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The knowledge that is not a good photo but that somehow it speak to me, Ronald Barthes calls it The Punctum.
The Punctum points to those features of a photograph that seem to produce or convey a meaning without invoking any recognizable symbolic system. This kind of meaning is unique to the response of individual viewer of the image. The punctum punctuates the studium and as result pierces its viewer.
Ronald Barthes.
Glasgow, Scotland
I decided on a new agricultural hardware series. I find it amazing how ancient and classic knowledge is slowly relearned. Archimedes' screw used to elevate water to Babylon's Hanging gardens, actually in Nineveh, heavy block construction, floods, Atlantis eruptions and meteor strikes learned as fables instead of fact. This Archimedes screw will deliver ensilage, grain or seed to the silo for storage. I don't know if it bumps while it grinds. Apparently, the farmer dumped the rusty elevator here and said, "screw it."
I was out west on route #66 on the route near Hygiene to see if the Ag Museum was open for summer weekends. I loaded up with autumn captures this year in general and accessed the only snow Saturday this winter. As always, it's a great spot for exercise and access to Mac Lake. There is always something more at McIntosh. I apparently can't find everything in a single pass. This is a pleasant if breezy day that shows here. In any case I decided to keep the tones as they were.
This is the McIntosh-Lohr Farm Agricultural Museum on Highway #66, (not the same as Route #66) It goes up to Estes Park and end mostly east at Flatteville. I dropped everything else because the clouding has been absent recently, Friday and today, they really popped the structures. The unpainted barn was the McIntosh barn and the red one the Dickens barn moved in from the FAA property. I'm related some how or another to the Dickens crowd. Old Jack, I remember he had trouble remembering to put the gear down BEFORE he landed his plane. I scored shots out here some years ago but the sky was a dud and I was using my old D70. I am gathering all together into a Photo Set.
Explored!
It took our ancestors thousands of years to light it, it took me only a few seconds. Knowledge is the key and it needs to be applied properly.
Knowledge of the field, patience and luck meet the features of modern cameras ☺️ (and some photoshop kungfu to merge everything)
The Role of Spiritual Knowledge in the Divine Plan
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In light of incidents of terrorism occurring globally, we ask ourselves: why are some people drawn to brutality and others to spirituality? Where is our world heading to?
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CANNON SHELLS OR PROJECTILES THAT MAKE A BIG BANG THAT ARE POINTED AT ONE END AND FLAT AT THE OTHER END AND HURT IF DROPPED ON FOOT. ENOUGH OM ME SHOWING MY VAST KNOWLEDGE. AT COALHOUSE FORT VICTORIAN MILITARY DEFENCE STRUCTURE ON THE EAST COAST NEAR RIVER THAMES AND LONDON ENGLAND DSC00857
The offspring from this illicit union between angels and human women were giants who “became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” (Genesis 6) The fact that they were giants, is also proof in and of itself that their parentage was superhuman. But these giants were evil. Having been born of corrupted, Satanic angels they dominated the Earth and filled it with violence. It is also interesting to note that the Bible calls them “men of renown.” The Hebrew word here, shem, refers to being famous and legendary. It is as if the Bible is indicating that when the reader hears of legends of “demigods”, titans or legendary heroes who were part god, that this is who those “myths” were referring to. These were ‘men’ of superhuman ability and strength. In addition to causing violence and sin in the world, the Nephilim were also corrupting the human bloodline.
The Nephilim giants spread violence and sin that: “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Humanity was on the verge of being wiped out with no hope of being saved from sin if every person born became part fallen angel. Thus God judged the Earth with the flood.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel… - Gen. 3:15 (KJV)
The word seed, in this above verse, means “semen virile;” hence “offspring,” “posterity,” and “descendants.”[2] We know there were groups of human beings with truly human blood: Adam, the Adamites, and other pre-Adamites. We also know there had begun to be offspring on the earth with mixed
blood - those with blood of the Serpent (such as Cain). We’ll now discover there would be more crossbred-offspring - via these fallen angels, as well; and we’ll discover what it all would mean to the Genesis 3:15
Prophecy.
