tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234783319349274920.post7796880404953478536..comments2024-03-28T18:03:15.049-04:00Comments on FOLIO OLIO: FRIDAY 10/26/12Ralph Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05079364726250352589noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234783319349274920.post-79523726314327778232012-12-04T13:55:03.904-05:002012-12-04T13:55:03.904-05:00Very, very well put, sir. Much appreciated.Very, very well put, sir. Much appreciated.Ralph Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05079364726250352589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234783319349274920.post-91161949877724878992012-12-04T13:54:59.310-05:002012-12-04T13:54:59.310-05:00Very, very well put, sir. Much appreciated.Very, very well put, sir. Much appreciated.Ralph Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05079364726250352589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234783319349274920.post-84134193766804847472012-12-04T12:19:52.139-05:002012-12-04T12:19:52.139-05:00The elevator floor was actually done with flat scr...The elevator floor was actually done with flat screen monitors and not a green screen. Here's the video. It's definitely worth a watch:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeXMxuNNlE8<br /><br />I'd also like to say that in Dostoevsky’s famous novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov famously insisted that without God, everything is permitted. This, of course, is simply untrue. Morality is not dependent on the existence of God, and centuries of nontheistic ethical philosophy, from deontology to utilitarianism, has demonstrated this fact. Indeed, contrary to Ivan Karamazov, it is instead true that with God, everything is permitted. Because human beings do not have access to the thoughts of their deities, their religious moral systems frequently conflict with and contradict each other. This has been demonstrated empirically over and over again, as people have at once justified slavery and the abolishment of slavery on religious grounds; they’ve justified indiscriminant killing and the turning of the other cheek on religious grounds; and they’ve justified terrorism and nonviolence for religious reasons. Even worse, the nature of religious faith, or what amounts to beliefs held to be absolutely certain in the absence of any evidence, allows for the justification of any belief whatsoever. With faith, everything is permitted.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04184270962221604961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234783319349274920.post-60040986275971297672012-10-26T15:32:32.106-04:002012-10-26T15:32:32.106-04:00"One of the hardest" covers a lot of rea..."One of the hardest" covers a lot of real estate, old friend.Ralph Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05079364726250352589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234783319349274920.post-24937718975491115782012-10-26T14:49:37.833-04:002012-10-26T14:49:37.833-04:00The hardest stones are umpteen orders of magnitude...The hardest stones are umpteen orders of magnitude harder than marble. Also, the marbles worked by Bernini and his contemporaries weren't even the hardest (most metamorphosed) marbles! Granite isn't close to being the hardest stone, either, but it's much harder than marble.<br /><br />Still, sculpting in marble by hand is a laborious process. Beautiful sweat, etc.Jambehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06373677455129413039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234783319349274920.post-21982516230061605452012-10-26T13:46:19.235-04:002012-10-26T13:46:19.235-04:00your sculpture photo reminded me of something I sa...your sculpture photo reminded me of something I saw while in Italy visiting the Borghese Gallery...Pauline Bonaparte reclining on a mattress sculpted in marble.<br />http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/epaolinab.htm<br />Amazing how "light and fluffy" the marble was made to look. <br />BruceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com