Measuring salaries is sexist
Assessing the gender-fairness of a workplace by the level of salaries is already a masculine (sexist) approach. Women work experience is multi-dimensional.
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There is no neutral journalism
From infinite things happening daily, a newspaper selects which to report. Selection = applying values.
Prayers go from God to us
Prayers are not for convincing God to do something; but for convincing us of what God wants.
Renaissance began in 1200s
The Renaissance didn’t start in 1400s but in 1200s. The arts that blossomed in the 1400s are a manifestation of changes in worldview in 1200s, delayed by the Black Death of 1300s
Salary not necessary
The phenomenon of voluntary collaboration through Internet (wiki) shows that the best compensation for a job is making it relevant
Open and Censored: the yin yang of a successful culture
The secret for the success of Wikipedia is not to be open (a lot of webpages are open to anybody to write in) but to be a combination of Open + Edited: open but controlled (censored) and standardized.
This is also the key of sucess of a culture. For example, United States 1850-1950: anyone can come, but this is our lifestyle our standards. Roman Empire fell when not enough persons were enough convinced of the Roman values to impose them to an increasingly open society.
And, as with any yin yang or dialectic, you cannot compensate one with the other, both have to be in place.
Long Live Dictators of the World
20 and 21th century history taught us that, forcing a dictator out by the international community, is worst than suffering him. The power vacuum makes the people more miserable than the iron fist. Only each nation can get rid of its own tyrants, when they feel the time has come.
Let's trash privacy
Let’s give up privacy. In the electronic age; when every move gets recorded, trying to keep our tracks hidden is a colossal waste of energy
3 questions that define a religion
Religion is any response to these human-making questions:
1. What happens after death (where are we going)
2. Why are we here (where do we come from)
3. How to behave in order to enrich this journey.
By this definition, many human constructions are religions: Communism, Atheism, New Age …
Buddha was Lutheran
Buddha is the Luther (reformer) of Hinduism. Both trashed the institutional body of their religions (the Vedas & casts in Buddha; the Church in Luther) to get a more spiritual faith.
Religions can be positioned in a scale from: A. the merely spiritual (no rites, no priests, all is interior) like New Age and Liberal Protestantism, to Z. the purely material, like Paganism or China’s Confucianism (no interiority needed).
Catholicism, because of the its interpretation of the Incarnation of God, is, in this scale, closer to Paganism than to Protestantism.
Do you think religions should be purely spiritual?