"In front of any power that demands submission and sacrifices of all kinds, the task of the philosopher is to be disrespectful, mischievous, naughty, un-disciplined and un-submissive. Rebel and disobeying, although convinced that his task is desperate, he must incarnate the resistance against the Leviathan and his water carriers. With political matters, one must be impious and atheist.
(Michel Onfray / Cynismes / 2000)
"The best success of a dandy is the way he uses his own time and not his money. He despises the gold in which middle-class people stagnate: his master piece is his freedom, the acquisition of his freedom."
(Michel Onfray)
My Philosophy
"The life of every day, the use of one’s body and one’s own time, the use of pleasures and all self-techniques, here is the ground for a philosophical quest".
(Michel Onfray )
What Gives Me Hope
My wife and my Children, Cosmic Energy, Love, Happiness
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
"Too many Christian centuries have taught the women that they were nothing, less than nothing, the dregs of Humanity, with no soul, not worth any consideration, sinners, temptress and other bullshits.”
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"Monotheist religions share the same faith : life on earth is a fiction ; what counts is a back-world full of creatures that make fairy tales look very pale – a god who sees everything, a bearded man who splits the sea in two, a virgin who gives birth, a dead man who resurrects, a prophet who hates ham ; the body is a punishment ; a woman is a catastrophe ; to give birth is a necessity to perpetuate a negativity under which name we are castrated…”
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"Monotheisms also hate the individuals who don’t sacrifice to the same god as theirs. Intolerant, jealous, exclusive, arrogant, proud, dominant, they dictate laws for others. Hence their being accomplice with the warriors, soldiers, military people of all kinds."
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"Each time I wished to exchange a few words with a back-world seller, whether they were Jewish, Christian or Muslim – they sell the same mats – I only met people who had a good memory but who, most of the time, put their intelligence under the bushel…. Memories of the commonplaces told and written in the flesh of their childhood; and refusal to think so that they can nurture their illusions.”
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"... Christians seem more gifted for resentment than for loving their neighbors."
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"The three monotheisms – I really mean the three of them – fundamentally teach the same hatred towards women, desires, pulsions, passions, sensuality and freedom, all freedoms. Let’s not get excited over the importance or not to teach religions in school, the emergency is the teaching of atheism."
(Michel Onfray)
What/who changed my life and why
The Directores: Ackerman / Aldrich / Alfonso / Arrau / Almodovar / Altman / Angelopoulos / Annaud / Antonioni / Arcand / Audiard / Auster / Babenko / Bardem / Benigni / Bergman / Bertolucci / Billie August / Blier / Bogdanovich / Bolognini / Borowczyk / Branagh / Brisseau / Buñuel / Campion / Capra / Cassavetes / Chabrol / Chaplin / Chen Kaige / Chéreau / Clarke / Cocteau / Cohen’s / Coppola / Cronenberg / Curtiz / Cyril Collard / Danny Boyle / Demme / Démy / DeSica / Dreyer / Ed Harris / Edward Yang / Egoyan / Elia Suleiman / Fassbinder / Fellini / Ferrara / Flora Gomes / Ford / Gallo / George Roy