They believe * * * that wicked spirits are to be kept in an eternal imprisonment (eirgmon aidion). The Pharisees say ALL SOULS ARE INCORRUPTIBLE! But while those of good men are removed into other bodies those of bad men are subject to eternal punishment (adios timoria). Elsewhere he says that the Essenes, allot to bad souls a dark, tempestuous place, full of never-ceasing torment (timoria adialeipton), where they suffer a deathless torment (athanaton timorion). Aidion and athanaton are his favorite terms for duration, and timoria (torment) FOR PUNISHMENT!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
HIGHER
For all the wrongs I've committed, and the individuals who suffered as a result I am sorry and extend my deepest apologies, but I have found forgiveness! To all those who have wronged me, I have forgiven you and welcome you with open arms. I don't see how I could hold on to any ill feelings and find it increasingly impossible given my own follies and missteps! So lets us rejoice as brothers and sisters of the same overarching family!
FORGIVENESS
In one place occurs this sentence concerning the wicked: To live always dying, and to undergo, as it were, an immortal and interminable death. These they called aionios, hearing that they had performed the sacred rites for three entire generations. Three generations was then one full equivalent of aionion. To be determined in any case by the scope of the subject!
COMMITMENT
I do not personally subscribe to the inner content of any religion! But if a religion thinks it reaches out for something other, something categorically different and beyond human understanding - and that is what religions on their own account do then the religion of Zeus strove harder than most! The Greeks were not going through humanist motions, but were committed to their gods and their supreme god!
RESPECT AND HONOR
All nations deserve respect. But the ancient Greeks have to be rescued from many evils - for instance the dying breed who would idealise all Greeks, or the trivialisers who treat them as people of fantasy, fit for computer games, role play and mindless notching up for the mythology. The Greeks were a people, like any other people today, and the peculiar tensions of their societies catalysed cultural phenomena to which we owe much!
QUOTE OF THE DAY
I believe in authentic voice of the people of long ago, whether in Greek and Roman times or in medieval times (and I believe in letting them speak for themselves).
Friday, June 24, 2011
LEO ISSUES
Leo's tend to be arrogant and vain, welcoming war in peaceful lands . . . is that why they put you on stage Obama front and center! Maybe that's why so many people dislike you, well I have to say I'm not impressed either commander!
QUOTE OF THE DAY
It is better not to promise than not to give prompt assistance, for no blame follows in the former case, but in the latter there is dissatisfaction from the weaker class, and a deep hatred and aeonian punishment (chastisement) from such as are more powerful.
HUNTING
No other change equally momentous has ever since affected its features, yet none has ever been so silent and secret. The stream in that most critical moment of its passage from the everlasting hills to the plain below is lost to our view at the very point where we are most anxious to watch it. We may hear its struggle under the overarching rocks; we may catch its spray on the boughs that overlap its course, but the torrent itself we see not or see only by imperfect glimpses. * * * A fragment here, an allegory there; romances of unknown authorship: a handful of letters of which the genuineness of every portion is contested inch by inch; the summary explanation of a Roman magistrate; the pleadings of two or three Christian apologists; customs and opinions in the very act of change; last, but not least the faded paintings, the broken sculptures, the rude epitaphs in the darkness of the Catacombs these are the scanty, though attractive materials out of which the likeness of the early church must be produced, as it was working its way, in the literal sense of the word, underground, under camp and palace, under senate and forum.
COMING TO GRIPS
To comprehend a world where everything was, in the often quoted words of Thales, 'full of gods'. In order to get to grips with this world, it is necessary to set aside our preconceptions of the divine, shaped as they are in large part by Christianised notions of a transcendent, omnipotent God who is morally good. The Greeks and Romans worshipped numerous beings, both male and female, who looked, behaved and suffered like humans, but who, as immortals, were not bound by the human condition.
FRIGHTENING
It's easy to be bad . . . a practice reserved for the weak and ignorant. How much greater the sin given for knowledge of the principles! One of the best, and hardest truths of stepping into the light. As good, as brilliant, and beautiful as it is you can't help feeling as if you're burning up, literally BURNING ALIVE, it's disturbing, the RUSH of emotions, INTENSITY of FEELING, the SERGE of ENERGY, the IMMENSITY of POWER its PURE MIGHT! To shed and FACE everything but the realest and most natural parts of the human soul. It's all one can do not to dissolve completely into it, but then I think it's very natural to want to, to want to dissolve into everything and lose touch with reality, but I also believe it's a mistake in order to contribute and fulfill one's duties to the highest standards required of them, something I'm working hard to come to terms with.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
S.C.
Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or jealousy with rankling tooth. Nor house, nor fence, nore dovecote. In crustumerium stands.-Macaulay. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, nor even thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail . . . Whether true or false, the report will be believed. To thee I have transferred all judgement, whether in heav'n, or earth, or hell. These are really cases of ellipsis, whether true or false' standing for 'whether they be true or false' Therefore, however, nevertheless, yet, now = French or as in: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber, else, only = but.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
A practical people in a practical age, we need the grace of fable to balance our fact, the joy of poetry to leaven our prose. Something of the sort we are bound to have, and if familiarity in childhood with the classic tone has not armed us against the cheap, the flimsy, the corrupt in fiction, we fall easy victims to the trash of the hour. We become the sport of those mocking elves who give dry leaves for gold.
THE CATACOMBS ARE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
The symbols of the Catacombs, like every other indication of early teaching, show the glad, bright, loving character of the Christian faith. It was a religion of joy and not of gloom, of life and not of death, of tenderness not of severity. * * * We see in them as in the acts of the apostles, that the keynotes of the music of the Christian life were exultation and simplicity. And how far superior in beauty and significance were these early Christian symbols to the meaningless and pagan broken columns and broken rose-buds and skulls and weeping women and inverted torches of our cemeteries. We find in the Catacombs neither the cross of the fifth and sixth centuries, nor the crucifixes of the twelfth, nor the torches and martyrdom's of the seventeenth, nor the skeletons of the fifteenth, nor the cypresses and death's heads of the eighteenth. Instead of these the symbols of beauty, hope and peace!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
PQ
You can't prevent impacts from happen that cause damage to thermal panels at levels that are forbidden.
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