Ă?ndice Editorial. Fallacies and / or lies 3 By Miguel A. Morra . Words and empathy A n the news WHO IS AYN RAND? By Maria Marty Egoism: vice or virtue? Launch of the "living objectively" workshop Argentine syndrome By Juan Manuel Agostini The culture of poverty By Serena Bentancur Fabiano Stories Luminous Footprints By Constanza Grace Nasi When the Missionaries came to Hawaii 2
By Horacio Rivara Ghost talks By Fernando Giuliani Concepts The Masonic vision of the Master of Samos . By Raimundo Collado Reflections To project By : Euge Cerro Reflexiรณn en imรกgenes. Por Viejo lobo liberal. Humor Riddles Uni2 The party What is Uni2? What sets Uni2 apart from other parties? Who is it? What do we want in politics?
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Editorial. Fallacies and / or lies 3 By Miguel A. Morra . Words and empathy Solidarity, common good, social justice, redistribution of wealth, rights to education, to health, to housing, a living wage are all words that initially generated a lot of empathy between the recipient of the message and who issues it. This emotional impact is widely used by those who seek to convince the recipient of a message that the action proposal is good, although if they reason a little, they will discover that it is a fallacy. The solidarity is voluntary and therefore if you want to do with money from the taxpayer is not solidarity and becomes one a fallacy . The common good is a fuzzy concept that can serve as a basis for the actions of the Pope, as Mother Teresa and Hitler, Stalin and
Mao or anyone , for both, good and evil. The 20th century was a period with innumerable actions by the uncompromising defenders of the "common good" that achieved more than 120 million dead compatriots to try to put it into practice. It is such a diffuse concept that it becomes non-existent and it is a true fallacy . The redistribution of wealth is simply taking something from someone and giving it to another at the discretion of a bureaucrat, that is, an impeccable fallacy. The rights to education, health, housing, a living wage are just wishful thinking that even some geniuses, incorporate them into the constitutions of the countries to see that they are "good people with good thoughts" when in reality they are simple charlatans, that is, they are also impeccable fallacies. The true RIGHTS are rights to DO NOT. Do not take your life, liberty or property. Juan Bautista Alberdi expressed that " Individual freedom is the sacred limit where the authority of the Homeland 6
ends" and the pseudo rights expressed above are opposed to this brilliant principle. For this reason, when you hear someone speak that they are going to “legislate on all productive activities to carry out a redistribution of wealth imposing solidarity taxes to ensure that the rights to education, health, housing, and a living wage are part of the common good of all citizens ... "just I smiled and realize that is a person who uses the fallacy that through the impact emotional of his words no reason you achieve and realize the lie and their true intentions are simply the restriction of individual liberty , life and property. Have a good time with this reading! The author is an old liberal wolf.
“An image of Populism-fascism-socialism. Looks nice on paper, but in reality it´s an absurd” “Wisdoms brings liberalism” “Life, Liberty and property are the real RIGHTS. The rest are priviliges paid by other ones”
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“A brave snake saves a fish from dying drowned� A great example of the Populist-FascistSolcialist Farce-Tale.
A n the news WHO IS AYN RAND? By Maria Marty If you want to know more about Ayn Rand's biography, don't miss this video that
tells the story of this novelist and philosopher in 3 minutes (with Spanish subtitles).
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Egoism: vice or virtue?
https://youtu.be/MSBLsn578Hk ‌ Launch of the "living objectively" workshop On Thursday, November 5 at 8 PM in Argentina, we will announce and present through IG Live @aynrandlatam the new monthly workshop in which, together with the objectivist psychologist Juan Ignacio Ardón, we will address issues such as self-esteem, love, integrity, honesty, pride, work, and fundamental issues that run through our daily lives.
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Argentine syndrome By Juan Manuel Agostini And it turned out what we all feared‌. We were born in Argentina, it is that mixture of melancholy with being the best of countries and the universe. But the reality is different, we are the best in soccer, in basketball, rugby, I would even tell you that we were born for this and that everyone should copy us. Of course we are something special, we have our own rules, we are like creating the law of relativity but in reverse. One of the points where we have more validity are in this pandemic, there if we stand out ... WE HANDLE EVERYONE, WE HANDLE IT LIKE DIEGO IN THE 86 OF TAQUITO, as always NATIONAL PRIDE, Conicet, swabs, tests, epidemiologists , and what characterizes us, talk a lot and say that we have the solution to all the ills of humanity. But ... our way of thinking is complicated, we should simply recreate what 14
works in other countries, why do we choose political systems as populisms? Or references like Che Guevara? I even came to think one day that that's what the roads were. Peronist father, mother that deep down I always knew that she was against what my father thought, but that was not talked about. It was uncomfortable for me to think that the state should not exist, at that time I did not understand how things worked. They made us believe that without the state we cannot make decisions, have no education, health and safety ... Until I realized that they did not use the correct words and terms well ... that I put together sentences or stories such as "... ... the state takes care of you ...", and it gave me chills to think that I had a giant looking at me. Simply what they had to say is that we need an austere state that offers you security, justice, efficient minimum health, education of absolute freedom without any political bias, and above all institutional seriousness.
