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A 'relic'? Please. Mr. Scott is simply seasoned. A man who can keep his atoms in a transporter buffer for 75 years clearly has staying power! And he detests synthehol! Finally, a drinking partner who understands that a hangover is just the price of a life well-lived. Stop hoarding the Aldebaran whiskey, Jean-Luc. Pour a round for the adults! #LwaxanaTroi #Relics #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon

Scotty’s idea worked!

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrek #TNG #Relics @startrek

But I never wanted to be anything else but an engineer.😭

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrek #TNG #Relics @startrek

It’s sad Picard has to have a talk with Geordi about being nicer to Scotty. 🤦🏻‍♀️

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrek #TNG #Relics @startrek

@HubCityLocal @ColesStreetPothole @MirrorAyako @startrek @lxskllr Scotty: What is it?  Data: It is (looks at bottle) It is (sniffs contents) It is green.  (Scott drinks)  Scotty: Ah!

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekTNG #Relics

A scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation shows the character Data holding a green bottle close to his mouth while seated at a table. He is wearing a black and gold Starfleet uniform. Another person with gray hair is visible in the foreground, facing Data, but their face is partially out of focus. The background features a softly lit wall with a green light strip above it.

Tonight on #AllStarTrek we have a fine selection of green liquors, and the Scottish engineer who drinks them. Green alcohol #ByAnyOtherName will get you just as drunk. #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #Relics

BDG on YouTube: BDG's World of Buddhism: Bodh Gaya Hosts Public Exposition of the Buddha’s Sacred Relics

🔗 Watch: https://youtu.be/dcHsrJe8o3A

#Buddhism #Buddha #Relics #BuddhaRelics #BuddhistRelics #BodhGaya #Bihar #India #Sariputta #Moggallana #Mahabodhi

Relics that multiply, revelations that arrive pre-believed, clones powered by medieval fan fiction, and a pope who exists only because the narrator says so. When plausibility dies, faith doesn’t rise; it just fills the vacuum with overconfident nonsense.
#FilmCriticism #Relics #Documentary #History #CriticalThinking #Religion #Myth #Skepticism #Faith #Cinema #MovieReview
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/the-architecture-of-credulity-narratological-laziness-and-pseudohistory-in-religious-media/

Polycarp of Smyrna

Polycarp (69-155 AD) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna (modern-day Turkey). According to the Martyrdom of Polycarp, he passed away a martyr, bound & burned at the stake, then stabbed when the fire failed to consume his body. Polycarp is regarded as a saint & Church Father in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Lutheranism, & Anglicanism.

Irenaeus & Tertullian said that Polycarp had been a disciple of John the Apostle, one of Jesus’ disciples. This is Polycarp’s primary claim to fame. John the Apostle was the 1 who ordained Polycarp as Bishop of Smyrna. Polycarp is regarded as 1 of 3 chief Apostolic Fathers, along with Clement of Rome & Ignatius of Antioch.

In an period before the New Testament was fully formed into its modern version, Polycarp represented the “Living Voice.” If a dispute came around about what Jesus had meant, people went to Polycarp because he’d heard it from people who were actually there.

The only 1 authentic surviving work credited to Polycarp is the: Epistle/Letter of Polycarp to the Philippians. This Epistle/Letter is essentially a “mosaic” of early Christian writings. Polycarp quoted or alluded to almost 1/2 of the New Testament books (including Paul’s letters, 1 Peter, & the Gospels).

As early as the 2nd century, Polycarp was already fighting Docetism. This is the idea that Jesus only seems to have a body. He called, famously, anyone who denied the reality of Christ’s physical suffering “the 1st born of Satan.”

In particular, Irenaeus had heard the account of Polycarp’s discussion with John & with others who had actually seen Jesus. Irenaeus reports that Polycarp was converted to Christianity by the apostles, was consecrated a presbyter, & communicated with many who had seen Jesus.

Smyrna (modern-day Izmir, Turkey) was the center of “Emperor Worship.” In 26 AD, it won the right to build a Temple to the Emperor Tiberius. Smyrna also had a large, & influential, Jewish population. The tense relationship between the synagogue & the emerging Christian “sect,” which would play a role in Polycarp’s eventual arrest.

In his old age, Polycarp traveled to Rome (circa 154 AD) to meet with is fellow Syrian, the Bishop of Rome, Pope Anicetus. They come together to talk through a major secular & religious disagreement: Quartodecimanism.

Polycarp & the Eastern Churches celebrated Easter on the 14th of Nisan (the Jewish Passover), regardless of what day of the week it fell on. Rome, however, insisted it must ALWAYS be a Sunday. The Pope & Polycarp couldn’t find a compromise. This would become a problem in later centuries.

But Polycarp & the Pope stayed respectful, & friendly, towards each other. Pope Anicetus even let Polycarp celebrate the Eucharist in his own church in Rome as a sign of respect.

The Martyrdom of Polycarp is the 1st recorded account of a Christian martyrdom outside the New Testament. During a period of local unrest, the crowd in the Smyrnaean stadium began shouting for Polycarp. Initially, he didn’t flee but retreated to a small farm.

When he was eventually betrayed by a young servant under torture, he welcomed the guards, fed them a meal, & asked for an hour to pray. The Roman Proconsul, Quadratus, didn’t want to actually kill Polycarp. He pleaded with Polycarp to “have respect for our age” & to simply say, “Away with the atheists” (in this case, “the atheists” were the Christians).

Polycarp looked at the pagan crowd in the stadium, pointed at them (the pagans), & said “Away with the atheists!” Also in Martyrdom of Polycarp, Polycarp is reported to say on the day of his death: “Eighty & six years I have served Him, & He has done me no wrong.”

