If Life is a canvas and it is painted the flip side is empty; the oblivion of our existence. The infinity of emptiness; don't walk past the edge, the dark is for those "lost in space"...%/
I love the art of Jose Guadalupe Posada. It is to me hilarious and very thought provoking; a virtual cornucopia of ideas come to my twisted sense of Monty Python humour for drawings especially political cartoons; same with Fernando Botero and more so his depictions of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Other Mexican artists that I like are the works of Francisco Dosamantes, Alberto Beltran and his wife Andrea Gomez, Leopoldo Mendez, Jesus Escabedo, and of course, Rivera and his murals. An artist myself both in the graphics and the Fine Arts, my main interests are with painting music, the players, the clubs, the streets and back roads of The Blues and Jazz. My favourite artists of the Us that painted and drew Jazz and the Blues were Stephan Longstreet and Leroy Nieman, the artist that invented the Playgirl logo for Playboy Magazine. His paintings of Jazz themes were an explosion of colour that I fell in love with as with the "down home" style of Longstreet as a child. When still a young teenager I got to know many of the "Beatniks" and their Jazz in Greenwich Village and so started sketching... like a camera was in my head and I still haven't stopped I hitch-hiked all over the US rural south as well as worked through it as a free lance photographer which still provides me with a never ending source of depictions; maybe a book, who knows...Art, Music and books...have been with me since I was born.%)
There are far cheaper "dolls" than the ones he mentioned; around 200 to $350cdn made of solid foam used in the fashion industry as mannequins; easier to use than the solid fiberglass ones. The solid foam ones are heavy enough to stand on their own, are ply-able...one could "bend them to your will"! %D Foam...far more "cuddly" than fiberglass; a lot softer...voice boxes could be inserted in the back from a firm in NC that makes the talking blow-up dolls! They say lots of nasty things according to their ads...put little electrical servo motors in them and then they can move their limbs...make enough and you have the Attack Of The Mannequins or Escape From the Valley of the Dolls, a new sci-movie! %D Have Fun!
3 organic red apples 6 bananas 1 lettuce i kilo green beans 6 organic tomatoes 2 chickens 1 peasant pork chops(6) assorted pastas 2 liters Cointreau Banana Liqueur oh, wait, wrong list! Here is the Christmas list: (very short) 1. Stop making lists other than for groceries 2.----------------- %b
Good observation. Christ is certainly not the founding inspiration of the US and never was. Not only is the term Christ, or Christian totally missing from all the "founding papers/ documents" but never once has a US President ever uttered the name Christ; it has always been this rather vague term "God". The question is or should be, which God? There is the Christian belief that God and Christ are synonymous; that they are same...they most certainly are not. None of the so called "founding fathers" ever referred to themselves as Christians; their words are and have been very carefully chosen. The majority if not all were Freemasons; Freemasons are anything but Christians. Compare the Old Testament "God" with Christ; they are incompatible with one another precisely because they are not the same, if they were, then a clear case of split/ dual personality is affirmed; one is as different from the other as day is from night, which leaves us with a problem. How do you reconcile the glaring differences. One if for wars, bloodshed, hate and revenge, while the other if for peace, love of one another, treating everyone as a member of your own family...can't be the same. Start then in tracing back this Old Testament God and see how and from where it evolved in the history of the ancient Middle East and you will end up in ancient Babylon and this "God" was not Marduk, but goes even further back to the origins of all the ancient Gods; to Sumer; the Sumerians whose ancient histories and Gods were taken virtually word for word by those who became Jews; it was they who adopted the ancient Sumerian God of "evil" known by various names; it was to them this ancient God manifested itself as Yaw-we. Start reading about these things before you start debating or arguing about God or any other related topic on religion; there are tons of good, reliable books written by good, reliable, famous historians, experts on all the ancient languages of the Middle East with no agendas to push; just the bare facts and guidance for the novices who have never read any of this wealth of material before, as they have their noses to the everyday grindstone trying to make a living and keep a roof over their heads. Most of you are way out of your depths regarding this and most other topics because you don't read, or can't read well enough to comprehend what you are reading, but that is no excuse not to try. Search out who was this Yaw-we creature, read some of the apocryphal books on Christ; expand your knowledge, your mind and one day if you ever in the actual chambers of the US Supreme Court and see what is on all the walls, you'll know what you are really seeing, what God surrounds the chamber of those "anti Christian" judges who have outlawed your school prayers, your Manger scenes even from the front of your churches at Christ-mass time etc. etc. Christians are the last people to have any "judicial equality" in any Federal Court, let alone the Supreme Court...find out why, for yourself and who knows, one day you may end up as a qualified teacher at a university!
