This highly intellectual video on atheism goes far beyond it! So I feel.
I mean; the ability to be there discussing abstract things such as; faith and religion! Perception and intuition! Reason and superstitious beliefs...
Although I could clearly see the intellectuals trying to reduce some theories to nothing; there is also a great deal of clarifying and very reasonable talking.
For instance; the professor Richard Dawkins’ desire to help us open our minds over to reason, instead of blindly believing in whatever religious nonsense! Just because one might be afraid of a Divine punishment!
I totally agree with him that we need to use our capabilities and reason about such repressed superstitious prejudices!
Nevertheless, he has rejected the opportunity to debate his atheistic views against William Lane Craig’s teleological views! And at another point, when asked: - “can you give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information of the genome?” He really struggled to construct an answer and that was quite uncomfortable to watch.
Never mind, that was only a human reaction nothing else. We are in it together. Some are here as scientists, others as philosophers and so fourth. None of us know it all. What matters is that one keeps on broadening his/her mind and understandings, as much as one possibly can.
I surely agree a lot with him although I truly empathise with William Lane Craig imputes although he is not part of this particular debate.
He says that in recent decades scientists have marvelled; at the discovery that the conditions of the Big Bang have been finely tuned for the existence of intelligent life, with a precision and elegance that literally defies human understanding!
He talks of something made of two kinds: -one; when the laws of nature are expressed as a mathematical equation... some constants, such as the gravitational constant... what intrigues me the most is that these so intricate constants are not determined by the laws of nature though!
However, the laws of nature are consistent with a wide range of values for these very constants, how amazing!
-Two: -and to make things even more sophisticated, there are certain arbitrary quantities distributed as the inaugural conditions in which the laws of nature then influence.
We can use the quantity of entropy or the balance between the matter and the antimatter in the universe as an example. Now all these constants and quantities fall into a remarkably narrow range of values that permit life. Should these quantities or constant be changed in less than a human hair, the balance would be destroyed and life would not exist... so says William Lane Craig and it really makes sense so far!
One only has to keep the mind open and be aware of the real meaning behind these kinds of debates!
The talkings are all about faith and beliefs after all! You either believe one or the other!
The atheists cannot prove their statement about a nonexistent Creator! And the believers cannot prove that there’s a God! Hence, the former believe that there’s no God as much as the later believe that there’s a God!
However, in my view and experience, one may learn something crucial with them all!
For me, at this exact moment ... The fine tuning of the universe is a good enough theory as it follows logically that the best explanation so far is the Design. Thus, the teleological argument gives me something to hold on to! It offers me an intelligent Designer of the Cosmos and that suffices... for now.
Life is so broaden! One cannot place it in a box of any kind!
Meanwhile I’ll keep on learning and thinking things through before I board in a strange place and call it my home!
What about you?!
Wednesday 18 May 2011
Tuesday 17 May 2011
A Memory In My Mind
...It feels just like a memory in my mind.
A memory of a long gone past!
The past that was keen to offer itself over to me...
In trays filled with vagrancy. Yes!
Trays laden with dreams...
Deafened dreams...by the cries of a heart which never believed that it would somewhat be freed from the shackles of; "good morality" ...
But what good morality? "...
The Thought And The Hand!
The thought! Intensifies...
The hand beseeches the fingers to enshrine it.
Thought that otherwise would come out flying on a voyage that although eternal could neither be caught, nor read or felt...
Not even imagined by others...
Then the writing comes...
The bold writing that manipulates the thought!
It plucks it out of the intimate brain and...
Uninhibited it exposes the vibes into words...All to make sense.
Thus was born the book; Yesterday And Today In Parallel Lines.
The hand beseeches the fingers to enshrine it.
Thought that otherwise would come out flying on a voyage that although eternal could neither be caught, nor read or felt...
Not even imagined by others...
Then the writing comes...
The bold writing that manipulates the thought!
It plucks it out of the intimate brain and...
Uninhibited it exposes the vibes into words...All to make sense.
Thus was born the book; Yesterday And Today In Parallel Lines.
... What is this book all about...!?
Find out what the book, Yesterday And Today In Parallel Lines is all about...
- synopsis -
- synopsis -
Lucília Augusta is a special woman.
She knows it and everyone around her recognise it as well.
