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  1. amorphous_constellation

    Artists contaminating their works

    Then again, his outcome may have been partially a result of a rough upbringing. I tend to think that most artists, to be artists, might have to have some level of ability to differentiated between being a good and bad person, even if they may fail to live up to those forms. It kind of precludes...
  2. amorphous_constellation

    (Opinion) Another conservative faces public shunning. Liberals grow bolder with their intolerance.

    I see that you've seemed to repeatedly try to make a point here to us americans, which I think is important, but which might not have received a lot of critical thought from us. The way I might explain the difference you're pointing out, is one between levels of discipline, more than it is about...
  3. amorphous_constellation

    (Opinion) Another conservative faces public shunning. Liberals grow bolder with their intolerance.

    Someone should start a new business: a cafe or restaurant that operates also as a forum. You are to take a seat next to someone with differing beliefs, enjoy your coffee, and civilly discuss or debate these beliefs. There will be waiters, and moderators as floor staff.
  4. amorphous_constellation

    Artists contaminating their works

    Well my problem isn't really with the character of people creating art, my issue seems to be with the content of the art itself, speaking here as being a musical artist myself. Balancing 'innovative' sounds, with what I want to work on, which is 'folk' music in the English language, is hard...
  5. amorphous_constellation

    Will Christianity Die?

    It might have depended somewhat on who was in charge, but I could post you the old texts where it was extremely prolonged, because they begged them not to go through with it. Granted, the imperial powers shouldn't have been putting people to death at all for this, but from what I read, I suspect...
  6. amorphous_constellation

    Will Christianity Die?

    Yes, well the pessimistic version's interpretation of that, would have been that people either no longer deserve that, or that it is describing an after-life state, in heaven. And how does the book of John end? Where is Jesus leading his follower? He is leading them to suffer somehow Yeah...
  7. amorphous_constellation

    Will Christianity Die?

    I don't know what you're getting out of reading these ancient texts, but I never found Christian texts to be anything but anti-materialist, though I guess I'm trying to rectify that somewhat, in my current studies of it. After all, it was combined with long lasting civilizations and empires...
  8. amorphous_constellation

    Will Christianity Die?

    What is Christianity at this point though? It seems like it's been dissembled an re-assembled and reconfigured to fit a thousand different patterns. When my mother gave me the bible to read, it told me to downplay pride and knowledge. And I was the subject of bullying and abuse in my younger...
  9. amorphous_constellation

    Will Christianity Die?

    I think maybe it is possible, that the fate of all religion is to eventually be consumed and digested by philosophy. But this doesn't mean that it will go away, it means that it will have an afterlife in the collective consciousness and unconsciousness of the new life. Religion is subject to...
  10. amorphous_constellation

    Half thoughts, mid-thoughts, and random images from a mind

    Yesterday, tired, stressed, bored, and saddened. I was short on sleep, stressing about things. Today I am better. This morning, the sunrise inspired the snow, with an enveloping, light orange baptism, and the temperature increased by 10. Rapidly moving wind across the moon, I drew the moon card...
  11. amorphous_constellation

    'Russia is now at war with NATO and the West'

    Possibly f-16's next, as indicated by the latest set of headlines? You know before all this started, there was article I read or saw, that said russia was 'on the brink of a 60's-like revolution.' Don't you think that an internal social revolution, maybe like that, is the only real way this...
  12. amorphous_constellation

    End Times?

    I'm sure that there would probably be implications for the rest of life, and the physical planet, if what the academic said was to happen. But I suppose you are correct about how I seem to describe things, as I tend to regress to a sort of colloquial interpretation of what things mean. I will...
  13. amorphous_constellation

    End Times?

    I don't want to really elaborate, or think about what an all-out nuclear war would do. You know there are plenty of academics talking about what would happen, if thousands, or just hundreds of these things go off. The most salient discussion, that I think I may have found in the last year, is in...
  14. amorphous_constellation

    End Times?

    Sometimes I have nightmares of an end, but I think that people have the free-will to avert it. I suspect that any religion, with an eschatological narrative, but with free-will granted to the people in the world, would allow people to avert such problems. I guess a rough biblical argument, for...
  15. amorphous_constellation

    Edenic Serpent vs. Baalam's Donkey compare and contrast

    The 'beast' in revelation also talks, as it utters 'proud words.' I want you to read the 2nd blue quote in post #13 in this old thread I made, which is a quote from the saga of the volsungs: Comparing Norse mythology to the Bible, why the similarites? I perceive this as a variation on the...
  16. amorphous_constellation

    Do You Practice Meditation, Whether Religiously or Secularly?

    For many years I did a sort of walking meditation in sort of half hour sessions, which is kind of like going for walk, but focusing on a meditative state while doing it. I just could not sit for long. Eventually I quit doing that, ever since podcasts became a thing, and so now I walk and listen...
  17. amorphous_constellation

    Which Route Should Be Taken in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

    I imagine, at some point, a possible world where land ownership is granted to individuals. This is a world without state borders, but where individuals own / are granted land. It can be bought or passed down to other individuals. This may prevent war, because the world is atomized into trillions...
  18. amorphous_constellation

    Lying

    Interesting question, and I thought of that after having read a few ancient texts recently about the martyrdom of polycarp. I had thought then, that perhaps what paul said about eating 'food given to idols' was an inconsistent parallel, in that one could technically do something like lie, by...
  19. amorphous_constellation

    A world without colonialism?

    There is part of it that is about that, but another is just that our European ancestors, or cultural tradition, never seemed to really establish how property should be distributed, among those who seem to need it. It was largely about about cordoning off important areas to be economic zones, so...
  20. amorphous_constellation

    How Are You Faring Nowadays?

    How am I faring? Well I try to take it as it comes, and try and find balance, and try not to be overly pessimistic or optimistic. Read books, stay productive. Winter has a lack of activity in this part of the world, but I try to get over that. I think I have been making headway on my...
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