Tres veces lealtad

“La lealtad es la hermana de la justicia.”

Horacio

“El que no siente que sus amigos sean el mundo para él, no merece que el mundo deba oír hablar sobre él.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Una nación puede sobrevivir a sus tontos, e incluso a sus ambiciosos. Pero no puede sobrevivir a la traición de adentro. Un enemigo en las puertas es menos formidable, porque lo conocen y carga su bandera abiertamente. Pero el traidor se mueve entre ésos dentro de la puerta libremente, sus susurros crujen a través de todos los callejones, oídos en los mismos pasillos del mismo gobierno. Pues el traidor no aparece como un traidor; él habla con acentos familiares a sus víctimas, él usa su cara y sus discusiones, él deroga la base que yace profundamente en los corazones de todos los hombres. Él descompone el alma de una nación, él trabaja en secreto y oculto en la noche para minar los pilares de la ciudad, él infecta al cuerpo diplomático de modo que pueda oponerse no más. Un asesino es de menos temer. El traidor es la plaga.”

Marco Tulio Cicerón

Hoy dejo que ellos tres, y las recientes palabras tatuadas en mi cuerpo, hablen por mi.

¿Ver para creer?

"La religión es un insulto a la dignidad humana. Con o sin ella, habria gente buena que hace cosas buenas y gente mala que hace cosas malas, pero para que la gente buena haga cosas malas, se necesita de la religión.”

Plin. El autor de esta magnifica cita se llama Steven Weinberg, fisico nortemericano nacido en la decada del treinta. Justamente hoy estuve leyendo sobre la religion y el ateismo, o mas bien, puntos en los cuales, tanto religiosos como ateos, debian estar de acuerdo. Se hablaba basicamente de tolerancia mutua y de razonamiento y logica basica, todo con el fin de una convivencia sana y positiva para todas las partes. Por ahora dejo asi este post porque no tengo prendido el boton de sarcasmo pleno y mi habilidad de profundizar en un tema la deje olvidada en la combi. Me iré ahora a escuchar a Bowie. En cualquier momento retoco un poco mas esta entrada. Lo prometo. No crean en mis promesas.

Ahora, les presento 10 puntos en los que tanto cristianos como ateos deben estar de acuerdo:

1. Se han hecho cosas terribles en nombre de cualquiera de los dos bandos

2. Ambos lados realmente creen lo que están diciendo

3. A la hora de la hora, tanto cristianos como ateos llevan una vida bastante parecida

4. Hay gente buena en ambos grupos

5. Tu punto de vista es legítimamente ofensivo para el otro

6. Tendemos a exagerar sobre el otro

7. Tendemos a exagerar sobre nosotros mismos también

8. El centrarse en ejemplos negativos solo te hace quedar como estúpido

9. Ambos lados han aportado cosas buenas al mundo

10. Ninguno de los dos lados lograra que el otro desaparezca a base de debates y acosos

Se habla español

"Al diablo con el inglés"

¿Quién es el autor de esa frase? Yo... y bueno, probablemente más de un gringo revoltoso allá por los 1770s. La cuestión es que es momento de escribir en mi idioma. Este blog se creó para hablarle a mis seres queridos y hacerles saber lo que ocurre en esta cabeza mía, y que yo recuerde, yo no considero ser querido a ningun estadounidense que piense que, si tienes una computadora, debes ser primermundista y, por ende, eres de arranque gringo y puedes hablar inglés; ni tampoco un francés que piensa que comer caracoles al olivo es superior a una huevera frita bañada en salsa criolla; ni mucho menos un japonés... porque no sé de nadie que viva por allá. Yo pienso hablar desde hoy en el idioma en el que aprendí a llamar a mi mamá cuando me cagaba en el pañal y corría peligro de escaldamiento. Quiero escribir en el lenguaje que aprendí para pedir que me echen más Coca Cola en el biberón y exigir que me sirvan más de ese delicioso yogurt con pedacitos de fresa de verdad que venía en bolsa (Y que desde que cumplí tres no he vuelto a ver en ninguna tienda ni hipermercado. ¡¿Qué pasó Milkito?!). Pretendo expresarme en el idioma con el que he aprendido sobre poesía, literatura y cine; el idioma que mejor sé hablar y que desde que cumplí nueve años uso para putear, mentar la madre y huevonear a cualquier compatriota varón. El rico español. Lo cual me hace recordar que, aún cuando me encanta hablar mi idioma y hacerlo de la manera más enriquecida y correctamente posible, pienso que el lenguaje está para servir al individuo y no al revés, por lo que no me araño cuando escucho un "nadies" (¡aún cuando eran muchos los que no estaban ahi!) ni tampoco levanto la ceja cuando oigo un "dentrale" en lugar de un simple ENTRA. Bueno, el punto está claro ¿no? Descarté al rockerísimo y pálido inglés para emplear de hoy en adelante el criollísimo y encantador castellano.

