What paths should we prepare today, in times of hatred, divisions,
intolerances, apocalyptic and integrated emergence (Umberto Eco would say), and there is no way to prepare a new path, without a new thought, and there are new things, veil of views.
It is as the prophet Isaiah said about the coming of John the Baptist according to Mark (Mark 1,2-3): “Behold, I send my messenger before thee, to prepare thy way. This is the voice of one who cries out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his roads!’ “, but what roads must be prepared in this day and age, what a desert we have gone through.
It is certainly not for the Savior’s return, nor do we want any more Saviors of the Fatherland, we need the path to be prepared for a new conscience, different from the idealist who built modernity, Enlightenment or elitist Encyclopedism.
If Heidegger announces that we must take up a new question, the question of “being,” it should not and can not be separated from a wider social context, less inequalities, more religious tolerance, acceptance of ethnic, cultural and gender diversity, but without the ideological rancor that warms the mood and hinders progress.
To retake the essential questions of Being means to return to the real dramas of humanity that go beyond hunger and exploitation, which are far more consequences of existing models than the origin of this model, it was thought in an idealistic way, that developing more would have more distribution of the human on the planet and fewer explorations from various angles and senses, what we see as the final product says this premise was false.
Perhaps returning to the essential questions of what Being is, we will better understand what it is to be man and his relation to everything that is his existence.
Preparing the ways means then to prepare the way for a more promising future, where the Being is at the center of the activity and not the Self.

After SwissLeaks (see our post) and Panama papers (another post), new tax havens are now emerging in islets around the world, denounced as “Paradise papers”. The complaint, which involves the network of investigative journalists from more than 80 countries, denounces tax fraud based on the leakage of 13.5 million financial documents from an international law firm based in the Bermuda Islands, Appleby, which were first obtained by the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. Among the world’s personalities are the British Crown, the singer Maddona and the world champion of formula 1 Louis Hamilton, but they appear the minister Henrique Meirelles of the Farm and the minister Blairo Maggi of the agriculture, besides the businessman Paulo Leman. Owner of Ambev, the Heinz brand and the Burger King chain of restaurants. According to the report people linked to Trump as trade secretary Wilbur Ross, and linked to Russia’s Putin as his son-in-law, plus more than 100 multinational corporations, such as Apple, Nike and Uber, run away from taxes by skilful accounting maneuvers. Having money in paradises does not mean acts of corruption, but finding tax havens with low taxation, and using offshore companies (to the letter off the back, that is to say without much oversight) may be a sign of currency evasion and also corruption. The information details financial transactions of more than 120,000 people since 1950 and 2016, according to the BBC London is not a leak, but a flood. To paraphrase a journalist, “the world must be clean”, a new planetary citizenship should emerge that no longer supports this, and according to Big Data’s analysis in Brazil, the word corruption was the most cited this year here, perhaps it is the ” year of corruption. “

This is the 2000 post, in celebration meant to say what is deeper in my religious sentiment.
The concept of the Other as described by the philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas can be defined as follows: “The quality of the relations that man hangs with the other depends not only on the sympathy of which he is invested but also on the reciprocal knowledge of the protagonists.”
Using this concept, the whole foundation and religious practice could be reduced to two very simple things: “love your neighbor” and love God, it is what tells a text of the new testament, where the Pharisees knowing that Jesus had already calmed the Sadducees, in Matthew 22: 36-40, they make a new trap for Jesus:
“Master, what is the greatest commandment of the law?
Jesus answered, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your spirit.’
This is the greatest and the first commandment.
And the second, similar to this, is: ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’
These two commandments sum up the whole law and the prophets. ”
And I ask how much thing done in the name of Love and that hurts others, that inflates prejudices and disregards people, many non-Christians ask what the true meaning of religious feeling is.

Among the evils that circulate are not the networks, but also the gossip and the evils of the contemporary world is the distrust, it would not be exaggeration to say that it is the “Society of Mistrust.”
If someone is not a certain group should be isolated, perhaps have some problem other forms of collective bullying that help to isolate the person and make him feel bad, many times about the mantle of sweet words.
There are many young people and old people who feel bad in their own environment, there is a lack of love camouflaged in apparent good intentions, we must not proselytize and accept the Other as he is, much has been said in philosophy and society about this in concepts such as: relationships, empathy, listening and dialogue, but the result is small.
All those who act against the negative current feel in their hearts a new peace, even in the midst of so many difficulties, feel a new impulse to move forward in the midst of a world full of suspicion.
It is as the beatitudes say in the famous sermon on the mountain, where two special ones to this day Mt (5: 8-9):
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. ”
Promote peace and say words of encouragement to everyone around you and reap tasty fruits.