However, in an attempt to redefine her life, she lives
experiences that will throw her face to face with human degradation, humiliation, racism and even do what she has never dreamed of, ending up rediscovering herself as a fully human being and, finally, find her freedom...
She knows it and everyone around her recognise it as well.
However, in an attempt to redefine her life, she lives
experiences that will throw her face to face with human degradation, humiliation, racism and even do what she has never dreamed of, ending up rediscovering herself as a fully human being and, finally, find her freedom...Yesterday And Today-In-Parallel Lines: coming soon in English!
The other day, I’ve started translating the book Ontem E Hoje Em Linhas Paralelas;
into English.
It has been a work accompanied by a very intense and interesting experience...
A daunting challenge I recognise!
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However, it’s of such a great magnitude that I am hugging it with my mind as well as my soul.
The title is pretty much the same...
Yesterday And Today In Parallel Lines
I’ve already boarded the ship of hard working, from which I can only land at the end...
By the day that the ultimate result of the last chapter is definitely reached.
i,e; the very last words!
-THE - END-
ps, Page created at the beginning of my work! - 14/ 11/ 20 10
Thursday 12 May 2011
The correct question…
I jumped so high that I fell over and on a riotous applause I woke up from the nightmare that kept me deluded.
I don’t know the answer yet, because; I was not asked the correct question.
It all happened while I was standing upon the stage of my experiences about the life of which I’m dressed of.
Later on, someone yelled: - "do not listen ... do not listen ... because everything you touch, or even look at, it’s a just for you beauty! A beauty that’s unrelated to any sort of vanity...
And, in one’s contemporary days ... my days, it says "Oh! Do you want to see me? So go to the internet and click ... on my blog!!!
I don’t know the answer yet, because; I was not asked the correct question.
It all happened while I was standing upon the stage of my experiences about the life of which I’m dressed of.
From above, I saw indescribable shadows! Sharpening up for my downfall!
Later on, someone yelled: - "do not listen ... do not listen ... because everything you touch, or even look at, it’s a just for you beauty! A beauty that’s unrelated to any sort of vanity...
And, in one’s contemporary days ... my days, it says "Oh! Do you want to see me? So go to the internet and click ... on my blog!!!
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Wednesday 11 May 2011
The smiling Potato Plant
Look at this; the brand new green potato plant which smiled at me in the dark of the night....
This is how it looks like when seen at daylight… so marvellously green! I did not feel like cleaning the place where it had been squished; remember? So, apparently, I have nothing to do with how it
grew...
After I’ve reclaimed over four hundred times about my neighbour’s conduct; neither such, nor any of my plants were treated as they should. The only thing that I can tell you for sure is: -
As I mentioned on my earlier posts; a swirl wind of nerves went over my head in such a way that I found myself reducing my trips to the balcony and neglecting my green plants all together.
All I was left with was the; “I couldn't care less” feeling. Then, hiding myself in the silence of such indifference!
Thus this opportunistic potato plant came on to light!
Although no longer so assiduously, my strange neighbour still keeps sending me the same difficult to decipher messages.
However, it is cooling to know that from the forgotten garbage came this beautiful newly potato plant that keeps making me think and think. I am confident that it will probably reward me with some new potatoes... hum! No!
Anyway...some how, I did get my neighbour’s trash turned into... new life?!
After many whiles of ignoring my balcony! The moment I saw it, I laughed so much that all my seedlings might be much happier now.
Let’s enjoy the parallel... the trash of yesterday in parallel with today’s new potato plant. It really gave me something to think about! Such as... new beginning?! Yes. All that’s new is indeed at our disposal. At our service! It’s all around us even when it shows up in the way that this new potato plant arrived and invited itself into my surroundings. :)
This is how it looks like when seen at daylight… so marvellously green! I did not feel like cleaning the place where it had been squished; remember? So, apparently, I have nothing to do with how it
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After I’ve reclaimed over four hundred times about my neighbour’s conduct; neither such, nor any of my plants were treated as they should. The only thing that I can tell you for sure is: -
As I mentioned on my earlier posts; a swirl wind of nerves went over my head in such a way that I found myself reducing my trips to the balcony and neglecting my green plants all together.
All I was left with was the; “I couldn't care less” feeling. Then, hiding myself in the silence of such indifference!
Thus this opportunistic potato plant came on to light!
