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Indigo Gabbro.
Metaphysical properties include knowledge, strength, courage, insight, grounding and spirituality.
Frankie has it all figured out...
I decided to read this book after feeling quite out of my philosophical element while reading Marilynne Robinson's essays "The Givenness of Things"...
So after it appeared in several photos I started getting messages about about my Hammer pendant and why I wear it :-)
Its made by Kunst if anyone wants to find one inworld..
So far as "why I wear it"; I think anyone's religious beliefs are personal to them and personally I am a "many roads lead to the Truth" type.
What I can say is that for *me*, my personal belief is that its important to *do* things and not just believe in them; so I have a penchant for systems that embrace that outlook.
Belief systems that embrace *moral* courage are also - in my opinion - valuable; because without courage people never accomplish anything worthwhile.
Moral courage is not about exposing yourself to violence or loving violence and war; its about doing what you believe to be right - even if it costs you something.
I feel like the world gets better when we push back against the things that diminish our humanity :-)
..and yes, If I get to pick Valhalla, Nirvanna, the Afterfields or Heaven; I'm going where the Party is :-)
Believe in something that makes you a better person, whatever form that takes !
“There was something disquieting about the way an intimate object, seemingly withdrawn into its solemn steadfastness, could affect human emotions. Any old thing forgotten in a corner, if the eye dwelt on it, acquired an eloquence of its own, communicating its lyricism and magic to the kindred soul. If a neglected object of this kind were forcibly isolated, that is, divested of its warmth and of the protective coat of its environment, or even ironically combined with completely unrelated things, it would reassert its dignity in the new context and stand there, incomprehensible, weird, mysterious.”
—Werner Haftmann, Painting in the Twentieth Century (1982)
What is a Pataphor?
The pataphor is an unusually extended metaphor invented by writer Pablo Lopez, based on Alfred Jarry's "science" of 'pataphysics.
As Jarry claimed that 'pataphysics existed "as far from metaphysics as metaphysics extends from regular reality," a pataphor attempts to create a figure of speech that exists as far from metaphor as metaphor exists from non-figurative language.
Whereas a metaphor is the comparison of a real object or event with a seemingly unrelated subject in order to emphasize the similarities between the two, the pataphor uses the newly created metaphorical similarity as a reality with which to base itself. In going beyond mere ornamentation of the original idea, the pataphor seeks to describe a new and separate world, in which an idea or aspect of a concept has taken on a life of its own.
Like ‘pataphysics itself, pataphors essentially describe two degrees of separation from reality (rather than merely one degree of separation, which is the world of metaphors and metaphysics). The pataphor may also be said to function as a critical tool, describing the world of "assumptions based on assumptions," such as belief systems or rhetoric run amok.
Example 1
Non-figurative
-Tom and Alice stood side by side in the lunch line.
Metaphor
-Tom and Alice stood side by side in the lunch line, two pieces on a chessboard.
Pataphor
-Tom took a step closer to Alice and made a date for Friday night, checkmating. Rudy was furious at losing to Margaret so easily and dumped the board on the rose-colored quilt, stomping downstairs.
(The pataphor has created a world where the chessboard exists, including the characters who live in that world, entirely abandoning the original context.)
www.pataphor.com/whatisapataphor.html
In 1900, Alfred Jarry was 27 years old. He died (permanently 'Infrathinned') in 1907.
in 1900, Marcel Duchamp was 13 years old. Infrathin suspension dissolves age, and everything else for that matter, matter being the matter, and its opposite.
The 'Large Glass', 'The Bride and her Bachelors', and 'Étant donnés' partially came from this idea. Marcel claimed that they were all part of the same piece, as was all his 'work'.
"That from which is everything that exists and from which it first becomes and into which it is rendered at last, its substance remaining under it, but transforming in qualities, that they say is the element and principle of things that are. …For it is necessary that there be some nature (φύσις), either one or more than one, from which become the other things of the object being saved..." Aristotle. Metaphysics. Originally Thales of Miletus
“But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor will he know it; neither of the Gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The perfect truth, he would himself not know it;
For all is but a woven web of guesses.” [Parmenides]
Book jacket for the New Metaphysical Library no.003,
An easy to read reference for the trans-dimensional traveler,
Chapters include: You and Evil You, Getting from Point A to Point -A, 6 Simple Steps for Starting your own Tangent Universe.
To discover that metaphysical Tree which hid
From my worldling look its brilliant vein
Far deeper in gross wood
Than axe could cut.
But before I might blind sense
To see with the spotless soul,
Each particular quirk so ravished me
Every pock and stain bulked more beautiful
Than flesh of any body
Flawed by love's prints.
— Sylvia Plath “On The Plethora Of Dryads”
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Taken in the Venice Lagoon
on the background you can see the
Isola di Poveglia
You can see this part of lagoon from Lido
for the place, follow this link:
wikimapia.org/#lat=45.381482&lon=12.334106&z=16&a....
No photoshop, no digital processing
The calm of Lagoon in that moment allowed me to take this photo
For a music follow this link: Rondò Veneziano "Tramonto sulla laguna"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptNkh0mRrts&feature=related
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