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w we speak says libraries about who we are and what we believe my most beloved movie is howard hawks 1959 rio bravo with john wayne and dean martin the last thing i do before falling asleep is read at least a page of the bible passing this along to other bloggers this is the most difficult part of the task you know how to make a choice between dozens of bloggers i am dealing with everyday how to avoid hurting someone s feelings or annoying someone else because bloggers sometimes are such touchy and or lazy people that s why i decided to limit the range to just two categories of bloggers the most frequent commentators and contributors on wrh and some recently discovered bloggers i like very much but they unfortunately or fortunately it depends on the point of view are not 15 but only 6 here they are diana stevan someday somewhere the metaphysical peregrine viewfinder kitty s pitara news from italy posted by s r piccoli a 8 27 pm 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette bloggers december 17 2011 r i p christopher hitchens christopher hitchens died thursday night at 62 journalist essayist and one of england s most celebrated yet controversial polemicists he waged countless battles on behalf of causes left and right the following excerpt from the full interview with him by richard dawkins in the new statesman that was trailed a few days ago is perhaps the most effective portrait of him it is not yet online and i m quoting from norman geras blog and yes along with norm and many others i will miss him i have one consistency which is being against the totalitarian on the left and on the right the totalitarian to me is the enemy the one that s absolute the one that wants control over the inside of your head not just your actions and your taxes and the origins of that are theocratic obviously the beginning of that is the idea that there is a supreme leader or infallible pope or a chief rabbi or whatever who can ventriloquise the divine and tell us what to do that has secular forms with gurus and dictators of course but it s essentially the same there have been some thinkers orwell is pre eminent who understood that unfortunately there is innate in humans a strong tendency to worship to become abject so we re not just fighting the dictators we re criticising our fellow humans for trying to short cut to make their lives simpler by surrendering and saying if you offer me bliss of course i m going to give up some of my mental freedom for that we say it s a false bargain you ll get nothing you re a fool posted by s r piccoli a 2 54 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette uk politics us politics world december 15 2011 these emotional germans friedrich overbeck italy and germany neue pinakothek münchen i must admit it germany has been for years one of my favorite countries i was a student in philosophy many moons ago and everybody know how much germans have given to the history of philosophy and i had to learn some german in addition later on i changed my mind i mean not that i loved germany less but that i loved other countries more in other words i opted so to speak for different priorities or more banally i felt a little guilt or shame for having been such a huge lover of richard wagner may god and giuseppe verdi forgive me for having sown my wild oats after all as a wise lady once said youth is a disease from which we all recover dorothy fuldheim be it as it may i still can t say anything bad about germany and germans and certainly not more than what they could do themselves and to avoid any misunderstandings as for today my favorite composer is by far j s bach and i have a great veneration for german poet friedrich hölderlin philosopher martin heidegger and novelist thomas mann to mention just a few however all of the above was just to introduce an article in yesterday s ft reg required and corriere della sera by italian columnist beppe severgnini about how to deal with these emotional germans in a time of eurozone crisis i don t know whether he is right or wrong to be honest i rarely agree with him but in this case i must admit his arguments make sense to corroborate his thesis severgnini quotes what former italian ambassador sergio romano wrote in a recent leader in corriere della sera nothing protects the german people from its recurrent romantic angst more than the feeling to accomplish a meticulously conceived and prepared project but when things do not go as planned germany becomes restless and nervous almost neurotic sounds appropriate doesn t it at any rate as french philosopher paul ricoeur might have said all that gives us to think posted by s r piccoli a 11 59 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette economy europa italy s politics december 14 2011 frances chesterton a photo album collection frances chesterton 1869 1938 was married for 35 years to g k chesterton here is a picture album tribute to her by the american chesterton society the soundtrack of this video is how far is it to bethlehem a christmas song whose lyrics were written by frances chesterton herself the music is based on a 16th 18th century tune called stowey h t società chestertoniana italiana posted by s r piccoli a 10 51 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette philosophy religion december 13 2011 if the god particle actually exists image maximilien brice cern just a quick note for those of my readers who like me are weak in science physics in this case but willing to learn and to be taught european physicists at the cern announced a few hours ago that they have found evidence that the higgs boson aka the god particle actually exists they have stopped short of claiming discovery but in a press conference they said they may have finally glimpsed the elusive elemental particle critical to our understanding of how the universe works here is a video by the telegraph in which cern director general rolf dieter heuer and cern physicists fabiola gianotti and guido tornelli explain what they have found but what does the expression higgs boson named after physicist peter higgs exactly mean and what does this announcement mean for technology to the first question the answer is according to scientific american s kelly oakes the higgs boson is the smallest part of the higgs field which physicists believe gives all matter the property of mass translated and oversimplified that means that nothing would have weight without the higgs field for academics finding the particle would complete a puzzle about the universe that s been bugging them for decades to the second question the answer is honestly very little said university of maryland physics department chairman drew baden it is merely a look see as to where the experiments are in looking for new particles not seen since the first trillionth of a second after the big bang he said but baden said that the technology that cern developed for its research has spun off other valuable advances much of the progress in accelerators comes out of this kind of basic research he said in an e mail pointing to technology used in food radiation and cancer therapy people are now working on laser powered accelerators he said and future applications of that work could create sci fi like particle beams however and to be fair with reference to the expression god particle