tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89466055787360770412024-02-20T02:11:02.007+01:00Of Life And ElseEste va a ser mi diario, una hoja de ruta, la bitácora de mi viaje. No pretende ser nada más ni nada menos que eso, simplemente un lugar para dejar constancia de mis pensamientos.Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-40314730428452687742013-04-25T13:02:00.002+02:002013-04-25T13:02:50.155+02:00La Revolución del Salón<br />
El Poder de los Pequeños Grupos<br />
<a href="http://www.cecileandrews.com/" target="_blank">http://www.cecileandrews.com/</a><br />
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Cecile Andrews es de las que piensan que todo empieza con un cambio personal: “La mayoría de la gente no se involucra en el cambio social de un día para otro. Necesitan ver todo lo que ganan si se involucran y conectan con otras personas. Necesitan entusiasmo e inspiración. Y para eso hace falta pasar por un cambio personal”.<br />
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“La mejor forma de garantizar la felicidad y el bienestar es reforzando los lazos sociales”, continúa, “Los lazos sociales son si acaso más importantes ahora. De hecho, una de las respuestas más interesantes a la crisis es la “economía compartida”: la gente está encontrando nuevas formas de colaborar y de ayudarse unos otros. Crear comunidades se ha convertido en algo realmente excitante e inspirador”.<br />
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Aunque no basta con conectar virtualmente a través de las redes sociales. Cecile Andrews es una incondicional el arte de la conversación y de la interacción cara a cara, y de eso va precisamente su último libro, Living Room Revolution...<br />
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“Desde los salones de la Revolución Francesa a los grupos de conciencia en el movimiento para la liberación femenina, todo ha empezado gestándose en pequeños grupos de personas reunidas en un salón o en un espacio reducido similar. Es en los pequeños grupos donde podemos realmente conectar y sentir que somos escuchados. Ahí es donde empiezan verdaderamente a gestarse las ideas y la interacción”.<br />
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“Nunca dudes que un pequeño grupo de ciudadanos pensantes y comprometidos puedan cambiar el mundo. De hecho, es los único que lo ha logrado jamás”. Cecile Andrews suscribe por completo la famosa cita de la antropóloga Margaret Mead y la eleva a una nueva dimensión.<br />
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“Hablar es ya una manera de pasar a la acción”, sostiene la autora, “Hablar es algo esencial en una democracia y un arte que estamos perdiendo. La mayoría de la gente tiene miedo a hablar en público. Por eso necesitamos darles voz en pequeños grupos, en “círculos” que brinden el apoyo que necesitamos para dar un paso más”.<br />
El movimiento Occupy, según Cecile, ha sido capaz de trasladar esa atmósfera a los parques y a las calles, y de invitar de paso a los transeúntes anónimos a hablar en público y a subirse al carro de la “revolución”. En su opinión, el movimiento de Transición también ha recuperado esa empatía y ese poder de la comunidad que surge en los pequeños grupos como puente necesario entre el cambio personal y el cambio social.<br />
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"Irónicamente, la crisis económica está obligando a mucha gente a cambiar", asegura, mientras disfruta de un té en The Green Bean, la cafetería local que ocupó el espacio dejado por un McDonald's en Seattle. "Conforme la economía hace aguas, la gente se ve obligada a salir de la rueda de consumismo y a conectar con otra gente. Sólo así, creando comunidades conectadas, es como podemos aspirar a eso que llamamos felicidad".<br />
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Andrews vuelve una y otra vez a la raíz de la simplicidad y nos invita a releer a Thoreau, representante de la “otra América”: "La mayoría de la gente está muy confundida sobre la felicidad. Creen firmemente que si eres rico, automáticamente eres feliz. La gente cae en la trampa de la competitividad y la independencia, hasta acabar terriblemente solos y endeudados. Me rebelo contra ese principio: creo sinceramente que los seres humanos no somos egoístas por naturaleza".<br />
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La autora, que organiza tertulias sobre 'La Felicidad y la Nueva Simplicidad', nos invita a ampliar aún más el concepto siguiendo la ruta trazada por Richard Wilkinson y Kate Pickett en Desigualdad: un análisis de la (in)felicidad colectiva.<br />
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"¡Demasiado dinero puede hacernos menos felices!”, nos advierte. “La desigualdad económica ha dinamitado la cohesión social. El concepto de riqueza material ha servido para romper las conexiones y crear una cultura de 'somos lo que poseemos', en vez de fomentar una cultura basada en el bien común. Necesitamos darnos cuenta de que nuestro bienestar personal está totalmente conectado al bienestar de los otros”.<br />
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“La felicidad consiste en trabajar con otros por el cambio social”, concluye la sociable, combativa y divertida autora de Living Room Revolution. “En esta lucha tiene que necesariamente haber algo de hedonismo, si no nadie se apuntaría. Mi meta ha sido siempre crear pequeños grupos donde la gente pueda hablar, reír y pasar a la acción”.<br />
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Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-67206123940589128012013-01-26T13:46:00.001+01:002013-01-26T23:18:00.626+01:00Love, sex & instructions for use (part III)... continúa<br />
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Qué es
una relación abierta?</div>
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Lo más importante aquí es superar la idea
de que el valor de una persona se mide dependiendo de si esa persona
por si sola es suficientemente "buena" para otra persona.
El mundo es infinito, y nosotros también lo somos, ninguna cantidad
de vivencias, ningún número de interacciones con los demás debería
ser "suficiente" para nadie, de la misma forma que ningún
número de interacciones con la persona amada serán nunca
suficiente. Poner fronteras a lo que otra persona pueda hacer o
sentir como una condición para que pueda recibir mi amor o afecto no
creo que construya nada beneficioso para los que me rodean: quiero
creer en los demás para saber lo que necesitan, y nunca limitarles. Ciertamente no creo que mi vida vaya a ser más rica gracias a las
limitaciones que ponga en los demás. Tenemos que liberarnos para
llegar a ser nosotros mismos. Esto no es referente solamente a los
amantes o los amigos o las parejas sentimentales, también hace
referencia a otros proyectos, necesidades o incluso el deseo de
soledad- es desesperante como a muchos de nosotros nuestros parejas a
menudo nos piden que nos sacrifiquemos para estar con ellas.</div>
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Quiero
ser evaluado por lo que soy, por lo que hago de forma natural, no por
lo bien que me conformo a las listas de necesidades diseñadas por
otra persona. Si alguien puede cubrir algunas de esas necesidades, no
se lo negaría a nadie, y no quiero estar celoso cuando los demás
tengan cosas diferentes para ofrecer; sólo quiero la oportunidad de
ofrecer lo que tengo para dar a aquellos a los que quiero, y recordar
que esas cosas no tienen precio y que no son comparables al resto de
regalos únicos que los demás puedan tener. Nadie debería tener el
peso de aceptar el rol de "único proveedor" de las
necesidades de otra persona (necesidades románticas o no); nuestro
papel en el mundo no es el de servir a nadie, sino el de encontrar
formas de ser nosotros mismos que también beneficien a los demás.
Aceptando que el resto del mundo no está "fuera de los limites"
de tu compañero, te liberas del trabajo de ser el mundo entero para
tu pareja.</div>
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El sistema monógamo establece que la gente se niegue a
relacionarse con los demás de según qué formas a no ser que se
cree una relación romántica. Ya que sólo puedes tener una pareja
romántica, tienes que estar seguro de que tu único compañero es
una buena inversión (y aquí volvemos al mercado capitalista incluso
en nuestras relaciones). Las mujeres buscan a los hombres según su
potencial económico, los hombres juzgan a las mujeres dependiendo de
si su belleza es lo suficientemente resaltable socialmente para
ofrecer el prestigio que él espera teniéndola a su lado, y nadie
puede experimentar con compañeros que no cumplan suficientemente
estos criterios. De esta forma, igual que en las amistades, pueden
haber personas en el mundo con las que puedas pasar maravillosos
momentos románticos una o dos veces al mes, pero con las que no
tienes suficientes cosas en común como para verlas continuamente y
luego casarte, etc. (aunque vemos a menudo parejas mal avenidas
haciéndose cada vez más miserables que hubieran sido mucho más
felices como compañeros esporádicos). Las relaciones no-monógamas
hacen esto último posible sin pagar ningún precio de infelicidad
mutua.</div>
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He decidido que no quiero volver a tener una jerarquía de
valores entre mis amistades y mis relaciones amorosas: ambas cosas
son cruciales, irreemplazables en mi vida. Y no sólo eso, también
he decidido dejar de clasificar las cosas como "amor" o
"amistad" dependiendo de detalles superficiales
arbitrarios- los sentimientos que comparto con algunas de mis
amistades son tan íntimos y tan bonitos que es ridículo que no les
llame amantes sólo porque no nos acostamos juntos. Es absurdo que el
sexo sea la línea divisoria entre nuestras relaciones, entre
aquellas que tienen preferencia, entre con quién vivimos, con quién
dormimos, a quién le hacemos más caso y junto a quién moriremos.
En las relaciones abiertas, el sexo no está acotado con tantas
implicaciones y restricciones. El amor y el deseo fuera de las líneas
del modelo de la monogamia son perseguidos desde cualquier frente en
esta sociedad. El sexo no debería ser contenido, y no debería ser
simbólico de nada- debería ser simplemente otra forma de ser
físicamente afectivos los unos con los otros, de dar placer a los
demás, de ser emocionalmente expresivos... tomando las
responsabilidades que comporten las relaciones pero sin tener que
contentar a la expectación social ni a ningún tabú moral.</div>
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Una relación abierta es simplemente eso: es una relación en la que las personas pueden ser abiertas y sinceras las unas con las otras y con ellas mismas, en la que nada necesita ser escondido o reprimido o limitado. Una relación en la cual el mundo entero puede ser explorado sin miedo de transgredir fronteras imaginarias. Cuando exigimos honestidad total en una relación que incluye limites y tabúes, nos estamos preparando para traiciones y mentiras; pretender que una persona sea abierta sin ser receptivo de todas las posibles verdades es estúpido y egoísta. Tenemos que apoyarnos unos a otros en todos los aspectos de nuestros caracteres individuales si queremos que la honestidad sea posible; si no, somos como los cristianos cuando van a confesarse, confesando cosas bajo un imperativo moral, con el látigo de la vergüenza preparado para cualquier impulso de falsear. Tenemos que aprender a abrazar y celebrar cualquier cosa que sea buena para cada uno. Si es bueno para nuestra persona amada, lo será para nosotros también, ¿realmente somos tan egoístas que no nos damos cuenta de esto?</div>
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La economía de escasez de amantes
que funciona en nuestra sociedad ahora mismo nos hace tener apuro por
encontrar a otra persona y atarla a nuestro lado, antes de que nos
quedemos solos. La alternativa, que este miedo a la soledad nos
impide ver, parece preferible: un mundo sin barreras, en el que cada
uno de nosotros formaría parte de una gran familia de amantes y
amigos, sin distinciones entre unos y otros, y en el que no
existieran formatos estrictos para ninguna relación. La
experimentación sería constante para cada persona. Para conseguir
un mundo así, tenemos que acostumbrarnos a no limitarnos los unos a
los otros, tenemos que dejar de ver el amor como una comodidad
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Los celos, y lo que he aprendido de ellos.</div>
Si, a veces todavía siento celos. He tenido experiencias antes en las que he estado celoso de una manera insana- no sólo de otro hombre, sino de otras cosas hacia las que mis compañeros mostraban interés o amaban o experimentaban. Ser capaz de tratar con estas cosas ha sido muy importante en el desarrollo de mi confianza y de mi forma de ser. Me costó llegar a sentir (no solo entender) que si mis seres queridos aman otras cosas o a otras personas, no significa que yo soy menos. Además, si el o ella realmente me quiere, no es porque yo cumpla una determinada lista de cualidades deseadas por la que haya sido escogido- me ama por razones que son únicas en mi, con las que nadie puede competir, así que no hay nada que temer. El amor no es una comodidad limitada; crece, al igual que la felicidad, al compartirse y al ser repartido.<br />
Una vez me di cuenta que lo que sentía no eran celos, sino miedo a estar en soledad, muchas veces esto sucede, apenas me di cuenta de esto, me fui de viaje, para ponerme a prueba.<br />
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Considero a mis celos como a un adversario
poderoso, que puede enseñarme mucho sobre mi mismo si me enfrento a
él en vez de protegerme de él controlando a los demás. He tenido
experiencias en relaciones anteriores donde mis amantes se han
limitado para protegerme de mis celos, y ha sido catastrófico para
todos. Una de las cosas que me han enseñado mis celos es a
reflexionar sobre mi actitud hacia otros hombres. Es interesante para
mí notar que nunca me he sentido amenazado por otras mujeres por las
que mis parejas se hayan sentido atraídas o con las que hayan tenido
relaciones, pero hacia otros hombres siempre me he sentido mal. En
nuestra sociedad, los hombres son condicionados para no confiar los
unos en los otros, para odiarse los unos a los otros, para intentar
"proteger" a las mujeres de otros hombres (lo cual es como
proteger una "propiedad" personal), y esto tiene sentido
cuando miramos lo mal que muchos hombres se relacionan con las
mujeres. Para mi no confiar en los hombres para beneficiar a mi
pareja es una paranoia y una estupidez territorial. Si confío en el
juicio de mi compañero, debo confiar en que sepa qué y quién son
buenos para él/ella, sin dejar que mi mentalidad de
"yo-contra-todos" interfiera.</div>
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Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-66619978040404954002013-01-22T17:18:00.003+01:002013-01-22T17:19:30.634+01:00Love, sex & instructions for use (part II)<div class="western" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hace meses, cuando publiqué
la primera parte de esta que seguramente iba a ser una serie de
escritos dada la complejidad del tema, pensaba seguir poco a poco
desarrollándolo, dependiendo del tiempo que tuviera a disposición
para hacerlo y de la inspiración.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">La suerte me regaló ayer
este escrito, no son mis palabras aunque podrían bien serlo. Es la
experiencia de un hombre aunque sus vivencias y sus experiencias se
aplican sin ningún inconveniente a las mujeres... Así que,
adoptando las palabras de este desconocido al que le estaré siempre
muy agradecida por haberse tomado el trabajo de escribirlas, aquí
las dejo para que se hagan mías y de quien más las quiera adoptar.</span></span></div>
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<b>AMOR LIBRE</b></div>
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Todas mis
relaciones de amor habían sido más o menos así: al principio
conocía a una persona maravillosa, uníamos nuestros horizontes,
vivíamos experiencias increíbles juntos y acabábamos
enamorándonos. Al principio nos sentíamos más libres juntos, de lo
que nunca nos habíamos sentido por separado, y el mundo parecía
lleno de ilimitadas posibilidades y felicidad salvaje.</div>
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Pero
lentamente, sin confiar en el resto del mundo o en el futuro en el
que podríamos no sentir todas estas cosas maravillosas, construíamos
nuestra relación como si fuera un castillo, para dejar fuera el
mundo peligroso y frío, y proteger nuestra pasión convirtiéndola
en una institución. El sexo, que al principio era algo surgido de la
forma más natural y libre, se convertía en celos guardados como el
sello que santificaba nuestra relación de amor, como prueba de que
era diferente de todas nuestras otras relaciones (esto, visto en
retrospectiva, parece un rol muy extraño para el sexo).</div>
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Inevitablemente,
me levantaba un día y me daba cuenta de que la pasión libre que nos
unía se había esfumado y había sido reemplazada por el hábito, la
rutina y el miedo a los cambios: el castillo que habíamos construido
se había convertido en una tumba, encerrándonos dentro y lejos del
mundo exterior, que habíamos estado necesitando para ofrecer nuevas
cosas a la otra persona. Dentro del ataúd, cada vez discutíamos
más, cada uno exigiendo a la otra persona demostrar su amor,
sacrificando cada vez más cosas, cuando el amor se supone que debe
permitirte vivir más, no impedir tu participación en una comunidad
más amplia a cambio del aseguramiento de una compañía básica.
