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Logics vs Rhetorics
We often can hear and say about some questions like 'oh, it's rethoric question' - may be it's because of no wish to discuss or may be because of inanity (бессмысленность) of the question.
There was a time when neither logics nor rethorics didn't existed. And that man was more convinced who had more power it is to be supposed...
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Of gods and men
Some days ago I have seen the film "Of gods and men" of Xavier Beauvois (film of 2010). The film is based on the real events.
The story begins with couple verses of psalm 81 where there is spoken about the following (approx): you can be the sons of God but you can die as men... The real story which got the director is evidently about it: the monks ( Read more... ) -
With what a creativity starts and where it ends...
In recent time such following question often comes to my mind: what is creativity act and when does act what act does stop to be creative? Can our common life/work/relations be creative?
When we think about creativity we imagine artists, musicians, poets and writers as a rule. When musiciancomposes (сочинять) classic music we almost always agree ( Read more... ) -
The Ascent ("Восхождение")
Couple days ago I watched one soviet film - "The Ascent" ("Восхождение") of 1976. Film is based on the novel "Sotnikov" of V.Bykov and plot occurs during the World War II. Starting as usual war story the fil gradually постепенно, по ходу дела) puts an attention of watcher to the some different sides of reality. Not evidently but certaintly - you ( Read more... ) -
After Aurelius Augustinus
It's so pity that I didn't read yet Augustine (pity cause I'd like to write about him couple of lines and it's not enough at all to read about him in the digest '100 Philosophers')...
From the article one can learn that Augustine was born in Africa, taught in Rome, hived wisdom (набираться мудрости) in Milan at Ambrose of Mediolan and served in ( Read more... ) -
Uzbekistan, the Land of Tamerlane descendants and Daewoo automobiles.
I'd rather not write one more story about trip to an exotic country and describe details of route, transport and lodging for the night. I try to tell about some my feelings...
Though it's impossible to avoid several necessary details. So, our way (including the transfer points): Astana (Kazakhstan) -Tashkent (Uzb) - couple places in the Tashkent ( Read more... ) -
A.S.Pushkin as the sun of Russian poetry
F.M.Dostoevsky named Pushkin as ‘sun of Russian poetry’ and was right. To understand it one can give such example: the Beatles is in the music. And if to multiply their significance in the music to the talent to analyze the man and society we get the image of Pushkin, image of his that sun.
Like many geniuses Pushkin probably couldn’t assesst the ( Read more... ) -
The Golden rule
Recently I’ve read the text of one speaking on ted.com - about the Golden rule (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/karen_armstrong_let_s_revive_the_golden_rule.html). And comments to this text. As usual - commentators are in own certain style: religion is nothing; it’s easy to speak, difficult to do…
So, what’s the problem? This rule - a positive ( Read more... ) -
Walking through the Waldschweine
Looking to at the “Waldschweine” comic strip I saw only a light humorous story and the first intentsion was to write some joke, a wisecrack (саркастическое замечание; шпилька; смешилка). Indeed, heroes of the story were enough funny and cheerful enough to suppose so. Then I thought that it must be not bad to see a dictionary to look for how a title ( Read more... )
