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When are we going to realize that hate, intolerance, greed and superiority only harm our society. The only way forward to achieve peace is to come together, discuss our differences, try and understand one another and work towards mutual solutions. We are all human beings and none of us are better than the other. It is time to realize that we are all an important part of the whole and therefore it is our duty to our children to work together with respect and compassion.
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In the November pogrom of 9 to 10 November 1938 synagogues, prayer houses and shops of Jews were devasted in Germany. It was the beginning of the systematic persecution of Jews which led to the Holocaust. To remember this day gives us a task for everyday: to counter antisemitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance that lead to violation of human rights.
Le premier qui, ayant enclos un terrain, s'avisa de dire : Ceci est à moi, et trouva des gens assez simples pour le croire, fut le vrai fondateur de la société civile. Que de crimes, de guerres, de meurtres, que de misères et d'horreurs n'eût point épargnés au genre humain celui qui, arrachant les pieux ou comblant le fossé, eût crié à ses semblables : Gardez-vous d'écouter cet imposteur ; vous êtes perdus, si vous oubliez que les fruits sont à tous, et que la terre n'est à personne.
J.J. ROUSSEAU
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....
Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
C. Chaplin (From "The Great Dictator").
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Album "Human Borders":
I met this young man and his dog in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Southwest Ohioans call Yellow Springs a hippie town. My mother lived there and attended Antioch College in the 1960s and loved it.
In my experience, it is a diverse, tolerant, friendly, open, and happy community where even stray cats are well-fed and provided with health care by the residents. The only thing "Springers" will not tolerate is intolerance and bigotry. Oh, and large corporate entities. The village has no Walmart, for example.
According to Wikipedia, in 1862, it welcomed a group of 30 freed slaves previously owned by Moncure D. Conway, the abolitionist son of their former owner.
By the late 1960s and early '70s, the village became a center of activity for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement in southwestern Ohio.
In 1979, Yellow Springs held the distinction of being the smallest municipality to pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. As of 2014, it had the largest LGBT population of all Ohio's villages.
I love this town and its people.
Proudly loving yourself and others in the face of judgment, chaos and fire is the most powerful form of dissent we have. This month always reminds me of the importance of authenticity and of loving without the barriers of hate and intolerance. Now more than ever, it's important to wrap ourselves in community and celebrate. Happy Pride, beauties!! Hope to see you dancing!
Pride Flag: Sari-Sari
Face/Body Powder: Izzie's Rainbow Powder Explosion
Bodysuit: Rowne
Hair: Truth
In memory of those brave and creative employees whose lives were taken from us during the Charlie Hebdo massacre. May they along with others in France that were murdered at the hands of terrorists in January 2015 rest in peace and never be forgotten.
Prickly Forest Skink (Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae)
The exact opposite of what you think of in a skink!
Australia has over 460 species of skinks and this is one of most unique! Unlike most skinks that are actively chasing the sun to bask for energy, the Prickly Forest Skink is a thigmatherm and operates at the temperature of the cool rainforest floor. In fact, it actively avoids the sun by living under fallen logs during the day and foraging at nights.
The genus name of 'Gnypetoscincus' literally translates to the skinks intolerance to heat and its common name 'prickly' refers to its rough keeled scales. The restricted lifestyle of this skink means that they are seldom seen in the dense rainforests of Northern Queensland.
To make a point, I will never agree with racial or religious intolerance (for any race or religion). The white world is quick to judge Muslims even though white people have committed many heinous crimes themselves. And, aren't Muslims mothers too? Where has our humanity gone? When we are able to have honest conversations with ourselves and others about these things, we are ready to make a positive change.
Do no harm in this world to others and also, if you can, do no harm to animals. Enough has been done already.
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homophobie, soumission de la femme et de la nature, intolérance, non partage etc sont souvent portés par des croyants et leur religion... une remise en question s'impose, non ? : ) <3
Homophobia, submission of women and nature, intolerance, non-sharing etc. are often carried by believers and their religion... a questioning is necessary, right? : ) <3
La homofobia, la sumisión de la mujer y la naturaleza, la intolerancia, la falta de compartir, etc. a menudo son llevados por los creyentes y su religión... es necesario un cuestionamiento, ¿verdad? : ) <3
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The Jewish Quarter is located around two streets, the Rua Direita and the Rua da Fonte da Rosa, the latter formerly called Rua da Judiaria (Jewish Quarter Street).
Many years ago I read a book by Claude Lévi-Strauss. I don't remember much of it, to be honest, but one sentence got branded in my brain. It read something like "If you don't marry out, you war out".
In the Belmonte City Hall internet page
cm-belmonte.pt/en/history/jewish-community-in-belmonte/
we can read:
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The community of Belmonte is home to an important fact of the Sephardic Jewish history, related to the resistance of the Jews to religious intolerance in Iberian Peninsula. In the 16th century, during the expulsion of the moors of the Iberian Peninsula, and the reconquest of the Spanish and Portuguese lands by the Catholic Kings and by D. Manuel, a law was instituted that forced the Portuguese Jews to convert or leave the country. Many of them ended up abandoning Portugal, for fear of reprisals from the Inquisition. Others converted to Christianity in official terms, maintaining their cult and cultural traditions in the family context. A third group of Jews, however, took a more extreme measure. Several have decided to isolate themselves from the outside world, cutting contact with the rest of the country and following their traditions to the letter. Such people were called “Marranos”, in an allusion to the ritual prohibition of eating pork. For centuries the “Marranos” of Belmonte have kept their Jewish traditions almost intact, becoming an exceptional case of cryptojewish community. Only in the 70´s the community established contact with the Jews of Israel and officiated Judaism as its religion. In 2005, the Jewish Museum of Belmonte was inaugurated in the city, the first of its kind in Portugal, which shows the traditions and the day-to-day of this community. In August 2017, he underwent remodeling works.
