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The Ghats in Varanasi are world-renowned embankments made in steps of stone slabs along the river bank where pilgrims perform ritual ablutions. The ghats are an integral complement to the Hindu concept of divinity represented in physical, metaphysical, and supernatural elements. Varanasi has at least 84 ghats, most of which are used for bathing by pilgrims and spiritually significant Hindu puja ceremony, while a few are used exclusively as Hindu cremation sites. Steps in the ghats lead to the banks of Ganges, including the Dashashwamedh Ghat, the Manikarnika Ghat, the Panchganga Ghat, and the Harishchandra Ghat, where Hindus cremate their dead. Many ghats are associated with Hindu legends and several are now privately owned.
Many of the ghats were constructed under the patronage of the Marathas like Scindias, Holkars, Bhonsles, and Peshwas. Most are bathing ghats, while others are used as cremation sites. A morning boat ride on the Ganges across the ghats is a popular tourist attraction. The extensive stretches of ghats in Varanasi enhance the riverfront with a multitude of shrines, temples, and palaces built "tier on the tier above the water's edge".
The Dashashwamedh Ghat is the main and probably the oldest ghat of Varanasi located on the Ganges, close to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
It is believed that Brahma created this ghat to welcome Shiva and sacrificed ten horses during the Dasa-Ashwamedha yajna performed there. Above and adjacent to this ghat, there are also temples dedicated to Sulatankesvara, Brahmesvara, Varahesvara, Abhaya Vinayaka, Ganga (the Ganges), and Bandi Devi, which are all important pilgrimage sites. A group of priests performs "Agni Pooja" (Sanskrit: "Worship of Fire") daily in the evening at this ghat as a dedication to Shiva, Ganga, Surya (Sun), Agni (Fire), and the entire universe. Special aartis are held on Tuesdays and on religious festivals.
The Manikarnika Ghat is the Mahasmasana, the primary site for Hindu cremation in the city. Adjoining the ghat, there are raised platforms that are used for death anniversary rituals. According to a myth, it is said that an earring of Shiva or his wife Sati fell here. Fourth-century Gupta period inscriptions mention this ghat. However, the current ghat as a permanent riverside embankment was built in 1302 and has been renovated at least three times throughout its existence.
The Jain Ghat is believed to birthplace of Suparshvanatha (7th Tirthankara) and Parshvanatha (23rd tirthankara). The Jain Ghat or Bachraj Ghat is a Jain Ghat and has three Jain Temples located on the banks of the River. It is believed that the Jain Maharajas used to own these ghats. Bachraj Ghat has three Jain temples near the river's banks, and one them is a very ancient temple of Tirthankara Suparswanath.
From which it is woven
Understanding aesthetics
As a window into the underlying reality
Ilex-Oscillo-Paragon 75mmf1.9
A very special stand of pines against clearing storm clouds. A bright and revalatory day in Vermont.
I can say one thing with near certainty. There are many images I have shot in the swamps that I will not be able to recreate because chances are I can't find the same subject and place again. And even if I did go to the exact location, the conditions might be vastly different than what I encountered before for me to recognize it. Hence, I often take in the scene and try to ponder the slightly spiritual nature of what I am seeing and experiencing. I took this picture at one moment that I knew meant something exceptional.
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Andy Marvell, What a Marvel
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) was a British born Metaphysical Poet, satirist and politician. The Garden is one of his most celebrated works. I heard it again while listening to an audio book while in the bath the other day. Not as such a metaphysical experience but it was jolly nice.
These portraits of plants, have been made for many different reasons but always for the JOY of it. All of my photographs are daytime, made in city parks and gardens and virtually straight out of the camera with the absolute minimum of post processing.
This on going photographic odyssey that I call TERRA INCOGNITA has helped me notice what is always present in my life if I can make the time to look.
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be
static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in
metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
John Fowles
Another Perspective
LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA24/126/129/23
Metaphysics of frequencies
A return to nature as a fluctuating cosmic vision, resonating vibrations where matter is in continuous movement and space does not exist. It is the unifying force of subtle body and energy fields.
The astute philosopher seeks the optimum environment to contemplate the epistemological, metaphysical, and axiological concepts that form the foundational pillars of philosophical investigation.
Some masters have retreated to mountain heights. Others to temples of knowledge. Linus prefers a bench in Turtle Crossing Park.
It offers the quiet solitude (Sometimes.) that is conducive to clear, flowing thought. Both inductive and deductive reasoning are vigorously pursued.
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Linus has deduced that his hunger is an epistomological certainty, his empty stomach is a metaphysical reality, and a cheeseburger is of immense axiological value.
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Time to head to Boop's. There, Linus will be able to more fully explore the insurmountable ontology of the cheeseburger, the profound aesthetic of grilled beef and cheese, and the evident causality on the effect of his hunger.
