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Photo circa 1900.
My great great grandfather, the doctor....never knew much about him and as an adult I decided to explore his background on Ancestry...interesting to say the least...families have so many secrets...hypocrisy at its finest...
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Jack White - Hypocritical Kiss
"My temper got the best of me
And when I said that I mean
A know every single thing that I said was true
And I know that you're mad at me
But if you're thinking like I,
I think you'll see that you're mad at you too
And I know the feeling's strong
Strong enough to forget about all that I've been through
And it sounds obscene, but
Loud words never bothered me like they do to you
You're the boy that talks but says nothin'
A big game to the ones that you think will believe you
But you don't know how to read
The look on my face when it says, yeah I've read that book too
And who the hell's impressed by you?
I want a name for people that I know who are fallin' for this
You would sell your own mother out
And then betray your dead brother with another hypocritical kiss."
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Eva was thinking about Thaìs. That guy around? Here? Where she felt safe. Where her heart was finally in good hands. Well...life has its' surprises, right?
No more hypocritical kisses. Only true ones.
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confession: one of the things I hate the most is hypocrisy. I really don't trust in people who are nice and kind with everyone. if you don't like someone, just be honest and tell him the truth. I hate when people hide their feelings behind a fake smile.
confessione: l'ipocrisia è una delle cose che odio di più. proprio non ci credo a quelli che sono carini e gentili con tutti. se non ti piace qualcuno, sii onesto e diglielo. odio chi nasconde il rancore dietro un sorrisetto fasullo.
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A comprehensive view of the château at Bonnétable on a postcard by A. Dolbeau of Le Mans.
The Rochefoucaulds
Prior to the Great War, le Château de Bonnétable was the residence of la Famille Rochefoucauld.
If you go to the cemetery in Bonnétable, you will see a very impressive-looking monument - you can't miss it, it's by far the best one in the cemetery. The monument tells you:
"Ici repose Charles Marie Francois,
Vicomte de la Rochefoucauld, Duc
d'Estrées, Maire de Bonnétable.
Decedée a Bonnétable le 25 Février
1907 dans sa 44ême année.
De Profundis".
Charles' ancestor, François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) once wrote:
"Hypocrisy is the homage that
vice pays to virtue".
The Great War
During the Great War, the château was the base for Military Ambulance No. 4 under the orders of Dr. Mikanowski. The château welcomed wounded men from both sides of the conflict.
A Thought From Nietzche
This is nothing really to do with the above image, but it's very thought-provoking. It's a comment by the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche (1844 to 1900). Here it is:
"One can promise actions, but not feelings,
for the latter are involuntary.
He who promises to love forever or hate
forever or be forever faithful to someone
is promising something that is not in his
power".
Over the last few weeks I can honestly say it's been hard to be a proud South African.
Owing to the recent bout of 'xenophobia' in many parts of my country, the irony and hypocrisy of a 'rainbow nation' is enough to make rare and great leaders weep.
All we can do is hope for a better future.
Again.
And again.
“There are three kinds of violence. The first, mother of all the others, is institutional violence, that which legalizes and perpetuates domination, oppression and exploitation, that which crushes and laminates millions of men in its silent and well-oiled wheels.
The second is revolutionary violence, which arises from the desire to abolish the first.
The third is repressive violence, the object of which is to stifle the second by making itself the auxiliary and the accomplice of the first violence, that which engenders all the others.
There is no worse hypocrisy to call violence only the second, while pretending to forget the first, which gives birth to it, and the third which kills it. »
Don Helder Camara (February 7, 1909 – August 27, 1999)
“There are three kinds of violence. The first, mother of all the others, is institutional violence, that which legalizes and perpetuates domination, oppression and exploitation, that which crushes and laminates millions of men in its silent and well-oiled wheels.
The second is revolutionary violence, which arises from the desire to abolish the first.
The third is repressive violence, the object of which is to stifle the second by making itself the auxiliary and the accomplice of the first violence, that which engenders all the others.
