Follow-up: Moment cultural-artistic dedicat poetului național Mihai Eminescu (2025.01.15, Faleza Cazinoului din Constanța și Mănăstirea Dervent)

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Moment cultural, artistic și religios dedicat poetului național Mihai Eminescu

Pe 15 ianuarie 2025 a avut loc evenimentul cultural-artistic „Omagiu lui Eminescu” la statuia poetului Mihai Eminescu, amplasată pe faleza Cazinoului din Constanța. Activitatea a fost organizată de către Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă din cadrul Universității „Ovidius”, Constanța, în parteneriat cu Seminarul Teologic „Sf. Cuv. Dionisie Exiguul”, A.S.C.O.R. Constanța și A.T.O.M. Constanța.

În aceeași zi, de la ora 16:30, a fost oficiată slujba de parastas pentru Marele Poet la monumentul lui Mihai Eminescu, situat în parcul mănăstirii Dervent. Ulterior, în sala „Arhitect Dan Corneliu” a avut loc un eveniment cultural-artistic în amintirea lui Mihai Eminescu.

Anul 2025 a fost declarat „Anul Mihai Eminescu” de către Academia Română și Academia de Științe a Moldovei, marcând astfel, pe ambele maluri ale Prutului, împlinirea a 175 de ani de la nașterea marelui poet.

Mai jos, imagini, audio și video de la eveniment.

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Câteva cântece favorite ale pr.arhid. Lucian Damian

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Pr.arhid. Lucian Damian

Pe 15 ianuarie 2025 a avut loc evenimentul cultural-artistic „Omagiu lui Eminescu” la statuia poetului Mihai Eminescu, amplasată pe faleza Cazinoului din Constanța. În aceeași zi, de la ora 16:30, a fost oficiată slujba de parastas pentru Marele Poet la monumentul lui Mihai Eminescu, situat în parcul mănăstirii Dervent. Ulterior, în sala „Arhitect Dan Corneliu” a avut loc un eveniment cultural-artistic în amintirea lui Mihai Eminescu.

Mi-a plăcut în mod deosebit cum a cântat pr.arhid. Lucian Damian.

Mai jos, înregistrări realizate de  mine în cadrul evenimentului.

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Absurd serendipity

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Let’s say someone upsets you. Then, you, being upset, you treat someone harshly.

The logical conclusion? You did a bad act, as a reaction, follow-up, or consequence, of a bad act.

I think things are much more complicated than this. Yes, after losing something you likely feel bad, after you succeed in something, you feel good.

But ups & downs are much more complicated than this.

It’s an illusion – the idea that you can constantly feel good, only ups, only happiness, and when someone does you wrong, that person is automatically to blame.

Life is much more complex than this.

If you were to move to an isolated island, with a beach, plenty of food, and all the basic necessities, you might feel fine for a while, but after a while, the Paradise you’re in might make you feel sad.

With all the basic necessities covered, you’ll likely feel poorly on a beach.

I’m not saying you should be a masochist and try to bring pain and difficulties into your life.

But living from pleasure to pleasure will also not bring you happiness in the long run.

If you are behaving poorly, there might be many more reasons than someone doing something bad to you. It’s not that simple.

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Why I don’t write about bad books and movies

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byronv2 - Book and Coffee

There are authors who write – “Hmm, I didn’t like this book/movie/TV Series. Still, I will comment on it, so that you could consider avoiding it”.

Currently, I’m not a big fan of the methdod.

I prefer to focus on gems.

The main reason? I don’t necessarily get vocabulary, a certain state, or some emotions from a book. I most often look to gain some good insight from a book, and this generally doesn’t require the book to be good.

Same thing for a movie.

Thus, some books I like and some movies I like are not necessarily the same as others.

It might be a good movie that I don’t like, or it might be a poorly written book that I love.

I apply the same logic to others – if I didn’t like a book/movie, I think there could still be plenty of people who might like it.

On the other hand, I don’t like all the movies I see/books I read, so it’s actually easier to focus only on the ones I enjoy.

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Teritory contest

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Nomadland (2020) - IMDb

There’s a game called Heroes of Might and Magic® 3: Complete on GOG.com.

Some good resources for it:

In H3, a good strategy could be to cover as much of the map as possible – visit things, travel, see the world.

Real life – business.

As far as I can tell, Rand Fishkin likes investing in Serendipity – for example, going to conferences and events as a way of meeting new people. This might lead to business opportunities, but it’s not a straightforward path.

So, in games – travel a lot (OK, you need to also win some battles). In business – travel a lot (OK, go to conferences and meet people).

Teritory contest.

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Binili învingi

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(“the good always triumphs” was a motto/line from Radio Guerrilla)

I have friends who prefer to see movies with happy endings.

I don’t quite get this.

I prefer not to know how a movie ends, to see some suspense.

Also, comedies tend to be quite boring.

It’s not easy to make good humor, and most movies have silly lines when talking about humor.

When I go see a play, I prefer it not to be a comedy.

Comedies tend to have low-quality humor and a predictable outcome.

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First month we pay less

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Sometimes, people say, “we’ll pay you less money in the first month. And then – then we’ll see.”.

There’s a joke like this: “- We’re going to visit the ophthalmologist today at 2 PM. – And then? – And then, we’ll see.”

But sometimes, the first month is the hardest, not the easiest.

Also, people generally quit something to get a new job.

Some CEOs receive starting bonuses just to get a job.

There are no right or wrong recipes; things must adjust to a situation.

Yet, I thinking paying a smaller salary for the first month might be wrong.

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