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The history of the Jews in Belmonte is referred in detail in the Wikipedia page
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Belmonte
which offers interesting reading to those interested in the Sephardic tradition and crypto-judaism.
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Leic M Monochrom (246), Elmarit 2.8/24 ASPH, Affinity Photo, EI 320 ISO, 1/750s, f/8
Galileo Galilei was an important Italian scientist, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. His scientific contribution started a new era in the history of astronomy, he was the first astronomer to access new knowledge using the telescope. He defended the concept that the Earth was not the center of the universe.
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy, on February 15, 1564, son of Vincenzo Galilei and Julia Ammannati. His parents noticed Galilei's great intelligence and special aptitudes from an early age. The boy showed an interest in the arts and performed excellent paintings, demonstrating manual skill and creativity to manufacture toys and contraptions. He played the organ and zither with aplomb. Thus, Galilei excelled in studies at the Sunday school in Vallombrosa and planned to enter the monastery, but his father did not agree with the idea and enrolled him to study medicine at the University of Pisa. Two years after joining, he dropped out of the course and went to dedicate himself to the study of mathematics. The move did not please his father, and Galilei ended up dropping out of the University in 1585. He did not complete any degrees, but in the same year he went to Florence and began giving private lessons to support himself. He stood out for his research in geometry and continued with his mathematical studies.
It was at this time that he invented the hydrostatic balance, a mechanism that would be published in a detailed treatise in the year 1644. In 1589, in recognition of his scientific contributions and brilliant reasoning, he was appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa. He was not welcomed by teachers, as he was only 25 years old, had incomplete academic training and publicly discredited Aristotle's established theories. In 1590 Galilei published a treatise on the motion of bodies. In 1591 he was removed from the professorship, after succumbing to intrigues and disputes with Aristotle's supporters. In 1592 he was appointed by the Senate of Venice to teach mathematics at the University of Padua, a position he would hold for 18 years. In 1609 he built a telescope based on the one previously invented by Hans Lippershey in Holland. Galilei made meticulous observations of the sky and incredible discoveries: he located the four largest moons of Jupiter and the mountains and craters on the Moon's surface. And when he detected spots present on the Sun's surface, the discovery helped to prove his theory that the star rotated on an axis. He investigated Saturn and observed what appeared to be two fixed moons, which were the edges of Saturn's ring system, but Galilei's telescope was not accurate enough to determine exactly what those points were.
His findings were collected and published in March 1610 in the book “The Messenger of the Stars”. The work was acclaimed and also generated much controversy, as Galilei publicly defended Nicolaus Copernicus' theory that the Sun was the center of our Solar System, not the Earth. At that time, the Catholic Church fully controlled science and held the opposite view, that the center was the Earth.
In 1616 Galilei was cornered by the authorities of the Inquisition and threatened with the death penalty if he did not publicly deny the scientific truths he had proved. He was expressly prohibited from teaching and propagating ideas that were contrary to the position of the Church. Even so, in 1632 he published the "Dialogue Concerning the Two Greatest Systems of the Universe", causing the Church's total rejection and intolerance. Prevented from continuing with his research and theories, the scientist retired to his castle located in Arcetri, a village near Florence, where he dedicated himself to pursuing his experiments alone.
Galileo Galilei died on January 8, 1642 in Arcetri, Italy. He was almost blinded by the observation of sunspots done without adequate protection for decades. Three hundred and fifty years later, through Pope John Paul II, on October 31, 1992, the Catholic Church formally recognized the legitimacy of Galilei's theories.
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He is reburied here:
Southwest Ohioans call Yellow Springs a hippie town. My mother lived there and attended Antioch College in the 1960s and loved it.
In my experience, it is a diverse, tolerant, friendly, open, and happy community where even stray cats are well-fed and provided with health care by the residents. The only thing "Springers" will not tolerate is intolerance and bigotry. Oh, and large corporate entities. The village has no Walmart, for example.
According to Wikipedia, in 1862, it welcomed a group of 30 freed slaves previously owned by Moncure D. Conway, the abolitionist son of their former owner.
By the late 1960s and early '70s, the village became a center of activity for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement in southwestern Ohio.
In 1979, Yellow Springs held the distinction of being the smallest municipality to pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. As of 2014, it had the largest LGBT population of all Ohio's villages.
I love this town and its people.
Technical details:
Camera: Canon EOS 3
Lens: EF 40mm f/2.8 STM
Film: ColorPlus 200
Developed and scanned by Memphis Film Lab
This amazing 27 foot high sculpture is made up of 100,000 bladed weapons collected during police surrenders across the country.
Today this stunning statue signifies the nations overwhelming intolerance to knife crime.
The Angel is helping to raise awareness of violent crime and helping young people understand the reasons not to carry knives.
Derby Cathedral
...done for ❤WTBW❤...
