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JAZZOWE REKOMENDACJE: Petros Klampanis âTora Collectiveâ
Enja Records, 2023 Basista Petros Klampanis na swojej najnowszej pĆycie siÄga ku muzycznemu dziedzictwu rodzinnego kraju, ĆÄ
czac Ćwiat folkloru Grecji ze wspĂłĆczesnym jazzem. W nagraniu towarzyszyĆ mu doborowy zespĂłĆ muzycznych przyjaciĂłĆ. Album dostÄpny jest na Bandcampie Klampanis â ktĂłry zagraĆ na kontrabasie oraz sprawowaĆ kierownictwo artystyczne caĆego projektu â zaprosiĆ do udziaĆu wâŠ
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Saw this Barbie meme spreading around Twitter today and it got me thinking about the Vendetta cast đ So, here we are!
Barbie
Rin, Santana, Luka, Grandpa, Grandma, Yvette, Azami, Thomas
Ken
Ash, Skylar, Takashi, Jackal, Viktor, Cara, Konstantin (Sequel MCâs big brother)
Well, Ash can kinda work for both Barbie and Ken, but in the end I choose Ken đ How about your MC? Which one would they be, Barbie or Ken? Feel free to let me know in the replies or in reblogs đ„°
#meme#full cast ros#ro: ash#ro: rin#ro: santana#ro: skylar#char: viktor#char: luka#char: jackal#char: grandpa#char: grandma#char: takashi#char: yvette#char: azami#char: cara#char: konstantin#char: big brother#char: thomas#if: vendetta#if vendetta#vendetta if#if game#if wip#dashingdon#choicescript#hosted games#choice of games#cyoa#cyoa game#interactive fiction
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An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavski
Fresh Meat: Series 1 Episode 4
#An Actor Prepares#Đ Đ°Đ±ĐŸŃĐ° Đ°ĐșŃĐ”ŃĐ° ĐœĐ°ĐŽ ŃĐŸĐ±ĐŸĐč#Konstantin Stanislavski#fresh meat#joe thomas
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WWW Wednesday: May 17th, 2023
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think youâll read next? What I am currently reading: The nation of Trylia believes that the gift, a force that can alter the world through the intent of the person who wields it, is a myth. The stuff of childrenâs tales,âŠ
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Knight & Valkyrie by Konstantin Vasilyev + Sir Thomas Maloryâs Morte Darthur trans. by Dorsey Armstrong
The creative development of social structure by mankind, a second nature is, indeed, being brought to birth within the universeâŠThe moment when the Round Table of King Arthur became a place of loneliness and when the Knights set out upon the quest of the Grail, is the point in evolution whereat man learns courageously and willingly to lose the old clairvoyance which was nature-given but therefore also nature-bound. Man enters bravely upon the intermediate period of quest and search within the world of the physical senses, whereafter he is destined to give birth again to a new clairvoyance. This new clairvoyance, unlike the old, does not unveil the secrets of nature in cosmic Imaginations, but in prophetic pictures no less significant foresees the future of social life. The true quest of the Grail begins only at the point where Merlin dies. It is the quest of the spirit in the crystal cup of matter; it is the seeking of that social love whose coming cannot merely be awaited but will be brought forth by our creative action. This newly awakened love is not the love of antiquityâthe love of nature and of the nature-spiritsâit is the love within the human kingdom, linking man with man, nay, more, linking whole groups of human beings with one another. Through this alone shall we find the returning way from matter to the stars.
âWalter Johannes Stein, The Death of Merlin
#Konstantin Vasilyev#Walter Johannes Stein#the holy grail#anthroposophy#spiritual science#Arthurian Legend#Sir Thomas Malory#Dorsey Armstrong
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Things I learn: whenever I talk about Thomas and Apollonia's backstory, I always used the word "Loni" as diminutive of Apollonia to avoid writing the long name constantly. Today I've learnt that "Loni" is, in fact, the correct short form of Apollonia.
