Category: Okategoriserade
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Feeling vs Thinking
The English 18th century author and politician Horace Walpole once wrote: “The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.” Feelings are conscious experiences, generated from mental thoughts, a learned response to an emotional trigger. They are not necessary and how to react to an event is, in some…
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Climate Protest as Installation Art
DEFILING PAINTINGS IN MUSEUMS as a way to protest against climate change. Throwing tomato soup at a sunflower painting by van Gogh and liquified mashed potatoes at a Monet painting. Smearing cake on the Mona Lisa. How is that going to help the cause? Either the idea is only to get our attention, something which…
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Connection
EVERYONE IS GLUED TO THEIR PHONE, absorbed in their little screens they become oblivious to what goes on around them. I must admit that this bothers me as much as it amazes me. What is so interesting there, that they rather stare at it then engage with the rest of the world? Why do they…
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Grace
GRACE: “God’s unmerited favour, love, or help”. From Latin gratia: “favour, esteem, regard”. Related to gratis: “without recompense, for nothing”. You are afforded help, a favour, for free. You did not ask for it, you did nothing to deserve it, and still it came. It can be a small thing: the sun breaking through the clouds, a piece of…
Dialogos 