Collecting nice quotes

I am reading the book called: ETHICS A Very Short Introduction by Simon Blackburn. :-)

Some quotes are quite nice and I will share here:

''there must be a course between the suggy sands of relativism and the cold rocks of dogmatism''

What does it mean being at UWC. - O que significa estar num UWC.

Being at UWC made my a new person. I can't imagine myself now if I hadn't be at a UWC before. Is just an amazing place. I have getting in touch with so many ideologies and points of view. We get in touch with real conflicts as they had jumped out of the televisions and sit next to you.
I had a friend who is refugee. I had another who lost her cousin in the Syria war. I have a friend who is completely socialist. I have another one who is completely capitalist. I have friends from Palestine. I have friends from Israel. I have gay friends. I have transgender friends. I have all the kinds of tastes of friend's taste: vegan, vegetarian, meat eaters. I have friends who are feminists and hate sexist jokes and swearing. I have friends who are feminists and love to use this because they think is playing with the taboo is how we overcome prejudices. I have buddhists, ateístic, muslim, undefined faith friends. I have friends with blue eyes from Latin America and black skin color from Germany. Here we have daily basis conversations about capitalism, sexism, etc. even during meals.
At UWC I found a salad of all colors. A human mosaic I could never found anywhere else.
I am so glad for our diferences. UWC is more than an interchange. It is more than living abroad.
UWC has the unique taste of UWC.
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Estar no UWC fez de mim uma nova pessoa. Eu não posso imaginar como eu seria hoje se eu não tivesse estado em um UWC antes. É apenas um lugar incrível. Tenho entrado em contato com tantas ideologias e pontos de vistas. É como entrar em contato com conflitos reais como se eles tivessem saltado para fora das televisões e sentado ao seu lado.
Eu tinha um amigo que é refugiado. Eu tinha uma outra que perdeu seu primo na guerra Síria. Eu tenho um amigo que é completamente socialista. Eu tenho um outro que é completamente capitalista. Tenho amigos da Palestina. Tenho amigos de Israel. Tenho amigos gays. Tenho amigos transexuais. Tenho amigos héteros. Eu tenho todos os tipos de gostos: veganos, vegetarianos, comedores de carne. Eu tenho amigos que são feministas e odeiam piadas sexistas e palavrões. Eu tenho amigos que são feministas e gostam de usar isso porque eles acham que brincando com o tabu é como podemos superar preconceitos. Eu tenho budistas, ateístas, muçulmanos, amigos de fé indefinida. Tenho amigos com olhos azuis que vem da América Latina e cor de pele negra nascidos na Alemanha. Aqui nós temos conversas diárias de base sobre o capitalismo, o sexismo, etc., mesmo durante as refeições.
No UWC eu encontrei uma salada de todas as cores. Um mosaico humano que eu nunca poderia encontrados em qualquer outro lugar.
Estou tão feliz por nossas diferenças. UWC é mais do que um intercâmbio. É mais do que viver no exterior.
UWC tem o gosto único do UWC.

Why and mindless person 19/10/2015

Ainda que o barco esteja parado, as ondas remam.

You. You really think I am a just mindless person? You think I am a superficial human being? Oh well, the highest point are regulated by the sea level. It is a referential issue: you might be so deep. But I am not a superficial one.

I might not have the anwser for all the questions in the world. But I am looking for it. Or do you think a mindless person would remain until the end to watch a debate about politics or faith? Of course I don't want to be an expectator in a debate every single time. But I understand everything is a process. Of course I criticize my own process, because I don't know if I can rely on it completely. One thing I know: I am looking for the anwsers in the world. Is not that I don't want to speak my mind. 

But I am in a process. I am learning. I am educating myself and giving time to think and process what do I embrace.

I am casually angry with myself today. I don't know what to say about the israel palestine conflict. I know few things and it is enough to know Israel is oppressing Palestine. And I said to myself to do not touch on this topic specially in our school, because at some extend we would offend Yarden and Maya because they are from Israel. But also Mohammed and Marwan (from Palestine) are sad and irritated because no one is speaking about it! Should we remain in silence? Is it fair? So many people being killed and dying and we don't talk about it in a international community because we are fearful to offend someone?

