Yamid HR

“La pobreza monetaria y la indigencia se miden según los ingresos de una persona. La Línea de Pobreza es el valor monetario de una canasta de bienes y servicios que suple las necesidades básicas de una persona. La línea de indigencia o pobreza extrema se da por el valor monetario de una canasta alimenticia que suple las necesidades calóricas mínimas de una persona. Si los ingresos de una persona no cubren dicha canasta es considerada en condición de indigencia. De julio de 2012 a junio de 2013 la línea de pobreza fue fijada en 204.270 pesos por persona, y la línea de indigencia era 95.850por persona en las cabeceras municipales.”
― Oscar Garcia-Johnson, Conversaciones Teológicas del Sur Global Americano: Violencia, Desplazamiento y Fe

“When photographs were first invented, people thought of them like paintings. There was nothing else to compare them to. Thus, subjects in photos copied subjects in paintings. And since people sitting for portraits couldn’t hold a smile for the many hours the painting took, they adopted a serious look. Subjects in photos adopted the same look. What finally got them to change? Business, profit, and marketing, of course. In the mid-twentieth century, Kodak, the film and camera company, was frustrated by the limited number of pictures people were taking and devised a strategy to get them to take more. Kodak’s advertising began associating photos with happiness. The goal was to get people in the habit of taking a picture whenever they wanted to show others what a good time they were having. All those smiling yearbook photos are a result of that successful campaign (as are most of the photos you see on Facebook and Instagram today).”
― Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

“I believe, rather than the exception. Most individuals are dealing with one or more serious health problems while going productively and uncomplainingly about their business. If anyone is fortunate enough to be in a rare period of grace and health, personally, then he or she typically has at least one close family member in crisis. Yet people prevail and continue to do difficult and effortful tasks to hold themselves and their families and society together. To me this is miraculous—so much so that a dumbfounded gratitude is the only appropriate response. There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together. They deserve some genuine and heartfelt admiration for that. It’s an ongoing miracle of fortitude and perseverance.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Por ello, es relevante que la agenda de representantes políticos,37 académicos y sociales de las iglesias cristianas evangélicas en Colombia incluyan en sus asuntos prioritarios la violencia, la paz, el perdón, la verdad, la justicia y la reconciliación.”
― Oscar Garcia-Johnson, Conversaciones Teológicas del Sur Global Americano: Violencia, Desplazamiento y Fe