#ramage

[les-portes-du-sud]

D'un oiseau qui se tient caché dans les branches

On aimerait apprendre le délicieux ramage

Louis René

[semioticapocalypse]

Fred Ramage. Two members of the Bertram Mills Circus walk head to head at Hammersmith Broadway in London, 1953

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[henk-heijmans]

Children queuing to receive a rationed portion of slop made from milk and flour boiled together, Charlottenburg, Berlin, 1945 - by Fred Ramage (1900 - 1981), English

[cozymochi]

just dropped by to say your ocs are so cuuute, im actually for real in love with Tia

🐱🪷😱😱

[culperscomet]

he looks like he’s itching to tell me a riddle

[justineportraits]

Hannah Ramage Teacup 5

[ramagerslatteart]

damn these pop ups keep crashing my computer

(version without effects under the cut)

[captaincrazycreative]

Honestly, watching the oiar staff slowly go from

"WoAW Colin is so crazzzyyy and irrational guys whats he doing??"

To

"Wait a minute hear him out he makes some good points"

Is very satisfying

[bakawitch]

@wisteriasymphony I beat you to the first official jaquerené art XD

A comic doodle of their first official face to face maskless encounter. It happens during a battle of the bands concert thing while made-up lyrics suspiciously relevant to their relationship plays in the background.

[wisteriasymphony]

jaqueline ramage <333 baka you cooked i hope you don't mind that i gave her sideburns. what's more cowboy than scruffy cheeks am i right (wrong. the one thing more cowboy is being homosexual.)

@bakawitch i love you and i can't wait to learn more about MiraMort this shit is crazy i am itching to use your little characters to work on writing fight scenes. and then conversely drawing all of them making out absolute nasty maybe

[spacebunniesmha]

The day misogynistic people realize that toga was actually a big threat in the final war is the day hell freezes over😭

[elmaxlys]

Regarder trop de Résumés Foireux d'affilée pour retrouver une réplique peut avoir des conséquences terribles : désormais la fable de La Fontaine que j'ai en boucle dans la tête depuis des mois est récitée dans la voix de Crazy Bomb

[apesoformythoughts]

"For me, a particularly delightful feature of this brief text ['The Christian Image of Man'] by our late pontiff was witnessing his renewed engagement with a 1391 A.D. debate between Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus and a learned Persian concerning the truth claims of Christianity and Islam. As many readers will recall, Benedict famously (and, in some circles, infamously) referenced this dispute in his landmark 2006 Regensburg Address [...]

This time around, Benedict foregrounds a different topic within this same exchange, the 7th in a series of 26 such conversations between the emperor and the anonymous Muslim mudarris (teacher). Having debated a variety of matters where they stood in firm opposition with one another, both interlocutors ultimately concurred that the crux of their divergence centers on which religion offers the correct image of man. Rehearsing a trope that one often encounters in an Islamic context, the Persian claims that Christianity’s image of man is unrealistic—“heavy, excessive, and impracticable”—imposing unattainable moral demands that are bound to result in failure (§5.c). After all, the thinking goes, what man is “made of iron or diamond” so as to be capable of loving his enemies, turning the other cheek when wronged, or honoring a lifelong commitment made in the idealism of youth? (§5.e). In particular, the mudarris considers the Christian discipline of vowed virginity a “totally unbearable” and “violent” burden that suffers from the “obvious” problem of being “outside the realm of reason” insofar as it asks an incarnate creature to “imitate the nature of bodiless beings” (§5.f).

According to this line of thinking, we might as well openly permit divorce and certain forms of violence while seeking ways to regulate them, given that we will never be able to completely prevent people from partaking in such behaviors. In this regard, the Muslim contends, “The law of Muhamad is the middle way,” as it proclaims “moderate” precepts that are “much more bearable and humane…For it fills in by its own precepts what was lacking in the old law, but trims the excesses of the law of Christ” (§5.b). In this way, he argues that Islamic morality aligns more closely with the wisdom of ancient philosophers like Aristotle, being “better than all laws” because it “avoids both extremes, honoring the mean in everything” (§5.c–d).

In response to this viewpoint, the emperor contends that Islam’s seeming realism demands too little of man, effectively preventing him from rising to his full greatness. Contrary to Islam, the Christian believes that with God all things are indeed possible because “the hand of God invisibly assists them in carrying them out” (§9.b). Manuel thus explains that we can indeed live the Beatitudes and attain spiritual perfection thanks to the grace of Christ, who “does not recommend impossible things” (19.f).

Taking into account the gap between the Christian vision of human perfection and the various views present in other religious and secular contexts, Benedict draws the following lesson from this conversation: “[T]he question concerning the correct image of man emerges as the fundamental practical question in the clash between Christianity and the antichrist.” From here, the pontiff sharpens his focus and puts forward a thesis that he revisited often throughout his career: “In my view, the central point of this confrontation will be the question of freedom.”"

-- Matthew Ramage: "The Christian Image of Man"

[portraituresque]

David Ramage - Self portrait

[emvisual]

Una escultura de Nik Ramage. El arte siempre refleja la vida.

[justineportraits]

Hannah Ramage Anna & Adara