really excited when I saw on the BBC long shots of protesters lit candles in the cold night crossing from Copenhagen to require political responsibility for the future of the planet. I was supportive and proud to see so many people aware of what was going and determined to show that change is needed. Do not listen to them. Some environmentalists are now in jail. Among them, the director of Greenpeace Spain . climate summit in Copenhagen over stocks with a great failure that seriously threatens the future of mankind and other living things. China and U.S. have decided by others. Behind closed doors, agreed that there would be no real agreement on reducing emissions. Continue to produce, getting rich and polluting without worrying about the consequences which, unfortunately, will be for everyone.
Perhaps it should remember the myth of King Midas who a god asked what he most wanted and said, reckless, that wanted to turn to gold everything he touched. When he discovered that his new gift could not touch anything or anyone as even wanted to eat foods that became the coveted metal, had to pray to God to give him back his life before this dangerous concession. Had chosen badly desire. He repented. The god took pity on him and released him from their poisoned chalice. But when they are not gods but the laws of physics and ecosystems that are at stake, no forgiveness or possible correction.
2009 ended with some bad news (No agreement) and good news (I had never been as large demonstrations to demand climate justice.) You can watch a brief video remember the demonstrations in the streets of Copenhagen to enter the new year with hope. Is a path that has just begun.
The AMPA invites all its partners / as an evening of conviviality, which will take place next Sunday December 20, at 17 hours in the multi-purpose service (SUM) of the college of the C / San Isidro.
will take coffee and cakes in addition the day will be entertained by the clown Glitter that our children will enjoy while parents take the opportunity to know each other better and to wish a Merry Christmas .
hope your attendance together with your sons and daughters.
As coordinator of the Club Reading in recent years, only a few words about it. When, in August this year, I had news that would not be renewed in my library assistant position, my first concern was the continuation of the club. I consulted my colleagues to take over any of it, but obviously, the absence of three people from my colleagues in October forced to multiply, which prevented material that could undertake this activity. Then offered the coordination of the Reading Club to my fellow club members, but all expressed opposition to take its place would be empty, because it seemed ethical. At this point, I had more to cancel the sending of lots of books, which cost money for the library, and dismiss the club in the CAL. Personally I feel, and as I said in a previous post, for me it was a stimulating and enriching. But obviously I can not, to this day, continue to devote time to perform an activity that required me dedication in and out of my old work schedule. Cultural volunteering is fine when you're young and full of energy or when you are retired and have time, but I seem acceptable at this time the culture is intended to reduce the size and less by someone who does not preach the example. I've lost a job in which I have been happy during the time I've played better or worse, but with my good will and above all passion. The library has been my pride and San Roque, since I was a user, and it still is. Nothing is said in the virtual reality affects a service that lets everyday example of their good performance, despite the political and economic circumstances, which always affect more cultural aspects. That's what you have to look, reality, and I say this from experience having sailed across the network to participate in discussions in various forums, even generations from my own blogs. Nothing is said in the virtual world I returned to my work or I will seek an extension of unemployment benefits. So I will not lose a single minute of my life with this kind of virtual. My reality is to go home and continue my projects.
That said, I learned that it has reached an agreement among members of the club and the library to resume activities under the responsibility of the Library in terms of management and infrastructure. I am delighted and I really would have liked to continue leading the coordination of the Club, but my life has taken other courses that force me to move around regularly to another place and time to devote my energies and my present and my future. In any case I am happy that this re- be the Book Club Blog Network of Libraries of San Roque. I hope that for many years. Fram
These days, in Copenhagen, is shaping a large part of our common future. In the late twentieth century, and ecofeminist ecopacifista Petra Kelly, co-founder of the German Greens, said that the prosperity of a society should be measured by the quality of the goods it produces, to enjoy water and uncontaminated food, the health of the population, respect the natural environment and other living things for a living world . There will be happier by consuming more unnecessary items that will soon end up in the trash. A green economy requires not only structural changes but also a paradigm shift in the desirable and valuable.
The justified alarm over climate change a phenomenon so obvious that it is impossible to ignore, you must be a spur to think about the urgency of a transformation towards sustainability. The criticism of the unsustainable model of development is a feminist issue. Give just two examples to support this assertion.
