#barlaamism

[cuties-in-codices]

josaphat destroying pagan idols

from a manuscript of barlaam und josaphat, alsace, c. 1469

source: Los Angeles, Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XV 9, fol. 101r

[unwinthehart]

Simone Barlaam wins the 50 m freestyle S9 - Paris Paralympics (02.09.2024)

[sedlex]

Did anybody request a hunk?

Swimming got you

[s-memorando]

Paralimpiadi: giorno 10

A volte succede che un granello di sabbia cambi il corso delle cose, arrivi a inceppare un meccanismo che avrebbe dovuto essere ben oliato e non dare problemi… invece ecco che l’imprevisto, la fatalità, l’inciampo facciano cambiare la storia che avrebbe dovuta essere rosea e felice e invece diventa improvvisamente drammatica e dolorosa. È la vita, nessuno sa che cosa succederò tra qualche ora,…

[nasirsagron]

Barlaam è ciò che mi volevate far credere che Ceccon fosse....

[centimetri]

The Paralympic games are over! Here's everything Italy won this year:

Carlotta Gilli won gold in 100m swimming butterlfy;

Francesco Bocciardo won gold in 100m freestyle swimming;

Stefano Raimondi won gold in 100m breaststroke and gold in 100m freestyle swimming;

Rigivan Rigi Ganeshamoorthy won gold in discus throw;

Federico Bicelli won gold in 400m freestyle and bronze in 100m backstroke swimming;

Simone Barlaam won gold in 100m butterfly, gold in 50m freestyle, and silver in 400m freestyle;

Giulia won gold in 100m breaststroke swimming;

Carlotta Gilli won gold in 100m butterfly, gold in 200m medley, silver in 400m freestyle, bronze in 100m backstroke, and bronze in 50m freestyle swimming;

Fabrizio Cornegliani won gold in road cycling;

Alberto Amodeo won gold in 100m butterfly, gold in 400m freestyle, and bronze in 100m freestyle swimming;

Monica Boggioni won gold in 50m breaststroke SB3, bronze in 100m freestyle, and bronze in 200m freestyle swimming;

Oney Tapia won gold in discus throw;

Antonio Fantin won gold in 100m freestyle and silver in 400m freestyle;

Elisabetta Mijno e Stefano Travisani won gold in archery;

Assunta Legnante won gold in shot put and silver in discus throw;

Matteo Parenzan won gold in Table tennis;

Giada Rossi won gold in Table tennis;

Martina Caironi won gold in 100m

[flagellant]

Could you talk about bodhisattva a little more in your own words? I'm Jewish and we don't really have anything like that or saints and I find the whole spiritual concept really fascinating and beautiful

To be clear I'm about to give an extremely brief overview which will be 1. simplified as much as I can spare because I'm not being paid to give an in-depth talk about the importance/unimportance of bodhisattva 2. definitionally not go into various differences between assorted buddhist sects/traditions. if you see this post and feel the urge to go "Um, inneskeeper, that's actually only true for the mahayana or--" I know. Trust me. I am completely aware.

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So. Westerners really like to claim that bodhisattva are Buddhist saints. This gets really weirdchamp racist when you look at Barlaam+Josaphat AKA the christiana interpretatio of the Gautama Buddha. If you're new to the blog: christiana interpretatio is the Christian empire's manipulation and corruption of foreign cultures and religions into being retroactively Christian in nature in order to perpetrate religious xenocide. Yes, that's a biased definition, and no, I'm not wrong or exaggerating, they learned it from the Romans because empires everywhere are the fucking same shit.

All this is to say that to call bodhisattva "saints" is...nnnnot quite grokking the differentiation between Christianity and Buddhist ideas of divinity, holiness, the afterlife, and identity. The goal of Christianity is to live a good life to live eternally in Heaven after you die (or, alternatively, if you fail, suffer perpetually in Hell after your death). But that means that fundamentally you are something which perpetuates after death. There is some fundamental youness that exists in reality even after the death of your body. You are able to transcend the fleshly coil and become a being of pure divine spirit if you're good enough at religion.

