You can read this text in Portuguese at: http://diariosdeharveydent.blogspot.com.br/2017/07/ingressos-diferenciados-brasileiras-nao.html Before you ask me, no, I'm not a radical Liberal thinking that the ‘market god’ can self-regulate and that under no circumstances should the State intervene in private enterprise; ok, I believe and defend freedom, but I think freedom isn’t the mere inexistence of constraint and coercion in the relations between the State and individuals, for me the lack of job, education, health, and safety can be as harmful to freedom as compulsion and coercion. I do not label myself, in fact as part of this or that political aspect (nor philosophical), since I analyze proposals and projects on their merits, not by what current defend it. There is a friend of mine, for example, who told me not to support the CLT (Brazilian work laws) because it had been proposed by a fascist government (Getúlio Vargas, 1940’s). Wait, let’s think a little… Does it even matter

African religions: Respect, but without State encouragement I remember as if it were yesterday. We was at Pedagogy class (at that time I was studying Graduation of Science in Nature) and the teacher was talking about a dispute that was occurred in the Municipal House of Representatives about inclusion of word “gender” in the Municipal Plan of Education. During the explanation, the teacher hardly criticized the participation of evangelicals in the debate, manifesting themselves among those who didn’t want to allow the modification of the law; “that hurts the Secular State” she said, and I agree. However, another student, who was present in the mess commented: “but in your side, professor, were entities representative of African matrix cult, does not this also hurt Secularism?”. “No”, she said, “because they were in our side, the right side…” What?? Are you saying that Secular State means only those religions with which I agree (or which agree with me) can participate in the State

Some time ago, an acquaintance of mine (she is evangelical) who, on occasion, remembers having the sacred mission of trying to convert this disbeliever, uttered a phrase: Jesus is my best friend. She also explain me is to Jesus that she appeal when she has problems, when she has douts, when she is sad… I confess I thought about arguing for the umpteenth time that her faith (in spite of she having the right to follow it), makes no sense for me; that the fact that her believe doesn’t make it true; that being written in a book is not enough for me; that Pascal Wager (which says if you don’t believe and the believers are right you are lost, but if you believe and you are wrong you don’t lose anything) is a logical absurdity; that I’m not Christian, but Buddhist; and hundreds of other arguments that I have presented to her, unsuccessfully, thousands of times, firing, as the Bible says, pearls to pigs. After that I gave up, she is blind to rationality, and I realized that she lives in h

Among other activities, I am also a photographer (I studied Advanced Photography at UW Oshkosh, with Professor Don Stolley), and I will share with you some of my works, starting with this one, which I called “business office”.  I took this in my city (Uruguaiana/RS/Brazil), when I was coming back from a photo shoot, walking with Pink Floyd in the shuffle when I came across the unusual scene: The business office in the middle of the sidewalk (on the rustic gate, we can read in Portuguese “we do freight – we load trucks”). Although furnished, with   billboard  and commercial phone (#91232191), the businessman was out, certainly keeping his capitalist venture growing, somewhere in the city. Technical details: Camera: Nikon D3100 Speed: 1/125 Lenses: Sigma DG 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.0-5.6, adjusted at 70.0 mm, ƒ/4.0 Post production: Adobe Lightroom 5.3; Adobe Photoshop CS6

Boyega on a Star Wars panel at ComicCon Whoever accompanies the pop world certainly knows John Boyega, young Briths star of Nigerian origin, who did an outstanding performance as Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, role that won him the Oscar BAFTA – British Academy of Film and Television Arts – as revelation actor (deserved, in my opinion). Indeed, the actor is one of the good things in the movie, which stood out for having been a woman as protagonist, and more than that, revealed the face of a stormtrooper in the first teaser, and his face isn’t white! Point for diversity, representativeness and nerdverse (the nerd universe), point for women and Afro-descendants both unfortunately so poorly represented in hero films or, when they appear in them, appear as villain or victim. My woman (who is Afro-descendant) everytime shows me that black people are the first to die in action movies, they are the equivalents to the security officers (also called “red shirt ones”) in Star Trek o

Each time I think about my country and its laws, I regret that we have not made a ipsis litteris copy of the first amendment of the American Constitution. The content of this legal instrument is simple: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” 1 , however, its effect is powerful! Thanks to the first amendment, if you are American you can, in your country, to express freely your ideas; even if this ideas may seem absurd to others or to the government you can publish it, you can freely profess the religion you choose without any benefit or impediment on the part of the State to this or any other religion. Brazilian constitution is considered is considered one of the most modern in the world, and theoretically provides for freedom of expression in it

Brazilian Democracy is in ICU Brazilian democracy goes badly, and it is not speculation, it is an observation… Ok, I recognize that I am not a political scientist, nor historian, nor have formation in social sciences, but my analysis is the analysis of a citizen. So... the solution is a new dictatorship, is not it? Putting in power someone who will “save the homeland”, put everything in the axes and, after it, hand over power to the people! Really??? Before of all, it should be clarified that when I talk about dictatorship I am not talking just about our post-1964 military regime, or its nostaligics. I am talking also about the other side of the coin, those who consider Cuba and Venezuela as examples to be followed, after all “tonight millions of children will sleep on the street, but none of them are Cuban” 1 … for those, is not important that even with a birth and death rate similar to Brazil, the US and Argentina, Cuba had a growth of only 59.5% in the population (from 7.1