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L' Albatro di Baudelaire: Reloaded

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Visits: 47 Sovente e per diletto le ciurme s'impossessano degli albatri,  
grandi volatili delle pangee,  
neghittosi compagni di viaggio  
volteggianti dattorno ai leviatani che fendono gl' aspri frangenti.  
 
Deposti sulla prua gli invitti principi dell' azzurro  
resi inetti dalle loro medesime e vaste e glauche ali  
le ritraggono, e vi percuotono il legno:  
remi fatui in una marea che non è più la loro.  
 
Vagabondi dell' iperuranio, come siete grotteschi nel viluppo della vostra agonia -  
voi poc'anzi maestosi, adesso derisi.  
A capriccio ogni plebeo con una pipa vi percuote il rostro,  
mentre l' altro claudicando sbeffeggia l' odissea di chi prima si librava.  
 
E tu che sei Vate, aduso a contemplare nubifragi  
e ad eludere la freccia che saetta a mezzogiorno,  
in tutto tu sei come questo sovrano dei nimbi:  
bandito dai cieli, esiliato fra le delusioni della terra, la tua titanica ala adesso striscia.
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Definition of Axiom

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Visits: 41 An axiom is an overwhelming evidence that cannot be proven.  
We land squarely in the land of Zeno's paradoxes. The mind has its own reasons, that reason understands not.
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Dr House E Grey's Anatomy: Abbiamo Bisogno Di Sognare In Due Modi

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Visits: 263 Nelle prime tre serie ho preferito il Dr House. Poi il personaggio è diventato prigioniero di sè stesso, manieristico, e il tentativo di rianimarlo insufflandovi escamotage ed espedienti era troppo trasparente per non essere destinato al fallimento. Si vedeva arrivare da lontano l' ultima stagione.  
 
Nelle prime serie, rimane tuttavia esemplare nell' aver tratteggiato una figura di outsider che (non si sa come) riesce ad aggiudicarsi un primariato e ad operare con una spregiudicatezza intellettuale che si integrava benissimo con una travolgente passione umana dissimulata sotto la veste di un ateismo che si percepiva più subìto dal personaggio che promosso.  
 
Grey's Anatomy è un tentativo di trasporre parte di quel bagaglio in uno schema corale. Essendo tale, manierismo e stanchezza impendono meno minacciosi: le problematiche man mano che le si incontra le si può spalmare su più personaggi, e così ammortizzarle anzichè farle tutte gravare sulle spalle di un unico ranger triste y final.  
 
Per coloro cui piacciono i giochi di squadra, Grey sarà ancora una volta fonte di ispirazione. E' sempre bello vedere arrivare la cavalleria, anche quando perde.  
 
Ma ci manca il cavaliere solitario, l'eroe misconosciuto. Dovranno pure inventarsi qualcosa (se non un eroe, un antieroe almeno) per coloro che più che al rugby e alla majorettes danzanti su campi spaziosi, si appassionano alla palestra desertificata e scalcinata dove il perdente intento ad un melanconico shadow-boxing incontra infine il suo unico sabato di vera gloria, magari finanche nella disfatta.  
Abbiamo bisogno di sognare in due modi.
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Piero Ferrucci E La Forza Della Gentilezza

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Visits: 339 Collegare l'amore all' intrattenimento o consolidamento di una relazione sentimentale non è solo riduttivo per l'amore ma rischia di farsi egotistico.  
Quello che ci manca non è una educazione all' amore nel rapporto sentimentale, ma una educazione all' amore tout-court come modalità relazionale generalizzata, proficua, spontanea, salubre e addirittura vantaggiosa.  
 
Relegato a lungo nel senso di sufficienza che di solito si riserva al pietismo, l'amore come modalità di vita ha spesso sofferto e della ipocrisia di chi lo impiegava "gesuiticamente" come catechismo per coprire atti e pensieri tutt' altro che amorevoli, e del frainteso che lo leggeva come buonismo di chi ancora non ha imparato a declinare la vita secondo i verbi della volgarità.  
Cedere il posto in fila è atto di debolezza, sorridere a uno sconosciuto una promiscua e inopportuna confidenza... E se non fosse affatto così? quando mai ci siamo educati a questa riflessione?  
 