Generally speaking The Buddha hates that. Like, a lot. The idea that you are unique and special and neverbeforeseen and capable of transcending your death is bullshit. You're a meatsuit. We're all meatsuits (loosely speaking). Individuality is a burden which distances you from all other life and therefore dulls your capacity to love and care for said life. If you think you are distinct from another life, then that means what happens to that other life doesn't matter or mean anything to you. It means suffering does not meaningfully matter to your own existence so long as it is not your suffering. Life, itself, is a form of suffering--you are aware of your own capacity for cruelty and it is a holy act to do your best to defeat that in yourself and in others. A lot of the time this can be done by understanding that you are an illusion. You do not exist. You are a temporary blip, a random conglomeration of chance and perception given some level of sentience.

The goal then is to become truly aware of what that means, so that you can fully embrace a life without the limitations of self, life, or death, sometimes called nirvana. Those who have attained that awareness have attained bodhi; those who have attained that awareness and have elected to refuse to escape the cycle in an attempt to help enlighten others and aid their escape/attainment are bodhisattva.

Depending on who you ask bodhisattva are like, something anyone can be/becomes when properly enlightened, or they're possibly pseudo-avatars/manifestations of the Buddha, or they're specific emanations or its just. It gets complicated. Just know that the shared idea is usually "bodhisattva exist to try and teach others how to attain nirvana".

[calabria-mediterranea]

Seminara, Calabria, Italy

Seminara is located at the tip of the Italian boot about 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Reggio Calabria. Its noteworthy political past includes turn-of-the-15th-century battles associated with the Italian Wars and a 1535 visit by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who entered Seminara in a triumphal cortege to celebrate his victory over the Ottomans in Tunis.

Historically, the town has also had a reputation for its fine olive oil and silk.

Its two most distinguished citizens reflect southern Calabria’s Greek heritage, which endured long past the periods of Greater Greece and the Early Middle Ages when Orthodox Churches were established throughout the territory. Barlaam of Seminara (1290-1348) was an influential Byzantine-Greek clergyman and philosopher, and Leonzio Pilato (died 1364) was the first to translate Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey into Latin. His translations were used by the likes of Petrarca and Boccaccio.

The sanctuary of Maria Santissima dei Poveri is the main place of worship in Seminara, a town in the city of Reggio Calabria. It is well known because it preserves the statue of the Madonna dei Poveri, known as the Greek Black Madonna of San Basilio Magno. It is the oldest wooden statue in Calabria, carved in cedar wood and covered in gold and with its 92 cm, it is the second tallest black Madonna in the world, after that of Verdelot, in France.

In Seminara there is also one of the most interesting Greek Orthodox monastery of Southern Italy. Founded in 9th century by Sant’Elia of Enna, a Sicilian monk who lived in asceticism in a nearby cave, the monastery was endowed with rich goods and privileges by the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise, who appreciated its sanctity and wisdom.

The monastery soon became a center of spiritual and cultural radiation, attracting numerous disciples and pilgrims, including the famous Filareto l’Ortolano, who died there in the odor of sanctity.

Unfortunately, it duffered the historical vicissitudes of Calabria, including invasions, earthquakes and persecutions. In the 16th century, following the forced Latinization of the Southern Orthodox churches, the monastery was abandoned and fell into ruin. 9th century Greek Orthodox Monastery. It was restored in 2005 and is now open for pilgrims and travelers.

Photos by Calabria Straordinaria, @piervalentino_pierva, @karim.ayed.1976, @dmncdlc, @morgana_zeta, , @esplorando_dietro_casa e @giuliaeats

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[wormsngods]

Books in my Kindle

making this to destress before I start studying

Brief History of Time

Briefer History of Time

Legends of the Gods

Syria and Egypt in the Amarna Letters

Amarna Sunset

Moses and Monotheism

Moses the Egyptian

The Price of Monotheism

Of God and gods

The Samaritan Chronicle

The Kingdom of Kush

Aesop's Fables

Cyropedia

Classical Indian Philosophy

The Jatakas

Kama Sutra

Arthashastra

Classical Philosophy

Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman World

The Lost Books of Eden

The Book of Giants

The Diatessaron of Tatian

Odes of Solomon

32 Throne Tales of Vikramaditya

Complete Apocrypha of the Ethiopian Bible

The Book of the Cave of Treasures

Quran

The Quran in its Historical Context

Maghazi of Mamar

A Book of Conquest

The Arabic Hermes

Vivekachudamani

The Seduction of Shiva

Philosophy in the Islamic World

Barlaam and Josaphat

The Saga of Erik the Red

Kebra Nagast

The Trial of Joan of Arc

100 poems of Kabir

The Four Voyages of Columbus

Napoleon's Letters to Josephine

Napoleon's Military Maxims

Vizier of the Two Horned Alexander

And then there were none

Quotations from Chairman Mao

Eye

The Thorn and The Carnation

The Making of a Salafi Woman

The Last Island

[alatismeni-theitsa]

