TEGEN DE WERELD

"I shall here write my thoughts without order, and not perhaps in unintentional confusion; that is true order, which will always indicate my object by its very disorder. I should do too much honour to my subject, if I treated it with order, since I want to show that it is incapable of it" (Pascal, Pensees 373).

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue" (Plato, Republic).

Now Spinning the Finest in Funk

"The heritage of values which has been received and handed down is always challenged...To challenge does not necessarily mean to destroy or reject a priori, but above all to put these values to the test in one's own life, and through this existential verification to make them more real, relevant and personal, distinguishing the valid elements in the tradition from false and erroneous ones, or from obsolete forms which can be usefully replaced by others more suited to the times" (John Paul II, Centesimus Annus).

"If there were no obscurity, man would not be sensible of his corruption; if there were no light, man would not hope for a remedy. Thus, it is not only fair, but advantageous to us, that God be partly hidden and partly revealed; since it is equally dangerous to man to know God without knowing his own wretchedness, and to know his own wretchedness without knowing God" (Pascal, Pensees 686).

Cryptography is the study of means of converting information from comprehensible form into an incomprehensible format--the art of encryption. In the past, cryptography helped ensure secrecy in important communications, such as those of spies.

Icon (n): a graphic symbol that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface; a visual representation of an object or scene or person or abstraction produced on a surface; a religious image on a small panel--venerated in the Eastern Church.

If I could through myself / Set your spirit free / I'd lead your heart away / See you break, break away / Into the light / And to the day.

Svjatyj Bozhe, Svjatyj Krjepkij, Svjatyj Bezsmertnyj, Pomiluj nas.

Tegen de Wereld 26 June 2014.

30 september 2005

Our new houseboat

Pumpkins

29 september 2005

...And his photographer

28 september 2005

Architeuthis

27 september 2005

What happens when little children tamper with the
space-time continuum...

dWGH: ...guess who?

25 september 2005

Tegen de Wereld: blogging boldly since April 2005

Nantillois, in the Meuse-Argonne, where grandfather,
having been drafted into what Pope Benedict XV called
the "needless slaughter" of what history calls the First
World War, was poisoned with mustard gas 87 years
ago this week...

What did you say?

Romulan Warbird

Leavings

Tangerines

Balaenoptera musculus

24 september 2005

Spiderman

On call

When toys were cool

Paul Delvaux, Solitude, 1955

Tobiko

#1: Eugene Krabs

#2: Pope John Paul II

#3: St. Augustine of Hippo

#4: St. Anselm of Canterbury

#5: Blaise Pascal

#6: Elizabeth Anscombe

#7: Thomas Reid

#8: Ralph Cudworth

#9: F. H. Bradley

#10: Max Scheler

Tegen de Wereld present for your considerations a gallery of our ten favorite philosophers...

Book of the Week: Architects of
the Culture of Death, by Donald
De Marco and Benjamin Wiker

22 september 2005

Ultramod

dWGH: Dr. Rivers

Rene Magritte, Time Transfixed, 1938

Hurricanes

Colleges

Bonsai cat

30 days

21 september 2005

1908-2005

Rest in peace

Autumnal bonsai

20 september 2005

Tegen de Wereld: the Special Theory of Blogativity

Babalu

Bono and B.B.

"...I was there when they crucified my Lord
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword
I threw the dice when they pierced his side
But I've seen love conquer the great divide..."

U2, Rattle and Hum, 1988