I see 'God' as Einstein did. Therefore, I would paint the universe. Perhaps I would do so with a metaphor.. Hmm.. Maybe I should take out my paints and canvases
I see 'God' as Einstein did. Therefore, I would paint the universe. Perhaps I would do so with a metaphor.. Hmm.. Maybe I should take out my paints and canvases
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ~Oscar Wilde.
How would you paint God? With a lot of paint. God's big.
In my novel The Valley of Fire, I portray God as distant, funny, unknowable, desitic-inspired, and genderless. The last part is the toughest, writing dialogue for a character without using gender specific pronouns - but fun.
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I've been working on a painting of Krishna for some time and I've finally realized that although He commonly is described as being blue the right hues for His divine person are various shades of purple.
I read somewhere that only Krishna's incarnation has blue, or purple skin, and in reality his divine form cannot be perceived properly by mortals. So, what we see of Him in paintings is simply a derivation of the artist, and is actually different for whosoever sees him, as is their own reality of maya.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ~Oscar Wilde.
Yes his Krishna's divine form is probably too intense for humans to handle when perceived. In the Gita when He discourses with Arjuna the latter keeps forgetting he is talking to God because uninterupted awareness of such discourse would be too intense for him as well. Krishna's name literally means "black" in Sanskrit, and many, such as Thomas Mann in his novella "The Transposed Heads", have made much of the cult of Krishna as having broken the color barriers that had initially been set up by the Aryan invaders of the Indian sub-continent so long ago, but I think the best description of Krishna's appearence comes from the Vedanta which says He has "a body colored like rain clouds, wrapped in garments resembling lightning and garlanded in forest flowers."
Those are lovely excerpts. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ~Oscar Wilde.
Hey BookBeauty this sounds great.Originally Posted by BookBeauty
I see 'God' as Einstein did. Therefore, I would paint the universe. Perhaps I would do so with a metaphor.. Hmm.. Maybe I should take out my paints and canvases
Would you post it here?
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
hey that sounds lots of fun.
I had somewhere discussed something about using a pronoun that describes both a man and a woman together.
I decided to make one up because there is not one at the minute.
It annoyed me then because my story was about a person that feels both a man and a woman .
I reckon youshould make your one up too.
Let your reader know that youmade it up and use it to write your story.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
This is trolling
I'm confused...what is trolling?This is trolling
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
It's when you make a post that has absolutly nothing to do with the topic of discussion for the purposes of derailing a thread or making people angry. Ironically, whatserface's one-sentence post of "this is trolling" was, in fact, trolling.
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-Pi
I understand what trolling is. What I meant was...What HERE is trolling. I didn't see anything in this thread that was trolling with exception of what you just pointed out.
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
Haha, oh. Sorry.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
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