Thursday, March 31, 2011
Fragmentos de un evangelio apocrifo
Desdichado el pobre en espíritu, porque bajo la tierra, será lo que ahora es en la tierra.
Desdichado el que llora, porque ya tiene el hábito miserable del llanto.
Dichosos los que saben que el sufrimiento no es una corona de gloria.
No basta ser el último para ser alguna vez el primero.
Feliz el que no insiste en tener razón, porque nadie la tiene o todos la tienen.
Feliz el que perdona a los otros y el que se perdona a sí mismo.
Bienaventurados los mansos, porque no condescienden a la discordia.
Bienaventurados los que no tienen hambre de justicia, porque saben que nuestra suerte, adversa o piadosa, es obra del azar, que es inescrutable.
Bienaventurados los misericordiosos, porque su dicha está en el ejercicio de la misericordia y no en la esperanza de un premio.
Bienaventurados los de limpio corazón, porque ven a Dios.
Bienaventurados los que padecen persecución por causa de la justicia, porque les importa más la justicia que su destino humano.
Nadie es la sal de la tierra, nadie, en algún momento de su vida, no lo es.
Que la luz de una lámpara se encienda, aunque ningún hombre la vea, Dios la verá.
No hay mandamiento que no pueda ser infringido, y también los que digo y los que los profetas dijeron.
Los actos de los hombres no merecen ni el fuego ni los cielos.
No odies a tu enemigo, porque si lo haces, eres de algún modo su esclavo.
Tu odio nunca será mejor que tu paz.
Si te ofendiere tu mano derecha, perdónala; eres tu cuerpo y eres tu alma, y es arduo, o imposible, fijar la frontera que los divide...
No exageres el culto de la verdad; no hay hombre que al cabo de un día, no haya mentido con razón muchas veces.
No jures, porque todo juramento es un énfasis.
Resiste al mal, pero sin asombro y sin ira.
A quien te hiriere en la mejilla derecha, puedes volverle la otra, siempre que no te mueva el temor.
Yo no hablo de venganzas ni de perdones; el olvido es la única venganza y el único perdón.
Hacer el bien a tu enemigo puede ser obra de justicia y no es arduo; amarlo, tarea de ángeles y no de hombres.
Hacer el bien a tu enemigo es el mejor modo de complacer tu vanidad.
No acumules oro en la tierra, porque el oro es padre del ocio, y éste, de la tristeza y del tedio.
Piensa que los otros son justos o lo serán, y si no es así, no es tuyo el error.
Dios es más generoso que los hombres y los medirá con otra medida.
Da lo santo a los perros, echa tus perlas a los puercos; lo que importa es dar.
Busca por el agrado de buscar, no por el de encontrar...
La puerta es la que elige, no el hombre.
No juzgues al árbol por sus frutos ni al hombre por sus obras; pueden ser mejores o peores.
Nada se edifica sobre la piedra, todo sobre la arena, pero nuestro deber es edificar como si fuera piedra la arena...
Feliz el pobre sin amargura o el rico sin soberbia.
Felices los valientes, los que aceptan con ánimo parejo la derrota o las palmas.
Felices los que guardan en la memoria palabras de Virgilio o de Cristo, porque éstas darán luz a sus días.
Felices los amados y los amantes y los que pueden prescindir del amor.
Felices los felices.
Jorge Luis Borges
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Autoritarismo
Las ideas de autoritarismo y totalitarismo fueran elaboradas, hacia fines de los años 40, por Hannah Arendt y a Theodor Adorno, intelectuales judío- alemanes que lograron exiliarse en Estados Unidos. Para estos autores estas nociones representan el intento de explicar la raíz de la tragedia Europea; o sea, de la barbarie nazi. Y, para ambos pensadores, el núcleo de la explicación se condensa en que los regímenes totalitarios nacen y se desarrollan en base a la divinización de una idea. Es decir, los regímenes totalitarios, al igual que las personalidades autoritarias, actúan, hasta las últimas consecuencias la servidumbre a una ideología. Unos fundan en ella su autoridad, mientras que los otros reclaman un amo, o, en todo caso, son conminados a una obediencia incondicional. En el caso del nazismo la idea es que solo la depuración racial podría crear una sociedad “limpia”, de gente bella y sana, con una vida plena. Y en el caso del stalinismo la idea es que solo liberándose de las clases reaccionarias y educando al pueblo sería posible lograr la anhelada sociedad comunista.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Focus On Getting Better Rather Than Being Good
The belief in fixed ability is completely wrong; abilities of all kinds are profoundly malleable. Embracing the fact that you can change will allow you to make better choices, and reach your fullest potential. People whose goals are about getting better, rather than being good, take difficulty in stride, and appreciate the journey as much as the destination.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Oh Canada
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
1. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the math.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.
2. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.
3. The workday is about two hours long.
4. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders to your wedding.
Let's face it: Canadians are a rare breed.
35° Fahrenheit (1.6° C)
· Italian Cars won't start
· Canadians drive with the windows down
32° Fahrenheit (0° C)
· American water freezes
-459.67° Fahrenheit (-273.15° C)
Absolute zero; all atomic motion stops.
· Canadians start saying "cold, eh?"
-500° Fahrenheit (-295° C)
· Hell freezes over.
· The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup
1. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the math.
2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 2 hours from downtown.
3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.
5. Weed.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA
1. Big rock between you and B.C.
2. Ottawa who?
3. Tax is 5% instead of the approximately 200% it is for the rest of the country.
4. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.
5. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be its own country.
6. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN
1. You never run out of wheat.
2. Your province is really easy to draw.
3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.
4. People will assume you live on a farm.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA
3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.
5. Weed.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA
1. Big rock between you and B.C.
2. Ottawa who?
3. Tax is 5% instead of the approximately 200% it is for the rest of the country.
4. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.
5. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be its own country.
6. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN
1. You never run out of wheat.
2. Your province is really easy to draw.
3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.
4. People will assume you live on a farm.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA
1. You wake up one morning to find that you suddenly have a beachfront property.
2. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.
3. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.
4. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.
5. You can pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO
1. You live in the centre of the universe.
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.
4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
1. Racism is socially acceptable.
2. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbour will move out next.
3. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada.
4. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo A*#!%!"
2. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.
3. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.
4. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.
5. You can pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO
1. You live in the centre of the universe.
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.
4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
1. Racism is socially acceptable.
2. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbour will move out next.
3. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada.
4. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo A*#!%!"
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
1. One way or another, the government gets 98% of your income.
2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.
3. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick.
4. Everybody has a grandfather who runs a lighthouse.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA
1. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can.
2. You can pretend to have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk and wear a kilt.
3. You are the only reason Anne Murray makes money.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big, new bridge.
2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.
3. You can drive across the province in two minutes.
4. Everyone has been an extra on "Road to Avonlea."
5. This is where all those tiny, red potatoes come from.
6. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.
2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.
3. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick.
4. Everybody has a grandfather who runs a lighthouse.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA
1. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can.
2. You can pretend to have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk and wear a kilt.
3. You are the only reason Anne Murray makes money.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big, new bridge.
2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.
3. You can drive across the province in two minutes.
4. Everyone has been an extra on "Road to Avonlea."
5. This is where all those tiny, red potatoes come from.
6. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.
2. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.
3. The workday is about two hours long.
4. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders to your wedding.
Let's face it: Canadians are a rare breed.
The Official Canadian Temperature Conversion Chart
50° Fahrenheit (10° C)
· Californians shiver uncontrollably.
· Canadians plant gardens.
50° Fahrenheit (10° C)
· Californians shiver uncontrollably.
· Canadians plant gardens.
35° Fahrenheit (1.6° C)
· Italian Cars won't start
· Canadians drive with the windows down
32° Fahrenheit (0° C)
· American water freezes
· Canadian water gets thicker.
0° Fahrenheit (-17.9° C)
· New York City landlords finally turn on the heat.
· Canadians have the last cookout of the season.
-60° Fahrenheit (-51° C)
· Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
· Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door-to-door.
-109.9° Fahrenheit (-78.5° C)
· Carbon dioxide freezes makes dry ice.
0° Fahrenheit (-17.9° C)
· New York City landlords finally turn on the heat.
· Canadians have the last cookout of the season.
-60° Fahrenheit (-51° C)
· Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
· Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door-to-door.
-109.9° Fahrenheit (-78.5° C)
· Carbon dioxide freezes makes dry ice.
· Canadians pull down their earflaps.
-173° Fahrenheit (-114° C)
· Ethyl alcohol freezes.
· Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg
-173° Fahrenheit (-114° C)
· Ethyl alcohol freezes.
· Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg
-459.67° Fahrenheit (-273.15° C)
Absolute zero; all atomic motion stops.
· Canadians start saying "cold, eh?"
-500° Fahrenheit (-295° C)
· Hell freezes over.
· The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup
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