Although no longer so assiduously, my strange neighbour still keeps sending me the same difficult to decipher messages.
However, it is cooling to know that from the forgotten garbage came this beautiful newly potato plant that keeps making me think and think. I am confident that it will probably reward me with some new potatoes... hum! No!
Anyway...some how, I did get my neighbour’s trash turned into... new life?!
After many whiles of ignoring my balcony! The moment I saw it, I laughed so much that all my seedlings might be much happier now.
Let’s enjoy the parallel... the trash of yesterday in parallel with today’s new potato plant. It really gave me something to think about! Such as... new beginning?! Yes. All that’s new is indeed at our disposal. At our service! It’s all around us even when it shows up in the way that this new potato plant arrived and invited itself into my surroundings. :)
The squished potato’s daughter...
I've been so annoyed by my neighbour’s persistent abuse that I started ignoring the small space which connects me to the outdoors without having to leave the comfort of my home.
I have reduced my journeys over to my balcony to a minimum. I was only cleaning after him and taking the garbage out to be honest and fair! I’ve been doing this rather late in the evening so that he could not see me at all!
However, with such an abandonment of course my little green plants ended up careless!
Never again I’ve remembered the squished potato that he fired against my seedlings up to the day...I told you about the hope potato that became a star!
Look what I've discovered...
Bathed by a heavy rain which graciously fallen upon it during the evening; there was this brand new green potato plant smiling at me in the dark of the night...
Look closely, at your left! Such an astonishing beauty. I must say!
Isn’t life wonderful?! :)
I have reduced my journeys over to my balcony to a minimum. I was only cleaning after him and taking the garbage out to be honest and fair! I’ve been doing this rather late in the evening so that he could not see me at all!
However, with such an abandonment of course my little green plants ended up careless!
Never again I’ve remembered the squished potato that he fired against my seedlings up to the day...I told you about the hope potato that became a star!
Look what I've discovered...
Bathed by a heavy rain which graciously fallen upon it during the evening; there was this brand new green potato plant smiling at me in the dark of the night...
Look closely, at your left! Such an astonishing beauty. I must say!
Isn’t life wonderful?! :)
The Potato That Became A Star
I have a neighbour who throws garbage into my little balcony. He does it as a hobby, I believe so!
It's true. He's been doing it with an amazing regularity to be more precise!
If I get angry with him?!
But it's clear that yes, the issue here is just that, the more it annoys me, the worse he does.
As such, I no longer bother about the rubbish itself...
I’ve decided to concentrate on the more symbolic message behind such a stupid attitude instead!
Seriously, I started asking myself: "why in the all world would I have to live in a building...where a neighbour has to display such *** behaviour?"
I confess. I have not found an answer. Not yet so far.
The other day, I heard something falling followed by a sudden dry noise...
Of I went on stalking...
It was a potato. Yes!
A potato just like that one in the picture or similar to it, except that it was all squished in the middle of one of my cherished potted green plants.
I could not think of photographing it at the time. However, that picture serves! Because, that potato has also been thrown here by the same guy!
Nevertheless, what he’s never dreamed about was that this one ... would have a different fate from the many others... Yesterday it was lying over the ground between the softness of some flowers and lots of autumn leaves ... today; it is a wanderer on the Net, a star!
It's true. He's been doing it with an amazing regularity to be more precise!
If I get angry with him?!
But it's clear that yes, the issue here is just that, the more it annoys me, the worse he does.
As such, I no longer bother about the rubbish itself...
I’ve decided to concentrate on the more symbolic message behind such a stupid attitude instead!
Seriously, I started asking myself: "why in the all world would I have to live in a building...where a neighbour has to display such *** behaviour?"
I confess. I have not found an answer. Not yet so far.
The other day, I heard something falling followed by a sudden dry noise...
Of I went on stalking...
It was a potato. Yes!
A potato just like that one in the picture or similar to it, except that it was all squished in the middle of one of my cherished potted green plants.
I could not think of photographing it at the time. However, that picture serves! Because, that potato has also been thrown here by the same guy!
Nevertheless, what he’s never dreamed about was that this one ... would have a different fate from the many others... Yesterday it was lying over the ground between the softness of some flowers and lots of autumn leaves ... today; it is a wanderer on the Net, a star!
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Our Era! Are we really the youngsters or...
The youngsters are the older by Era!
