"To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity."

H. H. Benedict XVI. Caritas in Veritate Encyclical. June 29, 2009

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Sexual education

Good sexual education is learning how to discipline the body so as to pursue long-term happiness.

Bad sexual education is about how dealing with an uncontrolled body, it's about damage control.

Worst sexual education is misleading the body towards depravity, a.k.a. soul slaving by a body gone mad. It's the opposite of sexual freedom.

Good sexual education is learning about the meaningful role of sex in human fulfillment of happiness. It's about love.

Shallow sexual education is learning about body parts and bodily functions which are anyway written in instinct.

Good sexual education is about duty rather than pleasure, which paradoxically leads to pleasure.

Bad sexual education is about pleasure rather than duty, which paradoxically leads away from enduring pleasure.

Good sexual education is about using sex in pursuit of happiness.

Bad sexual education leads to sacrificing happiness to void sex.

Good sexual education leads towards enjoying sex.

Bad sexual education leads towards suffering sex, towards sex as a vice.

Good sexual education is about love for others.

Bad sexual education is about selfishness.

Bad sexual education is about not being an adolescent mother. It gives ideas about postponing which "make sense" far beyond adolescence.

Good sexual education is about not being a single mother. It gives ideas about how to start a family.

Good sexual education is about children, and becoming parent as a means. It's about giving.

Bad sexual education is about the selfish pleasure of parenting using the child as a means. It's about asking. It's about human pets.

Good sexual education is about lifetime compromise. It's about matrimony.

Bad sexual education is about good-while-rendering. It's about a civil contract useful when the expected breakup arrives. It's about planning divorce. It's cynical.

Good sexual education is about human dignity, about what makes our bodies sacred, about respecting ourselves.

Bad sexual education is about how to put on a condom as to avoid chlamydia.

Bad sexual education is about statistics.

Good sexual education is about not judging the neighbor and custody of the own eyes.

Good sexual education leads to being a good person.

Bad sexual education leads to being a bad person.

Good sexual education is about highlighting that the most natural thing is for sex to be considered taboo; this is, something which is not irreverently talked about but something intimate, special.

Bad sexual education aims at eliminating the taboo character of sex, turning it into base, mean, and coarse. That's why sexual explicitness is everywhere attached to bad manners and lack of education.

Bad sexual education is about learning to use condoms.

Good sexual education about learning not to use porn.

Bad sexual education is about looking for pleasure.

Good sexual education is about running away from danger and pain.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Obama seen from the eyes of a Latin American

Obama is the President of the United States and, still more important an America citizen. Plus, he seems a very intelligent individual. Nevertheless, Obama can't help being Third World minded and having a decisive non-American background. I don't know how easy is for Americans seeing this, but being myself born in the Third World, living in it, and breathing everyday its deepest short-term sight, its envious desire to abuse the property of others, and its, and its sly lack of respect for values and tradition, I can tell you Americans, from the deepest of my heart, that Obama is a typical Underdeveloped World's leader.

Obama represents that why people abandon Latin America. It is the opposite force to the magic attraction and fascination caused by the Statue of Liberty to those who want to be owners of themselves. Being infatuated with Obama's promises is a symptom of cowardice, of fear of freedom.

Do you want less unemployment? Piece of cake! Reduce the artificial rigidities on labor market; correct incentives on actual workers, unemployed people, and employers.

Do you appreciate the old day's glory when America was seen as the light enlightening the world trough path of development? Embrace authentic freedom again!

May not the American Dream die. It's in the interest of the whole world. May not the Americans buy the siren's sweet, deadly song.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Verbs

The Diary of a Nonnative English Speaker: I like the easy way in which you just can verb any word in English but I have problems with phrasing together or phrasing up or whatever it must be told out or written down.