It's all for philosophy.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Peanuts Collection
50 Years Celebration
Linus
1998, Flambro
Flambro is another of our favorite brands for the Peanuts license. We had an account with them when we had our collectibles store and Flambro never failed to delight with their colorful and innovative designs.
This series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Peanuts (Which occured in 2000), features nine figurines, each of them incredibly cute, such as Linus here.
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Linus has been seen making Sally Brown's day in BP 2022 Day 93:
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And ruining Sally Brown's evening in Halloween 2018:
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Linus has been seen in celebrating Christmas 2017:
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And Christmas 2022:
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And loooots of philosophizing in BP 2019 Day 104:
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In BP 2022 Day 86:
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In BP 2023 Day 71:
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In BP 2024 Day 119:
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in BP 2025 Day 117:
You will ask: ‘And where are the lilacs?
And the metaphysics covered with poppies?
And the rain that often beat down
filling its words
with holes and birds.’
To you I am going to tell all that happened to me.
I lived in a quarter
in Madrid, with bells
with clocks, with trees.
From there could be seen
the dry face of Castille
like a sea of leather.
My house was named
the house of the flowers, because everywhere
geraniums exploded: it was
a beautiful house
with dogs and little children.
Raúl, you agree?
You agree, Rafael?
Federico, you agree
beneath the earth,
you agree about my house with balconies where
the light of June drowned flowers in your mouth?
Pablo Neruda
Whimberly www.flickr.com/groups/3216736@N25/, Whimberly (149, 50, 26) - Adulto
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a collage of 7 different snaps
infused wit one of my fractal collages to recreate da layout
colleges wit 3D Incendia Fractal Objects
a photo n digital visual
Questions métaphysiques. Pourquoi ici plutôt qu'ailleurs? Combien de temps faut-il pour changer une ampoule? Combien d'anges peuvent danser sur la tête d'une épingle?
Combien de temps vivent les volutes de fumée?
Pas très longtemps, assurément. Sauf lorsqu'on les maintient captives.
Je suis en panne d'inspiration.
On the Grandfather's Bridge in Helsinki.
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"There are necessarily two principles of beings; the one containing the series of beings organized, and finished, the other, of unordered and unfinished beings. That one which is susceptible of being expressed, by speech, and which can be explained, both embraces beings, and determines and organises the non-being.
For every time that it approaches the things of becoming, it orders them, and measures them, and makes them participate in the essence and form of the universal. On the contrary, the series of beings which escape speech and reason, injures ordered things and destroys those which aspire to essence and becoming; whenever it approaches them, it assimilates them to its own nature.
But since there are two principles of things of an opposite character, the one the principle of good, and the other the principle of evil, there are therefore also two reasons, the one of beneficent nature, the other of maleficent nature.
That is why the things that owe their existence to art, and also those which owe it to nature, must above all participate in these two principles; form and substance.
The form is the cause of essence; substance is the substrate which [it] receives the form. Neither can substance alone participate in form, by itself; nor can form by itself apply itself to substance; there must therefore exist another cause which moves the substance of things; and forms them. This cause is primary, as regards substance, and the most excellent of all."
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A lot of great things has happened lately that i suddenly realized i haven't been shooting and posting here at flickr.
I am undergoing a certain kind of hibernation state that compels me to discipline my self and suspend everything else for the sake of some other tremendous things in anticipation. I know this is a difficult stage and somehow the only strength i have is the passion that empowers my will to carry on...
"To the pure finite spirit, Liberty is what it is to the wind and elements -- a power to obey the imperious laws of its nature; a power to act on conditions, emotions and desires would arise, and be preceded, followed, or co-exist with perceptions and judgments in a necessary succession, and with a rapidity which would preclude all comparison, consideration, and determination.
This power is liberty, and is the basis of responsibility. It is simple. The mind on the condition of a body learns the laws of its nature, its activity, their conditions and objects, and thus acquires a power over itself. This is Liberty. Hence there are degrees of liberty. Hence there may be minds that possess no more freedom than the brutes that perish."