Ah, y, como ya es obvio, retomo el control de este blog, en el cual las posteadas en inglés del año pasado se sentían tan solas que ya estaban planeando derrocar al emperador ausente y convertir esta página web en un sitio con vistas a satisfacer ese nicho del mercado pornográfico empecinado en encontrar placer viendo a gente disfrazada de reptiles famosos tomando parte de un bukake masivo. Sí, existe gente que se excita viendo a seres humanos con trajes de Godzilla o Barney en comportamientos sexuales tan bizarros que sólo los japoneses pudieron darle nombre. Y sí, acabo de caracterizar a los párrafos que escribí en este blog el año pasado e inventarme una pequeña trama de carácter político-bélico.

Y, como también es obvio, con el nuevo año y el retorno a esta página, y aunque en nuevo formato, regresan las mismas ideas hechas verbo que me han hecho acreedor de adjetivos como "pastrulo", "sarcástico" y el cariñoso "huevón", o simplemente "pastrulo sarcástico y huevón", que se daban a la hora de calificar mi conducta algo fuera de lo común. Así también satisfago algunas preguntas dirigidas hacia mí últimamente como "¿Por qué ya no posteas nada en tu blog, ah?" y el inevitable "Seguro ahora que ya conquistaste a tu chica, ya no hay porqué seguir dándoselas de intelectualón con ese blog, ¿no?". Así que, para demostrar que sigo teniendo sentimientos que hacen palpitar a mi corazón, secretar a mi hígado y defecar a mi cerebro, con esta posteada doy inicio a Atomheartson, temporada 2008. Viva Zeppelin.

Please, be free!

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

Fuck yeah. Rebel, rebel and yell. Get out on the street, right now, in the middle of whatever it is you are doing, and just scream, dance the macarena, smell the grass, kiss a stranger, or just hug him if he ain't sexy enough for you, stare at a cloud, cry with a smile just because, laugh for a change, do anything completely unexpected, just for the sake of it. Make your presence in this world unique, uncomparable and plenty. It's the only way to really live, if you ask me -and you must be asking me, if not, what the hell are you doing reading my blog?-. Leave your anguish at the door, fuck the deadlines, spit in the face of the "what if" and give the finger to the man; this is your life and you only live it once, so to hell with everything else and get to it! Draw a self-portrait, build a house, learn to speak portuguese, cook a dinner for two and invite that girl you always hungered for, dye your hair purple, write a short story -or better yet, start a blog *wink wink*-, tell someone that for the very first time in your life, you really can feel the air filling your lungs and the blood pumping through your veins, do something smart, like just not talking for a whole day and listening to what the world has to say to you. Anyways, it's your life, it's your move, you decide what to do with it, don't let me spoil the fun of enjoying your freedom by giving you ideas and ruining the spontaneity of it all. So go on, just push "play&record" and start living experiences worthy of being called a part of your life. Go, go! There's the door, go through it and enjoy whatever it is that lies beyond. GO!!

Find a guy who doesn't disappear

“Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have you.... The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.'”