There is no worse hypocrisy to call violence only the second, while pretending to forget the first, which gives birth to it, and the third which kills it. »
Don Helder Camara (February 7, 1909 – August 27, 1999)
The hypocrisy has made its work. This picture has been remove from the following groups. I can understand that the picture is dangerous, inmoral and almost terrorism (a fashionable word in this hypocritical world). Let´s take kitties!! They are lovely:
- Flickr Award I´ve been banned for asking for explanation and nobody says anything, only bans me... This is the great adm I clap for and say thanks: ~*~ƤAΓIЅIΣNNΣ~*~
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Series: "Heroes, Villains and other Fantasies"
None of my photos are HDR or blended images, they are taken from just one shot
Sony A900 + Carl Zeiss 24-70mm + 1 flash with white umbrella + 1 flash with window + Lee filter GND8
Strobist info: A full power flash with white umbrella from right (60º) and another one with window from left (45º)
Un flash a toda potencia con paraguas blanco desde la derecha (60º) y otro con ventana desde la izquierda (45º)
Model: Erwan Le Potier
Lugar: llac de Cabanasorda, Vall d´Inclés (Soldeu - Andorra)
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray.
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, writer and author of the 19th century. He is known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, writing works that displayed a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts such as Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, and the title characters of The Luck of Barry Lyndon and Catherine. In his earliest works, written under such pseudonyms as Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh and George Savage Fitz-Boodle, he tended towards savagery in his attacks on high society, military prowess, the institution of marriage and hypocrisy. Source Wikipedia.
“Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I’m a tourist. I’m a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized for.”
— Martin Parr
Hypocrisy in action on the Drive Frank and Danse were two native homeless people who lived on the sidewalk , they both died of Covid and now the snowflakes pretend that they miss them , that is really pathetic
I love this quote! Definitely describes how I have been feeling about some of the people in my life.
"“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me.
I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.” -José Micard Teixeira
Model: Lauren Mort
A brief thunderstorm brought with it a sudden drop in temperature and some curious light.
"Kindness is invincible, but only when it's when it's sincere, with no hypocrisy or faking. For what can even the most malicious person do if you keep showing kindness and, if given the chance, you gently point out where they went wrong – right as they are trying to harm you?" - Marcus Aurelius
Good instructions are to be accompanied by good example. That teaching which issues only from the lips is not at all likely to sink any deeper than the ears. Children are particularly quick to detect inconsistencies, and despise hypocrisy… How they need to be constantly on their guard against anything which might render them contemptible in the eyes of those who should respect and revere them! - A W Pink
"But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy."
Pressing L is nice ;-)
“You see, I believe that Jesus gave us an eternal truth about the universality of feelings. Jesus was truthful about his feelings: Jesus wept; he got sad; Jesus got discouraged; he got scared; and he reveled in the things that pleased him. For Jesus, the greatest sin was hypocrisy. He always seemed to hold out much greater hope for a person who really knew the truth about himself or herself even though that person was a prostitute or a crooked tax collector. Jesus had much greater hope for someone like that than for someone who always pretended to be something he wasn’t.
-Rogers, Fred. Sermon. Sixth Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. 27 August 1972. Print.
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Everyone seemed to believe with simple faith that law and order, morality, the "American way of life" and Christianity are all very much the same thing. Now it is becoming quite clear that they are not so at all.
-Thomas Merton: Selected Essays: Religion and Race in the United States, pg. 207) Orbis, O'Connell
This pose is almost a parody of itself at this point. It seems to be the only stance you see people in these days. Of course, the hypocrisy of it is, I’m standing just like that as I post this.
The Right to Abortion in the United States - The Last Power by Daniel Arrhakis (2022)
The U.S. Supreme Court will be able to nullify the right to abortion in the United States, provided for in the law since 1973.
Nearly 50 years later, the constitutional right to abort may be about to change.
An American political newspaper had access to a draft that provided for annulling the decision that protects women from having an abortion up to three months of pregnancy. This decision taking place could have consequences across the world.
Political hypocrisy takes on Machiavellian contours because some of those who are in favor of making abortion illegal even in cases of rape or in which the life of the woman is in danger, are the same ones who screamed from the seven winds against the use of the mask during the pandemic of Covid 19 or who are against gun control!
