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About wdasilva
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Member:
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Walzi daSilva
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Epinions.com ID:
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wdasilva
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Location:
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Niteroi/Rio de Janeiro-Brazil
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Member Since:
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Aug 05 '01
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"Crazy are those who lost everything but reason"
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Activity Summary
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Reviews Written: 4
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Member Visits: 103
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Total Visits: 5,147
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About wdasilva
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What I write here is just a preliminary, personal note.
I was born in 1956 and so far I lived most of my lifetime in Niteroi some say its a city, others say its a town; anyway it stands just a bridge-ride away from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; it has been growing since the 16th century at one of the many entrances of Guanabara Bay, by the 23 South parallel. I have lived in other cities, even abroad; but something drives me back home from times to times. I am married, with a baby daughter.
I received from my father, a lawyer, some solid moral principles: one of them is try to discover soon and soon act towards those fields of culture in which you can obtain personal excellence. It is a sound principle - however I found it difficult to decide how to apply it over my stream of life; which fields were to be excluded, which fields were due to embrace in fragmentary, imperfect moments through which I was forced to act under a condition of uncertainity. But now that I feel my life is probably falling under its second half, I gained the hindsight to decide, after the event, which were those fields I should pursue as an excellence focus, because I actually have been pursuing them for my entire conscious life.
Perhaps my first and truest vocation was that of philosophizing. I am a reasonable philosophy professor, having a Ph.D. degree in methodology of science and a M.Sc. degree in sociology. I also work as a registered sociologist and occasionally as a network administrator and consultant.
Apart those activities, which I have to make evolve during my daily hours, I was also touched by those fields which could express deep memories I still have, and catch moments for the future: creative writing, photography and music. Music brings me back to my dearest early days I play the guitar as an alternative to the cello I used to play when I was no older than a teen.
Photography imposes itself to me as a passion. I still have interesting negatives, images shot when I was a kid, proudly using a Polish Flexaret reflex camera. Things were fairly different those days; the world and I were deeply different - but something still beats from within when I revisit those pictures. It is like a fading reality that suddenly wakes up bleeding at a waving of my eyes. Sometimes I think that any average photograph, no matter how skilled was the photographer, turns itself into a piece of magic, beauty and mystery if we agree time to flow long enough and see them at distance. And that there is something at one time terrific and terrible in portraits again, provided that time has passed long enough. From 1987 to this day, I became an advanced amateur, if that much. Also, I have been carefully observing trends in photography.
Most of my time however is spent reading and writing although I have not been observing as much as I should the received academic motto: publish or die. Excessively concerned with excellence, most of my work is under continuous revision; but some articles were published against my will. And time will come when I will surrender the regulative idea of eternal revising and let the words go. But this time is not right now.
When I write to e-opinions, my aim is just to share share concepts and visions that otherwise I would hold so silently. Also, it is a way to repay those who wrote so much in such a brilliant style and flow prose, sharing their thoughts with me for my greatest benefit - their gift, my honor.
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