Isn't that unfair? Even for people from Israel it would be beneficial because there is so many bad and misleading informations being spread in a way we don't know in what to relay in.

Let's be honest with ourselves. Let's face certain things and break the politics of silence. Our omission is not polite. Our ''misbehavior'' is more polite than our silence in this case.

The metod don't need to be polite every single time.

I am not tired of asking my question to others. But I think my teachers are tired of me. Or maybe I am a bad student. Or maybe their are bad teachers. Because a teacher should never fell bad because his student don't want to accept his ideas passively. The things shouldn't be tiring. Should be exciting for both.

Learning should be exciting for both.

Learning about how to learn.

Question about how to learn:

When do we reach the point of having enough data to say ''I am intellectually ready to stand for this position''

This feeling of being in a class fulfilled by brilliant students and your teacher -who is also very intellectual- come and ask you what is the color of the water and runs in your mind the combination of names of colors you even don't know they exist. Come to your mind the latest thing you could imagine. And you feel so pressured to be smart when you just need to give a simple answer to a simple question.

That is life: how many data do we need to stand for something? How many? What is the intellectual degree we need to reach to stand up and say: that's what a believe in even tough I am not a genius and one week later I might look at what I said and think ''what a stupid think I just said!'' ?

DO WE NEED TO READ THOUSANDS BOOKS TO HAVE A MINIMUM MORAL VERDICT?

WHY WE ARE SO BUREAUCRATIC WITH OUR MORAL INSTINCTS?

WHY DON'T WE LEARN HOW TO BE SIMPLE? WHY DO WE BUILD SO MANY BRIDGES 

UNTIL REACH WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR?

Why are we procrastinating to be ourselves?

Why?

Question about anarchism 19/10

When small communities claim for freedom and autonomy, do they claim for creation of small communities everywhere around (in a global scale) or would they be fine just themselves being independent even though the rest of the world remain globalized ?

Refugees and North Korean Migration situation discussed by BBC reporters

Both speakers showed intervals between their speeches to show their documentaries.

I have watched by myself the one related to Refugees in Germany. I found it pretty much emotional. Was very difficult to me to handle the scenes related with children specially. Because I have a brother who is 6 years old and was almost impossible to do not cry when they come up with real histories about how children get lost of their parents; how other people take randomly children and just say to the authorities belong to them; how a small boy suffer a violent accident of car; the worst one was about a father saying to the reporter about how his children have seeing people being sentenced to death. What a sad image! Other about a mom who lost her son... So touching...

Anyways. You must figure out by yourself. That what was personally difficult to handle, for me at least.

About the video related to North Korea:

Was super weird and at some extend funny. Oh it really was, I am sorry. That is so absurd what is being said there. The speaker mentioned several experiences she had that had showed the intellectual dishonestly on that country. One was: ''I went to a library and the woman responsible for search by the books was proud of herself and trying to show off how many books do they have in their library (what was something between 21 thousand...Yeah, she really believe on that...).

She also showed a kind of ''UWC School'' in North Korea financed by foreign: a place full of militarism and idolatries of the death previous king. Oh my gosh but the way... I was so scared about it! They idolatry a death body of Kim Jong! What a creep thing.

Nevertheless, coming back to the school, what a contradiction. A country that proclaims itself as victims of USA Imperialist isolation, they do their lections in English. And in small steps the western ideas start to be spread and make youth people think against of the system. Evidently in a very shy way, but is a beginning. I also though (and it is my personal opinion, not what she said) there is so much high expectations about the western culture... almost as their values are the best one in the world. ''The

Salvation'' (something I need to think more about)

I did not have to many creative questions I think, but I will write down here the ones I found very thoughtful:

-In a sense the media being so bias and taking just about the concerns of the Migrants and being omissive in cases where there is also oppression by the small landowners who have their camps ocuppied by the people from other nations, contribute in a sense the weird nationalist parties use this lack of social-midiatic concern to acually justifiy the construction of the fancy. So, the fact the media is just focusing on the refugees wound't that contribute to oppression at least in the case of Hungria.

-As an individual he might have different opinions than what the institution he works for would want you to 'sell' so has you ever found yourself in that situation and so what has you done.

