Sunday, October 18, 2009

Do People With Hiv Not Get Sick




I've seen Agora and acknowledge that I have liked, the attacks Fortunately, verbal, sparked by religious fanatics have no basis. In the story told there is neither good nor bad, only characters who defend their ideas, some by means of reason, others by force, and others using both. I think all the fuss has been raised, is a marketing operation to promote the film, it is not a work for a large audience. Often thought that a film with so much budget is required to take more action, because it does not, is an intellectual European film, love, sentiments and dramatic moments.

The film is to be taken as fiction with "a lot of philosophy", not as a documentary or historical work as we have tried to sell. The incursion of some licenses, related to classical science, as saying that he sensed Hypatia and elliptical orbits, as a Neoplatonic and as such, only conceived the existence of the circle represents perfection. We also see her doing an experiment, tossing a sandbag from the mast of a bank to demonstrate inertia, 1200 years before Galileo invoked to show that the earth moves.

I think it reflects quite well what were the Christians of the time, first freeing slaves and helping the poor, but on the other hand stoning Jews and Gentiles, in addition to aspire to political power against Alexandria the prefect Orestes. There are also several licenses on historical facts, but in order to be forgiven. I believe Christians should not feel offended by the movie, you just have to learn from the past and think that fundamentásemos not lead anywhere.

There is a movie scene where the Bishop Cyril, in the presence of the prefect reads a passage from the First Letter of Paul to Timothy as a challenge to the teachings of Hypatia, the letter says things like

not permit a woman to teach or to dominate the man. To remain silent. For Adam was formed first and Eve second. And Adam was not deceived but the woman who seduced, was in the transgression. However, it was saved by her motherhood while modestly persevere in faith, in charity and holiness.

contrasts with what he says the same St. Paul to the Galatians:

no longer Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, has not, there is neither male nor female

As Some authors consider it a later addition to the text of St. Paul, as can here.

Well in short we must never think of a movie without having seen it, and tastes are like the colors and the back, everyone has one.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

What Happened To Freeones

SCIENCE IN SPAIN NO NEED SCISSORS ...


Spain's general budget for 2010 envisage a drastic reduction in the resources allocated to science. Throughout the term the socialist party has been dedicated to proclaim the need to invest in science. However, when it's time for truth has been demonstrated that a commitment to scientific and technological development of the country is subject to the vested interests for years to develop a production model based on tourism and construction. At the end, this model has left behind a society if unemployed and indebted to the teeth. How can we change this dynamic? Why political society feel disheartened following the rejection of Madrid Olympic venue and even the science minister has spoken at such a budget cut? Why English science does not need scissors?