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  1. Notthedarkweb

    Dadaistic Cushion

    Dadaistic Cushion
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    Two Police officers killed in Italy

    I don't especially like the modern police force (impressively racist and corrupt with a liking for violent responses that it does have) but this is a yikes. Also, to those who are going to use anti-immigrant rhetoric, let us not now. The man was mentally ill, we need more concentration on this...
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    Saved By Grace Or Saved By Works?

    So I have done! It might be slightly long, but considering the depth of the tradition, it was kinda required.
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    Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika : An introduction

    This is getting slightly long. So let's get to the point, eh? What do the Nyayikas and the Vaisheshiks think the mukta atman or the liberated soul is like? Well, you see, we have a problem here. Literally no one could agree on what the liberated soul was. However, the first exposition of what...
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    Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika : An introduction

    Since someone asked me to write a post on this subject in another thread, I thought why not? This will be exploring the concepts of Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika as complementary systems, with a primary focus on theology. I am considering both of these darśanas to be complementary since they essentially...
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    A simple path to salvation

    This isn't a....too uncommon route. It certainly seems to be the foundation of a large number of religions. And monistic conceptions of the God are exceedingly common, from Augustine to Shankara, from Hegel to Tillich. I think its one of those pre-philosophical beliefs that found our approaches...
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    What does China want from Africa?

    Essentially.
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    Is it Possible to Prove Being the Messiah?

    Thanks! I am really excited to participate more fully in this place!
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    Is it Possible to Prove Being the Messiah?

    Ok, so the problem here is that the triune God assumes that the Son is a part of the Godhead as well, and it was this portion of the Godhead made of the same substance as the Father and the Holy Ghost that was incarnate as Jesus Christ on our world. Jesus being fully human and fully God doesn't...
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    If the world was ending in your lifetime would it change your faith in your religious doctrine?

    I think a major problem here is literally assuming the corporeal appearance of Son of God to fight the Anti-Christ (and remember this is Revelations we are talking about, a book notoriously hard to interpret. It is pretty clear that a large number of statements made in it are, well, absurd if...
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    What does China want from Africa?

    This is a fairly complex question, that needs a little history lesson. Now, in the middle to late 19th century, and the first decade of the 20th century, China was subjected to multiple colonial treaties and concessions that led to the nation essentially being turned into a corporate entity for...
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    Saved By Grace Or Saved By Works?

    Ok, this is primarily a Christian soteriological thread, but let me answer this one from a Hindu perspective, especially the perspective of the Hindu philosophical school I am most interested in. Now, borrowing from the soteriology of Yoga and other various mystical traditions, we have four...
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    If the world was ending in your lifetime would it change your faith in your religious doctrine?

    Not particularly, I would assume that if Hindu cosmogony is correct, re-incarnation on different worlds is possible. Of course, this doesn't necessary mean extra-terrestrial life (although how cool would that be!) but any of the various loks of the Hindu universe.
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    Reincarnation?

    It is a definite possibility but unless we define the process by which such reincarnation takes place, I don't see if anyone can ever derive a logical proof (if such a proof even exists, which is doubtful)
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    Is it Possible to Prove Being the Messiah?

    I don't know if anyone has posted this yet, and I don't want to inflame anything but the Mamonidical definition of a messiah would be 1. He who restores Israel (I assume this is a metaphorical masculinity as opposed to a corporeal gender identity, since pre-Rabbinical Judaism considered anyone...
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    What Is Your Religion or Worldview?

    Hello! I am Notthedarkweb. I am a Bengali who lives in Mumbai, a Shakta with an interest in tantras and Navya-Nyaya ontology (especially the relation of particulars to universals and vice versa). I consider myself a post-Rawlsian liberal, inspired by Sen, Nussbaum, Rorty and Kymlicka. Things I...
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