אבן עזרא מפרש את קהלת (א, ז): " כָּל הַנְּחָלִים הֹלְכִים אֶל הַיָּם וְהַיָּם אֵינֶנּוּ מָלֵא" - "כי תמיד יעלה אד מהים, והם העננים". כלומר, אלמלא ההתאיידות היו הנחלים ממלאים את הים עד שהיה מציף את הארץ
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בפסוק: הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים אָמַר קֹהֶלֶת הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים הַכֹּל הָבֶל-קהלת א, ב
הבל משמעותו אדים, הלחות שמצטברת על המראה אחרי שאתה נושף עליה ביום קר, או לאחר מקלחת חמה
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המילה "הבל" היא מילה נרדפת ל"אדים". אדים הם אחד ממצבי הצבירה של המים. אדים הם מים. תלמידים לפילוסופיה שנתקלים לראשונה באמרה של תאלס "הכל מים" מרימים גבה, אבל כשמבינים את "הבל" כ"אדים" מבינים גם שתאלס למד משלמה המלך, שהמסורת מייחסת לו את כתיבת ספר קהלת
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כאשר מתבוננים במים מתבוננים במצב צבירה מסוים שלהם: נוזל, גז, מוצק, או במצב אגירה מסוים שלהם: שלולית, אגם, ים, או במצב תנועה מסוים שלהם: גשם, מעין, נהר, גל, מפל. מה שמשותף לכל התופעות האלה, ההרכב הכימי, של המים
-H2O-
אינו נראה לעין אלא במיקרוסקופ. מים הם חומר מיוחד כל כך עד שהפילוסופיה מתחילה בהתבוננות במים. תאלס, הפילוסוף הראשון, (הממציא של הפילוסופיה!) שנולד במאה השביעית לפני הספירה, הצהיר שהכול מים, והפילוסופים שבאו אחריו הסבירו, כל אחד לשיטתו, למה תאלס התכוון. אנחנו יודעים שתאלס לא הכיר את ההרכב הכימי של המים, ולא ראה אותו במיקרוסקופ, ולכן טבעי שנשאל מנין לו שמעבר לריבוי התופעות של המים מסתתרת אחדות? התשובה היא שלא צריך מיקרוסקופ בשביל לראות שמים קופאים בקור, אך חוזרים לזרום לאחר שהם מפשירים בחום, ושאדים שהתקררו חוזרים ונעשים למים... בגשמים
הערה: זה לא שתאלס הצהיר שהכל מים וחזר לחרוש את אדמתו. לדעתי הוא הקדיש את כל חייו לפיתוח הצהרה זו ולהוכחת טיעוניו. מפעלו זכה להערצה בעודו בחיים. תורתו היתה ידועה היטב כמה דורות לאחר שנפטר. ככל שחלף הזמן נשתכחה, עד שנותרו ממנה רק הצהרה זו וכמה אנקדוטות. בימינו יש נטיייה להמעיט בהישגיו של תאלס, אבל על מנת להבין לעומק את הצהרתו ראוי שנשחזר את מפעלו, שנוכיח שהכל מים על פי הידע הרב שנצבר על המים מאז ועד היום
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אנחנו יודעים לראשונה אודות ההצהרה של תאלס שהכל מים מן הספר הראשון של המטפיסיקה שחיבר אריסטו, שבו הוא מסביר בפסקה קצרצרה שראשוני הפילוסופים חיפשו עיקרון אחד, קבוע, של עצם בלתי משתנה, שהוא המקור לקיומם של כל הדברים, ובפסקה שלאחריה הוא כותב: "תאלס... אומר שהעיקרון [האחד] הוא מים (מסיבה זו הצהיר שהאדמה נשענת על מים). תגלית זו באה לו אולי לאחר שנוכח כי מה שמזין את כל הדברים הוא לח, ושהחום עצמו נוצר מלחות ומתקיים באמצעותה... ומן העובדה שיש טבע לח לזרעים של כל הדברים, ומן העובדה שמים הם המקור של הדברים הלחים". בין הפילוסופים שהגיבו מאוחר יותר על הצהרה זו של תאלס היה הרקליטוס הומריקוס שהעיר כי תאלס הסיק את מסקנתו כשראה חומר לח הופך לאוויר ולעפר
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על מה חלה ההצהרה הכל מים? באיזה מקרים היא נכונה? האם תאלס צדק? כשני שליש משטח כדור הארץ מכוסים במים, וכפי שהסביר אריסטו לעיל בעלי החיים והצמחים שחיים בתוך המים מקורם בזרעים שטבעם לח, והלחות מקורה במים. כלומר נשאר לבדוק שליש משטח כדור הארץ שאינו כולל צמחים וחיות. בתוך השליש הזה כלולים חומרים שאינם נראים כמו מים אבל ידוע לנו שהם מים: קרח לסוגיו כולל שלג, אדים לסוגיהם כולל עננים. מים זה לא רק מימן דו חמצני אלא גם מה שהמים ממיסים בתוכם: סחף, מלחים, מינרלים אתה לא יכול להגיד מלח בלי להניח מים שהתאדו. רצועת החול של ישראל מקורה בסחף של הנילוס. באותו אופן אתה לא יכול לחשוב על יבש בלי להניח את קיומו של הרטוב. יבש הוא מילה נרדפת למשהו שאינו רטוב. התובנה הזאת חבויה בעברית במלים נגב -איזור שניגבו אותו- ויבשה, איזור שייבשו אותו
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בתנ"ך של תאלס נכתב "כי מים אתה ואל מים תשוב" ולא כמו בתנ"ך שלנו: בזעת אפיך תאכל לחם עד שובך אל האדמה, כי ממנה לוקחת, כי עפר אתה ואל עפר תשוב - בראשית ג יט
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הרעיון המיוחס לתאלס שהכל בא מן המים וחוזר למים מקביל לרעיון המקראי: אל מקום שהנחלים הולכים שם הם שבים ללכת - קהלת א, ז
אריסטו מייחס לתאלס את האמירה שהארץ נשענת על מים. אותה תובנה מנוסחת גם בתנ"ך (בתהילים כד א-ב) לְדָוִד מִזְמוֹר. לה' הָאָרֶץ וּמְלוֹאָהּ תֵּבֵל וְיֹשְׁבֵי בָהּ. כִּי הוּא עַל יַמִּים יְסָדָה וְעַל נְהָרוֹת יְכוֹנְנֶהָ
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Philosophical significance of water - Water is Everything
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looking at water deals always with a particular aggregation: liquid, gas, solid, or with a particular storage: a pool, lake, sea, or with a particular movement: rain, a river, a wave, a waterfall. What is common to all these phenomena, the chemical composition of water, H2O, is not visible but under the microscope. Water is such a unique substance that philosophy begins with seeing water. Thales, the first philosopher (The inventor of philosophy!) who lived in the seventh century BC, believed that everything is water, and subsequent philosophers explained, each according to his method, what Thales meant. We know that Thales did not know the chemical composition of the water, and did not see it under the microscope, so naturally we ask how he had come across the hidden entity behind its multiple expressions? The answer is that we don't need to have a microscope to see that water freeze in cold but return to flow after they defrost and that vapors turn into water in the rain.
