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"You're out of the woods, You're out of the dark, You're out of the night.
Step into the sun, Step into the light."
- Optimistic Voices chorus
Portrait of an african girl looking with curiosity at the camera, and wearing a colourful scarf on her head
A rather optimistic shot, early in the morning at Dunaskin washery on the Waterside system.No.24 brings a mixed consist down the slight grade from the tippler sidings. The AEC Mercury tipper is something to savour as well!
There's an old saying particularly popular in the building trades: Measure twice, cut once. When starting to build Waterbury station, I gathered together my research material - a scale drawing of the station I converted into the proper Lego scale, dozens of pictures and track diagrams. I should have double checked my work. I was excited to use the style of track and ballast that Dawson came up with and didn't look closely enough at the color photos I had of the area which is why the newer pictures I've posted show dark gray, owing to crushed up slate soaked with coal and diesel in the area. So I had to remove this section and build the new station track in the correct color, no problem.
Until I looked again at the pictures and my math and realized I had the station too far away from the tracks and had to rip it up again. To be clear, I think it was way too optimistic of me to think I'd have this done for Octrainber considering I still don't have it finished owing to not being able to get inside the building since Amtrak is not running again in Vermont until July. That said, the delays and rebuilds were frustrating. Lego is great, because rarely are mistakes permanent, but learn from mine. Double check your sources and notes. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble.
A wonderful, erroneous, splashy, pseudo-psychedelic Surveyor program promotional image, ca. 1961/62. This is really striking…you rarely see period color photographs of anything to do with the Surveyor lander. The effort obviously put forth for this makes me think it’s of Hughes Aircraft Company origin, manufacturer of the spacecraft.
Unfortunately, the photograph of the moon is reversed, which is understood from an astrophotography standpoint. But I’d think you’d want it to be ‘naked eye’ representative for something like this. Therefore, upon further consideration, this is probably a NASA-produced image, with the graphics team (or whatever equivalent) responsible, being totally oblivious to the moon’s appearance.
Being an early optimistic design, the model depicted has multiple instruments on it that never materialized. Most obvious in the photo is the conspicuous yellow tubular neutron activator, and next to it, the lengthy vertical structure/framework of the lunar drill. The partially extended scissor-arm mounted “slowly driven geophysical probe” can be seen above the footpad to the right.
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Is that the winter solstice I see on the horizon? Winter may be just beginning, but at least the length of daylight will be increasing :)
Love & Will Productions / The Cockpit present:
Cosmic Trigger Play by Daisy Eris Campbell
Adapted from Robert Anton Wilson’s seminal autobiography Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of The Illuminati
4th – 27th May 2017
The Cockpit - Gateforth St, Marylebone, London NW8 8EH
“Robert Anton Wilson’s 'Illuminatus!' had a profound effect on me and the Cosmic Trigger Play will no doubt do the same for a whole new generation.” Alan Moore, writer/author of V for Vendetta, Watchmen and Jerusalem
Turn On. Tune In. Find The Others
In 1976 revered maverick playwright and director Ken Campbell staged Robert Anton Wilson’s, Illuminatus! - a nine-hour stage epic play that helped launch the careers of Jim Broadbent and Bill Nighy. It also led to the backstage conception of a baby girl; Daisy Eris Campbell.
“one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in British theatre of the past half-century”
The Guardian obituary for Ken Campbell – 2008
Now Love & Will Productions and The Cockpit are delighted to announce the debut full run of Daisy Campbell’s adaptation of Wilson’s seminal countercultural text; Cosmic Trigger. Part sequel, part revisit, part homage, part new writing; this is the story behind the notorious conspiracy satire, 'Illuminatus!', the extraordinary life of the novel's author, Robert Anton Wilson, and the unstoppable force that was theatre legend Ken Campbell.
Daisy Campbell says; "Reading Cosmic Trigger changed my life and the lives of many others - and the book is dedicated to my dad! Wilson's uniquely optimistic and radically agnostic philosophy is incredibly relevant in these crazy times. We are absolutely thrilled to be working with The Cockpit on this production. They are the perfect co-conspirators to help us bring the wit and wisdom of Robert Anton Wilson back to life."
