Trinity Sunday

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky,
that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One...

Bhagavad Gita,
Eleventh Chapter, Twelfth Verse

Vox Populi, Vox Dei !

Elon And The Felon

Mark 15
⁶ Now, at that (Passover) feast, (the Roman governor of Judea) released unto (the Jews) one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. ⁷ And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.

⁹ Pilate answered them, saying: Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews ? ¹⁰ For he knew that the chief priests had delivered (Christ) for envy. ¹¹ But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them. ¹⁵ And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

Decency Has To Die,

For Indecency To Reign

Psalm 115:6

Precious in the sight of the Lord, is the death of his saints.

Hope Dies Last

Democracy Dies In Darkness... At Its Own Hand !

They haven’t figured [out] that the women are smarter right now than the men,
so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years...

Donald Trump, South Carolina, July 21, 2015.

The Butler Did It !

The Silent Majority

Unlucky Numbers

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Shannon † Doherty

The icon of the dying star
Slowly climbs up heaven’s vault:
`T’was there before laid eyes upon;
Though we now see it, it’s long gone...

Mihai Eminescu, To The Star

Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine

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Weather Forecast

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Official Eastern Orthodox Stance On Pride Parades

Genesis 19:24

Then it rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Lessons In Misguided Optimism

What atheism, Holocaust denial, and Russian war propaganda have in common:

John 20:25 Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

The Ides Of March

...according to the original Julian calendar.

The Slavic Czar stems from the Latin Caesar.

History Repeating Itself

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Old Saint Nick

on the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia

The incursion of the troops of the five socialist countries into Czechoslovakia constitutes a great error – a grave danger – for [preserving] peace in Europe, and for the fate of socialism throughout the world.

It is inconceivable, in today's world, when people are rising up in battle, to defend their national independence, [fighting] for equal rights, for a socialist state, for socialist states, to infringe upon the freedom and independence of another state.

There is no justification, nor can any reason prove acceptable, in admitting, even for a single moment, the mere idea of a military intervention, in the affairs of a rightful socialist state.

[...]
Choosing the [right] way of constructing socialism, is [ultimately] a question facing every party, every state, every nation:

No one can erect themselves as advisor, or as guide, of the way in which socialism is [meant] to be constructed.

[Rather], it is each nation's [own] concern, and we consider that [...] the immixture in the affairs of other states, and of other parties, has to cease, once and for all.

[...]
We are determined to act, with all [our] might, and with all our responsibility, so that we may contribute to determining the [best] way for quickly solving this situation, created by the incursion of foreign troops into Czechoslovakia, so that Czechoslovakians might [finally] be able to conduct their business in peace.

We are firmly determined to act, so that, together with other socialist countries, with other communist and workers' parties, we may [eventually] contribute to eliminating divergences, [thereby] strengthening the unity of socialist countries, and of communist parties, because we are convinced that, only in this manner, do we serve people's interests, as well as the interests of socialism throughout the whole world.

The above words belong not, as one might initially be inclined to think, to a democratically elected leader of the free world, but to one of the fiercest communist dictators known to history, heading, for many decades, one of Europe's most brutal and repressive totalitarian regimes.

Nor were they spoken today, but rather well over half a century ago, all of this only serving to show Russia's current president's increasing inadequacy, on the world's geopolitical stage, within the larger historical context.

The Fault In Our Stars

Stephen Collins

— † 2014 —




Bill Cosby

– † 2014 –




Kevin Spacey

— † 2017 —

Judaism

† 2020

Throughout your entire life, people will die in front of you – some, physically; others, morally – and, with every single loss, a part of you also fades away, until, at the very end, after having already buried them all in some deep, dark corner of your traumatized psyche, and with the last glimmer of light that was still left within you being finally extinguished, you yourself will also, at long last, ultimately perish...

Looking Forward To Easter

Easter Marks The Resurrection

But Death Must, Of Necessity, Precede The Resurrection

Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50...

Helen McCrory

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January Royalty

Elvis Aaron Presley, The King Of Rock And Roll

born on January 8^th, 1935




Martin Luther King, Jr.

born on January 15^th, 1929




Lawrence Harvey Zeiger King

passed away on January 23^rd, 2021

Life As A Movie

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Death: Life's Closing Credits


As the curtain falls, and the credits roll, the soul finally tastes a supreme sense of the ultimate freedom.

On all sides saw I
 Valkyries assemble,
Ready to ride
 to the ranks of the Gods...

Poetic Edda, Völuspá, Thirty-First Stanza

Today Is A Good Day To Die

Gaudeamus, igitur,
Iuvenes dum sumus...

Vita nostra brevis est,
Brevi finietur;
Venit mors velociter,
Rapit nos atrociter:
Nemini parcetur.

Vivat academia,
Vivant professores;
Vivat membrum quodlibet,
Vivant membra quaelibet :
Semper sint in flore !

For smoke is our nostrils' breath, and thought a sparkle kindled by our moving hearts; which, when extinguished, our body shall turn into ashes, and our soul shall fade away as thinnest air...

Wisdom of Solomon, Second Chapter

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It Must Have Been Life...

But It's Over Now...

1 Corinthians 13:8  ¶Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 13  And now abideth faith, hope, and love: these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Memento Mori

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Rutger † Hauer