#voltaire egs

[gmobanana]

[mapswithoutwyoming]

I don’t have a lot to say about the current egs page other than “I like it”, so I’m just going to wonder about if there are any characters who would have said Pandora was too nice. I’m thinking… Voltaire.

While I have you here, I’ve always wondered about Fabius. Do you think he was Jerry? Voltaire? Maybe those other two immortals were Helena and Demetrius? These are the questions that don’t keep me up at night because they’re not that important.

[binomech]

“Leibniz, yes, did have kind of a we-live-in-the-best-of-all-possible-worlds shtick, but that didn’t mean he ignored the existence of evil!” “Not at all!” Starr adds. “God, why did Voltaire have to be so hostile? Leibniz was just doing his best, man.” “As are we all,” Hermann agrees, egging them on to a small degree. He’s come to quite like David Starr over the past few years. And Newton—overcome with excessive academic emotion, putting a colloquial spin on a forgotten philosopher in a college-town bar with terrible food and passable beer—well, the effect is more endearing than it is anything else. But if he’s honest, there’s a strong thread of reassurance there as well. “See!” Newton says, stealing a good portion of what remains of Hermann’s fries. “You get it. I get it. It’s a complete assault on Leibniz. As if the calculus thing with Isaac Newton wasn’t bad enough. Now we’ve got a work in the western canon basically vilifying the poor guy. Setting him up as a caricature for the rest of time! Ridiculing his optimism, which wasn’t stupid at all. He acknowledged the existence of evil! What’s he supposed to do? How are you ever supposed to win against that? You’ll just—remain misunderstood forever, because—” And it is at this point that Newton starts crying in earnest. This is shortly followed by Starr joining him. Hermann is not unsympathetic. As he waits for them to master themselves, Hermann absently runs his fingers over years of names and dates, sloppily engraved into the wood of their table. He contemplates the nature of time, its arrow. Such a subtle thing, time. The dull roar of a crowd in its weekend upswing suffuses the air. They are surrounded by students, brimming with alcohol and optimism. Hermann thinks, with compassion, of Gottfried Leibniz, fallen out of favor in November of 1716. No one will attend your funeral, he thinks, across space and time. They will bury you in a grave that goes unmarked for fifty years. And yet, in the midst of an unfolding apocalypse, one mathematician will be so familiar with your theories that they write themselves into the mind of a brilliant biologist and a vast alien intelligence. From there, you will be chosen as the unifying avatar of a fractional alien hive mind, left behind after breach annihilation. You will help it understand understanding. Your optimism will inspire it. You will confer so much grace on this disembodied consciousness that it, in good faith, releases its hold on the biologist who gave it your form. With your aid, it will die well. “Got you too, huh?” Newton says. “I—” Hermann breaks off, clears his throat. He glances at Starr, who will not understand what he is about to say. Not fully. “No I simply realized—that in a very real way, Gottfried Leibniz saved your life, Newton.” “I know,” Newton murmurs. “I know he did.” “That really gets me,” Starr chokes out, clutching a fist to his chest. Newton lifts his glass, looks at it as though it contains the secrets of the universe. “To Leibniz, who did his best to fuse the objective and the subjective.” Starr lifts his glass as well. “To Leibniz, an optimist in a world full of despair.” Hermann carefully touches his glass to theirs. “To Leibniz. May he rest well.” They drink.

Aftermath: The Sequel/Prequel by cleanwhiteroom

[atheismespirituel]

L’atheisme qu’est ce que c’est?

L’atheisme n’est pas le fait de croire que Dieu ou les dieu n’existe pas ou renier son idée...l’atheisme est un systeme spirituel qui se nourrit d’autre conceptes, ceux-ci ne sont pas ceux vehiculé par les société ecclesiastique voila tout...il va surtout creer des batterie de test pour voire si la pensee de son interlocuteur est coherente avec ce qui lui semble essentiel...cad la realite...en verite pour un athee la realite est la divinite eg la connexion universel de tout lui semble etre l’harmonie il est donc univesialiste...

« La nature n’a fait ni esclave no maitre, je ne donne et ne reçois de loi de personne »

-DIDEROT-

L’atheisme pour exister tire ses valeurs de plusierurs systemes philosphique qui fonctionnent ensemble et qui sont indispensable

1-l’ATHEISME est NATURALISTE

L’homme ne nait pas homme il le devient, cad que l’homme soumis a ses emotion est livré a ses dernieres, l’exercice de la raison le libere en le rendant maitre de lui meme, cette exercice passe par des pratique intellectuels sportives et philosophique varie eg qui fonctinnent ensemble. (Pour exempe la META-BIBLE de diderot est l’encyclopedie donc une BIBLe des technique humaine et artisanales. De plus aucun sysysteme n’est plus coherent que la nature pour

creer des valeurs morale, en effet la nature est e systeme qui existe depuis le plus longhtemps et son but esg de se maintenir lui meme par une organisation coherente de ses differents ecosystemes.

Diderot d’ira que l’art nest pas la recherche du vraie mais du vraisemblant, une copie metonimique ou parabolique de la nature dans son organisation.