The first: both North and South, all people are affected to varying degrees of pollution, but women are particularly vulnerable to products toxic chemicals due to our biological characteristics. The Multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome, commonly diagnosed as "allergic" to the pet of the day, is the least serious of consequences.
The second, according to data provided by eco-feminists like Vandana Shiva and international organizations, rural women of the Third World poor are the first affected by deforestation, desertification and disasters "natural." The sexual division of labor traditionally assigned tasks such as collecting firewood or provisioning water are becoming increasingly difficult. But another world is possible. This was stated women over eighty-six countries in the Forum of Food Sovereignty Nyéléni, held in Mali two years ago. Among the objectives of the World March of Women include the requirement to protect the environment as common good. In Copenhagen, decide on the common good. Do not forget.
PS: If you have not seen yet which would be odd assumption felt sailors I recommend the famous ciberespacio_ short history of things the U.S. expert Annie Leonard dubbed into Castilian.
The stories that our children are fun ways to construct subjectivity. Therefore, they deserved more than an interpretive study. For example, was world famous psychoanalytic analysis of the fairy tale of Bruno Bettelheim (1976). Bettelheim saw in them a great way to start, in childhood, in the control of unconscious fears and desires. As an orthodox Freudian era, leaving aside any historical interpretation and did not see any negative aspects in the stereotypes of masculinity and traditional femininity (a significant point: his hypothesis psychologizing about autism mothers blamed a disorder later discovered the scientific community was of biological origin). More recently, the approach from a gender perspective has shown us that contain messages that usually have not been favorable to women. While often taught the value and the initiative to the boys preach resignation and passivity girls. Expected to be beautiful and seem to be the prince dreamed keys to success. But how to pass the critical analysis of fiction while retaining all the freshness that appeals in a story? This is the secret of Cinderella did not want to eat from partridges Nunila Cameros Myriam López Salamero and Sierra. Originally written for adults in a program against domestic violence, I think, however, can be a beautiful story for children who receive an education in freedom, self-respect, equality and sensitivity to other living things. It is short, I encourage you to discover. Here you can see the story in his first version, albeit with a spelling error I guess and be remedied in the second edition has just been published as a book and with a foreword by Maruja Torres. The radio version they have done in Ecuador are here. My congratulations to the authors for the gift that we have made a tod @ s with its originality and joy.
HERTHA MÜLLER, THE UNKNOWN. Literary Recommendations
Hertha Müller is the author of Romanian and German origin, awarded the Nobel Prize this year. I had never heard of it, which I happened to many other Nobel prizes. I do not mean you have not read anything about many of these authors, but even had read or heard their names before you jump into the headlines for the award. Things to think: that there are many unknown and very good writers because their work has no facilities for distributing massive literary channels, or Nobel prizes are awarded to non-response times only for reasons of literary quality as reasons for such policy, the matter is that this award, created by the inventor of dynamite to offset the negative impact of their discovery, sometimes gives us surprises, not only us, but the whole literary world was understood that a number of names as strong candidates.
This is excellent news for the beginning of the school, has published a textbook History of Philosophy for the Bachelor of adding new knowledge from the gender college explaining the issues own such manuals. It is the work of Amalia Gonzalez Suarez entitled Women, men and philosophy. History of Philosophy (ed. octahedron, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2009). Philosophy usually speaks of man but even if it is assumed that this refers to man (anthropos ) and not the man (aner ), the reality is that few times the concept of man has in mind women as object of reflection is not sexist or as a subject of philosophical discourse. For example, how many textbooks do make reference to the capital work of John Stuart Mill Subjection women to demand equal rights for women and was one of the philosophical basis of suffrage and women obtained the vote? How many thinkers are usually named in the textbooks? In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Poulain de la Barre stated in his work on gender equality : "The philosophers have taken their prejudices to schools and they have not learned anything that might help to shed them. They are not told a word about the sexes, is supposed to already know enough. " Today, philosophy, to be critical, is reviewing and correcting the gender bias that has plagued as part of a culture that has excluded and women traditionally undervalued. As stated by the philosopher Amelia Valcárcel in his Foreword to this new History of Philosophy: "The question who and what we , since we know something of our history, past answer how we got here . humanity studies his past, but knows it is not something inert, in fact is one of the objects of study that most change. For each new look will find in it things that others had overlooked relevant " Member of research group Celia Amorós Amalia González Suárez shows his experience as a teacher in middle school very clear exposition of this book is very educational at the same time precise. Each current philosophy is explained in its historical context and includes short texts for comment and discussion activities and type test. From these lines I send my congratulations to the author as a result so accomplished and so useful in the Hispanic world.