They grew up with the accumulated experience of all of those who have been here for a much longer walk.
They know about time zones and computer programs.
They understand about what is real and what is virtually real!
Oh yah! They do know it all.
And when it comes to freedom they're all lively free...
They just do not understand that which they have not experienced as yet!
They don’t know that - for every slap that life gives us - we may be driven to advanced grow- into new dimensions. Or that we may not!
They don't know that without the painful falls we can not give birth to maturity.
They don't know that if we are not mature by the time that we believe it's right... does not mean that we are stupid!
They don’t know that those who walk with the aid of a cane are not disability lovers.
They don't know that when we really want to solve a problem, we should never confront but circumvent it instead!
They grew up with the accumulated experience of all of those who have been here for a much longer walk.
They know about time zones and computer programs.
They understand about what is real and what is virtually real!
Oh yah! They do know it all.
And when it comes to freedom they're all lively free...
They just do not understand that which they have not experienced as yet!
They don’t know that - for every slap that life gives us - we may be driven to advanced grow- into new dimensions. Or that we may not!
They don't know that without the painful falls we can not give birth to maturity.
They don't know that if we are not mature by the time that we believe it's right... does not mean that we are stupid!
They don’t know that those who walk with the aid of a cane are not disability lovers.
They don't know that when we really want to solve a problem, we should never confront but circumvent it instead!
Sunday 8 May 2011
SLEEPING BEAUTY / VOICE OF THE SILENCE / TRAVEL OF LOSING COUNTRIES
Such a triumphal outcome white mother! That silent way of saying goodbye! The loudest silence I’ve ever met ... in silence or in the dead of the night, without the applause of this mortal world you moved yourself away...
Time only teaches what is likely to be learnt...
We’ve got - osmosis - and experience at our disposal.
To get practical experience one must be involved.
However, - osmosis for example, is the means by which the intelligence of the living cells in our bodies makes us function as people. These are perfect workers which require no conscious effort on our part.
Nevertheless, as extraordinary as - osmosis is, it can never be gained from experience! So when these cells, by the same osmosis that remained them active decide to stop altogether, we can neither follow them up nor make them kick again.
There’s no osmosis that could help us get rid of the pain caused by the loss of someone so dear. So loved.
And when these applauses arrived - in the morning ... when the noises came across, you had already left! This makes you even worthier. Really - only someone like you!
Your motto was - giving and supporting - and you did it with such a continuity that leaves no doubt about your character.
You left without howls.
And we found you so static, already inserted in yourself, well within your journey of losing countries and become another constantly ... as Fernando Pessoa says!
Together ... We yelled!
I look around me and everything seems to be where it has always been.
I think about the geographical distance which used to separate us - London - Faro - Rua Infante D. Henrrique!
All deserted from your person. All deserted of your presence. All deserted of your life! All deserted of your steps...
The air that you stopped breathing, feels weirder, denser and moves with tremendous difficulty...
I know this from the various conversations that we had!
You wanted to walk around here for another five hundred ... for another seven hundred and fifty times.
But life... made this decision for you and secretly took you in such haste.
All in accordance with agreements completely unrelated to humanity...
There’s no osmosis to avoid the pain caused by the tremendous loss that we’ve experienced on December 31, 2010! There’s none! Maria Manuela Alexandre dos Santos.
But we have a consolation! we are splendidly blessed to have been part of your life and your wonderful experience.
And...
We promise to carry out everything that we’ve learned from you and with you...
To love without boundaries and always be willing to lend a hand...
To my dear white mother, Maria Manuela Alexandre dos Santos.
Time only teaches what is likely to be learnt...
We’ve got - osmosis - and experience at our disposal.
To get practical experience one must be involved.
However, - osmosis for example, is the means by which the intelligence of the living cells in our bodies makes us function as people. These are perfect workers which require no conscious effort on our part.
Nevertheless, as extraordinary as - osmosis is, it can never be gained from experience! So when these cells, by the same osmosis that remained them active decide to stop altogether, we can neither follow them up nor make them kick again.
There’s no osmosis that could help us get rid of the pain caused by the loss of someone so dear. So loved.
And when these applauses arrived - in the morning ... when the noises came across, you had already left! This makes you even worthier. Really - only someone like you!
Your motto was - giving and supporting - and you did it with such a continuity that leaves no doubt about your character.
