“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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Posts Tagged With: Ignorance
the sanctuary of their blindness
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Belief, Blindness, Captives, Digital Imagery, Faces, Hungry, Ignorance, Lies, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sanctuary, Short-Sighted, Small Talk, Smiles, Spoken, Teeth, Truth, Word
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the sin of the calf
“When they asked me what my religion was
I said that I was Non-Delusional.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Bible Babblers, Binge, Blasphemy, Confused, Darkness, Dazed, Desert, Dick, Digital Imagery, Face, Finger, Golden Calf, Ignorance, Moses, Mountain, Pants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Stick
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look back in anger
“There is nothing so cruel in this world
as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
~ Haruki Murakami ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anger, Apathy, Cluelessness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Empathy, Faceless, Fallacy, Friendships, Frustration, Future, Hopelessness, Ignorance, Life, Love, Memories, Narcissism, Nescience, Opportunities, Oppressors, Past, Peers, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Sins, Street Art, Stupidity, Time, Weep
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a sea of humanity
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever
in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Berlin, Cesspool, Compassion, Copulation, Death, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, History, Hubris, Humanity, Ignorance, Intelligence, Life, Obsession, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Science, Sex, Violence
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the inheritors
“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”
~ Gustave Flaubert ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art in Paris taken in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathetic, Balance, Birth, Clueless, Consequences, Death, Digital Imagery, Evolution, Existence, Harmony, Hatred, History, Ignorance, Inheritors, Injustice, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Selfishness, Shortsightedness, Street Art, Stupidity, Unaware, Violence, War
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imagine
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled
with the entrails of the last priest.”
~ Denis Diderot ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in New York City in April 1992.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Despots, Digital Imagery, Egomaniacs, Freedom, Ignorance, Imagine, Intolerance, John Lennon, Life, Music, New York City, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Tyrants, War
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citadel
“We are all born ignorant,
but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.
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points of light
“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.
I wonder if there is infinity within.”
~ Charles Lindbergh ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Beauty, Comprehension, Cosmos, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Energy, Event Horizon, Existence, Filaments, Future, Ignorance, Imagination, Infinity, Life, Light, Matter, Night, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Science, Shadows, Space, Stardust, Time, Universe, Worm Hole
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the fragment of a tear
“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates
the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”
~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathy, Art, Cockroaches, Death, Digital Imagery, Dragonflies, Experiment, Extermination, Extinction, Future, Harmony, History, Hope, Humanity, Ignorance, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Memories, Music, Nature, Paris, Past, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Science, Stupidity, Tear, Time, Weep
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les mensonges
“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adam and Eve, Apple, Charlatans, Digital Imagery, History, Ignorance, Les Mensonges, Lies, Life, Old Testament, Paris, Peasants, Pewter, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Proletarian, Seduction, Snake, Spoons, Truth
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love your world
“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War
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doors of deception
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
~ L. Frank Baum ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Believers, Blind Belief, Chains, Deception, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Doors, Enlightenment, Faith, Guns, Ignorance, Impious, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pilgrims, Poetry
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COVIDIOTS
“Apathy is as dangerous, invisible, and contagious
as an asymptomatic virus carrier.”
~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alone, Blind, Choking, Death, Digital Imagery, Heads, Heart, Ignorance, Life, Love, Mindlessness, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stomachs, Stone, Straw, Uncaring, Unkind
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FOUR BEFORE TWELVE
“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie
every environmental problem we face today.”
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathy, Ashes, Blind, Burning, Carcass, Darkness, Deaf, Death, Digital Imagery, Dumb, Elephant, Embers, History, House, Humanity, Ignorance, Indifference, Legacy, Life, Overpopulation, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Time, Twelve O'Clock, Wind
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PRIVATE HELL
“Aequat omnes cinis.”
~ Seneca ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Ashes, Burning, Cards, Chance, Coal, Darkness, Dealer, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Hell, Ignorance, Intensity, Lies, Life, Looking Glass, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Piper, Poetry, Reflections, Shadows, Truth
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VIS LIBRES ET MEURS
“Freedom and responsibility aren’t interconnected things.
They are the same thing.”
~ Harry Browne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: America, Breath, Covid, Death, Denial, Digital Imagery, Egocentric, Empathy, Fools, Freedom, Ignorance, Inconsiderate, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Self-Centered, Selfishness, Stupidity
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A DISTANT WINDOW
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Digital Imagery, Dusk, Extinction, Hearts, Ignorance, Intolerance, Knowledge, Life, Lights, Minds, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silhouettes, Treasure, World
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CORNU COPIAE
“All animals are equal,
but some animals are more equal than others.”
~ George Orwell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fragment of painted Roman wall plaster depicting what is possibly an empty cornucopia taken in January 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cancer, Cornucopia, Digital Imagery, Disease, Greed, Humanity, Hunger, Ideology, Ignorance, Inequality, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Privilege, Religion
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TETHYS
“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems,
involves the whole human race.”
~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Aegean Sea between Thera (Santorini) and Crete in October 1992.
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THE CONCEPT OF GLASS
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
~ Robertson Davies ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aperture, Comprehension, Concept, Digital Imagery, Evolving, Fly, Freedom, Glass, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learning, Mysteries, Photography, Poetry, Room, Universe, Window
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