âšThe more you knowâš
#now I know it is correct of course I'm making Thomas call her Loni all the time#other diminutives I use: Kostya for Konstantin#Gigs for Giustizia#Bern for Bernhardt#Rosie for Rosaespina#Olesya is the short form of Oleksandra but I use it as main name so it doesn't count#Kurt is also a form of Konrad but it's used to distinguish the father from the son#sometimes I call him Kurti as I saw once in Christine Nöstlinger novel lol
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Deep and sad eyes of lovers..
Pride and Prejudice - Mr Darcy
Atonement - Robbie Turner
War and Peace - Andrei Bolkonsky
Peaky Blinders - Thomas Shelby
Anna Karenina - Alexei Vronsky
Anna Karenina - Konstantin Levin
Victoria - Prince Albert
#pride and prejudice#mr darcy#matthew macfadyen#atonement#james mcavoy#war and peace#war and peace bbc#james norton#anna karenina#domnhall gleeson#peaky blinders#cillian murphy#aaron taylor johnson#victoria#tom hughes#british actors#period drama#periodedit#gentlemen#period drama lover
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This was a fascinating video on the evolution of American acting from older, theatrical 'representational' styles to the more modern, naturalistic 'presentational' style.
A large part of it is dedicated to breaking down the history of the extremely poorly defined term 'method acting', outlining the different theories of acting of Konstantin Stanislavski with his 'System' and the interpretations put on it by his American followers such as Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler, and how they differ from the modern pop-culture conception of 'method acting'. It's fascinating stuff - I did not realise just how much Stanislavski's ideas have affected the way we think about acting, literature etc. (dude invented the word 'subtext'!).
But in Thomas Flight's view, he's bringing these up in part to deflate them - he's ultimately arguing that, instead of a specific new method of acting being introduced, it's more that the goals of acting changed as the style of film in general changed. There are many routes to a naturalistic performance, but you have to want to do that in the first place, and older films wanted a more theatrical style.
Besides just being an interesting thing to learn about lol, the big question when I look at the theory of acting is how do you apply it to animation, since that's my field lol. 'Acting' is a big part of animation, but it differs in one big way, which is that it's much slower and more deliberate. I don't want to claim that there's no intuitive aspect to it, if anything you gotta learn all the technical stuff (timing, spacing, weight, overlapping action etc.) so well that you don't have to be constantly thinking consciously about technical stuff and can focus on letting the performance flow and feel natural... but still, a lot of the ideas expressed about imagining inhabiting the scene, getting into character etc. happen at a remove from putting lines down on the paper/screen. In animation just getting to the point of 'moving like a person', the absolute baseline of real life acting, is an effort in itself!
Still, knowing about the different styles and theories of acting is helpful. What is it about a character's expression that tells us that there is something that they're not saying, and tells us to infer some particular emotional context behind their words? A lot of it has to do with 'voice acting' stuff - cadence, intonation, hesitation. Then there's the way they move, stuff like how much space they take up, how energetic they are, how much their centre of gravity moves around. The gaze, where they're looking and how their eyes move around, is a huge part of it.
A film actor probably is doing a lot of this intuitively. I'm sure there is some conscious thought about it but the link between brain and muscles is so strong that you can be moving your eyes before you've had time to fully think through 'I should look over there to communicate what's on my mind'. With an animated character, every motion requires you to think about start and end poses, what the arcs are, follow-through, how many drawings to give it, etc. etc. You're simulating the 'physics' of the animated world and trying to convey the emotion of the character all at once. But you can still absolutely have an expressive, naturalistic performance in animation - and all these extra things you control (abstraction, simplification, etc.) give you more expressive tools as well which aren't available in live action.
I'm not nearly at the technical level of drawing and animation where I can really apply all these ideas yet, but it's good to know what's on the distant mountain...
