January 31
THE PROP
As children hold on to a pillar and circle round it, may I, O Lord, make you the prop of my life so that I may not fall.
Electricity energizes the bulb, the call bell, the heater and the motor. Energy is the prop to diverse contrivances useful to man. Sun as energy is the prop to life at all levels. When the sun cools down all manifest life will become dormant. when it is shining ceaselessly all beings maintain their individualities.
Brahman, the Pure Consciousness is the prop of the universe sentient and insentient.
--- Vedanta
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ROCHEFOUCAULD
RÉFLEXIONS OU SENTENCES ET MAXIMES MORALES
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Ceux qu'on condamne au supplice affectent quelquefois une constance et un mépris de la mort qui n'est en effet que la crainte de l'envisager. De sorte qu'on peut dire que cette constance et ce mépris sont à leur esprit ce que le bandeau est à leurs yeux.
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La philosophie triomphe aisément des maux passés et des maux à venir. Mais les maux présents triomphent d'elle.
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21.—Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
22.—Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
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High-tech survey reveals ancient Maya cities, highway network hidden in jungle
古代マヤ文明の集落や幹線道路見つかる、 中米グアテマラの密林で
A new high-tech study has revealed nearly 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, according to a statement on Jan. 16 from a research team of Guatemala’s FARES anthropological research foundation.
The settlements include 417 cities linked by what may be the world’s first highway network. The cities were hidden for centuries by the dense jungles of northern Guatemala and southern Mexico.
The research used so-called lidar technology. Planes flew over the dense forest, firing lasers into the ground. The lidar data let researchers make maps of the structures below the vegetation.
The researchers said they found around 177 km of wide highways made of stone. They date to around 1,000-350 B.C.
The findings were first published in December in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica. (Reuters)
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Dueteronomy 025
Chapter 25
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1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