There's something wrong with human nature
What is it in the nature of man that makes us hate and cheat and steal and kill?
Why do people get off on bigotry, intolerance and racial intolerance?
What is it that makes a man gaze down from his penthouse suite
Watching those young children sleeping rough on the streets?
Sometimes people do the strangest things
Let the carnival begin
Every pleasure every sin
Let the carnival begin
Every pleasure every sin
Parted by the race strong windows
Watching how the other half lives
All over the world
They put their hands in their pockets
It relieves their consciences
There's something wrong with human nature
Too much too soon
What makes a man hate a man for the color of his skin?
Why do people get off on bigotry, intolerance and racial intolerance?
Sometimes people do the strangest things
What is it that makes a man gaze down from his penthouse suite
Watching those young children sleeping rough on the streets?
Sometimes people do the strangest things
Let the carnival begin
Every pleasure every sin
Let the carnival begin
Every pleasure every sin
Parted by the race strong windows
Watching how the other half lives
All over the world
They put their hands in their pockets
It relieves their consciences
There's something wrong with human nature
Gary Clail & On-U-Sound-System
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvONRGnSkXU
@{--->-- ...thank you all very much my friends...:)))
"La tolérance n'a jamais excité de guerre civile ; l'intolérance a couvert la terre de carnage." (Traité sur la tolérance, 1763)
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"Tolerance has never provoked a civil war; intolerance has covered the Earth in carnage."
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"La tolleranza non ha mai provocato una guerra civile, l'intolleranza ha coperto la terra di massacri."
Voltaire
Against : Obscurantism - Generalizations and amalgams -
For : Freedom of expression - Respect of Life - Respect of all religions
Attention, ne vous trompez pas de cibles : ceux qui insultent et caricaturent le prophète Mahomet sont ceux qui détournent et travestissent sa doctrine pour justifier leur désir de violence et leur intolérance.
Do not make a mistake about targets: those who offend and caricature the prophet Mohammed are the ones who divert and disguise his doctrine to justify their violence and their intolerance.
There are so many people dying needlessly at this time due to disease, hunger, acts of violence and fleeing from them.To the victims of ideology and fundamentalism, ignorance and intolerance, of greed and avarice, stupidity and ruthlessness.
Extensively edited image of an installation by Fleming Helfenstein on Verdigris in second life.
Inspired by a picture of Mohezia Westwood:
www.flickr.com/photos/146521338@N07/49445943712/
(Grand Finale - Visit the Hill of Crosses at Verdigris in second life)
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Note by the creator
Welcome to THE HILL OF CROSSES,
My version of a RL site, bearing the same name, in Lithuania.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Crosses
This is not a graveyard, but a quiet place of peace, introspection and tranquility.
A sense of melancholia lies over the small hill, and it can be a site of mourning and longing. The items and plants - even the layout of the ground - are often symbolic, but instead of telling too much I would like to invite visitors to create their own meaning and story here.
Please feel free to explore the parcel, there are many hidden (non-adult) corners inviting to rest and relax.
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Thank you for visiting, and enjoy your stay,
Fleming Helfenstein
flickr: flickr.com/groups/14640785@N24/
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My Inworld Gallery (under construction):
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Rotting defunct bar in the remote town of Scenic South Dakota, near the Badlands. Shot with a Nikon F, 50mm lens, and Kodak Tri-X 135 film in the early 1990s. The image still shocks me.
Mascara has been used approximately since 4000 B.C in ancient Egypt. It was used for eyebrows, eyelashes and eyes. referred by a substance called kohl. In the 19th century the product we now call mascara came to use and has become a daily make up product ever since.
Already in the beginning of the 20th century fake eye lashes were used for actress Seena Owen while making a film called Intolerance. The lashes used back then were made out of real human hair. This product has evolved to become temporary lashes, made out of plastic and seen on most girls in every day life.
My contribution for the theme "evolution".
HMM! ;-)
I haven't had a cup of coffee for more than 25 years, having developed an intolerance to caffeine soon after I was diagnosed with lupus. Fortunately my husband is a serious addict!
116 pictures in 2016 (29) international coffee day
I thought I understood some "truths" about the world I live in. I notice the resurgence of aggressive nationalism, intolerance, and hate rising in my world. I see that people are entitled not just to their opinion but to their own facts. They are entitled to their rights even if it means that others may not be entitled to their lives as a result of not wearing a mask. I see that normal tolerance and compassion are now becoming optional. I see that allies treat each other as enemies and that dictators are becoming friends of our nations. I am confused, puzzled, anxious, angry, and I feel powerless to affect the changes.
The pandemic has changed my daily life completely and made me feel cut off. It has also changed how I photograph as I can no longer photograph in public indoor spaces or in congested city areas where I used to take most of my photos. I can not travel beyond my vicinity. I, therefore, have to return to my earlier subject matter and find something new to say.
This turmoil inside me means that I can not really relax on my short excursions to some of the idyllic areas near my home. My photographs reflect this turmoil. This image is a part of the series on "Living in a Changing World". This image may mean different things to different people, but for me, it is about my trying to hold on to my roots (beliefs) as I am being pummeled by the changing world.
A shot from my archives taken in 2004.
The remains of a once Greek village near Fethiye in Turkey where the inhabitants had to leave due to the intolerance of the Turkish people.
