Faith is Funny
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Hannover/GER
»Hellebardier« by Alexander Calder (b. 1898 in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, USA – d. 1976), which is also known by the alternate title »Guadeloupe«, was given to the city of Hannover in 1972 by the collector and art patron Bernhard Sprengel and can be seen as a commentary on his belief that the »Street Art Programme« lacked cosmopolitanism. It was initially installed in front of the opera house, but after public protests it was relocated opposite the Sprengel Museum in 1978.
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Margerethenkapelle on top of the Wiehengebirge. One of my special places since I visited a concert on a Winter evening here many years ago. October waved goodby with sunshine and warm tempereratures and we used the perfect weather for an extended hiking tour on the Wittedindsweg, a crest trail on the Wiehengebirge from Porta Westfalica in the East to the Osnabrück area in the West. Before the sun went down we visited the most interesting spots of the Eastern part of the trail.
The well-known phrase, 'When robins appear, loved ones are near', alludes to the belief that the robin is a messenger. When robins are seen, some people take comfort that loved ones are at peace, and many believe that their lost loved ones are visiting them.
”Shakkin’ Briggie” (St Devenick’s Bridge) over the River Dee from Ardoe to Cults, Aberdeen - opened in 1837. Funded by Rev Dr George Morison to give 700 parishioners on the north bank access to his church on the south bank (they were crossing the river by boat). You would need more than a prayer to cross on it now!
The Cathedral of Our Lady (Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's see of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been 'completed'. In Gothic style, its architects were Jan and Pieter Appelmans. It contains a number of significant works by the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, as well as paintings by artists such as Otto van Veen, Jacob de Backer and Marten de Vos.
The belfry of the cathedral is included in the Belfries of Belgium and France entry in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The first Christian missionaries arrived in the 7th century. The first parish church dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul was constructed in the current Sint Michielsstraat. After the Viking raids in 836, the church was damaged and restored, and subsequently dedicated to Saint Michael. In the 10th century, a group of 12 secular canons were connected to this church. They would dedicate all of their time to the Liturgy of the Hours, and mainly opposed the beliefs of the established Roman Catholic Church.
Upon hearing of their dissent behavior, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai (to which Antwerp belonged at the time) then sent Norbert of Xanten to discipline them. In 1124, Norbert of Xanten convinces 4 of the secular canons to start a norbertine abbey and thus the parish church becomes a monastery church, known as St. Michael's Abbey. The 8 other secular canons prefer to keep their freedom and move to a different location, a chapel dedicated to Our Lady, the Virgin Mary.
This chapel becomes Antwerp's new parish church, and is located between the Saint Michael residential area, and an older settlement around the area of Het Steen.
Becoming more popular, the chapel is demolished and replaced by a much bigger romanesque church. The three-aisled nave corresponded in width to the cathedral's current central aisle, the inner and partly the middle aisles. The cloverleaf-shaped eastern section with a full aisle had a width of no less than 42 m. In 1294, the church gets a novum opus extension, indicating the first signs of gothic architecture.
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An ema is a wooden plaque on which you write your wishes and prayers. The name is written with the kanji for 'picture' [e = 絵] and 'horse' [ma = 馬], reflecting an ancient belief that horses could bring wishes to the kami, the gods. But emas are not only used at Shinto shrines, they are often seen at Buddhist temples too - a practice that dates back at least to the Kamakura period (that is 1185-1333).
These wooden plaques are often produced for the specific shrine or temple where you can buy them - with a pre-printed picture on one side, with some local meaning (here you can see the foxes, showing that the Hanazono shrine is dedicated to the god Inari, and chickens, hens and a rooster - signifying that at the time of the photo it was the year of the rooster). On the other side you write what you wish for and leave it hanging with all the others.
I am not very good with Japanese writing, but I can decipher that the plaque in the middle to the far right, written 回帰 , means return or comeback. Perhaps reflecting the fact that this shrine is close to the entertainment district.
San Francisco dream cityscape about our strongly held beliefs and paradigm shifts.
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These split gates have strong spiritual belief. It represents the Balinese concept of duality and the importance of maintaining a balance between dark and light forces....
" I see you
You're not dead, just dead to me
Loyalty is a chain that's binding
It's sad, sad but true
You're like a match to the fuel
Destroying everything around you
Twist the blade
Leavin' a wound that never heals inside me
Twist the blade, let it die
Vengeance is hereby mine
Don't you feel better when, better when
You see right through me, yeah
So don't pretend, don't pretend
You ever knew me
Who I really am, really am
Guess you're just another bad friend
Just a bad friend, fuck it
Watched you fall, fall from grace
Face to face with the shadow of your mistakes
So you cut, cut and run
Look what you've done
Belief is the death of reason
Twist the blade
Leavin' a wound that never heals inside me
Twist the blade, let it die
Vengeance is hereby mine
Don't you feel better when, better when
You see right through me, yeah
So don't pretend, don't pretend
You ever knew me
Who I really am, really am
Guess you're just another bad friend
Just a bad friend
Bad friend (bad friend)
Bad friend (bad friend)
Bad friend (bad friend)
Drop the dead weight, I'm moving past this
When I'm gone, who's gonna carry your casket?
Who?
Who's gonna carry your casket?
Who?
No one will carry your casket ... "
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It doesn't matter if you're white, black, brown, or even yellow, purple, green, pink, blue. It doesn't matter where you live, how you speak, what you do for a living, how you make your money, if you're religious or political, if you're gay or straight, if you're right or wrong, if you're young or old, if you're rich or poor or what you're beliefs are.
