The Soul of Matter

The Soul of Matter Mรกrio Pinheiro

14 Jul 2016 Thursday

Nothing...

There is always something after nothing‌

13 Jul 2016 Wednesday

What is happiness?...

What is happiness? For a wandering gipsy is not having a home; for a swiss, having a home; for an hebrew is a “city of gold and precious stones, with a supernatural abundance of corn and wine”; for a turk is an harem peopled by houris; for an American Indian is a “happy huntingground”; for a Norse, is daily battles with magical healing of wounds; for the native

Australian, is the hope that after death he shall “jump up a white fellow, and have plenty of sixpences”; for Louis XVI, the greatest happiness was making locks, keys and carpentry; for his successors was making empires;… In conclusion, the idea of “greatest happiness” is as variable as the other elements of human nature…

12 Jul 2016 Tuesday

Picasso and Cocteau

Pablo Picasso e Jean Cocteau (1959) playing a traditional musical instrument invented in Mozambique, the marimba, now

an intangible cultural heritage of humanity, promoted by UNESCO.

11 Jul 2016 Monday

France-Portugal, UEFA 2016…

I have a special feeling for France because I have studied there for a while and had in my imagination the numerous thinkers and scientists that France gave to the world, the main readon why I seeked France in my youth. But when I saw the French behavior last night, different thought crossed my mind. Then I found this opinion by the Russian magazine Pravda and I must agree with them…Pardon me, French friends! But a big country MUST/SHOULD have a big mentality…

«Paris could have shown more class and lighted up the Eiffel Tower in the colors of Portugal, but what happens when you get big nations with little minds? You get a disgusting display of soccer, aimed at

hurting opponents and taking out the key players of the opposing team. But the “coq” that crowed in Paris tonight was the Galo de Barcelos! It was clear from the beginning that France is a lthy soccer nation whose one and only aim was to kick its opponent off the eld in the most disgusting, vile, cowardly fashion, in the most blatant display of violence the world of soccer has seen in many years. Didier Deschamps and his monsters are to be congratulated. As failures. – See more at: http://www.pravdareport.com/news/society /11-07-2016/134973-uefa_portugal0/#sthash.OnyKTvY9.dpuf» http://www.pravdareport.com/news/society /11-07-2016/134973-uefa_portugal-0/

10 Jul 2016 Sunday

“Thinking is to man what ying is to birds”: Einstein’s note

And, like a message sent in his TimeMachine, it was rediscovered last year, locked in a school safe at Colégio Anchieta in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a letter written by

Albert Einstein to students of this same college. The typed note, written in German is signed by himself.

50 YEAR OLD CARTOON PREDICTS THE FUTURE !!! NWO !!!

10 Jul 2016 Sunday

Freedom, now!…

This old cartoon from the 1950’s is pretty clear about the dangers of freedom in USA, and for that matter in all the world. The “State” claims to buy our freedom in exchange of “security”, an illusion after all.

The North-American* Dream is in danger, if not at all destroyed with the mighty State in rising process, but, at least in this old

cartoon, freedom – and the American dream – was reconquered with the demise of the socialist(- communist- corporativist) State… That is, it seems as the NAZI ideology had been revived in the modern concept of state, and in its foremost concept, the unique global state…

The Post-Ofce

09 Jul 2016 Saturday

Einstein lived here…

Einstein went into this same post ofce to send his letters. This post ofce is located a few dozen meters when we walk down kramgasse, where he have rent a small but cosy apartment. Contrary to common knowledge, his wife Maric was very demanding and during their period in Bern she pressed Einstein to change of apartment, which they did about… ten times, staying nally at the ne and chic apartment at Kramgasse, where rich people

live nowadays. Much later, it was these registered letters that allowed us to know during which period of time effectively he had lived in Bern.

I can now understand why Einstein felt well in this town. Because every time I come here, I feel good as well. In fact, I feel as I have been living here for centuries. The people are in general very polite, maybe because the city is very wealthy despite we see altogether some poorness.

09 Jul 2016 Saturday

The Man and the Machine‌

The man and the machine.

08 Jul 2016 Friday

Beyond control?…

«Politically violent individuals have also always been a part of society, and their activities have been largely contained by the police or militar. Today, things are different. These individuals have discovered a political lever which will (italics) move the System and they have begun exercising it to effect. The lever is terrorism: the use of coercive intimidation for political motives. Terrorism is not new, but it has undergone renement; it is no longer the blunt instrument that it used to be.» – Michael Flood, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 1976.

