Sunday Morning

Temple
Sunday Morning
Rio
Heraclito
Stand
Zacatecas
Leaves of Grass
Star-spangled banner
Shoe
Adidas
Converse
Leather
Foundation
Saldaña

Prov.14:16
"A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident."

Gal.5:18
"But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law." 

To Foreign Lands 

“I HEARD that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle, the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy;
Therefore I send you my poems, that you behold in them what you wanted.”~~~Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

 Rio de Janeiro

Star-Spangled Banner

 Converse Shoes

 "Fray Damián de Saldaña is the son of Don Miguel de Saldaña of Saldaña, a man to be trusted."~~~James A. Michener: TEXAS Ch.2 THE MISSION
"Invariably Fray Damián assigned himself the most difficult tasks, such as lifting the loosened earth from the trench, but he actually reveled in the hard work, believing that it made him more definitely a servant of God. On Sundays when all others rested he rose before dawn, prepared to sing the Mass, cleared his mind of mundane matters and reflected on the majesty of heaven." ~~~James A. Michener :Texas. Ch. 2 : THE MISSION

Foundation

Chess:  "Temple" "Sunday Morning" "Rio" "Heraclito" "Stand" "Zacatecas" "Leaves of Grass" "Star-Spangled banner" "Shoe" "Adidas" "Converse" "Leather" "Foundation" "Saldaña"

Aristotle

Aristotle 
Zacatecas
Wittgenstein
Turkey
Russell
The Key to Rebecca
Logical Positivism
History 
Bacon
Alex Wolff
Izaak Walton

Jas.2: 24
"Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only."

Aristotle

"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist. The world is everything that is the case."~~~Wittgenstein

 "There are interpretations that see the Tractatus as espousing realism, i.e., as positing the independent existence of objects, states of affairs, and facts. That this realism is achieved via a linguistic turn is recognized by all (or most) interpreters, but this linguistic perspective does no damage to the basic realism that is seen to start off the Tractatus (“The world is all that is the case”) and to run throughout the text (“Objects form the substance of the world” (TLP 2.021)). Such realism is also taken to be manifested in the essential bi-polarity of propositions;"~~~Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russel and eventually Ludwig Wittgenstein led positivism into a new era – the era of the linguistic turn – by focusing on the statements which we have to make wherever we are concerned with “facts” and wherever we construct models that refer to facts.

The language of logic became important here. A statement of a fact is of scientific value as soon as we can think of a verification or a falsification, of research to substantiate or dismiss this statement. What you have stated can turn out to be “the case” – as in a “positive” medical test result in which anti-bodies were detected, or it can turn out to be “not the case” as in a negative test result, when you show no signs of the infection.

The area of statements that “make sense” in a research project is apparently wide. “Earth has got two moons” is a statement that makes sense in a scientific exploration, even though we have already noted that this is not the case. We can easily discuss the requirements of a meaningful statement (meanigful in the sciences) and we can already state that those statements that turn out to be positively true are a logical subset of all the imaginable statements of things as they could perhaps be.

 

 

Max Verstappen, Red Bull

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acropolis, Athens

EL CASTILLO - The Temple of Kukulcan, Chichén Itzá, Mexico 

The Mayans succeeded in an almost impossible mission with the completion of their structures at Chichén Itzá. A poetic combination of form, style, function, religion, philosophy, mathematics and geometry. A true symbiosis of all of their intelligence and art in one location, to be studied and admired by all that visit. 

By far the most impressive structure of  the complex is the "Pyramid of Kukulcan" * (usually called "El Castillo").  This is a square-based, stepped pyramid approximately 30 meters tall (with the temple on top), constructed by the Mayans ca 1000-1200 AD, directly upon the multiple foundations of previous temples. It was mysteriously abandoned along with the surrounding city of Chichen Itza by 1400 AD.

* Kukulcan is the Mayan name for the Feathered Serpent God (also known as Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs).

The pyramid has special astronomical significance and layout.  Each face of the pyramid has a stairway with ninety-one steps, which together with the shared step of the platform at the top, add up to 365, the number of days in a year. These stairways also divide the nine terraces of each side of the pyramid into eighteen segments, representing the eighteen months of the Mayan calendar. 

