Misunderstanding

You never understood anything, that's because you thought that everyone else felt the same as you do. You misunderstood from the very beginning.
– End of Evangelion

Image, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet, what are we to do about this terrible significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision another's interior workings and invisible aims? Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof cell, summoning people out of words and then proposing that these words are closer to the real thing than the real people that we mangle with our ignorance every day? The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that –well, lucky you.
– Philip Roth, American Pastoral (1998: 35).

Military conscience

War, made by armies, es the great expression of violence and ignorance. Japan, for example, has a pacifist Constitution that the government transgress sending troops to other countries like Iraq. I'm not only against all people who use violence to defend some ideals, territory or a ideology, I'm against too to the conscience of an army itself, people who act not by self iniciative but by orders from others.

Interview to Kenzaburo Oé by Xavi Ayén (Spanish)

Age

Image, Carts

we are always asked
to understand the other person's
viewpoint
no matter how
out-dated
foolish or
obnoxious.

one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially if they are
aged.

but age is the total of
our doing.
they have aged
badly
because they have
lived
out of focus,
they have refused to
see.

not their fault?
whose fault?
mine?

I am asked to hide
my viewpoint
from them
for fear of their
fear.

age is no crime
but the shame
of a deliberately
wasted
life

among so many
deliberately
wasted
lives
is.
– Charles Bokowski

Intellectual error

The Dyers' Street in Kanda, Hiroshige

A certain swordsman in his declining years said the following: In one's life. there are levels in the pursuit of study. In the lowest level, a person studies but nothing comes of it, and he feels that both he and others are unskillful. At this point he is worthless.

In the middle level he is still useless but is aware of his own insufficiencies and can also see the insufficiencies of others.

In a higher level he has pride concerning his own ability, rejoices in praise from others, and laments the lack of ability in his fellows. This man has worth.

In the highest level a man has the look of knowing nothing.

These are the levels in general; But there is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished. He truly knows his own insufficiencies and never in his whole life thinks that he has succeeded. He has no thoughts of pride but with self-abasement knows the Way to the end.

It is said that Master Yagyu once remarked, "I do not know the way to defeat others, but the way to defeat myself." Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

What is Veridis Quo?

Veridis derivates from the Latin word veritas which means truth, Quo is a latin word which means place, where or space; Veridis Quo translates «where truth is found».

The expression became popular because is the name of a track from the album Discovery of the electronic music duo Daft Punk and especially for the Japanese animation of the album, Interstella 5555: (インターステラ 5555) The Story of the Secret Star System, which without dialogues narrate the story of a space adventure full of color and music.

Veridis Quo is also the title of this blog, which by the way have predilection for space topics and is expected to become a virtual space where truth can be found, always promoting debate and discussion.

Knights fights in order to make only one truth real… Truth is strong because it is true… Truth is justice because it is true… Don't you think it’s very persuasive? –Serial Experiments Lain.

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Who is Marfil?

Marfil is a Spanish word that comes from the Arabic ‘aẓm alfíl (elephant bone) and it means ivory in English, I choose this word as my nickname because of its euphony rather for its meaning –I don’t like particularly elephants or their tusks, although my favorite color is in fact white–, for that reason you will comprehend that I prefer to don’t translate my nickname to other languages when is possible or when is necessary opt for homophones.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. –Foucault

My avatar is a white Haro (ハロ), a small robot that presents a primitive IA, albeit adaptative and in evolution. For the same reason you can find me sometimes using avatars of kitsune (狐), which are foxes in Japanese mythology that evolve in their lifes and are distinguished because of their number of tails, which can be even nine and represent the longevity of the fox.

Haro, Steven La

I’m interested in general in science, but science is so large that we form preferences on certain disciplines, in my case I prefer robotics and space exploration, which are areas that I think are going to have a exciting development in this century and that will have incredible consequences for the future of humanity and our planet. Still, I emphasize that science is a coherent system made from all of its disciplines, and that knowledge is an end rather than a mean although it certainly can be used to improve our technology or quality of life.

Nowadays I don’t perceive that humanity looks at science as an objective, only a minority thinks in that way, and I don’t perceive even any other goal from humanity whatever it could be: Happiness, peace, nature conservation, etc. all of them are means and most of the time their alteration comes from human itself –boredom, war, predation, etc.–, consequently the efforts in these topics are just corrections to lead us into what should be standard, instead of innovate and transcend human aptitudes, the most important of them: consciousness and knowledge.

The deficiency of an objective is the main cause of the human emptiness: It turns humanity into a succession of people, and individuals into a succession of instants without any transcendence.

Raison D'être "Reason to exist".

We all born without a reason to exist and nevertheless we live for years until we finally ask ourselves why are we living. Off course we all too have pleasures, hobbies and affection to others surrounding us, but that doesn’t compose by itself a reason to exist.

Anytime have you though about how insignificant is our existence in this planet? I did it and I won’t stop thinking about it. –Suzumiya

My reason to exist is do all I can to learn and improve the knowledge for others in the future, even if I wont be alive then, even if I don’t have any bound with those next generations and even if they wont resemble an human or are million light years from Earth.