2-l’ATHEISME Est TRANSTHEISTe

L’idee de dieu existe...seulement dieu est partit intégrante de la realite et de la nature il ne peut pas etre un sujet mais il est vecu par l’experience DIEU est LE REEl...la theologie e est donc initile pour cee des valeurs fiable...seul observer la nature et dialoguer le permet. De plus l’idee de Die est depassable par l’homme.

L’homme peut dépasser sa nature premiere animal pour devenir un animal coherent a son environnement et afin d’eviter toute derive son evolution psychologique se fait par l’eturr de son environement...l’homme devient donc un Dieu de respect de son environnement...mais il n’est le Dieu que de son contexte par exemple des peuple habitant dans les montagnes n’ont pas la meme psychologie que ceux habitant pret de la met car leur en ironnement est different...de plus l’homme n’est le dieu que pour son temps...

3-L’ATHEISME est PANTHEISTE

Le pantheisme reprend l’idee du culte des ancetre..notre destin est dans notre biologie esg la volonte de nos ancetre resonne dans nore adn...nous cherchons a prolonger nos ancetre dans nos relations et le corp est le super d’ecroture de ce destin. (Panthon demeure des Dieux) a paris rousseau diderot montesquieu voltaire victor hugo est... sont au pantheon...ceux sont les vraie Dieux de la notre pays la france...

4-l’ATHEISMe est MATERIALISTe

Aucune distinction entre le corp l’ame est lesprit la matiere est spirituel tout est un et ce un est multiple...ce que je ressent est connecte a l’univers lui meme connese a tout et ce sue je reseent est coherent ma nature biologique me parle et elle connais mon avenir e bien etre moral et physiologique et psychologique est la maniere de rechercher le bonheur du monde et le notre aussi...

5-en somme l’ATHEISME se rapproche beaucoup du bouddhisme et cela ne m’aurais pas ettoné que les philosophe des lumiere auraient tout simplement calqué leur systeme de pensée surcelui fe confucius et bouddha si ils avait put voyager dans les pays asiatique inspiré par cette #PHILOSOPHIE AUGMENTE ou BIOPSYCHOLOGIE (philosophie spirituel dont les concepte ont un impacte spiriuel sur la societé et son organisation) les philosophes des lumiere sont a l’origine du sysyteme social français pas exemple...aussi de la revolutilon...

Pour en savoir plus regarer les musique et les clip...

Info:

DIEU: antité uniquement bonne dans les monotheisme...

DEMONS: antite uniquement mauvais dans le monotheisme

DEMIURGE/DIVINITE: antite bonne est maivaise (personnalité) ayant ses propre interet a aider les hommes ou non...souvent teritorialisé et n’exerçant un pojvoir que dans un environnemt naturel psychologique ou climatique...(n’existe que dans le polytheimse)

BOUDDHA est vide...il ne possede aucune supstance KARMITE (karma) il fait des actes totalement desinterrese ni bon ni mauvais...

Le monde naturel est le SAMSARA et le monde spirituel (sans matiere) est le NIRVANA

Le Bouddhisme et le jainisme sont basé sur l’etude des autre religions...comme l’atheisme...

#pantheisme

#spinoza

#diderot

#rousseau

#montesquieu

#voltaire

#philosophie

#philosophe

#pantheon

#olympe #poseidon

#transtheisme

#atheisme

#spiritualité

#philosophieaugmenté

#biopsychologie

#psychologie

#psychobiologie

#musique

#bouddha

#bouddhisme

#ado

#madara

#ganonjo

#france #paris

#lyon

#bordeaux

#Dieu

V.A.D.O

L’atheisme qu’est ce que c’est?

« La nature n’a fait ni esclave no maitre, je ne donne et ne reçois de loi de personne »

-DIDEROT-

L’atheisme pour exister tire ses valeurs de plusierurs systemes philosphique qui fonctionnent ensemble et qui sont indispensable

1-l’ATHEISME est NATURALISTE

L’homme ne nait pas homme il le devient.

2-l’ATHEISME Est TRANSTHEISTe

L’idee de dieu existe...seulement dieu est partit intégrante de la realite et de la nature il ne peut pas etre un sujet.

3-L’ATHEISME est PANTHEISTE

Le pantheisme reprend l’idee du culte des ancetre..notre destin est dans notre biologie esg la volonte de nos ancetre resonne dans nore adn...

4-l’ATHEISMe est MATERIALISTey

Aucune distinction entre le corp l’ame est lesprit la matiere est spirituel tout est un et ce un est multiple...

5-en somme l’ATHEISME se rapproche beaucoup du bouddhisme.

Il ne faut surtout pas confondre (comme cela a toujours etait fait) l’atheisme et la technocratie voir religion trechnocrate...en effet l’e ercice de la raison ne conduit pas a la technique elle conduit a l’etude cad tout les corps de metier qui finissent en logue (sociologue psychologue etc...). Et visent justement a pacifier l’esprit et trouver un equilibre de vie sur la terre.., la tech’ocratie c’esg l’apogee du GUN qui est l’outil de la toute puissance technocrate aujourdhui le GUN est devenue l’algorythme. Et la guerre de la data science.

Un athee peu aller dans une mosque le vendredi une eglise le dimanche pu autre simplement pour comprendre sans se sentir redevable de quoi que ce soit...

