What a stunning find Mr. de Forest is. Walking through this exhibit is like taking a trip not on a synthetic psychedelic, but a desert, arid, hallucinogenic like peyote. Shamanistic is the best quintessential description I can find of his work here. It is a spiritual sojourn, yet without any brier patches which encumber the exploration like sticky molasses. There is no negative discharge....
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What happens when a natural actor ages? What is his grasp of mortality? To answer such a question and help uncover a fruitful redolent moss underneath a stone that has been left unturned by humanity would be a triumph. It may, however, not be in the repertory of an actor to be so dedicated to such grandiosity. There may be a catharsis and achievement in simply the act itself. How....
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Rabbit Hole is a meditation on grief. On how even if material abundance is present, even if there is the complete sense of contentment and freedom from the havoc that is wrought by an outside world, it is always hanging on a gently balance. Just as violently abruptly, this balance can become broken. How then, does one readjust? It doesn’t help that the mother of a child who has lost....
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Analysis of the role that Christian morality has played in the development of commerce and....
A philosophical exploration of color and its use in Renaissance, abstract and modern fine....
Nietzsche had incredible disdain for Christianity being "Judaized Rome", of the slave morality of Judaism creeping up and....
To the dilettante the thing is the end, while to the professional as such it is the means; and only he who is directly interested in a thing, and occupies himself with it from love of it, will pursue it with entire seriousness. It is from such as these, and not from wage-earners, that the greatest things have always come. - Arthur Schopenhauer
![“In a six-hour long teleplay, ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ attempts to portray the spiritual heights of a remarkably idiosyncratic people on the face of the Earth...From which other people would God Almighty exercise once more His sovereign power to move humanity toward its predestined path of the Heavenly Way?...We see, then, in the place of the typical traps which plague every human society – the imbalances of human selfishness – the birth, life, and death of the “promised one”: the Messiah. It must immediately be remarked that the definition is one which is categorically Christian throughout the film. The Sanhedrin’s understanding of the Messiah as the “son of the Living God” is not of Jewish or Hebrew origin. This is, after all, the fundamental schism between the Christian Faith and the Hebrew; between those who remained faithful to the Old Covenant, and the ones with the belief in Kingdom Come through exercising faith in the son of the Living God’s personal trial with his Teacher. To the Hebrew, the Messianic Redemption is one caused by the doubtless self-certainty in this God’s existence within every waking day in the human race forever...utterly dissolving false beliefs which...[require] the need for human death; as opposed to the predestination of immortality and the resurrection of every living soul that has ever been granted the privilege of being seen in God’s sight; of every man, woman, boy, and girl given the chance to smile. Nevertheless...the moral idea of personal sacrifice to save humanity as the ultimate testimony of love...has promulgated mankind toward the heights...Jesus’s willful death to purge the world of darkness, paving the road to the World to Come...appreciates...that every individual possesses within his/her self the possibility to extend perfection into man [and] is the best representation of the better than good end of the Holy Creator and the Love of all His Children - regardless of Ancestry...And that is sufficient reason to enjoy the providential road as its pavement becomes ever more pristinely perceivable in man’s sight.” #onelove](http://adilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)