Götterdämmerung (1/19) - Wagner, "Ring",

Happy Halloween!

 

 





witch's broom

heksekost (kvistpur)

Schrodinger's Cat: A Thought Experiment

Schrodinger's cat
cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects

Trey Radcliff's Photography

Astonighingly beautiful HD photography.

High dynamic range (HDR) photography lets you capture the myriad colors and levels of light that you can see in the real world, and the results are amazing photographs that run the gamut from super real to surreal.

Explore this fantastic realm of photography through the unique vision of renowned travel photographer Trey Ratcliff.  The breathtaking images gracing these pages a marvelous collection of HDR photographs.



Eye of the beast
by Trey Radcliff


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Conk

One of my favorites, Mr. Hanson, has been at it again in a curiously conventional manner.

In his When Cynicism Meets Fanaticism, he chooses to frame the question confronting us in the following terms:

Can Western enlightenment and power, embedded in deep cynicism, still prevail over ignorance and self-inflicted pathology energized by fanaticism?

This, of course, is the continuation of the gentleman’s more recent dalliance with what he so inappropriately—or fittingly, take your pick—calls Hard Pounding in an earlier piece:

Whose vision of the future wins depends on who keeps his nerve — or to paraphrase the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, “Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we will see who can pound the longest.”

We are, as humans, all (hopefully) thinking embodied beings. Our body situates us in the world we inhabit. “It” has certain visceral reactions that are hard to comprehend and yet unavoidable. Like allergies, for instance, that in extreme cases kills when kissing someone who has had peanuts long before that regrettable moment.

Now as living organisms we all have certain “energy” that keeps us going in life. But the way we think or perceive of the world will affect that energy. Human mind is a bit of a marvel when you think about it. We daily hear of those dying as a result of over taxing some body part or other. But do any of us ever end up dead “overworking” our brains?

 

Throw Yourself like Seed

"Throw Yourself Like Seed”

Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit;
Sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
That brushes your heel as it turns going by,

Now you are only giving food to that final pain
Which is slowly winding you in the nets of death,

The man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.

But to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts
Is the work; start there, turn to the work.

Don’t turn your face for that would be to turn it to death,
And do not let the past weigh down your motion.Leave what’s alive in the furrow, what’s dead in yourself,

For life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds;
From your work you will be able one day to gather yourself.

Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,

Miguel de Unamuno

Random Acts of Kindness

November is a month of remembrance and a month of kindness.   Take a moment to celebrate world kindness day on November 13.   Quietly and mindfully give back of 'yourself' or your 'resources'.

Wherever there is a human being,  there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~~Seneca

 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle .~~Plato

World kindness Day