[univerthityoftekthath]

Diplomatic Skills 9

Debate outcome decided by third party

Debate has winners and losers

Debate CONTRA Negotiation

Negotiation parties have differing interests, opinions and positions but they are not what the negotiation is about, effective negotiator won’t care about that

Negotiation is about resolving problem, debate is about winning not resolving

Negotiation is behind closed doors, debate is public

Negotiation parties are expected and prepared to modify their positions (make compromises) Debate no compromises, people stick to the sticky stick stick

In Negotiation it is not mainly how good the argument is that settles the matter. In negotiation pragmatic, opportunity and convenience more important than truth.

The two parties of the negotiation decide whether it is a success

Negotiation is not a contest, there are no winners or losers, everyone gains when successful

Topic of conversation can evolve

Participants in convo share/exchange ideas, thoughts and perhaps feelings. No discursive argumentation. No third party.

A debate is about arguments. In a debate you are being watched. Substance and form are being judged by a third party.

Rules of debate:

Voltaire’s maxim

- contestants can freely make any assertion, contention (disagreement), raise any issue at will, state an opinion, make their point of view known so long as they are relevant.

- contestants cannot be silenced or intimidated

- contestants are entitled to raise doubts about the opponent’s opinions, contest them or question hidden premises in the opponent’s reasoning

- you must prove your assertions or contentions, explain

- once you have made an assertion you can’t go back on it, without this progress cannot be made in the debate. Moderator will stop the debate at regular intervals to lock the commitments made so far.

- Not everything can be questioned, there is a limit to what you can question. Questioning the unquestionable is abusive. There are limits on what you can ask. Limits on the justifications you can ask from the other party. eg. Common basic beliefs that we all share, they are not questioned

Conversation and debate lead to negotiation

Conversation- appetiser

Debate- starter

negotiation- main course

Negotiation is the heart of diplomacy

Negotiation is a verbal interaction, based on arguments, between parties who have different and maybe opposing interests on a controversial issue, with the purpose to overcome what divides the parties.

can be Bilateral, plurilateral, multilateral

Negotiation may take place on the tracks established by an institution eg. EU committee of permanent representatives (COREPER) or outside such a framework

if outside, things will need to be defined, pre-negotiated before or as they arise

[themaresnest-dumblr]

Since It’s Coming Up To Halloween, A Good Time To Repost And Update This - Your Handy Goth-U-Like Reference Sheet!

Readers! Have you ever been stuck with trying to think of a Goth band your Gothophobic friends might like and thus give a chance at Halloween?

Here’s your handy cross-reference sheet courtesy of your super soaraway Mare’s Nest!

The Cure: People who still watch ‘Bagpuss’, play the American McGee’s ‘Alice’ series, think Tim Burton is the greatest animator of all time, 99.99999% of all Cosplayers, and people who like eating toast.

Sisters Of Mercy: Politics undergraduates, Guardian readers, people who when they get drunk will defend General Woundwort in Watership Down as a ‘misunderstood victim of events’, people who deny being Goth dusk till dawn.

The Mission: Harry Potter/Worst Witch/Doctor Who fans and weekend pagans who like cosplay. A lot. Those who think The Hobbit movies were better than the Lord Of The Rings ones even if they were less canon, and Captain Campion was a better Chief Rabbit of Efrafa than General Woundwort anyway ...

All About Eve: Fans of My Little Pony, The Chalet School/Mallory Towers/St Claire’s, essential oil baths with scented candles, and buying Amazon rainforest sized amounts of quaint writing paper which they never get around to using.

Die Laughing: See All About Eve and The Mission.

The Cult: people who like heavy metal but could do without the whole Dungeons And Dragons or pretending to be teutonic knights vibes. Also people who like tassles. Lots of tassles.

Merry Thoughts: Sisters of Mercy and Cult fans into Pokemon.

Fields of The Nephilim: ‘Sandman’ comic book fans, people who binge watch ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina’, theology students, Spaghetti western fans, adrift prog rockers thinking ‘oh well, suppose it will do,’ actual pagans that haven’t gone down the all-out-and-listening-to-Fairport-Convention route yet.

Killing Joke: Science and Engineering students who read a lot of old school SF but regard the fanbase as boomer stoners. Those who fancy Geordie. DC Comic fandorks who only like them because it entitled their favourite Batman story. Star Wars fans who only like them because Mark Hamill played the Joker in the tortuous ‘film’ version of said Batman story.

Bauhaus/Love And Rockets:  people who insist that all original classic horror movies in black and white are far superior to their colour remakes.

Rosetta Stone - Miserylab: people who insist all original classic horror movies in black and white are far poorer in comparison to their colour remakes - even the remakes done by Hammer Horror.

The Horatii: those who like old school New Romantic videos with yachts and marigold glove monsters.

Aurelio Voltaire: They Might Be Giants/Pinky And The Brain fans.

Marilyn Manson: David Bowie fans who wished he’d gone more hard rock.

Dronning Maud Land: Fields Of The Nephilim fans who liked the Monty Python movies and post-Python spin offs better than the TV series.

Forthcoming Fire: Retro 8-bit computing fans.