Be brave, face your fears, live free

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

I took this quote by Jim Morrison, the intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown. It basically sums up a risky and brave way of living. To expose yourself to your fears, especially your deepest ones, is no easy task, it's, in fact, one of the most difficult things to perform. Having said so, i shall also say that the reward after doing this is as big as the challenge itself, if not even bigger. They say the truth shall set you free. Well, I think that the truth lies beyond our fears, for once we have seen that our fears are nothing but fiction of our minds, we shall be free from them. Behind every fear, we will find that there is no actual threat, and therefore, if this is true, facing our fears and uncovering their veils, shall ultimately set us free. Now, why so much effort put into actually being free? Sometimes people are even afraid of too much freedom, too many liberties might scare, even in thought, a lot of us. What to do with so much freedom? Who are we and who will make sure that we are capable of running things by ourselves? Well, as the quote puts it, only when we have no fear at all, we shall see that even freedom itself will not put us down and we shall conquer ourselves and be quite capable of leading our lives, not only in any way we might choose, but also fearlessly. Now, if you're still not confident enough to put your guts to work and fight your terrors, I can guess there will always be someone around to perform the job with. I know I would. Look for me, and I promise, I'll do it with you. You pick the place and I'll choose the time, for everyday is the right day to do it, and we'll both climb our mountain of fears and go through our tunnels of dread and come out victorious on the other side. Made free and found brave.

Believe in reason

“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities”

A few words about knowledge

"The only source of knowledge, is experience"

That's an Albert Einstein quote. It means that, the more time you've spent in this world, the more you should have learned. With every passing moment, one must achieve new knowledge, no matter how important or silly you might think it is you are learning. There's this really cool zombie movie in which one character says to another that every useless talent one has will turn out to be useful at one point in their lives. Of course, the characters that didn't get their brains sucked by zombies in that movie, escaped using some of their useless talents. But even though that was fiction, what they said was a fact... or at least I like to think so, it makes my existance a little more fun. This is a cool way of thinking, knowing that everything we may know, will turn out to be useful at one point, meaning that maybe we are all part of a bigger plan or at least a bunch of characters in some omniscient and omnipotent author's exciting plot. That said, here's a list of things you should know by now, keeping in mind you are at least around the age of the guy writing this blog:

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. Don't worry about what people think of you, they don't do it very often.
3. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.
4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
6. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
7. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
8. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
9. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
10. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
11. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.
13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. No matter what a book tells you.
15. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
16. A balanced diet is a burguer in each hand.
17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
19. Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.
22. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
23. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is around age eleven.
24. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
25. It's not the jeans that make your ass look fat.
26. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings".
27. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness".
28. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
29. You should not confuse your career with your life.
30. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
31. Never lick a steak knife.
32. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
33. Your friends love you anyway.

Let's all break the glass

"They must find it difficult... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority."

Fear is your only God

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help, are you freed."

...Buddha said this. That man knew his shit. I don't know if it was all that fasting or just a lucky strike of enlightened moments, but this man made some cool statements, most of which make my minute a little brighter (and I say "minute" and not "day" because I'm not an easy pesimistic guy, I'm one of the tough ones). Here's a fact for you: Buddha was thin. He was as slim as Franky Sinatra in those old cartoons, he's only sometimes pictured like that fat guy in all those statues and paintings because he was so full of joy, someone thought it'd be a nice idea to reflect his joyfulness with what could be called in this fast-food-days, an unhealthy obesity. Any how, the point of the quote, besides the obvious FEAR NOTHING message, was that I imagined it as the perfect first post for this blog. It's brave and in a very powerful way, optimistic, and i guess that balances the more agressive title of this post, which by the way I think is as true as the nice quote by the nice Buddha. This said, I think that everything has two sides. A darker side and a lighter side? perhaps, but in the end I think what matters is which side you choose to see or let go or triumph or... something something (I think the kid that plays Harry Potter said that). We all have a lighter, optimistic, careless, free, wild and topless side, while at the same time, we carry a darker, more grim, more depressing, more "I wanna cook your little puppy and serve it to you for breakfast" side. It's like that, there's not just plain good and plain bad, that would be plain boring, there's always two sides to a same coin, and if you are yet to control which side you're gonna show us, then just flip the coin and lets hope the lighter side of you ends up on top, for the sake of you and everyone around you.