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[Aug. 22nd, 2025|01:09 pm] |
"Much of music as is adapted to the sound of the voice and to the sense of hearing is granted to us for the sake of harmony; and harmony, which has motions akin to the revolutions of our souls, is not regarded by the intelligent votary of the Muses as given by them with a view to irrational pleasure, which is deemed to be the purpose of it in our day, but as meant to correct any discord which may have arisen in the courses of the soul, and to be our ally in bringing her into harmony and agreement with herself; and rythm too was given by them for the same reason, on account of the irregular and graceless ways which prevail among mankind generally, and to help us against them."
/ Plato, Timaeus |
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[Jul. 19th, 2025|10:26 pm] |
"First we must make a distinction and ask, what is that which always is and has no becoming; and what is that which is always becoming and never is? That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is concieved by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is."
/ Plato, Timaeus |
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[Jul. 16th, 2025|09:49 pm] |
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Zombijs ir metafiziska neiespējamība |
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[Jul. 13th, 2025|06:05 pm] |
"The famous "cannibal problem": suppose a cannibal eats the body of another man and then, after his victim's flesh has been assimilated to his own body, the cannibal himself dies. Whose soul gets the matter in question at the resurrection?"
/ Edward Feser, Aquinas |
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[Jul. 10th, 2025|07:33 pm] |
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Beidzot iegāju BreadWay bakery, kurai regulāri eju garām. Garšīga tā maize, silta, aromātiska, interesantas garšas. Bet nu nepirkšu ikdienā kukulīti pa 6 eur. |
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[Jul. 5th, 2025|12:07 pm] |
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Vakar ar draugiem skatījāmies Inside Out 2. Mums tā multfilma bija par ātru. Sekot līdzi varēja, bet tiešām prasījās lēnāk un likās, ka kaut kas tiek palaists garām. Vai tas nozīmē, ka esam jau par vecu mūsdienu pasaulei un tās ritmam? Ak, vai. |
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[Jun. 29th, 2025|04:29 pm] |
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Palaidu garām kurā brīdī Mielavs kļuva nacionāli noskaņots. |
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[Jun. 24th, 2025|12:14 am] |
"Kur mēs mīļi runājām
Tur zied balti āboliņš
Kur mēs sīvi rājāmies
Tur zemīte pušu plīs"
Lai jums priecīgi |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2025|12:07 pm] |
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Uz gavēņa laiku biju pārtraukusi dzert kafiju. Pēc tam atsāku. Un tagad ir kaut kāda jocīga nobīde, kafiju no rītiem negribas, pie ēdiena negribas, bet gribas vakarā. Nu neko, dzeru pirms gulētiešanas. |
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[Jun. 1st, 2025|12:12 pm] |
Izlasīju "Tu dzīvosi mūžīgi, ja kāds mākslinieks tevī iemīlēsies" un uzreiz iedomājos par ![[info]](http://klab.lv/img/userinfo.gif) ctulhu |
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[May. 23rd, 2025|12:28 pm] |
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Alasdērs Makintairs nomiris |
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[May. 22nd, 2025|11:09 am] |
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Severance izskatās pēc seriāla, kuru es gribētu būt noskatījusies, jo interesants sižets, bet negribu skatīties, jo neuzrunā emocionāli. |
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[May. 21st, 2025|09:30 pm] |
Šodien priecīgi atdevu vienu grāmatu un pēc stundas zvanīja kurjers, ka ir pienākusi jaunā. Vakar biju lasījusi par magmas dzīves ciklu un nodomāju, ka šis ir kaut kas līdzīgs. Koks izaug, koksne tiek pārstrādāta grāmatā, grāmata izlasīta, atdota tālāk, nokrīt aiz plaukta un kādā brīdī sadalās sastāvdaļās, saplūst ar zemi, koks izaug.
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"Starp mums ir trauksme. Nekas jau vēl nav noticis. Varbūt nekas arī nenotiks. Bet es saprotu, ko mums reiz mācīja svētdienas skolā, sakot, ka trauksme pastāvēja vēl pirms grēkā krišanas. Ādams vispirms bija trauksmains, un tikai tad nāca visas pārējās nelaimes.
