just thought the same. would explain the
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>OWL = Online Window (Vatican) Library which is a monthly newsletter put out by the Holy See
WHOA - everyone's looking for the OWL and the Guardian, and they both could be right there within the Vatican walls.
>https:// joansrome.wordpress.com/about/
The RED Cross as a poppy - hmm, never thought of that before,
but does make sense once pondered for a moment.
after this morning, ditchin the academic connections and aiming straight for the source, but if you wanna dig a bit deeper, always happy to read interesting sauce.
sorry not to clarify, you're right on the $ imo.
question i was proposing is who is pulling MEK's strings?
and who is pulling MEK's stringpullers' strings?
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>OWL = Online Window (Vatican) Library
More sauce on the Vatican Library:
God’s Librarians
The Vatican Library enters the 21st century.
The library was founded as a public information resource, but the Vatican’s relationship to knowledge and authority is vexed.
But “The Secret History” painted a devastating new portrait of Justinian and his inner circle as venal, corrupt, immoral, and un-Christian. The tidbits about Justinian’s wife, Theodora, were so shocking that Nicolò Alamanni, the librarian who found the manuscript, omitted them from the printed edition.
So controversial that some readers decided it must be a hoax, “The Secret History” set off a bitter debate about just who Justinian was, and raised questions about the way history is written—about the relationship of power to truth—that have persisted to this day.
nother is that although the library was founded as, essentially, a public information resource, the Vatican itself has had a historically vexed relationship to knowledge, power, secrecy, and authority. Its library may possess some of the most ancient manuscripts of Scripture in existence, but for centuries the Catholic Church held that ordinary people shouldn’t be able to read the Bible—that the Old and New Testaments themselves should be a kind of “secret history” for everyone but the scholar-priests trained to decipher the arcane tongues in which they were written.
>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/01/03/gods-librarians
interesting interview:
>https://www.fairobserver.com/region/middle_east_north_africa/living-and-escaping-a-terrorist-cult-31041/
How was MeK different from other political organizations? What is your definition of a cult, and how does it fit into that image?
Masoud Banisadr: Cults resemble slavery more than they do political parties, which are idea-based. Cults, on the contrary, are leader- and behavior-based. They claim to have an ideology that is useful for recruitment, to use it as a mind manipulation tool and to glue followers to each other. But when you look at them closely, you will see that they have taken shape around a leader and a code of behavior dictated by that leader.
Cult dogmas are shaped around behavior. For example, for a cult member, it is more important how he looks than how he thinks. In MeK, you could say I don’t believe in this or that principal of Islam, and nobody cared much. But if you behaved differently, if you didn’t follow or have enough loyalty toward the leader, you couldn’t stay in MeK for a second—same as al-Qaeda, same as Daesh [Islamic State]. In all of these organizations, you can see that what is important is survival of the group and absolute loyalty and obedience toward the leader.
The other main difference is that a cult is a way of life, and as slavery there is no way out of it till you die. When you are a member of a cult, it is the whole of you. Your motherhood and sisterhood is defined by being member of a cult. Your work is defined by being a member of a cult.
>1459042 (lb)
>>OWL = Online Window (Vatican) Library
hmmm, what's hidden in these digitized manuscripts, i wonder?
>https://sexycodicology.net/blog/new-digitized-manuscripts-from-the-vatican-library/
Since we started the DMMmaps project, the Vatican Library has more than doubled the number of digitally available books.
Plus, they have reorganized the home page: Where once you could see the endless list of manuscripts available (now 1’500+!), there is now a tidier page showing the collections and then number of digitized books you may find inside.
>https://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/app/
yes, agree. choose C vs. A/B.