Louis de Bernières wrote a novel in 2004 called Birds Without Wings which is set in a fictional village in Turkey but could have been this one.
The Wikipedia article states the following. "Although fiction, the setting of Eskibahçe is based upon Kayaköy (Greek: Levissi Λεβισσι) village near Fethiye, the ruins of which still exist today. Once a thriving Greek village, this town of over one thousand houses, two churches, fourteen chapels, and two schools, was completely deserted in 1923 when the Greek inhabitants living there, along with a vast number of Greeks living throughout Turkey were deported to Greece through a massive government mandated population exchange between the two countries following the Turkish war of independence. Historically, Turks and Greeks had lived together in this region for centuries, the Turks as farmers in the Kaya valley and the Greeks living on the hillside dealing in crafts and trades. A Greek presence in this region goes back centuries. Since then, the village of Kayakoy, as it is called in Turkish, or Karmylassos, as it was called in Greek, which had been continually inhabited since at least the 13th century, has stood empty and crumbling, with only the breeze from the mountains and mist from the sea blowing through its empty houses and streets. Attempts by the Turkish government to get Turks deported from Greece to inhabit the village failed, and eventually, in the 1950s, the roofs of all the houses were removed."
Parkrun number 266
It’s been a while since I’ve been caught on camera and that’s not because I’m too fast …. In fact I’m now so slow that I’m practically on my own with time to pose for a photo!
On my 90th run since CI diagnosis, due to some angina I never really found my stride and my finishing time was 41:09 - since my 250th parkrun in Sept. last year (the last time I ran a sub 40 with a little help from Paul Szefer), I have been trying to run an 'unassisted' sub 40 and although finishing in just over the 40 minutes for the last 3 weeks today was particularly difficult and disappointing.
Distance: 5.00km
Today's finishing time: 41:09
My overall PB: 26:32
Post Covid PB: 30:31
CI (exercise intolerance) PB: 35:40
AFib (arrhythmia) PB: 36:45
Still, not too bad for a veteran with a dicky ticker.
Persisting with parkrun (part 2) - peterjemmett.blogspot.com/2025/07/heart-attack-to-10k-par...
La violencia contra las mujeres, en todas sus formas, es una de las mayores vergüenzas de la sociedad moderna. Mi más profunda condena y mi más absoluto desprecio hacia todos esos miserables, independientemente de su nacionalidad, origen, credo o clase social, que, por acción u omisión, permiten que esto siga ocurriendo. No merecen, ni tan siquiera, el calificativo de animales ... mucho menos el de hombres.
Acabar con la supuesta superioridad del macho está en nuestras manos. Nosotros no somos sus dueños. No somos propietarios de sus vidas. No somos superiores a ellas. Son nuestras compañeras, no nuestras propiedades. No nos pertenecen.
Sé un hombre de verdad y denuncia y combate cualquier tipo de violencia / discriminación machista desde todos aquellos ámbitos a los que tengas acceso. El problema no está en ellas, el problema está en nosotros. La solución también: ... educación en la igualdad e intolerancia con los agresores.
Violence against women, in all its forms, is one of the greatest shames of modern society. My deepest condemnation and my more absolute contempt for all those miserable, regardless of their national origin, creed or social class, that by action or inaction, allow this to continue happening. They not deserved, not even the label of animals ... much less than men.
Stop the supposed superiority of the male is in our hands. We are not their owners. We are not owners of their lives. We are not superior to they. They are our partners, not our properties. They do not belong to us.
Be a true man and denounces and fights any kind of sexist violence / discrimination in all those areas to which you have access. The problem it's not in they. The problem it is in us. The solution also: ... education in the equality and intolerance with the aggressors.
... salud, buenas luces y muchas gracias a tod@s!!! … xo♥ox
... health, good lights and thanks so much to @l!!! ...… xo♥ox
... Series: "Oscuridades" / "Darks"
... Music: "Memories of Green" (Vangelis) played by Vangelis & The New American Orchestra (... from OST of Blade Runner) ... enjoy it!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hedl4kYXyEA ... 04.57 ...
The Jewish Quarter is located around two streets, the Rua Direita and the Rua da Fonte da Rosa, the latter formerly called Rua da Judiaria (Jewish Quarter Street).
Many years ago I read a book by Claude Lévi-Strauss. I don't remember much of it, to be honest, but one sentence got branded in my brain. It read something like "If you don't marry out, you war out".
In the Belmonte City Hall internet page
cm-belmonte.pt/en/history/jewish-community-in-belmonte/
we can read:
QUOTE
The community of Belmonte is home to an important fact of the Sephardic Jewish history, related to the resistance of the Jews to religious intolerance in Iberian Peninsula. In the 16th century, during the expulsion of the moors of the Iberian Peninsula, and the reconquest of the Spanish and Portuguese lands by the Catholic Kings and by D. Manuel, a law was instituted that forced the Portuguese Jews to convert or leave the country. Many of them ended up abandoning Portugal, for fear of reprisals from the Inquisition. Others converted to Christianity in official terms, maintaining their cult and cultural traditions in the family context. A third group of Jews, however, took a more extreme measure. Several have decided to isolate themselves from the outside world, cutting contact with the rest of the country and following their traditions to the letter. Such people were called “Marranos”, in an allusion to the ritual prohibition of eating pork. For centuries the “Marranos” of Belmonte have kept their Jewish traditions almost intact, becoming an exceptional case of cryptojewish community. Only in the 70´s the community established contact with the Jews of Israel and officiated Judaism as its religion. In 2005, the Jewish Museum of Belmonte was inaugurated in the city, the first of its kind in Portugal, which shows the traditions and the day-to-day of this community. In August 2017, he underwent remodeling works.
