Monday, June 29, 2009

Evangelical (A)theism



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go_XII

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6591231.ece

http://lucidsawndream.blogspot.com/2009/06/atheist-summer-camp.html


"On the one hand we have this so called rise of fundamentalism and so on, but something very interesting started to happen in the last years. Did you notice how a certain very vulgar direct materialism, attacking religion as stupidity, immoral laws, is gaining also at the same time extreme popularity. The three big stars even for, of course us, are originally Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and now also Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. Its kind of an extremely vulgur reductionist materialism claiming religion is basically stupid, ethically hurtfull and so on. I think more and more that these are in a way two sides of the same coin, that we don't have to choose between these two." - SZ

Saturday, April 04, 2009

Two tD Points: A few years ago, around gardens & Grapevines. Now.


(1)


[...]

When the child was a child,
it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.

[...]

How can it be that I, who I am,
didn’t exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who I am,
will no longer be who I am?

[...]

When the child was a child,
it awoke once in a strange bed,
and now does so again and again.
Many people, then, seemed beautiful,
and now only a few do, by sheer luck.

[...]

//


(2)

According to the “Mosquitoes” chapter in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904), mosquitoes are seen as reincarnations of the dead, condemned by the errors of their former lives to the condition of Jiki-ketsu-gaki, or "blood-drinking pretas".

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Includegraphics causes entire page to turn bold (LaTeX)

This happens when you 're including a .pdf image, which contains text in latin modern fonts. Found no other solution except turning into a .jpg (and missing the vector graphics pros) or changing the font type.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009

We have a deficit of wonder right now

Tom Waits: "This is what's wrong with the world. Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I'd just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now."

(Source: "Tom Waits: Dancing In" The Dark Harp Magazine (USA), by Tom Moon. December, 2004), taken from here

Thursday, January 01, 2009

metamorphosis

ρέ φίλε, άκου μουσικήν ρε φίλε (forgive my drunken words)