London After Midnight: rubber and silk perverts and people who still believe villains on TV/in film should talk in a silly croaky voice and cackle loudly at the end of every sentence.

Siouxsie and the Banshees: Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker era Doctor Who fans, people who like hanging around big f**k off sized museums, punks, anyone who likes the Beatles or their copycats. eg. ELO, Oasis. Also your parents and grandparents. Just keep them away from the ‘Join Hands’ album.

The Damned: Those who will defend to the death every single Addams Family reboot, no matter how ill conceived in plan or execution. People who think Captain Sensible is ‘funny’. Harry Potter fans who think Rat Scabies would have made a better dad for the Weasleys in the movies.

[skyllion-uwu]

Finally made one of those Carrd things here: https://skyllion.carrd.co/

PFP is my own quick editing

Title is a lyric from Almost Human by Aurelio Voltaire

Extra Tumblr-exclusive things:

@sky-kinz (Webkinz blog)

@blakeworther (Dinoverse blog)

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@sprinkle-stardust (Bailey's blog) This is a blog for my OC, Bailey! It takes place a couple years before the second half of Round and Round We Go, meaning she's about 15, doesn't know about the timeloops, and only knows Jaxon, Robin, Holmes, and Adrienne. She can't see any meta things, such as my OC blog or any tags I make about her, and she thinks Tumblr is broken because she doesn't see a follow button for anyone's blog. Feel free to ask her questions and stuff!

@mx-mind (post limit alt; follows, likes, comments from @skyllion-owo)

@skyllion-fashion-inspo (fashion stuff I save for character stuff like my OCs and my designs of Batman characters)

NSFW blog (18+ mutuals may message me for the name, minors and non mutuals please don't ask me for it. Mostly just me rambling about stuff I feel like I can't post on my main)

Tags I use under the cut

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-AI generated art (NeuralBlender, Dall E Mini, etc) goes under "ai generated". I don't tag informational posts on it that include examples since that's important

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[nkn1]

Kicsit több mint egy éve osztottam meg Barbousse apó csodálatos történetét, amelyik sarkvidéki rajongásommal ugyan ellentétes tájról szól, mégis az egyik kedvencem lett. Csak mint a márc.15-i bejegyzésemben Szántó úré, az öreg Barbousse-nak is lenyűgöző és roppant kalandos élete volt amelyet igyekeztem látványosan megrajzolni. Hogy sikerült-e, azt az olvasó eldönti, mindenesetre most újra megosztom és szeretettel ajánlom ezeket a sorokat mindazoknak akik szeretik a kalandokkal,  romantikával átszőtt izgalmas történeteket.  

illusztrációm Aage Krarup Nielsen : A trópusokon át a déli jeges tengerre c. könyvének ( 1920 ) “Afrikai sorsok” fejezéthez :

“ Különös alakok bukkannak fel itt Dakarban, hogy aztán éppoly hirtelen eltűnjenek, de némelyikük valami kifürkészhetetlen okból mégis ittragad ebben az afrikai fészekben. A sorstól erre-arra vetett emberek ezek akiknek kalandjai s élményei akárhány regényre elegendő anyagot szolgáltathatnának, úgy hogy a szerzőnek csupán csak a fejezetcímet kellene fölibük írni. Naponta elmegyek a kis bolt előtt, amelynek nyitott ajtajában Barbusse apó inggujjban üldögélve, szívja barna cseréppipáját. Barbousse apó specialista az afrikai képeslapokban és benszülötteket ábrázoló fényképekben. Egész üzlethelyisége, kezdve a padlótól föl a mennyezetig, csupa spanyolfal, amelyek telisteli vannak képeslapokkal és fényképekkel. Sok esztendővel ezelőtt - hogy mikor, senki sem tudja pontosan - gyalog érkezett a dakari partra az ország belsejéből, kezében egyetlen kis táskával, amely fényképezőgépén kívül nem sok egyebet tartalmazott s egy bennszülött kíséretében, aki lemezekkel telt nagy ládát cipelt utána. Eleddig még senki sem tudta kideríteni, hol mindenfelé csatangolt és mi mindenhez fogott, mielőtt arra a gondolatra jutott, hogy a sötét világrészt egyesegyedül bebarangolva, fényképeket gyűjtsön. Ám vállalkozása dús aratást eredményezett, amit annak a csodálatos, szinte azt mondhatni, titokzatos képességének köszönhetett, hogy nagyszerűen tudoitt bánni s érintkezni a bennszülöttekkel. Vad és harcias törzsek, amelyek a legnagyobb élvezettel faltak volna föl jámbor s irántuk jóakaratot tanusító hittérítőket, vendégszerető fogadtatásban részesítették, sőt még azt is megengedték neki, hogy főnöküket legszebb asszonyaikkal egyetemben lefényképezze. Barangolásai folyamán a különböző népek és törzsek nyelvének, életmódjának és jellemző sajátosságainak nagyobb ismeretére tett szert, mint akárhány tudományos kutató.

