Peço desculpa aos que me lêem e a Ele, mas é-me difícil acreditar que este Universo em que vivemos (ou, pelo menos, este planeta) tenha sido criado por um Criador bondoso. Eu explico: não o pode ter sido. Terá sido criado por outro criador, por outra energia em luta com Ele. Como dizem os chineses: há dois princípios energéticos conjuntos no Universo: O YIN e o YANG. Cada vez mais o panorama que nos circunda é tenebroso, calamitoso, trágico e ameaçador: ele são sismos, inundações, temporais violentos, temperaturas extremas, doenças incuráveis, assassinatos, o descalabro económico e financeiro que ninguém ainda sabe bem no que vai dar, enfim, uma lista quase infindável. É possível imaginar que Lhe seria viável controlar todas estas tragédias, algumas das quais devidas à estupidez e ignorância humanas. Ou então, que Lhe teria sido possível criar seres humanos mais perfeitos e inteligentes. Ou que não lhes conferiria uma liberdade de actuação extrema, que essa liberdade teria limites. Se os seus poderes são ilimitados - e têm de o ser - isso está ao seu alcance. Inadmissível e incompreensível é a aparente indiferença. Não; não foi Ele - ou não foi só Ele - quem criou este Universo em que vivemos. A responsabilidade dessa criação é também de outro. O que leva a uma contradição... É que, assim sendo, os seus poderes não são ilimitados, não são absolutos.
Consequências culturais, sociais, temperamentais. históricas, sociológicas, económicas, etc. da periferia de Portugal na Europa. Outros diversos temas serão também tratados, que não cabem no título deste blogue. Citação: A inspiração chega de formas imprevisíveis, Richard Zenith, no Prefácio ao Livro do Desassossego, de Fernando Pessoa, Editora Assírio & Alvim.
sexta-feira, 12 de março de 2010
domingo, 28 de fevereiro de 2010
Outra demonstração da nossa periferia
Esta manhã precisei de falar para a Antena 2 da RDP por este "canal" de rádio andar desde há cerca de 15 dias com instantâneos "engasgues" durante a emissão. A pessoa que me atendeu dos serviços técnicos disse-me: "Pois é, mas, sabe, nós dependemos de Madrid ! As emissões da RDP já não são emitidas por feixes hertzianos, mas são-no sim por satélite e o satélite depende de Madrid. E foram eles, os espanhóis, que também puseram aqui um aparelho especial para isto funcionar... Quando eu falo com a minha colega de Madrid a queixar-me e a explicar-lhe a deficiência (em português, como não podia nem devia deixar de ser), a minha colega responde-me "No te entiendo!". E como Sua Excelência "No nos entiende...", passamos a ouvir Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner, Mozart e todos os demais... "engasgados". Só faltava mais esta para acentuar a nossa periferia... Se calhar teremos de fazer "una nueva Revolución de los Claveles". Que tal?
quinta-feira, 25 de fevereiro de 2010
BREAKING NEWS FROM SKY NEWS
Just received: Sky News continua a não apresentar LISBOA e a sua temperatura nos seus Weather Forecasts. Só apresenta Madrid e todas as outras capitais, desde a Europa de Leste. E esta? O que nos falta fazer? O que é que me recomendam?
terça-feira, 23 de fevereiro de 2010
Hoje é o amanhã de ontem
Típico do modo de pensar genérico dos portugueses - que acentua ainda mais a nossa periferia - é adiar... para amanhã: "Oh ! Faz-se isso amanhã. Não tenhas pressa." Só que nesse amanhã se volta a adiar. Os restantes países europeus não seguem em geral esse princípio e vão acelerando o crescimento das suas economias e melhorando os seus índices de produtividade e de rentabilidade, bem como o seu bem-estar social. Passada esta crise global (esperemos que passe...) veremos em que situação ficaremos se continuarmos a adoptar esta postura de "adiarmos para amanhã"...
domingo, 21 de fevereiro de 2010
Cantata nº 201 de Bach
Para ouvir, clique aqui
E na coluna à direita do site que vai abrir poderá escutar outras belas composições musicais de BACH (nomeadamente outras Cantatas)
E na coluna à direita do site que vai abrir poderá escutar outras belas composições musicais de BACH (nomeadamente outras Cantatas)
AS QUALIDADES TERAPÊUTICAS DA BOA MÚSICA
A boa música retempera a alma
A boa música sara dela as feridas
A boa música refrigera, acalma
A boa música preserva muitas vidas
A boa música é intemporal e eterna
A boa música é fraterna e terna.