The original work reinterpreted world history as a giant conspiracy theory and Daisy’s new work gives a backstory to the original production, featuring the lives of Wilson and Campbell, as well as the counterculture figures Timothy Leary, Alan Watts and William Burroughs, whom Robert Anton Wilson befriended.
Set in the late sixties and early seventies, the play recounts the period of Wilson's life around the conception and writing of Illuminatus. During this time, he befriended heroes of counterculture, took LSD and experimented with the magical rituals of Aleister Crowley with predictably - and unpredictably - mind-blowing results.
With many of the original cast returning and Alan Moore appearing via specially recorded audio and morphed video projections Cosmic Trigger is a celebration of all that has gone before it as well as a vital venture in its own right. This is a highly ambitious production, with projections in the round, phantasmagorical multiple narratives, and a different actor performing as William Burroughs every night, it is designed to evoke the real-life hallucinogenic trip through conspiracy, paranoia and enlightenment that transformed Robert Anton Wilson from ‘Playboy’ editor to much-loved counter-cultural icon.
Dave Wybrow, Artistic Director of the Cockpit and co producer of Cosmic Trigger says; “We are putting together a venue, a tribe and new ways of networking and creating work. It’s about joining low tech to hi tech, low culture to high culture and low budgets to high levels of audience reach and social impact. This first venture looks at counter-cultural legacy. But the vision is an open artistic community for the future.”
Cosmic Trigger previously played for two days in November in Camp & Furnace in Liverpool and five days at Lost Theatre Vauxhall in London in 2014 – this is the play’s first full run.
My optimistic storm chase target in southwest Kansas busted yesterday afternoon—at least until well after dark. But further southwest, I did catch an excellent sunset mammatus and lightning display later from the Oklahoma Panhandle. Meanwhile, a lunar Eclipse was on tap for this morning. And lunar eclipses are very cool. So, I got up early for that.
Manna Hill. Despite the low rainfall and semi-arid climate in the mid-1870s South Australians were so optimistic that they could grow wheat almost anywhere that the government set up an experimental 1,280 acre wheat farm on the Manna Hill sheep station leasehold in 1877. This followed a series of above average rainfalls in the region. This was the same time that the Willochra Plains near Hawker were being surveyed into farms. The Manna Hill sheep run was established in the early 1860s. At Manna Hill in 1877 three inches of rain fell in May, one inch in June which lulled the farm manager into believing a wheat crop would grow well and it did yielding 12 bushels per acre. In 1878 the farm manager suggested a plantation to be grown at Manna Hill farm. Another good crop was obtained in 1878 but in November 1879 the farm equipment and stock was sold and the farm closed down. The town was established at the government well at Manna Hill on the Barrier Ranges railway which reached the area in 1887. The discovery of gold near Manna Hill in 1886 reinforced the need for a town in this spot. The fine stone railway station dates from around 1887. The first government school opened in 1899 and closed in 1967 when the narrow gauge line was being replaced with a new standard gauge line and railway workers left the town. It is now a residence with a school roof ventilator. The Manna Hill Hotel was built in 1889 and a galvanised iron public hall was erected at some stage. It now has a blue painted besser block facade. Manna Hill has a stone police station built around 1890 which still operates. Joseph Kenworthy owned Oulnina station and built a race course next to the Manna Hill railway station on his land for public race meetings. He died in 1943. His memorial gates to the race course are impressive. Erected in the 1940s after his death.
The Hairdresser
Hank – today my hairdresser – is a true wake up call.
He often takes me by surprise.
Being surprised opens the door to a higher level of awareness.
HKD
I told you some time ago that a raven landed on my head.
It was Hank :-)))))
This time Alice took the picture.
Thanks Alice!
Hank is playing with my hair – well, with the few that is left… Only the background is montage.