One day I found a word to encompass everything I felt, that was called liberalism, and then I realized that Argentina was not the best in science, in health, that we had not saved the world. That very few people had me deeply recognizing such as Dr. Matera, Luis Federico Leloir and Dr. Favaloro and that it was not Che Guevara, who liked to trigger people in pseudo concentration camps. Then I understood where they were taking us, I found a name for the process and I even discovered the name of the group that they had formed to take us to that place. The result of this is populist Argentina, belonging to the Sao Pablo forum and the road to the inevitable, we are seeing it little by little that it is hunger and misery. We are the living tale of the frog in hot water. My friend the Argentinian suffers from Argentinism syndrome which is an autoimmune disease. 16
The author is Transport Entrepreneur
The culture of poverty By Serena Bentancur Fabiano (...) “Today's younger generation has grown up in a world where, in school and in the press, the spirit of commercial enterprise has been portrayed as dishonorable and profit making as immoral, and where to give Occupation of a hundred people is considered exploitation, but it is honorable to send as many others. " Friedrich August von Hayek. “The Road to Serfdom” On his first day in office, Alberto Fernández pointed out in a ceremony in Plaza de Mayo that "we are going to impose solidarity on meritocracy and individualism ." Since then, he has not stopped charging against merit and praising poorness in all his speeches. Pope Francis expressed himself in the same sense: "Whoever reasons with human logic, that of merits goes from being the first to being the last." 18
For many it was a nod to the Government. Actually, it was the other way around. It is Fernรกndez who is following to the letter the poor and antimeritocratic discourse that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been expressing since he assumed his papacy. For the poor, poverty is not a situation of mere lack of resources but a moral category. The poor would be the historical subject, the bundle of virtue. Poverty is sacralized. Who does not have is a virtuous for not having. Poorism implies contradiction and neurosis: on the one hand, it seems that the poor hurt and on the other, poverty is vindicated as the true popular culture, the expression of wisdom and the field of superior values. Peronism considers that the true Argentine is the poor and the people are the poor. Bergoglian discourse is not entirely incoherent with a poor tradition that permeates the Catholic Church since its inception and that has recent antecedents in
third world priests, liberation theology or in the vernacular movement of village priests. Bergoglio maintains that the poor are the treasure of the Church and it is necessary to take care of them. Does the Pope want the poor to remain poor? Everything seems to indicate that they are. Poverty is growing in Argentina, and it has to do with a set of decisions that this Government has taken and that can no longer be transferred to the previous administration. The measures adopted by Alberto Fernรกndez's administration to face the Covid19 pandemic have only increased poverty. It is the longest quarantine in the world. This has destroyed the Argentine economy, we are reaching 50 points of poverty, and we still do not know what will happen in the summer. It seems that the government takes care that the treasure of the Church remains intact and increases. Francisco expressed that while a part of humanity lives in opulence, another part sees its own unknown dignity, despised or 20
trampled on. Opulence is seen by the Pope as the result of a zero-sum game. Occupations of private and fiscal lands show that private property is threatened. If we validate that behind a need or a legitimate claim, land or private property is taken, we are on a highly dangerous path. It seems that the government likes to encourage takeovers and for people to live in villas, but it also attacks those who own private property by trying to dispossess them. "Buenos Aires is a city that fills us with guilt for seeing it so opulent" was the phrase that Alberto Fernรกndez launched before taking resources away from the city governed by his opposition. Once again, Fernรกndez seems to paraphrase the Pope when he speaks of opulence. We are before a government that praises the merit of not having merit. The main merit would be precisely - as Pope Francis points out - being poor or weak of soul. Glory is in weakness, holiness in poverty. Luxury is vulgarity.
