Photographs incidental, used as a device to focus my mind, to force myself to see and notice.
Tag: poetry
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Health and Safety
While standing on the shoulders of giants, please refrain from becoming overexcited and jumping up and down!
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Insanity
Insanity is not a sign of a broken mind – it is a side effect of normal brain function in combination with collective cultural delusions. Our brains normally function by fitting reality into the framework of our predictions. Our cultures constitute a collective framework of assumptions underlying those predictions. If our predictions override reality in a way that differs from everyone else’s, it constitutes madness.
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The art of stating the obvious
The only way to achieve the impossible is to start doing it. You may not achieve it that way, but there is no other way to achieve it.
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Arrow Slits
Arrow slits have to be narrow to protect the defenders of the castle.
Any wider and they will be exposed to dangers from outside.
Being narrow is what they are for.
I am a person who…
I see the world through the arrow slit of my self-definition.
Relevant images and metaphors draw my eye.
A living wood turns into Golgotha
with dead trees supporting crucifixions.
The fewer the parameters – the more important they become.
If all I know about myself is that I am a Christian,
I would be willing to die for it.
Or kill for it.
After all,
arrow slits are
for shooting out of. -
The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
As imarets
transform to minarets,
and rigid ideologies prevail –
states fail. -
Seville Cathedral
Seville Cathedral used to house Christian and Muslim worshippers side-by-side.
After the inquisition took power, the Muslim part was appropriated and built over with Christian symbology.
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Entitlement
The sense of entitlement is a trap:
as you are entitled – you do nothing;
as you do nothing – you achieve nothing;
as you achieve nothing – you feel deprived of what you are entitled to.