The society of fatigue is not that of suffering, suffering is part of life, but there is the impossibility of practicing otherness, and considering the Other beyond it, individualism has changed as affirmed by the Korean-German philosopher Buyng-Chul Han A “clear division between the inside and outside … the Cold War followed the immunological scheme,” which is the metaphor of excluding the Other when it does not fit within my “epistemic” system, is outside my “logic.”

The onto-logic of the Greek “tragikos” is that in which we face our sufferings by observing where justice and politics convulse and create pathologies in our midst, the dual logic of the “they” or “we” is the belief in revenge , Hatred and war, tragic for modernity, and we still do not show signs of rupture in our tensioning systems.

The gods, whatever they were, do not want our death or our sacrifice, the ontological should contemplate the other with compassion and mercy, but can not be subject to the ethics of the Pharisees and Doctors of the Law, the portal through which we must enter is the mercy of A God who becomes death and victim for men, and not the one who makes men victims of the gods, this postmodern religion is self-righteous and merciless, condemns and does not save.
After Jesus had taught this onto-logic to the disciples, they still had and did not understand their sacrifice which was the sacrifice of a God.

We read in the Bible that Jesus already foresaw his violent death, and begins to warn his disciples who do not accept, in Matthew 16:22 it is written that Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, saying: “God forbid it , Sir! May this never happen to you! “, And he asks Peter to move away from him with that mentality.

What is suffering, the modern world does not know, is concerned with the maximum of pleasure, the hedonism advocated by utilitarians like Stuart Mill and Jeromy Bentham and any attempt to reconcile agapic happiness with erotic ecstasy, gave in what the philosopher Byung -Chul Han in his book (Portuguese edition): “In reality, the fact that the other disappears is a dramatic process, because it is a process that progresses without, unfortunately, many warns it.” (HAN, 2014, p. 5).

The French writer Emile Zolá wrote, “Suffering is the best remedy to awaken the spirit,” and Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade wrote: “education for suffering would avoid feeling it in cases that do not deserve it”, there Yes, it’s happiness.

HAN, B. C. A Agonia do Eros (The Agony of Eros), Portuguese edition, Lisbon: Relógio d’Agua, 2014

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Three elements that seem distinct are in deep connection in a globalized time, which is reflected in the incomprehension of the emergence of a certain form of nationalism, see the US and French elections, Brexit in England, but on the positive side of the dialogue is exactly the Understanding of which cultures have roots in originating societies.
The confusion that we can see in Brexit now that the first deals begin to be negotiated is that from the economic point of view is a complicating element while in the aspect of immigration and relationship between nations is a very high tension.
Identity means to be aware of identity, and we have already done in several posts the analysis that is necessary for this awareness the dialogue with the different, since dialogue with equals is monologue, it can be said that the deeper the dialogue with the Other, The more you are aware of your own identity.
Transparency is the complicating element, so we said above that there is “a certain kind of nationalism” that sees only the pairs and never the different ones, it is a kind of closure that does not lead to greater identity because it is not transparent and authentic with itself and with the Other.
It is necessary to distort facts, to work with the relativism of truth and mainly to resort to prejudice, and all this leads to an absence of transparency both in the individual and in the social field, what is wanted is to shape society to a national mirror, inconceivable In an era already globalized, with people walking all over the globe.
What we see with the lack of transparency is an inevitable polarization in prejudices and ideologies, which is conceivable at an early stage of dialogue, but impossible to build relationships in a time that demands increasingly broad and open relations.
It is possible to make the discourse that the conflict is necessary, but where it should move, to the closing in groups and bubbles, because the fragility of this discourse is evident, of course it is possible that in a point of the dialogue the tempers become heated, without the Fusion of Horizons and a walk forward an epoché (put in brackets), open the ears to the listening of the Other