Note: It is not that Thales declared that every thing is water and returned to plow his land. I think he dedicated his life to the development of this statement and to prove his case. His enterprise was admired in his lifetime. His teachings were well known for several generations after his death. As time went by it was forgotten until all that's left is this statement and some anecdotes. Nowadays there is a tendency to underestimate the achievements of Thales, but in order to understand in depth his statement we need to reconstruct his enterprise - to prove that every thing is water from accumulated knowledge on water ever since.
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Thales's famous statement that everything is water first appears in Aristotle's Metaphysics 983 b6 8-11. In a short paragraph he explains that early philosophers searched one principle, fixed, unchanging, which is the source of the existence of all things, and he writes in the following paragraph:
Thales, the founder of this type of philosophy, says the principle [of unchangeable substratum] is water (for which reason he declared that the earth rests on water), getting the notion perhaps from seeing that the nutriment of all things is moist, and that heat itself is generated from the moist and kept alive by it (and that from which they come to be is a principle of all things). He got his notion from this fact, and from the fact that the seeds of all things have a moist nature, and that water is the origin of the nature of moist things.
Heraclitus Homericus commented that Thales drew his conclusion from seeing moist substance turn into air, slime and earth.
The statement - everything is water - in what cases is it correct? Was Thales right?
About two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by water, and, as Aristotle explained above, animals and plants that live in the water originated from seeds which are damp and humidity originates in water.
What is left to check is third of Earth's surface exluding plants and animals.
In this third are materials that do not look like water but we know they are water: sorts of ice (including snow), sorts of vapor including clouds.
Water is not only hydrogen dioxide but also what is dissolved in them: erosion, salts, minerals. You can not think of salt without assuming water evaporation. Israel's sand strip is covered with silt of the Nile. In the same way you can not think of dry without assuming the existence of wet. Dry is a synonym for something that is not wet.
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In Thales' Bible he wrote: from water you are and to water you will return, and not like in our Bible: By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. (Genesis 3:19)
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It is said that Thales of Miletos... said that the beginning (the first principle) and the end of all things is water. (Hipp. i. ; Dox. 555.). This idea is strikingly similar to the Biblical idea: To the place from whence the streams come, there they return again (Ecclesiastes 1:7).
Aristotle attributes to Thales the statement that the Earth rests on water. That insight is phrased also in the Bible: The Lord's is the Earth and its entirety, the world and
all that dwells therein. For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters Psalms 24: 1-2
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The meaning of Vapors, Thales and Ecclesiastes
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Ibn Ezra explains (Ecclesiastes 1:7): "All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full" because of the evaporation of the sea. In other words, if there was no evaporation the streams would have filled the sea, and the sea would have flooded the earth.
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"Meaningless! Meaningless!
says the Teacher.
Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.” (Ecclesiastes 1:2).
In Hebrew the word for Meaningless is Hevel which is also the word for steam, the humidity that accumulates on the mirror after you blow on it in a cold day, or after a hot shower...
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When philosophy students encounter for the first time the saying of Thales that everything is water they are skeptical - why would Thales invent such a wild generalization? But when reading the "all is vapor" of the wisest of all men, King Solomon, author of Ecclesiastes, they understand that Thales studied from Solomon.