/ Nils Sakss, Augstāk |
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[May. 20th, 2025|08:41 pm] |
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"Specfondos regulāri lasot Theater heute, biju ievērojusi Rišbītera publikācijas. Man ļoti patika gan viņa raksti, gan domāšanas veids un metodiskā pieeja, ko centos arī pati ievērot. Rišbīters uzskatīja, ka rakstot par teātri, jāatzīst - uz skatuves notiekošais arī ir objektīva īstenība, daļa no realitātes. Nevis īstenības spogulis, bet pati realitāte. Atšķirībā no īstenības, kurā dzīvojam, tā ir ātri gaistoša, taču uztverama kā objektīvi eksistējoša. Abstrahējoties no tā, vai tas, kas notiek uz skatuves, tev patīk vai nepatīk un kā tu to interpretē, uz skatuves redzamais pastāv neatkarīgi un notiek ārpus tavas gribas. Tāpēc, pirms sāc paskaidrot, ko tu izrādē saproti un kas tev tur patīk vai nepatīk, ir jānofiksē tas, kas notiek uz skatuves. Tā ir principiāla nostāja, kāda man bija izveidojusies dabiskā ceļā un ko vienmēr esmu uzskatījusi par obligātu, iekams otram cilvēkam sāc stāstīt par savām domām vai, kā to mīl darīt daži kritiķi, par raksta galveno varoni izvirzīt sevi."
/ Freimane, Antigones likums |
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[May. 16th, 2025|12:52 am] |
Bijām ar vilibaldi uz izstādi un tur bija iedvesmojošākā slimnīcas reprezentācija, kādu biju redzējusi. Tā it kā slimnīca nebūtu par slimībām un ārstēšanu, bet vienkārši vēl viena vieta, kur piedzīvot dzīvi. |
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[May. 12th, 2025|09:24 pm] |
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Nejautā otram to, ko tu pats par sevi nevari atbildēt. |
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[May. 10th, 2025|09:00 pm] |
"I was re-reading Swinburne's bitter but not ignoble poem 'Before a Crucifix', in which he bids Christ, or the ecclesiastical image of Christ, stand out of the way of the onward march of a political idealism represented by United Italy or the French Republic. I was struck by the strange and ironic exactitude with which every taunt he flings at the degradation of the old divine ideal would now fit the degradation of his own human ideal. The time has already come when we can ask his Goddess of Liberty, as represented by the actual Liberals, 'Have you filled full men's starved-out souls; have you brought freedom on the earth?' For every engine in which these old free-thinkers firmly and confidently trusted has itself become an engine of oppression and even of class oppression. Its free parliament has become an oligarchy. Its free press has become a monopoly. If the pure Church has been corrupted in the course of two thousand years, what about the pure Republic that has rotted into a filthy plutocracy in less than a hundred?
O, hidden face of man, whereover
The years have woven a viewless veil,
If thou wert verily man's lover
What did thy love or blood avail?
Thy blood the priests make poison of;
And in gold shekels coin thy love'
Which has most to do with shekels to-day, the priests or the politicians? Can we say in any special sense nowadays that clergymen, as such, make a poison out of the blood of the martyrs? Can we say it in anything like the real sense, in which we do say that yellow journalists make a poison out of the blood of the soldiers?
But I understand how Swinburne felt when confronted by the image of the carven Christ, and, perplexed by the contrast between its claims and its consequences, he said his strange farewell to it, hastily indeed, but not without regret, not even really without respect. I felt the same myself when I looked for the last time on the Statue of Liberty."
/ Chesterton |
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[May. 9th, 2025|09:15 pm] |
Saruna par to, ka, lūk, psiholoģiski pareizi esot ravēt nevis tā, lai redzētu, cik daudz vēl jāravē, bet otrādi. Tas atver atmiņu vārtus caur kuriem nonākam pie tā, ka Āgenskalnā kādreiz esot atradušies veļas ruļļi no Ulmaņlaikiem, kas izrullējuši palagus superplānus. Un Valmieras desa skaitījusies ekskluzīva.
Izstādes atklāšanā alus bija tik rūgts kā žults un tā dzeršana asociējas ar vemšanu. Kāpēc ko tik nesakarīgu kāds izdomājis ražot.
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Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perepetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle. If there be no purpose, or if the purpose permits of human free will, then in either case it is almost insanely unlikely that there should be in history a period of steady and uninterrupted progress; or in other words a period in which poor bewildered humanity moves amid a chaos of complications, whithout making a mistake.
/ Chesterton |
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[May. 5th, 2025|12:34 am] |
"In a deeper sense the same spirit is behind both riot and respectability. It is the same social force that makes it possible for the respectable to boycott a man and for the riotous to lynch him. I do not object to it being called "the herd instinct", so long as we realise that it is a methaphor and not an explanation."
"Interviewers in the United States perpetually asked me what I thought of American women, and I confessed a distaste for such generalisations. The Americans, who are the most chivalrous people in the world, may perhaps understand me; but I can never help feeling that there is something polygamous about talking of women in the plural at all; something unworthy of any American except a Mormon."
/ Chesterton |
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[Apr. 30th, 2025|10:42 pm] |
Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Bolshevist solution
I see no use in men who have no solution filling up the gap with sentimentalism.
/Chesterton, What I saw in America |
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