giovedì 16 luglio 2009

Umanità

Tetris mi piaceva e mi piace tanto, suppongo sia perchè dà quell'idea di perfezione fittizia virtuale che ti appaga. Almeno col game boy completo tutto, metto in ordine e sparisce ogni muro alto e difficile. Ragazzi, è davvero un gioco-metafora straordinario.
Questo periodo si può dire che si procede col mare calmo. Certo, non ci sono onde che mi elevano, ma, grazie a Dio, neanche mareggiate tempestose che mi sbattono sott'acqua. E intorno a me ho due care amiche che per motivi diversi, non stanno attraversando un bel periodo. E così, tra mille conversazioni con loro, e con un altro ragazzo con il quale era solo la seconda volta che conversavo e siamo giunti già a parlare del concetto di Dio, rimango sempre più convinta che la cosa più importante nella vita sia la relazione umana. Amicale, familiare, amorosa, whatever. La relazione intima, personale, mentale, emotiva con colei/colui con cui ti senti empatica/o è l'Umanità. Stasera mi ha chiamato L., io ero fuori, festeggiavo una laurea. Lei non stava molto bene. E immediatamtente ti dimentichi di tutto per un'amica. Questo è l'importante. Ora devo scappare, approfondirò questo tema più avanti. Ho sonno

lunedì 4 maggio 2009

Read this...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/01/silvio-berlusconi-quotations

domenica 3 maggio 2009

... and Veronica shut the curtain!

http://www.repubblica.it/2009/04/sezioni/politica/elezioni-2009-2/veronica-divorzio/veronica-divorzio.html

After having always blamed Veronica Lario for what seemed to me faked complaints on his husband obvious behaviours (I mean YOU married it, and you keep staying with him, so don't bother us on newspapers with your marital distresses), now I read on "La Repubblica" she asked for the divorce. And, as many times I do, I have slightly changed my opinion on this question, when, just 5 minutes ago, I read the article.
Provided that this is not the nth comedy in the Berlusconi saga, and provided that there is an ounce of sincerity in what I have read, I saw her for the first time as a simple woman who was stucked with a guy, than she married him, trying to balance her values with his disvalues, perhaps also because she was bound to Mr. Shortness by the social link of marriage, and then she realized the false step. But, eventually, she got rid of him, even if this will mean to feel the whole Italy against her. Well, in the end, everybody can untie the gordian knot unintentionally did and left you slushed in a mud you didn't feel yours. Even Veronica, speaking with friends, was almost surprised that "all the country justifies and admits everything which comes from its emperor". All the country but her: she released herself from his fiendish appeal.
...iustitia omnibus...

Ok, perhaps I built castles on Sunday newspaper bullshit, but... GIRL POWER! ;-P

sabato 25 aprile 2009

Buona Festa della Liberazione!

Oggi si festeggia una giornata molto importanta, la liberazione d'Italia dal nazifascismo, 25 aprile 1945, data simbolica, Modena fu liberata il 22 aprile.
Ovviamente è come se ci si "vergognasse" di questa festa, persino nelle nostre zone un tempo "le più rosse d'Italia", ora non so...
Con tutto il revisionismo storico che si è andato incuneando pian piano nelle coscienze di tutti, con articoli che equiparavano i repubblichini ai partigiani, che invitavano a celebrare anche la loro morte, perchè "anche loro combattevano per la liberazione d'Italia, seppur dalla parte sbagliata" (no, mi spiace che sia morto un uomo, come mi spiace che si muoia in generale, ma non si può equiparare chi combatteva al fianco di un dittatore che ha promulgato le leggi razziali, spazzato via ogni opposizione politica, ucciso gli oppositori, etc. e chi ha combattuto per l'idea di un'Italia democratica), oggi questo sembra solo un giorno in cui i negozi sono chiusi.
Io invece voglio celebrare, e insegnerò ai miei figli a celebrare (ahahah! che battuta! qui prima che io produca figli... troveranno prima l'assassino di JFK...) il fiore del partigiano, morto per la Libertà.

sabato 11 aprile 2009

G20, The Guardian video about the dead guy

This is the video about the guy dead of heart attack after being beaten by the police from the back, totally by chance, for he was walking with his hands in his pockets, and police push him from behind his shoulders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19h-0ejKA6I

venerdì 10 aprile 2009

"The atheist delusion" by John Gray

"The positivists believed that with the development of transport and communication - in their day, canals and the telegraph - irrational thinking would wither way, along with the religions of the past. Despite the history of the past century, Dennett believes much the same. In an interview that appears on the website of the Edge Foundation (edge.org) under the title "The Evaporation of the Powerful Mystique of Religion", he predicts that "in about 25 years almost all religions will have evolved into very different phenomena, so much so that in most quarters religion will no longer command the awe that it does today". He is confident that this will come about, he tells us, mainly because of "the worldwide spread of information technology (not just the internet, but cell phones and portable radios and television)". The philosopher has evidently not reflected on the ubiquity of mobile phones among the Taliban, or the emergence of a virtual al-Qaida on the web."

"Dawkins's "memetic theory of religion" is a classic example of the nonsense that is spawned when Darwinian thinking is applied outside its proper sphere. Along with Dennett, who also holds to a version of the theory, Dawkins maintains that religious ideas survive because they would be able to survive in any "meme pool", or else because they are part of a "memeplex" that includes similar memes, such as the idea that, if you die as a martyr, you will enjoy 72 virgins. Unfortunately, the theory of memes is science only in the sense that Intelligent Design is science. Strictly speaking, it is not even a theory. Talk of memes is just the latest in a succession of ill-judged Darwinian metaphors."

