Author Archives: Roque E. de Campos

I’m going to take poetic license and mix Lewis Carroll‘s classic work with the sequel that is Through the Looking-Glass. Originally Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is a novel published on 27 December 1871 (though indicated as 1872) by LewisContinue reading “Alice in Wonderland”

O envelhecimento é o efeito da passagem do tempo sobre tudo que existe, especialmente sobre os seres vivos. Pássaros idosos – pressione e veja o video Pássaros idosos não voam e não existem casas de repouso para pássaros. Portanto, os passarinhos mais jovens os alimentam. Essa é uma EXPRESSA mensagem para que seres humanos, senãoContinue reading “Envelhecimento”

Theories of atonement in Christianity. Atonement. Detail of the Monument to Dante in Trento by Cesare Zocchi I will sumarize here the entry above at Wikipedia. Bear in mind that the word Atonement is used to describe the saving work that God did through Christ to reconcile the world to Himself, and also of theContinue reading “Atonement”

Veja em Português John Main, Prior of the Benedictine Priory of Montreal, in one of his lectures, opens by saying that “The impersonal theory, however correct it may be, seems to me to be always floating in the stratosphere. For it to come down to earth it needs a personal context and then it willContinue reading “From Italian roots to EJ worker to Vestal businessman”

See it in English Da mesma maneira que o tempo não tem definição, pois é uma ilusão e, para fins práticos, é o que o relógio indica, a realidade compartilha a mesma condição: é uma ilusão e, para fins práticos, é o que nossos sentidos indicam para nós.Isso é agravado pelo fato de expressarmos tudoContinue reading “Realidade”

See it in English A Escola de Frankfurt (A primeira frase da entrada da Wikipedia é uma mentira açucarada no estilo da esquerda, pois omite que o motivo pelo qual apareceu foi o fracasso em instalar o comunismo na União Soviética. Explico em detalhes na sequência. REC) é uma versão moderna da visão de MarxContinue reading “Realidade nos moldes da Escola de Frankfurt”

Ver em Português The Frankfurt School (The first sentence of the Wikipedia entry is a sugar-coated lie in the style of the left, as it omits that the reason it appeared was the failure to install communism in the Soviet Union. I explain in detail in the sequence. REC) is a modern version of Marx’sContinue reading “Reality Frankfurt School Way”

In the same way that time has no definition, as it is an illusion, and for practical purposes, it is what the clock indicates, reality shares the same condition: it is an illusion and for practical purposes, it is what your senses indicate to you. This video is excellent in the proposition about our sensesContinue reading “Reality”

Excerpted from Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 2022 by James Bridle. In Athens, around 300 BCE, at the very beginning of what we now call democracy, elections did not involve votes in a way we would recognize. Instead, all theContinue reading “Is Randomness for Real?”

BIBLE MYTHS AND THEIR PARALLELS IN OTHER RELIGIONS BEING A COMPARISON OF THE Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles WITH THOSE OF HEATHEN NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY CONSIDERING ALSO THEIR ORIGIN AND MEANING – BY T. W. DOANE 1882 You can read this book online This book has withstood the test of time, as afterContinue reading “Comparing notions of the Bible”