Argentina must face a model that encourages the world of work and production, with respect to private property, rejecting the vision of the homeland of poverty, encouraged by harsh Kirchnerism and validated by Pope Francis. In Argentina there are "managers of poverty" such as Emilio PĂŠrsico, Chino Navarro and Juan Grabois. Governments must build policies aimed at SMEs, productive sectors, lower taxes and reduce public spending, among other things. The culture of work and private initiative must be supported so that people achieve social advancement and stop depending on the managers of the poor. Wealth makes happiness, material improvement gives better living, recreation, health and education conditions. We must fight to give a cultural battle to the culture of poverty. If the transcended ones are true, the pobrista occupying the post of San Pedro will finally decide to make his delayed return to Argentine soil in 2021, to be received by the 22
poorer government of the country, opportunely during the electoral campaign, if something is still standing for when I return because many of us have the feeling that Argentina is going to blow up before the year ends or poverty is going to eat almost all of us. Member of the Fundaciรณn Libremente 18 years
Stories Luminous Footprints By Constanza Grace Nasi I tell you that I discovered the story of Gracia Nasi, the most influential woman of the Renaissance! A businesswoman, little known among us, who was a merchant of gems and spices, and who advocated the state of Israel at that time, with the installation of a group of Jews in Tiberias, in times of the Ottoman Empire. DoĂąa Gracia NasĂ was a Jewish heroine who for years maintained a clandestine escape route, for Jews who had to flee from the Spanish inquisition. At that time it was considered "the heart of its people." She was born into a secret Jewish family, in Portugal in 1510, with the name Beatriz de Luna and the secret Jewish name of Gracia Nasi. 24
His family was engaged in commerce and probably escaped from the Spanish Inquisition in 1492. Later the Jews were also expelled from Portugal, so many decided to stay, and become "converts". In public they portrayed themselves as Christians and privately observed Shabbat, consumed kosher foods, and studied Jewish texts. Gracia's family was a pillar of the local secret Jewish community. At 18 she married Francisco Mendes, another secret Jew, and together they built a large business company. They had a daughter who was given two names: Brianda as a nonJewish name and Reina as a secret name. In 1536, the same year her husband died, the Portuguese authorities established the Sacred Office of the Inquisition, following the model of Spain. Many Jews fled, including Grace and her daughter, and settled in Antwerp, Belgium, where they had relatives. Her brother-in-law died suddenly and she was left in charge of a large trading company, so she used her business contacts to help Jews escape from Spain and Portugal. He
put together a great escape network across Europe. While trading spices and gems, he transported secret Jews and their wares. A popular route was for Jews to board Gracia's ships in Spain and Portugal, bound for England, where they were prohibited from entering, but in Southampton or Plymouth, one of Gracia's agents in London, Cristopher Fernandez, warned them if it was safe to stay on board for the next leg of the voyage, to the Netherlands. Once they got there, they had work in the warehouses and in the Gracia businesses, until they could be sent to safer places in Italy or Turkey. British historian Cecil Roth noted, in 1946, that Grace was "the mastermind behind all that elaborate organization" and that "there was nothing similar in Jewish history down to the ways to save Jews from Nazi hell. In Antwerp, Grace's wealth was notorious, and she attracted the attention of kings and princes. Emperor Charles V wanted the daughter of Grace to marry a man of his court, to seize the family wealth. Gracia said she wanted to visit a seaside resort in France 26
and fled with her daughter and as much property as she could take. From France to Venice, but he could not reveal his Judaism publicly, because doing so would have implied the end of his commercial activity. Later they had to flee to Ferrara, where, for the first time, he declared his Judaism using his name, Grace. There they were blamed for a plague that appeared and forced them to leave the place. Gracia settled in Constantinople, the center of the Ottoman Empire, and from there she continued to transport Jews to freedom on her secret routes, as Turkey received those expelled from Europe. As time passed, Gracia maintained hospitals, schools and synagogues in Ottoman lands and the Synagogue of La SeĂąora was open to all Jews. His bravery allowed thousands of Jews to escape certain death at the hands of the Inquisition. And in addition, poor people began to receive food, an attitude not common in those days, which was later
imitated by other wealthy people who began to do the same. A Renaissance influencer! His heroism and generosity deserve to be known, they are his luminous traces! Until the next footprints! Constanza is a Teacher.
