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TEGEN DE WERELD
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"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).
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue" (Plato, Republic).
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"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.
5 Comments:
The Christmas Truce.
The last vestage of anything resembling human decency since the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
A very difficult feat.
One i am pretty sure is impossible now.
Such hope you have for our world, Muki.
I have been thinking about the Christmas truce of 1914 all day today and remembering where, in The Rites of Spring, Eksteins describes the exchanges between the opposing sides. "They talked, sang and exchanged stories and gifts." That certainly sounds like the party I attended last night...not a cold, muddy warfront. The accounts of the soldiers, having such hope and practicing such charity in a terrible situation, are moving and unforgettable.
Another memorable occurance spoken of by Eksteins was a burial service held by the Germans and the English. Eksteins explains how they prayed together, a soldier from each side leading his regiment in its own language.
I will never forget what I have learned about the Christmas truce, and each Christmas I will find myself reflecting on the courage and faith embraced by the soldiers on Christmas day, 1914.
I've heard stories about can't wait to learn about it. I agree w/muks first comment.
We would never see the the Coalition Forces sharing eggnog wit the Taliban. As of now it won't happen
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. "
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