I found this amazing post about Buddha, and how his story became venerated in Christianity through the "saint Ioasaph"!

As the Theologian Academic John Sanidopoulos put it: "Though there are similarities between the tale of Joasaph with that of Buddha, this does not negate the historicity of either figure, but only shows a similarity in the origin of the tales. Though it is true the early story of Joasaph is colored with imagery from the life of Buddha, the latter part of the story is similarly colored by the life of St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Anthony the Great. And the theology of the story is influenced by John of Damascus, and the entirety of the "Apology" of the Athenian Philosopher Aristeides is contained within. The lives of Barlaam and Joasaph are primarily told as a literary tale with the seeming purpose of catechizing those of the Far East with a familiar tale. This was often done by ancient writers to steer a story of what may have elements of truth towards a higher didactical purpose."

[unwinthehart]

la vera domanda è da qua alle Paralimpiadi cosa guardiamo

[next-life-online-rpg]

NPCs IMPORTANTES EN NEXT LIFE ONLINE

En el mundo virtual de Next Life Online, tenemos el reino Camelot, junto con otras regiones (las cuales podrán conocer mas adelante dentro del foro cuando se abra, o probablemente en un futuro post), y por supuesto, como todo juego, existen personajes cuyos roles son importantes en dichas zonas.

(Cabe aclarar, que estos personajes, serán NPCs que NO PODRÁN SER LLEVADOS POR LOS USUARIOS, ya que el staff será quien los manejará en futuros eventos donde sea necesaria la presencia de alguno de ellos, esto dependiendo la situación, por lo tanto, si bien estos personajes se ubicarán en zonas específicas del mundo virtual de NLO, ELLOS NO PODRÁN APARECER EN ROLES NORMALES, solo en eventos y posiblemente en otro tipo de situaciones)

Información Básica:

Barlaam "La Quimera" Raza: Hombre bestia PB: Carrion – Tensei Shittara Slime Data Ken

Basanta "El inamovible" Raza: Humano PB: Leonidas - Shuumatsu no Valkyrie

Excalibur "El Arma del Rey" Raza: Autómata PB: Durandamon - Digimon

Hektor "El Dorado" Raza: Enano PB: Don Quixote – Fate

Coronis "La Madre" Raza: Dragonewt PB: Vritra – Fate Series

Sif "La Bendecida" Raza: Hada PB: Trianda – Fire Emblem

Gémini "El vagabundo" Raza: Autómata PB: Svarog – Honkai: Star Rail

Cepheus "La Fortuna" Raza: Vampiro PB: Illumi Zoldyck – Hunter x Hunter

Laelia "La iluminada" Raza: Humano PB: Melina – Elden Ring

Gasto "El Invicto" Raza: Humano PB: Date Masamune – Sengoku Basara

... ¿uh? ¿Buscabas información mas completa de estos personajes? Bueno, eso no será posible, ya que esto es una demo de lo que se viene en el foro, si quieres conocerlos completamente, tendrás que esperar a que el foro abra!

Esperamos verlos pronto iniciar sesión!