"The problem with the secular narrative is not that it assumes progress is inevitable (in many versions, it does not). It is the belief that the sort of advance that has been achieved in science can be reproduced in ethics and politics. In fact, while scientific knowledge increases cumulatively, nothing of the kind happens in society. "

"In today's anxiety about religion, it has been forgotten that most of the faith-based violence of the past century was secular in nature. To some extent, this is also true of the current wave of terrorism. Islamism is a patchwork of movements, not all violently jihadist and some strongly opposed to al-Qaida, most of them partly fundamentalist and aiming to recover the lost purity of Islamic traditions, while at the same time taking some of their guiding ideas from radical secular ideology. There is a deal of fashionable talk of Islamo-fascism, and Islamist parties have some features in common with interwar fascist movements, including antisemitism. But Islamists owe as much, if not more, to the far left, and it would be more accurate to describe many of them as Islamo-Leninists. Islamist techniques of terror also have a pedigree in secular revolutionary movements. The executions of hostages in Iraq are copied in exact theatrical detail from European "revolutionary tribunals" in the 1970s, such as that staged by the Red Brigades when they murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978."

... and many more interesting mind insights (although not throughout the whole article), can be found here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/mar/15/society

BEWARE! This is a critic article, neither for blind horses believers, nor for blind horses atheists, which, as far as I am concerned, are the same: both of them firmly claim to know The Truth about an abstract concept (God). As if it were possible to define The Freedom, The Justice, The Love, etc. once for all. As the Frankfurt school said: to dwell on doubts is the best antidote against fundamentalisms (and this isn't the same of not to choose anything in everyday day life: just keeping in mind that it is only a question of perspectives, and, sometimes, perspectives change.)

sabato 4 aprile 2009

Saggia Alessia

La mia saggia amica Alessia con la quale ho avuto una chiaccherata da fine uscita di venerdì sera concede sempre consigli da brava mediatrice.
Si parlava del fatto che si fa un'enorme fatica a perdonare se stessi. Le proprie presunte debolezze, mancanze, e via dicendo. Sono io il peggiore giudice di me stessa: gli altri sono uno specchio che amplifica e mi fa osservare meglio certi angoli che pensavo nascosti.
E in queste serate da "Radiofreccia", uno dei film che ho più sentito dentro, nonostante non ami particolarmente Ligabue cantante, di una poesia che nessuno che non sia nato in Emilia potrà capire, metto il link al celeberrimo monologo di "Credo nelle rovesciate di Bonimba..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNYuAuK9KkA

domenica 29 marzo 2009

Congresso PDL

"Vi nomino missionari della libertà"... Aiuto, grazie Cavaliere che ci doni anche a noi un po' di grazia.
My God, e gli altri dove sono? Cosa dicono?
Quell'uomo mi fa una paura per la potenza comunicativa che ha... Mamma mia...
Questo lessico da Gesù... E la Carfagna con quella faccetta magra magra, quegli occhietti con l'esoftalmo e i completini castigati da educanda redenta dal peccato... Che brutta impressione... Riusciremo mai ad avere un destra degna del nome, e una sinistra tout court, là da qualche parte... ?

mercoledì 25 marzo 2009

sonno...

Ho sonno, vorrei dormire ma devo finire sta domanda per sto phd... perchè non riesco a fare le cose non all'ultimo minuto... vabbe che di solito così mi riescono meglio perchè mi riesco a concentrare meglio, ma poi la notte mi sia affolla la mente di vecchi pensieri, leggo e rileggo cose che ho già letto e mi distraggo... Ah, come vorrei tornare all'ordine che regnava sovrano sulla mia vita poco più di un anno fa...

lunedì 23 marzo 2009

Galen Strawson

Few days ago, I hit on this quotation about Galen Strawson's thought.
# We do what we do, in a given situation, because we are what we are.
# In order to be ultimately responsible for what we do, we have to be ultimately responsible for what we are — at least in certain crucial mental respects.
# But we cannot, as the first point avers, be ultimately responsible for what we are, because, simply, we are what we are; we cannot be causa sui.
# Therefore, we cannot be ultimately responsible for what we do.

Ok, this is the kind of "logicism" which I don't like.

Logically speaking, it is correct. And my logic friend -e.g. Eugenio- would love it. But I'm sick of mere formalism. "Is logic empirical?" wonders Hilary Putnam. Not all the way long. Let's say we take into consideration all above seriously; who can be accused for something?

I firmly think what once was taught me (by someone I know and who is the embody representation of the Kantian "I ought" for her coherence in life): we are what we are, but as soon as we start to be conscious of what we are doing, let's say legally commencing on 18 years old, we can and we have to choose how to live our life. Basically I know who I am, I know I could be, for instance, very cutting with people, but if I want I can hide this part of me. Because at the end I can consider myself a kind of responsible for how I behave and for how I shape myself.

Ok. We can discuss about the meaning which Strawson would like to give to "ultimately", but anyway, I think there is the free will.

Maybe someone has already done these objections in many more sharp and witty ways, but anyway, this is my little blog... :-)

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Magari non scrivo più sempre in inglese. Solo quando mi andrà. Ora noto quanti errori ho fatto.
E farò. Tipo scrivere would+did. Ma questo è il bello della vita. Si continua a sbagliare. E a imparare.
Solo alla morte non c'è rimedio.