Hill / Gilliam / Glauber Rocha / Greenaway / Gutierrez Álea / Haneke / Hartley / Hathaway / Hawks / Huang Shuqin / Iñarritu / Iosseliani / Ivory / Jaoui / Jarman / Jarmush / Jean Vigo / Jewison / John Parker / José Luís Guerín / Jeunet / Kasdam / Kathryn Bigelow / Kaurismaki / Kazan / Keaton / Kiarostami / Kieslowski / Kitano / Konchalovski / Krag-Jacobsen / Kramer / Kubrick / Kurosawa / Kusturika / Kwon-Taek Im / Lang / Lattuada / Lean / Liliana Cavani / Lina Wertmuller / Liv Ullman / Loach / Lucas / Lynch / Malle / Mamet / Man Ray / Mankiewicz / Marc Caro / Marco Ferreri / McTiernam / Meirelles / Michael Radford / Mikhalkov / Milos Forman / Moretti / Murnau / Neil Jordan / Nicholas Ray / Norman McLaren / Olmi / Ophuls / Orson Welles / Oshima / Ozon / Pasolini / Paul Bogart / Paul Thomas Anderson / Peckinpah / Penn,Arthur / Penn,Sean / Percy Adlon / Pialat / Polanski / Pollack / René Clement / Renoir / Resnais / Richard Brooks / Richard Kelly / Richard Lester / Rivette / Rohmer / Ruy Guerra / Salvatore / Samira Makhmalbaf / Saura / Schnabel / Schrader / Scola / Scorcese / Sheridan / Sofia Coppola / Sokurov / Sorín / Souleymane Cissé / Stephen Daldry / Stephen Frears / Syberberg / Tanner / Tarantino / Tarkovsky / Tati / Tavernier / Taviani's / Téchiné / Terence Davies / Tim Burton / Todd Haynes / Tony Kaye / Tornatore / Truffaut / Tsai Ming Liang / Van Ackeren / Van Sant / Verhoeven / Vitali Kanevski / Von Trier / Von Trotta / Wadja / Walter Salles / Wayne Wang / Wenders / Winterberg / Wong Kar-Wai / Woody Allen / Wyler / Yamamura / Yates / Zhang Yimou / Zinnemann
The singers and Groups:4 Etoiles / Adriana Calcanhoto / António Rivas / Arrested Development / Astor Piazolla / Belle Chase Hotel / Beny Moré / Björk / Bob Marley / Carla Bruni / Carlos Paredes / Chavela Vargas / Chet Baker / Chico César / Chris De Burgh / Chris Isaak / Cool Hipnoise / Compay Segundo / David Byrne / David Sylvian / Dexys Midnight Runners / Elis Regina / Elvis Costello / Emir Kusturika & No Smoking Orchestra / Fausto / Fisher-Z / Frank Zappa / George Brassens / Georges Moustaki / Gershwin / Gotan Project / Ibrahim Ferrer / Jane Birkin / James Taylor / Jeff Buckley / Jethro Tull / João Gilberto / Joe Jackson / John Cale / Jorge Palma / José Medeiros / Jovens do Prenda / Kate Bush / Kiesos / Kussondulola / Ladysmith Black Mambazo / Laurie Anderson / Led Zeppelin / Lee Clayton / Leo Ferré / Leonard Cohen / Lou Reed / Lucio Battisti / Lyambiko / Madredeus / Magna Carta / Makina Loca / Manu Chao / Maria João / Maria Rita / Marilyn Monroe / Marlene Dietrich / Martírio / Mercedes Sosa / Michael Franks / Musicians of the Nile / Neil Young / Nick Cave / Nina Simone / Omara Portuondo / Orchestra Baobab / Penguin Cafe Orchestra / Pink Floyd / Pio Leyva / Ricardo Lemvo / Rubén Blades / Rui Mingas / Sally Nyolo / Sam Mangwana / Seguridad Social / Sérgio Godinho / Sex Pistols / Sheila Chandra / Sting / Susana Baca / Tam-Tam 2000 / Terrakota / The Clash / The Doors / The Police / The Seleter / The Specials / The Who / Tindersticks / Tim Buckley / Tom Waits / Tom Zé / Ute Lemper / Van Morrison / Velvet Underground / Vinicius de Morais / Zeca Afonso
“O universo tem qualquer coisa de sexual. Fecunda e gera ao mesmo tempo. As sementes das palavras geram ideias. As sementes das ideias geram sabemos lah o queh. E todas as coisas sao macho e fehmea ao mesmo tempo. Tudo eh pura SEXUALIDADE. Isolahmos um aspecto dela com o nome de «sexo» ou roubahmos-lhe a espontaneidade chamando-lhe «Sexo». A culpa eh toda nossa, nao eh verdade?”
Fynn - Fynn
God, This is Anna