Enamorarse era como encontrar una entrada secreta al jardín del
Edén, una economía de regalo en la que compartíamos todo sin
preocuparnos por un "trato justo", pero ahora volvíamos a
esa economía del intercambio, compitiendo para ver quién necesitaba
más, quién podía controlar más. Tras todos mis intentos de
trascender los roles estereotipados de la gente en las relaciones
amorosas, de repente me daba cuenta de que era un "novio"
otra vez, con una "novia" (lo cual no es un rol muy
saludable para nadie en esta sociedad sexista), sin tener ni idea de
cómo había ocurrido.</div>
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Empecé
a pensar cual es la razón por la que continuamos cayendo en estos
patrones, y cómo podríamos evitarlos. El tema de la limitación
seguía apareciendo; la idea de que algunas cosas deben tener límites
para que la relación funcione. Con mis amigos, nada tiene límites,
y nada es exigido: nos ofrecemos lo que cada cual puede, cuando puede
darlo, y no exigimos nada que no salga de forma natural para los
demás. Decidí
investigar qué otros modelos de relaciones amorosas existen, y
descubrí que hay una larga tradición de relaciones sin estos
límites y expectativas: relaciones no monógamas, o "abiertas".</div>
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No
estoy intentando decir que las relaciones monógamas sean malas, pero
hay miles de tipos de relaciones, y generalmente solo nos permitimos
una sola forma, y esto es ridículo. Exploremos un poco.</div>
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Cada
vez que oigo algo sobre algún esposa/marido/novio/novia engañando,
cada vez que oigo a alguien hablando con orgullo sobre cómo (en el
nombre de la monogamia) ha conseguido resistirse a hacer algo que
realmente deseaba, cada vez que tengo que escuchar a alguien
patéticamente lamentándose de sentirse atrapado en una relación o
incapaz de satisfacer sus deseos por algún tipo de miedo, cada vez
que tengo que presenciar a alguien mirando como un voyeur ("no
hay nada malo en mirar si no tocas..."), se me retuerce el
estómago de ver cómo estamos atrapados en este sistema de
relaciones de una sola opción, aceptando estos síntomas de ahogo
como inevitables en vez de experimentar con las otras posibilidades.
Ante todo, nuestro convencimiento de apoyar la monogamia como la
única opción nos impide ser honestos con los demás. Tenemos que
atrevernos a cuestionar todas estas complejidades de la vida y el
deseo de forma abierta, incluso si resulta doloroso.</div>
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Si
vamos a cuestionar la forma en que funciona el mundo, deberíamos
llevar este cuestionamiento a nuestras propias relaciones personales
y a lo mejor intentar alternativas ahí antes de proponer soluciones
para los males del mundo; si realmente tenemos soluciones para los
males de la sociedad, vamos a ponerlas en practica para solucionar
los males de nuestras relaciones.</div>
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Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-76338739941500675352012-10-12T23:00:00.000+02:002013-01-22T16:00:34.291+01:00Justice has been done<style type="text/css">
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Victory of a sick, inhuman system. 23, mother of 5, Latino
background, previous offender, drug user.
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mom-gets-99-years-prison-gluing-tots-hands-160458042.html" target="_blank">Mom gets 99 years in prison for gluing tot's hands</a></div>
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Shouldn't this bring us
all to a deep reflection... A system that vomits a girl of 23, 5-fold
mother, with a criminal record, being so removed from her self that
she beats up her 2-year old baby and glues her hands to a wall, while
she is on drugs...</div>
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How did we all, as an
evolved society, get to this?</div>
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How could we let this
girl and her children slip through the gaps?</div>
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Was there no family
around? Were there no friends? No neighbours? No teachers? No-one?</div>
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Self responsibility,
yes. Of course. We are all responsible for our actions. But sometimes
we need a little help. All of us.</div>
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We are social animals,
we cannot live our lives separated from our social group. We LEARN
from the group since we are babies. And this is exactly what is
happening in our highly evolved society. No social groups any more.
We live our lives by ourselves, we think that we are enough. But we
are not.</div>
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Every aspect in our
system pushes us towards “independence”... Independence? We have
thorn apart the same fabric of our own nature, we think we can live
in-humanly, but we can't. And these cases, thousands of them, are
proof of it. Independence from the very early years, so very
positive. Competition in each aspect of our lives, because there is
not enough for everybody, not enough jobs, not enough opportunities,
not enough money... Such a infamous lie. The only thing that there is
really not enough of and that should get us worried, really worried,
is that there is not enough love.</div>
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Where does that girl
come from? Which environment, which kind of family? What did her
parents and siblings teach her since she was a child? What did the
society teach her? The father/s of her children? Her friends and
relatives? Her bosses? Was there really nobody around who would
accompany her on the path of the human choices? Teach her what living
really is, what loving really is?</div>
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What chances did she
really have not to end up with 5 children at the age of 23, with a
criminal record, on drugs and abusing the very same beings that
should be the most important things in her live? Why wasn't her natural
instincts screaming?</div>
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Could there really have
been another ending to her story?</div>
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Justice has been done.
Victory for the system. This system that separates us, this system
that prefers punishing people with 99 years of prison without
questioning itself, not even one second. For the system, it is easier
and more convenient sentencing people to life in prison, somebody
earns much more money that way, then by giving real humane support to
people and communities.
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I don't know Elizabeth
Escalona, I don't know if she would really have had a chance not to
end up as she has, but... Shouldn't we all be thinking about her
story and learn a lesson from it? How many Elizabeth Escalonas are in our
lives, in our neighbourhood, in our working environment, within our
family or friend circle? Will we do something about that?</div>
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It's too late for
Elizabeth Escalona and her children. She will live her life within a
correctional institution, and her children will live their lives
without their mother, her 2-year-old daughter will have to learn to
live with brain damage.</div>
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Me había acostado después de ver colinas en llamas, una visión espeluznante, hipnóticos muros amarillos de varios metros de altura bailando en la cresta de las colinas de Mijas cortando la oscuridad de la noche.<br />
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<a href="http://akiranuse.blogspot.com.es/2012/08/el-gran-incendio-forestal-de-coin-se.html" target="_blank">El gran incendio forestal de Coín se extiende y cobra fuerza</a></div>
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5000 personas, un pueblo entero, fueron obligadas a abandonar sus casas y pasar la noche en pabellones deportivos, hoteles e iglesias. Los más "afortunados" pasaron esos momentos de angustia en casa de familiares.<br />
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Cómo tiene que ser despertarte en el medio de la noche, salir con tu familia y con lo puesto, para escapar del fuego...<br />
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<a href="http://www.diariosur.es/20120830/local/interior/incendio-declarado-termino-municipal-201208302125.html" target="_blank">Dos heridos y Ojén desalojado en el gran incendio en la Costa del Sol</a></div>
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Pero nadie sabe lo que hace falta, ni donde. Entiendo que la prioridad en ese momento sea el fuego, y entiendo que yo, sin formación, no pueda ayudar a apagarlo. Para las catástrofes naturales se prevé un apoyo psicológico, porque aquí no? Cerré el día de trabajo con la idea de ir a ayudar, lo que fuera. No se donde. No se como. Sensación de impotencia...</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.publico.es/espana/441343/este-ano-tres-veces-mas-suelo-quemado-que-en-2011" target="_blank">Este año, tres veces más suelo quemado que en 2011 (24 de agosto)</a></div>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Lloramos por Valencia, Girona, Tenerife y todos los otros lugares arrasados en este verano de fuego, ahora lloramos por Málaga.">We grieved for Valencia, Girona, Tenerife and all the other places ravaged by this summer of fire, now we weep for Malaga. </span><span title="Quiero reír.">I want to laugh. </span><span title="Aún se oyen los aviones, aun queda.">Still hearing the planes above my head. Not over yet.</span></span><br />
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LauraOf Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-23283673966552832452012-08-18T15:37:00.009+02:002013-04-03T16:04:17.629+02:00Epigenetics, the magic of our genesA very interesting documentary, with exciting new discoveries on genes... At last we are leaving the mechanical view of the human body, to enter into a much more complex way of considering it, an "organic" way I would say... Funny nobody got there earlier, since... we are organic beings!<br />
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Nothing is straightforward, nothing is mechanical, external events can influence us at a cellular level, and this information can and will be passed from one generation to another. Stress can cause our body to change. Emotions can cause our body to change.<br />
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How important is this. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6cQSR3mPm8&feature=BFa&list=SP65923FAF5F65C392" target="_blank">The Ghost in Your Genes</a><br />
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We have already introduced in our environment (planet earth) over one hundred thousand synthetic molecules that no living being recognizes, we (and all creation) eat, drink, inhale, absorb them every day and our body does not know what to do with them, how to react.<br />
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We are exposed to all kind of chemicals in our homes, offices, schools, cars, beds, baths, kitchens that can and will cause deep changes not only in our body, but in our genes! And now it turns out that these changes can and will be passed on to our children, grandchildren and future generations, even if they will never be exposed to those chemicals, even if tomorrow, all industries on earth will stop spilling poisons in air, water and earth.<br />
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We have been introducing genetically modified beings in the only environment we can survive in, even before knowing what consequences this will have, before knowing that the genome is not a simple sequence of chemical elements, as a book is not a simple sequence of characters.<br />
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The information I feel is missing in this document, is that all this could (and in my opinion should) be also seen the other way around. The solution is not investigating to produce (and patent) a new medicine that can, chemically, force a gene to switch itself on or off depending on our preferences. This, again, would be playing God, and that's a game we can start but cannot know where it will lead. Nature is so complex and its mechanisms depend on millions of different, largely unknown factors, that if we start messing around in one area of a gene, how will we know what will happen on the other side?<br />
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If external events and substances, thoughts, emotions, can change our body in such deep ways as to preparing it for a famine, a birth through a narrow birth canal, in short, adapting it from the very moment of the creation of sperm and egg to the conditions it will most probably encounter on birth, this adaptation can happen both ways around.<br />
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As to say, if somebody is exposed to unhealthy chemicals, has a poor spiritual life, is under a large amount of stress and negative emotions, adopts unhealthy nutritional habits, the genes will adapt to a "difficult" life and will firstly modify this person, and then pass on this warning to the next generations: "The world is a difficult, dangerous and dark place. Be prepared.".<br />
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If somebody, on the other hand, seeks a living that is as close as possible to our nature, healthy thoughts, rich spiritual and personal life, healthy eating habits, physical activity, contact to nature, little exposure to environmental and electromagnetic pollutants, chemicals, artificial molecules, etc, would it not be logical to think that this, too, will have an impact to our genes? Would it not be logical to think that striving towards a peaceful, social, happy and natural life will positively change the way our genes switch themselves on and off? And that the message that we will send to ourselves, our body and the future generations will be: "The world is a beautiful, sunny and happy place. Enjoy it."<br />
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Let's stop poisoning ourselves and the future generations by abandoning our unnatural lives, let's give our genes the chance to thrive and to switch themselves on and off to prepare ourselves, our children and their children, not for famine and a dire environment, but for a healthy and peaceful one.<br />
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IT IS POSSIBLE, now we can even demonstrate it through scientific research. Although the knowledge is not new, all ancient philosophies teach that an individual cannot be healthy if one of his beings (physical, mental and spiritual) are not. The ancient art of meditation, tantra, mens sana in corpore sano, etc. Being happy, leading a satisfactory life and adopting healthy living habits changes our body, mind and soul. And our children will also be happier and healthier. Is it because they live in a more loving environment or is it because of the genes that are favourably switched on and off?<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/30754713" target="_blank">Epigenética: cómo la alimentación altera nuestros genes</a><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="A very interesting documentary, with exciting new discoveries on genes...">Un documental muy interesante <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLDfmUU5VT0" target="_blank">Epigenetica: como la alimentacion cambia nuestros genes</a> con nuevos e interesantes descubrimientos sobre los genes... </span><span title="At last we are leaving the mechanical view of the human body, to enter into a much more complex way of considering it, an "organic" way I would say...">Por fin estamos dejando atrás la visión mecánicista del cuerpo humano, para adoptar una visión mucho más compleja, "orgánica" diría yo... </span><span title="Funny nobody got there earlier, since...">Extraño que nadie llegó antes a esa conclusión ya que... </span><span title="we are organic beings!">somos seres orgánicos!</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="we are organic beings!"><br />
</span><span title="Nothing is straightforward, nothing is mechanical, external events can influence us at a cellular level, and this information can and will be passed from one generation to another.">Nada es tan simple, nada es mecánico, los acontecimientos externos pueden influir en nosotros a nivel celular, y esta información puede y va a ser transmitida de una generación a otra. </span><span title="Stress can cause our body to change.">El estrés puede causar que nuestro cuerpo cambie. </span><span title="Emotions can cause our body to change.">Las emociones pueden provocar </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Emotions can cause our body to change.">cambios en </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Emotions can cause our body to change.">nuestro cuerpo.<br />
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</span><span title="How important is this.">Quan importante es esto. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsq4vVR6zoI" target="_blank">Un fantasma en tus genes</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="We have been introducing genetically modified beings in the only environment we can survive in, even before knowing what consequences this will have, before knowing that the genome is not a simple sequence of chemical elements, as a book is not a simple sequence of characters."></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="How important is this."><br />
</span><span title="We have already introduced in our environment (planet earth) over one hundred thousand synthetic molecules that no living being recognizes, we (and all creation) eat, drink, inhale, absorb them every day and our body does not know what to do with them"><br />
Ya hemos introducido en nuestro entorno (el planeta tierra) más de cien mil moléculas sintéticas que ningún ser viviente reconoce, que nosotros (y toda la creación) comemos, bebemos, inhalamos, absorbemos todos los días y nuestro cuerpo no sabe qué hacer con ellas</span><span title=", how to react.">, cómo reaccionar.<br />
</span><span title="We are exposed to all kind of chemicals in our homes, offices, schools, cars, beds, baths, kitchens that can and will cause deep changes not only in our body, but in our genes!"><br />
Estamos expuestos a todo tipo de productos químicos en nuestros hogares, oficinas, escuelas, coches, camas, baños, cocinas que pueden y van a provocar profundos cambios no sólo en nuestro cuerpo, sino también en nuestros genes! </span><span title="And now it turns out that these changes can and will be passed on to our children, grandchildren and future generations, even if they will never be exposed to those chemicals, even if tomorrow, all industries on earth will stop spilling poisons in air, water">Y ahora resulta que estos cambios puede ser y serán transmitidos a nuestros hijos, nietos y las generaciones futuras, incluso si nunca estarán expuestos a los productos químicos, incluso si a partir de mañana todas las industrias de la tierra dejaran de derramar venenos en aire, agua </span><span title="and earth.">y suelo.<br />
</span><span title="We have been introducing genetically modified beings in the only environment we can survive in, even before knowing what consequences this will have, before knowing that the genome is not a simple sequence of chemical elements, as a book is not a simple sequence of characters."><br />
Estamos introduciendo seres genéticamente modificados en el único medio ambiente en el que podemos sobrevivir, incluso antes de saber qué consecuencias tendrán, antes de darnos cuenta de que el genoma no es una simple secuencia de elementos químicos, como un libro no es una simple secuencia de caracteres.</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="The information I feel is missing in this document, is that all this could (and in my opinion should) be also seen the other way around.">La información que yo siento que falta en este documento, es que todo esto podría (y en mi opinión debería) ser visto también al revés. </span><span title="The solution is not investigating to produce (and patent) a new medicine that can, chemically, force a gene to switch itself on or off depending on our preferences.">La solución no pasa por investigar para producir (y patentar) un nuevo medicamento que pueda, químicamente, forzar un gen para que se encienda o apague en función de nuestras preferencias. </span><span title="This, again, would be playing God, and that's a game we can start but cannot know where it will lead.">Esto, de nuevo, sería jugar a ser Dios, y eso es un juego que podemos empezar, pero no podemos saber a dónde nos llevará. </span><span title="Nature is so complex and its mechanisms depend on millions of different, largely unknown factors, that if we start messing around in one area of a gene, how will we know what will happen on the other side?">La naturaleza es tan complejo y sus mecanismos dependen de millones de diferentes factores, en gran parte desconocidos, que si empezamos por modificar un gen en una zona, cómo vamos a saber qué va a pasar al otro lado?<br />
</span><span title="If external events and substances, thoughts, emotions, can change our body in such deep ways as to preparing it for a famine, a birth through a narrow birth canal, in short, adapting it from the very moment of the creation of sperm and egg"><br />
