The Australian: Iceland’s lights out for sky view [ 28sep06 ] September 28, 2006
Posted by Phineas in : Irrelevant , add a commentThe Australian: Iceland’s lights out for sky view [ 28sep06 ]
Cool.
THE lights are going out in Iceland this week so people can gaze at the night sky.
Authorities in the capital Reykjavik would turn off street lights tomorrow night and people were also being encouraged to sit in their houses in the dark, writer Andri Snaer Magnason said.
While the lights are out, an astronomer will describe the night sky over national radio.
“We have a very beautiful sky as soon as we turn off the lights,” said Magnason, who came up with the idea.
The event is part of a film festival taking place on the small north Atlantic island, which gets most of its electricity from abundant thermal energy.
The lights are due to go off at 10pm, about two hours after nightfall, for half an hour.
Magnason said the capital’s population of about 250,000 might be able to see the Northern Lights, a flickering curtain of light often seen in northern climes which is caused by solar particles being caught in the Earth’s magnetic field.
Two other Icelandic towns will also turn off their lights.
“I’ve been using LSD for years” September 27, 2006
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Mississippi History September 24, 2006
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#131 (Mississippi History), 30″ W X 36″ H,graphite & acrylic on canvas
I’m the pleased owner of this incredible painting by my friend Ken Weathersby. Ken has produced a series of maze paintings for the last several years. This one had the unique feature of the Confederate Flag in the center of it, an unstable symbol in this vibrant optical field. There are so many things to say about this painting I hardly know where to start.
Discovery September 13, 2006
Posted by Phineas in : Psycho/Spirit , add a commentI guess the/an opposite/alternative form of knowledge to revelation is discovery. With revelation, a knowing or superior consciousness or mind reveals the truth to you. But discovery is the result of a process, one’s effort to know. It’s earned. Often revelation stories make much of how pure and deserving is the privileged recipient. Of course. They have to. Otherwise you’re wondering, “Why him?” It seems unearned and undeserved, so the stories have to compensate for that. But with discovery, no one asks, “Why him?” because the reason is obvious. Because he enquired. He sought; he studied; he learned; he tried; he failed; he worked; he saw; he reflected; he discussed it with others; he discovered; he knew. It’s more familiar to us. It’s more common. We see a lot with our own eyes. We experience the blinding white light of revelation much more seldom.
Path Since 9-11
Posted by Phineas in : Irrelevant, TV , add a commentHow about a slick, 24-like filmumentary called “Path Since 9-11″? Instead of reminding people how they felt “that day”, this film would remind them why they feel the way they do now.
WordPress Migration September 10, 2006
Posted by Phineas in : Info, Irrelevant , add a commentFor no particular reason (better themes, I guess) I have ported this site to Word Press. Links, MT plugins on old posts, etc. may break, but who cares.
Revelation September 8, 2006
Posted by Phineas in : Psycho/Spirit , 1 comment so farLet’s call revelation a kind of knowledge. And faith is the way one comes to accept and know that knowledge. Faith is really the only kind of knowing that can know revelatory knowledge.
Revelation is knowledge revealed to a certain person by a special source — in mystical terms a prophet is revealed knowledge by an angel of God or God Himself. Now the prophet possesses the knowledge and is compelled either by God or by a feeling of compassion or responsibility to for others to share it. A document or a doctrine or a teaching is produced. Now mediators or evangelists are required to go spread the word. These people are like you and me – they did not experience the revelation first hand. They just believe it or claim to.
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Gold Hits of 72! September 3, 2006
Posted by Phineas in : Music , add a commentDoes anyone remember back in the 70s when those music compilation albums were sold on TV, like “Summer of 72” or whatever? I bought several of those, and at the time I did not comprehend that the songs were not by the original artists, but these fake imitations. I realized it while still owning and listening to the records, but much later, perhaps as late as high school (later 70s).
Of course those have vanished, and searching google by keyword is almost useless. Why were such monstrosities produced? They were very dishonest, because it seemed like you were buying a compilation of the original artists work, but instead every song was by the same bland studio artists. I was of course, like most suckers I’m sure, too dumb and undiscriminating to tell the difference, besides a vague feeling of disappointment (which eventually became my usual response to consumer spending, but that’s another story). It would be like buying what you think is a greatest hits of 2006 album and hearing this Osmondy-sounding group do a Strokes song.