As we were some time ago at recent meetings have been held providing the commentary of several books read and liked us enough to recommend to other colleagues in the Reading Club, so I turn to record them in this our blog so that we can be of some use.
first mention to the first work of an author Andalusian Jesus Maeso de la Torre, a resident of Cadiz, and recovering, with an impeccable historical accuracy, a historical figure Abdherraman II's court, that part of our history that was always denied by the Catholic religious intransigence, and who Islamic fundamentalism also made him into exile in the Emirate of Cordoba.
The great playwright Fernando Arrabal with this work leaves us aware of the family tragedy that earned him his father, a lieutenant in the Army of the Second Republic simply! remained loyal to the legally constituted government and who had sworn, and military loyalty. The process that confronts her mother since childhood and through which the familiar historical memory is erased even in the most intimate details, and that leads him to say "stepmother story plunged us, tied up misfortune. " includes his famous" Letter to General Franco " written and sent in the dictator's life.
Antonio Abad brings this delicious novel of colonial atmosphere that we immersed in that world so little known commonly by all the English, who always taught us to despise only "Moors" as inferior to those who had to lead and protect because they were savages, and therefore lower set up the "Protectorate of Morocco, but in fact they were interest only for the rich iron on the Rif Atlas sighs King Alfonso XIII as his prime minister Count Romanones. is good go to one of the facets of what it was that reality of our presence in Morocco. The author spent ten years writing this book, but I think it was worth it, reflected by heart the sad reality.
First tell you that all the titles that always began "Vatican ............" y. already repeluco gave me, for it is well written so much garbage issues sometimes repetitive in its audacity come to cinema, but the truth is that after reviewing the rate of work and given the pseudonym its author, led me to do some research that confirmed to me the interesting thing about the novel, and bought it. Needless to say I liked it enough, the author assembles his novel in the future, but putting on the table the real problems and burning of the Catholic Church and making XXI century, through the fictional plot, alternative proposals. Curiously, as stated in its opening pages, the author is a member of the Roman Curia who hides behind a pseudonym to avoid the consequences of his honesty in admitting both nonsense. For those who decide to read it I recommend that after doing so, I interned in the Web and find information about Cardinal Martini and their ideas, compare them with those expressed in the novel and see what conclusions do you find.
In this historical novel, its author, Manuel Villar Raso, we documented in fictionalized form, another unknown chapter of our history, the conquest of the Niger and Timbuktu their capital foundation for part of those other English, the Moors of Granada, expelled from Spain in the sixteenth century and they conquered and settled in much of Africa, while others crossed the Atlantic and English conquered the lands of the New World though we have had these other lot of news because, curiously, these were the winner of Spain and others of Spain defeated, as unfortunately so often recur throughout our history.
This completes my literary recommendations, I recognize that much focus on historical themes, but it is the kind of novel that I like it not only literature but history teaches me, and this is very important that you know best for that not to repeat past mistakes but learn from them.
From here I invite comrades s Reading Club already in the meetings also raised its literary recommendations, so that played in this our blog that we must serve as a vehicle of communication, especially from October in which we start our diaspora.
opposed to the idea of \u200b\u200bterm that carries the point end, these ellipsis involving suspension, but not finishing. Ellipsis to keep open a space, ad marginalize . Here lies far from the Reading Club as nameless official auspices, in these bad times for poetry. Power has been able to finish the forms visible, but not to the invisible ties that have formed in recent years.
Note: The September book is now available in the Library. Player of Fedor Dostoevsky, close the cycle of formal meetings. Time: Thursday, 24 at 21:00 pm (We changed on Friday on Thursday commitments of some members).