To begin, the mixing of human and fallen angelic blood was not in God’s plan for the human race, as far as “kind after kind.” There would be entirely new groups of people emerging.What was so wrong with the mixing of humans and Nephilim, other than this? First off, we’ve already mentioned that these crossbred offspring weren’t really meant for this earth. The reason? A number of genetic disturbances developed because of it. Some of these mixed offspring could have turned out normally - similar to other human beings; many others did not. There were a number of those either
much bigger or smaller than their human counterparts.Many were giants, physical giants: On the earth there once were giants.- Homer (circa 400 B. C.)[20]
The ancient genomes, one from a Neanderthal and one from a different archaic human group, the Denisovans, were presented on 18 November at a meeting at the Royal Society in London. They suggest that interbreeding went on between the members of several ancient human-like groups living in Europe and Asia more than 30,000 years ago, including an as-yet unknown human ancestor from Asia.
“What it begins to suggest is that we’re looking at a ‘Lord of the Rings’-type world — that there were many hominid populations,” says Mark Thomas, an evolutionary geneticist at University College London who was at the meeting but was not involved in the work.
The first Neanderthal and the Denisovan genome sequences revolutionized the study of ancient human history, not least because they showed that these groups interbred with anatomically modern humans, contributing to the genetic diversity of many people alive today.
All humans whose ancestry originates outside of Africa owe about 2% of their genome to Neanderthals; and certain populations living in Oceania, such as Papua New Guineans and Australian Aboriginals, got about 4% of their DNA from interbreeding between their ancestors and Denisovans, who are named after the cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains where they were discovered. The cave contains remains deposited there between 30,000 and 50,000 years ago.
Those conclusions however were based on low-quality genome sequences, riddled with errors and full of gaps, David Reich, an evolutionary geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts said at the meeting. His team, in collaboration with Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now produced much more complete versions of the Denisovan and Neanderthal genomes — matching the quality of contemporary human genomes. The high-quality Denisovan genome data and new Neanderthal genome both come from bones recovered from Denisova Cave.
The new Denisovan genome indicates that this enigmatic population got around: Reich said at the meeting that they interbred with Neanderthals and with the ancestors of human populations that now live in China and other parts of East Asia, in addition to Oceanic populations, as his team previously reported. Most surprisingly, Reich said, the new genomes indicate that Denisovans interbred with another extinct population of archaic humans that lived in Asia more than 30,000 years ago, which is neither human nor Neanderthal.
The meeting was abuzz with conjecture about the identity of this potentially new population of humans. “We don’t have the faintest idea,” says Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the London Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the work. He speculates that the population could be related to Homo heidelbergensis, a species that left Africa around half a million years ago and later gave rise to Neanderthals in Europe. “Perhaps it lived on in Asia as well,” Stringer says.
The earliest known Egyptian pyramid is the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara. It was built during the third dynasty, 2630-2611 BC and the pyramid and its surrounding complex are said to have been designed by Imhotep. Not the scary figure from the Mummy-movies but the architect and vizier of pharaoh Djoser. Imhotep was skilled in all areas of administration and royal enterprises and he was also a priest, writer, a doctor and the founder of the Egyptian studies of astronomy and architecture. Imhotep was also seen as a god, the God of Healing, and he was called the son of Ptah. Ptah was one of five major Egyptian gods with Re, Isis, Osiris and Amun. The name Imhotep means "the one that comes in peace" but where he came from is unknown. From statues of him we can see that he had Caucasian features and the long head of the pharaohs even if he was not a pharaoh.
Djoser's mummy has not been found, but what is remarkable about his pyramid is all the storage rooms plus a large maze of corridors and chambers dug beneath it. Massive amounts of seeds like wheat, barley, grape, tomato and figs - along with 40.000 storage vessels has been found so far. Egyptologists claim this to be for the king's afterlife but would he need such a large amount of seeds in a theological heaven?
