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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_art

Subject matter

Most Romanesque sculpture is pictorial and Biblical in subject. A great variety of themes are found on capitals and include scenes of Creation and the Fall of Man, episodes from the life of Christ and those Old Testament scenes which prefigure his Death and Resurrection, such as Jonah and the Whale and Daniel in the Lions' Den. Many Nativity scenes occur, the theme of the Three Kings being particularly popular. The cloisters of Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey in Northern Spain, and Moissac are fine examples surviving complete.

A feature of some Romanesque churches is the extensive sculptural scheme which covers the area surrounding the portal or, in some case, much of the facade. Angouleme Cathedral in France has a highly elaborate scheme of sculpture set within the broad niches created by the arcading of the facade. In Spain, an elaborate pictorial scheme in low relief surrounds the door of the church of Santa Maria at Ripoll.[6]
Around the upper wall of the chancel at the Abbaye d'Arthous, Landes, France, are small figures depicting lust, intemperance and a Barbary ape, symbol of human depravity.pic P Charpiat

The purpose of the sculptural schemes was to convey a message that the Christian believer should recognize wrong-doing, repent and be redeemed. The Last Judgement reminds the believer to repent. The carved or painted Crucifix, displayed prominently within the church, reminds the sinner of redemption.
Ouroboros, single and in pairs at Kilpeck, England

Often the sculpture is alarming in form and in subject matter. These works are found on capitals, corbels and bosses, or entwined in the foliage on door mouldings. They represent forms that are not easily recognizable today. Common motifs include Sheela na Gig, fearsome demons, ouroboros or dragons swallowing their tails, and many other mythical creatures with obscure meaning. Spirals and paired motifs originally had special significance in oral tradition that has been lost or rejected by modern scholars.

The Seven Deadly Sins including lust, gluttony and avarice are also frequently represented. The appearance of many figures with oversized genitals can be equated with carnal sin, and so can the numerous figures shown with protruding tongues, which are a feature of the doorway of Lincoln Cathedral. Pulling one's beard was a symbol of masturbation, and pulling one's mouth wide open was also a sign of lewdity. A common theme found on capitals of this period is a tongue poker or beard stroker being beaten by his wife or seized by demons. Demons fighting over the soul of a wrongdoer such as a miser is another popular subject.[8]

Economic gluttony is a criminal act.

>> ^imstellar28:
The concept of a material object being a fundamental right is logically incongruent.
A. Humans have the fundamental right to defend against the theft of their property
B. Humans have the fundamental right to water
If B is true, then someone must be provided with water even if nobody is willing or able to provide it. Taking someone's water against their will would be a violation of A, thus A and B cannot both be true at the same time. I think we can all agree that A is true because theft is almost universally condemned as a crime, so B must be supported by invalid assumptions.
>> ^L0cky:
why so?



Actually, the concept of ownership is fundamentally flawed.

Aside from laws and rules that are invented by the powerful to exploit the weak, nobody owns anything more than what they need to survive.

If you have more than you need to survive, and others are suffering or dying due to your hoarding, you are by definition a criminal.

Economic gluttony is a criminal act.

*promote

Looking through the ol' P-Queue, saw this and now I know what I'm having for dinner. In honor of my gluttony, I send this back to *Beggar's Canyon.

America: Exporting Operating Systems AND Gluttony

I'm sure they could've asked for bacon if they were truly proper *geeks. Is this really *cooking, or just some sort of food-trocity? Ah, he can't breathe, and yet he's going for the second bite anyway. Brilliant? Oh, and gluttony *fail for the bald guy.

Interesting to see the Japanese in suits at Burger King... it truly is a different culture.

>> ^maximillian:
So does watching someone (a stranger) consume copious amounts of alcohol or drugs fall under "nothing disgusts me?" How about someone exhibiting other acts such as sloth, gluttony, vainglory, greed, or self-pride even if they are not trying to be cruel to someone else? Should we not, in love, try to get that person to better themselves? Under this motto we shouldn't because it doesn't "disgusts me".


Easy now, Judge Dread...he didn't say anything about action, just perspective. Compassion comes from understanding, not contempt.

If you're viewing others with disgust, maybe you should be disgusted by your own hubris? Just a thought.

>> ^maximillian:
So does watching someone (a stranger) consume copious amounts of alcohol or drugs fall under "nothing disgusts me?" How about someone exhibiting other acts such as sloth, gluttony, vainglory, greed, or self-pride even if they are not trying to be cruel to someone else? Should we not, in love, try to get that person to better themselves? Under this motto we shouldn't because it doesn't "disgusts me".


It's just a way of saying things for crying out loud. He's making a point that deliberate cruelty is the worse thing about humanity. Stop taking it so literally.

So does watching someone (a stranger) consume copious amounts of alcohol or drugs fall under "nothing disgusts me?" How about someone exhibiting other acts such as sloth, gluttony, vainglory, greed, or self-pride even if they are not trying to be cruel to someone else? Should we not, in love, try to get that person to better themselves? Under this motto we shouldn't because it doesn't "disgusts me".

Also isn't gluttony a deadly sin? Shouldn't fatty be stoned?

I really don't know the man, only what i've read from the above link... However.

Clearly a celebration of the human achievments we've made like the flurescent lightbulb... oh yeah.. by running my AC with the heater!... Viva la human achievment...

We should really cook off a few nukes while we're at it... just to make a really great show of it!

And not at all an attempt at 'getting even'. Readin the posts of many of his followers they seem to be much more interested in rejoicing in vindictive nature of it... (Against who i wonder?). Does deliberatly being wastefull REALLY celebrate anything other than gluttony and decadence?... Do you think the people who developed those energy saving technologies would view energy being wasted as a fitting or appropriate tribute?...

>> ^MINK:
gluttony is a deadly sin.
apparently the audience forgot that.


^Mink's quote was funnier than the clip.

It was lot harder to pick one sifted and one pqueued video than I thought it would be. And I wasn't even trying to pick any favorites (which these are not), just a couple I thought worthy of mention. I decided to go with a theme - obscure and great animation videos that didn't get nearly enough attention.

Sifted: http://www.videosift.com/video/La-Faim-Hunger
A very cool animation about gluttony, from the National Film Board of Canada.

PQueued: http://www.videosift.com/video/Crow-Moon
I can't think of anything to write about this except that I love it and you all should watch it.

gluttony is a deadly sin.

apparently the audience forgot that.

I think that any "fix" to our economy that doesn't address the gross disparity in wealth that is common in America is doomed to failure.

As I see it, all of the problems begin when we allow too few people to own and control too much of our wealth and too many of our resources.

Almost all of the layoffs that we're seeing today can be translated into the few people at the top of the pyramid hoarding all of the salaries and wages that would otherwise have been distributed throughout the organization.

Economic gluttony is a criminal act.