A word, in my understanding, is defined by the use in context that speakers of a language apply; its meaning is not derived from entries in dictionari...
If you mean communist mass killings in Russia (gulags, purges...) or in Republican side of Spanish war (checas), it is true they were atheistic, but s...
If I have flaws in reasoning I do want to know; it´s obvious I have failed in detecting them. What is "my kind of violence"? I have not defended any k...
Then you must simply not be looking hard enough. Hmm, what possible similarities could there be between a white, male, racist, xenophobic, authoritari...
that comment was not a call to shoot anybody. If you go to the original quote in context, it was a mere use of exageration (the basis of humour togeth...
the two things I most like about Trump, is that he prevented Clinton from being president; and also his sense of humour. I totally love sense of humou...
the positive influences of Christianity are endless. Also the negative ones; simply because Christianity is the channel and network that the West end ...
We don´t really know why Socrates was sentenced. Plato is not a good reporter; he was a fan and he also had a powerful imagination. It might be that S...
All holy books have good advice about being better humans. They all contain the high points of human wisdom or they would not have been reserved. The ...
curiously enough, one of Lysenko´s pals, A.I. Oparin, gave us in 1936 the Coacervate Theory that is very important I believe to understand the transit...
but what of its all important message that goodness is great and evil is condemnable? -It can be argued that´s one the worst parts about religion: the...
Indeed. Unless you can detect anomalies with Kepler´s orbits, that might be the case; I know nothing about astronomy but surely there are people here ...
"Elaborating the concept in The Antichrist, Nietzsche asserts that Christianity, not merely as a religion but also as the predominant moral system of ...
Oh my God! Our deist forefathers must be turning over in their graves because education for technology leaves moral training to the church and we no l...
the movie was not too bad. I propose to follow the course on Magic, Religion and Science that UCLA uploaded to youtube some years ago. The lecturer is...
(without embracing the Right) DiegoT Lol! You're kidding yourself if you believe that. Your right wing views stand out like a sore thumb. And you seem...
not just probably...The president of Podemos is a presenter in the Spanish version of Iran Tv, Hispan Tv. In theory it is illegal; but Spain is not st...
Science is the Lying Game. A good lie must mix facts with the lie; and it must really hard to expose. In Sweden they give annually the prizes to the b...
— BBC News (The top provider of fake news in the U.K.) is a good source of irrational slogans to be exposed. We are all to blame, right and left, for ...
Sartre befriended and helped to bring international support to Cuban revolutionaries while they were torturing and killing homosexuals and non-communi...
Isaac Asimov, the XXth century Jules Verne that wrote about issues like energy crisis, robots taking our lives, the fall of democracy...before it was ...
I´m not the one to claim the validity of laws from the Iron Age in our XXI century. They are all barbaric, and only Muslims nowadays accept them and t...
In the bible it says "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" I don't know how you can interpret a bald statement like that, or a commandment and it is...
"What you're saying is that there are those who have the sole authority in determining what and how the scriptures should be understood." Nope, that´s...
Don´t you realize? We are back in the Modern Age; with walled cities that are now whole countries, and ideologically motivated demographic surges in s...
Hitler had so many influences, that were also shared by millions of other Europeans, that I find unfair to make too much of Nietzsche as a Nazi inspir...
Ok then, let´s call my first definition exegesis. I use exegesis as synonym for hermeneutics, because I consider that the rational interpretation of t...
Okay, let´s say then that there three interpretations: one seeking to aproximate what the authors of the book, the actual people who grabbed a stylus ...
"the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" is correct if we understand "the tree of knowledge", without references to good and evil deeds. I´m telli...
Even though it is not definitive, it is comprehensive and there is also some consistency, in principle, about it. Perhaps, it's that we cannot escape ...
We don´t know what is inside a black hole; much less what it feels like to be in a black hole. However, we infere things about black holes (that ultim...
I beg your pardon, I thought the line commented was an actual quotation from a scholar I don´t know. That is why I wrote "this Tomseltje", not in a pe...
But if there is nothing, then Kant's premise is false. There is no world as representation. Instead it is the world as it is in itself that we are exp...
It seems to me that Kant presupposes that there exists a world which, by virtue of its being independent of our experience, is unknowable, yet neverth...
"This makes our values just as fluid as our nature, and why should it be any different?" Values are fluid like water: water moves and changes states a...
This Tomseltje was right, if he or she was talking about how Hermeneutics and scientific History have to proceed. S/he probably made great contributio...
This book was written by people who thought that their wisdom, that was not so dissimilar to some of the ideas held in the western end of Civilization...
Passiveness in Taoism does not mean to be at rest, or quiet. It´s a different meaning. Non-action action in real example: https://www.youtube.com/watc...
In The Police´s Message in bottle, I hear "Messi chino pato" Messi ordered Cantonese duck? Messi chino pato...Messi chino pato... In Sade´s "Smooth op...
When you bring together the need to move fast to stay alive with the mechanics of fluids, a form called vesica piscis tends to arise. Vesica Piscis is...
It only depends on if the central impact of the moral system is fundamentally neutral, negative or positive. I'd say the mere act of eating animal pro...
this mindset is called Luciferian, and it´s important for masons and other secret societies. They don´t believe in a physical Devil but they know they...
the I.C.T.s of the first centuries of our era, Piscis, were the alphabet, the papyrus and durable ink. This new technologies were propagated throughou...
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