Polycarp was sentenced to death for not burning incense to the Roman Emperor. He was “burned” at the stake but the flames arched around him like a sail, refusing to touch him. Eventually, he was killed with a dagger/spear.

Relics of Polycarp are under the main altar of the church of Sant’Ambrogio della Massima. The right arm of St. Polycarp had been kept at the Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos-Saint Polycarp, in Ampelakiotissa near Nafpaktos, Greece, for over 500 years.

It was stolen on March 14, 2013 & was never found. A fragment, however, taken from the arm on a previous occasion, was discovered & returned to the monastery on July 14, 2019.

In the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, & Greek Catholic Churches, the feast day of St. Polycarp is February 23. In the Coptic Orthodox Church, his feast day is on Amshir 29 (March 8 in the Gregorian Calendar). In the Church of England, he was honored with a Lesser Festival on February 23. In the Lutheran Church, his feast day is on February 23.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Russian drones strike passenger train in Kharkiv Oblast, 5 killed, 2 injured -- "Absurd:" Trump's Board of Peace project falls flat in Ukraine -- Russia has suffered 'more losses than any major power' since World War II, report says -- Lukashenko must be held accountable for 'complicity' in Russia's war ... and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/wednesday-january-28-2026/

***** Rescuers clear out rubble from an apartment building after a Russian drone strike on Jan. 27, 2026 (Mayor Serhiy Lysak)

@AndreasEsch Naja. Es könnte schlimmer sein.

Immerhin gibt es mit Antimaterie/Materie-Reaktionen oder künstlichen Quantensingularitäten noch andere Zukunftstechnologien die der Babbsack hätte erwähnen können.

Ich persönlich denke ja, wir sollten binnen der nächsten 10 Jahre das Sonnensystem in eine Dyson-Sphäre umbauen. Alle Probleme gelöst! #Relics

#amber #moxie #Relics #history
Highland sticky syrup ruckus
Rolling history's fields
Hair silks tainted stations
Squishy sand pies camelized
Hazel eyes duplicates
Spruced green journeys
Boomers got tee time
Snow cones frozed
Intensive credits united
Healthy survivors righteous
Sunsets Amber's ember
Mayas remember? we were friends now not so much Calvary comeback gave gravel graveyard pop-up
Staves with spades filets
Chopped orlaf mushrooms
Records of space
Weird time case ...

#almosttoomuch #didn'tdownfall #tuxedtix

#Relics by Piotr Naskrecki, 2011

In Relics, world-renowned zoologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki leads readers on an unbelievable journey through those lingering traces of a lost world. With camera in hand, he travels the globe to create a words-and-pictures portrait of our planet like no other, a time-lapse tour that renders Earth’s colossal age comprehensible, visible in creatures and habitats that have persisted, nearly untouched, for hundreds of millions of years.

#books
#nonfiction

Naskrecki begins by defining the concept of a relic—a creature or habitat that, while acted upon by evolution, remains remarkably similar to its earliest manifestations in the fossil record. Then he pulls back the Cambrian curtain to reveal relic after eye-popping relic: katydids, ancient reptiles, horsetail ferns, majestic magnolias, and more, all depicted through stunning photographs and first-person accounts of Naskrecki’s time studying them and watching their interactions in their natural habitats. Then he turns to the habitats themselves, traveling to such remote locations as the Atewa Plateau of Africa, the highlands of Papua New Guinea, and the lush forests of the Guyana Shield of South America—a group of relatively untrammeled ecosystems that are the current end point of staggeringly long, uninterrupted histories that have made them our best entryway to understanding what the prehuman world looked, felt, sounded, and even smelled like.

The stories and images of Earth’s past assembled in Relics are beautiful, breathtaking, and unmooring, plunging the reader into the hitherto incomprehensible reaches of deep time. We emerge changed, astonished by the unbroken skein of life on Earth and attentive to the hidden heritage of our planet’s past that surrounds us.

The v4.0 firmware release for the Deus II is out. I'm waiting until I get the stereo headphones. Maybe 4.1 will be out by then.

#metaldetecting #detecting #relics

🔒 Oh wow, the pinnacle of web design: a page that demands #JavaScript to read about a Cold War relic and some underwater noisemaker. 🎉 Truly, the future is now—assuming you can configure your browser settings! 🚀
https://www.thequantumcat.space/p/project-mercury-and-the-sofar-bomb #webdesign #ColdWar #relics #technology #browserconfig #HackerNews #ngated

Oh wow, a kit for a #microcomputer from the *1980s* 🚀—because nothing screams cutting-edge #tech like reviving ancient #relics while pretending to be pioneers of the #digital stone-age. 🔧🌪️ Truly revolutionary stuff, folks; next, they’ll tell us how the wheel was a #retro hipster invention too. 🛞💾
https://sunrise-ev.com/z80.htm #1980s #innovation #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

"Anforas".

#amphorae #ánforas #reliquias #relics

The Anno shrine in the ‘treasure chamber’ of St. Servatius Church in Siegburg (near Cologne) is the most significant object in the ‘treasure chamber’. It was made in Cologne around 1183 and dedicated to Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne, who was canonised that year.
(December 2015)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Heiligenverehrung, #veneration_of_saints, #Schreine, #shrines, #Reliquien, #relics, #Saint_Servatius, #Anno_shrine, #Siegburg

The Andreas reliquary in the treasury of St. Servatius Church in Siegburg is shaped like a portable altar and was probably made in Lower Saxony towards the end of the 12th century.
(December 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Reliquiare, #relics, #Saint_Servatius, #Siegburg