Ma l'amore non è buono: l'amore è magnifico e grandioso e sontuoso. E' potente. Non vuole la riconoscenza: è troppo più forte. Fort comme la mort. Solo che ci hanno abituati a credere che se vuoi un profitto allora devi agire sporco (per poi manco ottenerlo, magari). Non c'è educazione all' amore come potente modalità relazionale quotidiana. Meglio prendersi vicendevolmente a sputi in faccia tutto il giorno.  
 
Chi vuole cerchi su Google "La Forza della gentilezza" di Piero Ferrucci. E lo legga, che costa meno di dieci euro.
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The Shortest Fairy Tale Of The World

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Visits: 367 Once upon a time there was an angel that didn't know how to fly.  
 
Yet she was determined to fly and stood mooning on a rock. She decided that if she couldn't fly, she would at least teach the rock she was standing on how to do it.  
So she took her foot and slammed it into the rock with the intention to awaken it. But the rock was hurt.  
And this is how the enmity between angels and rocks begun, with an angel teaching one rock how to fly.  
 
So she took the rock and threw it to make it fly, but it hit someone's head. As the angel stood abashed, she had a little bit of devil in her angel eyes, for as everybody knows when angels cry their eyes look crazy.  
 
The man hurt by the flung rock yelled "Stop crying for myself and blame yourself instead! The reason you cannot fly is because you have no wings. You are human brew, mistaking yourself for heavenly crew. And now do cry, for you're screw'd!"  
 
This is why still today a few obdurate humans that cry, cannot accept that wingless creatures just can't fly, and try teaching themsleves how to vie. So it's either a real angel that passes by when at night you hear the wind rattling your roofs, or another falling human that unvanquished spoofs.
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Depression And The Fast Food Of Happiness: The Smiling Prick

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Visits: 386 Depression, like many other things, can be denied and pushed into the unconscious. It operates from there then, but the person is unaware.  
 
Perhaps it could be added that depression is not necessarily a negative thing.  
 
For too many meeting the soul is something that must be avoided at all costs.  
 
Grief? It must/can be narcotized.  
Melancholy? It must/can be met with diversions.  
Depression? it must/can be addressed with pills.  
Desperation? it must/can be stigmatized.  
Thoughts or concerns? they must/can be dispelled.  
 
Thus happiness becomes a fast food populated of hypocrites and stoned dudes.  
And once we've arrived at this point, what is left there of a psychology? A prick, smiling.
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Slaves To The Rhythm And To The Arhythm

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"When a man strikes his slave so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property." Exodus 21:20-21
The problem with that passage, which reveals it could not be meant as a practical or literal prescription, stays with its conclusion.  
That alleged ownership rights may be fully acknoweledged provided death ensues after a few days, and yet are acknowledged no longer if death ensues without delay, is clearly so nonsensical a conclusion, that it may have not escaped even whatever half wit: if I own something, the fact it is no more tomorrow rather than today can in itself found no discrimination; thus, such conclusion in the above mentioned passage ought to have been highly suggestive, if not even downright probatory (rather than obscure), that the prescription could in no way be meant at its face value lest entering unbridgeable contradictions.  
 
This is, indeed, what has been argued by Kabbalists. I do not want to persuade you (or anyone) that such precepts were not meant to have any literal value at all - I only remind you that there was a whole exegetic current that explained the Pentateuch as a set of metaphors. I am sure that passage is dealt with too.  
 
However keep in mind that "slave" is a term to mean me and you: when our passions overcome us, we are "slaves in Egypt".  
 
If so, when your passions dominate you immediately, at their very onset, you may be forgiven: you could not resist their sudden impact. You cannot be considered as having been truly "owned".  
 
But if before surrendering you resist say a couple of days and then none the less you yield, then you are more to be blamed because then the passion has, indeed, won over you, and thus it has won you over also: you resisted, and yet you failed. You're enslaved, won: owned.  
 