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in the depths of dark and dismal days, where shadows lengthen, silence sways,
a scent of sorrow fills the air,
a soul adrift in deep despair.
the world, a stage of muted hue,
where joy and hopes seem far and few,
each dawn brings forth a heavy weight,
a burden carried, heartache's freight.
amidst the gloom, a stench pervades,
of loneliness and endless shades,
a fragrance foul, a bitter taste,
in solitude, the soul laid waste.
stinky by S.T. 2024
itâs about being depressed and smelling bad lol
the green bow by john alexander white 1898
princess taracanova by konstantin flavitsky
study at the waters edge by berthe morisot 1864
pandora by thomas benjamin kennington
#bed rotting#but actually#poetry#art#original poem#original poetry#original poets on tumblr#oil on canvas#poet#depressing quotes#depression#mdd#ocd#harm ocd#woman moment#pmdd#fight or flight#sadgirl#sad poem#sad poetry#healing#mental health#getting better#slowly but surely#sleep#despair#introvert#girlblogging#if a girl was an uncle#recovering alcoholic
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Germany remains a central focus of Russian disinformation efforts, and Kremlin-backed campaigns continue to grow in scope and intensity.
That was the warning that senior security officials and lawmakers issued this week during a public session of the German parliament's committee responsible for overseeing the country's intelligence agencies.
"We have long recognized the threat to Germany from foreign influence and hybrid warfare, especially from Russia," said Konstantin von Notz, a Green Party lawmaker and the committee's chairman.
"However, we are now witnessing a new level of intensity, and this development is deeply worrying for all of us."
Germany perceived 'as an enemy'Â by the Kremlin
Heads of Germany's intelligence services echoed von Notz's sentiments.
As Germany has emerged as one of the staunchest supporters of Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, the Kremlin has increasingly perceived Germany "as an enemy" and treated it as one, said Bruno Kahl, president of Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND).
Kahl explained that Russian President Vladimir Putin has long waged a "hybrid war" against countries in the West to "create a new world order." To achieve this end, Putin is using Russia's secret service agencies "as the spearhead in the fight against the West, with a state mandate, with all the means at their disposal, without legal restrictions and, above all, without any conscience."
This has led to a "dramatic increase in the number and quality of cyberattacks by Russian state actors and their proxies," Kahl added.
At the same time, cyberattacks are just one method that Russia is using to assert its influence.Â
Thomas Haldenwang, president of Germany's Federal domestic intelligence agency, warned of "influence operations" to spread pro-Russian disinformation: coordinated efforts to sway public opinion that blend cyber activities with the spread of disinformation.
He cited the example of one such campaign, dubbed "DoppelgÀnger," which was recently uncovered and involved cloned websites, fabricated articles, and misleading social media posts that mimicked established European media outlets to push pro-Russian narratives.
Growing influence of pro-Russian voices
Researchers say the majority of pro-Kremlin disinformation campaigns targeting German audiences have one of three objectives, researchers say: weakening support for Ukraine, tarnishing NATO's image or amplifying pro-Russian voices across Germany.
"We see that this strategy is gradually achieving its goals, and the public debate in Germany is increasingly shifting in a direction that serves the Kremlin's interests," said Felix Kartte, a political analyst and senior fellow at Germany's Mercator Foundation.
"Two parties that represent pro-Kremlin positions, the AfD and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, are now also getting significant attention in traditional media," he told DW. Both the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party and the left-wing nationalist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) achieved record results in recent state elections.
How to combat Russian influence
So far, Germany has failed to develop "a comprehensive government strategy that recognizes, analyzes and effectively counteracts the campaigns" launched by Russia, Kartte said.
He stressed that such a strategy to counter Russian influence operations would need to address the issue on multiple levels.
"This would include better regulation of online platforms, strengthening independent media â especially local journalism â and better analysis of the financial support of prominent pro-Kremlin figures in Germanyby security and intelligence agencies," he said.
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By: Alex O'Connor
Published: Jun 19, 2024
In the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, Jesus condemns those who â(either) love the tree and hate its fruit (or) love the fruit and hate the treeâ. A regular critique of the nominally religious is that they claim to believe in, say, Christianity, but fail to act in accordance with its demanding message of love and compassion. They love the tree, but canât quite swallow the fruit. More recently, however, a strange reverse phenomenon is emerging: a class of thinkers who, unable to rationally assent to the actual truth of Christianity, and yet disillusioned with the politics of ânew atheismâ, and fearful of the various religious and pseudo-religious ideas that have filled the vacuum it created, find themselves in the tough spot of being hungry for the fruit but unable to believe in the existence of the tree.