Si los acontecimientos externos y sustancias, pensamientos, emociones, pueden cambiar nuestro cuerpo de una manera tan profunda como para prepararla para una hambruna, un parto a través de una cadera estrecha, en definitiva, adaptación desde el mismo momento de la creación del esperma y el óvulo </span><span title="to the conditions it will most probably encounter on birth, this adaptation can happen both ways around.">a las condiciones que probablemente encontrará despues del alumbramiento, esta adaptación puede ocurrir en ambos sentidos.<br />
</span><span title="As to say, if somebody is exposed to unhealthy chemicals, has a poor spiritual life, is under a large amount of stress and negative emotions, adopts unhealthy nutritional habits, the genes will adapt to a "difficult" life and will firstly modify this person"><br />
Si alguien está expuesto a productos químicos insalubres, tiene una vida espiritual pobre, está bajo una gran cantidad de estrés y emociones negativas y adopta malos hábitos alimenticios, los genes se adaptará a una </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="As to say, if somebody is exposed to unhealthy chemicals, has a poor spiritual life, is under a large amount of stress and negative emotions, adopts unhealthy nutritional habits, the genes will adapt to a "difficult" life and will firstly modify this person">vida</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="As to say, if somebody is exposed to unhealthy chemicals, has a poor spiritual life, is under a large amount of stress and negative emotions, adopts unhealthy nutritional habits, the genes will adapt to a "difficult" life and will firstly modify this person"> "difícil" y modificarán a la persona</span><span title=", and then pass on to the next generations this warning: "The world is a difficult, dangerous and dark place. Be prepared.".">, para luego pasar a las siguientes generaciones esta advertencia: "El mundo es un lugar difícil, peligroso y oscuro. Esté preparado.".<br />
</span><span title="If somebody, on the other hand, seeks a living that is as close as possible to our nature, healthy thoughts, rich spiritual and personal life, healthy eating habits, physical activity, contact to nature, little exposure to environmental and electromagnetic pollutants, chemicals"><br />
Si alguien, por otro lado, vive una vida que es lo más cercano posible a nuestra naturaleza, pensamientos saludables y rica vida espiritual y personal, hábitos de alimentación saludable, actividad física, contacto con la naturaleza, poca exposición a contaminantes ambientales y electromagnéticas, sustancias químicas</span><span title=", artificial molecules, etc, would it not be logical to think that this, too, will have an impact to our genes?">, las moléculas artificiales, etc, no sería lógico pensar que esto también tendrá un impacto en nuestros genes? </span><span title="Would it not be logical to think that if strive towards a peaceful, social, happy and natural life, this will positively change the way our genes switch themselves on and off, and that the message that we will send to ourselves and our body will be">No sería lógico pensar que si vivimos una vida pacífica, social, alegre y natural, esto cambiará positivamente la forma en que nuestros genes se encienden y se apagan, y que el mensaje que vamos a enviar a nosotros mismos, a nuestro cuerpo y a las generaciones futuras será </span><span title=": "The world is a beautiful, sunny and happy place. Enjoy it."">: "El mundo es un lugar hermoso, soleado y alegre. Disfrutalo."?</span></span><br />
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</span><span title="Let's stop poisoning ourselves and the future generations by abandoning our unnatural lives, let's give our genes the chance to thrive and to switch themselves on and off to prepare ourselves, our children and their children, not for famine and a dire environment, but for a"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let's stop poisoning ourselves and the future generations by abandoning our unnatural lives, let's give our genes the chance to thrive and to switch themselves on and off to prepare ourselves, our children and their children, not for famine and a dire environment, but for a"> Dejemos de </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let's stop poisoning ourselves and the future generations by abandoning our unnatural lives, let's give our genes the chance to thrive and to switch themselves on and off to prepare ourselves, our children and their children, not for famine and a dire environment, but for a">envenenarnos a </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let's stop poisoning ourselves and the future generations by abandoning our unnatural lives, let's give our genes the chance to thrive and to switch themselves on and off to prepare ourselves, our children and their children, not for famine and a dire environment, but for a">nosotros mismos y a las generaciones futuras, acercandonos a nuestras vidas naturales vamos a dar a nuestros genes la oportunidad de prosperar y encender</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let's stop poisoning ourselves and the future generations by abandoning our unnatural lives, let's give our genes the chance to thrive and to switch themselves on and off to prepare ourselves, our children and their children, not for famine and a dire environment, but for a">se</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let's stop poisoning ourselves and the future generations by abandoning our unnatural lives, let's give our genes the chance to thrive and to switch themselves on and off to prepare ourselves, our children and their children, not for famine and a dire environment, but for a"> y apagar</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let's stop poisoning ourselves and the future generations by abandoning our unnatural lives, let's give our genes the chance to thrive and to switch themselves on and off to prepare ourselves, our children and their children, not for famine and a dire environment, but for a">se</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let's stop poisoning ourselves and the future generations by abandoning our unnatural lives, let's give our genes the chance to thrive and to switch themselves on and off to prepare ourselves, our children and their children, not for famine and a dire environment, but for a"> para prepararnos a nosotros mismos, a nuestros hijos y a sus hijos, no a las hambrunas y un ambiente terrible, sino a una vida</span><span title="healthy and peaceful one."> sana y pacífica.<br />
</span><span title="IT IS POSSIBLE, now we can even demonstrate it through scientific research."><br />
ESTO ES POSIBLE, ahora incluso se puede demostrar a través de la investigación científica. </span><span title="Although the knowledge is not new, all ancient philosophies teach that an individual cannot be healthy if one of his beings (physical, mental and spiritual) are not.">Aunqueeste conocimiento no es nuevo, todas las filosofías antiguas enseñan que una persona no puede ser saludable si uno de sus seres (físico, mental y espiritual) no lo son. </span><span title="The ancient art of meditation, tantra, mens sana in corpore sano, etc. Being happy, leading a satisfactory life and adopting healthy living habits changes our body, mind and soul.">El antiguo arte de la meditación, tantra, mens sana in corpore sano, etc. Ser felices, llevando una vida satisfactoria y la adopción de hábitos de vida saludables cambia nuestro cuerpo, mente y alma. </span><span title="And our children will also be happier and healthier.">Y nuestros hijos también serán más feliz y más saludable. </span><span title="Is it because they live in a more loving environment or is it because of the genes that are favourably switched on and off?">Es porque viven en un medio más amoroso o es porque los genes están favorablemente encendido o apagado?<br />
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</span><span title="To tell you the truth...">A decir la verdad... </span><span title="this is the least of my concerns.">esta es la menor de mis preocupaciones.</span></span>Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-71281836505608176622012-08-17T17:18:00.000+02:002012-10-09T21:16:29.762+02:00San Marketing<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Me parece alucinante como las corporaciones empresariales convierten todo en algo positivo. En este momento lo que Johnson & Johnson están diciendo es que son una empresa súper chula que durante 4 años irán eliminando componentes perjudiciales para la salud, de todos sus productos. Y eso, naturalmente, es algo bueno!<br />
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Ok, no comprare J&J en los próximos 4 años.<br />
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COMO se puede convertir el hecho de que sus productos HOY EN DÍA (que es cuando los compramos y usamos) contengan formaldehido, una sustancia totalmente toxica utilizada para embalsamar cadáveres, y dioxinas, que desde los años 70 son conocidos cancerígenos, en algo positivo???<br />
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CÓMO se puede justificar que productos para niños que se venden HOY contengan sustancias que HACE UN AÑO se declararon perjudiciales para la salud? Si verdaderamente pensaran en la salud, no los habrían eliminado ya???<br />
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Y que genial que Herbal Essences contenga solo un poco de dioxina, no?<br />
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Que bueno tener empresas enteras trabajando en crear tu imagen... Viva San Marketing.<br />
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<a href="http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2012/08/16/actualidad/1345135210_494010.html" target="_blank">Johnson & Johnson modificará la composición de sus productos</a></div>
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Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-87963290076569154452012-04-23T21:48:00.017+02:002012-04-24T03:30:04.992+02:00Tears of Gaza<a href="http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100531/israel-mata-una-decena-cooperantes-tras-asaltar-flotilla-gaza-aguas-internacionales/333489.shtml" target="_blank">Israel mata a una decena de cooperantes tras asaltar la flotilla de Gaza en aguas internacionales</a><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">This morning I found in my in-box the year-old chain mail about the child brides of Gaza. I replied to the friend who sent it to me as I usually do, saying that the reality of child brides exists, and that we should get upset and fight against it, but that what he was sending was just a hoax. There are so many interests behind the middle-east conflicts, weapons, oil, world control. I simply suggested that he gets reliable information before pointing his finger, and that in fairness he should re-send an e-mail to the same people he sent his first one, with some more information. One of the links I sent in my reply was this documentary.</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">I remember the night I watched </span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDaxMMRiroA" target="_blank">Tears of Gaza</a>. I remember the profound sadness and the helplessness, the feeling of injustice. I have been researching the history of Israel and Palestine for years, it has always fascinated me and, actually, the first approach was because of the Jewish saga, but soon enough it became clear that history is written by the winners. And by those who can pay historians.</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">It was the end of July of last year, and I still feel the same. I am copying here what I wrote back then...</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">July 31st, 2011 </span><br />
<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">I went to bed crying last night, and I woke up crying half an hour ago, I still can't stop. There is such an incredible feeling of burden, of sadness, of hopelessness weighing down on my heart, on my stomach, on my soul, a knot in my throat that does not go away, a feeling of the abyss looking into me. I cannot even imagine, I cannot even start comparing my life to what life must be like, in Gaza.</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">One and a half million people, the population of Oslo, where 68 where killed a few days ago. A big hunting reservoir, where a mad military regime moves at will. A place where all food, all medical supply, all clothing, all books, all building material, all that is needed to live, comes from contraband. Imagine that. Nothing is legal, a whole land based on illegal commerce through tunnels. Images of first-year Christians hiding in catacombs come to mind.</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">When I saw that helicopter (or plane) farthing out those two light spheres in the sky, when I saw those spheres turning into claws of white smoke, at first I could not understand what they were. Then I saw the burning balls on the floor, on the roof, recognition, phosphorous, incredulity, wasn't phosphorous forbidden as a weapon of war??? Images of Vietnam come to mind, naked children on fire running down the streets. And outrage, how can this be used on civilian population, how can anybody be talking about surgical attacks, how can a phosphorous bomb be surgical?</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><a href="http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/israel-refuses-to-stop-using-internationally-banned-phosphorus-bombs/" target="_blank">Israel Refuses To Stop Using Internationally Banned Phosphorus Bombs</a></span></div><br />
<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">But still people strive to live a “normal” life, a life under the bombs, a life of sudden blasts, a life where everybody runs towards an explosion site to rescue the wounded and to recover the dead, while a young girl runs in the opposite direction, avoiding even the consoling arms of a woman. Just let me run away from this madness, from this pain, from this reality. A place where a father shows off the body of his dead child.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">THIS IS MY SACRIFICE TO YOU, GOD.</span></div><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Luckily for me I will forget most of the images I saw last night, although some will stay with me, the lifeless eyes of a 2-year-old child with two bullet holes in his chest, or one in his head. How can there exist a place where a child is killed with a bullet in the head, or two bullets in the chest? How can there exist a place where sand is piled on a door so that women and children cannot run from the bullets? How can there be a place where children must run over dismembered bodies to save their lives? How can there be a place where a baby is burnt alive?</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><a href="http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/israel-refuses-to-stop-using-internationally-banned-phosphorus-bombs/" target="_blank"></a></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">WHERE CAN I FIND FORGIVENESS?</span></div><br />
<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">How can there be a place where an injured girl is targeted, where her dead father is blown to pieces? How can there be a place where running to get an ambulance means that you will be shot dead in the street?</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><a href="http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/israel-refuses-to-stop-using-internationally-banned-phosphorus-bombs/" target="_blank"></a></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">I WISH I HAD GONE WITH THEM.</span></div><br />
<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Look in that girl's eyes, only the abyss. Nothing but that. How can I not understand the moment when she decides to strap a suicide belt around her chest, there is nothing left to lose. The soul is so lost that it is just painful to see. Sure, many of the people there have undoubtedly carried and used a weapon, and even shot missiles into Israel, why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't I?</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">The heart of a mother crying her two dead sons, buried in the sand with only a cinder block to remind the world that they existed, the cries of a father whose children are all dead, the intent of an old man to decency, cleaning himself up from a little can of water underneath the skeleton of his bombed-out house.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH WATER, WE ARE ALWAYS THIRSTY, THERE'S NOT EVEN ENOUGH WATER TO WASH FOR PRAYER...</span></div><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">How must it be to live when your reality is that you are always thirsty, hungry, no medicines when you are sick or wounded, planes and helicopters in the sky that farth out death, war ships at sea that shoot fishing boats, a reality of explosions, fire, dismembered bodies and lost fathers and children? For one and a half million people. How can this be happening? How can we let this happen?</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">How can we not support the people who board a ship and travel to those beaches that look so normal on a holy day, with children swimming and parents laughing, to make a difference risking their lives? How can NATO still need a vote to recognize that people? How can anybody still need anything to recognize their right to live without so much pain? How can anybody still wonder why human beings choose to blow themselves into pieces causing even more death and despair... But I cannot really think about the Israelis, at the moment...</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">How can we all forget that this is the reality for one and a half million people? How can we live in oblivion about what happens in Gaza? How can we live in oblivion about what happens in Kurdistan? How can we live in oblivion about what happens in Burma? How can we live in oblivion about what happens in West Timor?</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Are we really so blind? Are our minds and our souls really so anaesthetised by this comfortable life that has been offered to us in exchange for our responsibility and our capacity of thinking? Have we surrendered our hearts too, our capacity to feel for our fellow human brothers? Have we lost the ability of screaming at such atrocities?</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">I know that this crying will stop, even if right now I can barely see what I am writing, but life goes on, as cruel as it sounds. For me as for everybody else, even for the people of Gaza life goes on as “normal”. But I do not want to forget, I want to remember this gloom inside my heart, this cannot be something that comes and goes, this must stay, it is too big.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="This morning I found in my in-box the year-old chain mail about the child brides of Gaza.">Esta mañana me he encontrado en mi bandeja de entrada de la cota de malla</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="This morning I found in my in-box the year-old chain mail about the child brides of Gaza."> años de edad, acerca de las novias niñas de Gaza. </span><span title="I replied to the friend who sent it to me as I usually do, that the reality of child brides exists, and that we should get upset and fight against it, but that what he was sending was just a hoax.">Le respondí al amigo que me lo envió como de costumbre, que la realidad de las niñas novias existe, y que hay que enfadarse y luchar contra ella, pero que lo que estaba enviando era sólo una broma. </span><span title="There are so many interests behind the middle-east conflicts, weapons, oil, world control.">Hay tantos intereses detrás de los conflictos de Oriente Medio, las armas, el petróleo, el control del mundo. </span><span title="I simply suggested that he gets reliable information before pointing his finger, and that in fairness he should re-send an e-mail to the same people he sent his first one, with some more information.">Yo simplemente le sugirió que obtiene información confiable antes de señalar con el dedo, y que en la equidad que debe volver a enviar un correo electrónico a las mismas personas que envió a su primero, con algo más de información. </span><span title="One of the links I sent in my reply was this documentary">Uno de los enlaces que envié en mi respuesta fue este documental</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="One of the links I sent in my reply was this documentary"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="One of the links I sent in my reply was this documentary"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="One of the links I sent in my reply was this documentary"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="One of the links I sent in my reply was this documentary"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="One of the links I sent in my reply was this documentary"></span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Tears of Gaza"></span></span><br />