Now it's beautiful, and makes sense. And wasn't even hard.
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All Devils Are Women But No Women Are Devils

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Visits: 436 Whenever you meet a devil (in human form or not) remember this: he is a female.  
Beware: this does not mean that women are devils: don't be so obtuse! It only means that devils, when they are true devils, are also necessarily female, yet the other way round is not necessitated or predicated or implied in the least.  
If you cannot understand this, you won't understand either that devils need, indeed, to be women in order to be devils too. Yet women need not to be devils too, in order to be women.  
It's so easy to understand that I never fail to wonder how so many erroneously inferred the latter from the former.  
Women have no need to conceal their being women, and that's why they are no devils; but devils do, and that's how you can tell 'em.  
 
So, if facing a devil you manage to keep in mind he is actually a female, you cannot fail from overcoming him, though his malice will be exactly that of making you forget he is female, and this is why so frequently he appears in male garb: for your power over him resides all in having very clear in your mind you're dealing with a female. This is why he tries so hard to scare you off: to make you forget his actual gender, because as soon as this awareness of yours fails to raise or to stand, he will prevail.  
 
When he presents itself like a female, remember instead that he is not really such; in such fashion you will compensate this new trick of his, meant to shock and awe you: in fact, he's a devil; and thus you may easily prevail if prevail you want, or if prevail you need.
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Find Ali Or Die!

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Visits: 500 Ali spared his best punch on Foreman falling, for Ali, knowing how to rope a dope, also knew that inflicting unnecessary damage was not the thing to do.  
In a sentence which may be the best (and possibily most moving) tribute to Ali I have ever heard, Foreman himself says it in the first seconds of the following movie:
«Probably the best punch of the whole fight, was never landed. Mohammed Ali, as I was going down, he saw me stumbling.  
Ordinarily, you finish a fighter off - I would have!  
He got ready to throw the right hand and he didn't do it.  
That's what made him in my mind the greatest fighter I ever fought.»
Video content A stunning trailer.  
Alternative location: http://www.facingalimovie.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEmmHzQ_Oq0
You know it's weird so many fans wanted to be like Ali. But Leon Spinks was right: "You cannot imitate (how he dances). You better leave that alone!"  
 
The fact is, you searchin' the wrong spot.  
So you wanna be like Ali?  
It's very simple dude, so simple one may never came to think of it.  
It's never really been about "Facing" Ali: it's always been about Finding Ali.  
 
Look not for Ali: look for George Foreman instead.  
Where is Foreman placing your back on the ropes savagely punching the crap out of your flanks?  
He is right there in front of you dude, you're going the distance, and you getting dizzier and dizzier and you know, he's almost knocked you out already.  
 
Foreman is beating your kidneys, without witnesses and spotlight, yet this does not make it any less dramatic or great. You're gonna pee blood tonight.  
Shavers has almost killed your already, the fact you don't see him hitting you means he's so fast, and you got so slow, and he has hit you so hard you're so numb!  
Wake up! "Rumble young man, rumble!" - Find Ali, or die!
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Religion Relegation And Intelligence

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Replies to: Universities Are Churches: They Really Are ps Latin: lego, legis, legi, lectum, legere: to bind, to connect, to read (!)  
 
religio, from Latin religio, religionis: re-lego: I bind together, or: I read between the lines, I... connect the dots  
 
intelligence from Latin intellego: inter-lego: I bind together, or: I read between the lines, I... connect the dots  
 
Religion and intelligence, under an etymological point of view, are fundamentally one same thing.  
 
The difference may be subtle: re-lego in modern Italian (the most direct derivation from ancient Latin) means also: relegare namely to relegate, and also rilegare namely to glue the pages into a book. Therefore re-ligio is a way to see things and merely collect them.  
 
Inter-lego instead seems to suggest the idea of an intervention of human creativity: I do not merely get the pages that nature gives to me in order to create a digest, but I invent a digest of my own, I contribute with my connections.  
 
Fundamentally, religio was closer to our idea of "science" (I believe that even in modern English to "relegate" means also to classify, still today) than intelligere (intelligence) is, for the latter (and not the former!) suggests a degree of subjectivity.  
 
When somebody has a problem to understand that science is a direct derivation of religion, it is uniquely because one either does not want to see the evidence, or does not know how many there are.  
You will never have a guy to pop out of the past to say "It is so" - if one needs that, you will never get that. However the past has so many indications that religion and science are evolutionary and structurally identical, that one may ignore them only by, well you know, ignoring them.
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