The Court's decision if it happens is extremely serious because it is not just a judicial decision but a political decision, and in this precedent the reversal of other fundamental rights achieved in recent decades.
If the right to life must be respected, the woman's freedom of conscience and decision about her own body must also be respected as an inalienable right.
We could claim a social morality or a religious morality, the problem is that the decision on Life and Death has always been seen as the last power of the States before the citizens and therefore of a political nature!
By removing the woman's freedom of choice and decision over her own body, we are confirming the power over her, with all the consequences that ensue, reducing her role to a simple reproducer, with no vote in the matter as to the number of children and even even implicitly as to their decision-making power in the family or over their own sexuality and ultimately their individual freedom.
We are facing the attempt of a patriarchal dictatorship that tries at all costs to maintain and in many cases recover its ancestral power at the expense of suffering and repression on the most fragile.
On the other hand, as has been seen in the past, its criminalisation will only increase the number of cases of clandestine abortion and the placing of the lives of women who do so in danger, in addition to increasing the risk of persecution and social exclusion.
Abortion must be prevented with social, educational and medical-psychological or spiritual support measures, but never with measures of repression and suppression of fundamental rights.
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O Direito Ao Aborto Nos Estados Unidos - O último Poder por Daniel Arrhakis (2022)
O Supremo Tribunal norte-americano poderá anular o direito ao aborto nos Estados Unidos, previsto na lei desde 1973.
Quase 50 anos depois, o direito constitucional de abortar pode estar prestes a mudar.
Um jornal norte-americano político teve acesso a um rascunho que previa anular a decisão que protege a mulher de fazer um aborto até aos três meses de gestação. Esta decisão a ter lugar pode ter consequências em todo o Mundo.
A hipocrisia politica assume contornos maquiavélicos pois alguns dos que estão a favor da ilegalização do Aborto mesmo em casos de violação ou em que esteja em perigo a vida da mulher, são os mesmos que gritavam aos sete ventos contra o uso da máscara aquando da pandemia de COVID 19 ou que são contra o controlo das armas !
A decisão do Tribunal se acontecer reveste-se de uma gravidade extrema pois não se trata só de uma decisão judicial mas sim de uma decisão politica, podendo neste precedente a reversão de outros direitos fundamentais conseguidos nas ultimas décadas.
Se o direito à vida deve ser respeitado, também a liberdade de consciência e de decisão sobre o seu proprio corpo da mulher deve ser respeitado como um direito inalienável.
Poderíamos alegar uma moralidade social ou uma moralidade religiosa, o problema é que a decisão sobre a Vida e a Morte foi vista sempre como o ultimo poder dos Estados perante os cidadãos e portanto de cariz afincadamente politico !
Ao retirarmos a liberdade de escolha e de decisão da Mulher sobre o seu proprio corpo estamos a confirmar o poder sobre ela, com todas as consequências que daí advêm, reduzindo o seu papel a simples reprodutora, sem voto na matéria quanto ao número de filhos e até mesmo implicitamente quanto ao seu poder decisório na família ou sobre a sua própria sexualidade e em ultima análise a sua liberdade individual.
Estamos perante a tentativa de uma ditadura patriarcal que tenta a todo o custo manter e em muitos casos recuperar o seu poder ancestral à custa do sofrimento e da repressão sobre os mais frágeis.
Por outro lado como já se viu no passado a sua criminalização só aumentará os casos do aborto clandestino e a colocação das próprias vidas das mulheres que o fazem em perigo para além de aumentar o risco da perseguição e exclusão social.
O aborto deve ser prevenido com medidas sociais, educacionais e de apoio médico-psicológico ou espiritual, mas nunca com medidas de repressão e de retirada de direitos fundamentais.
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcome X
Dr. King's philosophy was one of non-violence, and this article looks at the alternative views of Malcolm X which are not aired quite so frequently.
Dr. King is probably remembered as the most famous African-American leader in US history. At the time of his assassination in 1968 he was at the forefront of the civil rights movement in the US. He left behind him a legacy of committed, non-violent resistance to an unjust system. But perhaps his greatest legacy is his aspiration for a future in which racial division would be a thing of the past: his famous dream.
