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Fernando Silva
Fernando Silva
Sep 21, 2017 · 5 min read

Where is the original text of the Bible?

The Bible was not always the way we know it today. Before the first Christians organized the various “books” in a single “codex” (a book with pages), there were only separate parchment rolls kept in jars. And few people had them all.

Fernando Silva
Fernando Silva
May 8, 2016 · 2 min read

What happened to our free time?

We’ve never had so much technology to make our life easier. We’ve never had so little free time. Any time liberated is immediately taken by new occupations.

Many years ago, a magazine for programmers advertised a software debugger. It allowed the…

Fernando Silva
Fernando Silva
May 8, 2016 · 4 min read

Why I prefer to travel alone

I know there’s a lot of gregarious people who need someone to keep them company most of the time. People afraid to be alone with themselves, with their own thoughts.

These people only like to travel with a group, commenting everything they see with…

Fernando Silva
Fernando Silva
May 1, 2016 · 11 min read

My de-conversion story

I’m an ex-Catholic and my de-conversion was quite a slow and painless process as compared to the horror stories I’ve read on the Internet. My family was, and still is, profoundly catholic but religion was never a matter of terrible fear of going to hell. Nor were we told to believe that…