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Il Mondo Fantastico e Bellisimo


Welcome to a domain where one can delve into realms the author considers to be paramount for one to experience during this brief sojourn in this life. Herein are stored a variety of necessities that can satisfactorily fill one's days and fulfill one's life. If they are of interest to you then my purpose has been realised and one drives great pleasure in having been of service to you. Included in these pages of electronic parchment are matters which contain truths concerning the spiritual realm, the scientific, art, music, nations of significant influence and value as well as sportsmen who are artists in their own right with whom one finds an affinity. Please browse as you please and if you have been enlightened in anyway, write and say your piece.

Alessandro Del Piero, soccer player and renaissance man. Sandro is able to fuse elements of art and sport in such a way that no other player has managed to do. I admire this genius whose amalgam of art and sport has best been depicted in a television commercial which portrays del Piero as a a medieval soccer player in a masterpiece reminiscent of Michelangelo.


The Scenario

Life ought to be a meaningful existence not a simple going-through-the motions of living. If one does not truly live and merely exists, then one is wasting precious oxygen molecules, dwindling food supplies and resources. There is a tremendous world out there and so much to occupy our every waking moment. If we are not daily sucking the marrow out of life we are not living and wasting our lives. There are areas of life that are of huge signficance to us all. On this site, the goal has been to present some of these considerations to you the visitor in a bid to enlighten your life and to challenge you to aspire to higher things. No bones are made about the goals of this realm and we are of the mind that you should leave this place enriched by your time spent here.

Perhaps one should start with the highest goal. Each one of us at some time in our lives ponders the existence of God. Some stay up all night thinking about it while others wonder what the relevance is to their individual life. Philiosphers and thinkers such as Augustine, Pascal, Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, C.S.�Lewis, Francis Schaeffer, Malcolm Muggeridge and Thomas a Kempis all sought answers to the God question and were gratified to find similar answers to their queries.

Before you hit the "back" button on your browser and say to yourself:"Better get out of here before this God freak starts preaching fire and brimstone," be assured that that is not what you will see here. These pages of electronic parchment are devoted to reason and logic rather than blind faith and fear so you have nothing to fear but truth and reality.

One sees in our lives, acts of marvellous creativity which we call the arts. Have you ever stood before a work of one of the old masters and seen the message in the strokes of the painting that he and life are attempting to convey to you? In listening to a suite by a brilliant composer have you been enveloped in its embrace and identified with the theme that is being vividly portrayed through a series of harmonic and symphonic notes? Perhaps you have.

Has the thought occurred to you that we do not know everything about this world we live in and that there are mysteries in the animal kingdom that we know very little about? Could there be yet undiscovered species of animals lurking in the bush and under the sea that we simply cannot contemplate? Let us cast aside our closedmindedness and venture into the delectable realm that is the World Fantastic and Beautiful.

Nothing is so mysterious and yet so obvious than the works of the Divine. The great difference is that while the works of God are comprehensible the mind of God is not. Fallible and intellectually diminished mortals simply cannot apprehend a mind so full of coruscating brilliance with the limited cerebral and neural resources we possess. For insights into Divinity please enter here.

One of the most magnificent experiences one can enjoy is to enter through the portals of the Musee du Louvre in�Paris. Fort Knox in the United States may hold the greatest gold reserves in the world, but without doubt, the Louvre contains treasures worth far in excess of the precious metal so many covet. The overrated Mona Lisa is itself priceless, but there are works of far greater value and higher merit adorning the walls or mounted on pompous plinths.

Across the river and a short distance away from the Louvre is another treasure house filled with items of inestimable value. Housed within the vastness of an old railway station is the magnificent Musee d'Orsay, the fortress and stronghold of the impressionist movement. The revolutionary changes in art and sculpture which swept through Europe