But there were limits to the effectiveness of King’s philosophy. His approach was essentially what theorist Robert Cox would call a ‘problem solving’ approach - in other words, King seemed to be trying to work for change within an existing system for most of his life. Another 1960s black leader whose ideas presented more of a challenge to the existing structures of US society:
Malcolm X. He was similarly assassinated three years before Martin Luther King. Although his approach to the problem of institutional racism in America was an essential component of the civil rights struggle, we hear much less about his ideas.
Whenever Malcom X is brought up it is first necessary to dispense with the inevitable accusations: yes, Malcom X was - for a time - a so-called ‘racist in reverse’. He once believed in an exclusionary form of Islam, believing that the white man was the devil. This did not refer to some white people, or to most white people, but to ALL white people.
But Malcolm X changed his views on that score. Indeed, his entire life was marked by his willingness to alter his views. He made many remarkable changes throughout his life, moving from a life of armed robbery, gambling, and dealing in cocaine and marijuana to an ascetic life as a devout Muslim. And by the time of his return from visiting Mecca in 1964, he had changed his views on white people. His travels through the Middle East and Africa had led him to learn the error of his racist views of whites. In a dramatic turnaround, he wrote an open letter for distribution to the press in which he rejected his earlier racism.
He still believed in his struggle to fight for the emancipation of his race, but no longer believed that all white people were his enemies.
Of course, the reality of 1960s North America was that many whites were the enemies of black people. And both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were struggling to change the situation, so that African-Americans would not continue to be the victims of America.
Their methods and views were very different. Dr. King was a Christian minister, whereas Malcolm X not only became a Muslim in a jailhouse conversion, but had a history of hostility towards Christianity. One of the most powerful images in Spike Lee’s biopic of Malcolm X is of Denzel Washington, as Malcolm, arguing in jail about the colour of Jesus’ skin. He was arguing that Jesus was born in a part of the world where the indigenous population had historically been ‘people of colour’.
He later moderated his criticism of Christianity, and was willing to work alongside black Christian leaders, but - similar to a Marxist view of religion - he always felt that black people in America had been kept passive by Christianity since the time of slavery. They would tolerate hell in the present because of the promise of heaven in the hereafter.
One of the most interesting differences between the philosophies of the two men, and one which is pertinent today given the imminent 1916 celebrations, is their attitude to violence. Martin Luther King espoused a ‘turn the other cheek’ philosophy, whereas Malcolm X had a philosophy of “vigorous action in self defence”. These two philosophies were juxtaposed in another Spike Lee film, ‘Do the Right Thing‘, which finishes with a quote from each man.
However, Malcolm X did not believe in violence in all crcumstances, and generally spoke about violence as a defensive mechanism rather than as aggression. He suggested that black people should form rifle clubs. It should be remembered that gun ownership was entirely legal, and that this was in a context where the Ku Klux Klan were very active, and civil rights legislation had yet to be enacted.
On one occasion, he advocated self defence after seeing television footage from Alabama of Martin Luther King being knocked down by a racist. He sent a message to Lincoln Rockwell, one of the white supremacist agitators in Alabama and the leader of the American Nazi Party, warning him that if these racist attacks continued they would be met with “maximum physical retaliation”. His philosophy was not motivated by hate, but by ‘intelligence’. He believed that self-defence was morally justified, and also cited hypocrisy of the US drafting black men to be violent in its army, but then condemning them for being ready to defend themselves in a just cause at home:
"They're violent in Korea, they're violent in Germany, they're violent in the south Pacific, they're violent in Cuba, they're violent wherever they go. But when it comes time for you and me to protect ourselves against lynchings, they tell us to be nonviolent" (Detroit, Feb 14th 1965 - 8 days before his death).
It is important to remember, as noted in Malcolm’s eulogy by actor Ossie Davis, that Malcolm X was never personally associated with any violence himself. His view was that a black population that was willing to defend itself would make for a more peaceful society, as they would be less likely to be the victims of attack. It was also clear that the government was failing to protect the black community, and Malcolm X believed that a proactive African-American policy of self defence would force the government to step in and do its job.