[brookston]

Holidays 11.6

Holidays

All the Good Things Wrapped Up in One Day

Arbor Day (Republic of Congo, Samoa)

Bank Workers’ Day (Argentina)

Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan)

Electric Razor Day

Fala Day

Fill Our Staplers Day

Finnish Swedish Heritage Day

Flag Day (Chad, Finland)

Global Refill Day

Green March Day (Morocco, Western Sahara)

Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)

Hydrogen Bomb First Test Day

International Day For Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War & Armed Conflict (UN)

International End Gossip Day

International Tracksuit Day

Legalization Day (Cannabis)

Malaria Day in the Americas

Marching Band Day

Marijuana Recreational Legalization Day (Colorado, Washington)

Marooned Without a Compass Day

Measure Up Day

National Basketball Day (a.k.a. Play Basketball Day)

National I Read Canadian Day (Canada)

National Ladies Learning Code Day (Canada)

National Michele Day

National Report Home Health Care Fraud Day

National Stacey Abrams Day

National Team Manager Day

Obama Day (Kenya)

Pine Nut Day (French Republic)

Recreational Cannabis Legalization Day (Colorado)

Saxophone Day

Scotchtoberfest (The Simpsons)

Skirret Day (French Republic)

Stranger Things Day

Tazaungdaing (Myanmar)

United Americas Day

World Cee-C Day (Nigeria)

World Lets Stop Shouting Awareness Day

World Materials Day

World Paper Free Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Do Tater Tots Ever Grow Up? Day

Global Donut Day

National Nachos Day (a.k.a. I Love Nachos Day)

Peanut Butter Lovers Day

Independence & Related Days

Constitution Day (Tajikistan)

Cycoldia (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Day of the First Shout For Independence (El Salvador)

Mexico (Independence Declared; 1813)

Polish Republic (Declared; 1918)

1st Wednesday in November

Eat Smart Day [1st Wednesday]

Hump Day [Every Wednesday]

International Pathology Day [1st Wednesday]

International Stress Awareness Day [1st Wednesday]

Men’s World Day [1st Wednesday]

National Advent Calendar Day [1st Wednesday]

National Eating Healthy Day [1st Wednesday]

National Holiday Calendar Day [1st Wednesday]

National Stress Awareness Day (UK) [1st Wednesday]

Take Our Kids to Work Day (Canada) [1st Wednesday]

Wacky Wednesday [Every Wednesday]

Website Wednesday [Every Wednesday]

Wheat Beer Wednesday [1st Wednesday of Each Month]

Wilderness Wednesday [1st Wednesday of Each Month]

Wobbly Wednesday [1st Wednesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 6 (1st Full Week of November)

None Known

Festivals Beginning November 6, 2024

Dublin Book Festival (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 11.10]

Hawai'i Food & Wine Festival (Oahu, Hawaii) [thru 11.10]

Jazz Fest Sarajevo (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) [thru 11.9]

Stockholm International Film Festival (Stockholm, Sweden) [thru 11.17]

Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival (Napa Valley, California) [thru 11.8]

Feast Days

Adelaide of Italy (Christian; Saint)

Albert Camus (Writerism)

Alois Senefelder (Artology)

Barlaam of Khutyn (Christian; Saint)

Birth of the Bab (Baha'i) [1 Muharram]

Birth of Tiamat (Ancient Egyptian mother of gods, goddess of primeval chaos)

Burroughs Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Cosimo de Medici the Elder (Positivist; Saint)

Dabucuri uiga, (Initiation Rites of the Young Men; to Jurupari, South American Guarani/Tupi God)

Demetrian (Christian; Saint)

Dodo Grieving Day (Pastafarian)

Feast of All Saints of Ireland (Ireland)

Festival of Total Submission

Herne’s Day II: Predator (Pagan)

Illtud (a.k.a. Illtyd or Iltntus; Christian; Saint)

Illitud’s Bell (Celtic Book of Days)

Learn a New Swear Word Day (Pastafarian)

Leonard of Noblac (Christian; Saint) [Coopers] *

Los Posadas (Latin America) [until 12.24]

Lucy Jones (Muppetism)

Melaine of Rennes (Christian; Saint)

Misa de Gallo begins (Rooster’s Mass; Philippines) [until 12.24]

Stephanie Vozzo (Artology)

Tiamat the Dragon Mother Day (Everyday Wicca)

Winds of Change Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Winnoc (Christian; Saint)

Wish-Granting Championships (Fairies; Shamanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [33 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s National Day to Lose Money on Horses.)