Később aztán Dakarban telepedett meg és azzal foglalkozott, hogy francia tengerészkatonáknak s a Dakar kikötőjét érintő nagy délamerikai hajóvonalak utasainak afrikai fényképeket adjon el. Üzlete virult, felvirradt a képeslevelezőlapok aranykora, Barbousse vállalkozásából világkiviteli cég fejlődött ezen üzletágban. (…)Barbousse vagyona egyenes arányban növekedett üzlete forgalmával, azonkívül még szerencsés spekulációk is megsokszorozták. Takarékos ember volt, határozott tervekkel nézett a jövő elé. Egy szép napon néhány millió frankot tudhatott magáénak. Ekkor bezárta üzletét és Párizsba ment, hogy az Afrika forró ege alatt átélt sok hosszú esztendő fáradalmaiért és nélkülözéseiért ott kárpótolja magát. Több éven át élt Párizs örvénylő forgatagában s életvidám bacchánsok és bacchánsnők egész seregétől környezve, ünnepelte a város zajos éjszakáit, míg csak az utolsó frankjának is nyakára nem hágott. Egy szép napon aztán, kezében képeslapokkal telt kis táskával, Barbousse ismét partraszállt Dakarban, hol a kikötő közelében kicsiny boltot nyitott. Az egykori napok jó üzletei és nagy bevételei nem tértek vissza többé, hanem azért Barbousse apó - így hívják fehér hajáért - aki kicsiny boltjának árnyékában irónikus és világismerő voltaire-i arckifejezéssel üldögélve, flegmatikusan szívja ócska, barna cseréppipáját, egyáltalán nem tartozik az élet megvertjei közé - sőt ellenkezőleg. Azzal a méltóságteljes ünnepélyességgel, amellyel egy tengernagy osztja ki a becsületrend keresztjét, nyújtja át képeslapjait a francia tengerészkatonáknak. Midőn gondolataiba merülten ül boltjában, távoli emlékek és tapasztalatok mosolya játszadozik az ajkán, ahogyan csak olyan ember tud mosolyogni, aki az életet minden sivatagával és oázisával együtt megismerte.”

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Thanks to one single church service in Germany 107 people got infected with Covid-19, possibly even more. I genuinely don't understand why the religious feel like they have to go to a specific place to pray. Just pray at home! They're putting other people at risk with their selfish behaviour. Churches should remain closed (or at least no regular services). [straitstimes(.)com/world/europe/germany-tracing-people-who-attended-church-service-at-which-covid-19-spread]

Proper link: http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/germany-tracing-people-who-attended-church-service-at-which-covid-19-spread

Churches are absolutely terrified that people will figure out that they’re not needed. Every week believers aren’t dragging themselves out to waste their Sunday morning paying to have the bible selectively read to them, every week they’re able to do their own religious thing in their own time (or perhaps even not), every week they read the bible on their own and discover all the stuff they didn’t know about, every week they don’t have a preacher in their ear telling the congregation what to think, is another week they might give up church attendance entirely, discover that the world won’t end just because they don’t attend. Even if they don’t give up the religious belief entirely.

Churches are afraid they’re going to go the way movie theaters and department stores are heading: obsolescence. They’re going to get Netflix-ed and Amazon-ed. Churches were already closing pre-coronavirus as attendance plummeted. They’re afraid this will be the last straw for their industry. And yes, it is purely business motivated. Acceptable losses can be treated as martyrs. All the better if people are actually willing to and protesting to be allowed to die, or risk death, for their product-less businesses.

You’ll notice that as they push the nonsensical idea that churches are as “essential” as grocery stores - since, apparently, god isn’t “everywhere,” especially not on a Sunday - they couple it to the equally nonsensical, but more inflammatory idea that their religion is under attack. When it would be more accurate to say their social obligations are simply being enforced. They don’t have the leverage other industries have, like building, transport, food and health, which are part of our infrastructure.

What they have, and what they excel at is emotional manipulation of their customer base. Better than any other business. So what this tactic does is gets people riled up and inclined to buy into both ideas as a package, and with enough repetition, it becomes belief. They become convinced that responsible virus control is “oppression” and that churches are as essential as grocery stores, because that’s what they keep hearing. And it’s fed into the overall exhaustion and irritability people are experiencing. We all have bits of our lives that we want to get back to, but the religious somehow manage to make themselves uniquely put upon. (I suppose if you have a history of persecuting others, you expect it in return.)

There’s a saying by Voltaire:

“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”

Step one is already complete. Now churches are using their influence to shore up their income and their membership, and convincing people to proudly declare that if some have to die so they can go to church, then they’re completely okay with stepping over the bodies. There’s your step two.

The religious feel like they have to do this because they’ve been convinced and egged on by the churches that have a vested financial and survival motivation. It’s not selfish, because their faith is “under attack.” By the boogeyman of science and rational thought, it would seem.

At this point, I can’t muster the ability to care or pretend to be surprised any more, at what goes on in these churches. You’ve got lemmings running directly towards the edge of a cliff, and when you point out the cliff and that they might want to not run directly at it, they take offence and that they have every right to run at that cliff and that you’re impinging their right to do so. They want to run at the cliff. How can you combat that? You can’t.

All I can say is keep clear, look after yourself and your family, and let the lemmings go. Not all of them will fall into disaster; some will insist that “god” protected them because they were worthy and faithful, others will conclude that they were right, that it was all overhyped myth, because all the work the responsible, non-narcissistic medical professionals and citizens put in had nothing to do with it at all.