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When the Missionaries came to Hawaii By Horacio Rivara When the Missionaries arrived in Hawaii in 1820, they observed that the natives danced on the waves, standing on long boards. -Why are they doing that crazy thing? They asked. The Hawaiians were naive enough to tell you the story. His ancestors lived in Bora Bora, but a serious conflict broke out between the island's authorities, who forced human sacrifices to flatter the gods, and his great-greatgrandparents, who were a group of young people who rebelled. To avoid the battle it was agreed that the rebels would leave forever. So they took three ships, supplies, and sailed 4000 kilometers until they happened to find uninhabited Hawaii. But before going down they made a promise, the gods would no longer be
honored with murder, neither of men nor of animals, but how would they do it? Someone proposed that it could be with flowers, and it was accepted immediately (that is why visitors, even today, receive a wreath of flowers). A girl proposed that it could be with dances, it was also approved with cheers. But a group of boys wanted something more active and adventurous, and they proposed to ride the waves on boards, doing pirouettes. They asked the gods and they said: Jewel, it is more pleasant to see than a torn heart. The missionaries, although they considered it good that human sacrifices are no longer made, prohibited dances as too sensual, and Surfing. The punishments were strong, but rumors spread that in the middle of the night, under the moonlight, some ventured into the waves.
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There is a universal law that when people understand it, humanity will stop having problems and live happily ever after. At every crossroads in life one must choose between freedom and oppression. He who chooses oppression always fails, even if in the short term it seems that he does not. And freedom in the long run triumphs. It is law. Mussolini and Hitler seemed wildly successful in August 1940, and the fools wanted to follow suit. Their societies were destroyed and destroyed. East Germany in 1989 believed itself powerful behind a huge wall. It fell in 5 hours. Surfing today has 30 million federated athletes on the 5 continents, let's calculate about 100 million more who are not. Roll over in your grave, Missionaries. That is why I said on March 14 that Confinement was going to be one of Humanity's greatest failures. No, they told me, WHO, Imperial College London, the doctors subsidized by Soros and Gates know more than you.
I don't need to have studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires to know that the price freeze was going to end in disaster. In fact, it has been 4500 years since all price controls failed, since the First of Sargon of Akkad, in old Sumeria. He didn't need to be a graduate of the FBI Academy in Quantico to understand that Prohibition was going to end in massacre, and people drinking three times as much; have a title of auctioneer to know that the law that prohibits raising rents increases rents. Or being Gordon Gekko to realize that the dollar ban was going to make it rise to the stratosphere. Nor do I have to be a couples 32
counselor to tell someone that if he continues to be jealous of his girlfriend like that, he is only going to get her to cheat or abandon him. I just need to understand this law. Some countries confined a short time, and failed a little, Argentina and Spain an eternity, and failed immensely. It is Law. Freedom loses. Forever.
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Ghost talks By Fernando Giuliani Every night, like many years ago, the doors are closed after eight o'clock, with their traditional squeaks, warning that another day is ending. They only remain open if the funeral of a king takes place, it is the only event that allows them to remain open, no matter what time of day or night. With the closing of the doors comes darkness, while the responsible Benedictines turn off the dim lights. The darkness is not absolute, since the lights of the city filter through the stained glass windows that adorn the walls. The static lights of lanterns and vehicle mobiles, which would not stop passing throughout the night, generate whimsical and mysterious shadows inside the abbey, at the top they illuminate consecutively all the banners and shield flags of the nobility that hang from rigid masts inclined as if looking for the center of the ceiling, giving a weird look, neither gloomy, nor terrifying, just weird. Not 34
many can see this show, since at this time no one is on the inside. After twelve, just a few seconds after the last stroke, the ghosts of the night begin to see this effect. They do not come out before because the rudeness of the chimes goes through them and annoys them, more than the lights themselves. They have an hour to roam where they want; They take advantage of the fact that they do not have a body and can go wherever they please. In an hour the next bell will ring, but you can bear it since it is only one. Each one of their graves begins to emerge; Some of the walls, others of the floor, begin to stretch to regain a little elasticity, since they have been locked up and lying down for hours. Luckily they float, because their legs are totally asleep, you can say dead. Except for Johnson, who, as he has the smallest tomb space in the abbey (only 40 x 40cm), has been buried standing upright. He goes out and lies down to get some rest. Like so many years, there are meetings between them of all kinds, but a group of
three who secluded themselves in a corner if it was cold, and if the weather helped, climbed the towers or crossed the roofs of the building, has caught my attention. Palace of the Lords to end up sitting on Big Ben itself, watching the lights of small barges that were cruising the Thames. They liked this place that they could see change over time, let's not forget that years ago they left our life, and they have been ghosts for the same number of years. Lately I have noticed that only two of them are being found, since the third prefers the intimacy of Elizabeth's tomb, since he has managed, after so many attempts, to maintain a kind of love affair with her. The truth is that Enrique VII had been following her for a long time, but he was never lucky; Now it seems that he succeeded, that is why both Isaac and Charles wait for him every night to see if he will accompany them as he did before, but they see how he comes out of his grave and enters Isabel's; then they hear that noise, muffled by the marble tombstones, of the swaying of the oak chest where the old Queen is buried, 36
having furious sex between them, as furious as two old men over five hundred years old can have. When those noises begin, they already know that they cannot wait for Enrique any longer and they go out to their favorite places to philosophize like over a hundred years ago. Isaac has been dead since 1727, Charles is much younger, since 1882. But despite the age difference they became very close friends. There are things that unite them; It is not about the theories that they developed, that became known all over the world. No, none of that, what unites their lives is that first Isaac, with his willingness to explain everything that surrounded him through science, was very markedly against religion. Then Charles with his theory of the evolution of the species showed that man did not descend from Adam and Eve, thus also confronting the Church. The issue is that both sleep their eternal sleep inside one of them, one of the most famous in the world: Westminster.