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, made by the government of Norway deep inside a mountain on the remote and cold island of Svalbard, is a "doomsday" seed bank that stores backup copies of millions of different crop varieties in case of a worldwide catastrophe. Is it possible that also all the seeds in Djoser's storage rooms were meant to be in case of catastrophe - to restart the Egyptian civilisation?
Imhotep diagnosed and treated over 200 diseases; he performed surgery and practiced some dentistry. He has a remarkable degree of medical knowledge. The prescriptions in his ancient documents not only can compare with pharmaceutical preparations of today but many of the remedies also had therapeutic merit, Yes, many of his ancient remedies survived into the 20th century and some remain in
Akenaten.Semen and ejaculation are actually a strong part of ancient Egyptian god myths: there's an extended episode in which Set and Horus, two male gods, have what's essentially a semen-battle. Set tries to seduce Horus, but Horus throws Set's semen in the river, and then tricks him into eating lettuce smeared with Horus's semen. When the other gods try to figure out who "won" this particular fight, they summon both bits of sperm, and Horus wins, because he got Set to "swallow". Horus's semen becomes a lovely gold disc of shame around Set's head.The Horus and Seth story ends with the father, Osiris, declaring his son, Horus, his legitimate heir. Seth is brought as a bound prisoner, a game that was played by post-pubescent boys, and Isis closes the ceremony with a declaration of Horus’s new identity.
Hathor’s role in the Horus and Seth story may be that of the female entertainer, because, at a time when Pre Harakhty was sulking “she uncovered her nakedness before him, thereupon the great god laughed at her.” Literally, she ‘uncovered her vagina’, and judging from the lion’s flank determinative, she exposed her vagina by bending forward, a popular pose among the relatively few pornographic pictures we have from ancient Egypt. The way the words are written, the sexual act is implied, but not expressly stated. The sun-god nevertheless emerges from his depression with satisfaction. Perhaps someone can come up with another example where laughter is a euphemism for orgasm.
The point here is that Hathor used her sexuality here not for reproduction, but for entertainment, or, perhaps healing, in the sense of curing a depression
Did Imhotep also have knowledge of genetics? Is it possible that he with his superior medical skills tried to restore the pharaoh's dwindling power and knowledge? Had interbreeding with local people changed the divine pharaohs mental capacities, did their long skulls get shorter and shorter and the brain capacities smaller and smaller? Did he try to recreate the former race that once had come from the north - the race that he himself most probably had inherited his impressive brain capacities from? Is that why the pharaoh Akenaten not only had a long skull but also female features like breasts and a wide hip? And Akenaten's daughters had even longer skulls and that his son Tutankhamun's DNA (from his mummy) has revealed that he was not an Egyptian but had come from the north?
Denisovans are the famous Nephilim?
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The world, thanks to Cain and the Serpent, was now on the slow pathway to self-destruction. We also know Cain, through his “ways,” was doing the exact opposite that God had planned for him. Adam had fallen a long time before this. The whole working world of the Garden had forever changed. The other fallen, corporeal angels of the Garden probably felt vindicated, at least in their minds. Cain began to influence the developing societies around him with these anti-God religious beliefs. Cain, the Serpent, and now these other fallen angels were being held in high regard - for their “other worldly” knowledge. This would, eventually, give them their “bargaining chips,” to get themselves whatever they wanted.
The rest of the fallen angels, also known as the Nephilim, wanted their place in this post-Adamic world.