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The history of the Jews in Belmonte is referred in detail in the Wikipedia page
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Belmonte
which offers interesting reading to those interested in the Sephardic tradition and crypto-judaism.
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Leica M Monochrom (246), Elmarit 2.8/24 ASPH, Affinity Photo, EI 320 ISO, 1/125s, f/8
The reason why intolerance, sexism, racism, homophobia exist is fear. People are afraid of their own feelings, afraid of the unknown.
Madonna
この写真載せたかったけど、変な写真なんで外国人とかの手前もあるしずっとがまんしてました。
今日、会社で納得行かない事があり、僕のがまんが容量を越えそうだったのでこの写真を載せて僕の空き容量をほんのすこし増やしました。
Coast Douglas-fir is the dominant tree in the Pacific Northwest, occurring in nearly all forest types, competes well on most parent materials, aspects, and slopes. Adapted to a moist, mild climate, it grows larger and faster than Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir. The shade-intolerance of Douglas-fir plays a large role in the forest succession of lowland old growth communities of the Pacific Northwest. While mature stands of lowland old-growth forests contain many Western Hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) seedlings, and some Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata) seedlings, Douglas-fir dominated stands contain almost no Douglas-fir seedlings. This seeming contradiction occurs because Douglas-firs are intolerant of shade and rarely survive for long within the shaded understory. The tallest tree in the United Kingdom is a Coast Douglas-fir, which makes sense because we have very similar climates...
Have a lot to do today...India's X-mas piano recital is at 2:30 and we have to finish stuff for her craft fair on Wednesday at school. The cardboard house ornaments are going really well on Etsy (if you have not seen them yet ,go take a look, you can get there from my profile page through the mushroom book link) they are adorable! I will be on periodically to check in on your pics...HUGS!!
Lincoln's Inn Chapel
In the heart of Legal London, hidden away from the hustle and bustle of the busy city outside, stands the historic chapel of Lincoln's Inn, surrounded by a mix of historic buildings going back to at least the 15th century. The Lincoln's Inn Chapel dates to 1623 and was designed by Inigo Jones.
HISTORY
The origins of Lincoln's Inn are lost in the mists of time, but we do know that it was in existence long before the first written records occurred in 1422. It is possible that the name 'Lincoln's Inn' refers to Henry de Lacy, the 3rd Earl of Lincoln (d. 1311). The Earl owned property in this area of London and may have been one of the Inn's earliest patrons.
We know that there was a Chapel at Lincoln's Inn in 1580 when the Inn's 'Benchers' purchased the freehold of the property from the Bishop of Chichester. A Bencher is a member of the Council, the body responsible for administering the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
By the early 17th century that chapel was proving too small and in need of replacement. Architect Inigo Jones, best-known for his design of the Queen's House in Greenwich, was called in to design the new building. Work started in 1620 and was complete by 1623. The chapel was repaired in 1685 with input from another famous English architect, Sir Christopher Wren.
Much of the chapel was rebuilt in 1797, and there was a major refurbishment in 1883. More repairs were needed in 1915 when a Zeppelin bomb fell in neighbouring Old Square and blew out the glass of two windows. The lesson was learned, and when WWII broke out all the chapel's glass was removed and put in storage for the duration of the war. You can see pockmarks caused by wartime damage on the north wall and the undercroft.
THE UNDERCROFT
The chapel is elevated onto the first floor and supported by a vaulted undercroft at ground level. Because it is at ground level the undercroft is open to the outside air, and pedestrians pass directly through the undercroft as they navigate Lincoln's Inn.
The undercroft is a frequent meeting place for the Benchers, and has even been a recreation area in the past. It has also served as a crypt; a burial place for the Benchers. Not only Benchers were buried there; sometimes servants or other members of the Society.
In the 18th century the undercroft was used by poor mothers to leave newborn babies they were unable to care for. The foundlings were usually cared for by the Inn and were all given the surname Lincoln.
THE CHAPEL BELL
The Chapel boasts a bell that forms an important part of Lincoln's Inn tradition. The bell is said to have been cast in 1596, though this seems unlikely. According to an ancient tradition, the bell wound sound the curfew at 9:00 pm each night, with a stroke added for every year of the serving Treasurer's age. The bell is also rung between 12:30 and 13:00 to mark the passing of a Bencher.
THE PAINTED GLASS
One of the highlights of the Chapel interior are the six richly coloured painted glass windows, designed by the Van Linge brothers. These are not 'stained' glass windows, but painted glass, where vitreous enamels were painted onto clear glass to create a design which was then fired.
Abraham and Bernard van Linge were natives of East Frisia who worked in Paris. They fled France in 1621 during a period of religious intolerance and found a new home in London. The brothers painted glass designs are featured in several Oxford colleges, including Lincoln College, Christ Church College, and the reading room at the Bodleian Library.There are three Van Linge windows on each side of the chapel. Those on the south side depict the Chapel and the Hall of Lincoln's Inn with figures representing the Treasurer and the City of London accepting the keys to the Chapel in 1623.
