evil deeds. Some say it is The Devil's Pet... others The Justice of God...
But everyone calls it Death.
...and I mean the real hate crime: The way how "hate", the word, is used nowadays. How it has become the only way to express discontent that people still seem familiar with, across all ages and many demographics from the looks of it. They're all throwing it around nonchalantly for everything, from minor inconveniences to the most heinous crimes against humanity. "I hate it." I hate this, I hate that. Sometimes they say it loud, with emphasis. "I HATE it." When their car doesn't start, when they're stuck in traffic, when their new computer game has a bug, how expensive everything has become, how the trains are always late, how their favourite band released a new song they don't like, or indeed when entire cities get bombed to rubble. Apparently, that's all on the same level now somehow. A bit like people who barely can form two sentences in a row without using swear words, and then have no meaningful way to express when something really bothers them.
Though, come to think of it, I don't recall anyone ever claiming they "hate" the wars that are going on at the moment. Or the corrupt and incompetent politicians and corporations that keep them going. People criticise and condemn them, and protest against them, yes, but "hate"? Not that I'm aware of. People hate homeless people a lot more than the system that keeps producing ever more of them. Probably because the system might hate them back if it finds out. It does that anyway of course, but if you keep quiet, maybe you'll be able to fly under its radar. As long as that works, the system doesn't look like a threat, yet the homeless remind you it very much is.
Looking at it like this, it only makes sense. Hate is intricately linked with love, they're two sides of the same coin. Hate happens when something you love gets existentially threatened, and only then. It's a fear reaction, fear is alleviated by faith and hope and all those nice things, not by punishment. The easiest cure to hate is to stop loving, albeit that would be more akin to an amputation than to a cure in the common sense of the term.
I guess a war in someone else's country just isn't threatening enough; it's just a nuisance to the sense of morality if any of that has survived, but not a threat per se. Not in comparison to someone else's favourite soccer club scoring more goals than yours. Or indeed to you needing to change your workflow because the new mandatory eco bottlecaps work differently from the ones you're used to.
At least with the younger generations there's some hoping they "hate" everything literally as much as they know what "literally" means... but I'm not sure.
But the tour goes on, we pass through a small anti-chambre, blink at the strong sunlight when we come outside to walk down more stairs and come in the darkness and cool of one of the oldest parts, Romanesque architecture, heavy pillars and a strange pool of water…
Once more the raised voices get louder and resound under the lower vaults; I continue to take shots… no flash… no tripod… ahhemmm, a recipe for disaster, I know!!! Eventually the official ladies come to me apologetically; she tells me something that indeed we did not know prior!
There is a day tour and an evening tour, which is more expensive, she furtively looks around, no… the other bunch have left, still grumbling and reluctant, I remain polite and shrug, she turns and whispers” venez, come with me” we are quickly rushed through a door and arrive by miracle, this place really is a maze, in the anti-chambre then I will come and fetch you and you can join the evening tour and stay as long as you like, she winks and adds… take sunset shots! “
I profusely thank her and say we are more than willing to pay more; she gives a pursed lipped tchutt and disappears, locking the massive door with the huge key, Paul and I look at each other, smiling, wondering, laughing…
We wait, I take a photo of Paul staring out over the bay, we look through the beautiful stain glass windows, see the tide coming in the other island/rock called Tombelaine, towards Avranches.
The key is turned and people stream in, we arrive back in the refectory, transformed into a music-room, red carpet on the floor, a clavecimble in place and a young musician tuning it, we hang around, she starts to play, it is brilliant!
Very beautiful, you get ‘enveloped’ by the sounds…
We decide to continue, we hear other instruments in the distance, we are curious. Via another way, we arrive back in the church, the monks and nuns have left, the familiar scent and smoke of the incense lingers heavily in bands across the high vaulted ceiling, off-setting the rays of incoming sunlight, it is awesome!
Feverishly I take more images, the sun might go… the incense is thinning.
A young cello player plays a hauntingly melancholic melody, the music tumbles and slaloms between the pillars. We wait until it’s finished, applaud and walk out onto the big terrace overlooking the bay, the heat from the flagstones hits us, we sit on the steps, first in silence, then, with a big contented smile, we agree that once more, kindness and politeness have won!
There is a morality here, you, often, will get much further with tolerance and understanding, the people who work there have their orders, they get paid to do their duties, that’s their job… and the lady remained calm and composed which also made a difference.
I do not know if it was written anywhere about the regulations, if it wasn’t… I think it should!
Another hour in the life of a photographer…
That is the end of that story, we continue the day...
