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Removing the Bing imagery layer from Vespucci
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no, thanks.
you're posting about your blog here. This is the 2nd link to your blog. There are no sources, links, referrals on your blog. Why should we trust you? Where do you get your information from?
I’m an introverted individual who prefers solitude. Reading and writing are my favorite habits. I read about tech, online privacy, digital minimalism, philosophy, etc. This blog is my personal corner where I express my thoughts and reflections.
"i read and i write about what i read" isn't enough for me.
my question is about the need to "divine".
Because that's what spirituality is. It's the search for and exploration of a non material aspect of the universe. Everything from monotheism to ceremonial magic to zen meditation is a pursuit of something intangible.
does this "nonmaterial aspect" need to be divine? The word "god" has an enormous baggage. It's charged and it's not as 'innocent' as you make it to be.
it's more often an organisation of all that's 'tangible'
you'll just end up bored and ignored.
i was, but out of respect for the time you took to write that comment, i went out stared at the stars for an hour, ruminating your comment.
It isn't something you can dismiss as fantasy because fantasy doesn't and can't change anything other than one's imagination.
gods are fantasies that changed the whole world.
But it's the goal. People looking for the divine in themselves and the universe are seeking to be other than "just" a part of material life.
Why?
"Material life" is full of wonders.
can't "people" cherish it without "divine" filters?
The rat race, the grind, the orphan crushing machine, the empty and draining toil that is survival. People want life to be more than that.
If what you call "material life" could speak, what would they say about "what people want"?
There was a praying mantis behind me. I'm surrounded by a dozen spiders. Some others are getting eaten alive while i write these. What do these divine spirits want?
What do they want, those waves crashing at a distance?
Divinity is the opposite of materiality. It's the spark of sentience and sapience.
how did you get there?
Materiality isn't the opposite of anything. You unnecessarily put it there.
Spark of sentience and sapience
:)
You reduce the more primitive drives and embrace "higher" ones that are about being a source of positive change, a source of goodness (though I'm dubious the goodness exists as a discrete face of reality personally).
i'm glad to see that "higher" in quotation marks. You 'nailed' it.
That's why the divine. The divine is just a code word for a better state of being. It's an expression of seeing an underlying connection in all things and venerating that connection.
Let's use another "code word" for it then, if it's "just".
"A better state of being"… "an expression of seeing an underlying connection in all things and venerating that connection." Fine, let's do that without staining it with divinities.
Anyway, with that tangent aside, "when everything is god, nothing is god" is exactly the same thing as "thou art god". When one sees divinity in all things, one realizes that there is no external deity. Thou art god. I art god. My chicken art god. We aren't separate, unfathomably disconnected things, we art one. That's the whole point of it.
"i am god" has, again, some historical baggage, among others.
if it's that simple then why not write "You are your own chicken. Act like it." When you choose to write "you are your own god" in all capitals, that's not as innocuous as you sound it to be.
We aren't separate indeed. We are "one" and an egg.
You joust t have to recognize that any divinity in the universe would be so universal that everything is god
when everything is god, nothing is god.
my question is about the need to "divine". Why is "know yourself", which is already a difficult task, not enough? Why this need to fantasize?
why would you need to believe that "you're your own god" ?
In 1953 Mayer interviewed ten male residents of "Kronenberg" (in reality Marburg) to understand how ordinary Germans felt about Nazi Germany. The town, located in Hesse with a population of 20,000 and a university, was controlled by the United States during the postwar period of occupation. The interviews occurred during Mayer's term at Frankfurt University's Institute for Social Research as a visiting professor. All ten were in the lower middle class. The author was not a German speaker, and the men did not speak English.
The interviewees had the following occupations: baker, cabinetmaker, bank clerk, bill collector, law enforcement officer, salesperson, student, tailor, and teacher. Walter L. Dorn of the Saturday Review wrote that the interviewees were from a pro-Nazi bloc that was the "anti-labor, anti-capitalist, and anti-democratic lower middle class". The tailor had served a prison sentence for setting a synagogue on fire, but the others were never found to have actively attacked Jewish people. Mayer read the official case files of each interviewee.