HKD
Alle Vögel sind schon da…
Hank, Botschafter der Götter :-))
Hank überrascht mich immer wieder und bringt mich in den Augenblick. Und so ist er sich meiner Präsenz ganz sicher. Aufmerksamkeit ist ein Zustand der Sammlung des Geistes auf das Hier und Jetzt.
Analytisches, logisches Denken wechselt zu Gunsten einer direkten Wahrnehmung des Seins. Einem Kind gleich, das ohne Worte eine laufende Situation emotional erfährt, bildet sich instinktive Erkenntnis.
Ahnung, Intuition, alle transpersonalen Wahrnehmungsfenster sind geöffnet. Der gefühlte Scan liefert präzise Informationen über freundliche oder feindliche Vorgänge, auch über den Wahrheitsgehalt bestimmter Dinge.
Mit der zunehmenden Persona entwickelt sich der Intellekt, und zahlreiche Konzepte wechseln sich im Verlauf erweiterten Verstehens nacheinander ab. Dieser Vorgang läuft so lange, bis der Logos befriedigt ist und das letzte der Konzepte versteht, das Konzept der Auflösung aller Konzepte.
Das Leben hat sich so eingerichtet, dass es mit starken gegensätzlichen Gefühlen und Unbewusstheit beginnt. Ich fühlte mich in meiner Kindheit wie in eine Fremde geworfen, und von heftigen Gefühlen geschüttelt. Eine auf Disziplin ausgerichtete Umgebung gab mir den Halt und die Erziehung in ein rebellisches aber zurückhaltendes Ego.
Die Energie, die in der Gefühlswelt gebunden war wandelte sich, und der Logos erstrahlte immer heller. Ich begann, ein Konzept nach dem anderen zu verstehen… Das emotionale Erleben verlor immer stärker an Bedeutung.
Doch es nahte die Erkenntnis der letzten Konzepte in denen die Welt aus der Sicht des Bewusstseins erfahren und erläutert wird – nicht aus der Sicht des Verstandes.
Bewusstsein ist die Quelle aller Träume, heißt es hier in der Advaita Philosophie und meine psychischen Erfahrungen bestätigen diese. Ich fühlte und verstand die Wahrheit, denn mein Geist war in der Lage, die Essenz wahrzunehmen.
Die anfängliche Schwerstarbeit meines Intellekts ist beendet und mein Geist kann wieder die gefühlten Aspekte des Lebens wahrnehmen.
Der wache Geist, das Bewusstsein erfährt beide Seiten: logisches Denken und die Gefühle.
Hank repräsentiert für mich die Gefühlsseite in mir. Raben und Tauben sind meine Lieblingsvögel. Sie bereiten mir große Freude. Tag für Tag. Und Überraschungen bringen sie auch – zurzeit piepsende Junge. Auf meinem Kopf wird es wohl eng werden, aber die meisten Vögel schwirren als Ideen und Gedanken ohnehin nur in meinem Kopf.
Offensichtlich habe ich einen Vogel… heute einmal auf dem Kopf… ;-)))
HKD
Psychologische Symbolik: Der Vogel ist außen. Die Schattenbearbeitung ist erfolgreich vollzogen.
HKD
Digital art based on own photography and textures
HKD
I recently experienced an event of AF (Atrial Fibrillation, i.e. a rather serious kind of cardiac arrhythmia or disturbance in the rate of the heartbeat). Several tests for my heart’s condition are currently well underway.
I’m optimistic as I have so far survived, thank God. Yet, COLOR invaded my Photography and is now part of my own creative pictorial voice or style: Loud Color!
Apologies if some people find my recent photographs too loud for their taste, yet Life itself Is Loud! Please pray for me to get better…
Thank you 💙
this is some abandoned trailer.
i know i've uploaded so many photos from this day, but they are all so different, and, I think, deserve to be uploaded..
plus i'm not doing a 365, so it doesn't matter :P
Why is it too optimistic to hope for happiness? Too extreme an imagination to think everyone will smile today?