These so-called âcultural Christiansâ are appearing in droves: Douglas Murray, Tom Holland (not that one), Konstantin Kisin, Jordan Peterson (depending on what you mean by âChristianâ and âculturalâ and âandâ); even Richard Dawkins â the archetypal modern atheist who has done more to confront organised religion than perhaps any other identifiable person in a generation â happily adopts this paradoxical moniker for himself.
Paradoxical because, of course, Christianity is more than just an affinity for evensong, disappointment with secular architecture, and suspicion of Islam. St Paul wrote in no uncertain terms to the Corinthians that âif Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faithâ, and the vague, à  la carte approach to the religion displayed by the âcultural Christianâ which doesnât seem to care about, much less affirm, the historicity of the extraordinary events of Easter Sunday is the kind of attitude that would see you condemned as heretical by the founders of the orthodox church.
Yet Christianity is experiencing a popular makeover, from an affirmative doctrine of truth-claims to a sort of protective garment to be worn as a practical measure against the equal and opposite destabilising forces of radical political religiosity and cynical nihilism which continue to claw away at the souls of those without a firm spiritual conviction.
This metamorphosis of the Christian religion in is many ways indebted to Tom Holland â not the actor, though perhaps an actor, in that he seems content to live as if Christianity were true â whose âDominionâ thesis has convinced a not insignificant number of intellectuals that the bulk of our celebrated Western ethics is ultimately the product of Christianity, an ideology which has so successfully embedded itself in our culture that we do not even notice it anymore.
This leads our cultural Christians, often those with a special interest in safeguarding Western civilisation, to cozy up to an ideology that they canât quite adopt without qualification due to their rather inconvenient conviction that it isnât true.
Enter Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Re-enter, I should say, as this brave apostate from Islam won successful prominence as an atheist writer and speaker for many years since the early 2000s, before recently announcing that she had embraced Christianity. Indeed, she had originally been scheduled to participate in that famed discussion in Washington D.C. in 2007 which gave birth to the âfour horsemenâ of new atheism â Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris. So news of the âalmost fifthâsâ conversion was met with widespread surprise, joy, and speculation.
Perhaps the most widely read response came from Dawkins, in an open letter whose first sentence contained a rather less than charitable: âSeriously, Ayaan? You, a Christian? You are no more Christian than I am.â
Why? Because Hirsi Aliâs article, while passionate and detailed, suffered from the exclusion of anything resembling an argument for the existence of God, or for the theological supremacy of the Christian religion over others (or even over atheism). Instead, it is a political treatise: it begins with her experiences as a Muslim, touching on 9/11, the Muslim Brotherhood, and antisemitism, before asking: âSo, what changed? Why do I call myself a Christian now?â
She answers: âPart of the answer is global. Western civilisation is under threat from three different but related forces,â which she identifies as Russian/Chinese authoritarianism, Islamism, and wokeism. All of which are distinctly political considerations and so hardly serve as a theological defence of Christianity. Then, referring to Tom Holland, she tells us that the âstory of the Westâ is a civilisation built on the âJudeo-Christian traditionâ. That is to say, she is ticking all the boxes of a merely cultural Christian.
âStrangely, then, they could find initial agreement on one point: their being just as Christian as each other.â
Yet she later writes, as if anticipating this objection, âI would not be truthful if I attributed my embrace of Christianity solely to the realisation that atheism is too weak and divisive a doctrine to fortify us against our menacing foes.â Itâs a promising interjection, which seems to ready us for an apolitical testimony that might justify her exclusion of the âculturalâ in labelling her new Christian identity.
Here, Hirsi Ali begins to describe her personal struggles as an atheist. âI haveâŠÂ found life without any spiritual solace unendurable,â she writes, claiming that the âGod holeâ left behind after her deconversion was not filled with reason and intelligent humanism, as atheists like Betrand Russell had predicted, but instead left painfully vacant.
âIn this nihilistic vacuum, the challenge before us becomes civilisational,â she continues. âWe canât withstand China, Russia and Iran if we canât explain to our populations why it matters that we do.â In explaining, then, her reasons for becoming Christian apart from her desire to defeat her political foes, she tells us that she was struggling with a nihilistic vacuum that was⊠insufficient for defeating her political foes. Once again, the motivation seems political.
