tag > Religion
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Comedy of the week: The Council for Inclusive Capitalism - The Vatican Joins With Visa, Allianz, Bank of America, MasterCard, Lynn F. de Rothschild et al in capitalism "reform" effort.
#Comment: A total bullshit dark comedy show. Can VatiCoin be far behind?
Pope Francis’s Plan to Fix the Vatican’s Finances Meets Internal Resistance (Bloomberg)
The Church bureaucracy known as the Curia is clinging to the privileges that come with controlling the purse strings.
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A 1798 view of The Great Pagoda at Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, South India - by Thomas Daniell, (1798)
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A Conversation with Prof. Varadaraja V. Raman
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Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases "The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macromolecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem." ... "I know that the concept of God helped me to master many questions in life; it guides me in critical situations, and I see it confirmed in many deep insights into the beauty of the functioning of the world." - Werner Arber
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Img 1: Spiritualism Seance in Berlin (1930) - Img 2: Macy Conferences on Cybernetics (1946-1953)
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St. George Church next to Al-Tawhid Mosque in Aleppo, Syria (via)
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Pope Francis prays for good AI
"We pray that the progress of robotics and artificial intelligence may always serve humankind," reads Francis' intention for November.
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Elon Musk’s New Baby’s Name Is Actually Less Absurd Than His Anti-Democratic, Quasi-Eugenicist Views (jacobinmag) (archived version)
Elon Musk drew attention recently for announcing the name of his and Grimes's new baby, X Æ A-12. But what’s more disturbing about Musk is the anti-democratic, quasi-eugenicist views that he and other tech elites espouse.
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Roman God Mercury with his caduceus, in his chariot, drawn by cockerels.
Engraving by Carlo Lasinio after Raphael, 1516. Mercury was a messenger who wore winged sandals and a god of trade, thieves, and travel, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter in Roman mythology. His characteristics and mythology were borrowed from the analogous Greek god, Hermes. Mercury has influenced the name of many things in a variety of scientific fields, such as the planet, and the chemical element. The word mercurial is commonly used to refer to something or someone erratic, volatile or unstable, derived from Mercury's swift flights from place to place. He is often depicted holding the Caduceus in his left hand.
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Victor's way in County Wicklow, Ireland, is a privately owned meditation garden notable for its black granite sculptures. The the park is dedicated to cryptographer Alan Turing. The Fasting Buddha icon-cum-sculpture is a copy of a 1st century AD stone icon (called ‘the ascetic Bodhisattva’) robbed by British archaeologists in the 19th century from an ancient Buddhist pilgrimage site in Taxila, Pakistan. The original, created in the Gandhara Period in Greco-Roman style (note the dramatic, wholly un-Buddhist appearance + the Roman toga + the typically Roman hairdo and beard), is approx. 60 centimetres high and made of Schist stone. It’s on view in Lahore Museum.
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Comedy of the day: In sign of the times, Ayn Rand Institute approved for PPP loan
The institute promoting the “laissez-faire capitalism” of writer Ayn Rand, who in the novels “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” introduced her philosophy of “objectivism” to millions of readers, was approved for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of up to $1 million, according to data released Monday by the Trump administration. The Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism in Santa Ana, California, sought to preserve 35 jobs with the PPP funding, according to the data.
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Saint Corona - Patron saint of epidemics?
Saints Victor and Corona (also known as Victor and Stephanie) are two Christian martyrs. Their legend states that Victor was a Roman soldier of Italian ancestry. Victor was tortured and then beheaded in Damascus in 160 AD. While he was suffering from the tortures, the sixteen-year-old wife of another soldier, named Corona or Stephanie comforted and encouraged him. For this, she was arrested and interrogated. Corona is especially venerated in Austria and eastern Bavaria. She is invoked in connection with superstitions involving money, such as gambling and treasure hunting. Otto III, around AD 1000, brought Corona's relics to Aachen in western Germany. Though there is little evidence of her being invoked against epidemics, Reuters reported in 2020 that she was "patron saint of epidemics," and that her relics will be available for public veneration "once the coronavirus pandemic has passed."