Malcolm X saw the futility of trying to change the system from within, and in appealling to the government for change. He believed in taking action to improve circumstances of discrimination or oppression. He spoke about a 'do it yourself philosophy, a do it right now philosophy, an it's already too late philosophy'. He knew that African-American people could not achieve fairness in the system of the time, and this was the reason for his militancy and urgency. But he was also conscious that his militancy would make the more moderate path of Martin Luther King appear more acceptable in comparison. At a speech in Jan/Feb 1965 in Selma, Alabama, where King was in jail, Malcolm X spoke at a rally and sat beside King's wife on the podium. Dr. King's wife told ‘Jet’ magazine that Malcolm X told her that he "wanted to present an alternative; that it mght be easier for whites to accept Martin's proposals after hearing him (Malcolm X)... He seemed rather anxious to let Martin know that he was ...trying to make it easier [for him]" (cited in Alex Haley's introduction to The Autobiography of Malcolm X). So in his militancy, Malcolm X was also consciously attempting to open up a space for more moderate voices to be heard.
Malcolm X's approach was an essential component of the civil rights struggle, and I believe that his commitment, his militancy, and his unwillingness to compromise or be co-opted mean that his ideas have far more emancipatory potential than those of Martin Luther King.
Malcolm X died while his ideas were still developing - who knows what solutions he would have come up with if he had been allowed to live?
If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.
Leo Burnett
One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me.
Mario Lemieux
The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets.
John Mark Green
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
John Lennon
Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.
Stefanie Powers
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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No one has said what the truth should be
No one decided that I'd feel this way
If you felt as I---would you betray yourself?
You can't deny how I feel, and you can't decide for me
No one should fear what they cannot see
No one's to blame---it's just hypocrisy
It's written in your eyes
And how I despise myself
You can't deny how I feel, and you can't decide for me
It's your heart that's so wrong
Mistaken---you'll never know
Your feathered sacred self
You can't deny how I feel
And you can't decide for me
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Just gotta say, I love the materials effect on the blueberry kimi jackets. it's more subtle in white, but on the black it is so powerful. here's a gyazo showing how the lighting hits the black jacket when deteste turns around.
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also, a weird outtake, some random naked person tp'd on to us while working on the pose. haha gyazo.com/af0689b89b88d2c0dbbe662929f6b784
In a remark extraordinary even by the standards of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing radio heavyweight declared on his program Wednesday that the United States needed to return to racially segregated buses.
Referring to an incident in which a white student was beaten by black students on a bus, Limbaugh said: “I think the guy’s wrong. I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that’s the lesson we’re being taught here today. Kid shouldn’t have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses — it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama’s America.”
A full transcript of Limbaugh’s comments on his radio show is available at MediaMatters.org.
Limbaugh’s comments came after a called complained to say that local law enforcement said the attack probably wasn’t racially motivated. The incident had been hyped by the conservative Drudge Report, which posted a video of the fracas.
“Police initially said the beating of the white student by two black students appeared to be racially motivated,” the Associated Press wrote. “But police on Tuesday backed away from that.”
That didn’t stop Limbaugh from making his comments Wednesday.
“In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, ‘Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on,” Limbaugh also said. “I wonder if Obama’s going to come to come to the defense of the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard.”
source: rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/17/limbaugh-we-need-segregat...
stop to hypocrisies
stop to pretending
stop to things that don't work
stop to giving 100 and getting10
stop to you being unsatisfied with me
stop to the stress that this gives me
stop to thinking to your home as mine
stop to the songs i listen dreamin'of you
stop to the fear. your fear.
stop to taking me for granted
ten stop.
..and us
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”-Oscar Wilde
ꒌ НЕКАД ЈЕ БИЛО БОЉЕ, а за оно пре нашег НЕКАД није нас много брига.
► █░▓ BETTER LOUSY PAST than bad present! - it's the philosophy of my generation born in Serbia. On the surface, hypocrisy appears to make things worse today than they had been yesterday. The Old isn't comfortable with Today - The Old doesn't remember the double standards of its “innocent” youth, it just remembers the youthful optimism of that day and age...