(… a suivre… more to follow)
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For the story of Day 2, part 1:
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For the story of Day 2, part 2:
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the beauty of the hijab
spiritually designed
a cloth that covers
the body heals
the mind a garment
of modesty
one of its kind
alluringly
aligned
mystically
refined
but for reasons
beyond
the wildest
imagination
for those who
dont wear it
faults
they find
ban the hijab
burn the hijab
with racist attitude
their soul gone blind
the hijab is not a
garment of oppression
says the sane Muslim
woman determined
whether you wear it
or dont wear it
depends on your
background
state of mind
the hijab
a second skin
of a woman
intertwined
religiosity
morality
both combined
Lewa Downs
Kenya
East Africa
Happy Caturday !!!
Young cheetahs after chasing down an impala.
The cheetah is a large cat of the subfamily Felinae that occurs in Southern, North and East Africa, and a few localities in Iran. The species is IUCN Red Listed as vulnerable, as it suffered a substantial decline in its historic range in the 20th century due to habitat loss, poaching, illegal pet trade, and conflict with humans. By 2016, the global cheetah population has been estimated at approximately 7,100 individuals in the wild. Several African countries have taken steps to improve cheetah conservation measures. It is the fastest land animal.
Cheetahs are active mainly during the day, with hunting their major activity. Adult males are sociable despite their territoriality, forming groups called coalitions. Females are not territorial; they may be solitary or live with their offspring in home ranges.
Carnivores, cheetah mainly prey upon antelopes and gazelles. They will stalk their prey to within 100–300 m (330–980 ft), charge towards it and kill it by tripping it during the chase and biting its throat to suffocate it to death. Cheetahs can reach speeds of 112 km/h (70 mph) in short bursts, but this is disputed by more recent measurements. The average speed of cheetahs is about 64 km/h (40 mph).
Cheetahs are induced ovulators, breeding throughout the year. Gestation is nearly three months long, resulting in a litter of typically three to five cubs (the number can vary from one to eight). Weaning occurs at six months; siblings tend to stay together for some time. Cheetah cubs face higher mortality than most other mammals, especially in the Serengeti region. Cheetahs inhabit a variety of habitats – dry forests, scrub forests and savannahs. -Wikipedia
This was what you wanted, wasn't it? Toa consumed by darkness, Toa not hampered by things like mercy or morality. Well, now you can choke on it.
____ MISTIKA ____
[ Tahu ]
[ Gali ]
[ Onua ]
[ Bitil ]
[ Gorast ]
[ Krika ]
[ Mazeka ]
[ Takanuva ]
[ Vultraz ]
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Custom Avohkii by socketball.
South Africa has the highest youth unemployment rate among OECD countries and one of the highest, if not highest, overall unemployment rates. It is also one of the worlds most unequal societies with arguably the highest Gini coefficient among both middle income and developed countries. The streets of both vast megalopolises like Johannesburg and small towns such as Grahamstown are awash with beggars and 'street people', who literally have no life prospects or hopes of better things to come. Here is one such young man - victim of a history and a social structure that he is powerless to alter. His life's possessions are in the plastic bag that he's carrying as he seeks a place of repose for the night. This is the dark side of global capitalism, the dark side of a world of such abundance and plenty. Our moral duty as the privileged (and no one on Flickr is in some ways not 'privileged to help address the needs of others, especially of those who have no resources whatsoever to do so.
I wanted to start the day off with something bright and beautiful. Yesterday life got to me and I was focusing on the negative and my belief in other people's morality was shaken. On Sunday, we were at our local amusement park and when ordering lunch the person in front of me told the cashier he was with me and I was paying for his sandwich then he walked out with his stolen lunch. I guess I'm sort of naïve and obviously so was the cashier, I couldn't believe someone would be so sleazy. Then yesterday, I got a call from the fraud department at my bank and somehow someone had used my debit card to make fraudulent purchases. Luckily the bank caught it but my card had to be closed and now I have to wait for the new card to be issued and contact everyone on auto-pay. Lastly, my local farm (where I bought this cute pumpkin) had a Facebook post and there was a news story about people going to the farm and stealing their pumpkins. It is very disheartening, this is such a hard-working family trying to keep their small local farm alive.
I am putting yesterday behind me and trying to focus on the goodness of others and beauty in the world. Sitting outside and enjoying the splendid sunrise and glorious light was a wonderful start. Have a great Tuesday and when life gets you down try to focus on the light and positive, be in the moment.
