beliefs
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 5: The Gallery / Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Me: Those pieces are beautiful by themselves and no need of anything else but I feel as if they were hanged too low? Is it just me? Gallery: *… A gallery in my hometown, this time I decided to comment something about its current exhibition, about its museography. Yes, I feel that they hanged the…
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To porn or not to porn
Not long time ago Facebook put a warning to a friend’s wall because he posted “inadequate content”. I remember that his account was freeze for 24 hours or so and they ask him no to publish “inadequate content” again, if so, he will be banned from Facebook. Facebook refers to “Inadequate content” to that that won’t complain…
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Merry Christmas
When I was a Child, each year when the Winter solstice became closer, you could see in the business and shops: Merry Christmas… In the last years this has changed and now we can see the politically correct euphemism: “Happy Holidays”. This week the transit service in my town (Saskatoon, SK), receive complain about the…
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I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’ ” Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’ ” “But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means…
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
“For some of our most important beliefs we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs. Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous—and it is also essential.” Daniel, Kahneman. “Thinking, Fast and Slow.”
Carlos Fentanes 