Every day 17 out of 100 women become victims of violence at home or in the workplace.25% of them die. Although the government has signed different international conventions and introduced special laws to protect women and children, it has ultimately failed to provide adequate security for them. As a result, women are constantly becoming victims of violence at home or in the workplace everyday. We have reached to a point where Acid victims are no surprise.It's very unfortunate but Bangladesh still has a long way to go in its treatment of women, from the ordinary to the very top leaders.
Is it unimaginable to make acid victims , violated women and eve-teasers only fairy tales?
It's not if we care , share and inspire enough.
STOP violence against women.
THE PHILOSOPHIES OF ENLIGHTENMENT
The period of Enlightenment refers to the European culture of the 18th century. The People of Enlightenment believed the almightiness of human knowledge and defied the tradition and the pre-established thoughts of the past. this is the period in which the humans became overconfident in the human Reason an rationality. Philosophers and Scientists committed the fallacy of argumentum ad ignorantiam. Anything which cannot be understood by rational knowledge and the current status of sciences was defied as meaningless or superstitious. Philosophy became very popular among the intellectuals and people read philosophical opera. However, the general concerns were about the practical use of our knowledge. In other words,
The Two Fundamental Characteristics of the Philosophy of Enlightenment are:
1) faith in the European Reason and human rationality to reject the tradition and the pre-established institutions and thoughts;
2) Search for the practical, useful knowledge as the power to control nature.
John Locke is considered generally as the founder of Enlightenment movement in philosophy. However, in England,
both characteristics of Enlightenment, namely the defiance of the tradition and the search for the knowledge as the practical, useful power to control nature, were not so emphatically visible due to the nationality and the social conditions in England. So it is generally agreed that the philosophy of Enlightenment will be divided into a) the Philosophy of Enlightenment in England, that in France and Germany. Therefore, a) is normally called as the British Empiricism and it s development. Distinguished from this, we consider the Philosophy of Enlightenment and its movement with the emphasis of the phases in France and Germany.
1. The relation of Descartes to the philosophy of Enlightenment In France and in England, all the philosophical thoughts from the middle of 17th century through the 18th century were under Descartes's influences.
Fontenelle (1657-1757)The admirer of Descartes' physics and his radical rationalism threatened the Christianity and the established Church. Fontenelle's philosophy did not accept the Cartesian spiritualism and overemphasized the positive elements of the Cartesian philosophy. Thus, Fontenelle merely criticized the Ancient oracles as superstition, but this was immediately applied to the miracles of Christianity.
Bayle (1647-1706)Starting with the Cartesian rationalism, Bayle considered that to believe in Christianity means to abandon Reason and the human rationality and to surrender to the miraculous phenomena. The opposition between philosophy (rationalism) and religion set up by Bayle created an anti-religious movement against Christianity as well as prepared for the development of the 18th Century philosophy.
The Enlightenment Movement in France is a synthesis of the Cartesian philosophy of the mechanistic understanding of nature and the British Empiricism.In the 17th century, British philosophers such as Bacon, Hobbes and Locke came to France and were strongly influenced by the French Philosophies. In the 18th century, the French philosophers visited England and were strongly influenced by the British Empiricism and advocated empiricism rather than idealism in France upon their return.
