December 2003  *  Web version

 

CHRISTODOULOS OF ATHENS AND ALL GREECE, With or without Christianity?

... Without Christianity, the United Europe will not become a society but a company. It will be unable to develop into anything more than a well-organised group of people, connected between them only with the frosty logic of the rights of the individual. In Christian society, human relations are governed by the wealth of the soul, and it is only when this latter has become exhausted that we resort to the law. In contrast, in a company the law stipulates the nature and the manner of the relations so that the whole may be maintained in order, so one is then left with the impression that one’s self develops as one thinks fit. I wonder, how much loneliness will be needed before we realise that the development of personality outside the blessed society is precisely what is described in the parable of the Prodigal Son? ... (Read complete)

PLOTINUS, The soul's movement will be about its source

... Every soul that knows its history is aware, also, that its movement, unthwarted, is not that of an outgoing line; its natural course may be likened to that in which a circle turns not upon some external but on its own centre, the point to which it owes its rise. The soul's movement will be about its source; to this it will hold, poised intent towards that unity to which all souls should move and the divine souls always move, divine in virtue of that movement; ... (Read complete)

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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA, O the perfect child!

... Who, then, is this infant child? He according to whose image we are made little children. ... O the great God! O the perfect child! The Son in the Father, and the Father in the Son. And how shall not the discipline of this child be perfect, which extends to all, leading as a schoolmaster us as children who are His little ones? He has stretched forth to us those hands of His that are conspicuously worthy of trust. ... (Read complete)

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A note on W.B Yeats, The Culture of the Sign, Van Goghs Allee des Alyscamps (1888) & An Epiphany at McDonalds - by 'Orwell' ||| Precipice & Precipitation @ the Copperfield Dictionary.

* Al. Schmemann, Η ζωή του κόσμου (ο χριστιανισμός δεν είναι θρησκεία)
* Karl Jaspers, Ένα μάθημα για τον θάνατο
 
Χάρη στη συνεργασία της Νέλης Παππά

Windows Hardcore /System tools

Karen's Show Stopper allows you to shutdown Windows in various ways (Power Off, Logoff, Suspend [StandBy], Hibernate, etc.), from a Windows shortcut, a system tray icon, or from the program's main window. You can also specify a group of tasks (programs) that will run immediately before the shutdown, logoff, etc.

Hotkeycontrol XP is a utility that allows you to set hotkeys to do common tasks like opening files, ejecting your cdrom drives, restarting your computer, controlling active windows, controlling Windows media player and Winamp 3, changing volume, typing in commonly used text (macros) and more. A little difficult to configure and it cannot control the media players when they are out of focus.

Links (all in pdf format)

Clement of Alexandria and the beginnings of Christian platonism, by R.Casey - thanks to Fr. Nicholas for this suggestion.

 

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