You left without howls.
And we found you so static, already inserted in yourself, well within your journey of losing countries and become another constantly ... as Fernando Pessoa says!
Together ... We yelled!
I look around me and everything seems to be where it has always been.
I think about the geographical distance which used to separate us - London - Faro - Rua Infante D. Henrrique!
All deserted from your person. All deserted of your presence. All deserted of your life! All deserted of your steps...
The air that you stopped breathing, feels weirder, denser and moves with tremendous difficulty...
I know this from the various conversations that we had!
You wanted to walk around here for another five hundred ... for another seven hundred and fifty times.
But life... made this decision for you and secretly took you in such haste.
All in accordance with agreements completely unrelated to humanity...
There’s no osmosis to avoid the pain caused by the tremendous loss that we’ve experienced on December 31, 2010! There’s none! Maria Manuela Alexandre dos Santos.
But we have a consolation! we are splendidly blessed to have been part of your life and your wonderful experience.
And...
We promise to carry out everything that we’ve learned from you and with you...
To love without boundaries and always be willing to lend a hand...
To my dear white mother, Maria Manuela Alexandre dos Santos.
Without Dramatic Consequences...
The world and everything around me was vast ... was ... immense!
Ah! But I miss it so dearly, that it is actually tightening my chest! A chest which has been magnified by everything I have learned since the childish days of life in me!
I could always leave...
And Without Dramatic Consequences...absent myself from those I love!
Then, come back for some fifteen times and all...however, it always seemed like the yesterday of my departure and the exact today of my return.
It was endlessly the same joy. And definitely the same happiness revived at each meeting.
It was always such an everlasting encounter and eternal return.
I, always had the same taste and the same itchiness to repeat the feat!
Yes, the deed of separation!
Thus, again the eternal taste of joy and the happiness of my reunion.
Always there and waiting for me
.
Right there... open arms, without complaining and no charges.
I could never cover any request in return ... any requirement!
In other words, explanations! Exigencies!
Tutoring! What for?!
Life can not be explained in any way!
And
... I'm a manifest of the progress of this expression! Either by my voice ... life !!!;) Or from my fingers which typed what you have just read ... life ... pure life! ... I am one of the manifests of the unfolding life ... !!!;)
Ah! But I miss it so dearly, that it is actually tightening my chest! A chest which has been magnified by everything I have learned since the childish days of life in me!
I could always leave...
And Without Dramatic Consequences...absent myself from those I love!Then, come back for some fifteen times and all...however, it always seemed like the yesterday of my departure and the exact today of my return.
It was endlessly the same joy. And definitely the same happiness revived at each meeting.
It was always such an everlasting encounter and eternal return.
I, always had the same taste and the same itchiness to repeat the feat!
Yes, the deed of separation!
Thus, again the eternal taste of joy and the happiness of my reunion.
Always there and waiting for me
.Right there... open arms, without complaining and no charges.
I could never cover any request in return ... any requirement!
In other words, explanations! Exigencies!
Tutoring! What for?!
Life can not be explained in any way!
And
... I'm a manifest of the progress of this expression! Either by my voice ... life !!!;) Or from my fingers which typed what you have just read ... life ... pure life! ... I am one of the manifests of the unfolding life ... !!!;)
Saturday 7 May 2011
The Childish Days Of Life In Me...
The days I was , a flamboyant exhibitionist of appearances exaggerating my own ignorance ! So inherently vulgar... Exacerbating my incompetence and adorning it with valuable pearls.
Once, I’ve had a vagrant heart; yes, a very void heart, which was ever and ever revolving around the abyss.
My ability to travel between my own thoughts fascinates me!
However, I can only reach, cover or fear the walks that I've already gone through! Including the ones which I've thought of or even dreamed about... Fantasies! Yes Just fantasies. Whether of a lived and disappeared past, or of a nonexistent, distant, or perhaps unattainable future!
What I know so far has already gone past. I've scoured it foot by foot. And measured it inch by inch!
I am totally unaware to what is entirely unknown to me! The future!!! As such, I can not fear ... but... blindly move forward!
This blog has been created to advertise my book; both the Portuguese and the English version of it. However, not all the pages are directly linked to the book itself. For most of the time I just write down about other things which I consider important. For instance; about feelings, perceptions and so fourth!
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