With so many years, the passage of time also took effect on them; both are pale, white as their sheets, just as white as their hairs, which cover different parts of their faces. Isaac has his hair on his head with long curls that hang over his shoulders; Charles, no longer hair on his head, has them all and very long in his beard. They both have a bit of Alzheimer's. They forget some things, so it is common to hear them have the same discussions sometimes, but it is always interesting to hear each other's points of view and the conclusions drawn from the same topic; every time this happens, their conclusions are totally different, which states that everything is relative, although that theory is from another ghost. They have seen the city change sitting looking at the river, listening to the whisper of the flowing water, the old lanterns that were once made of gas, with dim light, were changed by more powerful electric light lamps, but using the same supports, which they gave a historical frame to the walk along the river bank. The old draft carriages 38
gave rise to cars, but always trying to be friendly with the history and its buildings, as taking care of the image, until a few years ago, that harmony was broken by the multi-colored lights of the London eye that rotates throughout the day and it's only a hundred meters down the coast from the front. Today at all hours there are many people walking through the area, more and more, and we must be more careful every day not to be seen. So they settle in to see what happens in the world of the living, and they see a wandering figure that appears from this height under the trees and then disappears again, not following a path of straight lines, but something very sinuous, they do not need approach to understand that the drunkard can hardly stand up, he carries an old umbrella in his hand that he uses as a support cane, but it is not enough; in the other a bottle that he has been kissing constantly and that still has almost half the liquid to kiss. Isaac asks:
- Carlos, seeing this, are you sure that we are the evolution of the monkey? Do you really think that we could have evolved to become this, that it cannot stand? - Isaac, friend, I have no doubts. If you notice, despite all that he has drunk, he has a highly developed instinct to avoid the laws of gravity that you have deciphered and he still stands without falling to the ground, like your apple did. - You're right, when I think about it, I appreciate having been under that apple tree and not under the palm tree with coconuts, I would not have been able to write physics as it is still known and I would have been a ghost many years before ... Anyway there are always people who he tries to find new laws and as his theories advance they make the previous ones obsolete, but mine remains well in force, although I do not know what will happen with the variables of time and space, now they say that it can be curved with wormholes that join two distant places in space and time, and the truth is that I do not understand that.
