Tag: death
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Write to exist
If you write on the internet and it is included in the internet archive and the internet archive is preserved for all of human future, your thoughts are preserved for all of human future.
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The butcher repents
One of my repeating questions of Christianity was forgiving of sins. There is the story of Shirō Ishii the Japanese equivalent of Josef Mengele who got himself baptised on his death bed. He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church and took the name Joseph. It seems to me that my father felt relieved somehow. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirō_Ishii#Death I’ve…
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Caring is resistance, resistance is caring
Not caring is the worst example of what humans can do. It doesn’t seem bad on the surface, but it enables to worst kind of crimes. They’ll care about their children and think that that makes them a good human. All people had to do during the holocaust was care about their Jewish neighbours. Protest…
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A path to non-violence
My slow, slow, and on-going switch from meat eating to veganism. I see a parallel between violence against animals and violence in general. The final destination, will be non-violence. That’s the vision that Jesus gave us. But we need the path to get us there. I still struggle how the total opposite of Jesus’ teachings…
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Channing’s wager
So Pascal said just believe in God, its a safe bet, but also by following God: Now, what harm will befall you in taking this side? You will be faithful, honest, humble, grateful, generous, a sincere friend, truthful. – Pensées, §233 So let’s continue this. Here’s my wager – just do what Jesus told you.…
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Our time
This is kind of inspired by Roger Penrose’s thoughts on the Universe. Time goes like: And you’re sat there thinking about whether to have a Big Mac or a Filet O Fish. How can you grasp the length of time that has passed until you came on the scene? How can you grasp the length…
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I’ll be back
A possible explanation for re-incarnation, but not how it’s explained in current religions. Once you die time has no meaning. Like going to sleep. In the same way you had no concept of how much time passed until you ended up in the body you are now. How long did those last 13+ billion years…
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A crock of shit
This is the tale of Klaus Barbie and the US. Why is this relevant to philosophy, religion and science? Well I consider Klaus Barbie to be the closest thing in recent times to what we could call the devil. So I sit here to examine what people do when they come in contact with the…
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We’re in Hell (it’s just not that bad yet)
I keep thinking how we create hells on earth (torture, slavery, colonialism, war, pollution, sweatshops, factories, sacrifice, genocide, gas chambers, executions, mafia, gangs, poisons, concentration camps, suicide, terrorism, horror films, gladiators, nuclear bombs). Maybe this was Jesus’ point – if we don’t follow his advice hell is where we will end up. The more you…
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Dad and Fred…
My dad was a great man, but he was an alcoholic and his drinking was what I consider to be the main cause for my family to fall apart. Separately from this I recently had the privilege to go to the funeral of Fred. Maybe it sounds odd that I call it a privilege, but…
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