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</span><span title="I remember the night I watched this documentary, I remember the profound sadness and the helplessness, the feeling of injustice.">Recuerdo la noche vi este documental, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDaxMMRiroA" target="_blank">Tears of Gaza (Las lagrimas de Gaza)</a>. Recuerdo la profunda tristeza y la impotencia, el sentimiento de injusticia. </span><span title="I have been researching the history of Israel and Palestine for years, it has always fascinated me and actually the first approach was the Jewish saga, but soon enough it became clear that history is written by the winners.">He estado investigando la historia de Israel y Palestina durante años, siempre me ha fascinado y, de hecho la primera aproximación fue la saga judía, pero pronto quedó claro que la historia la escriben los ganadores. </span><span title="And by those who can pay historians.">Y por aquellos que pueden pagar los historiadores.<br />
</span><span title="It was the end of July of last year, and I still feel the same.">Fue a finales de julio del año pasado, y todavía siento lo mismo.</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I am copying here what I wrote back then...">Copio aquí lo que escribí entonces...<br />
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</span><span title="I went to bed crying last night, and I woke up crying half an hour ago, I still can't stop.">Me fui a dormir llorando anoche, y me desperté llorando hace media hora, todavía no puedo parar. </span><span title="There is such an incredible feeling of weight, of sadness, of hopelessness weighing down on my heart, on my stomach, on my soul, a knot in my throat that does not go away, a feeling of the abyss looking into me.">No es como una increíble sensación de peso, de tristeza, de desesperanza que pesa sobre mi corazón, en mi estómago, en mi alma, un nudo en la garganta que no desaparece, un sentimiento del abismo, buscando en mí. </span><span title="I cannot even imagine, I cannot even start comparing my life to what life must be like, in Gaza.">No puedo ni imaginar, ni siquiera puedo empezar a comparar mi vida con lo que la vida debe ser, en Gaza.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I cannot even imagine, I cannot even start comparing my life to what life must be like, in Gaza."></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I cannot even imagine, I cannot even start comparing my life to what life must be like, in Gaza."><br />
</span><span title="One and a half million people, the population of Oslo, where 68 where killed a few days ago.">Un año y medio millones de personas, la población de Oslo, donde el 68, donde murieron hace unos días. </span><span title="A big hunting reservoir, where a mad military regime moves at will.">Un depósito de la caza mayor, donde un régimen militar loco se mueve a su antojo. </span><span title="A place where all food, all medical supply, all clothing, all books, all building material, all that is needed to live comes from contraband.">Un lugar donde todos los alimentos, todos los suministros médicos, toda la ropa, todos los libros, todos los materiales de construcción, todo lo que se necesita para vivir proviene del contrabando. </span><span title="Imagine that.">Imagina que. </span><span title="Nothing is legal, a hole land based on illegal commerce through tunnels.">Nada es legal, una tierra orificio basada en el comercio ilegal a través de túneles. </span><span title="Images of first-year Christians hiding in catacombs come to mind.">Imágenes del primer año de los cristianos se escondían en las catacumbas vienen a la mente.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Images of first-year Christians hiding in catacombs come to mind."></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Images of first-year Christians hiding in catacombs come to mind."><br />
</span><span title="When I saw that helicopter (or plane) farthing out those two light spheres in the sky, when I saw those spheres turning into claws of white smoke, at first I could not understand what they were.">Cuando vi que el helicóptero (o avión) centavo a cabo esas dos esferas de luz en el cielo, cuando vi esas esferas se convierta en las garras de humo blanco, al principio no podía entender lo que eran. </span><span title="Then I saw the burning balls on the floor, on the roof, recognition, phosphorous, incredulity, wasn't phosphorous forbidden as a weapon of war???">Entonces vi las bolas ardiendo en el suelo, en el techo, el reconocimiento, el fósforo, la incredulidad, no fue prohibido fósforo como arma de guerra?? </span><span title="Images of Vietnam come to mind, naked children on fire running down the streets.">Imágenes de Vietnam vienen a la mente, los niños desnudos en el fuego corriendo por las calles. </span><span title="And outrage, how can this be used on civilian population, how can anybody be talking about surgical attacks, how can a phosphorous bomb be surgical?">Y la indignación, ¿cómo puede ser utilizado en la población civil, ¿cómo puede alguien estar hablando de ataques quirúrgicos, ¿cómo puede una bomba de fósforo ser quirúrgico?</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="And outrage, how can this be used on civilian population, how can anybody be talking about surgical attacks, how can a phosphorous bomb be surgical?"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="And outrage, how can this be used on civilian population, how can anybody be talking about surgical attacks, how can a phosphorous bomb be surgical?"><br />
</span><span title="But still people strive to live a “normal” life, a life under the bombs, a life of sudden blasts, a life where everybody runs towards an explosion site to rescue the wounded and to recover the dead, while a young girl runs in the"> </span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&tl=es&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsocioecohistory.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F07%2F24%2Fisrael-refuses-to-stop-using-internationally-banned-phosphorus-bombs%2F" target="_blank">Israel se niega a dejar de utilizar bombas de fósforo prohibidas internacionalmente</a></div><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="But still people strive to live a “normal” life, a life under the bombs, a life of sudden blasts, a life where everybody runs towards an explosion site to rescue the wounded and to recover the dead, while a young girl runs in the">Pero aún así la gente se esfuerza para vivir una vida "normal", una vida bajo las bombas, una vida de explosiones repentinas, una vida donde todo el mundo corre hacia un lugar de la explosión para rescatar a los heridos y recuperar a los muertos, mientras que una joven se ejecuta en el </span><span title="opposite direction, avoiding even the consoling arms of a woman, just let me run away from this madness, from this pain, from this reality.">dirección opuesta, evitando incluso los brazos de una mujer de consuelo, déjame huir de esta locura, de este dolor, de esta realidad. </span><span title="A place where a father shows off the body of his dead child, THIS IS MY SACRIFICE TO YOU, GOD.">Un lugar donde el padre se fuera el cuerpo de su hijo muerto.</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="A place where a father shows off the body of his dead child, THIS IS MY SACRIFICE TO YOU, GOD.">ESTE ES MI SACRIFICIO PARA TI, DIOS.</span></span></div><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="A place where a father shows off the body of his dead child, THIS IS MY SACRIFICE TO YOU, GOD."></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="A place where a father shows off the body of his dead child, THIS IS MY SACRIFICE TO YOU, GOD."><br />
</span><span title="Luckily for me I will forget most of the images I saw last night, although some will stay with me throughout my whole life, the lifeless eyes of a 2-year-old child with two bullet holes in his chest, or one in his head">Por suerte para mí voy a olvidar la mayoría de las imágenes que vi ayer por la noche, aunque algunos se quedarán conmigo toda mi vida, los ojos sin vida de un niño de 2 años de edad, con dos agujeros de bala en el pecho, o una en la cabeza </span><span title=".">. </span><span title="How can there exist a place where a child is killed with a bullet in the head, or two bullets in the chest?">¿Cómo puede existir un lugar donde se mató a un niño con una bala en la cabeza, o dos balas en el pecho? </span><span title="How can there exist a place where sand is piled on a door so that women and children cannot run from the bullets?">¿Cómo puede existir un lugar donde la arena se amontona en la puerta para que las mujeres y los niños no se puede ejecutar de las balas? </span><span title="How can there be a place where children must run over dismembered bodies to save their lives?">¿Cómo puede haber un lugar donde los niños se debe ejecutar sobre los cuerpos desmembrados para salvar sus vidas? </span><span title="How can there be a place where a baby is burnt alive?">¿Cómo puede haber un lugar donde se quema un bebé con vida?</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="How can there be a place where a baby is burnt alive?"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="How can there be a place where a baby is burnt alive?"><br />
</span><span title="Where can I find forgiveness?">¿Dónde puedo encontrar el perdón? </span><span title="How can there be a place where a injured girl is targeted, where her dead father is blown to pieces?">¿Cómo puede haber un lugar donde se dirige una niña herida, donde su padre muerto es volado en pedazos? </span><span title="How can there be a place where running to get an ambulance means that you will be shot dead in the street?">¿Cómo puede haber un lugar donde correr para conseguir una ambulancia que significa que usted será muerto a tiros en la calle? </span><span title="I wish I had gone with them.">Ojalá me hubiera ido con ellos. </span><span title="Look in that girl's eyes, only the abyss.">Mira a los ojos de esa chica, sólo el abismo. </span><span title="Nothing but that.">Nada más que eso.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Nothing but that."></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Nothing but that."><br />
</span><span title="How can I not understand the moment when she decides to strap a suicide belt around her chest, there is nothing left to lose.">¿Cómo no entender el momento en que decide correa de un cinturón suicida alrededor de su pecho, no hay nada que perder. </span><span title="The soul is so lost that it is painful only to see.">El alma está tan perdido que es dolorosa sólo para ver. </span><span title="Sure, many of the people there have undoubtedly carried and used a weapon, and even shot missiles into Israel, why wouldn't they?">Claro, muchas de las personas, sin duda, se han llevado y utilizado un arma, e incluso dispararon misiles contra Israel, ¿por qué no ellos? </span><span title="Why wouldn't I?">¿Por qué no habría de hacerlo?</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Why wouldn't I?"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Why wouldn't I?"><br />
</span><span title="The heart of a mother crying her two dead sons, buried in the sand with only a cinder block to remind the world that they existed, the cries of a father whose children are all dead, the intent of an old man to decency, cleaning himself">El corazón de una madre que llora a sus dos hijos muertos, enterrados en la arena con sólo un bloque de cemento para recordar al mundo que existían, los gritos de un padre cuyos hijos han muerto, la intención de un anciano a la decencia, la limpieza se </span><span title="up from a little can of water underneath the skeleton of his bombed-out house, “there's never enough water, we are always thirsty, there's not even enough water to wash for prayer”...">a partir de una pequeña lata de agua por debajo del esqueleto de su bombardeada casa, "nunca hay suficiente agua, que siempre tiene sed, no hay agua suficiente para lavar, incluso para la oración"...</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="up from a little can of water underneath the skeleton of his bombed-out house, “there's never enough water, we are always thirsty, there's not even enough water to wash for prayer”..."></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="up from a little can of water underneath the skeleton of his bombed-out house, “there's never enough water, we are always thirsty, there's not even enough water to wash for prayer”..."><br />
</span><span title="How must it be to live when your reality is that you are always thirsty, hungry, no medicines when you are sick or wounded, planes and helicopters in the sky that farth out death, war ships at sea that shoot fishing boats, a reality of">¿Cómo debe ser la de vivir cuando su realidad es que usted siempre tiene sed, hambre, no hay medicamentos cuando están enfermos o heridos, aviones y helicópteros en el cielo que FARTH a la muerte, los buques de guerra en el mar que los barcos de pesca disparar, una realidad de la </span><span title="explosions, fire, dismembered bodies and lost fathers and children.">explosiones, incendios, cuerpos desmembrados y los padres y los niños perdidos. </span><span title="For one and a half million people.">Por un año y medio millones de personas. </span><span title="How can this be happening?">¿Cómo puede estar pasando esto? </span><span title="How can we let this happen?">¿Cómo podemos permitir que esto suceda?</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="How can we let this happen?"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="How can we let this happen?"><br />
</span><span title="How can we not support the people who board a ship and travel to those beaches that look so normal on a holy day, with children swimming and parents laughing, to make a difference risking their lives?">¿Cómo no podemos apoyar a las personas que a bordo de un barco y viajar a las playas que se ven tan normal en un día santo, con los niños nadar y los padres reír, para hacer una diferencia arriesgando sus vidas? </span><span title="How can NATO still need a vote to recognize that people?">¿Cómo puede la OTAN todavía necesita un voto para reconocer que las personas? </span><span title="How can anybody still need anything to recognize their right to live without so much pain?">¿Cómo puede alguien todavía necesita algo para reconocer su derecho a vivir sin tanto dolor? </span><span title="How can anybody still wonder why human beings choose to blow themselves into pieces causing even more death and despair...">¿Cómo puede alguien todavía se pregunta por qué los seres humanos eligen a inmolarse en piezas que causan la muerte aún más y la desesperación ... </span><span title="but I cannot really think about the Israelis, at the moment...">pero realmente no se puede pensar que los israelíes, en el momento ...</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span id="goog_426482910"></span><span id="goog_426482911"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><a href="http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100531/israel-mata-una-decena-cooperantes-tras-asaltar-flotilla-gaza-aguas-internacionales/333489.shtml" target="_blank">Israel mata a una decena de cooperantes tras asaltar la flotilla de Gaza en aguas internacionales</a></div><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="but I cannot really think about the Israelis, at the moment..."></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="but I cannot really think about the Israelis, at the moment..."><br />
</span><span title="How can we all forget that this is the reality of one and a half million people?">¿Cómo pueden todos nos olvidamos de que esta es la realidad de uno y medio millones de personas al? </span><span title="How can we live in oblivion about what happens in Gaza?">¿Cómo podemos vivir en el olvido de lo que sucede en Gaza? </span><span title="How can we live in oblivion about what happens in Kurdistan?">¿Cómo podemos vivir en el olvido de lo que ocurre en el Kurdistán? </span><span title="How can we live in oblivion about what happens in Burma?">¿Cómo podemos vivir en el olvido de lo que sucede en Birmania? </span><span title="How can we live in oblivion about what happens in West Timor?">¿Cómo podemos vivir en el olvido de lo que ocurre en Timor Occidental?</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="How can we live in oblivion about what happens in West Timor?"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="How can we live in oblivion about what happens in West Timor?"><br />
</span><span title="Are we really so blind?">¿Estamos realmente tan ciego? </span><span title="Are our minds and our souls really so anaesthetised by this comfortable life that has been offered to us in exchange of our responsibility and our capacity of thinking?">¿Son nuestras mentes y nuestras almas realmente tan anestesiados por la vida cómoda que ha sido que se nos ofrecen a cambio de nuestra responsabilidad y nuestra capacidad de pensar? </span><span title="Have we surrendered our hearts too, our capacity to feel with our fellow human brothers?">¿Nos hemos entregado nuestros corazones también, nuestra capacidad de sentir con nuestros hermanos humanos compañeros? </span><span title="Have we lost the ability of screaming at such atrocities?">¿Hemos perdido la capacidad de gritar a tales atrocidades?</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Have we lost the ability of screaming at such atrocities?"></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Have we lost the ability of screaming at such atrocities?"><br />
</span><span title="I know that this crying will stop, even if right now I have problems in seeing what I am writing, but life goes on, for as cruel as it sounds, for me as for everybody else, even for the people in Gaza life goes on">Sé que este llanto se detiene, aunque ahora tengo problemas en ver lo que estoy escribiendo, pero la vida sigue, por tan cruel como parece, para mí como para todos los demás, incluso para las personas en la vida de Gaza continúa </span><span title="as “normal”.">como "normal". </span><span title="But I do not want to forget, I want to remember this gloom inside my heart, this cannot be something that comes and goes, this must stay, it is too big.">Pero yo no quiero olvidar, quiero recordar esta oscuridad dentro de mi corazón, esto no puede ser algo que va y viene, este debe permanecer, es demasiado grande.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="But I do not want to forget, I want to remember this gloom inside my heart, this cannot be something that comes and goes, this must stay, it is too big."></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><a href="http://somosmuchos.es/2012/04/israel-restringe-acceso-al-agua-a-los-palestinos/" target="_blank">Israel restringe acceso al agua a los palestinos</a></span></div>Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-12552677988101904622012-03-23T20:18:00.002+01:002012-04-23T02:01:07.078+02:00El Nuevo Puerto de Marbella<style type="text/css">