A boa música é perene e bela
Inconcebível é viver sem ela.
M.C.
A boa música sara dela as feridas
A boa música refrigera, acalma
A boa música preserva muitas vidas
A boa música é intemporal e eterna
A boa música é fraterna e terna.
A boa música é perene e bela
Inconcebível é viver sem ela.
M.C.
sexta-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2010
Não sou de desistir... A SKY NEWS e os seus Boletins Meteorológicos
Eis outro mail que lhes enviei hoje sobre este assunto:
Dear Sirs,
Three days ago I sent you this e-mail:
"Dear Sirs,
I'm writing you from Lisbon, Portugal. You obviously know that the Iberian Peninsula comprises two independent and distinct countries, namely Portugal and Spain. However, when you show your weather forecasts (we see your TV broadcasts as supplied by our TV Cable company, namely ZON TV CABO http://www.zon.pt/Televisao/cabo/pacotes.aspx?gclid=CMu8-tXh9p8CFc9k4wodS1ToYQ or http://www.zon.pt/ you only show the temperature and other weather conditions for Madrid (Spain). Our country (Portugal) is represented only by a grey rectangle without any reference whatsoever to our capital city (Lisbon) and to its weather forecasts. So, it seems Portugal doesn't exist for you... That's a shame. Portugal belongs to the European Union; Portugal is an independent country since 1140 AD. Portugal, as all other european countries, has Meteorological Services called the "Instituto de Meteorologia". Here is their site: http://www.meteo.pt/pt/ (or, the same site in english: http://www.meteo.pt/en/index.html )
So, would you please include our country in your weather forecasts and not show us in your european maps as an anonymous, unidentified, grey rectangle?
You wouldn't do us any favour. Instead, you would show all the world that you are a responsible, well informed TV station.
Best regards,
Mario Cesar Borges Marques de Abreu
Lisbon, PORTUGAL, February 16, 2010
my other e-mail address: m.mario.cesar@gmail.com"
Now, please see this link (especially the part which I transcribe below).
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/europe/portugal
TRANSCRIPTION:
"Around 2,254,300 British tourists visit Portugal every year (Source: Portuguese National Statistical Office (www.ine.pt). Most visits are trouble-free. 397 British nationals required consular assistance in Portugal in the period 01 April 2008 – 31 March 2009 for the following types of incident; deaths (208 cases); hospitalisations (91 cases); and arrests, for a variety of reasons (22 cases). During this period assistance was also requested with regard to lost or stolen passports (612 cases). You should be alert to the risk of petty theft. See the Crime section of this advice for more details. If you need to contact the emergency services in Portugal call 112."
Since 3 days ago (after I sent you my mail above... don't know if it is a mere coincidence) Portugal is not represented anymore by a grey rectangle. Now it is represented (like Spain) with various tones of green. We wish to congratulate you for that improvement... However, the name of our country, or even of our capital city (Lisbon) isn't yet shown in the map when you broadcast your weather forecasts. We only see Madrid and it's weather forecasts.
The weather conditions of Madrid are absolutely different from those of Lisbon. Madrid is situated in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Lisbon is situated in the litoral, facing the Atlantic Ocean. Under these circumstances, Lisbon is usually much less cold in the Winter and much less warm in the Summer.
Why do you insist in not showing the weather forecasts for Lisbon? Is that due to a subconscious bias? That is: for you and for your meteorologists the Iberian Peninsula is fundamentally Spain, and Portugal is a kind of Spain's minor administrative region...? If that's what you think about our country, you are absolutely WRONG, utterly MISTAKEN!! You should know that. (please read again the explanations I gave you in the mail I sent you three days ago (transcribed above).