Leo in the newspapers that Buenos Aires will have a statue of Mafalda, this girl from a comic strip that has made many people reflect on ethical, political, social and philosophical without never losing the humor. Mafalda was (is) an intellectual and dreamy child who did not fit the usual stereotypes. So was (is) more real than other comic figures. Critical acumen not failed to point out social inequality between women and men. The naive denounced his lapidary phrases that left bare the contradictions and irrationalities of the world. Mafalda was born in the sixties. As the daughter of his time, was able to analyze the society while laughing, because I had confidence in the transformative power of reason and knowledge. The sculpture which can be seen in the neighborhood of San Telmo, where his creator, Quino, nicely captures the critical spirit, optimism and deep. The sample sits on a bench, staring at a point far superior. That look is the reflection and construction of new horizons. A smile, just suggested, his face lights up. Is what inspires hope for a better world. If you have not read yet any Mafalda , there's still time to do it.
This book club was created (if I remember correctly) back in 2004, from the hand of a fellow Network of Libraries of San Roque. I attended as a partner while working as a monitor in the Punto de Lectura de San Enrique. In late 2006, I proposed to take over coordination the club. For me it was a pleasure to accept this responsibility.
I've always loved reading, and the opportunity to discuss a book with others has always seemed to me one of the most exciting communication activities that exist. Share a reading is re-read and prolong the life of the book in our minds and hearts, to expand the vision that has left us reading the book, learn about other perspectives, some different lights that illuminate the landscape of what is read.
In the almost three years, I tried to make the club a number of ideas about how to approach reading the book, its analysis and understanding, while seeking the greatest possible fairness in stock selection and reserving some space for other authors as being of interest. But mostly, I tried to create a communication climate where all members feel comfortable, listened. I hope I approached this ideal.
Unfortunately, today, I feel the sad duty to report the suspension of all activities of the Reading Club Library Network of San Roque. The reason for those who do not know, is that the current government, Mr. Mayor, Don Fernando Palma, head, has decided not to renew the contracts of library assistants who work part time. That is, from October, will stay together with two companions, disconnected from the Library. The economic crisis is situations like this, which usually takes for politicians to take tough decisions in the field is always weaker and more expendable to them: the culture.
So I can only say goodbye to all those who over the years I have joined in this exciting adventure, hoping not to lose contact with them. Thank you very much everyone for your presence and your participation. And a big hug. Fram
"IF ANYONE IS THIRSTY, COME TO ME AND DRINK" FALSE
" If anyone is thirsty , COME TO ME AND DRINK "
" If anyone thirsts, come to me and drink "
(John 7: 37);
For many years I considered these words of Jesus as little more than empty and meaningless. As much as I went to churches of all types in their search, looking for my thirst to know, I could never achieve. In contrast, the disappointment grew as a huge mountain that I became an atheist who hated to hear just name it.
This is what I have managed to make the religious leaders of Christianity. That people feel thirsty to know Christ can never drink that source.
... The reason? Because none of these leaders, any church, denomination, or whatever you call those stores lost people, none of these leaders, I repeat, truly represents God, much less the way he teaches.
It is for this reason that Christ's words in Matthew 11:28 " Come unto me all ye that and burdened, and I will give you rest "are not the result we expected.
Although
want refuse, those who attend to their denominations are not true in this promise:
" Al that comes to me will never drive away .. "(John 6:37)
The situation can be summarized as follows: A person, seeking relief for their problems or domestic situation, believes that attending a cult or denomination find that rest that Jesus promises. But soon he finds that the reality is different. Although for months or years go to his church, two or three times a week, a snack for his soul reaches only momentarily, while listening to some of those songs "Christian", or during the sermon or the prayer of the pastor or leader.
But when it comes out of his temple, that person head-on crash against reality. Do not feel that rest and the refreshments promised by Jesus. So looking forward to the next meeting ... And so it is life, without knowing the rest that Jesus promises to those who seek.
The explanation they give their pastors at this, is: "you must have a hidden sin .." "You lack faith," "you lack commitment the Lord, "and join thousands of other nonsense that deeply into despair those who do not find relief.