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</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Marbella, una ciudad de 100mil habitantes, tiene ya 4 puertos, incluido el celebérrimo Puerto Banús que, parece, ya se ha quedado chico a la Jet Set. Así que ahora vienen los árabes y con los petrodólares van y construyen este monstruo.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">La zona donde van a echar el cemento está muy cerca del centro de la ciudad, bueno, lo cierto es que con esa magnitud, y siendo Marbella una ciudad verdaderamente chica, no es difícil que ese mega proyecto esté cerca del centro. Se van a cargar el polígono antiguo, pequeños negocios familiares, no es que me gusten mucho los polígonos industriales, pero hay muchas familias allí que se ganan la vida desde hace generaciones, y ahora no saben lo que va a pasar, porque por aquí prometen mucho, pero cumplir ya es otra cosa.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Y la verdadera pregunta es esta: hace falta algo así??? Hace falta tener un puerto en una ciudad de 100mil habitantes donde puedan amarrar tres barcos de cruceros, tres ciudades flotantes que, soltados sus pasajeros, van a doblar de golpe la población del lugar? Considerando que ya hay cuatro puertos en Marbella, considerando que a 70km, en Málaga, hay un puerto de amarre de barcos de gran calado, me pregunto: para que??? Donde esta la crisis???</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Que descorazonador... En vez de invertir nuestros recursos en algo que nos asegure verdaderamente un futuro, energías limpias, educación y sanidad (pero de las verdaderas!), investigación, ayuda a los países subdesarrollados (pero de la verdadera!!!), nos gastamos millones y millones en ESTO!!! Para que lo puedan disfrutar... quien??? Los mismos de siempre, el golden 10%, y me incluyo en ello, porque la vida me ha dado el privilegio de poder ir a tomar un refresco o comprar algo en esos sitios (aunque no tener un barco), pisando las cabezas del resto de la humanidad.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Pero que nos hace falta para reaccionar? Que nos hace falta para entender que esto no puede seguir así, no porque no lo queramos, sino porque es totalmente insostenible!!! Que es lo que nos impide ver que solo tenemos un planeta, y que es uno y único, que todo está conectado, que si tiramos nuestros desechos al mar o al aire, todos los estaremos bebiendo o respirando! Nuestros hijos también!!!</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">BASTA YA de lujos absurdos, volvamos a lo que realmente es importante, la vida, la salud, la felicidad, pero las de TODOS!!! No es posible mantener por mucho tiempo un sistema donde el 90% paga por el 10%! No es sostenible, no es humano, no es ético y no es posible! BASTA YA, BASTA YA, BASTA YA por favor!</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Este vídeo ha abierto la puerta a un sentimiento de impotencia, negro, feo, enfadado, porque se que los planes están aprobados ya, los contratistas ya tienen sus contratos, están esperando machacar a los abogados de la asociación de pequeños empresarios del antiguo polígono con vista al mar para tener vía libre y empezar los trabajos.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Estoy triste, muy triste... Nos venden este proyecto como una de las medidas para la salida de la crisis, la creación de muchos puestos de trabajo... A esas personas les dejo esto:</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Maldita sea, toda una generación echando gasolina, sirviendo mesas, esclavos con collares blancos. <b>La publicidad nos hace perseguir coches y ropa, trabajar en empleos que odiamos para comprar mierda que no necesitamos.</b> Somos los hijos medianos de la historia, tío. Ningún propósito ni lugar. No tenemos ninguna Gran Guerra. Ninguna Gran Depresión. Nuestra gran guerra es una guerra espiritual. Nuestra gran depresión es nuestra vida. Todos hemos sido criados por la televisión para creer que algún día todos seríamos millonarios, divos del cine y estrellas del rock, pero no lo seremos. Estamos aprendiendo poco a poco este hecho. Y estamos muy, muy cabreados.</div><div class="western" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="western" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">-Fight Club</div><div class="western" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/21603974">http://vimeo.com/21603974</a></div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Marbella, a town of 100 thousand inhabitants, already has 4 ports, including the renowned Puerto Banus that, apparently, has already outgrown the needs of the Jet Set. So here come the Arabs with their petrodollars to build this monster.</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The area they are going to cover with cement is close to the town center, well, actually, for a projecto of that magnitude, and Marbella being such a small city, everything so big would be near its center. They will sweep away the old industrial area, small family businesses, not that I particulary like industrial sites, but there are many families who have been earning their living for generations who don't know what will happen, because around here one hears many promises, but fulfilling them is a completely different story.</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But here the real question is: is this really necessary??? In a city of 100 thousand inhabitants, do we need a port to harbour three cruise ships, three floating cities that, once their passengers ashore, would make the local population suddenly double in number? Considering that there are four ports in Marbella, considering that 70 km from here, in Malaga, there is already a harbour for large ships, I can't help asking: what for??? Where is the crisis???</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">It's disheartening... Instead of investing our resources into something that will truly ensure our future, as clean energy, education and health (but the real ones!), research, aid to underdeveloped countries (but the real one!), we spend millions and million on THIS! Something that can be enjoyed by... whom??? Always the same ones, the golden 10%, me included, because life has given me the privilege of being able to afford a drink or buy something in such a place (not keeping a boat there, though), stepping on the heads the rest of humanity.</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">What do we need to react??? What do we need to understand that this can not go on like this, not because we don't like it, but because it is completely unsustainable!!! What makes us blind from seeing that we only have one planet, and that it is one and only, that everything is connected, that if we throw our waste into the sea or air, we will all end up drinking or breathing it! And so will our children!</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">ENOUGH of absurd luxuries, back to what really matters, life, health, happiness, but for EVERYBODY!!! One cannot keep alive for long a system where 90% of the people is exploited by the 10%! It's not sustainable, it is unhuman, it is unethical and cannot go on! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, please!</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This video has opened the door to a feeling of helplessness, black, ugly, angry, because I know that the plans have already been approved, the contractors have already signed their contracts, they are only waiting to crush the lawyers of the association of small businesses of the old industrial estate overlooking the sea to have the hand free and start the building.</div><div class="western" lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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Enamoramiento. Para mi es concentrar la vista, el oído y el resto de los sentidos, así como el pensamiento, en una persona y en un momento. Puede durar un minuto o unas horas, es muy intenso, suele quemar mucha energía y no es un estado del ser que pueda mantenerse durante mucho tiempo, o por lo menos yo no sabría como, y aún no he conocido a nadie que pudiera mantenerlo por más tiempo.</div>
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Simplemente es estar, SER presente en todos los sentidos y enfocar esa presencia hacia una determinada persona en un determinado momento. Es una sensación hermosa, dos seres que comparten, entran en una conexión especial que transciende lo meramente físico, o mental o espiritual. En esos momentos los tres se funden en una sensación casi telepática, se pueden leer los pensamientos del otro, se puede sentir lo que siente, física y espiritualmente.</div>
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Es una promesa del aquí y ahora, nada MÁS ni nada MENOS. No existen ni ayer ni mañana, no hay mas promesas, no hay mas “garantías”, no hay mas “seguridades” que el aquí y ahora. Es uno de los momentos en los que más plenamente consigo vivir el presente, consigo llenarme de su energía, consigo despejarme del pasado y del futuro, de los recuerdos y de los proyectos.</div>
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Son momentos hermosos que procuro vivir cada vez que tengo la oportunidad con las personas que me lo permiten, personas que dejan sus miedos a un lado y comparten conmigo esos instantes.</div>
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Ojalá hubieran mas momentos de ese tipo en nuestras vidas, ojalá supiéramos dejarnos los miedos a un lado y disfrutar del presente, acercarnos a las personas con nuestras armaduras quitadas, erguidos, con los brazos y los pulmones abiertos, la frente alta, los ojos hacia delante y una sonrisa en los labios. Sin miedo. Con el único deseo de amar.</div>
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<span lang="en">Infatuation. To me, it means concentrating sight, hearing and the other senses, as well as thoughts, on one person at one time. It may last a minute or a few hours, it is intense, often burning plenty of energy and it is not a state of being that can be maintained for a long time, or at least I would not know how to do so, and I haven't met anyone yet who could hold it for longer.<br />
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It's just BEING, being present in all senses and focus this presence onto a particular person at a given time. It's a beautiful feeling, two beings sharing, entering a special connection that transcends the merely physical, mental or spiritual. At such times the three come together in an almost telepathic experience, one can read the other's thoughts, feel what the other feels, physically and spiritually.<br />
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It is a promise of here and now, nothing MORE, nothing LESS. There is no yesterday nor tomorrow, no promises, no "guarantees", no "security" but here and now. It is one of the moments in which I most fully experience the present, can feel its energy, can forget my past and my future, memories and projects.<br />
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Beautiful moments I try to live every time I can with people who allow me to do so, people who leave their fears aside and share those moments with me.<br />
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I wish there were more such moments in our lives, I wish we knew to leave fears aside and enjoy the present, approach people with our armour removed, standing tall, arms and lungs open, lifted forehead, eyes to the front and a smile on our lips. Without fear. With the sole desire to love.<br />
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It says it all, and I agree to almost all of what is written. Except maybe the point that food should only be considered fuel for our body. Nature has a beautiful way of making its creatures do what they need to keep on living, that they actually enjoy doing it.<br />
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It is FUN to live, and it is great to eat, food is bright, fresh, crunchy and TASTY! That's why we have our taste buds, food is not easy to come by, if we didn't like it so much, many of us would just rest and forget about dinner. Luckily there is this incredibly simple mechanism of reward-punishment. You go out and look for food? You are rewarded by the taste of it. You stay in your cave and sleep in? You get a rumbling belly.<br />
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I really think that enjoying what you eat is as healthy as eating itself, to a certain degree. The food industry is actually based on this, that's why monosodium glutamate is in everything, because it makes food taste "good" (a much more fitting description would be "addictive" in this case).<br />
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When we break the habit of eating all those chemicals that the industry uses to make their products brightly coloured, smell good and keep for ages, we realize that nature offer us the best tasting, smelling, feeling food that we can possibly ask for! Eating a tomato, a strawberry, a melon or whatever our species has eaten for million of years not only tastes good, but allow us to keep our natural health.<br />
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"What responsibility does the Food Network have on how I nourish myself? Really? Is anybody telling me that a TV network has any responsibility on what I put on my table and in my belly? WAKE UP PEOPLE! Throw your TV out of the window and live life RESPONSIBLY, the only people who are not responsible of their lives are babies! And that's only temporary.<br />
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TV is made by those who watch it, where there's no shares, there would be no Deen’s show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Cupcake Wars, and Dessert First. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE OF OURSELVES AND OUR KIDS, so let's give them a PROPER education, and let us not leave the Disney Channel do that for us. It's the same as letting the Food Channel educating us on healthy diets.<br />
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The way we eat is part of that education, and this comes from an Italian raised on pasta and bread, luckily enough in our kitchen there have always been fresh fruits and vegetables, but also meat of all sort, desserts and industrial foods.<br />
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The information we need is out there, one only needs to go and click for it, it's that easy, one only needs the will and the interest to do it.<br />
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Let us all change our values, let us all look up to people who really support what's important, not only a healthy lifestyle, but also (yes, it's cheesy, this is how bad the situation is, it's cheesy to mention what really matters) love, friendship, support, compassion, understanding, kindness, in short humanity..."<br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="It says it all, and I agree to almost all of what is written.">Lo dice todo, y estoy de acuerdo con casi todo lo que está escrito. </span><span title="Except maybe the point that food should only be considered fuel for our body.">Excepto tal vez con el punto en que considera a los alimentos sólo como el combustible para nuestro cuerpo. </span><span title="Nature has a beautiful way of making its creatures do what they need to keep on living, that they actually enjoy doing it.">La naturaleza tiene una hermosa manera de hacer que sus criaturas hagan lo que necesitan para seguir viviendo, que realmente disfruten haciendolo.<br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="It is FUN to live, and it is great to eat, food is bright, fresh, crunchy and TASTY!">Vivir </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="It is FUN to live, and it is great to eat, food is bright, fresh, crunchy and TASTY!">ES DIVERTIDO, </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="It is FUN to live, and it is great to eat, food is bright, fresh, crunchy and TASTY!">comer</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="It is FUN to live, and it is great to eat, food is bright, fresh, crunchy and TASTY!"> es genial, la comida es brillante, crujiente, fresca y sabrosa! </span><span title="That's why we have our taste buds, food is not easy to come by, if we didn't like it so much, many of us would just rest and forget about dinner.">Es por eso que tenemos nuestras papilas gustativas, la comida no es fácil de conseguir, si no nos gustara tanto, muchos de nosotros simplemente descansaríamos y nos olvidaríamos de buscar la cena. </span><span title="Luckily there is this incredibly simple mechanism of reward-punishment.">Por suerte existe ese mecanismo tan simple de recompensa-castigo. </span><span title="You go out and look for food?">Sales y buscas comida? Eres</span><span title="You are rewarded by the taste of it."> recompensado por el sabor de la misma. P</span><span title="You stay in your cave and sleep in?">ermaneces en tu cueva a dormir? </span><span title="You get a rumbling belly.">Consigues que te ruja la barriga.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="You get a rumbling belly."><br />
</span><span title="I really think that enjoying what you eat is as healthy as eating itself, to a certain degree.">Realmente creo que disfrutar de lo que se come es tan saludable como comer en sí, hasta cierto punto. </span><span title="The food industry is actually based on this, that's why monosodium glutamate is in everything, because it makes food taste "good" (a much more fitting description would be "addictive" in this case).">La industria alimentaria se basa realmente en esto, es por eso que el glutamato monosódico está en todo, porque hace que la comida sepa "rica" (una descripción mucho más apropiado sería "adictiva" en este caso).<br />
</span><span title="When we break the habit of eating all those chemicals that the industry uses to make their products brightly coloured, smell good and keep for ages, we realize that nature offer us the best tasting, smelling, feeling food that we can possibly ask for!">Cuando abandonamos la costumbre de comer todos los aditivos químicos que la industria utiliza para fabricar sus productos de colores brillantes, que huelen rico y se mantener durante mucho tiempo, nos damos cuenta de que la naturaleza nos ofrece el mejor sabor, olor, textura que puedas pedir</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="When we break the habit of eating all those chemicals that the industry uses to make their products brightly coloured, smell good and keep for ages, we realize that nature offer us the best tasting, smelling, feeling food that we can possibly ask for!"> del alimento</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="When we break the habit of eating all those chemicals that the industry uses to make their products brightly coloured, smell good and keep for ages, we realize that nature offer us the best tasting, smelling, feeling food that we can possibly ask for!">! </span><span title="Eating a tomato, a strawberry, a melon or whatever our species has eaten for million of years not only tastes good, but allow us to keep our natural health.">Comer un tomate, una fresa, un melón o lo que sea que nuestra especie haya comido desde hace millones de años no sólo sabe bien, sino que nos permiten mantener nuestra salud natural.<br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Then there's the issue of the responsibility...">Luego está la cuestión de la responsabilidad ... </span><span title="And to that, this is the comment I left under the article ;-)!">Y para eso, este es el comentario que dejé en el artículo ;-)!<br />
</span><span title=""What responsibility does the Food Network have on how I nourish myself? Really? Is anybody telling me that a TV network has any responsibility on what I put on my table and in my belly? WAKE UP PEOPLE! Throw your TV out of the window"> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title=""What responsibility does the Food Network have on how I nourish myself? Really? Is anybody telling me that a TV network has any responsibility on what I put on my table and in my belly? WAKE UP PEOPLE! Throw your TV out of the window">"¿Qué responsabilidad tiene la cadena "The Food Network" sobre cómo me alimento? En serio? ¿Alguien me está diciendo que una cadena de televisión tiene alguna responsabilidad de lo que he puesto en mi mesa y en mi boca? DESPERTEMOS! Tira tu televisor por la ventana </span><span title="and live life RESPONSIBLY, the only people who are not responsible of their lives are babies! And that's only temporary.">y vive la vida de forma responsable, las únicas personas que no son responsables de sus vidas son los bebés¡ Y esa es sólo una fase temporal.<br />
</span><span title="TV is made by those who watch it, where there no shares, there would be no Deen's show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Cupcake Wars, and Dessert First."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="TV is made by those who watch it, where there no shares, there would be no Deen's show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Cupcake Wars, and Dessert First.">La TV se hace por aquellos que la miran, donde no hay cuota de pantalla, no habría cierto tipo de programa. </span><span title="WE ARE RESPONSIBLE OF OURSELVES AND OUR KIDS, so let's give them a PROPER education, and let us not leave the Disney Channel do that for us.">SOMOS RESPONSABLES DE NOSOTROS Y DE NUESTROS NIÑOS, así que vamos a darles una educación adecuada, y no dejemos que el Disney Channel lo haga por nosotros. </span><span title="It's the same as letting the Food Channel educating us on healthy diets.">Es lo mismo que dejar que el Food Channel nos eduque sobre alimentación sana.<br />
</span><span title="The way we eat is part of that education, and this comes from an Italian raised on pasta and bread, luckily enough in our kitchen there have always been fresh fruits and vegetables, but also meat of all sort, desserts and industrial foods."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="The way we eat is part of that education, and this comes from an Italian raised on pasta and bread, luckily enough in our kitchen there have always been fresh fruits and vegetables, but also meat of all sort, desserts and industrial foods.">La forma en la que comemos es parte de esa educación, y esto vieniendo de un italiana criada con pasta y pan, por suerte en nuestra cocina siempre ha habido frutas frescas y verduras, pero también carne de todo tipo, postres y alimentos industriales.<br />
</span><span title="The information we need is out there, one only needs to go and click for it, it's that easy, one only needs the will and the interest to do it."> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="The information we need is out there, one only needs to go and click for it, it's that easy, one only needs the will and the interest to do it.">La información que necesitamos está ahí, sólo tenemos que ir y hacer clic, es así de fácil, sólo se necesita la voluntad y el interés de hacerlo.<br />
