Well I think maybe religion is kind of just things we put between us and the things we don't understand, or wonder about. Technical mappings that eventually people disagree on
I think it's just to reflect to people in the present, what different people were thinking in different chunks of history. They were thinking about why they were here, so they wanted to write down what they thought existence was about, and about what they thought god wanted. There are different...
It is not so clear that it is a question of who you accept, but it seems more theo-logical that god would be the one picking who it accepts. It's basically the opposite way of thinking about, and to me it always seemed that it may be more likely that this is the way it is
You can accept jesus...
It seems that faith' seems to be something that just happens in one's head, in the same way as a random or intended thought would. The moment you have faith in a god, or anything, doesn't seem to be markedly distinct as a brain based thinking activity, as would you were to think of a chair, or...
I think that all food price problems probably are a zoning management problem, and it's not clear to me that the cage-free thing makes a huge difference for prices in contrast to not expanding land allocation as we experience more human population growth. We shouldn't be putting these big...
I am a blue-collar working class white, and I've always admired the attitude of the immigrants I've work with for all these years, in the factory, as many of them seem to be hard working people. This basic and honest work seems to give them self-worth, and I assume they teach their offspring to...
Very specifically, from revelation 1:13-16, there are some very idiosyncratic image descriptions of jesus, and it occurred to me that I had never actually seen created depictions of the specific imagery here described of him, as coming from any christian tradition:
13 And in the midst of the...
I ate the usual stuff, but I can only half taste it.. still a little sick, but maybe tomorrow everything will be normal. I have a feeling things will be normal tomorrow
In one perspective on this, I am a 'failed musician' in that I have not made much money with it, though I had a few chances though. I definitely am not doing music for a living, but I don't want to give up on trying to find a way to eventually have it supplement my income. You can go on youtube...
Good morning. For the past 2 years, I decided to study the tarot, and practice a variation of the wim hof method. These I consider to be spiritual things, that seem to be gradually affecting me. I don't seem to desire a label for what I am. It seems that I wish to go deeper into myself, to know...
I don't know if you're American, but the American solution is to have territories divided into states, under a federal holding of land divisions, obviously. That way, the conflict between the different demographic growth of different groups, who may not agree with each other, is highly minimized...
I think that modern technology, from the printing press to the search engine, has arguably marked out the production of a seriously more tangible from of history, yes, if that it was you're driving at. We don't have any video footage of Genghis Khan or his armies, so in a sense, there is layer...
Like I said, I am skeptical about the use of the term oppression. I think different forces can oppress people, but I just don't know it can be simplified to 'group a oppresses group b,' unless you know, actual enslavement is occurring. It just is very, very simple - too simple of a way to think...
Well, I sort of wonder if I am like lone citizen in America who generally seems to admire that country, with some exceptions, for actual secular reasons. The rest of the Left, (if I am on the left, who knows) obviously is not really on board with that. By this, I mean that is obvious, to me...
I don't know that I've ever heard the phrase 'material moral failing.' Is there a political theory where that is mentioned specifically? Does it mean something like a failure to use material conditions that are otherwise sufficient? And in your statement that you contrast against this, I assume...
You could still do it, you'd just word it slightly differently, because the ontology would be different. There would be more of a stress on the 'impersonal' material forces, of a sort, that took the form of present forms. Alternatively, you would have to be prepared to argue that there is...