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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 [...]

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 [...]

Jesus In Black

The Wanderer — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:30:49 +0000

A couple of millenniums ago the world was anxiously waiting for Jesus, The Savior. A couple of weeks ago, USA were expecting anxiously for Barack, The Savior. Poor him!

Let’s start from the beginning, the way I like it to start from. North-Americans are crazy and they’re getting worse day after day. One of the big reasons for their great expectations before last presidential elections was [...]