On Existence And Paintings ----- by Philip Haggard Berry

Consciousness is a Painting
by Philip Haggard Berry

"The Sistine Chapel" 
Painted by Michelangelo (1508 to 1512)

"Mona Lisa"

Leonardo Davinci (1508 to?)

The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer (1665)

Jacques-Louis David

"Napoleon Crossing The Alps" (1800)

"Starry Night"

Vincent van Gogh (1889)

Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory (1931)

"Nighthawks"

Edward Hopper (1942)

Campbell's Soup Can

Andy Warhol (1962)

"Star Wars"

Tom Chantrell (1977)

Patrick Nagal

"Duran Duran : Rio" (1983)

[more art to come: 1990's, 2000's, 2010's, 2020's. Maybe pre- 1500's, 1400's, Greece, Rome, Egypt]

On Existence And Paintings ----- by Philip Haggard Berry

If we were unaware that painters painted works of art, and then suddenly found out that those paintings didn't just spring out of nowhere, there were these humans, called "painters," who actually created these paintings, seemingly out of nowhere onto a white canvas stretched out on a wooden frame. Using this substance called "paint" ground from powders and mixed with chemicals, all which had different colors. All used to create an image. Then, suddenly, the painting takes on new meaning. 

We assumed the painting just happened. But then we find out it took "painters" days, weeks, months, to complete these things using a very complex method of mixing different colored paints to create a visual recording of a person, place or thing, or the impression thereof.

So, the painting rose out of a complex and chaotic combination of factors.

Does this mean that we no longer call it a painting because it really was created by thousands of computations and guesses and physical tools.

If the painting is only the sum total of all these things. The question arises: is it inconsequential that "paintings" exist, or does it become inconsequential that "humans and a thousand factors" were involved in its creation.

What we discover is that you can't call it one way, or the other. Both incidents had to happen to create it, it had to be created by a human, AND it had to reach a point, through methods; genius or madness, where it was a "finished painting." And then, once this point of completion is reached; the painter (or painters) themselves were no longer a part of it. It became something on its own, independent of a creator, that people experienced. They liked or disliked or were neutral the independent object.

Does this mean that the painting isn't real? Is it just an illusion of reality because of the complications involved in its creation. Was the painting an unintended accident of all these factors. Or were the factors involved in its creation more important than the painting itself.

Bottom line, we have consciousness, no matter how many machines you hook up to a brain to figure out how one of the most complex things in the universe functions. No matter how many discoveries you make about how it acts or was created, how many tiny synapses fire to create a virtual concept of the brain's external world, never to actually experience it firsthand, only through the physical impressions and the mental decisions and feelings about these things which they perceive through sight sound touch and so on.

Any way one attempts to count; atoms, molecules, elements, chemicals, complex organic structures, organs, systems, bodies, the human brain, actions, reactions, inherited traits, evolution, does the sum of the parts make the whole? Or does the whole make the sum of the parts? Chicken or egg? 

None of this matters, we have a complex "mental" life, accidental or otherwise. You cannot disprove, (putting aside absurd philosophical arguments) you cannot disprove my existence. And the fact that I exist is all the proof one needs. 

The painting may have come into existence through numerous complexities. But the painting is still "the painting."

I exist simply because I know that I exist.

When I no longer know that I exist, then I no longer exist.

An argument for Atheism is that once the brain, when some of whose parts are the person, no longer functions. Then that person no longer exists.

An argument for Spiritualism is that our brains become "recorded" and "stored" in an unknown aspect of this world, or the next, and since the systems exist, then the person continues to exist.

An argument for other dimensions, two of which some would call Heaven and Hell, are simply locations which contain this recording of the self, and so the self exists there.

And if you believe as I do, these two extremes have very little to do with the human creation, construct, concept of "good" and "evil" but rather "intensity of self-awareness."

"I think, therefore I am." ----- René Descartes

cogito, ergo sum

I thought; therefore, I was. My thoughts, and every tiny part of my mind, were recorded in some dimension, and therefore this recording is the continuation of me, and if I still think (though in a new form) then I still exist.

The painter and the painting endure.

