Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Target Sell Wrapping Paper

The example should give a fleeting

our wonderful lately I've used public transport in the capital Santiago. The reason is solely for the lack of alternatives. I changed jobs a few weeks ago and I go downtown, so it would be completely crazy (which I'm not missing much anyway) to go by car. In short, it is not "public transportation" itself to what I write. Moreover, I think I rant against Transantiago few months ago. I just want to note two issues that catch my attention on these trips in the morning in crowded cages.
apathetic The first is what we Chileans. Transantiago in a bus all go looking at the floor, scowling, completely silent and worried about their own problems. Okay, okay. It is plausible to think that the reason for this apathy lies in it's early, everyone has dreams, no one likes to move like an animal, etc., But also depends on an attempt to improve the situation. And it's always nice getting to someone who gets on the buses of Transantiago with good humor and a smile.
This brings me to something else. What little we do to improve civility among others. Everyone is angry with everyone for the most absurd reasons and gestures of kindness have the fingers of one hand. To say nothing of the teenagers espinidullos that although the old lady is literally falling apart, look down and still comfortably seated. Therefore, the example part yourself. For example, again got a couple and she was sitting next to me while he was ahead. I, in a natural kind gesture, I said it preferred to sit together and I moved to the front seat. I think I never had offered a favor as well and looking almost assumed it was a priest, a Tibetan monk or someone good and healthy spirit. Surely I'm not that well, but I strongly believe in the gestures of civility. Thinking in this episode I realized that the secret hope is that in a similar situation, any of them respond more or less well.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Did Goku Really Love Chi Chi



The eternal drama of finitude. The eternal drama of man contingent. Much has been the history of philosophy of man pretending to infinity! We pinned Parmenides, Aristotle gave us motion and finite knowledge of the infinite, Hegel made us one and then to amalgamate the Sartrean paradox, we are immersed in the impermanence of this existential anguish. But should it not be that moment of exaltation? Do not we live as a fugacity that extend to the possibility of the impossibility of all possibilities? Do not store in the depths of the soul noble the very moment? Is not that fleeting instant contact with the infinity? You philosophers who think the world, that change the world, living the world, do not play to find the treasure Greek Kairos ? His philosophy, his thinking, his life is defined in the transience of life. Enough gloomy prospects tildan our being-in-the-world as a hopeless task. The futility is resolved in the transience, the whisper before falling into the water, the moment before the laughter, the beat, the closer our lips to the woman we love, original silence, the first moment of awakening metaphysical, there in the low wooden pulpit the humid sun of November, the musical inspiration and the star dancer, sleep, waking up the last rays of sunshine, the first light of a cold winter morning, the End of the Novel, breathe, sigh, laugh. It would, perhaps, to think about how fleeting, that is where lies the paradox of the eternal.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Can You Have Shingles Around The Ankle

Humility of Existence One-Dimensional Man

I have always regarded with skepticism certainly maxims of people smarter than me and they say that life must be lived with humility. I guess it's because living with humility is better than living without it.

Within historical behavior rules that every society builds with the passage of time, it appears that humility as the value is rooted disproportionate. And indeed, I am not very clear why. Humility is synonymous with wise, virtuous, warm, intelligent, wise, humane and a long list of adjectives. Do not be humble, by contrast, is synonymous with arrogant, rude, unfriendly and a long etcetera. But I think that humility hides, so to speak, very real issues that may seem unpleasant they are still true. So if anyone has economic success (for example) says - "life has treated me well" or "I've had luck in my life" - but never hear say that this success is that - "I'm smarter" or "beating" -. Why such a rule is created, implied, where success or any sign that presupposes an objective located above another group is so frowned upon?

I remember years ago I read an article about Stephen Hawking. The Chronicle said that for many physicists and intellectuals of the time had been desgradable and why not say, irresponsible, Hawking - "in a display of arrogant and lacking in humility" - speaking of himself as one of theoretical physicists major in history. And yet, these same physical and intellectuals say privately that, in fact, Hawking is one of the largest physical has never existed. However, as the truth comes from his own mouth, the subject is "arrogant" and "little humble."

Jacques Le Goff (the great French historian of the Annales school) blames Christianity. And the reason is quite simple: since the message is universal equality of all men, part of the activity of every Christian would be to recognize that equality, even at the cost of minimizing his own achievements. It is clear that the explanation does not address theological issues related to privacy of every one, not the merits or talents related to what Rawls called the "natural lottery." But these complex intricacies of human history, extension was even disconnected from the core aspects of the individual. I think

little humility act causes discomfort because of frentón found a truth (and a person) who can excel in one or the other, catalyzes from batting a feeling associated with selfishness. All are more or less happy with the part you played (something that Hobbes), and realize that the sharing of cake - be it intelligence, money, success or beauty - has favored some more than others, and also those others say so openly, produce less positive feelings. I must admit, however, also gives me a certain dislike the lack of humility, even when it is fully justified.