Digital Photography: Accepting Software Into Your Life
Posted on October 10, 2008 - Filed Under Entertainment | Leave a Comment
Photographers who grew up with film often view new technology with suspicion or disdain. The reality is that editing software is not just about ‘fixing up your mistakes on a computer.’ If you want to get the best out of your digital photos, you will need to get to know your computer a little better.
Digital photography has created a shift in the balance of art and technology. No matter how much you pride yourself on your traditional camera skills, you also need to know a lot more about software.
Read More..>>Ponder – Do We Live On A Planet Or Something Else?
Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment
As human nature goes we often wonder what we are, who we are and what our place is in the Universe. It would be totally egocentric to think that we are alone in the universe and we are the center of it all. We would be no better than when they thought the world was flat and the Sun orbited the Earth. So where do we fit in? Better yet where do we exist?
Ponder this. (Caution this may cause your brain to hurt.) Imagine you are a scientist and you are studying molecular physics. You look at an element. You see a nucleus and x number of electrons flying around it. You smash it to see what comes out. You do this repeatedly. Each time you get your flash of light and traces of sub particles. Your friend is an astronomer. He sits watching the Universe through a telescope. He sees flashes of light from supernovas and galaxies collide.
Read More..>>Part I – My Talk With God
Posted on April 17, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment
[The following is the first part in a series of interviews I had with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. My lawyer told me to say that nothing God [henceforth to be known as THE BIG GUY] says is representative of this blog or interviewer [henceforth to be known as ME]. All opinions, statements and assertions made by THE BIG GUY in no way represents this blog or ME. The opinions, comments and delusions of grander are THE BIG GUY’s own, and no one shall hold this blog, or ME, liable for anything expressed.]
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ME: God –
THE BIG GUY: YES
ME: — dammit! Sorry, I dropped my pencil.
THE BIG GUY: ….
Read More..>>Ponder: The Universe
Posted on April 12, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment
I’m going to ask you to hold on to your brain for this one. We are about to attempt to grasp something that will really make your brain hurt and possibly ooze out of your skull.
We as humans have a tendency to think in finite numbers, dimensions, and distances. Everything we know is measured to more or less a precise amount. The room you are sitting in is measured to an exact amount. The computer screen you are using is a precise dimension.
Now let’s step out a bit. Let’s look at the big picture. Our planet exists in a solar system that really has yet to have defined boundaries. It floats, and I use that term loosely, through space in the Milky Way Galaxy. This in turn is floating in the Universe. This is what we want to look at.
Read More..>>Musings On Indian Art And Culture
Posted on April 11, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment
In a long history of Indian modern art we still could not found the way or the vision which could lead us beyond reproduction and representation. Today modern art is completely business oriented. Artists are just business people, petty in thinking; rarely there is any artist who really understands modernity’s consciousness. Nowadays creativity is synonymous to good looking art, beautiful, decorative and crafty. A new group of capitalists have appeared on the horizon of Indian modern art to promote art and multiply the capital. Women from business families have come out from their closed
houses.
The Superultramodern Quotations 3
Posted on April 11, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment
The NSTP theory converts the narrow possibility of truth in the proposition – anything that is logically possible is empirically possible – into a healthy probability.
In Christianity there is divine race; in Hinduism there are divine races.
The Indian president plays politics with his entire family; the American president plays politics with the entire humanity.
If I have any shame it is the shame of being a human.
God is the best insinuator.
I know a great deal about God but I’m not so sure if He exists.
I have known a great deal about God but I know not if He really exists.
When I despair my only refuge is philosophy.
Philosophy is the only refuge of this despaired soul.
Read More..>>How Socrates Influences Our Lives Today
Posted on April 1, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment
Socrates (ca. 470-399 BC) is not just another “dead white male” despised by our university elite but a man whose philosophical breakthroughs reverberate down through the centuries and profoundly affect us today. Athens in the fifth century BC was the age of Pericles. The grandiose construction projects undertaken by Pericles such as the Parthenon were being built during Socrates’ lifetime.
Philosophically, Athens was in a time of confusion, flux and disarray. The pre-socratic philosophers, namely the sophists such as Protagorus, Gorgias and Thrasymachus were teaching moral relativism in their philosophical schools. The term “sophist” means “wise man” and these wise men implicitly regarded their own personal wisdom as the foundation of understanding right behavior.
Read More..>>The Influence Of William James On Archetypal Psychology
Posted on March 23, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment
We rise upon the earth as wavelets rise upon the ocean. We grow out of her soil as leaves grow from a tree. The wavelets catch the sunbeams separately, the leaves stir when the branches do not move. They realize their own events apart, just as in our own consciousness, when anything becomes emphatic, the back ground fades from observation. Yet the even works back upon the back ground, as wavelet works upon the waves, or as the leaf’s movements work upon the sap inside the branch. The whole sea and the whole tree are registers of what has happened, and are different for the wave’s and the leaf’s action having occurred. (A Pluralistic Universe, p. 79)
Read More..>>Almost Nowhere
Posted on March 20, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment
Almost Everywhere is a well know (though modestly advanced) mathematical concept – Here’s one way to get it, though it can be admittedly confusing. What we mostly deal with are integers and fractions – rational numbers. There are an infinite number of those, but in the way we count infinities, there are infinitely more real numbers. We say that real numbers exist almost everywhere – ‘except on a set of Measure Zero”. A set of measure zero is an odd concept, actually well-defined.
Read More..>>Religion
Posted on March 17, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment
The word ‘religion’ comes from the Latin word ‘religio’ which menas obligation, bond or reverence. Religion is the obligation to be yourself, it is the way in which you bond with your body, mind and in-turn with the society.
OBLIGATION
Wherever there is a obligation to the self, the survival of the self, there exist to chief levels: The Proper Self and The Extended Self. In the Proper Self is the body, the mind and the person(spirit, soul) to whom the body and the mind belong. In the Extended Self come people, events and things other than the individual which are related, either directly or indirectly, to his own survival as the Proper Self. The family, the community, other living entities and non-living things, the universe, and God; all fall under the Extended Self. The Proper Self and the Extended Self survive in harmony with each-other in a symbiotic way. This obligation toward survival of the Proper Self ad the Extended Self is religion.
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