</span><span title="Let us all change our values, let us all look up to people who really support what's important, not only a healthy lifestyle, but also (yes, it's cheesy, this is how bad the situation is, it's cheesy to mention what really matters)"> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let us all change our values, let us all look up to people who really support what's important, not only a healthy lifestyle, but also (yes, it's cheesy, this is how bad the situation is, it's cheesy to mention what really matters)">Cambiemos nuestros valores, admiremos la gente que realmente apoya lo que es importante, no sólo un estilo de vida saludable, sino también (sí, es cursi, así de mal está la situación, que es considerado cursi hablar de lo que realmente importa) </span><span title="love, friendship, support, compassion, understanding, kindness, in short humanity..."">el amor, la amistad, el apoyo, la compasión, la comprensión, la bondad... en pocas palabras... la humanidad"</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="love, friendship, support, compassion, understanding, kindness, in short humanity..."">Laura</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="love, friendship, support, compassion, understanding, kindness, in short humanity...""> </span></span> Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-28452099359994564312012-01-22T23:30:00.006+01:002012-01-23T00:12:56.372+01:00Angels of Iran<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Traducción al Español abajo.</i></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, it was a lot of information what came to me in the last two weeks about this remote country that I never visited, and possibly never will. Not only was I pushed to remembering events that happened over two years ago, images and feelings that were neatly stored in my past memories. Not only was I given a glimpse in this people's daily lives.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The information I received led me to the discovery of a whole new community, a new religious faith that I had no idea existed. The Baha'is.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is a relatively new religion, it was born in the mid 19th century. I am not a religious person, in fact I do not believe in any omnipotent and omnipresent divinity that hovers over our heads. Although I have been raised in the Christian faith, with the years I have discovered that religion is too often used as an excuse to do whatever people want to do at a given time, it is a handy tool for repressions and is used since the eve of time to start wars for power.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It surprised me to discover the systematic persecution of these people for their believes, not because persecuting the "different" is anything new but, as said, because I did not even know this community existed until a few days ago.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many minorities, religious, cultural, or else, are <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps alt-edited">punished only because they are not as they are supposed to be, because they are different from what is commonly accepted by "society". Kurds in Turkey, Serbs and Croats in Croatia and Serbia, Muslims in India or Christians in Egypt, gays, black people, indio people, down to women and, of course, Jews. Jews, the symbol of persecution.<br />
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The story of the Baha'is sounds a little like the one of the Jews. Culturally formed, of wealthy families, punished for their wealth and their knowledge. I have my opinion on the Jews persecution throughout history and their role in the past and present society, although one thing is clear to me.<br />
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It is not right to imprison somebody only because they believe in something that is different from the rest. It is not right</span></span> taking <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps alt-edited">a man or a woman</span></span> away from their homes and their families and <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps alt-edited">condemn them to jail, </span></span>hardship, deprivation of food, warmth and love, torture and even death. The injustice of that is so very clear to me that it does not matter who they are, where they come from, what political, religious or social view they support, the colour of their skin, the passport in their wallets, IT IS JUST NOT RIGHT.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is actually what I felt I had to share, the plight of these people, a whole community that is persecuted mainly because, in many parts of the world (even closer to home then we imagine) it is dangerous to learn, to know. Knowledge is the most dangerous weapon against the people who assure you that you don't need to think, people who give you rules (be it religious, social, political, economical, or else) and tell you that these are the rules everybody is supposed to live by, no need to think, just obey.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ignorance is the greatest cancer, the only solution is knowledge. Let's stop the persecution of the difference, let's learn from the different, let us all get much richer in spirit by sharing what each of us know and is.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Laura<br />
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Sí, fue una gran cantidad de información la que vino a mí en las últimas dos semanas acerca de este país remoto que nunca he visitado, y posiblemente nunca visite. No sólo me empujó a recordar los acontecimientos que sucedieron hace más de dos años, las imágenes y las sensaciones que estaban guardadas ordenadamente entre mis recuerdos del pasado. No sólo me ha permitido hechar un vistazo en la vida cotidiana de esas personas.<br />
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La información que recibí me llevó al descubrimiento de una comunidad totalmente nueva, unas creencias religiosa que no tenía idea de que existían. Los Bahá'ís.<br />
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Es una religión relativamente nueva, la de los Bahá'ís, que nació a mediados del siglo XIX. No soy una persona que se puede describir como religiosa, de hecho no creo en ninguna divinidad omnipotente y omnipresente que ronda encima de nuestras cabezas. A pesar de haber sido educad en la fe cristiana, con los años he descubierto que la religión es a menudo usada como excusa para hacer lo que la gente quiere hacer en un momento dado, es una herramienta muy útil para la represión y se utiliza desde la víspera de los tiempo para iniciar guerras por el poder.<br />
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Me sorprendió descubrir la persecución sistemática de estas personas por sus creencias, no porque perseguir a los "diferentes" sea algo nuevo sino porque, como dije, ni siquiera conocía la existencia de esta comunidad hasta hace unos días.<br />
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Muchas minorías religiosas o culturales se castigan sólo porque no son lo que se supone que sean, porque son diferentes a lo que es comúnmente aceptado por la "sociedad". Los kurdos en Turquía, los serbios y los croatas en Croacia y Serbia, los musulmanes en la India o los cristianos en Egipto, los gays, los negro, los indio, hasta llegar a las mujeres y, por supuesto, los judios. Los judios, el símbolo de la persecución.<br />
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La historia de los Bahá'ís me recuerda un poco a la de los Judios. Formados culturalmente, de familias adineradas, castigado por su riqueza y sus conocimientos. Tengo mi opinión acerca de la persecución de los judios a lo largo de la historia y su papel en la sociedad en el pasado y en el presente, aunque hay algo que tengo bien claro.<br />
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No es justo encarcelar a alguien sólo porque crea en algo diferente del resto. No es justo sacar a un hombre o a una mujer de sus hogares, separarlos de sus sus familias y condenarlos a la cárcel, las penurias, la privación de comida, calor y amor, a la tortura e incluso a la muerte. La injusticia de todo eso es algo tan claro para mí que no importa quiénes sean, de dónde vengan, qué ideologías política, religiosa o social apoyen, el color de su piel, el pasaporte en sus carteras, simplemente NO ES JUSTO.<br />
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Esto es realmente lo que sentí que tenía que compartir, la difícil situación de estas personas, toda una comunidad que es perguida sobre todo porque, en muchas partes del mundo (incluso más cerca de nosotros de lo que imaginamos) es peligroso aprender, saber. El conocimiento es el arma más peligrosa contra la gente que te asegura que no es necesario pensar, personas que difunden unas reglas (ya sean religiosas, sociales, políticas, económicas, o la que sean) y te dicen que estas son las reglas que todo el mundo es se supone que tiene que seguir, no hay necesidad de pensar, sólo obedecer.<br />
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La ignorancia es el peor cáncer, la única cura es el conocimiento. Detengamos la persecución de la diferencia, aprender de lo diferente, enriquezcámos nuestro espíritu compartiendo lo que cada uno de nosotros sabe y es.<br />
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Laura</div>Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-71746137210090956102012-01-22T17:06:00.007+01:002012-01-22T22:11:14.492+01:00Divorce Iranian style<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Traducción al Español abajo.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Si alguien encuentra el documental de este post con traducción al español para añadirlo, le estaría agradecida si pudiera compartir el link.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Marriage in a land like Iran is more of a social obligation than a choice, as is child-bearing and having a family of one's one. One just gets married and has children, whether man or woman, otherwise one is considered</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> an outcast</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> by the society, a misfit. And hurry up!!! You don't want to be left out on this, if a woman reaches her mid twenties and is not married, she almost surely never</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> will</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> be, and will become a charge to her family for the rest of her life.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Well, actually, this is not very different from how it used to be in our own western countries only a very few generations ago... So really, all is relative. It is difficult for us (almost impossible) to imagine that reality, but it would not be too hard for our grandparents imagining marriage like that...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Iran is a country where women are still seen, but worst still, SEE THEMSELVES, as mere child-bearers and housekeepers, with no more rights then having a man who provides for them and the children. The man on the side of those women is basically an ATM, a very strange one with its own rules. It's all they have, if they are lucky enough to stumble upon one that provides some cash every day for buying food and clothes, and that pays the rent, they consider themselves happy. If this ATM machine comes home every day, it's just great. The rest is optional. What the man does inside and outside the family home, does not really matter. Love here does not play a role, convenience is more the word.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"></span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"><br />
Husbands are considered a status symbol, if a woman can boast of a man who comes home straight after work, gives her enough money to feed herself and the children every day, buy clothes and things for the household, pay the rent, respects her in public and does not want to marry another woman (they are allowed to marry up to four, but only with the current wives' permission), she will be regarded by society as a very lucky woman. If, once the man is home, he beats her, it does not matter. As long as the marks don't show. But it does not need to come that far. Just imagine having to live all your life with somebody you don't like, or even despise, or simply don't give a damn about. Just imagine having to prepare dinner every day for somebody who doesn't interest you the slightest, just imagine washing and laying out his clean clothes before he goes to work to fulfil his role of ATM, just imagine cleaning every day after him, taking care of him, sleeping with him. And that, until death do us part. I sure can't even START imagining that...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">We are all familiar with the cruel stories of abusing husbands (not much about those of abusing wives, they also exist although they are much less common), or reports of child brides given to adult men, but this is only one part of the story. The couple, marriage, the family, the children, are concept lived in such a different way that it is practically unimaginable for us, dwellers of the </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">present</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> "western world", to really grasp the day-to-day life of so many of our fellow humans.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">This documentary stuck me just because of that. It gives a glimpse of the reality of those people, both men an women, as alien to us as many other aspect of the life of Iranian people. A live so normal to them.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Marriage in a land like Iran is more of a social obligation than a choice, as is child-bearing and having a family of one's one.">El matrimonio en un país como Irán es más una obligación social que una elección, como lo es tener hijos y familia propia. </span><span title="One just gets married and has children, whether man or woman, otherwise one is considered an outcast by the society, a misfit.">Uno simplemente se casa y tiene hijos, sea hombre o mujer, de lo contrario </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="One just gets married and has children, whether man or woman, otherwise one is considered an outcast by the society, a misfit.">la sociedad l</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="One just gets married and has children, whether man or woman, otherwise one is considered an outcast by the society, a misfit.">e considera un marginado, un inadaptado. </span><span title="And hurry up!!!">Y date prisa!!! N</span><span title="You don't want to be left out on this, if a woman reaches her mid twenties and is not married, she almost surely never will be, and will become a charge to her family for the rest of her life.">o quiere quedarte atrás en esto, si una mujer llega a sus veinte y algo años y no está casada, casi seguramente nunca lo estará, y se convertirá en una carga para su familia por el resto de su vida.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="You don't want to be left out on this, if a woman reaches her mid twenties and is not married, she almost surely never will be, and will become a charge to her family for the rest of her life."></span><span title="Well, actually, this is not very different from how it used to be in our own western countries only a very few generations ago...">Bueno, en realidad, esto no es muy diferente de lo que solía pasar en nuestros países occidentales apenas hace una pocas generación atrás... </span><span title="So really, all is relative.">Así que en realidad, todo es relativo. </span><span title="It is difficult for us (almost impossible) to imagine that reality, but it would not be too hard for our grandparents imagining marriage like that...">Es difícil para nosotros (casi imposible) imaginar esta realidad, pero no sería demasiado complicado</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="It is difficult for us (almost impossible) to imagine that reality, but it would not be too hard for our grandparents imagining marriage like that..."> para nuestros abuelos</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="It is difficult for us (almost impossible) to imagine that reality, but it would not be too hard for our grandparents imagining marriage like that..."> imaginar matrimonio como ese...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="It is difficult for us (almost impossible) to imagine that reality, but it would not be too hard for our grandparents imagining marriage like that..."></span><span title="Iran is a country where women are still seen, but worst still, SEE THEMSELVES, as mere child-bearers and housekeepers, with no more rights then having a man who provides for them and the children.">Irán es un país donde las mujeres todavía es considerada, y peor aún, se considera a sí misma, como meras paridoras de niños y gobernantas, sin </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Iran is a country where women are still seen, but worst still, SEE THEMSELVES, as mere child-bearers and housekeepers, with no more rights then having a man who provides for them and the children."> más </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Iran is a country where women are still seen, but worst still, SEE THEMSELVES, as mere child-bearers and housekeepers, with no more rights then having a man who provides for them and the children.">derechos que tener un hombre que provea para ellas y sus hijos. </span><span title="The man on the side of those women is basically an ATM, a very strange one with its own rules.">El hombre al lado de esas mujeres es, básicamente, un cajero automático, uno muy extraño con </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="The man on the side of those women is basically an ATM, a very strange one with its own rules.">reglas </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="The man on the side of those women is basically an ATM, a very strange one with its own rules.">propias. </span><span title="It's all they have, if they are lucky enough to stumble upon one that provides some cash every day for buying food and clothes, and that pays the rent, they consider themselves happy.">Es todo lo que tienen esas mujeres, si tienen la suerte de toparse con un hombre que les entrega algo de dinero todos los días para comprar alimentos y ropa, y que paga el alquiler, se consideran felices. </span><span title="If this ATM machine comes home every day, it's just great.">Si este cajero automático vuelve a casa todos los días, es genial. </span><span title="The rest is optional.">El resto es opcional. </span><span title="What the man does inside and outside the family home, does not really matter.">Lo que el hombre haga dentro y fuera del hogar familiar, en realidad no importa. </span><span title="Love here does not play a role, convenience is more the word.">El amor aquí no juega ningún papel, conveniencia es la palabra que mejor describe esto.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Love here does not play a role, convenience is more the word."></span><span title="Husbands are considered a status symbol, if a woman can boast of a man who comes home straight after work, gives her enough money to feed herself and the children every day, buy clothes and things for the household, pay the rent, respects her in">Los maridos son considerados un símbolo del estatus social, si una mujer puede presumir de un hombre que vuelve directo a casa después del trabajo, le da dinero suficiente para alimentarse a ella y a los niños todos los días, para comprar ropa y cosas para la casa, paga el alquiler, la respeta en </span><span title="public and does not want to marry another woman (they are allowed to marry up to four, but only with the current wives' permission), she will be regarded by society as a very lucky woman.">público y no quiere casarse con otra mujer (se les permite casarse hasta con cuatro, pero sólo con el permiso de las otras esposas), será considerada por la sociedad una mujer muy afortunada. </span><span title="If, once the man is home, he beats her, it does not matter.">Si, una vez que el hombre está en casa, le pega, no importa. </span><span title="As long as the marks don't show.">Siempre y cuando las marcas no sean visibles. </span><span title="But it does not need to come that far.">Pero no tiene por qué llegar tan lejos. </span><span title="Just imagine having to live all your life with somebody you don't like, or even despise, or simply don't give a damn about.">Imaginemos tener que vivir toda la vida con alguien que no nos gusta, o incluso despreciamos, o simplemente no nos importa nada de nada. </span><span title="Just imagine having to prepare dinner every day for somebody who doesn't interest you the slightest, just imagine washing and laying out his clean clothes before he goes to work to fulfil his role of ATM, just imagine cleaning every day after him, taking care">Imaginemos tener que preparar la cena todos los días para alguien que no nos interesa lo más mínimo, </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Just imagine having to live all your life with somebody you don't like, or even despise, or simply don't give a damn about."></span><span title="Just imagine having to prepare dinner every day for somebody who doesn't interest you the slightest, just imagine washing and laying out his clean clothes before he goes to work to fulfil his role of ATM, just imagine cleaning every day after him, taking care">imaginemos</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Just imagine having to prepare dinner every day for somebody who doesn't interest you the slightest, just imagine washing and laying out his clean clothes before he goes to work to fulfil his role of ATM, just imagine cleaning every day after him, taking care"> lavando y arreglando su ropa antes de que vaya a trabajar para cumplir con su papel de cajero automático, sólo </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Just imagine having to prepare dinner every day for somebody who doesn't interest you the slightest, just imagine washing and laying out his clean clothes before he goes to work to fulfil his role of ATM, just imagine cleaning every day after him, taking care"></span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Just imagine having to live all your life with somebody you don't like, or even despise, or simply don't give a damn about."