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Habemus Papam… here!

The Wanderer — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:13:48 +0000

As of the writing of this post, Pope Benedict XVI(1) must be taking a walk outside, somewhere between Lisbon, Fátima and Porto, in Portugal. For some reason I really do not know what (or why), the Ten Commandments came up to my mind triggered by this visit which, in this case, is simultaneously religious and political (the order of these factors does not seem to [...]

The Power Of Water

The Wanderer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:08:29 +0000

Last Saturday I took part of a family reunion for the baptism of one of my nieces, daughter of my wife’s brother. I do not remember when was the last time, before this, I was in a Catholic church for any kind of ceremony and this fact made me to use this opportunity to pay attention to the ceremony itself.

The Catholic baptism is like a [...]

Family Guy

The Wanderer — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:57:51 +0000

The Griffin family (Brian, Lois, Peter, Stewie, Chris and Meg) is supposed to be a portrait of a typical American family and Family Guy is an animated television sitcom on Fox Broadcasting Company intended to be another reference to the American culture, whatever that might mean. I am not an unconditional follower but I must confess I get very much amused, normally, when I watch [...]

The Antichrist

The Wanderer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:51:26 +0000

Despite the fact of not feeling any particular pleasure in reading, what makes me one of those Europeans enlarging the statistics referring to citizens with inadequate reading habits in the old continent, once in a while I give place to some actions of self-fustigation by reading a book. That was what happened with “The Antichrist”, by Friedrich Nietzsche, published for the first time in 1895.

I [...]

Eggs & Bunnies

The Wanderer — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:55:25 +0000

My first introspection about consistency of Catholic religion and how I was positioned related to it, came up right after Carnation Revolution in 1974. Both Revolution and self-inquisition were interlinked in a way that I would not ever start questioning relevant values in my own life without the openness given by a military coup which opened the doors for freedom of speech. Before that point, [...]

Friday 13

The Wanderer — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:53:17 +0000

Bad luck lately has hit me so bad that I barely can imagine how worse can things get by a simple fact of a Friday and a 13 meet in the same day. I am as little superstitious as religious nowadays but it wasn’t like that ever since. In fact, I went through a deep and severe religious education (catholic) like any other boy [...]

Evolving To What?

The Wanderer — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:08:49 +0000

From times to times I find myself thinking about God, gods & beliefs! Every single time of those times, fortunately not often, it is not a moment of pleasure, I must confess, but every one of us has quite often these moments of pure masochism for any reason I really don’t care much about.

Charles Darwin could be perfect if he was not born in Great [...]

World AIDS day !!

The Wanderer — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:03:38 +0000

This space is reserved to my dismay: I don’t know what to say about AIDS (or SIDA in French, Spanish and Portuguese). Fortunately there’s many people knowing what to say but, above all, what to do about it (click the banner). May this day bring some more strength and hope to the ones caught by this disease.

Forget Not September 11th

The Wanderer — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:51:28 +0000

I shall not forget the bestiality of this terrorist attack to what is supposed to be the supreme state of civilization: man kind i’s no longer a bunch of beasts hunting for surviving!! Ideally, it would be like so but in fact man is definitively a religious beast.

How can we validate the motif for the act of driving two airplanes against two skyscrapers causing [...]

Guns ‘n’ Gospel…

The Wanderer — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:58:44 +0000

Last October 23rd, Brazil (or 64% of its voting population) said to the world, through a national referendum, that all Brazilian citizen can freely buy and use weapons. As everybody knows, Brazil is one of the most fanatically religious countries in the world (it is not? never mind, that is the way I see it). In Bahia, an average of three murders per day it’s [...]