follower or subscriber of Jesus

 follower or subscriber of Jesus

fiction

edward w pritchard

With all the modern Science and no one really observing a bona vide miracle in the sense that philosopher David Hume discusses in his essay " on Miracles " we must ask are you a follower or subscriber of Jesus?

If someone you knew and trusted had watched the crucifixion and objectively described the proceedings would you continue to believe? The point being watching a man slowly tortured, die suddenly by a spear through his side to his heart,  is important stuff. Why would somebody who was an eye witness lie about 

that?

it's a shame we don't have the perception of Hubble[ that's Mr. telescope to me]

 it;s a shame we don't have the perception of Hubble [ that's Mr. Telescope to me]

fiction

edward w pritchard

It's a shame we don't have the perception of the Hubble telescope, floating out there in space finding fabulous distant galaxies that some second assistant NASA scientist programs him to spend fourteen days staring  at across the universe. If I did I wouldn't worry about how many trillion distant galaxies there were.

instead I would wish I could understand Iris Murdoch's book "Metaphysics as a guide to Morals". 

First off before I introduce you to Iris you should know she ended her life with Altztimers disease. Too, too

bad for what an ironic way for one of histories most intelligent women writers to die. C'est la vie I suppose. 

While you go to the internet and look up Iris Murdoch and her book [ skip the novels I am sorry to have to say] I am going to look on you tube tonight and spend a little time with my pal Hubble on the internet and explore what he has surmised from his work about the true nature of Time and the distant universe. Of course I have been having a few beers and am out of sync with time here on earth because of the October time change in 

America. Why must we do that each year?

So I walked outside tonight at about 2AM and looked up at the stars and planets for a few minutes. What happened to the new Moon I saw about five hours ago?

Back on Iris Murdoch I like the last chapter of her book mentioned above " Metaphysics  a summary". If you have time please read it. She says' people will use such devices as they have for survival". Who said there were no monumental female authors?

whose simpatico

 whose simpatico

fiction

edward w pritchard

Whose simpatico with youse? and more importantly when will the great invisible change occur that dissipates that simpaticability? It can't be repaired. 

Pink Floyd the band said " and when the band your in starts playing different tunes , I'll see  you on the dark side of the moon.

 I'll sit under the grapevines in the rain carving a curved knotted chipped  branch into my missing souls invisible original face while I wait. Sometimes I run and run across  endless plains of burning grasslands helping the others drive panicked buffalo herds to their deaths at the bottom of the canyons. Sometimes I sit in my cave and assist the storms to abate while I pray for the dawn. 

Words, words, words they can't repair lost time. Despair, hopelessness and the endless void. 

great American paintings

 great American paintings

fiction

edward w pritchard

A great American painting is " Edward Hopper's " Early Sunday Morning, 1930". To me it's a study in loneliness and hopelessness. It reminds me of a Tennessee Williams memory play without the characters. 

world's greatest painting

 World's greatest painting

fiction

edward w pritchard

Our tastes change over time. But for me, since I first saw Rogier Van Der Weyden's " Descent from the cross" at the Prado in Madrid, Spain, Rogier's masterpiece is to me the greatest painting ever made. 

The painting grabs the casual observer and drags them into the pathos. Mary faints, turns very pale and St John rushes to support her. Each character in the painting is all to human in a moment of extreme stress.

 

this stock market mania ends badly

 this stock market mania ends badly

fiction

edward w pritchard

This stock market mania ends badly. As proof I offer the picture of Oswald Krel painted in 1499 by Albrecht Durer. Please look it up on google images. Notice the deep hysterical look on Krel's face in Durer's picture.  In fact in Durer's picture, if Krel had a wallstreet jacket on Krel  could pass for a modern guest on the business news discussing today's bit coin closing prices. Notice Krel's eyes rolling fearfully to the left in Durer's picture.

Imaginary money and imaginary thoughts of the ultra wealthy avoiding death by taking personal spaceships to Mars and living in petite life saving pods to avoid the congestion and turmoil of Earth.   

deciphering the enigma of time

 deciphering the enigma of time

edward w pritchard

The internet is an amazing resource and using it I have come to grips with the age old question of is time real and do the past and future actually exist. However although I have learned much on the internet about time from watching scientists, philosophers and various persons of genius it is from a more obscure source that I have come to get my arms and mind about the true nature of Time's existence for humans as we dash through  space clutching the earth which is spinning rapidly and dashing across the universe pulled and pushed by the Sun. 

My source for deciphering the true nature of time is the singer T bone Walkers Stormy Monday  Blues rendition. Listen to it for your self paying special attention to his description of the sadness in the future days of the week to come for him such as the days after the Stormy Monday in question which include Tuesday being just as bad [ for the blues to overcome him ] and Wednesday being worse etc as T Bone Walker foresees and predicts the future for himself before it actually occurs. 

 As I said elsewhere time has no reality for he who mourns. Listen to stormy Monday blues by t bone walker

it's a brief history of time for him.