Posts Tagged ‘Jesus’
Language and empathy
21
Jan
José Saramago expressed this about the opinion that people have
on different subjects: “The problem is not that people have opinions, this is great. The problem is that they have opinions without knowing what they are talking about”, in times of social media it is very common to repeat illustrious strangers because they said an impact phrase, but when it is placed in an appropriate context or if one penetrates the subject in question, one can have a more sensible opinion.
Everything is controversial today and in a way almost everything has become mere opinion, the doxa of the Greeks, in this context the problem of language is extrapolated and empathy is increasingly rare in everyday language, if the problem at the origin of modern society in classical antiquity was sophistry, everything was argued just to please the ruling power, the problem today is to see this disseminated in everyday language, care with language, respect for others and respectful listening must be part of empathic language.
It is not just central politics that has deteriorated, or democracy that has gone into crisis, the choices of savior leaders of the homeland, the little discussion of the de facto problems that affect the population, in full pandemic expansion little is said about effective measures against it. , just to give a serious example, the whole problem seems to be the vaccination of children, which is undoubtedly urgent, but everyone has several cases of family or close infection in the neighborhoods where they live.
Re-educating everyday language, reintroducing respect for any citizen, of any race, color or religion, should be a common effort to improve social empathy.
Even in religious language, previously extremely respectful and loving, a more separatist and isolationist conception seems to evolve where the different is isolated and frowned upon.
It is necessary to find space, time and place where the first truths can be spoken, where the original cultures can manifest and be heard.
In many cultures, religions and theories there is a central node there where the deepest truths are spoken.
The biblical passage in which Jesus reveals who he really is and what he came to should be the central point of analysis of his language and his mission, went to Nazareth, the city where he was raised and could be seen as an ordinary person, an empathic attitude, going the synagogue on the Sabbath day they gave the book of the prophet Isaiah (Is 61) and there he read: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor: he has sent me to proclaim the deliverance of the prisoners and, for the blind, the recovery of sight; to give freedom to the oppressed, he sent me to proclaim a year of favor from the Lord”, closed the book and then surprised everyone by saying: “Today this passage of Scripture that you have just heard has been fulfilled” (Lk 1:14). -21) (In the photo the signature of the prophet Isaiah, National Geographic).
Site sobre o Natal no mundo
03
Dec
Embora o dono da festa seja esquecido em muitos lugares, o Natal é festejado em todo
mundo e tem um site especial para ele o Santas.net, onde pode-se encontrar músicas, tradições e tradições entre muitas outras coisas.
Entre as muitas tradições do mundo todo, destaco a de Belém, para onde peregrinaram José e Maria e sem encontrar local para pouso, eles acabaram se alojando (a data provavelmente é outra), eles acabaram se alojando no único lugar que puderam encontrar que foi um estábulo e tendo Maria dado a luz, foi numa manjedoura (o local onde o gado come) que puderam colocar aquela criança recém-nascida.
O Natal em Belém, segundo o site, no provável local onde o menino Jesus nasceu hoje existe a igreja da Natividade, e no Natal ela fica iluminada com bandeiras e enfeites.
O costume é na véspera de Natal com os nativos e visitantes, uma multidão ficar nas portas da igreja e até em cima dos telhados para observarem todo ano uma dramática procissão.
Cavaleiros a galope e policiais montados em cavalos árabes vão a frente do desfile. Eles são seguidos por cavaleiro solitário carregando uma cruz sentado em um corcel preto, seguido dos sacerdotes e funcionários do governo.
A procissão entra solenemente na Igreja da Natividade e quando as portas se abrem é colocada uma antiga efígie do Menino-Deus na Igreja.
Através de escadas profundas e sinuosas a procissão entra em uma gruta onde os visitantes encontram uma estrela de prata marcando o local do nascimento de Jesus.
Entre muitos outros é citado o Natal no Japão, onde apenas 1% da população acredita em Jesus, o Natal é festejado e as lojas se decoram inclusive com pinheiros. Também eles gostam de dar presentes uns aos outros, e esta é a parte que comemorar.
Para eles há um monge budista chamado Hotei-osho que simboliza o Papai Noel, trazendo presentes nas casas e deixando-os para as crianças.
Mas para os cristãos japoneses não é um dia de familia, mas para visitar pessoas doentes em hospitais a fazer coisas boas para os outros.