Thus Richard Dawkins and his assessment, âyou are no more a Christian than I amâ. The funny thing is, Ayaan Hirsi Ali endorses this sentiment. Dawkins has, of late, been airing his misgivings about gender theorists and Islamists, and constantly reaffirms his admiration for Christian art, architecture and music. These political and aesthetic preferences inspired her to refer to Dawkins at one point as one of âthe most Christianâ people that she knows. Strangely, then, they could find initial agreement on one point: their being just as Christian as each other.
This uneasy equilibrium provided the mise en scĂšne for an eagerly awaited conversation between the two, which took place in Brooklyn last month. Dawkins tells us at one point that he showed up fully prepared to explain to Hirsi Ali why she is not a Christian: âThe idea,â he says, âthat the Universe has lurking beneath it an intelligence a supernatural intelligence that invented the laws of physics it invented mathematics [âŠ] is a stupendous idea (if itâs true) and to me that simply dwarfs all talk of nobility and morality and comfort and that sort of thing.â
He was, therefore, taken quite unawares, as were many of us, when he asked (or rather told) her, âYou donât believe Jesus rose from the dead, surely?â and she confidently replied, âI choose to believe that Jesus rose from the dead. And that is a matter of choice.â This, for Dawkins (as for me), changes the game. While throughout the event she had no hesitation in repeating her political grievances, in New York, she finally addressed the truth claims of Christianity, and appeared to confess a belief in them. âI came here prepared to persuade you, Ayaan, youâre not a Christian,â Dawkins told her, before correcting himself: âI think you are a Christian,â and â being Richard Dawkins â he added, âand I think Christianity is nonsense.â
This extraordinary event began with Hirsi Ali recounting her conversion: âI lived for about a decade with intense depression and anxiety self-loathing. I hit rock bottom. I went to a place where I actually didnât want to live anymore but wasnât brave enough to take my own life.â Through prayer, she managed to escape that hole. âMy zest for life is back,â she declared to a healthy applause, indicative of the one thing that everyone can agree on: it is wonderful to hear that Ayaan is happy again.
She looked at Dawkins and shrugged slightly as she finished her personal account. And the audience laughed. I did think there was something comical about following such a moving story of escape from depression and anxiety with, as Dawkins did: âBut do you really think Jesus was born of a virgin?â Dawkins, though, can hardly be blamed: as touching as Hirsi Aliâs story may be, if he is right that Godâs existence is a scientific question, then we should remember that bringing personal narrative into the laboratory is as inappropriate an approach as bringing a microscope into a poetry seminar. It should be no insult to say that her emotional struggles are irrelevant to the question of theism vs atheism.
As Dawkins himself put it, responding to Hirsi Aliâs fear that an atheistic universe doesnât offer us any way to connect with each other and the cosmos: âSuppose it were true that atheism doesnât offer anything. So what? why should it offer anything?â Further applause.
âFaith offers you something, obviously. Thatâs very very very clear,â he says at one point. âBut it doesnât make it true. It doesnât make the existence claims of Christianity true.â Again, there was an applause. Given that such a claim is hardly extraordinary or controversial, the clapping seemed to be less in support of the point, and more of Dawkinsâs willingness to make it plain.
It is worth remembering that believing something for non-rational reasons is not unusual. Our beliefs are quite often formed by our surrounding environment, rather than some kind of perfect logic and analysis of abstract syllogisms. Most people know this. Hirsi Ali is happy to admit it. You may think it imperfect, but it is not unique.
âThe kind of Christianity adopted by Hirsi Ali goes further in asserting its truth, but not very much further in its justification.â
This extraordinary event began with Hirsi Ali recounting her conversion: âI lived for about a decade with intense depression and anxiety self-loathing. I hit rock bottom. I went to a place where I actually didnât want to live anymore but wasnât brave enough to take my own life.â Through prayer, she managed to escape that hole. âMy zest for life is back,â she declared to a healthy applause, indicative of the one thing that everyone can agree on: it is good to hear that she is happy again.
