Tag: philosophy
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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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Paradise
Background Reading about Creed because of a future post I want to write about the Nicene creed vs Sermon on the mount led me to the Islamic ‘tie’ Aqidah (as close as it gets to creed). thus the Islamic concept of ʿaqīdah (literally “bond, tie”) is often rendered as “creed”. — Creed, Wikipedia Then with…
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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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The Measure of Population Control
(Edit: This was initially titled The Three Dimensions of Population Control, but in honour of Martin Luther King’s Measure of a Man, referring to the three dimensions of man, I’ve changed it. I think it’s also relevant because here too we’re trying to measure population control.) Tolstoy proposed four ways that the people are controlled:…
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Infallible truth
A church is a body of men who assert they are in possession of the infallible truth — “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, Leo Tolstoy A church might say that our text doesn’t give us all the answers, but then all their science has to be linked to their infallible truth. Not every…
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The Word of Gervais
I was pointing out something Ricky Gervais said to a Muslim friend of mine. “You see if we take something like fiction and any holy book, and any other fiction, and destroyed it, okay. In 1000 years’ time that wouldn’t come back just as it is. Whereas if we took every science book and every…
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Dance, God
“I would believe only in a God who could dance.” — F. Nietzsche, “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, 1883 Note: Found under Quote investigator check for “Those Who Dance Are Considered Insane by Those Who Can’t Hear the Music”
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Cake is the answer to life the universe and everything
Science and religion are glorified cooking. Speaking to a friend of mine, who is following the teachings of a Lama, he described to me how one one of the fundamental principles of Buddhism is repeatability. In many of the Buddhist teachings such as searching for the ego that they say isn’t there, the point is…
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Solved problem?
Responsibility + Joy can pretty much guarantee you a life worth living. But is that it? Solved problem? Responsibility comes from Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s search for meaning” (one of the final chapters titled ‘Meaning of Life’). Joy comes from “The Book of Joy” from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama. Between the three authors…
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Scientific observers, shepherds and messiahs
There’s a thread running through these all. A messiah is a shepherd A programming language shepherds you in a direction People become very religious about programming languages Shepherds observe their sheep, they observe them objectively Teachers observe their pupils Maria Montessori spoke that teachers should be scientific observers There’s something here, some connection. Teachers aren’t…
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