Helen De Cruz

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Philosopher writing on science, religion, SFF, SFWA, Codex, lute music. newsletter: http://helendecruz.substack.com website: https://helendecruz.net/ My book Wonderstruck - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck

Sorry I am very ill and lack force to transcribe
Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit eating too many carrots
Two animals at picnic near waterside Kenneth Grahame, wind in the willows
Male northern cardinal on wintery branch
A Pacific yew tree. It has needles for leaves and very red berries pictured here in the tree
Ghent waterzooi a stew/soup using an entire chicken, potatoes and cream
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry avril. Beautiful medieval people in the lawn castle in the distance
Van Gogh sunflowers
Van Gogh roses a green vase with faded flowers
Portrait in its current state of a woman wearing a black dress and reconstructed original
Bedroom at Arles now (left) and when it was painted. The delicate purples on walls and even brown wooden floor have changed
Evangelical Influences Religious studies scholar Julie Ingersoll argues that evangelicals have "helped make widespread acceptance of QAnon possible by weaving their theological commitments to apocalypticism, conspiracies and persecution narratives into the larger American culture."[266] Messianic, apocalyptic, and spiritual warfare themes popular in evangelical media beginning in the 1970s – as well as conspiracy theories popularized among the demographic such as the New World Order – have been described as influences on the QAnon belief system, as well as aspects of QAnon that appeal to evangelicals.[267][268] The apocalyptic stories are seen by Christians as fictional depictions of real future events, giving them real-world significance.[269][267] American studies scholar S. Jonathon O'Donnell argues that QAnon, which sees Trump as fighting a demonic deep state, has significant commonalities with Christian spiritual warfare –
Disabled Shu
Monkey and nuts
Peng bird turning into Kun fish
Pencil drawing of Hundun, cute featureless creature with wings
Are you aware of other peers on other campuses who have made the decision to take posts in other countries? That doesn’t even make sense, that comment, because academia, there’s 700 applications for each position. No, it’s almost impossible. 99.8% of academics cannot move. And even though I’m a very distinguished academic, honestly speaking—I mean, nobody would regard me as distinguished, that’s not my persona—
Picture of an older white woman holding a pen with an extravagant hat
Standalone pic of the ill man being transformed into a rooster, crossbow, horse, and wheels
A picture of Richard Chamberlain, wearing a traditional Japanese kimono.
Zhuangzi (left) and Huizi are at a cozy little cafe drinking beer. A good luck cat hangs at the door. Outside the weather is gentle with fluffy clouds.
Hui Tzu said to Chuang Tzu, "Can a man really be without feelings?" Chuang Tzu: "Yes." Hui Tzu: "But a man who has no feelings-how can you call him a man?" Chuang Tzu: "The Way gave him a face; Heaven gave him a form - why can't you call him a man?" Hui Tzu: "But if you've already called him a man, how can he be without feelings?" Chuang Tzu: "That's not what I mean by feelings. When I talk about having no feelings, I mean that a man doesn't allow likes or dislikes to get in and do him harm. He just lets things be the way they are and doesn't try to help life along." Hui Tzu: "If he doesn't try to help life along, then how can he keep himself alive?" Chuang Tzu: "The Way gave him a face; Heaven gave him a form. He doesn't let likes or dislikes get in and do him harm. You, now - you treat your spirit like an outsider. You wear out your energy, leaning on a tree and moaning, slumping at your desk and dozing - Heaven picked out a body for you and you use it to gibber about `hard' and `white'!" 10
Standalone image of disabled Shu. He sits with his walking tub, washing a red piece of garment.
Pencil
Pencil Huizi tree
Butcher Ding cutting an ox
Bird fish
Drawing in colored pencil of a Chinese butcher and an ox. He wields a knife. Cook Ting was cutting up an ox for Lord Wen-hui.2 At every touch of his hand, every heave of his shoulder, every move of his feet, every thrust of his knee - zip! zoop! He slithered the knife along with a zing, and all was in perfect rhythm, as though he were performing the dance of the mulberry Grove "Ah, this is marvelous!" said Lord Wen-hui. "Imagine skill reaching such heights!" Cook Ting laid down his knife and replied, "What I care about is the Way, which goes beyond skill. When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox itself. After three years I no longer saw the whole ox. And now - now I go at it by spirit and don't look with my eyes. Perception and understanding have come to a stop and spirit moves where it wants. I go along with the natural makeup, strike in the big hollows, guide the knife through the big openings, and follow things as they are. So I never touch the smallest ligament or tendon, much less a main joint. "A good cook changes his knife once a year-because he cuts. A mediocre cook changes his knife once a month-because he hacks. I've had this knife of mine for nineteen years and I've cut up thousands of oxen with it, and yet the blade is as good as though it had just come from the grindstone. There are spaces between the joints, and the blade of the knife has really no thickness. If you insert what has no thickness into such spaces, then there's plenty of room - more than enough for the blade to play about it. That's why after nineteen years the blade of my knife is still as good as when it first came from the grindstone. "However, whenever I come to a complicated place, I size up the difficulties, tell myself to watch out and be careful, keep my eyes on what I'm doing, work very slowly, and move the knife "Excellent!" said Lord Wen-hui. "I have heard the words of Cook Ting and learned how to care for life!"
