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Boris Weisfeiler, German-American mathematician, was hiking in Chile on holiday in 1985 … too close to Colonia Dignidad!
The Eyes of Birds (1983)
Les Yeux des Oiseaux / The Eyes of the Birds (1983, Switzerland / France)
I keep discovering people and movements I knew nothing of. It’s so true that we continue to learn throughout life.
The scriptural books, and not just the “heretical” ones, but many regarded as orthodox too, which were excluded from the final canon which we call today the Bible, far outnumber the ones which were included.
The New Testament exclusions are of most interest to me. Several, which are still used in the Ethiopian and Coptic churches, have Jesus speaking with other animals and passing his time with them.
Even the fully orthodox St. Basil said that all living beings have a life of their own, which should not be transgressed upon.
As for the canonical New Testament, the Epistle of James was the favourite of the English Levellers and of the Anabaptists and Poor Franciscans too, for its emphasis on good works (poo-pooed by Luther and Calvin): “Faith without works is dead”* – the exact antithesis of Paul, whom Joachim Kahl aptly calls “a neurotic philistine.”
Likewise, following this dichotomy, there have always been socially-conscious clergy, mostly Catholic, who stand apart.
Of course, they are bound to remain utopian socialists at best, being believers in an authority figure of human creation.
*Actually the motto of the Institute for Occitan Studies:
“La fe sens obras morta es.”Yes, it is a brilliant book. I have it.
I wonder why the eastern half of Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic, is a tourist attraction that has escaped the modern fate of Haiti, which was the slave republic?
I heard also that until a few years ago, Haiti was still paying reparations to France for daring to steal the slaveowners’ plantations!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Edelstam
I did not know about this man, Chile’s Schindler.
There is a movie on DVD: The Black Pimpernel.Movimiento, not really on topic, but i’m reading Sheila Cassidy’s book about her arrest and torture in Chile.
