Le Fils De L’Homme (Son of Man)

 [I invite readers to express their opinions and ideas about this piece of art - comment!]
    The oil painting, "Son of Man" by Rene Magritte, was completed in 1964. The painting depicts a man in a suit and bowler hat; an average looking businessman of the era. The man wears a red tie, the only color in his outfit and the background is a mix of grays, blues, and white. A hovering apple hides the man’s face and he stands in front of a stone wall in which the hazy blue ocean peeks out behind him...

Gods, Devas, the Divine: Appearing to Men from the skies in vessels of fire?

 From multiple sources....I bring to you readers a small collection of information and photographs, which touch on a controversial subject for most people. The most important aspect of this topic is not necessarily the possibility of extraterrestrials or anything of that nature indefinitely, but more so (to me at least) the possibility of advanced civilizations in human-kinds' distant past. For example, just because there are quite a few primitave civilizations on the planet, does not mean that the two couldn't have coexisted -same era, on the same planet! Look at our world today, you have the big ol' Western civilizations, then compare that to the many more "primative" third-world type of places across the globe. I bet you most of those folks would take one look at our technology and think that something like say your fancy iPhone was a 'magic oricle scroll sent from the gods'...
    Anywho! If archaeological and historical evidence show us something like this, we can't just shrug off the opportunity to better understand and learn our past (I mean then we might be able to see where the future is headed...). This post is merely a means to evaluate bits of this evidence and allow readers to establish their own opinions/theories... Besides! At the very least you can be entertained!




An Analysis of Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World

written by Sierra Nevada

"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in't!"

-Shakespeare’s The Tempest

        Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World is a dystopian piece of fiction that was published in 1932 in London by Chatto and Windus. The novel takes place in a futuristic society where no longer are children raised by their parents. Infants are genetically manufactured and programmed to be ideal adults in a tightly knit community. The main character struggles to fit in because of a decanting malfunction that enabled him to think for himself and analyze situations. This outcast, throughout the novel, grasps a better understanding of the underlying workings of society, which create an urge for him to be alone and discover what else is outside of the bubble of community he is stuck in. Eventually he travels to a place where people still live and thrive in the old ways, isolated from the ideal world. There he meets a half-savage young man who turns his life around and opens his eyes. In the end of it all the society doesn’t change but some of the main characters are relocated to a place where their differences are accepted and they can live without constant ridicule as they were before.