We will go on watching your "weird" weather forecasts for the Iberian Peninsula, that is, for PORTUGAL and Spain. All the other european countries are correctly identified in your weather forecasts and you show their temperatures and other weather conditions. Portugal is the only exception... Isn't that strange and utterly unacceptable?
Best regards.
Mario Cesar Borges de Abreu
Lisbon, February 19, 2010
m.mario.cesar@gmail.com
Dear Sirs,
Three days ago I sent you this e-mail:
"Dear Sirs,
I'm writing you from Lisbon, Portugal. You obviously know that the Iberian Peninsula comprises two independent and distinct countries, namely Portugal and Spain. However, when you show your weather forecasts (we see your TV broadcasts as supplied by our TV Cable company, namely ZON TV CABO http://www.zon.pt/Televisao/cabo/pacotes.aspx?gclid=CMu8-tXh9p8CFc9k4wodS1ToYQ or http://www.zon.pt/ you only show the temperature and other weather conditions for Madrid (Spain). Our country (Portugal) is represented only by a grey rectangle without any reference whatsoever to our capital city (Lisbon) and to its weather forecasts. So, it seems Portugal doesn't exist for you... That's a shame. Portugal belongs to the European Union; Portugal is an independent country since 1140 AD. Portugal, as all other european countries, has Meteorological Services called the "Instituto de Meteorologia". Here is their site: http://www.meteo.pt/pt/ (or, the same site in english: http://www.meteo.pt/en/index.html )
So, would you please include our country in your weather forecasts and not show us in your european maps as an anonymous, unidentified, grey rectangle?
You wouldn't do us any favour. Instead, you would show all the world that you are a responsible, well informed TV station.
Best regards,
Mario Cesar Borges Marques de Abreu
Lisbon, PORTUGAL, February 16, 2010
my other e-mail address: m.mario.cesar@gmail.com"
Now, please see this link (especially the part which I transcribe below).
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/europe/portugal
TRANSCRIPTION:
"Around 2,254,300 British tourists visit Portugal every year (Source: Portuguese National Statistical Office (www.ine.pt). Most visits are trouble-free. 397 British nationals required consular assistance in Portugal in the period 01 April 2008 – 31 March 2009 for the following types of incident; deaths (208 cases); hospitalisations (91 cases); and arrests, for a variety of reasons (22 cases). During this period assistance was also requested with regard to lost or stolen passports (612 cases). You should be alert to the risk of petty theft. See the Crime section of this advice for more details. If you need to contact the emergency services in Portugal call 112."
Since 3 days ago (after I sent you my mail above... don't know if it is a mere coincidence) Portugal is not represented anymore by a grey rectangle. Now it is represented (like Spain) with various tones of green. We wish to congratulate you for that improvement... However, the name of our country, or even of our capital city (Lisbon) isn't yet shown in the map when you broadcast your weather forecasts. We only see Madrid and it's weather forecasts.
The weather conditions of Madrid are absolutely different from those of Lisbon. Madrid is situated in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Lisbon is situated in the litoral, facing the Atlantic Ocean. Under these circumstances, Lisbon is usually much less cold in the Winter and much less warm in the Summer.
Why do you insist in not showing the weather forecasts for Lisbon? Is that due to a subconscious bias? That is: for you and for your meteorologists the Iberian Peninsula is fundamentally Spain, and Portugal is a kind of Spain's minor administrative region...? If that's what you think about our country, you are absolutely WRONG, utterly MISTAKEN!! You should know that. (please read again the explanations I gave you in the mail I sent you three days ago (transcribed above).
We will go on watching your "weird" weather forecasts for the Iberian Peninsula, that is, for PORTUGAL and Spain. All the other european countries are correctly identified in your weather forecasts and you show their temperatures and other weather conditions. Portugal is the only exception... Isn't that strange and utterly unacceptable?
Best regards.