></span><span title="Just imagine having to prepare dinner every day for somebody who doesn't interest you the slightest, just imagine washing and laying out his clean clothes before he goes to work to fulfil his role of ATM, just imagine cleaning every day after him, taking care">imaginemos</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Just imagine having to prepare dinner every day for somebody who doesn't interest you the slightest, just imagine washing and laying out his clean clothes before he goes to work to fulfil his role of ATM, just imagine cleaning every day after him, taking care"></span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Just imagine having to prepare dinner every day for somebody who doesn't interest you the slightest, just imagine washing and laying out his clean clothes before he goes to work to fulfil his role of ATM, just imagine cleaning every day after him, taking care"> limpiando todos los días detrás de él, cuidando </span><span title="of him, sleeping with him.">de él, durmiendo con él. </span><span title="And that, until death do us part.">Y eso, hasta que la muerte nos separe. Yo</span><span title="I sure can't even START imagining that..."> seguro que no puedo ni siquiera EMPEZAR a imaginarlo...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Wives are also considered a status symbol by society.">Las esposas también son considerados un símbolo del estatus en la sociedad. </span><span title="Not as they are in our part of the world, not for their physical beauty, but for their submissiveness, their ability to make ends meet every day with the little money they are given to feed the whole family, and make a cosy and welcoming home">No como en nuestra parte del mundo por su belleza física, sino por su sumisión, su capacidad para apañarse todos los días con el poco dinero que se les da para alimentar a toda la familia, y para crear un hogar acogedor y agradable </span><span title="for whenever the husband decides to come back.">para cuando el marido decida regresar. </span><span title="And more then anything, for bearing children, male if possible.">Pero más que nada para tener hijos, varones, si es posible. </span><span title="A woman who cannot bear children can be sent back to her family without any second thought.">Una mujer que no puede tener hijos puede ser devuelta a su familia sin pensárselo dos veces. </span><span title="And let's not forget her pureness.">Y no nos olvidemos de su pureza. </span><span title="A woman must be a virgin when she is given to her new owner.">Una mujer debe ser virgen cuando se le entrega a su nuevo dueño. </span><span title="For that, future husbands promise a sum of money that will be paid to the woman in case they changed their minds after "having tried her out".">Para ello, los futuros marido prometen una cantidad de dinero que se pagará a la mujer en caso de que cambien de opinión después de "haberla catado". </span><span title="This is all that's left for a woman when she is no longer a virgin.">Esto es todo lo que le queda a una mujer cuando ya no es virgen. </span><span title="Not even her children are hers in most of the cases.">Ni siquiera los hijos son de ella en la mayoría de los casos. </span><span title="Only money.">Sólo el dinero. </span><span title="If it is ever paid.">Cuando se llega a pagar. </span><span title="A woman that has already been married once will hardly re-marry, will hardly find a job and will weigh heavy on the shoulders of her father.">Una mujer que ya ha estado casada no volverá a casarse, no encontrará trabajo fácilmente y se convertirá en un lastre para su padre. </span><span title="And let us never forget that women are owed by their husbands in Iran, and previously by their fathers.">Y no olvidemos nunca que las mujeres son propiedad de sus maridos en Irán, y antes de casarse, de sus padres.<br />
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</span><span title="So really, no wonder about what happens in Iranian divorce courts of law.">Así que en realidad, no es de extrañar lo que sucede en los juzgados de divorcio iraníes. </span><span title="Marriages are just a business agreement, men, but specially women, are consider mere objects of a contract.">Los matrimonios son sólo un acuerdo comercial, los hombres, pero especialmente las mujeres, se consideran meros objetos de un contrato. </span><span title="Men provide for women and children, women bear children and keep the home.">Los hombres cumplen con las mujeres y los niños, las mujeres paren y mantienen la casa. </span><span title="The rest is not relevant, love is not an option.">El resto no es importante, el amor no es una opción. </span><span title="Affection might arise after the couple, who is usually married according to an agreement between families, get to know each other.">El afecto puede surgir después de que la pareja, que por lo general llega al matrimonio según un acuerdo entre las familias, llegue a conocerse. </span><span title="If both are really lucky.">Si tienen suerte. </span><span title="The natural pleasures of sex are not even remotely considered in this scenario, why should they play a role?">Los placeres naturales del sexo no son ni remotamente considerados en este escenario, por qué tendrían que importar? </span><span title="What does sex have to do with marriage?">Qué tiene que ver el sexo con el matrimonio?<br />
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</span><span title="We are all familiar with the cruel stories of abusing husbands (not much about those of abusing wives, they also exist although they are much less common), or reports of child brides given to adult men, but this is only one part of the story">Todos estamos familiarizados con las historias crueles de maridos maltratadores (no conocemos muchas acerca de mujeres maltratadoras, a pesar de que también existan, aunque son mucho menos comunes), o las noticias de niñas dadas en matrimonio a hombres adultos, pero estas son sólo una parte de la historia</span><span title=".">. </span><span title="The couple, marriage, the family, the children, are concept lived in such a different way that it is practically unimaginable for us, dwellers of the present "western world", to really grasp the day-to-day life of so many of">E</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="The couple, marriage, the family, the children, are concept lived in such a different way that it is practically unimaginable for us, dwellers of the present "western world", to really grasp the day-to-day life of so many of">l concepto</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="The couple, marriage, the family, the children, are concept lived in such a different way that it is practically unimaginable for us, dwellers of the present "western world", to really grasp the day-to-day life of so many of"> de la pareja, el matrimonio, la familia, los niños, se viven de tal forma que es prácticamente inimaginable para nosotros, los habitantes del actual "mundo occidental", comprender realmente el día a día en la vida de muchos de </span><span title="our fellow humans.">nuestros hermanos humanos.<br />
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</span><span title="This documentary stuck me just because of that.">Este documental me llegó justo por eso. Nos trasmite </span><span title="It gives a glimpse of the reality of those people, both men an women, as alien to us as many other aspect of the life of Iranian people."> una idea de la realidad de las personas, tanto hombres como mujeres, tan ajena a nosotros, como muchos otros aspectos de la vida del pueblo iraní. </span><span title="A live so normal to them.">Y esa, </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="A live so normal to them.">para ellos,</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="A live so normal to them."> es la vida </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="A live so normal to them.">normal</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="A live so normal to them.">.<br />
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Laura</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I sure can't even START imagining that..."><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">These last two weeks have been quite demanding on a professional level. I had to put my energy in a job that allows me to live as I do, and I am thankful for being able of doing so. On a personal level I was on the receiving end. I had much less to give, and as it usually happens in these cases, I was given, more than enough.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Within a few days, from separate sources, several documents came to me, on Iran. Why? I'm sure this is the perfect time for me to come in contact with that reality. A strange and far away place, foreign in habits and culture. But the information I received from that almost-unknown place touched me, and this is the moment in which I share what I learned on this diary of mine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The events of the first documentary are not only far away in space, but they are far away in time. We all surely remember the Green Revolution, but the images and the memories are from the summer of 2009, so much has happened in our lives since then, that those memories and images have been put in a tiny drawer in our heads, and other images have replaced them in our more present mind.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, those images, those events came back all at once with this testimony from those times. It shows a country that I, and surely many others, know only as an oppressive Muslim authoritarian regime. It shows that one country cannot and will never be an <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">homogeneous whole of people all thinking the same, all agreeing on everything. Iran, as each of the countries of our world, has millions of hearts, millions of minds, millions of people all with their will, their consciences and their thoughts. And none is like the other.<br />
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This is not about the perfection of the western way of life, I am very aware that the way we see, experience and USE the world is far from perfect, and much more than that, it is a way that is taking us down a road of huge changes, an unrealistic way of living, a very egoistic one.<br />
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This is not about the tyranny of a Muslim state because of the Muslim faith. I was lucky enough in my life to have the chance of being in close contact with the "Muslim reality", or at least a certain "Muslim reality" since this has so many different shades (as the "western" or any other "general reality" does). This contact with the "Muslim world", although only partial and certainly incomplete, helps me understand that Muslims are people that are more similar to us than we are led to think. They have the same concerns, hopes, wishes, embedded in a somehow different culture, but deep enough to be universal and the same as for all human beings.<br />
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I do not see the "Muslim way of life" as a whole, as it would be absurd to see the "western way of life" as the lifestyle of each and every one of us. I think that if anybody wrote down a description of the "western way of life", it would be obvious very soon </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">to him or her </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> that NOBODY fully fits that description. The same is true for the way of life of the other cultures of the world, used to generalize.<br />
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This documentary shows the underground power and force of those concerns, hopes, wishes of human beings trapped in a political regime that uses religion as an excuse to remain in power.<br />
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There are several levels of freedom. We, in the "western world", enjoy a certain amount of freedom, more so if we recognize the manipulation we are submitted to, almost every minute of our lives. Being aware of that manipulation (or at least part of it) allows us to live outside the deception and enjoy a higher level of freedom.<br />
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There are places on Earth where the level of freedom is much lower than that, regimes in those parts of the world do not even need to use manipulation (apart from the crude manipulation of religious texts through interpretations that </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">only </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">benefit the status quo) to keep the population subjugated. They use brute force to restrain people from thinking, speaking, acting, learning, sharing.<br />
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</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Brutal repression of pacific demonstrations, prohibitions of any sort punished with imprisonment, terrible tortures and even death sentences, are the most cruel visible tip of this iceberg. Iran, as many other countries, </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">is an alien world for us, a world where people live double lives, and this is not an exception but the rule. "Let's speak about what we like inside our homes, but never mention those things outside!" "Let's act as we please within our four walls, but be sure to obey the rules in the street!" This is the real cancer, this is how these regimes break the people of their countries into submission. This is what changed in the summer of 2009. And this is what the governors of Iran crashed with all their power.<br />
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Let the people of Iran find their own way, they want to experience the "western way of life"? Why shouldn't they be allowed to? We are doing it! Do we have more rights that they do? Apparently yes. Let them live as they want, let them find out on their own the best way to live their lives, let them discover that the "western way of life" is not the panacea our leaders want everybody to believe. Let them find their own way, and who knows, they might even find a way of living life that is BETTER THEN OURS! Let them be them, with their culture, their millennia-old rich history, their religious beliefs, their human </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">concerns, hopes, wishes, let's see what comes out of that, let's learn from it!<br />
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</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Iranian, girl and rapper</span></span>, those three words DO NOT GO TOGETHER, or at least that's what somebody wants all of "us" (and all of "them") to believe, but there are people who decide to believe what they feel is their real reality, and that gives me hope. The protests, the gatherings, the cries, the resistance of courageous people, but more then anything, an Iranian girl rapper. Now she knows that she is not alone.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span><span title="Within a few days, from separate sources, several documents came to me, on Iran.">En pocos días, de fuentes distintas, varios documentos vinieron a mí, sobre Irán. </span><span title="Why?">Por qué? </span><span title="I'm sure this is the perfect time for me to come in contact with that reality.">Estoy segura de que este es el momento perfecto para mí para tomar contacto con esa realidad. </span><span title="A strange and far away place, foreign in habits and culture.">Un lugar extraño y lejano, diferente en costumbres y cultura. </span><span title="But the information I received from that almost-unknown place touched me, and this is the moment in which I share what I learned on this diary of mine.">Sin embargo, la información que he recibido de ese lugar casi desconocido me tocó, y este es el momento en el que comparto </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="But the information I received from that almost-unknown place touched me, and this is the moment in which I share what I learned on this diary of mine.">en este diario mío </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="But the information I received from that almost-unknown place touched me, and this is the moment in which I share what I learned on this diary of mine.">lo que aprendí.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="But the information I received from that almost-unknown place touched me, and this is the moment in which I share what I learned on this diary of mine."><br />
</span><span title="The events of the first documentary are not only far away in space, but they are far away in time.">Los acontecimientos del primer documental no sólo están muy lejos en el espacio, sino que también están muy lejos en el tiempo. </span><span title="We all surely remember the Green Revolution, but the images and the memories are from the summer of 2009, so much has happened in our lives since then, that those memories and images have been put in a tiny drawer in our heads, and other images">Todos seguramente recordaremos la Revolución Verde, pero las imágenes y los recuerdos son del verano del 2009, han pasado muchas cosas en nuestras vidas desde entonces, los recuerdos y las imágenes de aquel entonces se han guardado en un cajoncito en nuestra cabeza, y otras imágenes </span><span title="have replaced them in our more present mind.">han ido sustituyéndolas en nuestro presente.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="have replaced them in our more present mind."><br />
</span><span title="Well, those images, those events came back all at once with this testimony from those times.">Bueno, esas imágenes, esos acontecimientos, regresaron con fuerza a través de este testimonio de aquellos tiempos. </span><span title="It shows a country that I, and surely many others, know only as an oppressive Muslim authoritarian regime.">En el se muestra un país que yo, y seguramente muchos otros, conocemos sólo como un opresivo régimen autoritario musulmán. </span><span title="It shows that one country cannot and will never be an homogeneous whole of people all thinking the same, all agreeing on everything.">Este documento demuestra que un país no es y nunca será un conjunto homogéneo de personas que piensan todas lo mismo, que están todas de acuerdo con todo. </span><span title="Iran, as each of the countries of our world, has millions of hearts, millions of minds, millions of people all with their will, their consciences and their thoughts.">Irán, como cada uno de los países de nuestro mundo, tiene millones de corazones, millones de mentes, millones de personas con su voluntad, sus conciencias y sus pensamientos. </span><span title="And none is like the other.">Y ninguna es igual a otra.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="And none is like the other."><br />
</span><span title="This is not about the perfection of the western way of life, I am very aware that the way we see, experience and USE the world is far from perfect, and much more than that, it is a way that is taking us down a road">No se trata de la perfección del "</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let them live as they want, let them find out on their own the best way to live their lives, let them discover that the "western way of life" is not the panacea our leaders want everybody to believe.">estilo</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="This is not about the perfection of the western way of life, I am very aware that the way we see, experience and USE the world is far from perfect, and much more than that, it is a way that is taking us down a road"> de vida occidental", soy muy consciente de que nuestro modo de ver, experimentar y USAR el mundo está lejos de ser perfecto, y mucho más que eso, es una forma de vivir que nos está llevando por un camino </span><span title="of huge changes, an unrealistic way of living, a very egoistic one.">de grandes cambios, una manera de vivir para nada realista y muy egoísta.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="of huge changes, an unrealistic way of living, a very egoistic one."><br />
</span><span title="This is not about the tyranny of a Muslim state because of the Muslim faith.">No se trata de la tiranía de un estado musulmán por la fe musulmana. </span><span title="I was lucky enough in my life to having had the chance of being in close contact with the "Muslim reality", or at least a certain "Muslim reality" since this has so many different shades (as the "western" or any other "">Tuve la </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I was lucky enough in my life to having had the chance of being in close contact with the "Muslim reality", or at least a certain "Muslim reality" since this has so many different shades (as the "western" or any other "">oportunidad y la</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I was lucky enough in my life to having had the chance of being in close contact with the "Muslim reality", or at least a certain "Muslim reality" since this has so many different shades (as the "western" or any other ""> suerte en mi vida de estar en estrecho contacto con la "realidad musulmana", o al menos cierta "realidad musulmana", ya que ésta tiene matices muy diferentes (como la "occidental" o cualquier otra "</span><span title="general reality" does).">realidad generalizada"). </span><span title="This contact with the "Muslim world", although only partial and certainly incomplete, helps me understand that Muslims are people that are more similar to us than we are lead to think.">Este contacto con el "mundo musulmán", aunque sólo parcial e incompleto, sin duda me ayuda a entender que los musulmanes son personas que se parecen más a nosotros de lo que quieren que pensemos. </span><span title="They have the same concerns, hopes, wishes, embedded in a somehow different culture, but deep enough to be universal and the same as for all human beings.">Ellos tienen las mismas preocupaciones, esperanzas, deseos, integrados en una cultura diferente, pero lo suficientemente profundos para ser universales e iguales a los de todos los seres humanos.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="They have the same concerns, hopes, wishes, embedded in a somehow different culture, but deep enough to be universal and the same as for all human beings."><br />