By the way, we’ve seen this kind of religious agenda-fed fervor before. Anyone remember Y2K?

[thecvltnation]

Killing Joke, Joy Division, and Bauhaus: The Postpunk Photography of Frank Jenkinson

Frank Jenkinson started taking photos of Killing Joke before the band had even formed. In 1978, he was flatmates with the girlfriend of drummer Big Paul Ferguson and had started taking snapshots of a band that Paul was in with local keyboardist Jeremy “Jaz” Coleman — the Matt...

http://www.cvltnation.com/killing-joke-joy-division-bauhaus-postpunk-photography-frank-jenkinson/

#Art, #Featured, #Features, #Interviews, #Music, #Photography, #Post-Punk

[valnyte]

IkeVamp OC #3

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

The Free Thinker

(Made using Picrew)

"Don't expect life here to be easy, you have none of your 'contemporary' conveniences here.  And don't expect us to be easy on you either, mademoiselle. Aww, what's this - you're already frowning!"

Background: France's famous philosopher has had several run-ins with the authorities, published thousands of works, influenced and befriended various figures in history, and left a stream of broken hearts in his lifetime.

Birthday: November 21

Height: 175.2 cm (5'9")

Past Occupation/s: Philosopher and writer

Hobbies: poetry, exposing someone's dirty secrets, thottery, editing

Dislikes: having to escape, making escape plans, exile, having to suppress himself, conspiracies, being forced to do something, running from the authorities, losing friendships, combing his hair that floofs up

Skills: language fluency, writing a book in three days, unintentionally gets himself into trouble

Weaknesses: impatient, too outspoken, thot, lashes out if being egged on, trouble loves to find him, brash, forgets to return books, critical about religion, coffee addict

Favorite Food: macaron

Hated Food: meat

Pet: Mouse called Marguerite

Relationships with canon vampires:

Shakespeare - bickering buddies

Isaac - idol

Arthur - thot buddies

Jeanne - avoids like the plague

Mozart- avoids like the plague

Napoleon - why thank you for reading my works

k i n k s: hair pulling & voyeurism

[lazyajju]

Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire is an action-farming-roguelite set in Transylvania, the homeland of Dracula and his rebellious lastborn son, Voltaire.

Early Access available now on Steam, GOG & EGS.

[actionspacelondon]

Volunteer blog: Kate Paul

Before volunteering at ActionSpace, my experience of working with people with learning disabilities had often been disheartening. It seemed like there was little scope within systems of education and care for properly and consistently respecting the agency of people with learning disabilities, despite the efforts of the skilled, experienced and committed people I encountered working in those fields. My perspective is limited to two years working as an SEN TA in primary schools, and a year working as a Support Worker, but is supported by the work of disability advocates like (eg) Mel Baggs and others with direct experience of learning disability.

Upon moving to London I did a google search of local arts organisations that were invested in offering opportunities to people who might not otherwise have access to them. ActionSpace immediately appealed to me, because the organisation clearly supports artists in the development of their practices, rather than framing artistic activities as distracting hobbies or forms of therapy. There is nothing wrong with either of these ways of using creativity, but it is limiting if these are the only kinds of creative practice that are on offer.

Working at ActionSpace is making it possible for me to see, for my own work, that (at its best) artistic practice can be the creation of a space of agency. You make up the logic of what you’re doing as an artist, and it doesn’t have to correspond with alienating logics that you did not create yourself but which act upon you. Another (related) plus is that it is really fun to get to know everyone in the studio - over the past six months I have participated in several excellent studio dance sessions. I think that this is also an important part of the work.

The artists in the Friday Studio Voltaire group (Pardip, Mark, Nnena, Robin, Linda, and Kwaga) and the experienced facilitators (studio lead Charlotte, established fellow volunteer Shelley and pastoral care co-ordinator Siobhan) are very welcoming and generous in their support and their patience. I have worked closely with the artist Mark Lawrence over the last few months, and I love talking with him about his practice as it is scaled up in preparation for upcoming events and exhibitions. His experimental work with light, bodily movements, fabric painting, public participation and collage is exciting to see in its development each week.

I am currently undertaking an in-practice Masters of Research at the Royal College of Art, focussing on teaching tools. I am developing an experimental children’s picture book as part of this research, and am also writing about Mel Baggs in relation to teaching.

[scentedsweetspizza]

1. How long have you been reading, and how did you discover EGS?

Since 2013, a friend told me about it ad I read through the archives that summer


2. Who is your favorite character? Why?

Uhhh I dunno, maybe Grace? I also really like Magus though, he’s interesting to say the least.


3. Who is your least favorite character (besides Bad Tom. We all hate Bad Tom.)? Why?

$&@!?/% Voltaire


4. Wand, remote, watch, gun, or beverage?

Ooh a wand for sure


5. Your ships. DISCUSS THEM.

Tedd/Grace is clearly an A+ ship, but I kinda sorta like Tedd/Elliot too...and Ashley/Elliot...I just multiship constantly


6. Everyone in this fandom seems to have a theory about something. What’s your pet theory?

Well I feel like Sirleck is gonna possess Magus when he gets his new body, but I really really really hope that’s not true...just let him go home ffs


7. What was your favorite story arc?

Sister 3 even though it’s not done yet


8. What would you most like to see in the comic?

More character backstories


9. Do you fanfic/fanart?

You bet your bucket I do


10. What is the one moment in the comic that made you scream “DAMN IT, DAN!” to the heavens?

PANDORA DYING


11. Tag someone else or make a non-sequitur joke I guess?

Why is the sine function abbreviated to sin. on a calculator?