2. The influences of British Empiricism on the French Philosophies The most conspicuous example of the philosophers who were influenced by the British Empiricism was Voltaire.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Voltaire was a French man of thought who was most strongly influenced by British Empiricism and attacked the philosophers of Continental Rationalism.Voltaire was the author of Candid, which made fun of Leibniz'optimism.Voltaire attempted to refute Descartes' metaphysics on the basis of Locke's Empiricism and attacked Descartes' physics, employing Newton's mechanics.Voltaire mocked Descartes' innate ideas by referring to Locke's theory of the empirical origin of ideas which refuted the innate idea. Following Locke, Voltaire, too, considered man's desire to pursue one's happiness as inborn.Voltaire further maintained that while Descartes created a novel about the human spirit,Locke wrote the history of the human spirit.Voltaire praised Locke in how he was able to explain the origin and the process of the development of human spirit. Voltaire accused of Descartes in the following points:1. Descartes by reducing physics to geometry denied the absoluteness of motion and argued for its relativity (i.e. motion is no other than the change of place, in other words, a portion of matter changes its place in relation to the portion of the other matter which is immediately touched to the former)2. Descartes did not recognize gravitation (=the weight as the unique quality) by reducing matter to extension3. Descartes by failing in recognizing the universal gravitation had to explain by the celestial vortex the motions of the celestial bodies. Thus Descartes explained the motion of solar planets by a heliocentric vortex.In that sense he did not disagree with Copernicus.In contrast, Newton proposed the universal gravitation by which he explains all the motions of celestial bodies. Voltaire became Newton's follower in physics and astronomy. Against the universal gravitation being a hidden(occult) power, Voltaire argued that the cosmic turbulence (vortex) is more a hidden power than gravitation because the law is verified and the phenomena are explained.In his letter in 1728 Voltaire writes,"When a French went to London, he discovers a lot of things different. So are there a big difference in philosophy. When he was in Paris, the universe is full of something like turbulent ether, upon his arrival in London he discovers that the same space is empty."Following the fashion of his time, Voltaire considers a systematic approach less valuable than a fragmental expression of insights. Voltaire was successful in making philosophy more popularized (journalistic).Voltaire discussed on may topics such as on God, freedom, immortality of soul. Voltaire holds that it is the true religion that one loves God and loves others like one's own siblings and that less dogmas it has, the better and true it becomes. Thus Voltaire fought against the traditional established Christianity. On the other hand, he criticized d'Hollbach's La Systeme de la nature, and attacked Pascal's Christianity.Influenced by British Deism, Voltaire maintained that religion must be a moral, rationalistic natural religion. He did not support the cosmological and teleological argument and yet considered the moral argument for the existence of God to be most useful. Voltaire maintained that without God morality is not possible, therefore God must exist. "If God did not exist, we must invent God!" Voltaire considers that it is not possible to theoretically demonstrate the immortality of soul and yet without the immortality of soul, morality is also not possible.(VERY KANTIAN) Voltaire contends that the basis of metaphysics consists in morality and that the obscurity and incompleteness of metaphysics will be clarified by morality. In his early period, Voltaire held the freedom of will, but abandoned it in his later years as meaningless and recognized only the freedom of action. According to Voltaire, freedom is when one can do what one wants to do. Whether or not what one wants is free, the answer is not, but what wants to desire is to necessarily desire. Otherwise, we desire to do something without reason or cause, that is impossible.Thus Voltaire proposed the psychological determinism. Regarding the problem of evil, he was optimistic, but after Lisbon's earthquakes Voltaire abandoned optimism. In relation to politics and society, Voltaire insisted freedom of reason, freedom of consciousness and particularly the freedom of research which contributed the further development of the contemporary european culture.
Voltaire was the representative of the 18th century Enlightenment Spirit and enormously influenced the intellectuals of the days, according to Thomas Carlyle.
Du Bois-Reymond said, "The reason why we do not consider Voltaire as a very important Enlightenment philosopher is because we unconsciously and implicitly have been a Voltaire ourselves. What Voltaire had fought and won such as culture, freedom of spirit, the dignity of humanity and justice have become some of the essential elements of our natural everyday life today."Voltaire was highly treated by Friedrich the Great at Prussian Sansoun Palace as an important guest. There are two poems of Voltaire; Le mondaine Defense du mondain ou l'apologie du luxe He loved gambling! Lettres sure les Anglais or Lettres philosophiques(1734) Elements de la philosophie de Newton Dictionnaire philosophique La philosophie ignorant Candid Montesquieu (1689-1755) Montesquieu went to England and was also influenced by John Locke. He was deeply impressed by Locke's three division of the government. His main work is L'esprit des lois (1748)Recognizing the peculiarity and uniqueness of each nation, Montesquieu attempted to explain the legal system of the each nation from the geographic conditions and the social conditions of the given nation. In stead of seeking the foundation of the legal system of a certain nation in the rational, universal principles, Montesquieu tried to find the causes of the legal system of a given nation in the particular climates, the nature of soil, the largeness of the land, the living conditions of the people, religion, passions of the people, the degree of wealth and poverty, population and the historical conditions such as customs. He emphasized the uniqueness and the accidental nature of the legal system of a given nation.The differences of the systems of government are due to the peculiarity of the given nation.
