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author | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2019-12-28 06:19:05 +0100 |
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Mnoho úprav
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9215488 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Aleš* diff --git a/computer/re-ooo.rst b/computer/re-ooo.rst index 7a8d6f2..a586c78 100644 --- a/computer/re-ooo.rst +++ b/computer/re-ooo.rst @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ things in the proper geek-like way. Thanks! .. _`vi-family editors`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi .. _`courtesy of Mark Pilgrim`: - http://www.diveintopython.org/regular_expressions/phone_numbers.html + https://diveinto.org/python3/regular-expressions.html#phonenumbers .. _`aricle on Wikipedia`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression .. _`some tutoliar on RE in OOo`: diff --git a/drafts/deus_absconditus.rst b/drafts/deus_absconditus.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49d2bba --- /dev/null +++ b/drafts/deus_absconditus.rst @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Deus absconditus +################ + +:date: 2019-12-28T06:11:55 +:status: draft +:category: faith +:tags: sermon, czech + + + Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden, O God of Israel, + deliverer! + + -- Isaiah 45:15 + +Protože je Bůh skrytý nevíme nikdy úplně jistě jaká je vlastně +situace -> zachovávajme spravedlnost na okamžité důsledky. +Procedurální v. materiální spravedlnost. diff --git a/faith/aristotle-unities.rst b/faith/aristotle-unities.rst index ef600f7..b5a7282 100644 --- a/faith/aristotle-unities.rst +++ b/faith/aristotle-unities.rst @@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ writes: an action that is complete, and whole, and of a certain magnitude … As therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one when the object imitated is one, so the plot, - being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and + being an imitation of an action, *must imitate one action* and that a whole, the structural union of the parts being such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference, is not an organic part - of the whole. + of the whole. (emphasis mine) Based on *Poetics* many literary critics of Renaissance and Baroque developed theory of “`Classical Unities`_”, which then @@ -274,16 +274,16 @@ Fenrir Greyback invades England (he was hiding somewhere in Eastern Europe before) and with his pack of werevolves terrorizes both Muggle and wizarding world. In the same time Wizengamot discusses controversial law on the control of werevolves drafted -by Dolores Umbridge, and we all can imagine just how horrible it -was. The whole school year ends in the double-ending: brutal -battle with the pack of thirteen werevolves in the Hufflepuff -Common Room (which as everybody knows has so laughable protection -that even transformed werewolf can get through it), and political -battle in Wizengamot to push through law providing legal -protection for werevolves. Probably, because the author wrote his -own story and he didn’t have to write into the plot made up by -Ms. Rowling, this third year is probably best written year of all -covered Harry’s years. +by Dolores Umbridge, and you can probably easily imagine just how +horrible it was. The whole school year ends in the double-ending: +brutal battle with the pack of thirteen werevolves in the +Hufflepuff Common Room (which as everybody knows has so laughable +protection that even transformed werewolf can get through it), +and political battle in Wizengamot to push through law providing +legal protection for werevolves. Probably, because the author +wrote his own story and he didn’t have to write into the plot +made up by Ms. Rowling, this third year is probably best written +year of all covered Harry’s years. Another temptation avoided by the author, which could end very poorly (and yet I have read stories like that) is that it turns @@ -319,14 +319,16 @@ Gorbachev abdicates (and he is told that there is a Konstantin Jugashvili, the Dark Lord of Leningrad, who stood behind the Soviet power). Mr. John Major has one small role in the story to play (and putting completely incompetent Minister Fudge in line), -although they miss that The Gulf War started during their first -visit to the Diagon Alley. Also, one of the large subplots -relates to the 1994 Rwanda genocide (which was caused in reality -by the Dark Lord Kinani Ngeze and his nundu). Related to that is -the author includes also international point of view, which is -very nice, because the wizarding world of the Harry Potter -universe is usually horribly English-centric and ignorant of the -world around. +although they miss that during their first visit to the Diagon +Alley couple of streets away the same John Major stood on the +steps of the Downing St. 10 [announcing the Iraq +War](https://youtu.be/RydgEbD_CSI). Also, one of the large +subplots relates to the 1994 Rwanda genocide (which was caused in +reality by the Dark Lord Kinani Ngeze and his nundu). Related to +that is the author includes also international point of view, +which is very nice, because the wizarding world of the Harry +Potter universe is usually horribly English-centric and ignorant +of the world around. One tiny complaint to the general feeling of the book. English are really more reserved than your average American (Australian, diff --git a/faith/augurey.rst b/faith/augurey.rst index 0a3eaa8..e034c89 100644 --- a/faith/augurey.rst +++ b/faith/augurey.