Many Belgrade's streets have been renamed during transition period 1990-2010, but the change wasn’t always to everyone's taste. The socialist names appear ever-so-attractive to a generation that hasn't lived to see the promise of eternal life in communist paradise. Their old age has betrayed them, not Marx & Engels. So, the culprit they don't see in the one who fed them false promises in the first place, but in that one who in recent times represents the after-shave disappointment and disillusions. My generation has identified it's youth with the downright silly, idiot names of Party congresses and leaders. The older folks though remembered the violence and idiocy of mindless dictate and identity wash. The least painful of all being the rename of everything in the public space. But those guys who remembered are already passing away. Almost no living witnesses any more.
Heavy burden the commies have left is a lasting one. Almost the kind of a pre-meditated, deliberate, irreparably inflicted damage. It spans the ages: it even includes the shallow downgraded cultural standards of today's uneducated rulers who took it over. The smallest example: This official cyrillic font for the street name is downright ugly, with no awareness for the role of applied arts, the specific typography needed for public spaces etc. It stands on one of the busiest crossroads in town. There are several typefaces and designs used throughout the city, contributing to a tale-telling chaos. This chaos is mirroring the general lack of concept and taste.
Almost paradoxically, the mindset of the tradition destroyers becomes even more obvious now when the consequences are brought to their end. The heavy destruction protagonists of the 1940s/1950s/1960s have now their makeshift successors at the steering wheel, lacking skills and will to re-establish what had been annihilated. So much less do they have potential to create something original, new and authentic. The real new emerging culture is a counter-movement, consisting of tiny individual islands isolated in the sea of copycat lackluster mediocrity.
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With rising political tension between Iran and the West nowadays, this could be the right moment to show how beautiful and peaceful the soul of the Iranian people really is. Don't let the media fool you. Iranians will embrace you with the most embarrassing hospitality you might ever encounter.
Khwāja Šamsu d-Dīn Muḥammad Hāfez-e Šhīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hāfez (1325/26–1389/90) was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry (Divan) are to be found in the homes of most Iranians, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day. His life and poems have been the subject of much analysis, commentary and interpretation, influencing post-Fourteenth Century Persian writing more than any other author. Themes of his ghazals are the beloved, faith, and exposing hypocrisy. His influence in the lives of Iranians can be found in Hafez-readings (fāl-e hāfez, Persian: فال حافظ), frequent use of his poems in Persian traditional music, visual art and Persian calligraphy. His tomb in Shiraz is a masterpiece of Iranian architecture and visited often. Adaptations, imitations and translations of Hafez' poems exist in all major languages.
The Tomb of Hafez and its associated memorial hall, the Hāfezieh, are two memorial structures erected in the northern edge of Shiraz, Iran, in memory of the celebrated Persian poet Hafez. The open pavilion structures are situated in the Musalla Gardens on the north bank of a seasonal river and house the marble tomb of Hafez. The present buildings, built in 1935 and designed by the French architect and archaeologist André Godard, are at the site of previous structures, the most well-known of which was built in 1773. The tomb, its gardens, and the surrounding memorials to other great figures are a focus of tourism in Shiraz.
Hafez was born in Shiraz in 1315 and died there in 1390. A beloved figure of the Iranian people, who learn his verses by heart, Hafez was prominent in his home town and held a position as the court poet. In his memory, a small, dome-like structure was erected in Shiraz near his grave at Golgast-e Mosalla in 1452 at the order of Babur Ibn-Baysunkur, a Timurid governor. The Golgast-e Mosalla were gardens (now known as Musalla Gardens) that featured in Hafiz's poetry. With a surface of over 19,000 square metres, the gardens were also home to one of Shiraz's cemeteries, and Babur had a pool built here at the same time as the memorial. Believing they were ordered by omens in Hafez's poetry, Abbas I of Persia and Nader Shah both carried out separate restoration projects in the following 300 years.