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [26 of 30]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [51 of 60]

Premieres

All Along the Watchtower, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1967)

And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie (Mystery Novel; 1939) [29]

Behind Blue Eyes, by The Who (Song; 1971)

The Boondocks (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Chew Chew Baby or Stick to Your Gums (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 175; 1962)

A Cowboy Needs a Horse (Disney Cartoon; 1956)

Cry Freedom (Film; 1987)

Elizabeth (Film; 1998)

The Flea Circus (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1954)

Forget-Me-Net, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S2, Eps. 31 & 32; 1965)

Foxtrot, by Genesis (Album; 1972)

Go Down Mooses or The Fall Guy (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 70; 1960)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Film; 2005) [#4]

Head (Film; 1968)

Hiding Out (Film; 1987)

Hold What You’ve Got, by Joe Tex (Song; 1964)

Ickle Meets Pickle (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

Jersey Boys (Broadway Musical; 2005)

John Wesley Harding, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1967)

Justify My Love, by Madonna (Album; 1990)

Kitty Caddy (Phantasies Cartoon; 1947)

Less Than Zero (Film; 1987)

Little Good Beep (WB LT Cartoon; 2000)

The Little Match Girl (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1937)

Little Red Walking Hood (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Made in Heaven, by Queen (Album; 1995)

Meet the Press (TV Series; 1947)

The Missing Mountain or Peek-a-Boo Peak (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 69; 1960)

The Moon Fell in the River, by Guy Lombardo (Song; 1940)

Paper Doll, by The Mills Brothers (Song; 1943)

Passenger 57 (Film; 1992)

Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., by The Monks (Album; 1967)

Precious (Film; 2009)

Rain of Terror or The Desperate Showers (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 176; 1962)

The Robot Spy (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #8; 1964)

Secrets of Life (Short Documentary Film; 1956)

Ski-Napper (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1964)

Sky Trooper (Disney Cartoon; 1942)

Spectre (UK Film; 2015) [James Bond #24]

Spotlight (Film; 2015)

Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Symphony; 1936)

Time Bandits (Film; 1981)

24 (TV Series; 2001)

The Universe in a Nutshell, by Stephen Hawking (Book; 2001)

The Unpopular Mechanic (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, by P.D. James (Novel; 1972)

When We Were Very Young, by A.A.Milne (Children’s Book; 1924)

Wintertime Dreams, recorded by Woody Herman (Song; 1936)

Woody’s Kook-Out (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1961)

Your Friend the Rat (Pixar Cartoon; 2007)

The Zoo (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1933)

Today’s Name Days

Christina, Leonhard, Rudolf (Austria)

Leonard, Melanija, Sever, Vedran (Croatia)

Liběna (Czech Republic)

Leonhardus (Denmark)

Aadi, Aado, Aadu, Ado, Adolf (Estonia)

Mimosa (Finland)

Bertille, Léonard (France)

Christine, Leonhard, Nina (Germany)

Leonardo (Greece)

Lénárd (Hungary)

Leonardo (Italy)

Leo, Leonards, Leonhards, Leons, Linards (Latvia)

Ašmantas, Leonardas, Vygaudė (Lithuania)

Lennart, Leonard (Norway)

Feliks, Leonard, Trzebowit, Ziemowit (Poland)

Pavel (Romania)

Renáta (Slovakia)

Alejandro, Leonardo, Severo (Spain)

Adolf, Gustav (Sweden)

Mac, Mack, Mackenzie, Makenzie, Mckenzie (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 311 of 2024; 55 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of Week 45 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 11 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 6 (Jia-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 5 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 4 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 11 Wood; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 24 October 2024

Moon: 24%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 3 Frederic (12th Month) [Guicciardini / Philippe de Comines]

Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 45 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of November

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 14 of 30)

[s-memorando]

Paralimpiadi: giorno 9

Ecco il consueto riassunto dei successi dei nostri atleti e atlete. Sono sempre più ammirata per la loro forza, la loro costanza a voler perseguire un risultato, a mettersi in gioco.  Poi vedendo la gioia di alcuni genitori che assistevano alle gare in tribuna mi sono immedesimata in loro. Ho pensato che anche loro hanno fatto tanti sacrifici, hanno passato tanti momenti dolorosi, quando hanno…

[mapetitefeedeslilas]

The glorious hot Italian swimming summer show is rocking the Paralympics too 💅🏻 🇮🇹

The heatwave is still in full force and so is my fangirling 💃🏻

Football might have failed the Italian hot girl summer dream, but our swimmers are sure serving it 💅🏻