(Later on I'll write out my theory of the "brain radio.")

"Flash Gordon" (1980) Trailer. New 4K Restoration

 

It may take 3 clicks to get the video to play. You also may have to click the "unmute" button on the video screen to hear sound. But it will eventually begin.

My apologies for this irritation.

"Flash Gordon" (1980) 

New Trailer for 4K Version

A campy tour de force Sci-Fi film with stunning visuals and top notch acting of all involved (even Sam J. Jone's flawless "dumb football jock" works in the fabric of the film.)

(then check out "The Flash Gordon" music video by Queen, who also contributed some brilliant music (with synths!) to the film (The Space Capsule, and its variation The Love Theme is/are one of my favorite pieces of soundtrack music I have ever heard.

You can very easily find the Queen "Flash Gordon" video on YouTube

"The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai" (Across the 8th Dimension) [1984]

 

It may take 3 clicks to get the video to play. You also may have to click the "unmute" button on the video screen to hear sound. But it will eventually begin.

My apologies for this irritation.

"The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai"

(Across the 8th Dimension)

[1984]

Its almost impossible to pin down the "genre" of this film, which makes it stand out among most other films. John Carpenter's "Big Trouble In Little China"  [1986]  has a very similar vibe, and rumors have been floating around for 4 decades that "Big Trouble" was originally intended as a sequal to "Buckaroo." It makes perfect sense, however; all film makers and writers involved have always denied this. So its fun to contemplate, but who knows what the ultimate truth is.

 

"The Fearless Vampire Killers" by Roman Polanski "Rivers" scene.

It may take 3 clicks to get the video to play. You also may have click the "unmute" button to turn on the sound. 

But it will eventually begin.

My apologies for this irritation.

"The Fearless Vampire Killers"

a film by Roman Polanski (1967)

The "Rivers" scene.

Any die hard Skinny Puppy fan will recognize this monologue from their song on their "Rabies" album (1989) called "Rivers."

In what looked like their final album (there were actually several more to come) The album "Last Rites" (1992) has the sequel to "Rivers" called "Rivers End" which is a minimalized tragic sounding version with absolutely no movie or tv dialogue snippets and live drums.

 

"Prince Of Darkness" a film by John Carpenter (1987)

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My apologies for this irritation.

"Prince Of Darkness" 

a film by John Carpenter (1987)

Draft, More info to come.

 

Aten - Aken Aten - Akenaten Monotheist in Ancient Egypt.

  

Akhenaten

by Joshua J. Mark
published on 17 April 2014

Excerpts from: The World History Encyclopedia

Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 BCE) was a pharaoh of 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt. He is also known as 'Akhenaton' or 'Ikhnaton' and also 'Khuenaten', all of which are translated to mean 'successful for' or 'of great use to' the god Aten.

History of the name "Philip" (one "L")

King Philip the Second of Macedonia

 Philip

History of the name "Haggard"

From the  website: Haggard Hawks

From an article by Paul Anthony Jones 

(Feb 24, 2015 Photographer unknown)

Haggard

As evidenced below, concerning the origin of the name "Haggard"; "etymology of the name is much in debate."

Recorded as Hagard, Haggard, Hagart, Haggarth and possibly others, this is an English medieval surname. It has three possible origins. The first is job descriptive for a haggart or haggerter, described as being a trainer of hawks caught in the wild, whilst the second possible origin is Danish-Viking and from Agard. This was a locational name from the city of Agard in Denmark. It is also possible that on occasions it was used as a medieval nickname for a "wild and untamed" person! In this case the derivation is from the Olde French word hagard, introduced into the British Isles after the Norman Conquest of 1066, after which and for nearly three hundred years French was the written and often spoken, language.