... is the new website, er, blog, er, Haven For Authorial Misery, www.terribleminds.com.
Yes, that's right, peeps, the new website is up and functioning and, I'm proud to say, it doesn't look like a bag of hot garbage! That's a win for you and a win for me, right? Right.
Mind you, before you click over there, I'm warning you: it's sodden with profanity, it's positively gluey with foul ideas and septic madness. Caveat lector, it is not for tender eyes! It will burn a hole in your morality centers! It will turn you into a monster deprived of happ thoughts and driven only on a fuel of slowly-cooking discontendness! Oh noes!
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Okay, I might be exagerrating a little. Point is, you'll find bad words over there. That's really the warning.
Anyway, enjoy this picture of gleaming drops on the roseglow bush.
# Immanuel Kant is one of the influential German philosophers of his time. He was born in the Prussian city of Königsberg, which is today's Kaliningrad located in present day Russia.
# He is known for his ideas in the fields of Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics and Logic.
# His 3 major works are : Critique of Pure Reason (German: Kritik der reinen Vernunft), in 1781 which was his Magnum Opus; Critique of Practical Reason (German: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft), in 1788 and Critique of Judgment (German: Kritik der Urteilskraft), in 1790.
# His philosophy on ethics (Kantian ethics) is considered central in Deontology. His major work, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten), in 1785, explained his philosophy on morality.
# He believed himself to be a compromise between the Empricists and Rationalists of his time and thought that human understanding of Metaphyics can be enhanced or bettered through our study of Epistemology, which is the study of the nature of human knowledge.
# Kant's ideas are studied as Kantianism, and include ideas such as the Categorical imperative, Transcendental Idealism, Deontological Morality, Synthetic A Priori, Noumenon, Schema, Sapere Aude, Nebular hypothesis.
# Though not regarded as a Political Theorist, Kant used his ideas to expound some political views like the classical republican theory which was explained in his work Science of Right.
# The Kingdom of Ends is another thought experiment of Kant which he explained in his work Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. His is a hypothetical kingdom based on his idea of morality taking shape from the Deontologically moralistic idea of the Categorical Imperative.
Father Malloy
YOU are over there, Father Malloy,
Where holy ground is, and the cross marks every grave,
Not here with us on the hill—
Us of wavering faith, and clouded vision
And drifting hope, and unforgiven sins. 5
You were so human, Father Malloy,
Taking a friendly glass sometimes with us,
Siding with us who would rescue Spoon River
From the coldness and the dreariness of village morality.
You were like a traveler who brings a little box of sand 10
From the wastes about the pyramids
And makes them real and Egypt real.
You were a part of and related to a great past,
And yet you were so close to many of us.
You believed in the joy of life. 15
You did not seem to be ashamed of the flesh.
You faced life as it is,
And as it changes.
Some of us almost came to you, Father Malloy,
Seeing how your church had divined the heart, 20
And provided for it,
Through Peter the Flame,
Peter the Rock.
Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950). Spoon River Anthology. 1916.
All Time Low Meet & Greet
November 29, 2008 @ Electric Factory
Me and Rian....showing off our teeth :D
Well, yes, I know Halloween was last week, but my PC decided it would stop working about a week ago. (I had therefore been waiting for a new part).
Anyway, here's a belated and (vaguely) seasonal pic.
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Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
Happy Caturday!!
Female cheetah with cubs out on the grasslands.
The cheetah is a large cat of the subfamily Felinae that occurs in Southern, North and East Africa, and a few localities in Iran. The species is IUCN Red Listed as vulnerable, as it suffered a substantial decline in its historic range in the 20th century due to habitat loss, poaching, illegal pet trade, and conflict with humans. By 2016, the global cheetah population has been estimated at approximately 7,100 individuals in the wild. Several African countries have taken steps to improve cheetah conservation measures. It is the fastest land animal.
Cheetahs are active mainly during the day, with hunting their major activity. Adult males are sociable despite their territoriality, forming groups called coalitions. Females are not territorial; they may be solitary or live with their offspring in home ranges.
Carnivores, cheetah mainly prey upon antelopes and gazelles. They will stalk their prey to within 100–300 m (330–980 ft), charge towards it and kill it by tripping it during the chase and biting its throat to suffocate it to death. Cheetahs can reach speeds of 112 km/h (70 mph) in short bursts, but this is disputed by more recent measurements. The average speed of cheetahs is about 64 km/h (40 mph).
