Why do I write a blog?

You write your blog and continue doing it for three simple reasons: you want to do it, you can do it and you are allowed to do it.

1. You are allowed to do it: there is no "you shall not write" commandment prohibiting it.
2. You can do it: means and technic are there.
3. You want to do it: you feel that writing the blog will give you some satisfaction.

And then, there are at least two causes for your motivation:
1. People out there may read your words so you fulfill one paramount need for mankind: communication.
2. You may re-read what you wrote and may like it so you get proud of your creation.

Who is God?

Who is God?

The question on the existence of God is not useful in itself but it should be put in perspective. No matter how the world is, there is a varying degree of completion in all things and acts since things and acts are all differents; thus, if God equals to perfection and the perfection is the highest degree of realisation, then God's name must be given to that entity at the top of the scale. Whether it matches or not our personal idea of perfection, there must be something that surpasses everything else in entelechia: just that being is God. Our idea of perfection may go far beyond that deity, but we should not forget that only that God which has a reality (belongs to reality) and is besides the culmination of this world may fit the real world (double R).

On the other hand, when comparing an object and a subject, we deem the latter at a higher level than the former. Furthermore, personifying anything, dead or alive, is seen as a promotion for good or evil. That is why God must be a who and not a what. That is why we should ask (if we have any time) who is God instead of what is God?

¿Quién es Dios?

No sirve en ningún momento la cuestión acerca de la existencia de Dios, tan sólo sobre nuestra versión de Dios. Sea como fuere el mundo, ha de existir en él una gradación del acabado en las cosas o actos ya que todas las cosas y actos son distintos; de ahi que si Dios = perfección y la perfección es el grado superior de realización, entonces el nombre de Dios debe ser dado a aquella entidad que ocupe la cúspide de la escala. Corresponda o no con nuestra idea personal de perfección, por lógica ha de haber algo que supera en "entelechia" a todo lo demás: precisamente tal ser es Dios. Nuestra idea de perfección puede superar con creces a esta divinidad, pero recordemos que tan sólo cabe en el mundo real (R doble) aquel Dios que posea realidad y además sea culminación del mundo.

Por otra parte, al comparar un objeto y un sujeto normalmente elevamos éste por encima de aquél; más aún, personificar algo, vivo o inerte, es considerado una promoción para bien o para mal. Por esto Dios tiene que ser un quién, no un qué (aunque a priori no posea condición humana). Por ello hemos de preguntarnos (si tenemos tiempo) ¿quién es Dios? en lugar de ¿qué es Dios?

Love and freedom.

Extreme game

People love playing, until someone gets hurt.
Voice-over, Desperate Housewives.

Soneto de prueba

Soneto de prueba.

Unos versos me manda hacer Elena,
Que nunca vi tamaña obligación
Por probar de escritor mi vocación,
Aunque mi poesía, en verdad, dé pena.

Discerniré la ganga de la mena,
Daré norma a la rítmica acción
Y hallaré metódica inspiración
Para llevar la pasión a la vena.

Tomaré de maestros la destreza:
Del Fénix copié el metro repentino
Sin lograr todavía su fineza.

Mas hallaré en mi boca el verbo fino
Que extraerá del alma su pureza.
Sentenciad, hermosa, si fue con tino.

I wrote the poem above one sleepless night 4 years ago.

Fatherhood and Ironmanship

Rafael Cruz warns me not to miss a heartbreaking video that teaches a precious lesson
It is a very emotional story. Indeed, I have been sobbing for the whole duration of the video. Please read the text below before watching the video. Please turn on the sound of your computer.

This is the story of an Australian father who took part in the Australian Ironman race every year. His greatest dream was to compete next to his son in such competition. Unfortunately, his son suffered from cerebral paralysis. The Australian never saw his son's position as a hurdle, for he trained really hard -together with his son- for some years until the time came. The 60-year-old Aussie signed up his son and himself for the Australian Ironman.

The Ironman competition is an extremely exhausting for great people with a winning, exemplary mind, and with strong convictions. Being able to finish an Ironman race is close to the human being's physical limits. The race comprises 3 uninterrupted stages and starts at dawn;

1. Swimming 4km in the sea or lake (with the cold mist)
2. Riding 180km on a bike
3. Running a marathon (42.5km).

All this makes the Ironman race an extremely tough, both physically and mentally. World champions make it in 8h 15m.

Our Australian made it within an amazing time of 17 hours. Usually by this time the race is called to a finish and roads are open again for normal traffic. However, having seen who was running the Ironman race this time, the organisers kept the roads closed until everyone had finished, even though it was after sunset. Those participants who complete the race are usually people stronger mentally than physically. Our Australian accomplished the task with his son.

It's an example of love, life, pride, and sport. The name of the video is 'CAN'.

Howls in the post-modern night

I have listened to Fonseca's podcast Howls in the post-modern night and I left this comment.

Fonseca, it's the first "Howls in the post-modern night" that I have listened to and I must recognise that I liked it. Still a bit of way to go to perform as a proper radio presenter, but your efforts are nothing to be sneered at. You'll improve with the practice. Congratulations and "bon courage"!

Don't worry, happy butcher, I think everyone understood that your mistake was a "lapsus linguae". But I think that your obsession with the liberalisation of drugs could be a bit too much. I think that the grandfather of the "liberalismo", Adam Smith, and its father and mother, Friedmans, although would include it as a requirement for a 100% pure libertarian society, do not consider it that central or with the highest priority.

Last thing, good song.

Love and freedom.

Jihad Watch

I have dedicated the day to sweep the internet, starting at usual at Red Liberal.

Taken a cue from John's Iberian Notes, I read a comparison of Freud and Ortega in The New Criterion.. I highlight the last two paragraphs:

Although Ortega is genuinely disdainful of fascism, seeing it as the apogee of mass man, there seems to me something at least proto-fascist, and possibly more than proto-fascist, in his solution to the existential problem that he has so astutely characterized. He makes power the measure of all things, indeed he makes it the meaning of life. When he says that life is struggle, he does not mean merely that there are always obstacles to worthwhile achievement to be overcome, and that a life without such obstacles would be meaningless, but that domination of the world is the meaning of life, and all else, at least for Europe, is decadence. I don’t find this at all pleasant.

Yet, at the same time, and more memorably, Ortega points to the very danger that I see in his solution. He says that today, precisely because so much is possible, the worst is possible: regression, barbarity, decadence. Freedom and possibility necessarily include the freedom and possibility to do evil, which is something of which conservatives are aware but progressives tend to screen out of their minds. Of course, conservatives have, or tend to have, the opposite fault, to be unduly sceptical of the possibilities of doing good. But the existential limitations of human life, as sensitively described by Freud and Ortega, mean that it is far easier to do harm than good, and therefore that the faults of progressives and conservatives, while intellectually mirror images of one another, are not moral mirror images.

The fact that freedom and possibility gives people the freedom and opportunity of doing evil links directly to the apology of terror made by self-called Muslims and denounced by JihadWatch. (If the Fitna film is blocked at Google, check out the following link http://www.fok.nl/mirror/fitna.html.)

However, the solution is not less freedom for everyone (the statism offered by fascism and socialism), but directly fight the people that cause the evil and show everybody that their attitude is shameful. So please, "Muslim moderates", stand up and point to your fellows that those lines in the Quram that command to kill and terrorise are not actually Allah's word, but simply the "calls to arms" by Muhammad to gather support of the empoverish nomadic tribes to gain power in Saudi Arabia.

Love and freedom.