Saturday, December 25, 2010

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Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (or more christian said Christmas)

What really celebrate Christmas? What we now call Christmas is a Christian holiday that exists prior to its Christianization: originally it was the Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (day of birth of the unconquered sun). This festival, which fell right on December 25, was very popular among the Romans, although the ritual of Sol Invictus has its origin in the East. What not less important, the festival of Deus Sol Invictus is antecedent to the Christian Christmas. The Christian religion and Christianize taken to coincide with this festival making the birth of Christ.

The previous festival was celebrated a few days after the winter solstice. This falls precisely between December 21 and 22 and December 24 the sun seems to stand still in the sky. During this period he has the longest night and shortest day. After this struggle between light and darkness, the invincible or unconquerable sun wins its battle, the light defeats the darkness and return to the days get longer. It was therefore a party celebrating the victory of light directly linked to astronomical events, especially as there are many similar festivals in many cultures also far apart. But what did the Sol Invictus Christmas that we venerate today as the birth of Jesus? The feast of Christmas first appears during the reign of Constantine institutionalized by decree the celebrations of the nativity. The target date was to coincide with the pagans celebrated Sol Invictus: therefore they worshiped the Sun, the holiday fell on December 25 and this was before they did the Christians. The choice of the birth of Jesus at December 25 was nothing but a political choice to match existing holidays and public holidays "emerging". Fortunately, the rescue of the Christians was the edict of Theodosius, which established as the only state religion of Christianity. Christianity and the cult of Christmas worship were then required to be accompanied by a decree that went before, and then replace, the previous celebrations.
The two religions coexisted for a long time, and years after the edict be read again the words of Pope Leo I:

"It's so much the religion of the Sun estimated that some Christians, before entering the Basilica of San Pietro in Vatican, after climbing the stairs, turn to the sun and bending his head they bow in honor of the star shining. We are very distressed and we grieve for the fact that this is repeated for the pagan mentality. Christians must abstain from all appearance of allegiance to the cult of the gods. "You know how

ended up and what has come down today, but the root of this festival and especially its symbolic meaning is rimasto invariato: il sole viene ad allungare le giornate e questo decreta la vittoria della luce sulle tenebre; la luce simbolicamente è nascita e vita, e così, da festa pagana del sole si è arrivati al Natale, festa cristiana della nascita del bambinello. Un fatto che, coincide da sempre con il Sol Invictus: allora buon Dies Natilis Solis Invicti a tutti.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

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Italy: a country on its knees in the snow


Andare e venire dall'italia per un soggetto mediamente insoddisfatto del proprio paese non è una cosa consigliabile. Il rischio è di passare da soggetto mediamente insoddisfatto a soggetto decisamente insoddisfatto.
Fino a giovedì ero a Berlino, in compagnia di freddo e neve. Nulla di abnormal for the cold but rich and functional German city: according to meters, means snowploughs be on the roads on both platforms, tram and bus regularly on time. On my return-alas-I had to deal with bad weather that I brought here and now our decadence emerge from under the desks of spells. A journey of about an hour has turned into an endless hell. All for a sprinkling of snow lasting a few hours and that evening was already gone, but in those hours as panic in our lives! My journey has gone from one hour to five, the roads were impassable, icy, snowy, slippery and dangerous. Public transport has been seriously delayed and the whole country has gone haywire. For the record I was on a cassia, road between Rome and Viterbo, remaining still in the same place for over two hours in good company of other fellow citizens stressed that turned to walk between the cars to see what happens. The snow came and announced it was turning into compacted ice, drivers have taken the difficult route at an average speed of 15 mph to stop completely. No means snowploughs came to fix the roads. We are not equipped as in Germany someone said: sure, but the exceptional phenomenon was expected for days and had to be ready. A look around the other hand, had the impression of an abandoned town to itself, with only people who tried to force himself between themselves and solve their problems. I saw people with shovels shoveling snow or scraping the asphalt off the ice, but what country is this, where individuals take away with piles of rough ice and snow? Where is the state?

Most of chaos occurred when heavy trucks could not get up in front started to slide sideways blocking the transit. Other cars could not move the load by rotating tires on ice. Some is shared with the human drive (or at the push of a person whose arm pushed the car away from the most slippery), but some are more fortunate and managed to not be nailed again. At the end we managed to find a side gate and around parked cars and trucks, but the tragic day brings another painful post-it on the bulletin board of a state in shambles. Eventually, late in the evening, we thought the rain to resolve the situation and dissolve the last ice sheets: and thank goodness, otherwise I would be here to tell you of a camp and not an inconvenience. Nobody has seen, no one felt as if none existed, as if the state was not also a mere invention of television.

Monday, December 6, 2010

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And if the radicals had voted confidence?



The government's days, or not. These are days of the count, talks, games on the thin edge of a razor. One day, Berlusconi seems doomed, the next day it is not more. For days, rumors about the encounter took place between the radicals and a delegation of the PDL. In fact, not entirely discount the radical vote of no confidence to the Berlusconi government, indeed, crunch the numbers and range of continuous uphill and downhill. The radicals, always at center stage, in dribs and drabs to make more noise than a herd of cattle. It is not excluded that the six radicals to the chamber can be decisive in this perverse game of fudicie and distrust, trust in government by voting. Pannella
leave us on edge, you will not know anything until the fateful December 14. I will be in Berlin, and m'auguro comforting to hear when I return.

course, would be a nice return and find joke even his feet, Mr B. Why did the radicals would be lowered when this game? They always had their way of seeing and doing politics, so not surprising they have ping pong. Not that this is condemned as a whole: they are the party of pragmatism, struggling to clear targets. Rather than a party from the government, are a party struggling to get pressure on concrete targets. By doing so you do not get caught a lot of sympathy, and the casual observer is bound to condemn them. Who knows them esteem and respect them, but even the most faithful can knit his brow in some cases.

seems Pannella have explicitly requested, proposing a vote of confidence in return or at least abstention; obviously need to see how these tales by newspaper is true. The fact is that the confidence is not something as obvious as it seems.
The radical demands ranging from prisons to the electoral reform issue to achieve a bipolar system to English, the reform of the judiciary in the separation of the careers of pm to the "democratization of rai" for equal access to public television. Rai
If the land is viable and the Judiciary, the other two claims, the road is impassable: Pannella asked amnesty. Again? We do, we ask each one five years? If the first did not solve the problem, how can he do the second? You can trade a voting for a bad government for an amnesty from the questionable results? If there is a problem with prisons, this is not the way to salvation. Also, Berlusconi is not railed against the amnesty proposed by the left, making it a workhorse for obtaining consent? Now, would change the perspective for a narrow confidence? What do not you go to earn bread.

Without the problem of inadequate prisons, are the other three points. The radicals are extravagant types, but the proposals are always serious and often intelligent. Remains unknown: how the request then correspond to the actual realization? You know, when you are pressuring the proposals are acceptable, but almost never match the original idea, and then agreements leave the time they find. To deal with some characters you have to go cautious: the guarantee of the realization is there?
Provided finally, that Berlusconi and his men, taken by an excess of gratitude decided to please the radicals, we can say of us won? These four objectives, concrete and achievable, seem to offer a poor exchange to Italy in exchange for a continuation of this government.
There would probably be at least the possibility that radicals may influence decisive and not just the conduct of future government, put vetoes and determine from time to time the majority and minority. Who knows! Certainly, the radicals do vote along with the league would be a hard, hard blow.