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- I do understand about wormholes, do not forget that when I left life I was very big, so for a long time I was surrounded by worms in my grave, which filled my clothes with holes. They arrived very skinny and ended up very fat while they ate me slowly. - On the other hand, I took the apple to the grave so they have to eat. - Yours was easy, you lay down to rest under the tree and everything suddenly appeared to you, I had to go to the south of the world, to those remote places of Argentine Patagonia ... How beautiful it was, it was cold, but it was beautiful; The truth is that I moved everywhere and I came across all the native Indians, Araucanians, Patagonians and Tehuelches, all native, and they have evolved over time. What I don't understand is why some evolve and others go backwards. Some students, people who spend the summer in the Caribbean, floggers, go backwards and now become Mapuches and fight for something that does not belong to them, nor did it belong to them, if they were always Chilean, like others who are professionals and become Kirchnerists, all of them they go
backwards, they regress almost to the point of reverting to being unthinking monkeys, even a little worse still, that may throw my theory overboard. I told you I went far away and among so many nonsense that I did, I let myself be bitten by an elongated little bug with little white dots that they call a vinchuca, which cost me my death, while you developed everything just lying under the tree. Tell me, did the apple hit you hard? - No, the apple fell a meter from me, but when I saw it it was as if everything turned in slow motion, as if time stopped and began to pass very slowly, I could see the same moment it detached from the branch , how I was coming straight to the floor, I had time to get up, I made a movement to the side as if gaining position, I looked fixedly at my assistant who was coming to look for me, and when the moment came I jumped with my eyes wide open, looking at the apple and I hit it with a head butt, my assistant flew to his right with a changed hand, but the effort was in vain, I nailed it in the angle, he had no chances. After that, over time he gave the game a name and invented football, look at 42
what a coincidence, with my head butt we invented football here in England, and now the best player is one who comes from far away where you developed yours. They remembered that Henry VII had left them for Isabel I a long time ago, they made fun of him and her a little, that she was quite fat even now that the worms took all the meat to her; They looked again at the drunk who was following from one side to the other with hardly any progress. "Could it be that there are other forces that shake it laterally and not only gravity influences it?" "Gravity, it's the state it's in," said Charles, as Big-Ben hit one. - Shall we go? - I ask. - "A little wind rose that makes it difficult for us to stay still, do not forget that if it blows harder it can drag us to Buckingham and I do not want to run into Henry VIII, he knows that we are friends of his father and he does not love us because he says he does. We have been on the wrong path, especially since he found out that he is in love with Isabel I. - Come on, if we find a couple more in some corner of the abbey, I'll show you a little
game that I learned over there in Argentina, it is played with cards and a lot of signs are used, it's called Truco, it's very good, let's look for others two and we play. You will like. - Come on, absolutely nothing is going to happen, and thanks to my law we already know that if the drunkard falls he will not go further than to the ground. The truth is that they are right, this breeze is getting stronger and stronger and if it degenerates into a wind they can be blown away who knows where How do I know all this? is that I am one of the ghosts that walk around every night, I do not like to get together with others, but I listen to them. Whole nights they had passionate talks on high-flying philosophy. Who I am? Nobody, I am the ghost of Arthur, King Arthur, and as a ghost I could not be counting these things, nor writing them and much less you reading them, unless you are one of us without knowing it yet. The author is an engineer and the story is part of the book 44
"Tu, el imputado y otros cuentos" ‌. Editor's comment: Los Argentinos , periodically repeating history , won't we be ghosts in a structure that looks like a country? ‌.
Concepts The Masonic vision of the Master of Samos. By Raimundo Collado At first it was the word. And the word was God. Everything was done for her and without her nothing of what exists was made. But the word was the Great Architect, maker of the stars, the stones, the plants, the animals and the men, in a game of mutual relationships, conjugated under a universal pattern as a synthesis of such prolific architecture. Once upon a time there was a Greek colony in southern Italy, in Magna Graecia. There was a man named Pythagoras
who founded an association that was both a philosophical school and a religious community; that had something secret and mysterious, as dark and new was the cult of the god Dionysus, whose faith its members professed. The Dionysian cult was inspired by the Orphic mysteries, revealed to the poet and musician Orpheus. But what a paradox: in the spirit of the Pythagoreans, what predominated as in any Greek spirit, was the cult of form: the serene balance of the perfect and limited human; the Apollonian in clear contrast to the Dionysian, kingdom of Chaos, which preceded and threateningly surrounds that Cosmos or Order. It is enough to probe the world of relationships interwoven by the Master from Samos to discover this primacy of Order; For example, the creation of the dodecahedron as a symbol of the universe is not arbitrary, but the number 12 traditionally already has a sacred and universal character. Twelve was the number of gods admitted to Greece, Etruria, and Rome; twelve that of the members of certain priestly colleges of archaic 46
Rome; twelve the number of the virgins of the Etruscan and Roman pavilion. The march of the sun through cosmic spaces is depicted in an iconographic way by means of the 12 zodiacal signs; each of which represents the gates of recognition of the macrocosm, just as our five senses emulate those of the microcosm. This interdependence of the macro and microcosm demands to pay attention not only to the spatial measure but to its complementary temporal, which we will obtain from the aforementioned numbers. Indeed, if we subtract 5 from 12, the result is 7, a number that indicates the septenary condition of Man; and if, finally, we add these three figures, it gives us 24, the solar day, which, initiatically, is the sign of temporality that links, once again, the macrocosm with the microcosm. Consequently, we have obtained the rhythms of 5 and 7 corresponding to Man; and 12 and 24, which relate it to the movements of the solar system. In another sense, if we reduce the number 12 to digits, that is, we add 1 and 2, the result will be 3, a number so precious in Masonry.
