Fresco made in pen and spray made in the course of an event of exhibition " in situ inside an abandoned building. The event entitled "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was curated by Eugenie Cliche and Josée Landry-Sirois in 2004 and brought together a community of artists such as Cooke-Sasseville, Chantal Séguin, Catherine Plaisance and the duo Christian Messier / François Simard ...
philosophy Doctor responds:
This question me seems naive: so it better to be young than old?
Yet it is less candid as you might think, and there are many cultures where respect for old (soon to be ancestors to whom we will celebrate worship) makes this more desirable than age youth - despised, exploited by all those who are already settled in life.
But is not Doctor Philo "Philo" for nothing: it is a philosophy of time he will seek the answer.
Saint Augustine said: "It is ... clear and clearly nor the future nor the past are not and it is inappropriate to say there are three time, past, present, future, but it would be correct to say there are three time a present about the past, a present about the present, a present about the future . "(1)
It is absurd to ask if the future is more important than the past, since neither one nor the other exist elsewhere in memory and in expectation - that is to say in this. Ask if there is, it is better to represent the future or remembering the past.
- We could therefore say that the discipline is an institution of consciousness that reference should be to assess the party that we can take time. There are times when it is easier to imagine the future, and we assume that the younger generation is suitable. But deep why not continue to make plans, think the future even reached the end of our lives? The immortality of the soul is something else, to this side of life, the project to continue living, to find our loved ones, etc. ... And the brave people who repeat we should plant a tree, even 80 years, say something else? Youth is a state of mind and they say they are not wrong, if we mean by this that it is the representation of the future we should measure it (and not joint flexibility) .
-> That's the miracle potion Doctor Philo: it is yours to choose the answer to your question, but what counts is whether to take advantage. The past does not objectively more important than the future, because both exist in your present. Live know what you think is most important, whether the representation of happiness you'll have tomorrow - or in ten years. Whether or fantasizing about your past, one that just flow or one that goes back to your distant childhood.
- I can hear the evil spirits who will sneer: then will they say, requires you to be a death row inmate who rises to the scaffold is a magician who tells you: "I suggest you to change you as a child just born "you replied," Nothing to do, because without the past is also disheartening that no future "? Huh, that why you reply?
There, Dr. Philo-dry miserably: "I admit he said, I do not know exactly, because, as Augustine says the venerable, time is flowing, ie consciousness report between past and future ( dissension of the soul), and the example of our objector considers time as a stop on the moment - a moment before its final decision, a moment before its implementation movement. "
(1) Saint Augustine - Confessions , Book XI. Article XX - Read here
you think blackmail is not it a form of negotiation?
If the answer is positive, its use is really amoral?
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- blackmail is not it a form of negotiation ?
should probably distinguish the situation of exchange (I give you this if you give me that) and negotiation.
own The blackmail is to be unilateral . There's the one who imposes and the one who suffers. There would be negotiation if there was a margin of adjustment to demand from the victim.
bargaining may well begin with blackmail, but it can not be completed as she began. When negotiators sit around a table, they do not know themselves what will come out. Because it is the adaptation requirements of some of those others who will determine the content of the agreement.
- its use is really amoral ?
Given the number of parents who subject their children to blackmail we hope not.
Was observed that today's parents do not raise their hands on their children? Not the slightest tap, slap, spank ... Yes, but blackmail, that - yes, there it goes. If you do not store your room, no cinema. If you do not eat your spinach, no dessert, etc. ...
What do the psychologists?
A little boy of almost 4 years old asked me this question this morning. I fear that this kind of response does not fully satisfy. So you have roughly two months to prepare another!
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Doctor Philo is the kind of parole: he did not take two months to respond.
Especially as he has in its records this beautiful picture:
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Small children love to play with soap bubbles because they are like them.
Like them, they come from almost nothing a little soap and water, breath and presto! What a wonderful iridescent swaying in the light without being able to predict where it will go.
That is to say to this young man (I was say to this young animal-metaphysical ):
- You're actually a bit of living matter (there I will let you choose between the small seed, sperm or whatever you want). But you're much more than that darling. And what you're more, that there was no way before you. And that's why we love you. Look at the soap bubble: just before, it did not exist, it was only a little water in the tube. She has nothing, and yet she is beautiful and good.
-> Note the advantage of the bubble: if the young boy has not yet asked where people go when they die, it's not going away. The bubble can easily answer:
- In dying, people disappear without a trace, they are just like the soap bubble.