-There is a great amount of propaganda of unification. Even the western media when they do come up with so many jokes about North Korea, for example. How we will have an international solution if a country cannot be taken seriously? How can that be if USA for instance sit in the same table together for debate international, concerns and they may basically laughter at each other?

[all of them were addressed to the reporter]

New invention: Diary of questions :D

Yuuup! Now I had the idea of doing a diary of questions... I am into a new philosophy of life that is more important to ask question rather than have answers for everything and having the very old opinion formed about everything.
There I start with the questions I just sent during a global Affairs topic of religion (but wasn't answered sadly)

29/09/2015 Question for global affairs tomorrow:

For the christian representant:

Once I heard about the notion of separating state from religion. Personally I found it very logic, because is stupid to impose your own religious perspective for people who do not believe on that. For example, when we come to gay marriage, even if we are not allowing people with the same sex marry, we still can't assure that person go to the heaven. Because christianity is about the salvation throught Jesus and not about the imposition of the religous law or about doing ''nice things'', or not doing certain things. Also, isn't too optimistic to think if everyone would be christian -considering our sinner nature- the world suddenly wouldn't have no problems anymore? But I also come across the idea even the humanism and the notion towards the pos-modernism is a new kind of religion.

1)So, could we actually consider the human rights a religion which is so diffused to all around the world as a new kind of salvation, being understood as the ''gospel of human rights''? In another words: can christianity and human-rights coexist ideologically and do not anulate each other?

2)And when we see in the bible we will be persecuted because our faith, by what reason, where do you imagine this persecution come from? I was wondering with myself, and maybe it one of the most difficult questions I have as a christian... Does the persecution would come from the idea of oposing to same-sex marriage; or poli-love; or sex with animals; being against abortion; being against divorce etc.(basiclly all the universe of things which are contrary of the common sense understanding of the bible) and so one? 

3)If not, what is the reasoning of christian persecution in a contemporary life?

Coming to another subject:

4) Many christians do not support any root of marxist ideology because Marx preached the existence of an atheistic State. Do you think that is reasonable? Why?

5) How about the notion of individual freedom: do you agree -since christianity is based on the principle of each person answering for their own sins and facing their consequences- it means christianity is much more related with libertarian ideology? If yes or no, why?

6) How do you connect christianity as a way to colonize and oppress colonies in the historical imperialist past? How do you think bible was used to manipulate the faith of people to take advantage?

7) Do you agree the interpretation of Genesis would be literal or would be actually a metaphor to understand more deeply the God character? How do you perceive it?

8) Before the Jesus, how people were condemned to hell or heaven? (obs: I am asking even before the 10 commandments come)

9) Do we choose God or does God choose us?

For while that was my questions...

I hope for answers 

Thaíza

 

Aniversário da mamãe

Eu sinto muita saudade. Queria estar ai pra te dar um abraço.

eu estava procurando uma foto pra mandar uma daquelas mensagens especiais de Facebook e então recorri a mais recente, tirada quando estávamos na despedida antes de eu vir aqui pro colégio.

Estou convencida de ser a imagem certa, por ser a mais recente e impressa em genuínos sentimentos. Também de ver as diferenças da Thaíza que partiu no primeiro ano e que partia no segundo ano, agora com muito mais confiança, que não se perde nas incertezas da falta de domínio da língua e que não se perde entre os caminhos da vida. Eu nunca teria me tornado isso se vc não tivesse me liberado pra uma experiência que nao fosse debaixo da suas asas.

Obrigada por estar lá, me apoiando, sempre dando suporte. Sempre sendo essa mãe linda e guerreira. Por ter lutado pra que eu chegasse onde eu cheguei. Eu não teria nem seria nada se não fosse por você, mãe. Eu admiro sua serenidade, seu modo otimista diante da vida e também como alguém que está sempre orando e lutando por nós.

Como dizia, sinto muita saudade. Queria estar ai pra te dar um abraço. Por isso deixo essa imagem aqui. Por favor, se cuida. Não come besteira, nem trabalha demais! rsrs isso faz mal pra saúde! Mas deixo essa mensagem que expressa pouco, mas diz muito coisas que nem mesmo em outra língua eu conseguiria expressar.

Feliz aniversário e que comecem a surgir fios brancos nessa cabeçola e as pessoas parem de dizer que somos irmãs RUM <3