Category: paradox
- Labels: archeology, audacity, common sense, deviant, genius, gods, hubris, ignorance, paradox, perception, research, spectacle, wisdom
…a very sad piece of truth, once we know
…are we supposed to do nothing about it?
- Labels: gaza, israel, media, mind control, palestine, paradox, peace, propaganda, war
Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy
François Lemoyne, 1737
However, language and words are essentially “tools” by which humans convey information to one another. As such, “truth” must have a beneficial use in order to be retained within language. Defining this potency and applicability can be looked upon as “criteria”, and the method used to recognize a “truth” is termed a criteria of truth. Since there is no single accepted criteria, they can all be considered “theories”.
Various theories and views of truth continue to be debated among scholars and philosophers. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; what things are truthbearers capable of being true or false; how to define and identify truth; the roles that revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective, relative, objective, or absolute.
This article introduces the various perspectives and claims, both today and throughout history. (read more)
“Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.”
- Labels: acceptance, paradox, perspective, philosophy, sharing
believe nothing…
of what you hear…
half of what you read.
During times of universal deceit,
telling the truth
becomes a revolutionary act.
…George Orwell…
The Persistence of Memory
by Salvador Dali
1931
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalà i Domènech, Marquis of Dalà de Púbol (May 11, 1904 â January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dali , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.
Dalà was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. DalÒs expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalà attributed his “love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes” to a self-styled “Arab lineage,” claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.
Dalà was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior, in order to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork. (read more)
“Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow,
a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
and then is heard no more:
it is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.”
Macbeth
. . .
Heaven…
heaven is a place…
a place where nothing…
nothing ever happens…
If you want
the answer…
call me…
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The Miracle of the Sun (Portuguese: O Milagre do Sol) is an alleged miraculous event witnessed by 30,000 to 100,000 people on 13 October 1917 in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima, Portugal. Those in attendance had assembled to observe what the Portuguese secular newspapers had been ridiculing for months as the absurd claim of three shepherd children that a miracle was going to occur at high-noon in the Cova da Iria on 13 October 1917.
According to many witness statements, after a downfall of rain, the dark clouds broke and the sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It was said to be significantly duller than normal, and to cast multicolored lights across the landscape, the shadows on the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The sun was then reported to have careened towards the earth in a zigzag pattern, frightening some of those present who thought it meant the end of the world. Anecdotally, some witnesses reported that their previously wet clothes became “suddenly and completely dry.”
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(It was noted that the “object” was not at the correct elevation to be the sun and some have speculated the object witnessed was a UFO)
- Labels: awareness, communication, logic, paradox, universe
“He who makes a beast of himself
gets rid of the pain of being a man”
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(view trailer)
The Zentai Project
is a group of people
who go out in public
wearing Zentai suits
for the amusement of themselves
and the public.
Bizarro is a fictional character that appears in publications published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Superboy #68 (1958), and was created by writer Otto Binder and artist George Papp.
Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, the character has appeared in both comic books and graphic novels; and other DC Comics-related products such as animated and live-action television series; trading cards; toys and video games.
Bizarro debuted in Superboy #68 (Oct. 1958), writer Otto Binder casting the character as a Frankenstein’s monster pastiche that possessed all the powers of Superboy. Shunned for his grotesque appearance, the teen version of Bizarro only appeared in a single comic book story. An adult version, however, followed soon after: debuting in the Superman daily newspaper comic strip, featuring in Episode 105: “The Battle With Bizarro” (Strips 6147-6242 :Aug. 25, 1958 to Dec. 13, 1958). This storyline also introduced the strange speech patterns that became synonymous with the character, with all of Bizarro’s comments meaning the opposite – eg. “bad” means “good”. The newspaper version also wore a “B” on his chest, as opposed to the distinctive “S”.
Writer of the strip Alvin Schwartz stated:
“I was striving, you might say, for that mirror-image, that opposite. And out of a machine which would reveal the negative Superman, came the mirror image, – always remembering that in a mirror everything is reversed…The times were such that one-dimensional characters, your standard superheroes, even in comics, seemed rather simplistic, like paper cut-outs. What was demanded was the full dimensional personality – a figure that carried a shadow, if you like. I was certainly inspired to some degree also by C.G. Jung’s archetype of “the shadow” – and Bizarro certainly reflected that, as well.” (read more) (click title)
- Labels: anarchy, indoctrination, logic, paradigm shift, paradox
The Matrix has you…
The enemy is fear
the enemy is hate
the enemy is ignorance
the enemy is intolerance
the enemy is violence
the enemy is war
“War is a cowardly escape
from the problems of peace”
…Thomas Mann…
- Labels: common sense, paradigm shift, paradox, peace, war
You’re damned if you do
and you’re damned if you don’t
you have to be crazy
to live in an insane world
- Labels: art, liberation, morality, paradox, revolution, satire
