Polish Stamps from the 50s and 60s

The Giant of Marathon (1959)

(More) Highbrow advice from Aristotle

Whatever choice or possession of natural goods - health and strength, wealth, friends and the like - will most conduce to the contemplation of God is best: this is the finest criterion. But any standard of living which either through excess or defect hinders the service and contemplation of God is bad.

                                    --The Eudemian Ethics

Discussion of this passage, HERE.

Even more Aristotelian advice, HERE.

Athena advises Odysseus

Query: Can Athena teach us about God?  

Answer: Does Homer instruct Milton?

"The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him." - John MIlton

Here comes that poodle dog, big as a blimp with a rhinestone collar...

NASA Live Stream of Earth from Space (ISS)

Writing on philosophical terms and on philosophers - a list of prompts for organization and writing

Terms 

Essay Thesis or Paragraph Topic Sentence: identify the term in a general statement. 

Paragraph Topics or Supporting Sentences: specific statements in which you describe, explain, discuss and comment on the term. Develop general points with discussion, illustrations and examples.  Suggested descriptive points: 

 

Definition 

Origin and history of the term/the use of the term 

Explain the term
Examples and illustrations of problems and questions surrounding or falling under the heading of the term 

What other people have said about the term 

What you think about the term, your views 

Significance? 

 

 

Philosophers, Theologians and Figures of Philosophical Interest 

 

Essay Thesis or Paragraph Topic Sentence: identify the figure in a general statement. What is the figure’s significance or place in the history of ideas? 

 

Paragraph Topics or Supporting Sentences: specific statements in which you describe, explain, discuss and comment on the figure. Develop general points with discussion, illustrations and examples.  Suggested descriptive points: 

 

Significance (possibly continued from your thesis/topic sentence, or make this(these) remark(s) at the end of your essay/paragraph) 

Biography 

Publications and work 

Figure influenced by_______________ 

Figure influenced_______________ 

(Remember, influences—in either direction—can include other figures, history, politics, the history of philosophy, biographical matters, and the world of schools and school teachers.) 

Main ideas (What are the figures most important ideas?  Also, possibly use the “Moral Philosophy in Context” tool: 1) Metaphysical beliefs, special claims for reason or logic, theory of human nature. 2) Moral Philosophy. 3) Political Philosophy.) 

What other people have said about the figure (you might want to return to significance) 

What you think about the figure, your views (again, you might want to return to significance) 

Possible final statement: Why is the figure significant? 

Gustav König  “Luther begins the translation of the Bible at the Wartburg” 1847

Study of intervening structures along the vector to contact - contacting intelligences, contact and the vector are likely irrelevant

ED EMSHWILLER - Alien Planet 1963

 

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Max Ernst - Ambiguous Figures - 1919

I'm not quite sure how to characterize the "ambiguity."

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National Fantasy Fan Federation Laureate Awards: Michael Butterworth named Best Science Fiction Poet, 2023

Please click HERE for the National Fantasy Fan Federation announcement.

This year, Michael Butterworth published a collection of his poetry. Click the cover image for the amazon description:

New poetry from Michael Butterworth appears in Emanations Zen. Description here: 

Whale Sounds

Emanations Zen is now available

On behalf of International Authors I am happy to announce the publication of Emanations Zen.

Emanations Zen is the tenth volume of International Authors’ anthology project, which encourages raconteurs, poets, visionaries and memorists to engage with the possibilities for unrestricted inquiry and free expression. Here readers will find a book that is challenging, far-ranging and far-seeing, a book that advances the ways informed literature can be used to view and understand the world. The forty-one contributors represent Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, India, Oman, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, France, Norway, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

 

Please click the cover image to view the Amazon description.

 

Big news tomorrow

Lunar Shuttle Face Illusion - "Man has arrived!"

Among the many curious optical effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey is the illusion of a human face in the Ares 1B moon shuttle.

Aesthetic Recreations

Illustration depicting electrical discharge, Bibliographisches Institut, 1909

stay tuned...

 

Hippie Shill Media Fake Freak Hypno Daisy Pigtail Goof Broadcast Implant

Hot air balloon journey to the Moon, late-18th century

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographs from recent expeditions suggest the Moon's surface has eroded considerably over the course of the past three-hundred years.