The large east window depicts heraldic coats of arms of the Treasurers of Lincoln's Inn, beginning in 1689.
THE PERCEVAL MEMORIAL
Another thing to look for is a memorial plaque commemorating Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated. Perceval was educated at Lincoln's Inn and practised as a barrister before becoming a King's Counsel. The then turned to politics where he experienced a meteoric rise as a follower of William Pitt the Younger.
Perceval served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons before becoming Prime Minister in 1809. He was killed by a merchant named John Bellingham who had been imprisoned unfairly in Russia and had his claims for compensation ignored by the government.
The Chapel is used for musical performances as well as church services. It is normally open daylight hours to visitors and is the only one of Lincoln's Inn's building to be open (visitors are always welcome to walk through the Inn).
GETTING THERE
There are two ways into Lincoln's Inn; through the historic medieval gatehouse on Chancery Lane and from the picturesque set of gates facing Lincoln's Inn Fields on Serle Street. The nearest underground is Chancery Lane.
From the station follow Holborn west to Chancery Lane, turn left and you will find the gatehouse across the road on your right after one block. Go through the gatehouse and follow the obvious sign for Old Square. Turn right and you will find yourself at the Chapel. From the underground station to the Chapel is a very easy walk taking no more than 5-7 minutes.
"...cant stop off the train"
Goldfrapp: youtu.be/wJtuRARVpGg
Thalys is an international high-speed train operator originally built around the LGV Nord high-speed line between Paris and Brussels. This track is shared with Eurostar trains that go from Paris or Brussels to London via Lille and the Channel Tunnel and with French domestic TGV trains. Thalys reaches Amsterdam and Cologne, and its system is operated by Thalys International. Its capital is divided up between SNCF (62%), SNCB/NMBS (28%), and Deutsche Bahn (10%). Source: Wikipedia
UPDATE: Today, another act of violence and intolerance happened, curiously on this same train. An armed man began to shoot in the cabin in the middle of the Amsterdam-Paris voyage. I am terrified and absolutely against those display of hate, ignorance and intolerance.
Australian Hobby, Black-shouldered Kite
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In a world that is filled with intolerance and hatred, I thought it quite refreshing to find these raptors sharing a tree in the warm sunshine. (Hobby has one foot tucked up)
Nicky Winmar's statue
Optus Stadium, Perth, WA. (Now Gone).
Thu 6 Aug 2026 at 1:57pm
Prosecutors have asked a court to sentence AFL identity Nicky Winmar to jail after he was found guilty of assaulting a woman in Victoria's north last year.
The court has heard the attack left the woman "a shadow of the person" she was.
What's next?
Winmar will be sentenced in August.
The future of disgraced AFL great Nicky Winmar hangs in the balance, with prosecutors calling for him to be jailed for assaulting a woman.
Winmar, who was recently removed from the league's Hall of Fame, was last month found guilty of bashing the woman in the town of Cohuna in 2025.
Winmar smashed the woman's head against a door, pulled her hair and twisted her arm during the attack.
She said the assault left her "a shadow of the person I once was".
Bendigo magistrate Trieu Huynh said he had not decided whether to impose a jail term.
Annina Tropea told the Bendigo court Nicky Winmar needed to be sent to jail to learn the consequences of his actions. (ABC News: Nate Woodall)
Prosecutor Annina Tropea said Winmar had prior convictions for violence and said jail was needed to make him understand that there were consequences for his actions.
"Engaging in that conduct was a conscious and persistent choice," she said.
However, Winmar's barrister, Dermot Dann KC, said his prison should be a punishment of "last resort", and a community corrections order was more appropriate.
A sentencing date has been set for August 28.
Winmar was found guilty last month of assaulting a woman in northern Victoria last year. (ABC News: Nate Woodall)
Winmar, who sat alone, slumped forward and covered his ears as the victim read out a statement about how the crime affected her life.
The woman said she felt "extreme pain" in her arm, leaving her unable to complete daily duties or simple tasks.
She said the attack also had an "immense impact" on her mental health and that she constantly felt paranoid, scared and frightened.
"The visions and reminders of being overpowered and powerless are so detailed," she said.
"Not being able to stand up for myself — I was so helpless."
Winmar pleaded not guilty during the case; however, the magistrate found the charges guilty beyond reasonable doubt after hearing evidence from the victim and other witnesses.
Mr Dann, for the defence, said his client had a storied AFL career whose most important achievement was standing up to racism, when he famously lifted his jumper and pointed to his skin colour in a match against Collingwood in 1993.
After Winmar was found guilty, he was stripped of numerous playing accolades and a bronze statue of him outside Perth Stadium was taken down.
"They can erase his statue and they can erase his names from their hall of fames," Mr Dann said.
"What they'll never be able to erase … in the hearts of minds of the many, many people who care about racism and intolerance and injustice, is the memory of his courageous stand that day at Victoria Park."
Winmar endured a difficult upbringing in WA and currently struggled with depression, PTSD and alcohol disorders, Mr Dann said.
"This is a man who's had plenty of highlights but also plenty of lowlights," he said.
"Of course, this proceeding is one of the real lowlights.
"He has undergone significant efforts towards rehabilitation."
Mr Dann said his client suffered numerous concussions in his playing days and investigations were under way to determine whether he had acquired a brain injury or developed CTE.