A much more substantial memorial was constructed in the gardens in 1773 during the reign of Karim Khan Zand. Situated on the north bank of the seasonal Rudkhaneye Khoshk river in the Musalla Gardens, the Hāfezieh consisted of four central columns, with two rooms built at the east and west end and with the north and south sides remaining open. The building split the gardens into two regions, with the orange grove in the front and the cemetery in the back. The actual tomb was outside of the structure, in the middle of the cemetery, with a marble slab placed over the grave. The marble was engraved by a calligrapher with excerpts from Hafez's poetry.
The tomb was restored in 1857 by a governor of Fars, and a wooden enclosure was built around the tomb in 1878, by another governor of Fars. Following this, the site became a subject of controversy, when, in 1899, Ardeshir, a Parsi from India began to build a shrine around Hafez's grave. Although the philanthropist Parsi had obtained permission from a ulema of Shiraz to build the iron and wood shrine, a doctor of religious law with some authority in Shiraz, ʿAli-Akbar Fāl-Asiri, objected to a Zoroastrian building over the grave of a Muslim. With his followers, he destroyed the half-built construction. The people of Shiraz protested the destruction and the government ordered the rebuilding of the monument, but Fāl-Asiri opposed them and pronounced that he would destroy any building raised there, even if it were erected by the king himself.
The site remained in ruins for two years, until 1901 when Prince Malek Mansur Mirza Shao es-Saltaneh placed a decorative iron transenna around Hafez's tomb. It was inscribed with verse and the names of the patrons of the transenna.
Activities to restore and expand the memorial to Hafez began in 1931, when the orange grove was repaired and the Hāfezieh was altered by a governor of Fars and Isfahan, Faraj-Allāh Bahrāmi Dabir-e Aʿẓam. Additional improvements were delayed until the Ministry of Education organised for a new building to be built, in 1935. André Godard, a French archaeologist and architect, was the technical director of the Department of Antiquities at the time, and was commissioned to design the new buildings.
Alterations to Hafez's tomb involved elevating it one metre above ground level and encircling it with five steps. Eight columns, each ten metres tall, support a copper dome in the shape of a dervish's hat. The underside of the dome is an arabesque and colourful mosaic. The original, four-columned memorial hall built in 1773 by Karim Khan Zand was extensively expanded. Sixteen pillars were added to the four original, creating a long verandah, and on several façades are engraved ghazals and other excerpts from Hafez's poetry.
a most illusive reality! why? I enjoy the holidays but can't help thinking about the hypocrisy. Maybe next year more will spread some love all year round!! Merry Christmas my friends!!
Bruno: Dave, what's that?
Dave: A Christmas tree. Something we do to celebrate the Christmas season.
Bruno: Nope. Totally disagree. Looks like an organized pile of sticks to me.
Dave: That is one perspective.
Bruno: And you know how I feel about sticks.
Dave: Yup, I realize that you're a big fan of them.
Bruno: And I'm now so happy that you've reversed the no sticks inside policy for the Christmas season! This is going to be the best year ever!
Dave: Dude, the no sticks inside policy still stands. This is just here as a decoration. It's going to look great once we finish hanging the ornaments on it.
Bruno: What ornaments?
Dave: You know: angels, stars, crafts the kids made, tinsel, sparkly balls.
Bruno: Dude! Did you just say balls! There are going to be balls on this organized pile of sticks! Best holiday ever!
Dave: Oh man, the no chewing household decoration policy is still in full effect.
Bruno: Good luck with that. Good luck.
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Christmas wishes from Bruno while trimming the tree. No trees, ornaments or dogs were harmed in this process.
Couldn't help but have some fun with the text on this one. Part of the studio 26 assignment on gifts/cards etc for the holidays.
I wasn't planning on using this one for my 52 weeks photo as it is tribute week, and I had selected some photos I wanted to tribute, then did some background research and got the props ready. But, when this one came together I knew it had to be part of his set. I'll hit the tribute early next week.
It's utterly inexplicable when people celebrate the fact that they're aging and simultaneously mourning death. Doesn't that rhyme with hypocrisy?
Random musings.
oh, Happy New Year.