Because math is the greatest sin of all

THE (short and impromptu) EGS FANMEME

Because NOBODY ASKED FOR IT, and WHY NOT? 1. How long have you been reading, and how did you discover EGS? 2. Who is your favorite character? Why? 3. Who is your least favorite character (besides Bad Tom. We all hate Bad Tom.)? Why? 4. Wand, remote, watch, gun, or beverage? 5. Your ships. DISCUSS THEM. 6. Everyone in this fandom seems to have a theory about something. What’s your pet theory? 7. What was your favorite story arc? 8. What would you most like to see in the comic? 9. Do you fanfic/fanart?  10. What is the one moment in the comic that made you scream “DAMN IT, DAN!” to the heavens? 11. Tag someone else or make a non-sequitur joke I guess?

[raghavluvya-blog-blog]

Social discourses(theological , religious,metaphysical) were there even before Sociology(sytematic & is based on facts) Enlightnment - refers to new way of thinking of philosopers nad thinkers , new outlook to existing realities, marked by search for rationality. embodied in commercial revolution and scientific revolution and crystallized in FR and industrial revolution. (4 revolutions-what changes were introduced by them) changes introduce is topic of socio not historicity Commercial revolution(CR) - Shift from subsistence economy to integration of economy of western Europe to rest of the world due to new routes in late 15th century/early 16th cent to avoid monopoly of Italy(venice) so Protugal and Spain sponsored new route folowed by England France Dutch Changes introduced by commercial revolution (changes in institution) :- 1.Change in economy (tradition land based subsistence economy to commercial tradin economy) emergence of banks , joint stock, charted company etc came up to support trade and commerce new middle class emerged 2. change in value system - notion of profiteering was introduced 3.Demand of goods to be traded increased(CR) + Renaisannce(?) created condition for scientific revolution Modernity and social change in european society has its roots in the social conditions which prevailed in EU society characterised by enlightnment(questioning each and every aspect of social life - nothing was sacrosanct - church, monarch, feudalism,devine right to rule by the monarch Scientific Revolution(SR) : influenced by renaissance and need created by commercial revolution renaissance=new outlook to existing realities,esp nauture , body(medical,phisiology[1st time disecction-against theology]) etc) idea - humanbody consists of interdependent but interdependent organs , geocentricism to heliocentrism- validated by facts =>wider acceptance, values = preferred guidelines for human behaviour; SR chnaged it from theology Socioloist applied experimantation , observation , rationality etc - borrowed fron SR to social realities. rationality(=based on means and ends) changed from traditional to scientific. [ bureaucracy - rational legal ] Darwin [ Origin of Species]- HERBERT SPENCER - Theory of Social Darwinism August Comte -theological , metaphysical , Scientific French Revolution(FR);- =>Social aspect of france before FR :- -rigid stratification (3 estates - Clergy(Higher-Pope,Cardinal,Bishop,ArchBishop)(Lower-Parish priests) -nobelty - Lors of swords , lords of robe (magistrates) -3rd estate - merchanchts , peasants (80% of popu had 20% control over land resources) =>Economic aspect --France  monarch - costly war - price rise ; lack of concern for massses-discontent =>Intellectual aspects - charectarised by transformation in discources- before enlightnment- glorification of Monarch, god etc. after enlightnment - common man- Roussue , voltaire , locke etc -- (prepare more) Roussue -manis born free but in shackels of society - free will =>Political aspects - Monarch -  sarve sarva FR - trigerred democratization of europe ,decline the authority of churches,Modernization and change introduced Industrial Revolution (IR) - (1830- earlt 20th century)-shift from manual organization of production to machine/mass organization of production Family - Family - joint to nuclear , economy - mercantile to capitalist ,Education - religious to scientific to serve industries, even religion need created by CR , tech provided by SR , political condition by FR(democracy) => facilitated IR manual organization of production to machine organization ;domestic organization of production to mass or community organization Urbanization , Migration => living condition , hygiene , health new problem desipe democracy etc - purterbed sociologist Child labour as we know today is a product of IR - cleaning of cotton machines feminization of work - machines reduced power of mans brawn nuclearization of familiy - earlier family and kinship lost importance - earler used to be source of education , production, consumption etc. Bourgeoisie emerged as dominant class in capitalist economy replacing feudal lords August Comte - Sociology(propounded the term) is the systematic & scientific study of social statics and dynamics(social change). AC - evolutionary positivis - society evolved from theological (based on religion), metaphysical (based on speculation) to scientific(Apply scientific method now) POSITIVISM =>AUGUST COMTE -method of ovservation(one of the methods) to understant cause and effect . eg- marriage to recruit new member in society =>EMILE DURKHEIM - sociology is systematic scientic study of social facts(subject matter of socio) , amd facts are things characterized by externality 4 characteristics of Social facts -external (to individual), independent (from individual will) , constraint (on individual) , generality (accepted by individual) eg1- essence(cause) of religion is separation of world in -sacred and profane and consequence is solidarity Cause and function (consequence) is to be studied eg2-DOL is also a social fact(things). traditional society very less DOL. cause-increse in vol of popu,material density & moral density(more interaction) started special vocation   consequence- cause interdependence =>solidarity Critis to positivist methodology -humane behaviour is not similar to matter so methods can't be same,        ///- humans have consciousnes so behaviour is not recurrent for same stimulus- no consistency - human behaviour should be interpretative(weber)(meaning and orientation to be studied to understand reality in totality) - not just cause and effect. eg- many cause for marriage

