TRANSITION is a monthly educultural e-magazine that links people of good will and of like mind
through wisdom and justice.
To the Reader,
In our times of fast pace and multiple distractions, we have in good part, lost touch with that part of our lives that broad education and culture offer us.
To fill that void, I have created this distinctive educultural e-magazine, Transition, as a quick and convenient "click away" access to broad, diversified topics ranging from Van Gogh's "Starry Night" to "Freud's legacy," to a Bill Gates interview, to Michelangelo's "Pieta," to classical symphonies and rock concerts, to architecture around the world, to classic film trailers, such as "On the Waterfront," to notable quotations on wisdom and friendship, to the comedian, Rodney Dangerfield, to the psychological observations of the philosopher Schopenhauer, and so forth.
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FAMOUS PAINTINGS & SCULPTURES
Van Gogh - Starry Night
Picasso - Guernica
Klimt - The Kiss
Munch - The Scream
Michelangelo - Pietá
ARCHITECTURE
PHOTOGRAPHS
People And Places
VIDEO TOPICS
SOCIETY
Afghan Women
HISTORY AND CULTURE
People and societies who "started something" that had a significant impact on the development of modern civilization
NATURAL BEAUTY
DANCE
The Tango
"I'm Singing in the Rain" - Gene Kelly
CLASSIC FILMS
Trailer: "On the Waterfront"
Trailer: Lawrence of Arabia
MUSIC VIDEOS
CLASSIC SYMPHONY:
Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto De Aranjuez
CLASSIC ROCK:
The Beatles: "All You Need Is Love"
ON WISDOM
EMINENT PERSONS
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Swiss psychologist
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Greek philosopher,
William Blake (1757 - 1827)
English poet
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
US author
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
French existentialist author & philosopher
Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
English biologist
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
English lyric poet
Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849)
English novelist
Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist
PERCEPTIVE PERSONS
Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
Jamaican reggae musician & singer
Steve Jobs (1955 - )
US computer engineer & industrialist
Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
US choreographer & dancer
Joan Didion (1934 - )
US author & journalist
Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
US television actress
Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
US novelist in China
Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968)
US author
Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
US feminist
Rita Mae Brown
US author and social activist
THEMES I
ON FRIENDSHIP
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Elie Wiesel
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love
risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Ecclesiasticus 6:14
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.(6:14)
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!
Jane Austen
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
La Rochefoucauld
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy
into friend.
Norman Douglas
To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford
to be stupid with them.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert McAfee Brown
How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only
in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people
. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves
us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Rollo May
There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
Seneca
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Simone Weil
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"
Somerset Maugham
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful
for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
William Blake
The bird a nest
the spider a web
the human friendship.
Blaise Pascal
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
To be continued next edition
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Aristotle
On Friendship
[1] AFTER what we have said, a discussion of friendship would naturally follow, since it is a virtue or implies virtue, and is besides most necessary with a view to living. For without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods; even rich men and those in possession of office and of dominating power are thought to need friends most of all; for what is the use of such prosperity without the opportunity of beneficence, which is exercised chiefly and in its mostl audable form towards friends? Or how can prosperity be guarded and preserved without friends?
[2] The greater it is, the more exposed is it to risk. And in poverty and in other misfortunes men think friends are the only refuge. It helps the young, too, to keep from error; it aids older people by ministering to their needs and supplementing the activities that are failing from weakness; those in the prime of life it stimulates to noble actions - 'two going together' - for with friends men are more able both to think and to act. Again, parent seems by nature to feel it for offspring and offspring for parent, not only among men but among birds and among most animals; it is felt mutually by members of the same race, and especially by men, whence we praise lovers of their fellowmen.
[3] We may even in our travels observe how near and dear every man is to every other. Friendship seems too to hold states together, and lawgivers to care more for it than for justice; for unanimity seems to be something like friendship, and this they aim at most of all, and expel faction as their worst enemy; and when men are friends they have no need of justice, while when they are just they need friendship as well, and the truest form of justice is thought to be a friendly quality.
[4] But it is not only necessary but also noble; for we praise those who love their friends, and it is thought to be a fine thing to have many friends; and again we think it is the same people that are good men and are friends.
[5] Not a few things about friendship are matters of debate. Some define it as a kind of likeness and say like people are friends, whence come the sayings 'like to like', 'birds of a feather flock together', and so on; others on the contrary say 'two of a trade never agree'.
[6] On this very question they inquire for deeper and more physical causes, Euripides saying that 'parched earth loves the rain, and stately heaven when filled with rain loves to fall to earth', and Heraclitus that 'it is what opposes that helps' and ' from different tones comes the fairest tune' and 'all things are produced through strife'; while Empedocles, as well as others, expresses the opposite view that like aims at like. The physical problems we may leave alone (for they do not belong to the present inquiry); let us examine those which are human and involve character and feeling, e.g. whether friendship can arise between any two people or people cannot be friends if they are wicked, and whether there is one species of friendship or more than one. Those who think there is only one because it admits of degrees have relied on an inadequate indication; for even things different in species admit of degree. We have discussed this matter previously.
To be continued next edition
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ARTICLE TOPICS
WOMEN
Where Are the Women? http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/79/women.html
MEN
The Great Male Meltdown http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20051227-000004.xml
EARLY YOUTH
Peer Pressure
HUMAN INTEREST STORIES
The used-car blues: exorbitant interest, little recourse
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
Do animals have a sense of right and wrong?
EDUCATION
Universal Education
HEALTH
Study Questions Angioplasty Use in Some Patients
BUSINESS
Why You Should NEVER Spam
SOCIOLOGY
Waking Up From American Dreams
BIOLOGY
Fifty year anniversary of DNA structure discovery
ANTHROPOLOGY
The Littlest Human
PSYCHOLOGY
Freud Legacy Celebrated, Debated
ETHICS
What is Ethics?
RELIGION
Quotations on Religion
SPIRITUALITY
Quotations on Spirituality
ART
The Meaning of Art
FILM
Greatest Box-Office Bombs, Disasters, and Flops
LITERATURE
Why does it matter what translation it is?
HUMOR
Rodney Dangerfield
US actor & comedian
INTERVIEW TOPICS
BUSINESS
The Bill Gates Interview
SOCIETY
Howard Zinn, author and historian
THEATER
Arthur Miller, The Art of Theater
THEMES II
ON EVIL
LITERARY AUTHORS
Churton Collins
We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seed plot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.
D.H. Lawrence
1. At the bottom men love the brute in man best, like a great shire stallion makes one's heart beat.
2. Intellectual appreciation does not amount to so much, it's what you thrill to. And if murder, suicide, rape is what you thrill to, and nothing else, then it's your destiny you can't change it mentally. You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
3. This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
George Bernard Shaw
1. When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
2. It is easy - terribly easy to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
Somerset Maugham
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
Ernest Hemingway
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre (the initial lesion of syphilis commonly a more or less distinct ulcer or sore with a hard base).
Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Charles Dickens
1. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
2. "I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way."
George Eliot
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
Mark Twain
1. Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
2. Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
3. If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
4. I have always felt friendly toward Satan. Of course that is ancestral; it must be in the blood, for I could not have originated it.
5. Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" with his mouth.
6. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
Thomas Hardy
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Abraham Lincoln
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Marriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
'Cause I's wicked, I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
To be continued next edition
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