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  • The Second Coming – A Secular Hymn
  • The Treason of the Intellectuals 2.0 (Philosophical Foundations (a. Ancient Roots)
  • Tradarea Intelectualilor 2.0 (1. Temeliile filosofice a. ceva radacini antice)
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    September 18, 2011

    Să facem un experiment: se ia o piesă muzicală, se ascultă cu boxele/căștile la maximum și apoi se scriu pe hârtie/ecran primele gânduri legate de experiența acestei audiții.

    Pentru a nu influența în niciun fel percepția altora, îmi rezerv dreptul de a vă spune puțin mai târziu ceea ce am scris ca urmare a acestei audiții.

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  • The iGod

    September 18, 2011

    God made man in His own image, and man hastens to return the compliment. (Voltaire)

    (…) I don’t think we have a generation that does not believe in God as much as I think we have a generation that believes in a god of their own making. We could call this the “iGeneration.” It is the generation that has their own god – an iGod, if you will. He is God on demand, God as they want him to be, God as they have fashioned him in their own image.

    In Kyoto, Japan, the Thousand Buddha Temple displays 1,001 likenesses of Buddha, each a little different from the others. Presumably, a person could find the Buddha that most resembles himself or herself and then worship it. That is what a lot of people do today when they make statements such as, “I don’t believe in a God of judgment,” or “My God would never do thus and so …” or “The God I follow is not like that.” … (Greg Laurie,  The iGod)

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  • La ce mai sunt de folos psihologii?

    September 17, 2011

    Priviţi imaginea de mai jos. Pare o ipostază banală: o mamă şi copilul, adică fetiţa ei. Ei bine, aici greşiţi; în imagine este vorba despre  o mamă şi băiatul ei, care vrea să trăiască ca o fetiţă.

    Titlul articolului din Daily Mail surprinde tensiunea situaţiei: Why I let my son live as a girl: Mother of boy who returned to school in a skirt bravely tells her extraordinary story.

    Observ în ultima vreme tot felul de studii de psihologie a religiei prin care sunt studiate şi repudiate o groază de patologii şi ciudăţenii ce intră sub cupola bolilor psihice, pe bună dreptate în multe cazuri.

    Mă întreb însă dacă aceeaşi exigenţă este valabilă şi în cazul patologiilor sexuale, cu care ni se spală ochii, inima, creierul. Oare psihologii nu sunt în stare să facă nimic în aceste cazuri? Oare nu cumva psihologii de azi au rolul social al preoţilor catolici din Evul Mediu care vindeau penitenţe? Odată ce banul intră în contul doctorului/psihoterapeutului, sufletul este eliberat de orice constrângere şi vinovăţie a conştiinţei, consumându-se într-o veselie generală poveştile “with happy ending” de care are nevoie clientul!

    În numele “normalităţii alternative” cenzura corectă politică stimulează patologiile “bune” şi le interzice pe cele “nesănătoase”.  Relativism răsturnat, inconsistent, dar la fel de gălăgios! Sau vorba lui Caragiale, “curat murdar”!

    E clar că trăim vremurile când însuşi doctorul trebuie dus la doctor!

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  • A Dying City

    September 17, 2011

    Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension.

    The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires. This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time : being dismayed, or admire, making us wondering about the permanence of things.

    Photography appeared to us as a modest way to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state.

    (Yves Marchand, Romain Meffre, The Ruins of Detroit)

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    1 William Livingstone House

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    2 Michigan Central Station

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    3 Woodward Avenue

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    4 Atrium, Farwell Building

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    5 18th floor dentist cabinet, David Broderick Tower

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    6 Bagley-Clifford Office of the National Bank of Detroit

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    7 David Whitney Building

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    8 United Artists Theater

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    9 Fort Shelby Hotel

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    10 Ballroom, American Hotel

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    11 Melted clock, Cass Technical High School

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    12 Donovan Building

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    13 Old First Unitarian Church

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    14 Piano, Saint Albertus School

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    15 Luben Apartments

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    16 Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, built in the Gothic revival style in 1911

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    17 Rich-Dex Apartments

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    18 Classroom, St Margaret Mary School

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    19 Biology classroom, Wilbur Wright High School

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    20 St Christopher House, ex-Public Library

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    21 Fisher Body 21 Plant

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    22 Room 1504, Lee Plaza Hotel

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    23 Detroit?s Vanity Ballroom with its unsalvaged art deco chandeliers. Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey once played here.

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    24 Packard Motors Plant

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    25 Waiting hall, Michigan Central Station

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    26 East Methodist Church

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    27 East Side Public Library

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    28 Offices, Highland Park Police Station

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    29 Biology classroom at George W Ferris School in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    30 The ballroom of the 15-floor art-deco Lee Plaza Hotel, an apartment building with hotel services built in 1929 and derelict since the early 1990s

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    31 Michigan Theatre

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    32 Packard Motors Plant

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  • A world without Romania

    September 15, 2011

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