50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God

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TO ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙ ΤΗΣ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΗΣ

 

TO ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙ ΤΗΣ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΗΣ

Στο στήθος ένα σφίξιμο
το βήμα χάνω, πάω βιαστική
από την αγωνία, την λαχτάρα, φόρεσα
το γάντι το αριστερό, στο χέρι το δεξί.
Τόσα σκαλιά ν’ ανέβω, αδύνατον.
Μα, είναι τρία, χρυσή μου.
Ηχος γλυκός σαλεύει μες στα δέντρα
και το φθινόπωρο μου λέει “Πέθανε μαζί μου”.
Η τύχη μου παντοτινά ασταθής
άχαρη, σαν εσένα. Είμαι απελπισμένη.
Λύση καμιά δεν βλέπω, ω! ακριβέ.
Πεθαίνω εγκαταλειμμένη.
Tο βλέμμα στρέφω, να το σπίτι μας κι η κάμαρα
κεχριμπαρένια καίνε τα κεριά
της τελευταίας μας συνάντησης το σμίξιμο
και η φωνή σου μες στ΄ αυτιά μου ακόμα τραγουδά».

Σαν άσπρη πέτρα μέσα στο πηγάδι,
μια ανάμνηση εντός μου επιμένει.
Ούτε μπορώ ούτε θέλω να τη διώξω:
είναι χαρούμενη μαζί και λυπημένη
Μου φαίνεται πως θα τη δει αμέσως
όποιος βαθιά στα μάτια με κοιτάξει.
Και θ’ απομακρυνθεί συλλογισμένος
σαν για μια θλιβερή ν’ άκουσε πράξη.
Ξέρω πως οι θεοί μεταμορφώναν
ανθρώπους σ’ αντικείμενα μ’ αισθήσεις
ώστε να ζουν παντοτινά οι εξαίσιες θλίψεις.
Ως η ανάμνησή μου εσύ θα ζήσεις


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Nature by Numbers

Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.
A SHORT MOVIE INSPIRED ON NUMBERS, GEOMETRY AND NATURE.

Go to www.etereaestudios.com if you are looking for more information: the theory behind the movie (Fibonacci, Golden Ratio, Delaunay, Voronoi…), stills and screenshots showing the work in progress. There are lots of free training materials and 3D workshops, too ;-)



"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

The Light Through

The Light Through, originally uploaded by itsartdammit.

The Light By Its Creation

from the beginning, was meant to douse the darkness as it did then in that year; to sparkle the snowflake that caught the fringe of a child's eyelash in the Urals of winter as it backlit the blue in his mother's tears; meant to splash into the bucket of reindeer milk as it splashed on the shoulders of peasants toiling in the fields of revolution that they, themselves, had plowed; to creep without reservation into the blacksmith's shop in Bukhara, past old city walls; meant to warm the bread at supper, the bowl of sunflower seeds; the sleeping children in their utopia, snug in blankets loomed with parrot and peacock feathers and red squares. But this had been a dream of light, and by its creation, meant to reveal what had been done in darkness behind the barbed wire, sharpened by secrets; the brine pits where men were beaten into their labor, ankle-deep in mire; their hands stung by salt water and the pull of cabbages; meant to glisten the sweat on their backs, and in the beards of Old Believers wishing to go back before the slaughter, the forced starvation, the mass graves; before the light was meant to pour down the throat of the iris, choking on its stalk; before it poured across the canvas on which Goya painted Saturn Devouring His Children. Joanne Monte

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

Imagine! no gods no master,,,

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Imagine! no gods no master,,,

Agnosticism (Greek: α- a-, without + γνώσις gnōsis, knowledge; after Gnosticism) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly metaphysical claims regarding theology, afterlife or the existence of deities, ghosts, or even ultimate reality — is unknown or, depending on the form of agnosticism, inherently impossible to prove or disprove. It is often put forth as a middle ground between theism and atheism,though it is not a religious declaration in itself.

