Archive for 3rd of September, 2007
September Wallpaper
Sep 3rd
Regina Viarum. Photo (cc) iessi.
I’ve used the Wallpaper creator at Big Huge Labs and the photo above to make a couple of wallpapers for my computer. I have two monitors so it’s in two different sizes 1200×800 (widescreen) and 1024×768 (standard). The image I’m using this month is a HDR photo of the Appian Way, the most important long road of the Roman Empire.
Oops, this was supposed to go online a couple of days ago.
Now it’s Poseidon
Sep 3rd
While I was writing the last post defending Hekate against atheists this video came up on Pharyngula from Coffeeghost.
Clearly he’s a man unafraid of being threatened with a water pistol.
Religious Moonshine
Sep 3rd
The building dedicated to Hekate, who helped the Greeks really understand the moon. Oh, it’s not that religion we’re talking about?
There are no experiments and tests to explain love, empathy, longing, the agony and ecstasy of the heart, the wild and wonderful creativity of the brain, that thing that happens to you when a full moon appears above the sea and is reflected in it. Sorry, but knowing the science of why the moon shines is irrelevant to the experience. Faith is the light of the moon above and that light in the sea, reality and spirituality, both making you tremblingly conscious of forces vast and beyond words. Impertinent scientists cannot know what they speak of.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explains why she understands the moon far better than anyone who studies it.
If you read the opinion piece by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown then you may well, like me agree with her. Vast areas of questioning and study do seem to be irrelevant to her. As thought experiment lets try and alternative. Let’s pretend she’d spent a day reading about the Moon and went outside and looked at it.
Now as well as the moonlight she’d see the Earth’s partner in a cosmic waltz around the Sun More >
