Lights

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” 

- James 1:17.

Paris Touring

England Touring

Live by the Sun. Love by the Moon.

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Springfield, Ohio

C'est la vie, c'est la mort

 Swan dive down eleven stories high 

                                               Hold your breath until you see the light

 You can sink to the bottom of the sea Just don't go without me 

Go get lost where no one can be found 

                                             Drink so long and deep until you drown 

Say your goodbyes, but darlin' if you please, 

Don't go without me. 

C'est la vie, c'est la mort. (It is life, it is death.) 

You and me, Forevermore. 

Let's walk down the road that has no end. 

                                               Steal away where only angels tread.

 Heaven or hell or somewhere in between 

Cross your heart to take me when you leave. 

Don't go... Please don't go. Don't go without me.<3

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Black and White

There is something about the simplicity of black and white that I just adore.
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Poetry.Sunshine. and a cup of Tea.

      

I.
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven
The Hunter with his dogs purses his circuit.
O perpetual revolution  of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,

All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to GoD.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from GoD and nearer to the Dust.
...

          -T.S. Eliot

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Parable of the Madman

My photos today were inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's Parable of the Madman. If you are not familiar with the parable, below is an explanation for it.

Analysis:

 
   When Nietzsche stated, "God is dead." he was making a cultural statement. The claim was that God has died in the popular imagination. It is not believable for there to be a God. In the opening sentence it states, "...that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours,..." now, there is no need for a light in bright morning hours except for the fact that 1. he is mad and 2. the people are in the dark. The madman is laughed and jeered at by the crowd as he calls out in search of God. This shows the apparent attitude of the crowd toward God. The madman angered by the crowd, speaks out, "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him -- you and I. All of us are his murderers." In this, Nietzsche is pointing out that in the last couple years we have killed God from society with the rise of reason and science. That the death of God in society is our doing.

   The madman goes on to explain the significance of taking God out of society, "What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Without the sun the earth loses its balance, its sense of motion, regulation, and its life and light. Essentially, Nietzsche is showing them the consequences for what they do not understand. For what they have done is taken the center out of virtually everything they knew, out of their churches, their universities, their foundation. The center in society was God. When God was taken out, the consequences resulted in WWI, WWII, The Atomic bomb, Vietnam, AIDS,... the bloodiest century known to human history. The 20th Century was the result.


   










  The Parable continues, "I have come too early," he said then; "my time is not yet." At the end of the 18th Century, when this was written, society did not understand the consequences of their actions. They did not understand that reason without God has no rules. That reason without God does not solve our problems. That reason without God only gives us better ways to kill each other. As society had killed all thought of God,  the madman found no hope in God.  


[[The full work by Nietzsche is available here: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nietzsche-madman.asp]]  


*My notes are from a lecture series by Summit Ministries.  http://www.summit.org/about/


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First Snow of the New Year

this girl is so talented and adorable:)
http://theeggyview.tumblr.com/

I love lakes. alot. 

Christmas

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