A belated congratulations to Aug. 31 as it was proclaimed to be National Hate Day by a panel of international mental health experts, gathered by the Weekly World News. It is on this day, that you will, you can release all the pent-up frustrations you experience during the rest of the year, and let it all out in a 24 hour hate fest, hate-on/ hate-in, whatever, during which time you are encouraged to smack your neighbors, kick your in-laws, punch rude clerks, throw drinks at bad waiters and generally do anything else that releases the hostilities you have been repressing while trying so hard to be nice. "Stress comes from keeping your real feelings bottled up. If you are human, you hate everyone you meet," says Dr. Julius Finneberg, an alleged Swiss psychiatrist," Our studies have shown that if an individual can look froward to express all the rage they suppress, it will dramatically slash stress levels...let it all hang out and the world will be a better place." On Your marks.....Get Set! GO! %D Just what we all need!
How do you measure time in a day...by the clock or by the number os aspirins you need to take...if you have to deal with "the public" all day...ewwww %D
With the rest of the evening to think over some of these imponderables concerning love I'd expand a bit more on the same theme as it is as merely an observer and no longer a participant; Through all of my observations on this is that love isn't about time, it's about emotional progression, with each stage unfolding in precisely the right order. If you understand the architecture of falling in love, the stages involved, and how to build and choreograph them properly, it's absolutely possible for two people to fall in love within 90 minutes or less. 90 minutes is as long as you'll both need to look deeply into another person and get a strong feeling of what makes them tick--and to allow them to look deeply into you and do the same. If you ask people about their experience of falling in love, over 90% will say that a major factor was discovering that the other person liked them...If you both like and admire what you see, you can harness your mutual enthusiasm to propel the emotional progression rapidly toward unity and if you've really found...really found the right person, there is no reason why it shouldn't last for...ever, right.... People always say that there is someone for everyone and that they often do find each other when they least expect it; personally I don't buy into that sickly sweet idea; I gave up a long time ago. But along those highways and back roads of life I have picked up on a few things: Falling in love and staying in love are completely separate events. Falling in love is an addictive, intoxicating, exciting, and head-spinning chemical affair. Your body is flooded with feel great neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin and baby, you're on top of the world! But staying in love is a whole different story. After the happy feel great neurotransmitters shut down, as they inevitably will, you need something more than chemical memories to keep you together. We don't fall in love with other people; we fall in love with the feelings we get when we are with them: the spiritual and emotional awakening, the lowering of inhibitions, the joy of feeling safe and warm and full of hope, the feeling of completeness----the thrill! It just sounds much better and more romantic to say,"Honey, I think I'm falling in love with you" than to admit, "When I'm with you or think about you, I get these overwhelming feeling of excitement, expansion, and longing!" Certain people balance us and make us feel complete socially and psychologically, while others make us feel insecure and tired, zapping our self-confidence, or turn us into someone we are not. People in vibrant, long-term relationships are very aware that they compliment rather than antagonize one another. They are a social and psychological team. If you end up competing or criticizing and trying to change each other after the chemistry wears off, your future together is limited; severely limited. When you meet the person who balances and completes you, the one you trust and feel comfortable with, you will have found your "Matched Opposite"...and all is "Bright and Beautiful"...heavy sigh...%)
Knows what love is???????? Who could possibly know what love is...thousands of pages have been written on trying to define it, from our ancient Classical Greek writers to the Modern technocrat who give us the chemical breakdown of it and what have we come to but that "it" reacts mostly on our livers...not at all satisfying ; "My liver pines for you"...? No. Many cultures have a multitude for one one thing, for one emotion but for "love" we only have that one word for a phenomenon that's infinitely complex and varied. Love takes so many forms; the love we feel for parents, our siblings, and our friends that are basically kind of familial and platonic; then we have romantic love, but again there are so many variations. Everyone has an opinion on love, but is this universal and often capricious emotion even capable of definition? One dictionary says that amourous love is a deep, tender, indefinable feeling of affection and concern toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness. That's a good definition, as far as it goes, but love is so much more than that. It can be fleeting or enduring, tumultuous or