Winmar's priors include multiple convictions for assault, including an attack on a taxi driver in 2019, the court heard.
Winmar made no comment outside court.
"Photophobia describes intolerance to light or light sensitivity".
Taken with 7artisans 60mm f2.8 Macro
nestle milo cereal + dutch lady full cream milk.
"Ada masanya kita tidak suka dengan apa yang berlaku di depan mata. Kalau ia dalam kuasa kita, tanganilah. Tetapi kalau di luar kuasa kita, berdoalah dan redha dengan taqdirNya. Di sana kita akan meniti cinta agungNya."
p/s: i cannot consume milk without anything been added in it :) something called lactose intolerance
The Hollywood & Highland Center is a shopping mall and entertainment complex at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood district in Los Angeles. The 387,000-square-foot (36,000 m2) center also includes TCL Chinese Theatre (formerly Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and Mann's Chinese Theatre) and the Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre), home to the Academy Awards. The historic site was once the home of the famed Hollywood Hotel. Located in the heart of Hollywood, along the Hollywood Walk of Fame, it is among the most visited tourist destinations in Los Angeles.
The complex sits just across Hollywood Blvd. from the El Capitan Theatre and offers views of the Hollywood Hills and Hollywood Sign to the north, Santa Monica Mountains to the west and downtown Los Angeles to the east. The centerpiece of the complex is a massive three-story courtyard inspired by the Babylon scene from the D.W. Griffith film Intolerance. The developer of the shopping center built part of the archway and two pillars with elephant sculptures on the capitals, just as seen in the film, to the same full scale. It gives visitors an idea of how large the original set must have been.
The center has over 70 shops and 25 restaurants. Major retail tenants that face Hollywood Boulevard include American Eagle Outfitters, Forever 21, GAP, and Sephora. The complex also houses a Lucky Strike Lanes bowling alley, a six-plex movie theater, and a nightclub.
Hollywood & Highland also houses 65,000 square feet (6,000 m2) of gathering spaces including the Grand Ballroom, used for the Oscars Governors Ball. Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck operates his regional headquarters out of the complex. The center also includes television broadcast facilities that in 2004 included the studios for the daily talk show On Air With Ryan Seacrest. Currently, the studio is home to Revolt TV.
The 637-room Loews Hollywood Hotel is also part of the site. The LACMTA Red Line's subway station of the same name is beneath the structure. Also, Metro Local lines 212, 217, 222, 237, 656 and Metro Rapid 780 serve Hollywood & Highland.
Drummond was born at Hawthornden Castle, Midlothian. His father, John Drummond, was the first laird of Hawthornden; and his mother was Susannah Fowler, sister of William Fowler, poet and courtier. Sir Robert Drummond of Carnock, one time Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland was his grandfather.
Drummond received his early education at the Royal High School of Edinburgh, and graduated in July 1605 as M.A. of the recently founded University of Edinburgh. His father was a gentleman usher at the English court (as he had been at the Scottish court from 1590) and William, in a visit to London in 1606, describes the festivities in connection with the visit of the king of Denmark. Drummond spent two years at Bourges and Paris in the study of law; and, in 1609, he was again in Scotland, where, by the death of his father in the following year, he became laird of Hawthornden at the early age of twenty-four.
The list of books he read up to this time is preserved in his own handwriting.the indicates a strong preference for imaginative literature, and shows that he was keenly interested in contemporary verse. His collection (now in the library of the university of Edinburgh) contains many first editions of the most famous productions of the age. On finding himself his own master, Drummond naturally abandoned law for the muses; "for," says his biographer in 1711, "the delicacy of his wit always run on the pleasantness and usefulness of history, and on the fame and softness of poetry." In 1612 began his correspondence with Sir William Alexander of Menstrie, afterwards Earl of Stirling, which ripened into a lifelong friendship after Drummond's visit to Menstrie in 1614.
Drummond's first publication appeared in 1613, an elegy on the death of Henry, prince of Wales, called Teares on the Death of Meliades (Moeliades, 3rd edit. 1614). The poem shows the influence of Spenser's and Sidney's pastoralism. In the same year he published an anthology of the elegies of Chapman, Wither and others, entitled Mausoleum, or The Choisest Flowres of the Epitaphs. In 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death, appeared Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains, Madrigals, being substantially the story of his love for Mary Cunningham of Barns, who was about to become his wife when she died in 1615.
The poems bear marks of a close study of Sidney, and of the Italian poets. He sometimes translates direct from the Italian, especially from Marini. Forth Feasting: A Panegyricke to the King's Most Excellent Majestie (1617), a poem written in heroic couplets of remarkable facility, celebrates James's visit to Scotland in that year. In 1618 Drummond began a correspondence with Michael Drayton. The two poets continued to write at intervals for thirteen years, the last letter being dated in the year of Drayton's death. The latter had almost been persuaded by his "dear Drummond" to print the later books of Poly-Olbion at Hart's Edinburgh press. In the winter of 1618-1619, Drummond had included Ben Jonson in his circle of literary friends, and at Christmas 1618 was honoured with a visit of a fortnight or more from the dramatist.
The account of their conversations, long supposed to be lost, was discovered in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, by David Laing, and was edited for the Shakespeare Society in 1842 and printed by Gifford & Cunningham. The conversations are full of literary gossip, and embody Jonson's opinion of himself and of his host, whom he frankly told that "his verses were too much of the schooles, and were not after the fancie of the time," and again that he "was too good and simple, and that oft a man's modestie made a fool of his witt." But the publication of what was obviously intended merely for a private journal has given Jonson an undeserved reputation for harsh judgments, and has cast blame on Drummond for blackening his guest's memory.