the republic = the subject has the right to govern
all the subjects = democracy
a portion of the subjects = aristocracy
the monarchy = the government by one ruler based on the constitution the constitutional monarchy
the despotism = the government by one ruler by his will
There are the basic passions which motivate each of these forms of government the republic = virtue the monarchy = honour And the size of a country will affect the nature of the government. etc.
3. Radical Empiricism in France
Condillac (1715-1780) Condillac developed the Locke's empiricism to an extreme. While in England the common sense plays an important role and balances philosophical ideas, once those ideas were transferred to the Continent, they took up very radical forms.
While Locke denied the Cartesian innate ideas' existence and considered our mind to be "tabula rasa," he was influenced by Descartes and distinguished experience into sensation (external) and reflection (internal) whereby sensation precedes reflection but the latter does not come from the former. On the other hand, Condillac held that everything including reflection comes from sensation, that is a radicalization of Locke's thought about the origin of the internal perception. Sensualism.Condillac's major work is Traité des sensations
4. Encyclopaedists.In France the editing and publication of the Encyclopedia, a comprehensive book of all the books about wisdom of all humanity, was attempted for the first time in the West. Many of the contemporary contributed to drafting the manuscripts. Voltaire, Rousseau and Helvetilus contributed.The basic motive of this edition was the denial of the past and the resistance against church's authority.
The leading motives were 1) nature,2) reason3) humanity.
The encyclopedists were considered the representatives of the Enlightenment Movement.
Define how you live by your perspective...
Is it positive? or negative?
Do you see gloom stepping in or out?
That's what being optimistic or pessimistic is all about!
© T.A
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Another one of those shot taken way back with my old camera that I feel like sharing since.... it was taken on one of those rare days that Dubai get's gloomy!
I'm not sure if my good friend Ken was looking at a bird, but I'm sure he was hoping for one. Prior to Egypt Ken did an Intrepid tour in Jordan where he spent some extra time birding. He is one dedicated birder.
The crowded, noisy, and rough around the edges Cairo buts up against the Giza plateau which then extends off to a seemingly infinite rolling land of sand and rock.
If interested, you can view my Youtube playlist of our trip to Egypt .
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It's April you know. Not just April but the end of April. You know that part of April that's so far away from winter that the optimistic call it spring and the truly reckless call summer. Yes I was one of those individuals. I carelessly used the "S" word out where the universe must have been eavesdropping and with it's twisted sense of humour decided to throw wind and hail and snow at....
Hold on a mo.
No it couldn't be.
It wasn't hot hail was it?
I heard tails that it was....no I didn't it was tales I heard. Not tails. That would just be ridiculous. You don't hear tails. You read them. But I never learned semaphore. If I had they the would have recalled stories of giant hail stone that killed sheep and made insurance premiums go up. That sort of thing has a more nefarious hand behind it. A hand in a silken glove with a bejewelled ring.
Yes they don't call him merciless for nothing. I'm looking at you Sting. Ming. Yes Ming. I mean Ming. Sting wouldn't do that sort of thing. Or would he? No one has ever seen Sting and Ming in the same place at the same time in the same outfit. Ooooh this is intriguing. Do you feel the intrigue? Yes of course you do.
I must gather my thought and ponder this.
I may be some time.
Not the best photo, as we are once again plumbing the depths of instamatic mediocrity, but a Wilde summer holiday shot nonetheless from the Isle of Wight in 1981, showing the indomnitable and perpetually optimistic spirit of the British holidaymaker. A snaking queue of summer holiday passengers eagerly anticipates boarding a hard-pressed Bristol VR, despite the bus already being packed to the rafters. I get the feeling that there will be some disappointed kiddies, plus assorted mums and dads, left behind.