This looks to be a sublime experience in all these ways. [French sublimer, from Latin sublimare] a (1) : to elevate or exalt especially in dignity or honor (2) : to render finer (as in purity or excellence). (Merriam-Webster)
Wikipedia: "aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublimis ([looking up from] under the lintel, high, lofty, elevated, exalted) is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation."
The name of this blog indicates a place where people seek their bearings, but this is not a site where they can actually find them—everyone is, or should be, his own wind rose.
Previous incarnations of this blog: here and here.
About Me rob
Having had the honor to become the subject of one of Normblog Friday blogger profiles, may I redirect you to my own Normblog profile. A very good way, in my opinion, to get to know the owner of this weblog.
Jobless Claims ‘Unexpectedly’ Rose Last Week
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In the age of Obama, it’s always unexpected when jobless claims increase.
New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, a
governme...
Overnight Open Thread (3-8-2012)
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Oh Noes: SC GOP Not Down With the AoSHQ Lifestyle Attention morons - your
ilk is not welcome to run in the Laurens County, SC Republican Party
primary. Bec...
Boehner's bad week
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Nearly 100 GOPers said they'd vote against two versions of Boehner's
signature highway bill.
[image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Email...
Jennifer Lahl on International Women’s Day
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Today is International Women’s Day, and the official website asks, “What’s
Your International Women’s Day 2012 Theme?” At National Review Online’s
“The Hom...
Happy Hour: Forget You, Republicans
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Rick Santorum, Obamacare, and freedom.
Barack Obama to attend a fundraiser in Atlanta with Cee-Lo Green performing.
Andrew Breitbart's favorite joke, as ...
Netherlands Euthanasia Propaganda So Full of Beans
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The Dutch are so proud of their culture of death euthanasia practice, and
sooo sensitive about it when people from outside the country tell the truth
about...
Ends of the Green Agenda
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*Costs of Algae Biofuel*
* By: Larry Walker, Jr. *
*Detective Thorn:* *It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people.
They're making our food out of ...
France Adopts Biometric ID Card
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France has adopted a biometric ID card with a smart chip that will record
fingerprints, eye color, height, weight, address, and other data. Some see
a pote...
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Scriveva ieri Fulco Pratesi sul Corriere della sera che, secondo lo studio
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Scottish myths 13
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*The fairy lad of Leith*
This legend was published in *Pandaemonium*, or *The Devil's Cloyster* by a
Richard Bovet in 1684. The story was entitled, *"A r...
Si avvicina il tempo delle scelte
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L’ampia intervista di Massimo D’Alema al Corriere solleva più interrogativi
di quanti ne risolva. Si percepisce lo sforzo del leader del Pd di dare un
sens...
Nuclear proliferation as fairness
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There are quite a few interesting questions attached to the possible acquisition by Iran of nuclear weapons. I find them so anyway. How far along, whether te...
The Predictable “I’m a Catholic, but…” Whinge
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There seems to be a misunderstanding circulating that government and
religion are somehow supposed to be a “two-way” street. Where has anyone
gleaned that ...
I'm on the radio!
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If you subscribe to Sirius Radio, tune in to the Catholic Channel on Friday
(3/9) at Noon (Central) and listen to me ramble on about this Sunday's
readings...
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“Christus pro nobis mortuus est”(Rom 5:8)
CRUCIFIXERUNT EUM
The Evangelists describe the most disturbing event in the history of the world in two or three w...
The School Zone to Serfdom
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The *Washington Post* recently reported on what looked like an interesting
development in education reform going on in California:
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Ossimori 3: Corpo spirituale
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“E’ seminato corpo animale, risorge corpo spirituale. Se c’è un corpo
animale, vi è anche un corpo spirituale“: così parla l’apostolo Paolo nella
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New Book on Early Christian Art
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Some years back I collaborated with the Czech artist Lea Ravotti on the
book Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols. Readers of
that book...
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*Dear Diary,*
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«Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV, X
By Order of the Assembly of the Province of Pensylvania for the State House in Philada»
1752
«If I had a bell
I'd ring it in the morning
I'd ring it in the evening ...
all over this land,
I'd ring out danger
I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
...
It's a bell of freedom» Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
["If I Had a Hammer"]
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me. (...)"
William Shakespeare
«Julius Caesar»
Act 3, Scene 2
2 comments:
This looks to be a sublime experience in all these ways. [French sublimer, from Latin sublimare] a (1) : to elevate or exalt especially in dignity or honor (2) : to render finer (as in purity or excellence). (Merriam-Webster)
Wikipedia: "aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublimis ([looking up from] under the lintel, high, lofty, elevated, exalted) is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation."
The word "sublime" has never been more appropriate...
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