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Death at intervals

April 14th 2008 14:22
(inspired by the book of Jose Saramago)

And so the death went on a strike, so to use the normal words we employ today. But still, we keep on getting older. So, even if you don't die anymore, your body still gets weaker and weaker as time is still working...

So imagine the situation we have here. Think well. What's the point of living forever, if we wont be able to work, create, or if only, enjoy forever?

That would bring us to the things we chase in life, to have a work or a creation to be proud of when we close for balance, and to enjoy some good spare moments.


Well, sometimes people don't find something to be proud as a thing they've done, so they keep on enjoying life, that replaces the empty of not having anything to be proud of (at least this works for the young, don't know if i'll think this way when i get older..)

So, the problem is not to die, is to die before having accomplished something we can be proud of. Writing a book, working for some great cause, raising good children, these things when well accomplished gives you something that will last, even after you're gone. And leave at peace to die anytime after you've finished your mission.

And so the death can please come back to work, we've got to our conclusions. Ah, and the church would also be also quite happy to have death back around, otherwise who would go confessing their sins?

Thanks.
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On globalization

February 13th 2008 14:11
Yes! in a philosophy blog we can talk about economy too...actually we can talk about anything, as long as it's not too boring.

So, quick reflection on globalization. In early 90's, when we started hearing about the term, most right wing liberals liked it, and so did developped countries. Curious, they didn't see the results it would bring.

If there is someone that should thank globalization, it is China. And India. And all developping countries, that thanks to market overture and technology development saw their economies grow and finally his people have something to do different than become farmers and die at 35. Technology let us today have a company based on California which employs half of their staff in China (the factory), and another third in India (the call center). Okay, left people would say that most of the money is still going to US. Well, i don't know if it is actually "most", but before that it was "all". The people working in factories in China would be farmers if the german giant didn't come and opened a factory in town. And, for the next generations, there will allways be the son of a factory worker doing medicine, law or whatever. Don't you know anyone in your class whose parents came from an poor background?


Courious, still the left in third countries say globalization is no good. Left in developed countries is maybe the only guys that should be against globalization, and for protectionism.

But this is too short minded. Globalization is the first thing that is really making the world less unequal than it was. Before it, technology and human development was focused in the West, now it is spreading around, to Brazil, China, India, etc. Okay, we still have some rich bastards around, the first people that discovered globalization and used it in their profits, but this is the short term result, not the long. Consider that.

Anyway, globalization isn't a son of some people's mind. It is the son of technology and science. When internet spread and plane tickets got less expensive, the world discovered itself. Not as we did in the XVI century, when you took 6 months to go from Portugal to Indonesia.

So, in the end, this is another post in defense of technology (and science), which has been allways atacked. Mostly by philosophers..

cheers.
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"Anyway, we can't know nothing about what the hell are you supposed to do at all"

There is a book called "The myth of Sisyphus" from Camus, where the guy tries to answer what he calls "the only important question on philosophy", the question of suicide


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The unberable lighness of being

December 1st 2007 06:38
Hey all,

a post about the application of the ethics i defend to our so problematic relations between men and women


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The constant state of insatisfaction

September 29th 2007 16:08
I think nowadays most people know this somehow "budist" way of seeing the world, where we should embrace our present and see hope as the misery of man.

So, here we go for a nietzschean post on budism


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einmal ist keinmal

September 25th 2007 03:22
I'm in a sentimental mood..

Sometimes getting to work in the morning you see all the people around you living their lifes by your side, while you know nothing about what they've done or what they've seen. You can't get into people's heads and live their life's, you have to stick with yours


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What is your favorite colour?

August 18th 2007 17:57
Hey,

so, what is your favorite colour? I mean, which ones you like, and which ones you dislike


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Hey all,

the "eternal return", the concept that time is ciclic and not linear, can be considered a way of living life. As far as Nietzsche and some of his people say


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Life lacks of meaning these days...

April 15th 2007 01:13
Hey all,

i still owe the last post to close the "essays on colectivity", but i need some more time to write something not too useless....hehe, but another matter got in my mind this last hour, and i haven't written here for a while, so let's do some ready-made


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Hey all,

since people might feel that the 3 parts of the ideas i presented in these last months have nothing to do one with the other, i'm writing a post to show the importance of the understanding of the physical concept of the Infinite Transforms to be able to understand better all these posts on Wisdom


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Hey,

following the conclusions of the last post on wisdom, i had to write something defending technology, because it is vital to the achievement of what i presented. It might be quite suspect that i defend technology since i'm an MSc. in engineering (i think you can imagine "these akward beings..."), but anyway, i'll try to be as convincent as possible


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I'd like to be God (i think we all do)

February 28th 2007 18:35
Hey all,

hehe, post of conclusions in these thoughts about wisdom


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Being more than yourself

February 24th 2007 18:20
Hi,

another post to discuss about how the hell is the best way to live our lives and get more from them...hehe, please remenber i'm not trying to sell "ways of life" based on nothing, the interest of the post (and the blog) is only to present you in a simple way where western philosophy is nowadays, and give my interpretation and sometimes add some things and comments about what i agree or not


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Getting deeper inside reality

February 20th 2007 13:01
Hey,

second post on wisdom, talking about a concept i'd like to present. The ideas in the last post showed how i think it is absurd to create barriers to what you should do or not, so in this post i'd explain where you get if we follow what we concluded with this


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The angst of being everything

February 16th 2007 17:24
Hey,

Hehe, before starting i have to explain why the hell i use the term "wisdom", and what i mean when using it. It's quite simple: like ethics is "studing how men should behave in society", i use the term "wisdom" define my "study on how men should behave to themselves"...so, getting back to the subject


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