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Augurey or loosing of sanity :date: 2019-08-28T16:51:33 :category: faith -:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit (my comments on “`The Augurey`_” by La Matrona, originally published on Reddit_) diff --git a/faith/hermione_granger_paradigm_shift_jewish.rst b/faith/hermione_granger_paradigm_shift_jewish.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..53a857f --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/hermione_granger_paradigm_shift_jewish.rst @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Hermione Granger and the Paradigm Shift … one more thing +######################################################## + +:date: 2019-11-29T15:14:17 +:status: draft +:category: faith +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment + +(instead of the review for “`Hermione Granger and the Paradigm +Shift`_” by Petrificus Somewhatus) + +.. _`Hermione Granger and the Paradigm Shift`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13405869 + +While they were still talking about the true Hermione’s story of +her last five years and something at Hogwarts, David Granger was +getting a bit more pensive. When Hermione finally answered the +last of seemingly endless number of questions her Mum shot at +her, he took his chance and spoke. + +“You know, Hermione, there is also one story we haven’t told +you.” + +Hermione turned with shock to her parents. + +“Wait, what?” + + diff --git a/faith/hinny_siblings.rst b/faith/hinny_siblings.rst index 408c998..07fd8e4 100644 --- a/faith/hinny_siblings.rst +++ b/faith/hinny_siblings.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Harry and Ginny as siblings :date: 2019-07-15T23:07:27 :category: faith -:tags: review, harryPotter, plotBunny +:tags: review, harryPotter, plotBunny, fromReddit Originally published as “`Harry & Ginny are brother and sister`_” on Reddit. diff --git a/faith/hp_redemption.rst b/faith/hp_redemption.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4538db --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/hp_redemption.rst @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +How redeemable is canon Draco Malfoy? +##################################### + +:date: 2019-12-08T22:24:29 +:category: faith +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit + +(originally posted_ on Reddit) + +Yes, everybody is redeemable. I believe redemption stories of some +former SSmen (and SSwomen), guards in the Nazi concentration camps, etc. +Redemption (or let’s use the old-fashioned term “conversion” or +“penance”) however doesn’t mean to somehow excuse previous deeds. It +requires true acknowledgement that these deeds happened, to own them, +and to admit that they were evil. It requires honest asking for +forgiveness. I don’t want to get any political, but it requires at least +on the personal level, something like what Germany did after the Second +World War (see for example recent visit of `Angela Merkel in Auschwitz`_). + +What we see in most so called redemption stories of Draco Malfoy (or +Severus Snape, or Petunia Dursley)? Excuses that those deeds were not so +bad, excuses that they were crippled by their past, excuses by some good +deeds they have done as well (“Your honor, why we are still talking +about those twenty minutes when I was stealing from the bank, and not +about my all my life when I was a good law-abiding citizen?”). Yes, +there could be an interesting story how the path to hell is paved with +good intentions, and how somebody can persuade herself, that being a +Death Eater is The Right Thing to do, but that’s a different type of +literature and I think it would do better for everybody involved if they +were kept separate. What I would be more interested, and what I mostly +still wait for is the story how the main heroes stand in the wreckage of +their lives, they are disgusted in themselves, and they try to build up +their lives back. + +Perhaps the closest i got to it was `Exile by bennybear`_, but +even that was more story of a pureblood trying to find his way in +the strange world of muggles then true redemption story of +dealing with guilt. Nevertheless, it is still a very good story. + +Or perhaps `Dudley’s Memories`_ and `Snape’s Memories`_ by +paganaidd for the Dudley character, not so much for Snape who is +more in the excuses territory. The same author wrote `Digging for +the Bones`_, which is one of the best attempts to do the +redemption for Snape/Severitus, but still I think it mixes too +much of the path-to-hell-pavement with the redemption and it +sometimes balances quite close to making excuses for his +behaviour (BTW, I **love** Molly Weasley in this story). + +.. _`Angela Merkel in Auschwitz`: + https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-50690669/auschwitz-visit-responsibility-for-nazi-crimes-part-of-german-identity-says-merkel + +.. _`Exile by bennybear`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6432055 + +.. _`Dudley’s Memories`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6142629/1/Dudley-s-Memories + +.. _`Snape’s Memories`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6329597/1/Snape-s-Memories + +.. _`Digging for the Bones`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6782408/1/Digging-for-the-Bones + +.. _posted: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/e7hp1z/how_redeemable_is_canon_draco_malfoy/fa3isp1/ diff --git a/faith/laziness.rst b/faith/laziness.