After finishing this personal narrative, she could only look at Dawkins and shrug slightly. The audience laughed, in anticipation of something of a shift in tone. I did think there was something comical about following such a moving story of escape from depression and anxiety with, âBut do you really think Jesus was born of a virgin?â Dawkinsâs decision to do so, however, can hardly be blamed: as touching as his former colleagueâs story may be, if he is right that Godâs existence is a scientific question, then we should remember that bringing personal narrative into the laboratory is as inappropriate an approach as bringing a microscope into a poetry seminar. It should be no more an insult to say that Hirsi Aliâs emotional struggles are irrelevant to the question of Godâs existence than it would be to say to say that scientific observations are irrelevant to the study of Keats.
As Dawkins himself put it, responding to her fear that an atheistic universe doesnât offer us any way to connect with each other and the cosmos: âSuppose it were true that atheism doesnât offer anything. So what? Why should it offer anything?â Further applause.
âFaith offers you something, obviously. Thatâs very, very, very clear,â he says at one point. âBut it doesnât make it true. It doesnât make the existence claims of Christianity true.â More clapping. Given that such a claim is hardly extraordinary or controversial, this reception seemed to be less in support of the point, and more of Dawkinsâs willingness to make it plain.
Yet it is worth remembering that believing something for non-rational reasons is not unusual. Our beliefs are quite often formed by our surrounding environment, rather than some kind of perfect logic and analysis of abstract syllogisms. Most people know this. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is happy to admit it. You may think it imperfect, but it is not unique to her.
This means that any surge in Christian interest we may notice among our public intellectuals is unlikely to be due to a renewed interest in Biblical scholarship or the figure of the crucified Nazarene. It is instead likely a product of their environment. Cultural Christianity, then, is in many ways a political movement disguised as a religious one, reacting not to arguments for Godâs existence, but concerns about the practical shortcomings of atheism and alternative religions. The kind of Christianity adopted by Hirsi Ali goes further in asserting its truth, but not very much further in its justification.
Therefore, those celebrating some alleged resurgence of Christianity ought be cautious: it would certainly be a happy day for them if their favourite intellectuals began discovering a relationship with Jesus, but if they begin converting to Christianity principally as an ideological bulwark, we may witness the return not of a meek and mild community of believers, but of a more strong-armed, aggressive Christianity that has historically been a touch more controversial.
But Ayaan does seem genuinely transformed by her new faith: she looks happy, speaks humbly, and seems genuinely uninterested in point-scoring or winning any arguments. It troubles me not at all to admit that I found myself applauding her more than Richard Dawkins. It transpired in Brooklyn that her conversion, which at first appeared mostly political, was more a result of her personal battle with nihilism. This is hardly going to convince anybody else to become Christian, but such personal experience isnât ever supposed to.
Atheists are often told that they are plagued with a âGod-shaped holeâ. Hirsi Ali appears to have developed for herself a hole-shaped God. But despite the probability of at least an element of motivated reasoning in this conversion, Iâm genuinely happy for her. We should keep in mind, too, as her story evolves, that our ideas are the most unclear to us when they are new, and Ayaan is a new Christian. While we are all trying to work out what she really believes, she is probably trying to work out the same thing. She, however, has the unusual courage to do it out loud.
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In short, Xianity has retreated even further from "my religion is true" to "my religion is useful." Of course, if that's the case, then I have just as much right to pick and choose the parts that are useful to me as anyone else.
We must also apparently address once again the absurd notion of "choosing to believe," usually levelled at atheists as an accusation that they simply choose not to believe. In one specific god, of course. An accusation that necessarily means the believer themselves "chooses" not to believe in all the other gods.
And its absurdity revealed by the challenge to choose to believe in goblins or fairies or Bigfoot. Or to choose to believe in another god - Ahura Mazda, for example - for five minutes.
It matters what's true. And Xianity isn't true.
