Saturday, 27 November 2010
Friday, 26 November 2010
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Fragments
"None sings as purely as those in deepest hell;
it is their singing that we take for the singing of angels."
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Ombra Mai Fu
Ombra mai fù
- di vegetabile,
- cara ed amabile,
- soave più.
- A shadow never was
- of any plant,
- more dear and lovely,
- more gentle.
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Christ vs Apollon
"There is something about the entire crucifixional tradition that strikes me as a mean, as backward, as medieval in the worst sense... Greece provided a better civilizational idea than Judeo-Christianity... Hellenism as an alternative to Christianity... was the sole vision of the good life... When Hellenism failed... humanism went bankrupt."
""Whenever I shut my eyes I see Jesus on the cross." [Her son David, 4 years old]
It's time for Homer, I think. The best way to divert these morbid individualized religious fancies is to overwhelm them by the impersonal Homeric bloodbath."
Saturday, 2 October 2010
My Hero Anfione
Anfione doesn't want power any more. The vision of heaven threatens him, frightens him. He is praying to the spheres to help him to put in motion what stays and give it a harmony.
Monday, 27 September 2010
Embrace
"To reach an agreement in a conflict ... you need more than justice: you have to be willing to embrace the other ... one needs to maintain the boundaries of the self, but also keep the boundaries porous."
Miroslav Volf: Exclusion and Embrace
Monday, 20 September 2010
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Nope Pope
There is a controversy in deeply secular Britain around the papal visit as after some funny demonstrations thousands marched in central London yesterday in the biggest protest of his 5-year papacy.
Child abuse scandals around the world, labelling gay people "evil", telling Africans that condoms "increase the problem" of HIV, the church faces its deepest crisis in history.
Men in woman's dress with sinful secrets, their eyes turned on the sky with bad conscience, giving sermons while abusing young altar-boys in the sacristy, banning women out of their world - it is time for the church to open their stained glass windows and let in some fresh air.
Invite women to be priests and priests to marry, banish criminal priests - it may help the church to survive.
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Bébi 1994 - 2010
"...the limitations most of us encounter in our relations with other animals reflect not their shortcomings, as we so often assume, but our own narrow views about who they are and the kind of relationships we can have with them... So open your heart to the animals around you and find out for yourself what it's like to befriend a nonhuman person." J.M.Coetzee: The Lives of Animals
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Monday, 23 August 2010
Geek and Nerd - Fox and Hedgehog?
Geek wedding ring
Today they are called geeks and nerds, but the idea is a little bit confusing and people cannot really see the difference. While both type of mainly young people are related to some sort of computer-gadgetry fascination, the geeks can be viewed as someone with a large amount of knowledge that is sometimes rather mundane, fun and even bizarre while they are socially very comfortable, the nerds are someone with an extremely intense interest or fascination in an academic field with less social skills.
To better understand this distinction we should turn to the philosopher Isaiah Berlin who said that you you could divide people according to a saying by the Greek poet Archilochus: " The fox knows many little things but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
Hedgehog
Friday, 6 August 2010
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