Other people prefer to silence their questions to avoid being identified as "lack of spirituality", "lack of faith" and other things. Fast, pray, punishing his body, mortify his flesh, cry and cry listening to these fake singers "Christians" that are simply merchants of emotions that are fabulously enriched by ignorance of the gullible.
So people go to their churches and when they return to their homes once again feel the thirst for God. They have not been filled. They find what they've come for.
But, you ask some ... so this promise of Jesus is false ..?
but whoever drinks the water I shall give him shall never thirst but the water I give him will become in him a fountain springing up into life eternal. (John 4:14)
If this is true-that is, sure-why people are still thirsty ...?
Obviously, because they have been drinking from a source that is not Christ.
I do not do anything complicated ... There is no expensive seminars to take Bible school "Christians" do not have to be a close friend of the pastor, do not pay large amounts of money-or few-to get closer to salvation of Christ.
Jesus compares the act of salvation in the simple act of drinking water. Simple as that: go to the source and drinking .... Nothing more.
This promise, "shall never thirst" is supported by the invitation of Jesus himself: " If anyone thirsts, come to me and drink " (John 7:37); " And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And that heareth say, Come. And who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life freely .. "(Revelation 22:17)
Note that there we are not saying you have to perform complicated rituals or give money to buy a miracle. It tells us that just have to take this water, which is free. Needs to be made directly, without intermediaries, without these imposters who call themselves "pastors" or "leaders" ... It is Christ in person, who provides the water that each of us must drink yourself.
Jesus invites us to go to Him directly:
But in the last great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, "If anyone thirsts, come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture says, rivers of living water will run inside. This said about the Spirit that they would receive those who believed in him, it had not yet been given the Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified . (John 7:37-39)
fact, as I have noted, the act of drinking is closely related to the action of the Holy Spirit in each of the real disciples of Christ. first thing is to feel thirsty, the second is to come to Christ and drink, and the third is when the Holy Spirit comes in and produces a stream of living water inside who accepts Christ and receives it actively, "drinking "him. The person feels thirst will be filled to fill and she will become a channel rivers of living water.
So different to the experience of those who attend their names ....!
In practice, many are not ready to drink straight from the source. So go to any denomination to receive the water tainted by religious leaders, who impersonates Christ and his followers lie ensuring that they have been chosen by God to shepherd the flock. What a big lie ...!
People who attend these churches do not really want to listen to Christ, but to obtain temporary relief that will soothe the feelings of guilt or perhaps may seem like a lot easier to follow what they say their human leader, who strive to hear the voice of the one Shepherd, Christ.
Many other people sense that something is wrong in their churches ... They perceive that there is no God ... but silenced his conscience because their egos would be hurt if they accept other information other than that they have followed for years. Others stay in their names because they are bribed with positions of power and money .... Found what they have actually gone to look for: the riches and the pride of the world.
But a minimum number, that you really thirst for Christ and not found in those places snack for their lives, living in a constant inner struggle because these religious leaders, they are mere instruments of Satan, they say that if you leave "where God has placed them, "I get angry and terrible punishment befall him, ruins and more. So, I keep saying, "stay here, where God put and keep tithing."
Both of religious leaders and their followers, referred to by the Apostle Paul:
But evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived . ( 2Ti 3:13)
According to the Letter to Timothy, the deluded are described as "bad men" in the same category of deceivers. No one will excuse that it was referred to the truth so he could make a decision.
The good news is that those who truly seek God, may find it:
But without faith it is impossible to please God, because it is necessary that cometh to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek him . (Hebrews 11:6)
The work of the disciples of Christ to those who already have found, is not to convert people in their personal followers ... The mission is to lead people to Christ, not to themselves. Its mission is to teach them to obey Christ, not man.
His work, which Christ left us is to bring people into the inexhaustible source, free and perfect Christ. And bring them to Christ does not mean they are in bondage of one ... but bring them to Christ is to lead up to it so that it is Jesus, directly and without intermediaries, who lead each person you seek. This is a process that, as Scripture clearly mentioned, lasts only a few hours .... Never lasts for days, much less years.
is so simple and at the same time, so hard ... But this difficulty only depends on the level of our stubbornness.