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

pale blue dot

If you look carefully at the NASA photo below, you will see a little white dot. This minute speck is Earth seen from the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it exits the solar system, nearly 4 billion miles away. The photo was taken back in 1990.

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994


"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

religious fanatism is the worst !
religious fanaticals are a bunch of perverts!

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

Pascal's Wager

The French mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-62) put forward an argument that would appeal to agnostics. (An agnostic is someone who believes that it is impossible to prove God's existence.)

His argument goes something like this: God either exists or he does not. If we believe in God and he exists, we will be rewarded with eternal bliss in heaven. If we believe in God and he does not exist then at worst all we have forgone is a few sinful pleasures.

If we do not believe in God and he does exist we may enjoy a few sinful pleasures, but we may face eternal damnation. If we do not believe in God and he does not exist then our sins will not be punished.

Would any rational gambler think that the experience of a few sinful pleasures is worth the risk of eternal damnation?





"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

so say we all......

so say we all .......yes it's true!


"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

my holy bible

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

Nude Descending
by Alicia Ostriker


Like a bowerbird trailing a beakful of weeds
Like prize ribbons for the very best

The lover, producer
Of another's pleasure

He whom her swollen lips await
Might wing through any day of the decade

A form of health insurance
For which it is never too late

Titanic, silver brush
Hindenburg, of exploding cigars a climax

The watery below, the fiery above
Ashes of print between--pigment between

If the crippled woman were to descend
From her bed, her fortress beyond midnight

Downstairs (nude/staircase) to the kitchen
Naked to sit at the table (writing/thinking)

She might hear the washer spin like a full orchestra
Complete a cycle like a train crash

Before the fiend would stare through the window
Step smoothly into the kitchen, stop some clocks.

Envy shapes a fig tree in one's breast,
That is, bluntly to say, a cancer,

That is to say
In a mind, a fertile windy field. A murdered child.

Well then, fear, primarily of falling.
Ebony surf toils on the beach, a glaze

At the same moment I am (from a cliff) falling
The kitchen fiend removes his Dior tie

Places his hand over the woman's
And softly says: I am the lover.

Now if the crippled woman began to dance
To pirouette, to rumba

Growling for her child
Her burning page, the devil would be shamed

(Materialism is not for everyone / Religion is
The extension of politics by other means)

Would disembody like a wicked smoke
Back to the status of myth

Away he'd streak, blue, into the--
O faun, we would finally call, farewell

O faun, we would faintly faintly call
O faun, we would, we would fondly--

She does not dance. She does not wish
To produce another's pleasure.

They have torn her apart
Into beige rectangles. 


thanks jasper

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

Evolutionary cooking by Mrs C.Darwin

evolutionary cooking
A cookbook based on notes by Charles Darwin's wife is to be published. Mrs Charles Darwin's Recipe Book features more than 40 dishes from her personal cookery notebook, which is housed in Cambridge University Library. Turnip cresselly, broiled mushrooms, cheese straws and baked apple pudding all feature in the Victorian notes.







"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

Heraclitus the "riddler"

Heraclitus, along with Parmenides, is probably the most significant philosopher of ancient Greece until Socrates and Plato; in fact, Heraclitus's philosophy is perhaps even more fundamental in the formation of the European mind than any other thinker in European history, including Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
Why?
Heraclitus, like Parmenides, postulated a model of nature and the universe which created the foundation for all other speculation on physics and metaphysics. The ideas that the universe is in constant change and that there is an underlying order or reason to this change—the Logos—form the essential foundation of the European world view.
Everytime you walk into a science, economics, or political science course, to some extent everything you do in that class originates with Heraclitus's speculations on change and the Logos.
Despite all this, and despite the fact that the ancient Greeks considered Heraclitus one of their principal philosophers, precious little remains of his writings.
All we have are a few fragments, quoted willy-nilly in other Greek writers, that give us only a small taste of his arguments.
These passages are tremendously difficult to read, not merely because they are quoted out of context, but because Heraclitus deliberately cultivated an obscure writing style—so obscure, in fact, that the Greeks nicknamed him the "Riddler."


"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."