companionable, joyous or anguished, and it changes from moment to moment, week to week, year to year. People have been trying to understand and explain love for millennia. For myself, one of the best observations about it came from the ancient Greeks. Plato spoke of love in terms of completeness. In his dialog the Symposium he suggested that we all search for our other half in hopes of becoming whole. He called this human desire for completeness the search for love. In the same dialogue, Plato's mentor Socrates said, "In our lover we seek and desire that which we do not have." Every religion has its own opinions on love, as love is usually central to our spiritual beliefs. A Christian wedding we would usually hear what St. Paul said to the Corinthians. "Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoyce at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things and endures all things. Love never ends." Judaism affirms that a husband and wife complete each other. According to the Talmud, it teaches that man is not complete without a wife; a woman is not complete without a husband. The Koran also espouses the notion of love creating wholeness, saying "God made man and woman to complete each other, as night completes the day and the day completes the night." Buddhism compares love and marriage to the intermingling of emptiness and bliss. The Dalai Lama of Tibetan Buddhism, says, "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." Social scientists take a more analytical approach to understanding love; two main types: "passionate love" and "Companionate love". Passionate love consists of a state of intense continuous longing for union and powerful emotional reactions. Companionate Love is not as fired up; its having tender, trusting feelings for someone. You feel deeply attached and want to commit yourself to the other...and on it goes; I have gone on way too much....my apologies...%)
Usually no, as long as it not any news publication; God knows what kind of ridiculous caption they will print under it. Those can be quite nasty. I much prefer to take photos as the observer.
Love it! Sounds like every cheap 2 bit town that I've ever driven in, minus one scenario seen in a few places at various stages of ..."action/ performance": Road sign "Men At Work"( English, Spanish, Portuguese...) an old mattress over by the ditch, or even an old rusted iron bed and mattress, either with a member of the road crew and a woman on it...or just the clothing of a man and some women's lingerie fluttering in the breeze...Mission Accomplished %D
I for one, would love to see the re-institution of the Inqusition, as has been depicted in the popular mass consumption- interpretation markets. A thoroughly good house cleaning is long overdue, of both clergy and lay people. For many , the sentiment for "Long Live The Inquisition!" is ecstatic and joy. What a party it could be! Many were tempted to abolish the Office, but ("thank God") reason prevailed and it is still ready to re-open and start again...with the right type of people to give the word. %)
Thank you Antcus, I appreciate your response. You've given me some bits to chew on, especially the matters concerning the Knights...as from what I've privately been told it differs considerably. Well, there are 3 EU countries, not 2 that has closed immigration policies; one has never been open, the other two have so severe limitations that for all intents, they are closed to immigrants, especially from outside Europe...perhaps if Malta ever has genuinely honest, patriotic politicians that will actually be instructed by those who elected them, and not take pay-offs, they can start severely altering your requirements to accept and accommodate any boatload the happens to wash-in on your shores...in fact ALL of Europe is going to have to and the later it is, the more bloody it will be...again, another incident over the weekend in eastern Germany...storms are brewing everywhere...
Question: Which Order(s) are the clergy from that are on Malta? Has Yihaa made an effort to set an appointment with either a priest or Bishop to have a serious question meeting one to one; usually the clergy are more than willing regarding these matters. If it's only of local native clergy, perhaps on the next trip abraod a meeting with a representative of perhaps, the Dominican, Franciscan , Cistercian or if one wants real answers, a Jesuit ; they are the best educated of all the Orders and always willing to help those with problems and to fully understand all aspects of their proble, I only wish all the clergy could be as learned as the Jesuit...but then again, if all were, then they'd all be Jesuits...I've known many over the years and admire them very much, even a few that had preached social revolution in South America... Church attendance in many countries are now rising with the full Latin Mass being celebrated again; something long overdue and long called for by Roman Catholics around the world...emphasis on the term Roman as in loyalty and running off to start some personal self interpreted Church...or Religion based on a verse on the New, or Old Testament for that matter...
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RE: Beyond Space
If Life is a canvas and it is painted the flip side is empty; the oblivion of our existence. The infinity of emptiness; don't walk past the edge, the dark is for those "lost in space"...%/