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d94165f --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/laziness.rst @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Laziness and Doing Nothing +########################## + +:date: 2019-12-08T21:28:27 +:status: draft +:category: faith +:tags: tags + +Our pastor had today a sermon on the Book of Proverbs about work +and laziness. I liked it very much and I would sign almost +everything he said, but I think there were two things which could +use better explanation. + +One was about the laziness. It is true that whole Bible (and +especially The Book of Proverbs) are really hard on encouraging +hard work and overcoming laziness. I completely agree with that, +but unfortunately it can give a wrong idea. I spent years of +trying to overcome my laziness and be a good lawyer. I have +loathed myself for not being a good husband well providing for my +family, for not working dilligently, until I finally crumbled was +fired from my job and ended up in the outpatient psychotherapy +care to sort myself out. It took me another couple of years of +healing by The God’s Mercy to find out diff --git a/faith/problem-of-wands.rst b/faith/problem-of-wands.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49101a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/problem-of-wands.rst @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +The Problem of Peter Pevensie and The Problem of Wands +###################################################### + +:date: 2019-10-17T19:00:08 +:status: draft +:category: faith +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment + +(my comment on the discussion under “`Summer Vacation`_” by +Forrest_of_Holly) + +I have rather complicated history with the Deathly Hallows. +I have bought the book six hours after it was published (no +I couldn’t bother myself to get up at midnight) while on the +work-related conference in Birmingham (I am a Czech from Prague +otherwise), read it over-night, so I flew home rather blurry, and +I thought that it is the best book of the series. Longer I think +about that (and longer I participate in the discussions about it +on the Internet), more I am discouraged. It seems to me that +Horcruxes, whole camping area, and the finale is very much +under-thought plotcruch and that the whole book is just thinly +covered one large plothole. Certainly whole idea about the +transfer of ownership of wands seems to me more like *deus ex +machina* more than anything else. + +Of course, Ms Rowling has to struggle with the bane of all +children/young-adult books, which I called The Problem of Peter +Pevensie. In the finale of the first book from The Chronicles of +Narnia series, we should believe that thirteen year old +(magically slightly grown older) boy defeated in the fair battle +the mightiest of all witches of the superhuman size. It is barely +possible to do it in the book, where the suspense of unbelief is +more simple, but when they tried to make a film from the Narnia +Chronicles, the result is a pure disaster: thirteen year old boy +fighting adult warrioress just looks ridiculous, whatever film +magic you apply (similarly, it turned impossible to make a good +film Aslan … whatever they tried he looks still like a overgrown +plush toy). + +The same problem applies to the Harry Potter series: we need to +believe that a seventeen year old boy (with substandard training +in the magical defence) beat adult superwizard who has otherwise +no adversary equal to him (and whom we seen in the end of the +sixth volume battle with Albus Dumbledore in show of incomparable +strength). The only way how to get around it and not finish +completely ridiculous is to arrange some trick (or make it +a group battle with Harry’s allies on his side … e.g., the finale +of “`Escape by SingularOddities`_”). However, if you consider the +subtle net of intrigues and stratagems which all must to fall in +proper places for whole thing to work and Harry survive, it is +absolutely crazy to consider that as a reasonable war plan. If +this was the best Albus Dumbledore came up with, then his +strategical thinking was not very impressive. So, that’s my +opinion on the seventh book of the series. (and don’t let me +start on films: day after the last battle, when still plenty of +dangerous criminals are running through the land, the main hero +and the primary target of any possible assassination is +effectively wandless, because he didn’t repair his original wand, +and broke The Elder Wand). + +Now technically (using only arguments