Cheetahs are induced ovulators, breeding throughout the year. Gestation is nearly three months long, resulting in a litter of typically three to five cubs (the number can vary from one to eight). Weaning occurs at six months; siblings tend to stay together for some time. Cheetah cubs face higher mortality than most other mammals, especially in the Serengeti region. Cheetahs inhabit a variety of habitats – dry forests, scrub forests and savannahs. -Wikipedia
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"Mother Courage and Her Children" is a powerful anti-war play that forces us to confront the devastating cost of war, survival, and morality.
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Si matas a una cucaracha eres un héroe. Si matas a una mariposa eres malo. La moral tiene criterios estéticos.
F. Nietzsche
f you kill a cockroach you are a hero. If you kill a butterfly you are bad. Morality has aesthetic criteria
F. Nietzsche
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DHS or the Department of Homeland Security has admitted that they've separated 2,000+ children from their parents at the American border in just a couple of months time. Meanwhile, Jeff Sessions tries to justify this based on what has been written in Old Testament Law for The Bible. Here's what you can do, even if you are not in a major city to protest:
www.indivisible.org/resource/trumps-new-cruel-immigration...
Here's a direct link to call your congress rep:
act.indivisible.org/call/end-family-separation/
Tell her/him to support HELP:
Humane Enforcement and Legal Protections (HELP) for Separated Children Act. Make sure you mention you are a voting constituent and that if they don't take a stand on this issue, you will take our vote elsewhere. Our very humanity depends on this.
Quote taken from We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria. Speak out against atrocities in Syria as well and donate here if you can:
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One of Muang Boran's highlights is the Sumeru Mountain Palace. The Sumeru Mountain feature represents the centre of the Universe according to Thai cosmology, which is supported by the giant Ananda fish, keeping it above the waters of the Cosmic Ocean.
This fish from Hindu mythology, according to legend, she lives in the endless spaces of space, and one movement of the tail is capable of causing an earthquake and tsunami.
According to Thai cosmology, Sumeru Mountain is considered the pillar of the world as well as the center as the universe. The mountain, supported stays above the surface of the water. lt is the residence of spirits ranging from deities in heaven to devils in hell. The beings living by the mountainside also include humans, nagas, garudas. ogres. ogresses and yogis. Each of them is distinguished by wisdom morality.
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Fairytale Perfume Awakening Long-forgotten Childhood Memories at the pier of Langelinje close to Copenhagen Harbour ... Once upon a Time ... a Long Time ago ...
Hans Christian Andersen was sitting there giving life to the bronze statue as he started relating the moving story of "The Little Mermaid" who lived in an Underwater Kingdom with beautiful gardens but she longed to experience the world of human beings ...
Please say no more,dear Christian ... It’s a long sad story,it'll make me cry again,you'll scratch all the etched wounds in my soul.
Can't bear it,enough the sufferings of the world,I had better have fun in Tivoli Gardens ...
Hans Christian Andersen believed that his life was a real fairytale.Many of his cautionary tales became immortal and they immortalised him as they would live happily forever after.
His philosophy and favourite phrase was “To travel is to live”.
He travelled all over Europe where he met many fellow writers,celebrities and royalties.Many of his journeys were financed by public funds.He found the experience of travelling so fascinating that he also wrote a number of travel books.
“To move, to breath, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote.
To Travel is to Live.” H. C. Andersen
Allured by the sparkling lights in Tivoli Gardens,I left Christian and the Little Mermaid on her rock gazing across the shore looking for her lost love ... There was an expression of ineffable sadness on her face ... If melancholy had a face,it would be hers ...
Paying tribute to Children's Literature & to Childhood Memories & Dreams ...
Determine the moral for yourselves or encapsulate it in a maxim,If you know the plot of the tale ... my Flickr friends ♥
God cares about the little things as much as he cares about the great ones. God cares because the little things shape the big things. Social morality is simply a reflection of private morality. The global picture is what the microcosm of the human heart looks like when it is magnified.
-Prayer : our deepest longing / Ronald Rolheiser.
Thiruvalluvar Statue, or the Valluvar Statue, is a 133-feet (40.6 m) tall stone sculpture of the Tamil poet and philosopher Valluvar, author of the Tirukkural, an ancient Tamil work on secular ethics and morality. It is located atop a small island near the town of Kanyakumari on the southernmost point of the Indian peninsula on the Coromandel Coast, where two seas (the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea) and an ocean (the Indian Ocean) meet. The statue was sculpted by the Indian sculptor V. Ganapati Sthapati, who also created the Iraivan Temple, and was unveiled on the millennium day of 1 January 2000 by the then Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. It is currently the 25th tallest statue in India
One of Muang Boran's highlights is the Sumeru Mountain Palace. The Sumeru Mountain feature represents the centre of the Universe according to Thai cosmology, which is supported by the giant Ananda fish, keeping it above the waters of the Cosmic Ocean.
