<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:43:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@pablopb/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What is the nature of evil?]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting topics in philosophy is evil, what is evil? What lead us to do evil? Is it a useful concept or just useful to religion? I think that it is interesting to think about the nature]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/what-is-the-nature-of-evil</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/what-is-the-nature-of-evil</guid><category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:26:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The order of the new universe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of years ago, a group of scientists and philosophers put in motion a plan to create a new universe, they saw this as a way of saving the information and knowledge of the universe we now inhabit.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/tale/@pablopb/the-order-of-the-new-universe</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/tale/@pablopb/the-order-of-the-new-universe</guid><category><![CDATA[tale]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 15:12:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slaved by passions]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the curious things about living in a world full of choices is the fact the we slaves of our passions. Isn't curious that although we have choices, we must do bad choices to keep what we consider]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/slaved-by-passions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/slaved-by-passions</guid><category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:13:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for roots]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is it not interesting how much people crave to know their origins? How in their search for identity they feel overwhelmed by despair and sorrow, when they do not know enough about their past? These questions]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/the-search-for-roots</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/the-search-for-roots</guid><category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:43:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The endless possibilities of knowledge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Although we humans, are beings with immense limitations we also have endless possibilities, and I would go as far as to say that all problems that we face and that we create could be solve with more knowledge.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/the-endless-possibilities-of-knowledge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/the-endless-possibilities-of-knowledge</guid><category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:29:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflections about hate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hate is a feeling that have been the topic of discussion for a very long time, probably since the beginning of our civilization, since the time we acquire language to talk about it. I intend to discuss]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/reflections-about-hate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/reflections-about-hate</guid><category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:55:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem of learning too many languages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Learn a new language is always good, because every time you learn a new language if get access to a new world that was hidden from you, even if in the future we develop a technology capable of doing]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/the-problem-of-learning-too-many-languages</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/the-problem-of-learning-too-many-languages</guid><category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:41:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can esports athletes be Olympians?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the last years with the popularity rising of esports, there have been a movement in favor of the inclusion of esports at the Olympic Games, but that are many doubts about the compatibility of the Olympics]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/can-esports-athletes-be-olympians</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/can-esports-athletes-be-olympians</guid><category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:27:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflections about the absurdness of life]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the great topics of philosophy is about the meaning of life and what make life worth living, there are philosophers who encounter the answer to this question in religion, others in some kind of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/reflections-about-the-absurdness-of-life</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/reflections-about-the-absurdness-of-life</guid><category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:20:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true meaning of intellectualism]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about it means to be an intellectual, and I came to the conclusion that I intellectual is someone capable of thinking outside the constraints of ideology, because someone that only]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/the-true-meaning-of-intellectualism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflections/@pablopb/the-true-meaning-of-intellectualism</guid><category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:17:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond dystopia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Generally in the dystopian books there are always some hope of resistance, or at least the protagonist can try to resist, like in the book 1984. With the advancement of technology, the resistance to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/beyond-dystopia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/beyond-dystopia</guid><category><![CDATA[reflexions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:04:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of the awareness of our insignificance]]></title><description><![CDATA[One can only achieve greatness once its insignificance is properly perceive and understood. To be great is to be aware of the immensity of our universe, is to embrace complexity and perceive things in]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/the-importance-of-the-awareness-of-our-insignificance</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/the-importance-of-the-awareness-of-our-insignificance</guid><category><![CDATA[reflexions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:50:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The European Union and the precarious state of our representative democracy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago I started to hearing about a EU project called article 13, this proposal has as its main goal extend the copyrights of corporations on the internet. Creating things like a link tax,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/the-european-union-and-the-precarious-state-of-our-representative-democracy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/the-european-union-and-the-precarious-state-of-our-representative-democracy</guid><category><![CDATA[reflexions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:06:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[History and fairytales]]></title><description><![CDATA[As I'm growing old and studying history books more often, I've came to the conclusion that the problem with the history classes that I had when I was young, is that they were just like fairy tales. What]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/history-and-fairytales</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/history-and-fairytales</guid><category><![CDATA[reflexions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2018 18:40:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multiple sources of happiness]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the things that I have realized after thinking for a long time about how a person can achieve happiness, is that a good way to get there is finding multiple sources of happiness. When you find something]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/multiple-sources-of-happiness</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/multiple-sources-of-happiness</guid><category><![CDATA[reflexions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:40:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embracing chaos]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the things that I think about from time to time, is about the fragility of our existence and our lifestyle. Everything we create and nourish is in a certain way fragile, everything can be destroyed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/embracing-chaos</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/embracing-chaos</guid><category><![CDATA[reflexions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 20:10:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the truth can give to us?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lately I've been wondering about the value of truth, about why we seek the truth even when we know that it can harm us, what make our quest for the truth more valuable than our quest for joy and pleasure?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/what-the-truth-can-give-to-us</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/what-the-truth-can-give-to-us</guid><category><![CDATA[reflexions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:05:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/6C2W1azD1rBs8i715pX3pAHYgtGre4FssU5xU312jHAxfTuDoZycPuG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that we internalized]]></title><description><![CDATA[We internalize consciously or unconsciously patterns of thought and behavior, and the patterns that are useful to us, we call second nature, and those who are harmful to us we may call bloody roots. We]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/the-things-that-we-internalized</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/the-things-that-we-internalized</guid><category><![CDATA[reflexions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:18:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the cost of the comfort that religion provide?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In his newest book the philosophy professor Stephen Asma talks about the function that religion have in our society, one of the functions mentions is the provision of comfort from the pain cause by the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/what-is-the-cost-of-the-comfort-that-religion-provide</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/what-is-the-cost-of-the-comfort-that-religion-provide</guid><category><![CDATA[reflexions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2018 23:11:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every culture culturally appropriates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cultural appropriation is a heat topic in the public debate, there are the ones that consider cultural appropriation a aggression and a form of imperialism and those who believe that it is a good thing]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/every-culture-culturally-appropriates</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reflexions/@pablopb/every-culture-culturally-appropriates</guid><category><![CDATA[reflexions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pablopb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2018 19:25:27 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>