The power grid had changed; and these fallen angels aimed to keep it that way. We recall the prophecy, as stated by God to the Serpent: Here we finally arrive at the Nephilimas a means of addressing the genetic evidence that the effective human population never dropped below a few thousand.27 Genesis 6 is the enigmatic story leading up to Noah’s flood,
in which the “sons of God” found the “daughters of
men” to be beautiful and took them as wives. These
unions were an anathema to God, and the offspring
are identifi ed with their own name, the Nephilim,
of which some became known as “mighty men” or
“men of renown.” There are three common explanations
offered: angels marrying human women, noblemen or tyrant rulers marrying commoners, or the righteous line of Seth intermarrying with the unrighteous line of Cain.28 Substantive objections can be raised for each of these arguments. Angels intermarrying with humans fails because Christ explicitly
stated that angels neither marry nor are given in
marriage (Mark 12).29 Noblemen intermarrying with
commoners is a stretch because this would not have
been objectionable to God, and would not have produced
offspring with any unusual physical attributes.
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Name- Ronald Johnson/ Bone Crusher (Hero)
Universe: DC
Age: 45
Weapons- Any firearm or bladed weaponry
Allies: The US Marines, Commissioner Gordon and The GCPD, and Batman
Enemies- Anyone who threatens the US, The Shadow, and gang operations. and Thugs.
Skills/ Abilities- Extreme strength, Extreme intellect, Rock Hard Skin, Great Leadership Qualities, Weapons and Hand to Hand Combat knowledge and experience.
Back Story:
Ronald Johnson, Ron to his friends, was always a good child. He was a tall, built boy with blond hair. He did well in school and never got in trouble. He knew that he wanted to join the US Marines when he grew up. When Ron was 19, he joined the US Marine Corps. He was one of the top members of his squad. When Ron was 29, he was sent over seas for War. Ron had such a strong punch, he would break several bones of anyone he hit. Because of this, his squad gave him the nickname "Bone Crusher".
During the war, he suffered a horrible accident, causing him to loose both his arms and legs. Surprisingly, he survived the incident, but his life was forever changed.
The Military had been working on a new procedure that would allow injured War veterans to be able to move and fight like they use to be able to. Hearing of Ron's accident, they asked if Ron would like to be the first subject to the operation. John accepted.
The procedure made Ron into a new Man and changed his appearance drastically. His arms and legs were extended and his skin was turned rock hard, making it extremely hard to pierce his skin with a bullet or knife. Some of his body was also reinforced with metal joints and plates. He was made a custom US Marine Armor Suit that covered his head and Chest. He could take the armor off, but he wore it most of the time to show support for his Country. Because of the procedure, Ron was not able to age. He is not immortal, but he would not show signs of aging.
Ron used his new body to fight against terrorist and anyone who fought against his country. He was given his own squad and was sent back overseas to fight in the war. Due to the non stop battle that Ron and his fellow soldiers fought, the war was won
When John returned from the war, he was shocked by the actions of the new vigilante "The Shadow". He agreed with what he was doing, but not how he was doing it. He did not want to anymore people suffer from the horrible deaths caused by The Shadow. After seeing multiple News Reports about The Shadow, he finally contacted the GCPD and traveled to Gotham to meet with the Commissioner. He was also introduced to Batman by the Commissioner. He was amazed by The Batman and how he was able to stop crimes with only his Mind, Gadgets, and his Fists. He took Batman's ways to heart, and vowed to only kill if absolutely necessary.
Since his trip to Gotham, he has moved there. He is the leader of the top Swat team in the city and does whatever he can to stop the horrific murders of The Shadow. He frequently reports in with Batman and The Commissioner, and together they try to find the whereabouts of The Shadow. Ron is now a full time member of the GCPD and and would gladly go back overseas to fight if another War was to come up.
The minute He was getting the fruit from the tree, His foot slipped and He fell down on an unusual surface. From this moment on, nothing would ever be the same again. He was about to witness a dramatic change in the way He perceived reality.
(to be continued)
If you want to know how it all started, you can watch it here, but I wouldn't give a damn if I were you.