Mario Cesar Borges de Abreu
Lisbon, February 19, 2010
m.mario.cesar@gmail.com
terça-feira, 16 de fevereiro de 2010
Mail enviado à televisão SKY NEWS
Dear Sirs,
I'm writing you from Lisbon, Portugal. You obviously know that the Iberian Peninsula comprises two independent and distinct countries, namely Portugal and Spain. However, when you show your weather forecasts (we see your TV broadcasts as supplied by our TV Cable company) you only show the temperature and other weather conditions for Madrid (Spain). Our country (Portugal) is represented only by a grey rectangle without any reference whatsoever to our capital city (Lisbon) and to its weather forecasts. So, it seems Portugal doesn't exist for you... That's a shame. Portugal belongs to the European Union; Portugal is an independent country since 1140 AD. Portugal, as all other european countries, has Meteorological Services called the "Instituto de Meteorologia". Here is their site: http://www.meteo.pt/pt/ (or, the same site in english: http://www.meteo.pt/en/index.html )
So, would you please include our country in your weather forecasts and not show us in your european maps as an anonymous, unidentified, grey rectangle?
You wouldn't do us a favour. Instead, you would show all the world that you are a responsible, well informed TV station.
Best regards,
Mario Cesar Borges Marques de Abreu
Lisbon, PORTUGAL, February 16, 2010
My e-mail address: m.mario.cesar@gmail.com
I'm writing you from Lisbon, Portugal. You obviously know that the Iberian Peninsula comprises two independent and distinct countries, namely Portugal and Spain. However, when you show your weather forecasts (we see your TV broadcasts as supplied by our TV Cable company) you only show the temperature and other weather conditions for Madrid (Spain). Our country (Portugal) is represented only by a grey rectangle without any reference whatsoever to our capital city (Lisbon) and to its weather forecasts. So, it seems Portugal doesn't exist for you... That's a shame. Portugal belongs to the European Union; Portugal is an independent country since 1140 AD. Portugal, as all other european countries, has Meteorological Services called the "Instituto de Meteorologia". Here is their site: http://www.meteo.pt/pt/ (or, the same site in english: http://www.meteo.pt/en/index.html )
So, would you please include our country in your weather forecasts and not show us in your european maps as an anonymous, unidentified, grey rectangle?
You wouldn't do us a favour. Instead, you would show all the world that you are a responsible, well informed TV station.
Best regards,
Mario Cesar Borges Marques de Abreu
Lisbon, PORTUGAL, February 16, 2010
My e-mail address: m.mario.cesar@gmail.com
segunda-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2010
Sobre a imensidão do Universo
É tão vasta e complexa a imensidão do Universo que:
a) somos demasiado ínfimos para termos nele significado relevante ;
b) as nossas dissenções, divergências, disputas, querelas e conflitos de interesses são igualmente irrelevantes perante tal imensidão; têm tido relevância e significado na História da Humanidade, mas, presenciadas lá de longe, devem parecer um tanto ridículas.. Ocupados e preocupados com as nossas pequeninas "coisas", nem nos interrogamos acerca do significado desta imensa e exuberante realidade que nos rodeia. Normalmente esquecemo-nos dela e aceitamo-la como facto consumado que não merece qualquer outra reflexão... Se não, vejam e ouçam
a) somos demasiado ínfimos para termos nele significado relevante ;
b) as nossas dissenções, divergências, disputas, querelas e conflitos de interesses são igualmente irrelevantes perante tal imensidão; têm tido relevância e significado na História da Humanidade, mas, presenciadas lá de longe, devem parecer um tanto ridículas.. Ocupados e preocupados com as nossas pequeninas "coisas", nem nos interrogamos acerca do significado desta imensa e exuberante realidade que nos rodeia. Normalmente esquecemo-nos dela e aceitamo-la como facto consumado que não merece qualquer outra reflexão... Se não, vejam e ouçam
domingo, 14 de fevereiro de 2010
Galáxia NGC 3079 fotografada pelo telescópio Hubble
Galáxia NGC 3079 fotografada pelo telescópio Hubble em 1989 Haverá nela civilizações?
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