Fighting ignorance
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Today we all are Paris, against the blind ferocity, barbarism, against all fundamentalism!
The beauty of things will win on stupidity and ignorance!
if needs be. The vows of ignorance are not binding upon enlightenment :-)
Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912
HMM!! Protest Injustice! Resist! Vote!
echinacea, coneflowers, little theater garden, raleigh, north carolina
White flags symbolizes AIR -If meditated upon, white can cut the delusion of ignorance and turn it into the wisdom of reality. The mantras printed on the flags are carried on the wind and believed to spread goodwill and positive energy wherever they go.
« Seule, aux yeux des mortels, l’ignorance des causes
Transporte aux dieux, le sceptre et l’empire des choses ».
De Rerum Natura, Lucrèce (Titus Lucretius 99 BC. – 55 BC.)
Traduit par André Lefèvre
one day people met the stones
people said to the stones, you have to be more human
the stones replied, we are not yet hard enough
Valium Creek [be there or just miss something - your decision]
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/valium%20creek/155/98/21
Mechelen - Zandpoortvest
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perhaps ignorance, credulity—helps your enjoyment of these things, and of the sentiment of feather'd, wooded, river, or marine Nature generally :-)
Walt Whitman, "Birds—And a Caution," Specimen Days
HMM! HPPT! Truth Matters!
sasanqua camellia, 'Green 99-031', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
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In 1984, author Thomas Pynchon observed:
We are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person's mental map.
It has contours and coherence, and for all I know rules of operation as well. So as a corollary to writing about what we know, maybe we should add getting familiar with our ignorance, and the possibilities therein for ruining a good story.
Ignorance can have negative effects on individuals and societies, but can also benefit them by creating within them the desire to know more.
For example, ignorance within science opens the opportunity to seek knowledge and make discoveries by asking new questions. Though this can only take place if the individual possesses a curious mind.
Source: wiki - Ignorance
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AND: It is not far from ignorance to hatred !!!
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. Gian Carlo Menotti
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The vows of ignorance are not binding upon enlightenment :-)
Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912
Truth Matters! Character Matters!
prunus mume, pink flowering japanese apricot, 'Bonita', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Veil of Ignorance (J. Rawl). Above the Gepatsch reservoir you are quickly in the mountain world with a magnificent view of the foothills of the Southern Hapmeskopf (3,240m) and the Biggspitze (3,453m).
through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." :-(
Isaac Asimov, in Newsweek, 1980
HBW!! Truth Matters! Science Matters!
opuntia, cactus, plant delights nursery, wake county, north carolina
Chickadees have always been a favorite bird of mine. I love their happy singsong trills, and when I see them in the harshest of times (like say, 30 degrees below zero fahrenheit, where you or I wouldn't last the morning), I marvel at their resilience and how happy they seem to be given their circumstances. I still believe they are. But, I was reading a study on their songs, and as it turns out the more intricate they get, the greater the predatorial threat they are warning others of. When you hear "Chicka-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee," a much greater threat is present than if you just heard the ever famous, "Fee-bee." Now, you or I might think a more complex call would mean a bigger predator with a huge beak and scary claws was close by. But, Chickadees know better. A smaller more agile predator would have a much greater chance at pinning a lightning fast Chickadee. For instance, A large Great Gray Owl elicited only two "dees," but a much smaller (but also more aerially adept) Pygmy Owl merited an extra four to twenty-some "dees." I also read that they have words for types of predatorial threats e.g. when you hear them wisp out a "Seet" it warns of flying threats from above. I will always associate their songs with happiness though, to me it is unmistakably so, and for that Bliss is far from Ignorance.
“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Socially non-distanced hibiscus
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. Mahatma Gandhi
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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
We stand for peace
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The White Canvas Gallery Presents an Open Challenge
"I Stand For Peace"
The White Canvas Gallery presents an open challenge to enable you to stand united for peace. Lets disown the mindless violence around us and lets DO something about it as artists. Rules of this challenge are pretty simple.
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5. If anyone not tagged here wants to do this challenge, tag yourself here and do it :).
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The White Canvas Gallery presents an open challenge to enable you to stand united for peace. Lets disown the mindless violence around us and lets DO something about it as artists.
My Nominees: Bailey O'Conner, Micah Scribe, and Rhams Scribe
Rules of the challenge (go to this link): www.flickr.com/…/goodcro…/28068142260/in/dateposted/
[...] "Sie sind allein. Der Mensch kann nicht allein leben. Ihre Interessen, all das, womit Sie zurück gekommen sind, bilden eine kleine Insel in einem Meer von Ignoranz. Ich bezweifle, ob viele Menschen Lust hätten zu hören, was Sie zu erzählen haben. [...]
aus "Rückkehr von den Sternen" von Stanislav Lem. ____________________________________
[...] "You are alone, you can not live alone, your interests, all that you came back with, form a small island in a sea of ignorance, I doubt if many people would like to hear, what you have to tell ... [...]
from "Return from the Stars" by Stanislav Lem
IMG00390, Kathmandu, Nepal. Taken around 1994/95 in Color print film.
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is ignorance:-)
Emma Goldman
HMM!! wear a mask for those you love...and those who love you...take care :-)
prunus, Fuji cherry, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
for ignoring our shared climate problem
by withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord !!!
When will you notice...
that you can't eat weapons,
that you can't drink oil
and that you can't breathe coal ?
I feel sorry for all my US friends, for us all and for our beautiful planet ...
together with these African Elephants / Afrikanische Elefanten (Loxodonta africana)
in Serengeti N.P., Tanzania, Africa