The name development includes recording examples such as that of Anna Haggard who married James Crimble on October 8th 1684, at St. James Church, Dukes Place, Westminster, whilst Dinah Haggarth was christened at the church of St. Mary Whitechapel, Stepney, on August 5th 1759. The Author Sir H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), wrote the ever popular book "King Solomon's Mines". The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Alice Haggard. This was dated 1275, in the Hundred Rolls of landowners of Worcestershire, during the reign of King Edward 1st, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was sometimes known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

The history of the ancestors of the Haggard family begins among the Pictish clans ancient Scotland. The name Haggard comes from the Gaelic form Mac-an-t-sagairt, which means son of the priest. Patronymic names often substituted the name of a saint or other revered religious figure in place of a devout bearer's actual father. However, the patronym Haggard often denotes actual paternity in this case, since the marriage of clerics in minor orders was permissible, although the marriage of priests was declared illegal and invalid during the 12th century.

The etymology of the name is much in debate. One source notes the "family are supposed to be derived from the Ogards of co. Hertfordshire." or the name "Haggard is a corruption of "hay-garth," a rick yard, and is so employed in Hall and Holinshed, as well as in several provincial dialects, but most probably, an ancient baptismal name which occurs in Domesday as Acard and Acardus."

Early Origins of the Haggard family

The surname Haggard was first found in Perthshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt) former county in the present-day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.

The Scottish branch of the family was recorded quite late as "the name occurs in Suffolk in thirteenth century as Hacgard."

All of this information was culled from many websites found by typing "Haggard" into Google Search. None of this information was researched or authored by myself. These are not my words, only my own layout.

History of the name "Berry"

I searched for "Berry crest" and came up with 50 or so crests (perhaps one for every major "Berry" family in Europe.)
The majority of these seem to have the red and yellow stripes.
So, I just picked a cool one and ran with it.

Berry

The most commonly-observed ancestry found in people with the surname Berry is British & Irish, which comprises 53.4% of all ancestry found in people with the surname. The next two most common ancestries are French & German (21.7%) and Eastern European (3.3%).

How old is the name Berry? Origins of Name: The Berry surname derives from ancient English geographical locations and was also used a descriptive surname. The surname originates from as far back as 7th century words 'byrig' which means a fortified place, or from later words 'beri' or 'buri' meaning a manor house that is fortified. 

The Berry surname is thought to be English. It has two popular origins. The first source of the name is believed to be geographic, referring to people who come from Bury (in Lancashire and Devon), or the French province of Berri. Additionally, the name could be toponymic and refer to somebody from a 'bergh' (the Middle English word for hill). Alternative variations of the name Berry; Berry, Berrie, Bery, Berie, Bury

What ethnicity is Berry: Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Béara 'descendant of Béara', a personal name of unexplained etymology; or, in some cases, perhaps an Anglicized form of Irish and Manx Ó Beargha. Compare Barry 1. Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Barrie . 

The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 added many new elements to an already vibrant culture. Among these were thousands of new names. The Berry family lived in the county of Devon, where the family settled after arriving in England with William the Conqueror at the time of the Norman Conquest of England. The name is derived from the phrase at the Bury which has evolved to the more modern term borough.

Early Origins of the Berry family

The surname Berry was first found in Devon, in the parish of Berry-Pomeroy and before that Berry or Berri was the appellation of one of the old provinces of France. Another source notes "scattered disconnectedly over England. It is most numerous in Lancashire, and afterwards in the counties of Northampton, Warwick, and Devon. Probably it is usually derived from places, Berry being the name of a Devonshire parish, whilst Bury is the name of towns and localities in Lancashire, Suffolk, etc."

(Note: The info below is almost certainly unrelated to the Western European name "Berry")

What is the caste of Berry? 

Beri (also spelled as "Berry") is a surname found among Khatris. According to a folklore, their ancestor was born under a Beri tree which is how they derive their name. They were originally Chopras.They are found in Jagraon and Ludhiana. 

Jagraon is a city and a municipal council, a rural police district and a sub-division of the Ludhiana district in the Indian state of Punjab. Jagraon is more than three centuries old. Jagraon is at almost the geographical center of the state, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from the Satluj River. It is 37 km (23 mi) from its district headquarters Ludhiana, 29 km (18 mi) from Moga, 31 km (19 mi) from Nakodar and 54 miles from Barnala.

All of this information was culled from many websites found by typing "Berry" into Google Search. None of this information was researched or authored by me. These are not my words, only my own layout.