In the midst of this set of speculations that are projected to infinity and are not exhausted by those previously considered, the Pythagoreans believed they found the principle or arche in numbers; hence they assigned to those a Kabbalistic significance and to some a sacred symbolism. These great cultivators of mathematics interpreted that the secret of the universe was written in mathematical signs: a fundamental principle from which everything is derived. They even observed that in the fine arts, music is subject to number and measure. In short, everything was governed by number and order; and even the sidereal bodies, in their rhythmic movement, interpret a musical symphony, imperceptible to the human ear: an idea of musical harmony of the spheres collected by the talented Augustinian monk of Horacian inspiration, Fray Luis de Leรณn, in his Ode to Salinas. This same concept produced another contribution: the eternal return of souls, which transmigrate to another body when death occurs, thus intoning the infinite symphony of the Universe. That is the genesis 48
of metempsychosis that will later pass to Plato. The above considerations are not the most remarkable aspect of Pythagoras. It is not the triad, the tetraktys, the square of the hypotenuse, the astronomical knowledge about the rotation and translation of the earth, the wise appreciations about the soul, the world, order and harmony, the State and the laws that have made from that thinker from Greece to the Master of Masters. The most probable idea that we can attribute to it, participates in the simplicity of greatness without discarding its complexity. It is not just revealed without further ado, but nests in the insistent search for a universal pattern that allows us to conceive of the Universe as an essentially interdependent whole; markedly Apollonian, markedly Greek on the other hand, representing serene clarity or Order. Order, which the Master of Samos understood as a non-interchangeable synonym of Cosmos; wakefulness of the Above to take care of the Below; both Pallas Athena and the Furies when they came to the scene of the tragedy to restore that perfect
balance before the actors announced their end; destined to govern the civic behavior of mortals, destined to understand the meaning of their existence. Perhaps at this moment someone comes to this scenario where we try to understand that meaning once again. Perhaps it is the spirit of Venerable Pythagoras who assists us and silently blows our ears: At first it was the arche. And the arche were the numbers. Everything was done for them and without them nothing was made of what exists. But the arjĂŠ despairs the philosopher. And the search for the common pattern is the engine of their sleeplessness. Because in him the Truth is manifested, over and over again. We, modest builders of the Temple, only have to walk and back through our lives until we reach the answer in capital letters. Until learning the logic behind this great game of mutual relations that has been called the Great Architect.
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Reflections To project By: Euge Cerro Once I remember, they asked me what I felt when they called me homeland. I kept thinking, because I could not find the right words to define it and I realized that I did not know the feeling it transmitted, that for me it was empty. Since I was a girl they have taught me that the homeland is the feeling of belonging to your country, your home of birth. All my life I have been encouraged to search, not settle, to fight, to study and not stay with just one side of things, because what they tell you is already programmed to sound nice. Since I was a girl, I read and listen to the same news, the same social situation, the same complaints.
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I am so tired of living in such a rich place, not only in land but in professionals, wanting to continue, in projects, but constantly being boycotted. I cannot believe the situation we are currently living in, I cannot believe what is happening to nature, our country is burning and yet some continue to do business. I am tired of a corrupt politician earning more than a pensioner, a volunteer firefighter, a doctor, and obviously more than a worker who gets up every day to go to work. I'm tired of living in an unstable place, where your economy is worth nothing, where you cannot project into the future, because one day you wake up and your salary is worth nothing. I'm sick of seeing people defend nefarious political ideals that do nothing but impoverish people to manipulate them. I am tired of the business they do at the cost of our health, of our soils, of our land.
They release prisoners and give them more rights than victims. They loot, lie, steal, take land. They sell you the phrase "Life over the economy", when we have been locked up for months, with the largest number of cases and deaths in the world and obviously without a viable economy. But beware, the judicial reform continues. I am tired of the political class continuing to decide over us. An elephantian state for years, which generates more and more poverty, and ignorance. People believe the story, but let me tell you that the story has always been empty of content. I see a lot of inequality, a lot of injustice, a lot of lack of empathy. It's easy to talk from the comfort of your living room. So when they ask me what the word homeland means, I don't know what to say. I invite you to politicians and their
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are obsolete, and pay attention to what happens every day. This is not belonging to one side or another, it is wanting to have a future, not saving ourselves now and that's it, but projecting. Project a true Homeland. The author is Announcer and Publicist
“Where my Liberty lays, there is my homeland[…]Those who would give up the esencial freedom to achieve a Little temporary safety do not deserve freedom nor safety” Benjamin Frankin
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Reflexión en imágenes. Por Viejo lobo liberal.