This scenery is quite actual but we may say

that people are in general wishing peace, if they seek violence there are reasons, the major ones are poverty and ignorance.

Governments should attack terrorism not on their ground (but out of their ground, ghting poverty and enhancing the quality of education)…It is a question of common sense, on their grounds, governments, normal people will always loose… Fighting on their grounds, strengthen terrorism. It seems basic strategy that any boxeur or martial arts ghter knows. Einstein once wrote (my translation) «All that man ignores does not exist for him. So the universe of each one is reduced to its knowledge.»

07 Jul 2016 Thursday

Life is an empty vessel‌

Life is an empty vessel. It needs our imagination to fulď€ ll its purpose.

07 Jul 2016 Thursday

The path…

Why so much look for? The path is already set.

07 Jul 2016 Thursday

The doubt…

«Now you think that I am looking back at my life’s work with calm satisfaction. But, on closer look, it is quite diferent. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced

that it will stand rm and I am not sure if I was on the right track after all» – Albert Einstein, on his 70th birthday…

06 Jul 2016 Wednesday

Are you persistent?…

It’s hard to beat someone who persists …

Henri Matisse, 81 years old at the moment

of the photo, still persisting in his room at the Hotel Regina in Cimiez, near Nice…

05 Jul 2016 Tuesday

Believing in the future‌

We all should believe in the future‌

Passion "The Last Temptation of ChristÂť

05 Jul 2016 Tuesday

The Last Temptation of Christ…

It is always difcult to dene a line between the divine and the human. Was the Christ a man like us, or a divinity? Nikis Kazantsakis in the Last Temptation has chosen the rst approach. That Jesus was a man, strugling against his own fears, like all of us. That a voice saved him from the crucication and he married, had children, like the majority of us. But, then, what he

had accomplished? And h(H)e asked God, h(H)is Father, to save humanity through h(H)is crucication and all was accomplished. This movie was and is very controversial, but makes us think about us, our fears, and our major fear, not to be brave enough to accomplish what we have to do in this life…

IT'S GONNA BE A BRIGHT SUN SHINY DAY

29 Jun 2016 Wednesday

Chronicles from Lisbon: Oh Magic Days…

“That’s life (that’s life) that’s what people say, You’re riding high in April, Shot down in May”…Said Sinatra and he was right.

“But I know I’m gonna change that tune” and I start this morning. To begin I wake up at 9:00 am…instead of 7:00. I told to my self: «I want wake-up with a purpose», because the rigueur of the rules with which we live doesn’t suit me. I like to think, to play, to dance, yes, to dance, even alone, swirling my body like a shaman. That’s my profession, my real profession: shaman. To me a shaman is someone able to call the dark and as well light forces of the hidden universe, it is someone beyond the arithmetic of life, 2+2= 4. I want to live near people who have a higher purpose in life and doesn’t fear dead. I want to live near poets, scientists-poets, beautiful ladies that aren’t aware of the treasure hidden inside their souls. Maybe you are not quite following me, but Brexit and the right-wing parties in UK and the stupid guys in power in Brussels put me thinking about this damn life. Have you heard the news? The guys in Brussels want to push things faster for UK to leave for good the EU… It is unbearable to watch them acting like teenagers, because their bodies are old, but their minds were

fabricated in the tumultuous, turtuous process for winning the political power. So, they didn’t grow up as we are supposed to do, and we, citizens, didn’t gure out yet how to put them out of the political power.

They pretend to be liberal, democrats, but in practice they follow the marxist-leninistmaoist slogan “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”... Of course, these unspeakable criminals that call themselves warriors of religions, AKA terrorists, they are teenagers too, because they didn’t grasp one damn thing about life (in fact, they destroy life)… All this apparently confused thoughts result from a sad news I received. I am talking about a friend of mine, a women, that was a teacher in high school and poet. A poet. Her life wasn’t riding well. She died three days ago, but another friend of mine (and her), in Cape Vert, received from her, one day after she was dead from a heart stroke, a phone message telling her some trivial stuffs about life and ending with a «I love you».

And that’s when I understood her message.

We may die, but we all should leave in this material world a beautiful message for our friends. That should be our purpose.