#Alex O'Connor#political christianity#god shaped hole#hole shaped god#choose to believe#christianity#Ayaan Hirsi Ali#Richard Dawkins#truth#truth matters#cultural christianity#religion#religion is a mental illness
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konstantin by chuck thomas
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Very honored to have my painting âThe World Is Waitingâ included in the prestigious Fabriano Watercolour 2024 Biennial Exhibition in Italy . My thanks to Giorgio Pelligrini and Konstantin Sterkhov for the nomination
By Thomas W Schaller
#Thomas W Schaller #watercolour artist #original art #artist painter
#art #xpuigc
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Incorrect Quotes Tag
Thanks for tagging me, @primroseprime2019! :D
Rules: use this generator to make quotes for your WIPs.
Diarnlan: Don't trust everything you see on the internet. Karandren: *scoffs* Do you think people would bother to lie online? Anyway, did you know Earth is actually flat? Diarnlan, dragging him away from the computer: That's enough for you
Abi: I feel so burnt out. Ilaran: Don't worry, it'll be over soon. Abi: How do you know? Are you going to assassinate me? Ilaran: Abi:
Rusudan: *pulls back the curtain while Konstantine is showering* Hey â stop screaming, it's only me â I need you to behead a corpse for me.
Ji-hun: You tricked me! Yo-han: I deceived you. "Trick" makes it sound like we have a friendly relationship.
Lucy: So what is Thomas to you? Gilbert: The reason I wake up every morning. Lucy: Aww, that's sweet! Thomas, that morning, barging into Gilbert's room, hitting pans together: WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP!!!
Tagging @ashen-crest, @cljordan-imperium, @acertainmoshke, and anyone else who wants to do this! :D
#tag game#writing#my characters#my WIPs#WIP: totentanz#WIP: necromancer#WIP: snow#the case files of seo yo han#WIP: money
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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Stephen Adly Guirgis || Agnes, Konstantin Korobov || Saint Sebastian, Owe Zerge || Arrows of Desire: How did St Sebastian Become an Enduring, Homo-erotic Icon? || The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Guercino || Saint Catherine Drinks the Blood of Christ, Francesco Vanni
#web weaving#judas iscariot#korobov#stephen adly guirgis#saint sebastian#owe zerge#dark academia#quotes#poems and quotes#arrows of desire#homoerotic#nah they twinkified my boy#saint thomas#guercino#saint catherine#francesco vanni#christianity#loosely speaking
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Ranked Ballet Performances
I've seen quite a few live shows and I have thoughts on all of them, but instead of sharing them, I'm just going to rank them from my favorite to least favorite:
La Bayadere: Viktoria Tereshkina and Kimin Kim
Giselle: Svetlana Zakharova and David Hallberg
La Bayadere: Ekaterina Kondaurova and Timur Askerov
Raymonda: Ekaterina Kondaurova and Danila Korsuntsev
Don Quixote: Marianela Nunez and Carlos Acosta
Le Corsaire: Ekaterina Kondaurova, Andrey Ermakov, Kimin Kim
Paquita: Viktoria Tereshkina and Timur Askerov
Swan Lake: Devon Teuscher and Marcelo Gomes
Raymonda: Oksana Skorik and Timur Askerov
Giselle: Skylar Brandt and Joo Won An
Don Quixote: Skylar Brandt and Herman Cornejo
Romeo and Juliet: Gillian Murphy and James Whiteside
The Nutcracker: Mariko Sasaki, William Bracewell, Isabella Gasparini, and James Hay
Giselle: Gillian Murphy and Thomas Forester
Swan Lake: Isabella Boylston and Alban Lendorf
Swan Lake: Devon Teuscher and Aran Bell
Giselle: Elizaveta Gogidze and Olekseii Kniazkov
Little Humpbacked Horse: Anastasia Kolegova and Maxim Zyuzin
Sleeping Beauty: Sarah Lane and Herman Cornejo
Paquita: Nadezhda Batoeva and Xander Parish
Harlequinade: Skylar Brandt and Daniil Simkin
Whipped Cream: Sarah Lane and Daniil Simkin
Le Corsaire: Maria Khoreva, Konstantin Zverev, and Kimin Kim
Paquita: Maria Khoreva and Konstantin Zverev
I think I got them all lol. I didn't include non-ballet performances such as Bourne's Swan Lake, Alvin Ailey, and Riverdance.
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