“For centuries, the battle of moralitywas fought between those you claimed that your life belongs to god and those you claimed it belongs to your neighbours; Those who claimed that Good is self sacrifice for the Good os ghosts in heaven, and those who claimed that Good is self sacrifice for incompetents in earth. And no one came tos ay that your life belongs to you and the Good is living it” John Galt
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Humour Send: A company understood that the time had come to change the management style and hired a new general manager. The new manager came with the determination to make changes and return to the more productive company On the first day, accompanied by his main collaborators, he made an inspection at the company. Everyone was working at the plant, but one boy was leaning against the wall with his hands in his pockets. Seeing a good opportunity to make his work philosophy very clear, the new manager asked the young man: -How much do you earn per month? - Three hundred pesos, sir, why? - The boy answered without knowing what it was about.
The manager took $ 300 out of his pocket and handed it to the young man, saying: - Here's the salary for this month. Now disappear and never come back! The young man kept the money and left, according to the orders received. The manager then proudly asks a group of workers: - Can any of you tell me what that young man was doing? - Yes, sir - the operators answered astonished - He came to deliver a pizza ... Moral: There are people who are so eager to command that they forget to think. ------------------------------------------------The teacher to Jimmy. What verb tense is "shouldn't have happened"? .... Imperfect condom, teacher. 60
------------------------------------------------A friend who is broke sends an e-mail to another: "if you don't send me 12 euros, I will kill my son and then I will commit suicide" Answer: "There you have 6 euros and leave your son alone."
Riddles 1) What would you fill a can with so that it weighs less than empty? 2) What does the cow give when it is skinny? 3) I was walking towards Villa la Vieja, when I came face to face with three old women. Each old woman carried a sack, each sack carried three sheep. How many old women were going to Villa la Vieja?
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Uni2 The party What is Uni2? Unidos is a political party that intends to recover the ideas that made our country a power and to position freedom again as the fundamental pillar for life in society, economic development and institutional quality. We believe that the key to reversing Argentina's decline is in respect for individual rights, equality before the law, private initiative and the right of each person to seek their own happiness. What sets Uni2 apart from other parties? Internal democracy: the end of the sheet list is one of the fundamental commitments in the creation of Unidos. Any affiliate of the party who so wishes may be a candidate, from an internal election where the Single Transferable Vote (VUT) system will channel the opinions of the members and 62
define those selected for the list and the order in which they will be located. The intolerable practice of “hand-picking� candidates for elective office is avoided. Openness: solid internal democracy guarantees the possibility that any citizen who shares the principles enshrined by the party can join. The intention is to help the ideological space never be divided into elections. The guarantees for those who wish to enter and participate in the internal elections will be the same as for those who already take part. In this way, the party will consolidate itself as an institution of a lasting nature, a tool for union and a guarantee of representativeness. Antipersonalism: the internal division of powers from which the executive authorities of the party will not be able to run for elective positions guarantees that no personalism acquires a preponderant role, remaining as the central axis the ideas promoted by the party in its declaration of principles and its bases of political action.
Innovation: attentive to technological advances and the context in which it arises, those of us who constitute Unidos are aware of the need to adopt technology in their daily operations, and for this we are dedicated to the development of a mobile application. This app will be the vehicle for affiliates to actively participate and decide in internal elections to define pre-candidates. Who is it? We are, quite simply, ordinary people of all ages, who work and study like any other, who enter politics from personal detachment, thinking that Argentina is being changed by a change in Society. We want a change from the roots for Argentina, and we decided to bring the ideas of freedom to the political arena, to allow development and improve the quality of life. What do we want in politics? Our incorporation into the National Congress, the provincial legislatures and the deliberative councils in each municipality will give the space and the entire ideological 64
sector an exponential boost. With a legislative presence, it will be possible to propose real turns in public policy, and give the ideas of freedom a visibility and impact unprecedented in recent years. We invite you to join this proposal. In the following link you can see all the information. https://unidosargentina.org/index.html
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Puzzle solution 1) (Of holes) 2) (Too bad) 3) (None, because the old women did not go to Villa la Vieja, but they came from there)