If, when I was fifteen, someone had told me “one day you will go to a concert of Led Zeppelin“, I would have laughed a lot certainly!
No, I haven’t gone to that concert and surely I will never go there (even if there are rumors about a reunion with the Bonham’s child), but what I have seen sunday evening at the ancient greek theater of Taormina is enough!
After two hours, in which three groups are alternated (particularly the magic Tinariwen), Robert Plant arrives with the amazing Strange Sensation.
Already with the first beautiful song I shiver: the voice seems really that of Robert Plant, the same that I listening for years. It is a little lower, deeper, but it doesn’t show some sixty years (or it perhaps shows them all, it depends on the points of view). The second song gives me the certainty.
Then, the madness: Robert screams “Hey hey mama, ... Continua a leggere...
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Blessed are the rich in spirit
I have thought about the first beatitude, it’s an indecency. Here it is:
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:3, 12
I don’t know what is taught in catechism today, but for me the “poor in spirit” are a well precise kind of people: the ignorant persons. The first beatitude is a praise of ignorance.
Does the catechism interpret the “poor of spirit” like “humble”? It’s worse! Here, humility means an only thing: total enslavement to God; prohibition to set questions; “to behead yourself” and to put every hope and responsibility in the Almighty. In short: to voluntarily stop thinking.
This is a perspective so distant from those of Saints-philosophers (Agostino, Thomas Aquinas etc.) who, with theirs continuous to ask and confess themselves, tested and tried the own themselves faith, who putted in crisis the own themselves religion and imposed her a renewal, who challenged the themselves ... Continua a leggere...
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False altruism and non-functional magnetic resonance
Some day ago, I read this news on internet: Paying taxes lights up the brain.
The tool used for this “amazing” discovery is the functional magnetic resonance, a device that is too much overestimated. Practically, every link among a neural configuration and the human behavior is a novelty! But it isn”t a novelty, rather it is like “discover the warm water”.
The research of the University of Oregon was directed by a cognitive psychologist and two economists (what terrible triumvirate!). They found that two ancient regions of our brain fixed when we spent our money voluntarily (like in charity and in mandatory taxations). This regions are the same that fixed when basic needs such as food and pleasures (sweets or social contact) are satisfied.
But this research is so banal and obvious! Is incredible that the american University spent their money in this way! And that isn”t all, folks. In fact, if the ... Continua a leggere...
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Eolie mon amour: earth, water, air and fire
Among the most beautiful beaches, I quote Centoscalini or "White beach" (in the photo above), the beach of pumice stone and