In 1623 appeared the poet's fourth publication, entitled Flowers of Sion: By William Drummond of Hawthornedenne: to which is adjoyned his Cypresse Grove. From 1625 till 1630 Drummond was probably for the most part engaged in travelling on the Continent. In 1627, however, he seems to have been home for a short time, as, in that year, he appears in the entirely new character of the holder of a patent for the construction of military machines, entitled "Litera Magistri Gulielmi Drummond de Fabrica Machinarum Militarium, Anno 1627." The same year, 1627, is the date of Drummond's munificent gift (referred to above) of about 500 volumes to the library of the University of Edinburgh.
In 1630 Drummond again began to reside permanently at Hawthornden, and in 1632 he married Elizabeth Logan, by whom he had five sons and four daughters. In 1633 Charles made his coronation-visit to Scotland; and Drummond's pen was employed in writing congratulatory speeches and verses. He was involved in organising the King's triumphal procession through Edinburgh[1]. As Drummond preferred Episcopacy to Presbytery, and was an extremely loyal subject, he supported Charles's general policy, though he protested against the methods employed to enforce it. When John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino was put on his trial on the capital charge of retaining in his possession a petition regarded as a libel on the king's government, Drummond in an energetic "Letter" (1635) urged the injustice and folly of the proceedings. About this time a claim by the earl of Menteith to the earldom of Strathearn, which was based on the assertion that Robert III, husband of Annabella Drummond, was illegitimate, roused the poet's pride of blood and prompted him to prepare an historical defence of his house.
Partly to please his kinsman the earl of Perth, and partly to satisfy his own curiosity, the poet made researches in the genealogy of the family. This investigation was the real secret of Drummond's interest in Scottish history; and so we find that he now began his History of Scotland during the Reigns of the Five Jameses, a work which did not appear till 1655, and is remarkable only for its good literary style. His next work was called forth by the king's enforced submission to the opposition of his Scottish subjects. It is entitled Irene: or a Remonstrance for Concord, Amity, and Love amongst His Majesty's Subjects (1638), and embodies Drummond's political creed of submission to authority as the only logical refuge from democracy, which he hated. In 1639 Drummond had to sign the Covenant in self-protection, but was uneasy under the burden, as several political squibs by him testify. In 1643 he published ~iaaucLxLa: or a Defence of a Petition tendered to the Lords of the Council of Scotland by certain Noblemen and Gentlemen, a political pamphlet in support of those royalists in Scotland who wished to espouse the king's cause against the English parliament. Its burden is an invective on the intolerance of the then dominant Presbyterian clergy.
His later works may be described briefly as royalist pamphlets, written with more or less caution, as the times required. Drummond took the part of Montrose; and a letter from the Royalist leader in 1646 acknowledged his services. He also wrote a pamphlet, A Vindication of the Hamiltons, supporting the claims of the Duke of Hamilton to lead the Scottish army which was to release Charles I. It is said that Drummond's health received a severe shock when news was brought of the king's execution. He was buried in his parish church of Lasswade.
François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (/vɒlˈtɛər, voʊl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), he was famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity—especially of the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. Voltaire was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. His best-known work and magnum opus, Candide, is a novella which comments on, criticizes, and ridicules many events, thinkers, and philosophies of his time.
The Jewish Quarter is located around two streets, the Rua Direita and the Rua da Fonte da Rosa, the latter formerly called Rua da Judiaria (Jewish Quarter Street).
Many years ago I read a book by Claude Lévi-Strauss. I don't remember much of it, to be honest, but one sentence got branded in my brain. It read something like "If you don't marry out, you war out".
In the Belmonte City Hall internet page
cm-belmonte.pt/en/history/jewish-community-in-belmonte/
we can read:
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The community of Belmonte is home to an important fact of the Sephardic Jewish history, related to the resistance of the Jews to religious intolerance in Iberian Peninsula. In the 16th century, during the expulsion of the moors of the Iberian Peninsula, and the reconquest of the Spanish and Portuguese lands by the Catholic Kings and by D. Manuel, a law was instituted that forced the Portuguese Jews to convert or leave the country. Many of them ended up abandoning Portugal, for fear of reprisals from the Inquisition. Others converted to Christianity in official terms, maintaining their cult and cultural traditions in the family context. A third group of Jews, however, took a more extreme measure. Several have decided to isolate themselves from the outside world, cutting contact with the rest of the country and following their traditions to the letter. Such people were called “Marranos”, in an allusion to the ritual prohibition of eating pork. For centuries the “Marranos” of Belmonte have kept their Jewish traditions almost intact, becoming an exceptional case of cryptojewish community. Only in the 70´s the community established contact with the Jews of Israel and officiated Judaism as its religion. In 2005, the Jewish Museum of Belmonte was inaugurated in the city, the first of its kind in Portugal, which shows the traditions and the day-to-day of this community. In August 2017, he underwent remodeling works.
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The history of the Jews in Belmonte is referred in detail in the Wikipedia page
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Belmonte
which offers interesting reading to those interested in the Sephardic tradition and crypto-judaism.
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