</span><span title="I do not see the "Muslim way of life" as a whole, as it would be absurd to see the "western way of life" as the lifestyle of each and every one of us.">No veo el "</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let them live as they want, let them find out on their own the best way to live their lives, let them discover that the "western way of life" is not the panacea our leaders want everybody to believe.">estilo</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I do not see the "Muslim way of life" as a whole, as it would be absurd to see the "western way of life" as the lifestyle of each and every one of us."> de vida musulmana" en su conjunto, como sería absurdo ver el "</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let them live as they want, let them find out on their own the best way to live their lives, let them discover that the "western way of life" is not the panacea our leaders want everybody to believe.">estilo</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I do not see the "Muslim way of life" as a whole, as it would be absurd to see the "western way of life" as the lifestyle of each and every one of us."> de vida occidental" como el estilo de vida de todos y cada uno de nosotros. </span><span title="I think that if anybody wrote down a description of the "western way of life", it would be obvious very soon to him or her that NOBODY fully fits that description.">Creo que si alguien escribiera una descripción del</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let them live as they want, let them find out on their own the best way to live their lives, let them discover that the "western way of life" is not the panacea our leaders want everybody to believe."> "estilo</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I think that if anybody wrote down a description of the "western way of life", it would be obvious very soon to him or her that NOBODY fully fits that description."> de vida occidental", se daría cuenta muy rápidamente de que NADIE se ajusta </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I think that if anybody wrote down a description of the "western way of life", it would be obvious very soon to him or her that NOBODY fully fits that description.">totalmente</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="I think that if anybody wrote down a description of the "western way of life", it would be obvious very soon to him or her that NOBODY fully fits that description."> a esa descripción. </span><span title="The same is true for the way of life of the other cultures of the world, used to generalize.">Lo mismo es cierto para el estilo de vida de las otras culturas del mundo, descripciones que sirven para generalizar.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="The same is true for the way of life of the other cultures of the world, used to generalize."><br />
</span><span title="This documentary shows the underground power and force of those concerns, hopes, wishes of human beings trapped in a political regime that uses religion as an excuse to remain in power.">Este documental muestra el poder y la fuerza </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="This documentary shows the underground power and force of those concerns, hopes, wishes of human beings trapped in a political regime that uses religion as an excuse to remain in power.">sumergidos </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="This documentary shows the underground power and force of those concerns, hopes, wishes of human beings trapped in a political regime that uses religion as an excuse to remain in power.">de esas preocupaciones, esperanzas y deseos de los seres humanos atrapados en un régimen político que utiliza la religión como una excusa para permanecer en el poder.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="This documentary shows the underground power and force of those concerns, hopes, wishes of human beings trapped in a political regime that uses religion as an excuse to remain in power."><br />
</span><span title="There are several levels of freedom.">Hay varios niveles de libertad. </span><span title="We, in the "western world", enjoy a certain amount of freedom, more so if we recognize the manipulation we are submitted to, almost every minute of our lives.">Nosotros, en el "mundo occidental", disfrutamos de cierto nivel de libertad, más aún si nos damos cuenta de la manipulación a la que estamos sometidos casi cada minuto de nuestras vidas. </span><span title="Being aware of that manipulation (or at least part of it) allows us to live outside the deception and enjoying a higher level of freedom.">Ser conscientes de esa manipulación (o al menos parte de ella) nos permite vivir fuera del engaño y disfrutar de un mayor nivel de libertad.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Being aware of that manipulation (or at least part of it) allows us to live outside the deception and enjoying a higher level of freedom."><br />
</span><span title="There are places on Earth where the level of freedom is much lower than that, regimes in those parts of the world do not even need to use manipulation (apart from the crude manipulation of religious texts through interpretations that only benefit the status quo) to keep">Hay lugares en la Tierra donde el nivel de libertad es mucho menor que eso, los regímenes en esas partes del mundo ni siquiera necesitan utilizar la manipulación (aparte de la burda manipulación de los textos religiosos a través de interpretaciones que sólo benefician al status quo) para mantener </span><span title="the population subjugated.">la población subyugada. Utilizan</span><span title="They use brute force to restrain people from thinking, speaking, acting, learning, sharing."> la fuerza bruta para reprimir a las personas, para prohibirles pensar, hablar, actuar, aprender, compartir.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="They use brute force to restrain people from thinking, speaking, acting, learning, sharing."><br />
</span><span title="Brutal repression of pacific demonstrations, prohibitions of any sort punished with imprisonment, terrible tortures and even death sentences, are the most cruel visible tip of this iceberg.">La brutal represión de manifestaciones pacíficas, las prohibiciones de todo tipo castigadas con penas de prisión, terribles torturas e incluso la pena de muerte, son la punta visible y más cruel de este iceberg. </span><span title="Iran, as many other countries, is an alien world for us, a world where people live double lives, and this not as an exception but as the rule.">Irán, como muchos otros países, es un mundo extraño para nosotros, un mundo donde la gente vive una doble vida, y esto no como una excepción sino como la regla. </span><span title=""Let's speak about what we like inside our homes, but never mention those things outside!"">"Hablemos de lo que nos plazca dentro de nuestros hogares, pero nunca mencionemos esos temas fuera!" </span><span title=""Let's act as we feel within our four walls, but be sure to obey the rules in the street!"">"Actuemos como nos guste en el interior de nuestras cuatro paredes, pero asegurémonos de obedecer las reglas cuando salgamos a la calle!" </span><span title="This is the real cancer, this is how these regimes break the people of their countries into submission.">Este es el verdadero cáncer, así es como estos regímenes doblegan a la</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="This is the real cancer, this is how these regimes break the people of their countries into submission."> sumisión </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="This is the real cancer, this is how these regimes break the people of their countries into submission.">a la población de sus países. </span><span title="This is what changed in the summer of 2009.">Esto es lo que cambió en el verano de 2009. </span><span title="And this is what the governors of Iran crashed with all their power.">Y esto es lo que los gobernantes de Irán aplastaron con todas sus fuerzas.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="And this is what the governors of Iran crashed with all their power."><br />
</span><span title="Let the people of Iran find their own way, they want to experience the "western way of life"?">Dejemos que el pueblo de Irán encuentre su propio camino, que quieren experimentar el "</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let them live as they want, let them find out on their own the best way to live their lives, let them discover that the "western way of life" is not the panacea our leaders want everybody to believe.">estilo</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let the people of Iran find their own way, they want to experience the "western way of life"?"> de vida occidental"? </span><span title="Why shouldn't they be allowed to?">Por qué no podrían? Nosotros l</span><span title="We are doing it!">o hacemos! O</span><span title="Do we have more rights that they do?"> tenemos nosotros más derechos que ellos? </span><span title="Apparently yes.">Al parecer, sí. </span><span title="Let them live as they want, let them find out on their own the best way to live their lives, let them discover that the "western way of life" is not the panacea our leaders want everybody to believe.">Permitámosle vivir como ellos quieren, averiguar por su cuenta la mejor forma de vivir sus vidas, descubrir que el "estilo de vida occidental" no es la panacea que nuestros líderes quieren que todo el mundo crea. Dejémosle</span><span title="Let them find their own way, and who knows, they might even find a way of living life that is BETTER THEN OURS!"> que encuentren su propio camino, y quién sabe, incluso capaz que encuentren una forma de vivir la vida MEJOR QUE LA NUESTRA! </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let them live as they want, let them find out on their own the best way to live their lives, let them discover that the "western way of life" is not the panacea our leaders want everybody to believe.">Permitámosle</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let them be them, with their culture, their millennia-old rich history, their religious beliefs, their human concerns, hopes, wishes, let's see what comes out of that, let's learn from it!"> ser ellos mismos, con su cultura, su rica </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let them be them, with their culture, their millennia-old rich history, their religious beliefs, their human concerns, hopes, wishes, let's see what comes out of that, let's learn from it!">historia </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let them be them, with their culture, their millennia-old rich history, their religious beliefs, their human concerns, hopes, wishes, let's see what comes out of that, let's learn from it!">milenaria, sus creencias religiosas, sus preocupaciones humanas, esperanzas, deseos, veamos qué sale de eso, aprendamos de ello!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Let them be them, with their culture, their millennia-old rich history, their religious beliefs, their human concerns, hopes, wishes, let's see what comes out of that, let's learn from it!"><br />
</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Iranian, girl and rapper, those three words DO NOT GO TOGETHER, or at least that's what somebody wants all of "us" (and all of "them") to believe, but there are people who decide to believe what they feel is their">Iraní, chica y rapera, esas tres palabras no pegan, o al menos eso es lo que alguien quiere que todos "nosotros" (y todos "ellos") creamos, pero hay gente que decide creer en lo que siente que es su verdadera</span><span title="real reality, and that gives me hope."> realidad, y eso me da esperanza. </span><span title="The protests, the gatherings, the cries, the resistance of courageous people, but more then anything, an Iranian girl rapper.">Las protestas, las reuniones, los gritos, la resistencia de los valientes, pero más que nada, un chica rapera iraní. </span><span title="Now she knows that she is not alone.">Ahora ella sabe que no está sola.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="es"><span title="Now she knows that she is not alone.">Laura </span></span></div>Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-48435568366497853482012-01-01T15:10:00.007+01:002012-01-22T22:10:12.754+01:00Higienismo, o Higiene Vital, nuestra verdadera biologia<div style="text-align: justify;">Tengo tanto que me gustaría compartir, que voy a aprovechar de estos días festivos para publicar unos cuantos posts. El primero quería, casi debía, dedicarlo a Antonio y a Irene, de Raw Vegan Spain, quienes acompañan mi vida desde hace unos meses, haciéndola mucho más bonita.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">El segundo post quiero, casi debo, dedicarlo a la persona que me introdujo a esta forma de vida, José Antonio García, en un momento en que iba buscando algo totalmente diferente y quien, a pesar de eso, me ganó por su pasión por el regreso a la verdadera biología del ser humano.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Con el, a través de sus muy amplios conocimientos, llegué a entender el porque, el como, el cuando, el donde de... puedo decir TODO lo que pasa en el ser humano. Y si algo se queda afuera, es muy poco.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Agradezco a José Antonio que compartiera con nosotros un curso de varios meses, muy completo, durante el cual nos fue pelando la cebolla de las mentiras de nuestra sociedad, desde la necesidad CREADA por la industria de consumir proteína animal y su toxicidad para nuestro organismo, a los varios venenos alimentarios, los químicos añadidos cada vez más en nuestra "comida", pasando por los opiáceos alimentarios, sustancias presente en casi la totalidad de nuestro "alimento" que nos hacen dependientes de ellas y que, como cada droga, son tan dañina para nuestro organismo.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nos explicó la función de los alimentos vivos, sus pocas pero importante y lógicas "reglas", unas relaciones y pautas naturales entre ellos y nosotros que simplemente hemos olvidado por estar tan alejados de nuestra naturaleza.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Y lo más importante de todo, nos hizo luz acerca de la verdadera causa de la "enfermedad" a través de sus palabras, sus razonamientos, sus experiencias, muchos documentos y estudios científicos que simplemente se ignoran o no se quieren ver, y que por comodidad no nos damos cuenta de que la realidad es tan simple, y que la posibilidad de vivir una vida realmente SANA está al alcance de cada un@ de nosotr@s.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gracias José Antonio, por abrirme esa puerta, por acompañarme durante los primeros pasos en ese camino que aún hoy sigo explorando, por ahorrarme tantas dudas e inseguridades que veo todos los días en otras personas que no han tenido a alguien como tu a su lado.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">José Antonio vive y trabaja en Málaga, impartiendo cursos, asesorando personas con diferentes problemas de salud en consultas individuales o en curas de desintoxicación, ofrece retiros y seguimiento de ayunos, para los que estáis en Málaga es una persona que os encantará conocer, estoy absolutamente segura...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.higienevital.com/"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">www.higienevital.com</span></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">No puedo terminar este post sin expresar mi agradecimiento a todas las personas que conocí a través de el, Raúl, Karina, Liviana, Ana, Dani y los otros participantes al curso, así como Mayka y las muchísimas más personas que han ido entrando en mi vida desde entonces, no cabrían todas en este espacio pero sin dudas caben todas en mi corazón. Gracias por estar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Laura</div>Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946605578736077041.post-78071652009367777612012-01-01T08:35:00.010+01:002012-01-22T22:09:40.621+01:00Un proposito para el nuevo año, supongo...<div style="text-align: justify;">Hace meses que vengo pensando empezar un blog, por varias razones. Ni de chica, cuando tan de moda era escribir diarios, conseguí jamás mantener uno más allá que unas cuantas semanas. Pero eso no significa que no me hubiera gustado tener un sitio para registrar mis pensamiento, mi evolución si queremos.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A veces resulta útil, y además bonito, tener la posibilidad de mirar hacia atrás, volver a ciertos pensamientos y emociones, recordar ciertas situaciones, aunque solo sea como referencia de una vida anterior.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hace un par de años Lidia, mi hermana, me empujó hacia Facebook, fue simplemente una manera práctica para estar en contacto con ella, ya que vivimos en países diferentes. Las dos tenemos vidas repletas de obligaciones y escasas de tiempo, así que ese demostró ser un método muy eficaz para comunicarnos, aunque fuera 2 minutos durante nuestra pausa para la comida.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Durante varios meses solo utilicé esa red social como eso, una forma de comunicación con ella, luego llegó el gran cambio, un cambio no solo en la utilización de FB, sino un gran cambio en mi vida misma.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Y el cambio vino cuando descubrí, en mayo del año pasado, este grupo</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">creado por Antonio Ortega Martín y co-administrado por Irene Bueno.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fue entrar en Raw Vegan Spain y sentir que había llegado donde tenia que estar, en un mundo de energía nueva, vital, positiva, gracias a tod@s sus miembros y en especial gracias a la forma de ser de su creador, Antonio, porque nunca olvido que un barco refleja lo que es su capitán, siempre.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ayer, ultimo día del año, con algo de tiempo para dedicarme a esto, abrí por fin este blog, y desde un principio pensé que iba a dedicar el primer post a el, a tod@s ell@s, a ese grupo de personas maravillosas que me han cambiado la vida.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ya, yo mismo lo veía un poco patético al principio, como puede cambiarte la vida un "tonto" grupo de FB? Pues allí está la realidad, cualquier cosa puede cambiarte la vida, para mi fue un grupo de FB, por más patético que parezca. Después de unos cuantos meses y pasando por la "vergüenza" de la banalidad de todo eso, he tenido que admitirlo a mi misma, un "tonto" grupo de FB me ha cambiado la vida. Así como lo digo. Y el que lea esto, lo entenderá mucho mejor en el momento en que entre a descubrir los comentarios y los debates de las personas que hacen parte de ello, en este momento más de 4200. No serán todas "tontas"? :-)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Al fin y al cabo, poco importa ni como ni donde, la energía fluye libremente y se pueden crear sinergias en los sitios menos pensados, este es uno de ellos, porque allí, sin dudas, se crean sinergias.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Este primer post quiere ser simplemente un agradecimiento a Antonio y a Irene por aceptarme en sus corazones, ell@s tienen ya un sitio muy especial en el mio, y a todas las personas maravillosas que he tenido la suerte y el honor de conocer a través de ese medio, que tiene la peculiaridad de sacar de nosotr@s lo mejor, los mejores sentimientos, las mejores intenciones... Que bonito seria el mundo si fuera así, y ese pequeño grupo de FB es una isla de paz y luz donde un@ se puede refugiar en momentos difíciles, y desde donde un@ se puede recargar de energía cuando la necesita.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Y más importante aún, es un sitio para compartir, compartir las penas y las alegrías, las dudas y los conocimientos, para que este mundo, sí, el mundo real, se convierta, poco a poco, en un sitio mucho más parecido a esta pequeña isla virtual. Ese es uno de mis deseos para este nuevo año que acaba de nacer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Y este es, aun sin así haberlo planeado, uno de mis proyectos para el 2012, supongo...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Feliz año, con todo el corazón.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Laura</div>Of Life And Elsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324967598453195987noreply@blogger.com1