[nkn1]

illusztrációm Aage Krarup Nielsen : A trópusokon át a déli jeges tengerre c. könyvének ( 1920 )  “Afrikai sorsok” fejezetéhez :

“ Különös alakok bukkannak fel itt Dakarban, hogy aztán éppoly hirtelen eltűnjenek, de némelyikük valami kifürkészhetetlen okból mégis ittragad ebben az afrikai fészekben. A sorstól erre-arra vetett emberek ezek akiknek kalandjai s élményei akárhány regényre elegendő anyagot szolgáltathatnának, úgy hogy a szerzőnek csupán csak a fejezetcímet kellene fölibük írni. Naponta elmegyek a kis bolt előtt, amelynek nyitott ajtajában Barbusse apó inggujjban üldögélve, szívja barna cseréppipáját. Barbousse apó specialista az afrikai képeslapokban és benszülötteket ábrázoló fényképekben. Egész üzlethelyisége, kezdve a padlótól föl a mennyezetig, csupa spanyolfal, amleyek telisteli vannak képeslapokkal és fényképekkel. Sok esztendővel ezelőtt - hogy mikor, senki sem tudja pontosan - gyalog érkezett a dakari partra az ország belsejéből, kezében egyetlen kis táskával, amely fényképezőgépén kívül nem sok egyebet tartalmazott s egy bennszülött kíséretében, aki lemezekkel telt nagy ládát cipelt utána. Eleddig még senki sem tudta kideríteni, hol mindenfelé csatangolt és mi mindenhez fogott, mielőtt arra a gondolatra jutott, hogy a sötét világrészt egyesegyedül bebarangolva, fényképeket gyűjtsön. Ám vállalkozása dús aratást eredményezett, amit annak a csodálatos, szinte azt mondhatni, titokzatos képességének köszönhetett, hogy nagyszerűen tudoitt bánni s érintkezni a bennszülöttekkel. Vad és harcias törzsek, amelyek a legnagyobb élvezettel faltak volna föl jámbor s irántuk jóakaratot tanusító hittérítőket, vendégszerető fogadtatásban részesítették, sőt még azt is megengedték neki, hogy főnöküket legszebb asszonyaikkal egyetemben lefényképezze. Barangolásai folyamán a különböző népek és törzsek nyelvének, életmódjának és jellemző sajátosságainak nagyobb ismeretére tett szert, mint akárhány tudományos kutató.

Később aztán Dakarban telepedett meg és azzal foglalkozott, hogy francia tengerészkatonáknak s a Dakar kikötőjét érintő nagy délamerikai hajóvonalak utasainak afrikai fényképeket adjon el. Üzlete virult, felvirradt a képeslevelezőlapok aranykora, Barbousse vállalkozásából világkiviteli cég fejlődött ezen üzletágban. (…) Barbousse vagyona egyenes arányban növekedett üzlete forgalmával, azonkívül még szerencsés spekulációk is megsokszorozták. Takarékos ember volt, határozott tervekkel nézett a jövő elé. Egy szép napon néhány millió frankot tudhatott magáénak. Ekkor bezárta üzletét  és Párizsba ment, hogy az Afrika forró ege alatt átélt sok hosszú esztendő fáradalmaiért és nélkülözéseiért ott kárpótolja magát. Több éven át élt Párizs örvénylő forgatagában s életvidám bacchánsok és bacchánsnők egész seregétől környezve, ünnepelte a város zajos éjszakáit, míg csak az utolsó frankjának is nyakára nem hágott. Egy szép napon aztán, kezében képeslapokkal telt kis táskával, Barbousse ismét partraszállt Dakarban, hol a kikötő közelében kicsiny boltot nyitott. Az egykori napok jó üzletei és nagy bevételei nem tértek vissza többé, hanem azért Barbousse apó - így hívják fehér hajáért - aki kicsiny boltjának árnyékában irónikus és világismerő voltaire-i arckifejezéssel üldögélve, flegmatikusan szívja ócska, barna cseréppipáját, egyáltalán nem tartozik az élet megvertjei közé - sőt ellenkezőleg. Azzal a méltóságteljes ünnepélyességgel, amellyel egy tengernagy osztja ki a becsületrend keresztjét, nyújtja át képeslapjait a francia tengerészkatonáknak. Midőn gondolataiba merülten ül boltjában, távoli emlékek és tapasztalatok mosolya játszadozik az ajkán, ahogyan csak olyan ember tud mosolyogni, aki az életet minden sivatagával és oázisával együtt megismerte.”