All life is precious.
All lives matter.
General Watkins Conservation Area
Scott County Missouri
Photo taken on October 22, 2020
The sun is hiding were I’m standing but at the top of the hill it's brilliant beyond belief. I want to walk to the top of this hill and let this stunning sunshine rain down on me and be baptized in its brilliance.
Ïf you descontruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine and a boat remain. That is, with as much you reconstruct her."
~Odisseas Elytis"
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt~
From Middle English feith, from Old French feid, from Latin fides, faith, trust. Used in English since the 12th Century.
faith (plural faiths)
1. Mental acceptance of and confidence in a claim as truth without proof supporting the claim.
"Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld." (Hebrews 11:1)
2. A feeling or belief, that something is true, real, or will happen.
Have faith that the criminal justice system will avenge the murder.
3. A trust in the intentions or abilities of a person or object.
I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
Synonyms
* (feeling, without direct evidence but based on indirect evidence and experience (inductive reasoning), that something is true, real, or will happen): belief, confidence, trust
* (system of religious belief): religion
* (Belief without proof)
Five years ago if someone would have told me that I'd be shooting rebuilt CP SD9043AC's in maroon and grey paint in St Paul, I'd have thought they were nuts. Or high.
But here we are, doing just that on a beautiful Fall day. And these engines look GREAT! I gotta give them credit, CP really nailed it with these two Heritage units. They're on their first revenue run with train 197. Still can't believe what I saw today.
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Seeing artist Barbara Kruger's installation at MoMA yesterday reminded me that I had seen her work installed at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC in 2016.
From the museum's website: "Large areas of the installation are devoted to open-ended questions (“WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO SPEAKS? WHO IS SILENT?”), while the section occupying the bookstore explores themes of desire and consumption. At once addressing the individual, the museum, and, symbolically, the country, Kruger’s penetrating examination of the public sphere transforms one of the Hirshhorn’s key public spaces."
Temple bells peal in the mountaintop breeze at Wat Phra That Doi Kham in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 500, f/6.3, 65mm, 1/640s
Londolozi Game Reserve
South Africa
The Hamerkop occurs in Africa south of the Sahara, Madagascar and coastal southwest Arabia in all wetland habitats, including irrigated land such as rice paddies, as well as in savannas and forests.
Most remain sedentary in their territories, which are held by pairs, but some move into suitable habitat during the wet season only. Whenever people create new bodies of water with dams or canals, Hamerkops move in quickly.
There are many legends about Hamerkop. In some regions, people state that other birds help it build its nest. Some people said that when a Hamerkop flew and called over their camp, they knew that someone close to them had died. It is known in some cultures as the lightning bird, and the Kalahari Bushmen believe or believed that being hit by lightning resulted from trying to rob a Hamerkop's nest.
They also believe that the inimical god Khauna would not like anyone to kill a Hamerkop. According to an old Malagasy belief, anyone who destroys its nest will get leprosy, and a Malagasy poem calls it an "evil bird". Such beliefs have given the bird some protection. – Wikipedia
This is my contribution to Macro Mondays Look Up
And when I look up I of course lay down first
It's a pretty cool 'challenge' because you get to see it all in a different perspective than you normally do
Which is the story of my life lol
I think you can change things by doing just that
It is easier to observe things when you use a different perspective, putting on your objective glasses and look at what you are doing with your life, no judging
So
There I lay all down on the tiny spot where there is no snow, all by the house
Look UP
says Macro Mondays
And there they are
Small angel wings waving in the wind - making it a bit difficult to take a macro of course
I believe in many things, I love light and what that stands for and I know there are angels on earth
By having this belief I look for signs
If I had beliefs which was on the opposite side, the dark side, I would have looked for signs for my belief then too
That is why it can be difficult to get out of a pattern, we are being reassured that things are the way we think, like they are in our belief, because we have it around us in our sphere, social media, which groups do we follow, what news we want to be fed by.
Not to mention the people we are surrounded by - well we choose them for a certain reason, they match us somehow, until they don't.
I guess we feel safe having this common belief, either it has a light side or a dark side.
Fear is, I think, a foundation deep in us from the ancient days when we were hunting or being hunted at
Fear of
Not having enough food
Not having sufficient clothings
Not having roof over your head
Not having a job
Not having enough money
Not being cool enough
Not being good enough
Not having the body you see in the ads
Not having the hair you want
Not being socially accepted
Not doing your job good enough
Not being the best friend
Not being the best parent ever
aso
The ones that control us by using our fears knows exactly what they are doing
Of course they do, they see it work every time
Be aware of the manipulative people you have around you and stop them by withdrawing, no need to take a fight with them, they will never understand
Being aware of what sides of you they manipulate will indeed make you grow, then you can do something about that, you have a choice to get out of the pattern
Choose your people
They influence you more then you can imagine
Have a lovely week
I know my week will be awesome, of course it will, because I want it to
The architecture in the Reims Cathedral was beyond belief.
Of all the Cathedrals that I visited on our trip to Europe, this was one of my favorites.
This amazing Cathedral is located in Reims France.
… this particular aircraft was built by Douglas for the US Army Air Corps, was almost immediately transferred to China, flew the ‘Hump’ over the Himalayas during the war and had such an eventful history it’s almost beyond belief.
It was finally bought by the Historic Flight Foundation in 2006 and restored to DC-3B specifications, similar to airliners operated by Pan Am in the early 1950s.