So the question to " can have spirituality, contact with God, not a religion ..?
The answer is a definite and resounding: Yes is the only way ...
Charming. This is the adjective that deserves the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. A book that stands out from the rest of the production of the author for his dreamlike, symbolic. Not a straightforward task to write it after a forced landing in the desert where they had to go (along with his partner) several days with food shortages and just drink some wine. The harsh conditions caused them hallucinations. And this book has a bias to be written as a light, a flash concise in the form of a story understandably explains the basics of how ABC cope with life. Although he always has tried to label this reading as a child, the truth is that it is a book to read over time is much more enlightening. Its apparent simplicity conceals a basic wisdom but common sense unanswerable. And above all, what I think makes him a book to keep in mind is that is charming without being fussy, and can be read several times throughout life, always drawing something.
To alleviate the slow hours cool the second summer, some proposals and recommendations for readers in the club: (Note: the recommendations are available at the public library are indicated by the term Library under the Comment)
Hard, gray, chiseled in stone a book angled. A great writer.
Enchanting, as conversations with the author. Highly recommended to lovers of Japanese food culture. Library.
Hilarious, lucid, intelligent. A fresh, solid proposal for an author to follow. Library.
metaliterary and witty. A cartoon that ennobles the fledgling career of its author.
This number is the consecration of a balance between form and content. Mignola reaches its poetic rounder. Wonderful color. Library.
A film this summer. And political intrigue with an old-fashioned look. Ben Afleck with several kilos lighter, Russell, with several more.
Attendees at this first meeting to take the pulse of the reading month, mainly expressed their perplexity and, shall we say, displeasure regarding the reading of Circular 07. Nuances. Humberto explained that he enjoyed passages that seemed bright and caused him a feeling or desire to go deeper in the same direction, but would find that the passage ended abruptly giving way to another place completely different in form and content, which gave him an unpleasant feeling, the image would be like traveling on a highway filled with speed bumps. In a similar way and expressed Eduardo Concepcion. Manuel stated a number of issues on the one hand explain the rejection of the traditional reader, ie the one used to develop and flourish with a linear narrative, a remarkable and uninterrupted flow, conventional structures of argument, middle and end, and secondly proposed new positions on this literature, syncopated fragmented to allow the reader to enjoy reading. The correspondence would be something like watch TV and do zaping time to time in a random fashion. Therefore proposes a reading Manuel Nonlinear book, but a random read, jumping back and forth at the whim of the reader. The more appropriate in this case, in which there seems no intention glimpsed in the arrangement of the fragments that make up the kaleidoscope of shapes and text content across multiple enclosed in the circle of the city.
emerge from this meeting a number of issues which I am sure will be very interesting to put to the complainant, about the narrative structures, fragmentation, contiguously coexistence of genres and styles, etc. Finally, although we do not like reading (which need not be a condition), always, always learn something, and this we have to have it always present, because sometimes it is not the end of the act pleased, but knowledge of the different, expanding our mental limits, at least for a while and in a particular case, although then each return to their favorite coordinates.
LUIS VICENTE MORA WILL BE IN THE BOOK CLUB. FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2009.
Vicente Luis Mora (Códoba, Spain, 1970) is director of the Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA). Bachelor studies and right would Filosfía Pure is currently conducting his PhD in Contemporary English Literature with a thesis on dissolution of the subject in fiction and poetry. Has published a book of stories Underground (DVD, 2008), the novel in motion Circular 07. outside (Berenice, 2007) and Singularities trials. Ethics and Poetics of English literature (Bartleby, 2006), Pangea. Internet, blogs and a new world communication (Fundación José Manuel Lara, 2006) and new light. Singulariddes English narrative present (Berenice, 2007). He has published several books of poetry, the latter of which is Construction (Pre.Textos, 2005). His latest publication is Passages. Symbolic spaces between art and literature (Pages foam). A literary critic for magazines such as Insula, Chimera, Mercury, Archipelago, Clarín and Cuadernos del Sur. He has received several awards in fiction, poetry and essays and is selected in over 30 anthologies of verse and prose. His blog (linked in this one) is a reference on the web for lovers of literature and culture in general.
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