Open page of Cruz Badiano codex. Paintings of Mexican plants and names added in pink ink in Latin
Leibniz memorial coin that shows stars, the sun, God as a triangle w days and tables of binary numbers
Blood moon picture
Leibniz's scribbled notes and two drawings of clocks with little holes on the face. From Strickland: "But another surprise came after work on the book had been completed. By chance I came across a short manuscript in which Leibniz hit upon an innovative application of binary that has remained unknown till now. In this manuscript, which is reproduced and transcribed below, with an English translation available here, Leibniz sketches out a plan for a tactile clock based on binary reckoning that would enable one to tell the time at night. Leibniz’s illustration shows a single hour hand that moves around the clock face. Between each numeral and the centre is a row of four points, each of which is either hollow (represented by an empty circle) or bumpy (represented by a filled circle). Hollow points denote 0, and bumpy points denote 1 if they occur in the first position, 2 in the second, 4 in the third, and 8 in the fourth, with positions being counted from the centre outwards to the edge. The idea is that you feel for where the hand points, then trace your finger from the tip of the hour hand down towards the centre and then further down along the same line until you encounter a row of four points, which are then read by touch. Hence in the diagram, a is 0, b is 0, c is 1, and d is 1, and since c and d are in the third and fourth positions, they denote 4 and 8 respectively. Add them together, and one knows that the time is 12 o’ clock."
There is knowledge to be had, after all, about the earth, about the sky, about the other elements of this world, about the movements and revolutions or even the magnitude and distances of the constellations, about the predictable eclipses of moon and sun, about the cycles of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, fruits, stones, and everything else of this kind. And it frequently happens that even non-Christians will have knowledge of this sort in a way that they can substantiate with scientific arguments of experiments. Now it is quite disgraceful and disastrous, something to be on one’s guard against at all costs, that they should ever hear Christians spouting what they claim our Christian literature has to say on these topics, and talking such nonsense that they can scarcely contain their laughter when they see the to be toto caelo, as the saying goes, wide of the mark. And what is so vexing is not that misguided people should be laughed at, as that our authors should be assumed by outsiders to have held such views and, to the great detriment of those about whose salvation we are so concerned, should be written off and consigned to the waste paper basket as so many ignoramuses.
Oak tree in early fall, St Louis
Mushroom at tree trymunk, forest park, St Louis
Sleeping young Chinese man and butterfly plus text Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou. Between Chuang Chou and a butterfly there must be some distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things.
The Syrian Ms of 1001 nights
When I think of the enormity of the universe, I start thinking about how many civilizations have been in the universe before us and are probably not alive anymore. It makes me think that it could very well be that we are just one of many civilizations that arose recently, but also, there could older civilizations that have already died and become extinct.
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Fb page of alt national park service Two hUndred tWenty-sEven. Author Alt National Park Service Please disregard this, as our group is fighting battles on multiple fronts. 21h Reply
ChatGPT is asked to draw a field with horses and no zebras, and yet it comes up with a field with quite some zebras in
Luisa from Encanto, a muscled woman, riding a unicorn donkey in pink clouds
Column with title "The best thing democrats can do in this moment" by James Carville
A pair of open drawers, black and white photo. Two pipes in light material, about the length of a Bermuda. But not joined like modern underwear
Physical copies of my novella Artistry of Magic
Physical copies of my novella, The artistry of magic. On the cover, a chalk street artist creating magical flying fish animations
A depiction of peasants sat around a table, enjoying porridge brought in on a large tray. A boy sits licking his plate. The bride sits with a green screen behind her. Where is the groom?
"Lady Li was the daughter of the border guard of Ai.21 When she was first taken captive and brought to the state of Chin, she wept until her tears drenched the collar of her robe. But later, when she went to live in the palace of the ruler, shared his couch with him, and ate the delicious meats of his table, she wondered why she had ever wept. How do I know that the dead do not wonder why they ever longed for life?
Two dodecahedrons and an isocahedron
A metal dodecahedron with holes in its faces and knobs at its edges
Cover for the comic "I am not Starfire"
Pics of Musk in 2010 as results to an image search