from the inside of HP +universe) to the problem of wands. Obviously, any disarming +cannot lead to the change of ownership of a wand, that would be +crazy. “`The Wheel Is Come Full Circle by White_Squirrel`_\ ” +came with the limit, that there must be an intent of the winner +of the duel to use the acquired wand as his own, not only to +disarm your opponent. That actually works in the Deathly Hallows +situation (more or less, it doesn’t explain very well how Draco +Malfoy became owner of the Wand of Destiny in the first place, +but both Harry in the Malfoy Manor, Dumbledore in the duel with +Grindewald, and Grindewald stealing the wand from Grigorovitch +work), and it can limit the potential misuse of the rule in the +normal magical life. Another alternative is to limit this +ownership exchange theory just to the Elder Wand (or any possible +special super-wands) and all other wands just follow the +Ollivander’s mantra of “wand choosing her master” and make wand +transfer effectively impossible (meaning, every wand works +somehow for every wizard/witch, but the ones which haven’t chosen +their owner, work very poorly; but that doesn’t explain how +Hermione battled successfully against Bellatrix Lestrange using +her own wand, which she did not acquire in the duel with her). It +is just a mess. + +.. _`Summer Vacation`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/18853210 + +.. _`Escape by SingularOddities`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11916243 + +.. _`The Wheel Is Come Full Circle by White_Squirrel`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/14072127 diff --git a/faith/religionless-hp.rst b/faith/religionless-hp.rst index b47120c..5d24154 100644 --- a/faith/religionless-hp.rst +++ b/faith/religionless-hp.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Religionless universe of Harry Potter :date: 2019-03-30T20:33:21 :category: faith -:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment +:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit (my comments on the thread “`Probably gonna catch some hate for this. Religion and Mythology and its place in fiction.`_” on diff --git a/faith/terms_of_matrimony.rst b/faith/terms_of_matrimony.rst index 1cced88..c47874b 100644 --- a/faith/terms_of_matrimony.rst +++ b/faith/terms_of_matrimony.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Terms of Matrimony :date: 2019-02-07T23:48:04 :category: faith -:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment +:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit (my comments on “`Terms of Matrimony`_” by Galad Estel) diff --git a/faith/vokoun_luther.rst b/faith/vokoun_luther.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b9ab2e --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/vokoun_luther.rst @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +I love Luther! +############## + +:date: 2019-11-15T08:09:02 +:status: draft +:category: computer +:tags: review, Luther, Christianity, theology + +I just finished reading the book “`Luther: finale of the medieval +spirituality`_” [Luther - finále středověké zbožnosti] by +Jaroslav Vokoun (Karmelitánské nakladatelství, Praha, 2017, ISBN +978-80-7195-890-1, in Czech). + +The main thesis of the book is relateively simple although rather +surprising to many mainstream Protestants: the spirituality of +Martin Luther was not so much break from the medieval +spirituality but more its continuation. The reason why we have +tendency to believe otherwise, is because it is based on the +monkish spirituality, a way more practical, medidtative, and +pastoral, in the opposition to the scholastic (academic) +spirituality which dominated the mainline Church then and it +dominates the Roman-Catholic Church until recently. Particularly, +the author emphasizes the relationship between Martin Luther and +St. Berhnard. + +Author then illustrates this point on couple of main topic which +covers the rest of the book. There are chapters dealing with the +Lord’s Supper, the mass, the general priesthood of all believers, +study of Bible and sources of the theology, understanding of Mary +generally and her Magnificat specifically. The last couple of +chapters are more metahistory of the later development of the +relationship between the Roman-Catholic Church and Martin Luther, +which started in the lowest possible point until the recent much +more open and accepting (including the discussion of the +Lutheran-Catholic commission and declarations they were able to +sign together, specifically is mentioned the most important of +them “`Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification`_\ ”). + +I will deal with my review only with two of them: the first and +the last. + +.. _`Luther: finale of the medieval spirituality`: + https://ikarmel.cz/produkt/luther-finale-stredoveke-zboznosti + +.. _`Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification`: + http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_31101999_cath-luth-joint-declaration_en.html + +https://www.biblicaltraining.org/martin-luther/gordon-isaac + +Martin Luther + +The life and impact of Martin Luther on the Reformation and beyond. +Dr. Gordon Isaac +Gordon Conwell Seminary |