The pyramid's design reflects the equinoxes and solstices of our solar year in a spectacular game of light and shadow. During the equinoxes, the setting sun casts a shadow of a serpent on the northern steps of the pyramid.

For a thousand years, the slanting rays of the setting sun have played a spectacular shadow and light game with this great Mayan pyramid. During the equinoxes, at the appointed hour, the shadow of the Feathered Serpent, Kukulcan appears on the northern stairway...and vanishes.

"the great bulk of necessary work can never be anything but painful"~~~Bertrand Russell

 'And when men wandered from the central plaza out to the edge of town they saw workmen, Indians mostly, patiently cutting through the rocky earth to provide foundations for a building that would be of surprising size. The GREY-CLAD cleric in charge verified the news."It's to stand here...just as you see it forming." '~~~JAMES A. Michener: TEXAS Ch.2 THE MISSION p.73

Catedral Basílica de la Asunción de María de Zacatecas, Zacatecas.

1729-1772

"the great bulk of necessary work can never be anything but painful"~~~Bertrand Russell

Wild Turkey Head

"Now, as there are many actions, arts, and sciences, their ends also are many; the end of the medical art is health, that of shipbuilding a vessel, that of strategy victory, that of economics wealth. But where such arts fall under a single capacity- as bridle-making and the other arts concerned with the equipment of horses fall under the art of riding, and this and every military action under strategy, in the same way other arts fall under yet others- in all of these the ends of the master arts are to be preferred to all the subordinate ends; for it is for the sake of the former that the latter are pursued."~~~Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics, Bk.1

Bertrand Russell on Fearing Thought

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

Lord Bacon

The Key To Rebecca; Zuleika Rivera

THE KEY TO REBECCA, Isaac or Constantine XI, Turkey?

El ruiseñor, en todas las lenguas del orbe, goza de nombres melodiosos (nigtingale, nachtigall, usignolo), como si los hombres instintivamente hubieran querido que éstos no desmerecieran del canto que los maravilló. Tanto lo han exaltado los poetas que ahora es un poco irreal; menos afín a la calandria que al ángel. Desde los enigmas sajones del Libro de Exeter (“yo, antiguo cantor de la tarde, traigo a los nobles alegría en las villas”) hasta la trágica Atalanta de Swinburne, el infinito ruiseñor ha cantado en la literatura británica; Chaucer y Shakespeare lo celebran, Milton y Matthew Arnold, pero a John Keats unimos fatalmente su imagen como a Blake la del tigre.

Chess: "Turkey" "Russell" "The Key to Rebecca" "Alex Wolff" "History" "Bacon" "Logical Positivism" Aristotle" "Chicchen Itza" "Zacatecas"

Vermont

Vermont
Esmeralda
Swanton
Emerald
Home 
Zacatecas

Psalm 37:2
 "For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb."

"the verities that the church proclaims are not verifiable"~~~Theodor Reik

"rising suns that gild the vernal morn"~~~Darwin

Vermont

Swanton

The Imperial Emerald at 206 carats is the world's most valuable emerald due to the fact that it is so clean, clear and is totally unenhanced. 

 PASEO in the Park, San José 1946

Chess: "Vermont" "Esmeralda" "Swanton" "Emerald" "Home" "Zacatecas"





Elvis Presley Green, Green Grass of Home
Elvis recorded it March 11, 1975.

The old home town looks the same,
As I step down from the train,
And there to meet me is my mama and papa
Down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

Yes, they'll all come to meet me,
Arms reaching, smiling sweetly
Oh It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

The old house is still standing,
Though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
Yeah Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

Yes, they'll all come to meet me,
Arms reaching, smiling sweetly
Oh It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

Then I awake and look around me
Four gray walls that surround me
And I realize that I was only dreamin'
There's a guard and there's a sad old padre
Arm and arm we'll walk at daybreak
Again I'll touch the green, green grass of home

Yes, they'll all come to see me
In the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me beneath the green, green grass of home