For “Knowledge is Golden” the inspiration was specific to the area which the mural was done. San Francisco is seeing its second gold rush with information and knowledge being the currency of today. SOMA, being slated to be developed as the new downtown of San Francisco with technology leading the transformation, is why we chose this location for our message.
Gold miners have been replaced by tech innovators. Pickaxes and shovels have been replaced with laptops and desktops. Though the times have changed, the human thirst for chasing opportunity remains prevalent in these times. And with this influx of new people, San Francisco culture as we know it will never be the same.
The concept of innate knowledge is not novel to the Nene. It seems to be much more common amongst avian species but it isn't simply something associated with our feathered friends. At Slimbridge, some nene goslings are incubated, hatched, brooded and reared by their parent geese. Like the one in this photo, is spends its waking hours scouring the surroundings, grazing and browsing on local flora. It seems to know exactly which plants to choose and which to avoid. The obvious thought would be that mom and dad have taught it just what to pick and what to leave behind.
On the other hand Slimbrige staff also incubate, hatch, brood and raise a number of nene goslings separately. It's necessary in order to maintain populations on the refuge, as many naturally reared goslings are lost to local predators. Aside from the daily practice of yoga, which this gosling seems to be engaged in, these goslings demonstrate the same selectivity when grazing and browsing as their naturally reared brothers and sisters. This would suggest some form of innate knowledge since these goslings have no contact with parent geese, until they have paired up and are released back into the wild. The opportunity for further research boggles my mind. There is just so much that we don't understand. #NeneGoslings #Slimbridge
Shot taken under the helpful guidance of my aunt Joanie, who doesn't really use Flickr but has an account so I'm tagging her anyway. ;)
My knowledge of birds, certainly the North American variety is very limited. My guess based on UK knowledge would be that this is a Jack Snipe.
If anyone can put me right please feel free to do so.
I have carried out a little online research and can see that this isn't a Jack Snipe, but a Wilsons Snipe, which is very similar to the European Snipe.
" "What would Buddha do to search for perfect knowledge ?"
"Your mind becomes Buddha.
Your mind is Buddha.
All the Buddhas' ocean of perfect knowledge begins in your very mind and thought."
(Amitayur Dhyana Sutra 17)
Buddha doesn't have to do anything to gain perfect knowledge.
He knows he has it already.
He knows we have it already.
But someone we seem to be left out of the loop.
How ironic that we don't know we have perfect knowledge !
What went wrong ?"
(From "What would Buddha do ?" by Franz Metcalf)
Those two Tibetan monks were under the Bodhi Tree which is behind the Mahabodhi Temple, the place of Gautama Buddha's attainment of nirvana (Enlightenment), in Bodh Gaya (बोधगया), in the Indian state of Bihar.
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TRADITON AND ANTITRADITION
291. Tradition means a handing over: the handing over of a supertemporal circle of principles here in time.
292. Tradition is the atemporal thrown into temporality.
293. Knowledge of the origin, knowledge of the path, knowledge of the all-transcending, ultimate goal: this is metaphysical tradition.
294. Tradition springs forth from the eternal, points at the eternal, and in the human modality of being represents the aspiration towards the eternal.
295. Metaphysical tradition is at the same time solar and polar: polar for though it appears in the earthly-human sphere, yet it is of heavenly origin and for this reason its origin is not subject to the whirlpool of existence (samsara), it is solar for the powers characteristic of my self-awareness which provide the rule of the auton are present in it.
296. There is only one primordial tradition for there is only one metaphysics, and there is only one metaphysics for there is only one being.
297. Tradition can never be identified simply with metaphysical doctrines or with symbology bearing a doctrinal value, and even less with the archaic documents that present these. Tradition is the total acceptance of a world and the total denial of another.
298. Metaphysically speaking, tradition is nothing other than »remembrance«, and the bearing of the connection with the origin. Modernity, however, is not only the lack of this »remembrance«, but at the same time the denial of this metaphysical »remembrance« and aims at the destruction of every kind of representation of remembrance.