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Verena Gorge Hermitage, Solothurn, Switzerland
This scenic gorge and hermitage is named after the 3rd-century St. Verena, a Coptic Christian who was born in Egypt but is believed to have joined the Theban Legion’s mission to the Roman province of Rhaetia (partly located in modern-day Switzerland) and eventually came to live in a cave near the site of the hermitage, helping fellow young girls in the area. This mystical gorge and romantic streamside hermitage continues to be maintained by a real live hermit who was hired by the town in 2016. (The previous hermit got tired of the media scrutiny and quit the post. No joke!) The idyllic site is best accessed via an easy two-kilometer (just over a mile) hike, peppered with highlights like the mossy Magdalene and Mount of Olives grottoes and a tidy forested chapel built directly into the misty gorge, considered by some to be an ionic hot spot. Whatever your beliefs, it’s hard to deny that this primordial place is charged with oodles of Swiss manna.
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Impressions from St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy
#Cryptocracy #Art #History #Religion #Architecture #SacredSpaces
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The All Seeing Eye in Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy
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The absurdity of the self-important masses exclaiming, 'The most important development in all of history (AGI, etc.) is happening right now during my lifetime!' is remarkable. None of them even dare to consider that reality is far, far weirder than their conveniently linear-time, crypto-religious models suggest.
"Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size)." - Robert Anton Wilson
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Who is researching the eschatology of AGI & Singularity cult? Increasing numbers of people strongly believe we have only a few years left until the arrival of a "digital god" & the "cyber rapture." Sociologists & psychologists should thoroughly document this phenomenon.
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Future archaeologists might view the shift from millennia-old sacred temple construction to the modern tradition of building Apple Store consumer temples as a defining moment in the decline of human civilization.
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Omar Khayyam Mausoleum, Neyshabur, Iran
Omar Khayyam, best known for his poetry Rubáiyát, was a Persian polymath learned in the ways of astronomy, philosophy, and mathematics. Born in the ancient city of Nishapur, he died in 1131 at 83 and was buried in his hometown.
The poet’s tomb survived the test of time through Mongol invasions and natural disasters, developing into part of a shrine. In 1934, the Iranian government under the Pahlavi dynasty commissioned the reconstruction of his mausoleum, which would be completed 31 years later.
Designed by the architect Hooshang Seyhoun, the new Omar Khayyam Mausoleum is an outstanding beauty many consider a masterpiece of modern Persian architecture. A large marble monument standing in a serene garden, it is decorated with verses from Rubáiyát written in the taʿlīq script, glowing in an oasitic blue shade.
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“It is better to restore one dead heart to eternal life than to restore to life a thousand dead bodies.” — Annemarie Schimmel (1922 - 2003), in "Mystical Dimensions Of Islam"
Related: “The Secrets of Creative Love: The Work of Muhammad Iqbal”, by Prof. Annemarie Schimmel
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A section of Metempsychosis (1923) - by Yokoyama Taikan;
a drop of water from the vapours in the sky transforms into a mountain stream, which flows into a great river and on into the sea, whence rises a dragon (pictured) that turns back to vapour
Dragon and Clouds - by Yokoyama Taikan
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Rodez Cathedral, South of France. Someone tried to destroy this with his car yesterday. Wicked place
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Interior of the Marmara University Faculty of Theology Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Built in 2015, the mosque can accommodate 4,500 people.
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What they don't tell you in science & engineering classes is that at the center of reality lies the paradox - inherently none-computational & post-reason. While fools pretend all things can be understood and controlled, the wise know it's all a clown show and go to the garden.
