Tag: love
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Joyful resistance
Non-violent resistance has been harnessed by the LGBT community through the gay pride marches. I don’t know the details of the history of the gay pride marches, but cases of violence during the gay pride marches (by people marching) are extremely low – compare the number of people worldwide who have marched and how many…
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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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The sins of love
Most of the seven deadly sins are defined by Dante Alighieri (c. 1264–1321) as perverse or corrupt versions of love; lust, gluttony, and greed are all excessive or disordered love of good things; and wrath, envy, and pride are perverted love directed toward others’ harm. The sole exception is sloth, which is a deficiency of…
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The devil loves his children
Klaus Barbie from all evidence loved his kids. According to his daughter-in-law (wife of his son Klaus-Georg), Klaus-Georg was kidnapped by the CIA in 1946 to make sure Barbie would work for them. From the Attorney General’s report: Barbie’s son Klaus-Georg was killed in a hanggliding accident in 1980, at age 33. Barbie’s wife diedin…
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Badass paramedics
Or my warped vision for the police. In Jesus’ and Tolstoy’s and frankly my utopia, we will have accepted the law of love over the law of violence. In this utopia, we will still need hospitals and fire departments. Shit sometimes goes bad, people get ill, fires start. However we will finally have rejected all…
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UK priests sent people to burn
The priests and bishops in the UK sent people to burn, the highest priest in the land, the Archbishop of Canterbury very willingly went first. These new powers allowed the bishops to arrest and imprison all preachers of heresy, all schoolmasters infected with heresy, and all owners and writers of heretical books. On refusal to…
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Jesus for atheists
I guess this is not much more than a review of Leo Tolstoy’s book ‘A Confession’ and his other books on religion. I’ve been an atheist as long as I felt that the words in the Lord’s Prayer were ridiculous. I believe the Bible is a work of fiction like any other book that talks…
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Philosophy for the love of it
I’m going to post my thoughts here. “Shitty philosophy” seems like the best description of what I do. I’m an amateur philosopher, in the sense that I do it for the love of it. I search for the border between religion and science. I also swear lots, so might as well get you prepared for…
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