there are also those who ask what has god got to do with it posted by s r piccoli a 11 50 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette science don t shoot santa st nicholas early american st nick american santa from santa claus comes to america by caroline singer cyrus baldridge alfred knopf 1942 copyright 2002 2011 st nicholas center it s that time of year seasonal illnesses abound this is the time of year when most of us celebrate god love family sharing and giving it s also the time of year when atheists and bigots celebrate intolerance and hate to do that there have to be a lot of lies the one that is gaining momentum is santa claus read the rest at the metaphysical peregrine posted by s r piccoli a 2 55 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette history religion december 12 2011 learning about the u s constitution in order to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states of america says james d best conference speaker and long time researcher and scholar on the federalist papers james madison s notes on the constitutional convention of 1787 and other original source materials we need to understand it luckily there are some great learning tools available to every american and non american well here they are hopefully these sources will help those who want to learn more about the framing ratification and meaning of the constitution james d best is also the author of tempest at dawn a dramatization of the 1787 constitutional convention and of several other books including the shopkeeper leadville murder at thumb butte the shut mouth society and the digital organization posted by s r piccoli a 10 53 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette history us politics december 9 2011 st augustine in adam s sin an evil will preceded the evil act our first parents fell into open disobedience because already they were secretly corrupted for the evil act had never been done had not an evil will preceded it and what is the origin of our evil will but pride for pride is the beginning of sin sirach 10 13 and what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation and this is undue exaltation when the soul abandons him to whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself this happens when it becomes its own satisfaction and it does so when it falls away from that unchangeable good which ought to satisfy it more than itself this falling away is spontaneous for if the will had remained steadfast in the love of that higher and changeless good by which it was illumined to intelligence and kindled into love it would not have turned away to find satisfaction in itself and so become frigid and benighted the woman would not have believed the serpent spoke the truth nor would the man have preferred the request of his wife to the command of god nor have supposed that it was a venial trangression to cleave to the partner of his life even in a partnership of sin the wicked deed then that is to say the trangression of eating the forbidden fruit was committed by persons who were already wicked that evil fruit matthew 7 18 could be brought forth only by a corrupt tree but that the tree was evil was not the result of nature for certainly it could become so only by the vice of the will and vice is contrary to nature now nature could not have been depraved by vice had it not been made out of nothing consequently that it is a nature this is because it is made by god but that it falls away from him this is because it is made out of nothing but man did not so fall away as to become absolutely nothing but being turned towards himself his being became more contracted than it was when he clave to him who supremely is accordingly to exist in himself that is to be his own satisfaction after abandoning god is not quite to become a nonentity but to approximate to that and therefore the holy scriptures designate the proud by another name self pleasers for it is good to have the heart lifted up yet not to one s self for this is proud but to the lord for this is obedient and can be the act only of the humble there is therefore something in humility which strangely enough exalts the heart and something in pride which debases it this seems indeed to be contradictory that loftiness should debase and lowliness exalt but pious humility enables us to submit to what is above us and nothing is more exalted above us than god and therefore humility by making us subject to god exalts us but pride being a defect of nature by the very act of refusing subjection and revolting from him who is supreme falls to a low condition and then comes to pass what is written you cast them down when they lifted up themselves for he does not say when they had been lifted up as if first they were exalted and then afterwards cast down but when they lifted up themselves even then they were cast down that is to say the very lifting up was already a fall and therefore it is that humility is specially recommended to the city of god as it sojourns in this world and is specially exhibited in the city of god and in the person of christ its king while the contrary vice of pride according to the testimony of the sacred writings specially rules his adversary the devil and certainly this is the great difference which distinguishes the two cities of which we speak the one being the society of the godly men the other of the ungodly each associated with the angels that adhere to their party and the one guided and fashioned by love of self the other by love of god the devil then would not have ensnared man in the open and manifest sin of doing what god had forbidden had man not already begun to live for himself it was this that made him listen with pleasure to the words you shall be as gods genesis 3 5 which they would much more readily have accomplished by obediently adhering to their supreme and true end than by proudly living to themselves for created gods are gods not by virtue of what is in themselves but by a participation of the true god by craving to be more man becomes less and by aspiring to be self sufficing he fell away from him who truly suffices him accordingly this wicked desire which prompts man to please himself as if he were himself light and which thus turns him away from that light by which had he followed it he would himself have become light this wicked desire i say already secretly existed in him and the open sin was but its consequence for that is true which is written pride goes before destruction and before honor is humility proverbs 18 12 that is to say secret ruin precedes open ruin while the former is not counted ruin for who counts exaltation ruin though no sooner is the highest forsaken than a fall is begun but who does not recognize it as ruin when there occurs an evident and indubitable transgression of the commandment and consequently god s prohibition had reference to such an act as when committed could not be defended on any pretense of doing what was righteous and i make bold to say that it is useful for the proud to fall into an open and indisputable transgression and so displease themselves as already by pleasing themselves they had fallen for peter was in a healthier condition when he wept and was dissatisfied with himself than when he boldly presumed and satisfied himself and this is averred 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