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• A comment on Conversation: Which books have inspired you the most?

  Nov 21 2011: Brave new world - Aldous Huxley
  Huis Clos - Jean Paul Sartre
  L'étranger - Albert Camus
  1984 - George Orwell
  One, No one and One Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
  The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - José Saramago

• A reply on Conversation: We can learn by exchanging and discussing our own lists of "10 Things I Know to be True."

  Nov 19 2011: Thank you very much Phil for your feedback. Giusi
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  A comment on Conversation: What are the Top 5 things you can teach/share with a 6 year old?

  Nov 16 2011: 1. To accept mistakes without feeling guilty
  2. To forgive
  3. Always ask when need to know something
  4. To be curious about everything nature offers us
  5. To share with others his/her feelings
  6. To live among other kids with the idea that we are all equal and that every difference we see in others makes us richer inside

• A comment on Talk: Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D

  Nov 10 2011: I find this kind of works really amazing, interesting and it is great to see how many efforts are done to preserve our cultural heritage 'closing it' in bits. It would be greater if the same efforts were done to preserve it in real life.

• A reply on Conversation: Is there a framework for forgiving yourself?

  Nov 7 2011: Hi Adriaan, thanks for your comment.
  1. Of course I agree there is a lot of "unknown" and that I consider only "half the picture" to forgive others but what I try to take into consideration is quite often the 'good' there may be in that half;
  2. Learning by our mistakes...uhmm...is it so simple? Situations are never the same even when they appear to be so...however, "get over it" is a good idea! :-)

• A reply on Conversation: Is there a framework for forgiving yourself?

  Nov 6 2011: Forgiving others is much simpler than forgiving yourself, Laszlo.
  I quite often forgive others but I quite never completely forgive myself.
  In forgiving others you take into consideration they are human, they can do mistakes, you take into consideration a lot of things.
  When you have to face forgiveness for yourself you seem have difficulties in considering that. May be because from ourselves we expect more than from others?
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  A comment on Conversation: What are the top 10 technological inventions that defined the last 100 years?

  Nov 6 2011: 1. insulin
  2. contraceptive pill
  3. chemotherapy
  4. microwave oven
  5. computers and microprocessors
  6. nuclear fission
  7. optical fibres
  8. internet
  9. laser
  10 spaceflight

• A reply on Conversation: When making a decision, should we follow our heart or our mind?

  Nov 6 2011: Reading your comment, Laurens, I smiled... "[...] subjects whose choice was made by others, were most satisfied by it. Those subjects who made their own choice always regretted not having made the other choice.": thinking about some situations in my life in which others decided for me I must say that your statement is completely true.
  I don't really like others taking decisions in my place but it is also true that when we are not completely 'rational' others acting in our place can be very 'comfortable' for our mind (and for our heart too).
  However it is important, in my opinion, that till the moment a decision is taken we have shared with people involved our points of view and we have tried all our best to show that our decision would have been different and MAY BE it could have been better.
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  A comment on Conversation: How do we accelerate the growth of non religious community?

  Nov 5 2011: Said like that the word 'community' gives me the idea of 'ghetto': here the non-religious community, there the religious one...
  I'm non-religious but I wouldn't like to be part of a 'community': till we continue to try 'labelling' people (in every domain) we will get nowhere.
  May be we should wonder if we can do something to accelerate the growth of a community where non-religious and religious, together, may have a more constructive way of sharing experiences, thoughts...
  "[...] a system of ideas which can spread like a virus into the minds of religious people and just make them non religious": history teaches us that too many damages have been done trying to make people what they were not. Has mankind to regress?

• A comment on Conversation: What's one thing you wish you had learned in school?

  Nov 5 2011: History of religions. School should be laic but in Italy, among other subjects, only 'Catholic religion' is taught one hour per week...