The author determined that his interviewees had fond memories of the Nazi period and did not see Adolf Hitler as evil, and they perceived themselves as having a high degree of personal freedom during Nazi rule, except for the teacher. Additionally, barring said teacher, the subjects still disliked Jewish people. Mayer found that he sympathized with the personable qualities of his interviewees, though not their beliefs. Mayer did not disclose to the interviewees that he read their case files, nor that he was Jewish. Ernest S. Pisko of the Christian Science Monitor wrote "Had they known [that Mayer was Jewish] they would not have spoken frankly to him." Pisko concluded that, therefore, the relationship built by the author and the interviewees was on "false pretenses." At the time of the interviews, the interviewees were still not in favor of the democratic Bonn government. Pisko added that the interviewees could have objected to political developments that came had they known they would come, but that they failed to foresee how Nazi rule would develop.
The end of the book describes how the post-World War II United States took a pro-militarization stance, in the context of the Cold War, after initially rejecting the idea of militarizing Germany.
this is the book that answered most of my questions on that (But today we are seeing it happen in real time in America and yet no one is truly trying to stop it.) subject ☞https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free
Its probably a citrus fruit, whose fruits can stay on the tree all year long, and a mandarin, which can also be harvested in winter.
thanks for the help
if Arcimbaldo was a Milanese that indeed should be his experience
The 'Eureka' grows year-round and abundantly. This is the common supermarket lemon, also known as "Four Seasons" (Quatre Saisons) because of its ability to produce fruit and flowers together throughout the year. The variety developed in California in the 19th Century from specimens brought to California during the Gold Rush by immigrants from Naples and Sicily.
most of my apps have automated backups. That backup folder is synced to my laptop by syncthing. This way i always have an up to date backup of my mobile. Might indeed be what you're asking for.
that earlier rendition doesn't even look like an embrace. More like a man blending in to a wall.
I'm glad Munch kept working on the theme.
just to remind that, even before photo-manipulation software and digital photography became the default, photographers regularly edited photographs in the darkroom during exposure. It's not difficult to prevent scars & blemishes from appearing on the final print.
A compendium of source material confirms that Stein may have been able to save her life and sustain her lifestyle through the protection of powerful Vichy government official Bernard Faÿ. Stein had met Faÿ in 1926, and he became her "dearest friend during her life", according to Alice B. Toklas. Faÿ had been the primary translator of Stein's work into French and subsequently masterminded her 1933–34 US book tour, which gave Stein celebrity status and proved to be a highly successful promotion of her memoir, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Faÿ's influence was instrumental in avoiding Nazi confiscation of Stein's historically significant and monetarily valuable collection of artwork, which throughout the war years was housed in Stein's Paris rue Christine apartment, under locked safeguard.
Although Jewish, Stein collaborated with Vichy France, a regime that deported more than 75,000 Jews to Nazi concentration camps, of whom only three percent survived the Holocaust.
In an essay written for the Atlantic Monthly in November 1940, Stein wrote about her decision not to leave France: "it would be awfully uncomfortable and I am fussy about my food." Stein continued to praise Pétain after the war ended, this at a time when Pétain had been sentenced to death by a French court for treason.
During Faÿ's tenure with the Vichy regime, 989 Freemasons were sent to concentration camps, where 549 were shot. In addition, about 3,000 lost their jobs. All Freemasons were required by law to declare themselves to authorities. In 1943 Faÿ produced the film Forces Occultes, directed by Jean Mamy, which depicts a worldwide Jewish-Freemason conspiracy.
Despite his anti-Semitism, Faÿ, who was suspected to be a Gestapo agent for much of the occupation, protected Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Following the liberation, Stein wrote a letter on Faÿ's behalf when he was tried as a collaborator. In 1946 a French court condemned him to dégradation nationale and forced labor for life, but he managed to escape to Switzerland in 1951, funding to facilitate his prison breakout coming from Alice B. Toklas.
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