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[ by Charles Cameron — simply blown away ]
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Cath Styles and her team have worked even more magic with the latest (at least to my knowledge) board for the Museum Game at the National Museum of Australia

Beautiful. Huzzah!!

[ by Charles Cameron — Master Zenpundit echoing Master Rainer Maria Rilke ]
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Zen (upper panel) this morning on FaceBook:

And Rilke (lower panel) speaking into the “maddening wind” (the Föhn) on the cliffs by Schloss Duino:

Or maybe Shakespeare can give us a no less powerful comparison?

Sound and fury, signifying nothing?

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On the one hand, it’s the human condition, at least in these modern times: too much noise drowns out the signal… On the other, the occasional word belted into the wind does get through, eh? Or so we hope…

That’s why we blog.

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“]
  

I Knew Hitler – Kurt Ludecke 

The Classical World – Robin Lane Fox 

Ludecke was an obscure “old fighter” Nazi and intimate of Hitler’s who fell out on the wrong side of the Night of the Long Knives and managed to escape Himmler’s death list and flee Germany to write a sizable memoir covering the Nazi Party’s earliest days. Like Putzi Hanfstaengl’s Hitler: the Missing Years, Ludecke is gamely trying to cast himself in the best light even as he illuminates  a less polished and amateurish provincial politician that was Hitler while the Fuhrer was clawing his way into power.

Fox is a well known classicist  and biographer of Alexander the Great  and his book is a sweeping review of the classical world from the end of the Greek dark age to the decline of Rome

[ by Charles Cameron — always on the lookout for intriguing double-images ]
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This really clears up confusion between polar and cartesian coordinates. pic.twitter.com/02euAzTBQn

— Christopher Clark (@Frencil) January 1, 2014

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There’s an implied “this is to that as this is to that” double analogy here. Just how well or ill it teaches coordinate systems I leave to others to decide — even without the analogical joking though, it’s an intriguing visual juxtaposition.

[ by Charles Cameron — some good advice from Tim Furnish, which Jerry Boykin doesn’t appear to have heard… ]
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Gen. Jerry Boykin (upper panel, below), speaking with his visionary preacher friend, Rick Joyner, naturally has the right to voice his views, including those that see Middle Eastern geopolitics through the lens of Isaiah 17:1-3…

… but he might want to listen to blog-friend Dr Timothy Furnish (lower panel, above) — a fellow Christian and conservative — first.

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I fear that at the moment, Boykin sounds more vigilant than sober, though both are jointly scripturally mandated at 1 Peter 5:8.

Here Boykin & Joyner discuss Syria, Biblical Prophecy, And The End Times:

Rick JOYNER: And we’re seeing Biblical prophecy unfold.
Jerry BOYKIN: We are.
JOYNER: These are times in which things are unfolding in scripture, and one of the Scriptures that has never been fulfilled…
BOYKIN: Unhuh…
JOYNER: …and has to be fulfilled before this age can end, is that Damascus will be destroyed, never inhabited again.
BOYKIN: I share your concern, Rick, and as you say, certainly, and I’ve said this for a long time, one of the ways that Damascus could be destroyed, never to be reoccupied, would be through a chemical attack. So let’s just take a scenario…

Interested? You can hear Boykin’s scenario of Assad’s final gesture in utter defeat, here.

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Sources:

Boykin

Furnish

I hope to discuss Boykin’s friendship with Joyner [“our only hope is a military takeover; martial law“] and what it may portend, in a subsequent post.