This fish from Hindu mythology, according to legend, she lives in the endless spaces of space, and one movement of the tail is capable of causing an earthquake and tsunami.
According to Thai cosmology, Sumeru Mountain is considered the pillar of the world as well as the center as the universe. The mountain, supported stays above the surface of the water. lt is the residence of spirits ranging from deities in heaven to devils in hell. The beings living by the mountainside also include humans, nagas, garudas. ogres. ogresses and yogis. Each of them is distinguished by wisdom morality.
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Ink Drawing
Three States
by Yingyun
In the boundless blue sea, in the foreground, a man floats through a lifebuoy, with arms idly resting over the ring and hands in water, staring at the viewer intensively. To his left behind, a woman swims hard against the surging waves. A quite contrast between them: resting and struggling, watching and doing, etc. The first thing that pops into my mind is these two figures possibly representing different attitudes toward life: watcher and doer.
The enigma of this drawing lies in the background where a person stands on a black islet, facing away from viewers. We don’t know the gender of this person, or what he/she is looking at. However, standing on the islet and elevated above the sea, he/she seems to be in a space different from the sea where the other two are trapped. What can it possibly mean then? If a sea is a metaphor for life, culture, or any physical or mental entity with a boundary, then the spatial concepts, In it and Out of it, are inevitably created, which can bring about more fascinating views and interpretations. In this imagery, these two figures are in the sea and part of the sea. Regardless of their states - floating or swimming -, or their attitudes, they have to accept the rules established in the “sea” and survive passively or aggressively. The figure above the sea can mean staying out of the influence of and constraints from the sea. The solid black color of the islet not only creates a focal point in the drawing but also embodies the loneliness and strength that a visionary must have to stay out of the path that most people have taken. This sounds similar to Nietzsche’s Superman theory, in which Superman is an individual who can create his own values through actions and accomplish anything he desires while surpassing Christian morals and values of humanity, transcending pure rationality, being beyond good and evil in that he recognizes that morality only exists concerning human beings.
Of course, this is only one interpretation of this drawing. It's also possible that these three figures represent different states of one person, as depicted in Maslow's Pyramid, from survival to self-actualization.
01/19/2022
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Tbilisi - თბილისი - is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari (Kura) River. Located strategically at the crossroads between Europe and Asia and lying along the historic Silk Road routes, Tbilisi has often been a point of contention between various rival powers and empires. The history of the city can be seen by its architecture, where the Haussmannized Rustaveli Avenue and downtown are blended with the narrower streets of the medieval Narikala district.
The demographics of the city are diverse and historically it has been home to peoples from diverse cultures, religions and ethnicities. Despite being overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian, Tbilisi is one of the few places in the world (Sarajevo and Paramaribo being others) where a synagogue and a mosque are located next to each other, in the ancient Bath district several hundred metres from the Metekhi Church.
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A quote from the legendary Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last leader of Chabad.:
"To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens."
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Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Yiddish: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן; Modern Hebrew: מנחם מנדל שניאורסון; April 5, 1902, OS – June 12, 1994; AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to many as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an Orthodox rabbi and the most recent Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.
As the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he took an insular Hasidic group that almost came to an end with the Holocaust and transformed it into one of the most influential movements in religious Jewry, with an international network of over 5,000 educational and social centers. The institutions he established include kindergartens, schools, drug rehabilitation centers, care homes for the disabled, and synagogues.
Schneerson's published teachings fill more than 400 volumes, and he is noted for his contributions to Jewish continuity and religious thought, as well as his wide-ranging contributions to traditional Torah scholarship. He is recognized as the pioneer of Jewish outreach. During his lifetime, many of his adherents believed that he was the Messiah. His own attitude to the subject, and whether he openly encouraged this, is hotly debated among academics. During Schneerson's lifetime, the messianic controversy and other issues elicited fierce criticism from many quarters in the Orthodox world, especially earning him the enmity of Rabbi Elazar Shach.
In 1978, the U.S. Congress asked President Jimmy Carter to designate Schneerson's birthday as the national Education Day U.S. It has been since commemorated as Education and Sharing Day. In 1994, Schneerson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his "outstanding and lasting contributions toward improvements in world education, morality, and acts of charity." Schneerson's resting place attracts both Jews and non-Jews for prayer.