A good question for Holy Week. Pilot doesn't get an answer to his question. It seems like Jesus is dodging the question, "just who the hell are you an...
You raise a question in my mind: May one hate Islam? May one hate Christianity? May one hate atheism? May one hate capitalism or communism? May one ha...
assumptions. It seems What I meant by "what is the matter with you" was directed at your enthusiasm for eliminating the individual human, or the human...
Harvey Cox, a Baptist, liberation theologist, professor in the Harvard Divinity School, and a fairly adventurous believer (he's a about 87 years old n...
The thing that I dislike about "spiritualism" is that it is too individualized (to suit whatever idiosyncrasies happen to be in play) and it's way too...
Well, go back into your post and break it up into paragraphs. Shirley you can manage that? Having exhausted faith in the dead end of the Hive Mind you...
The Second Great Awakening (late 18th, early 19th Centuries) was another reason for religion doing well in the U.S. The SGA was led by Methodist and B...
No, this is not socialism. Isolated individuals who came together to form even a small community quickly discovered that rules are needed to enable eg...
There is some confusion about the Declaration of Independence, which is a good read, and the constitution which is less of a good read, but has the fo...
AT LAST!!! The occasion where one of my favorite quotes (since 1983) is appropriate: "Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics." Charles Pe...
Some people wonder why Americans are so religious. (They are compared to Europe, especially). I would say it is (at least to some extent) BECAUSE ther...
You are running in circles here. First, it simply is not the case that individuality has no purpose beyond self interest. Most living things (plants, ...
...mind itself is magic Coursing through the flesh And flesh itself is magic Dancing on a clock And time itself The magic length of God Leonard Cohen ...
It would take more than 1 bomb to wipe out all of humanity. Besides, now we have thousands of bombs and effective delivery methods (I'd like to see yo...
Let me back up and ask a question about your 'hive mind' idea: is the hive mind "one mind" composed of all the previous distinct minds in a mental pur...
"Spiritual" in the current common parlance of the US is such an extremely nebulous, vague, positive-sounding non-inferential term, that it isn't the s...
It's a difficult job to sort out all of the influences -- philosophical social, political, theological, economic et al -- that shaped Western Civiliza...
There are lots of good reasons (and no reasons needed at all, of course) for you to dislike religion, but the rest of this statement isn't sound. Indi...
I always thought that the pre-revolutionary American colonies were characterized by the very active Christianity that would dominate later on. Apparen...
What I meant is that the hive mind would be the equivalent of death. ----- The Internet as a sample of "the hive mind" has one, critical essential fea...
- There is no perfect system, but there are gradations of 'better'. A highly regulated capitalism, and tax law preventing excessive accumulation and i...
because And not even that, because most people are, and must be, on the "exploited" end of the stick. Combining the alleged selfish motivations of 7 b...
If we fused our minds (perish the thought) there wouldn't be "everyone" any more, just one big ME. There would be no "greater good", only MY good. And...
What I'm arguing (and apparently not very well) is that music didn't evolve from Bingen (12th century) to say, Palestrina (16th century), or from Pale...
I disagree that art evolves. It doesn't evolve in the same way that sculpture, poetry or literature doesn't evolve. Hildegard of Bingen--1098-1179; Ge...
We only have what survived. What we have of classical literature, philosophy, history, and so on is thought to be a small fragment of what was produce...
I read in the Great Somewhere that the Egyptians maintained a very strict horizontal to vertical proportion in their burial chamber hieroglyphics for ...
Curses, foiled again. My apologies to the Romans. A display of common objects from Pompeii (fish hooks to frying pans)--and Pompeii itself or any othe...
We can look back to antiquity in architecture, the visual arts, literature and philosophy. For music, our furthest reach is a small collection of work...
"Classical Music" per se belongs to a specific period: roughly, the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Mozart and Haydn are the quintessential "class...
One way to get at fascist values (as opposed to socialist values, or capitalist values, or democratic values...) is to taste the aesthetics of a regim...
We can make the distribution of wealth more just, and greed can be restrained (not eliminated). But it will require government meddling in the economy...
Why don't you use an app to dictate? The Google app is quite good. It's the 21st century, and all. Also, sorry you are stuck inside the phone. You sho...
I don't think Darwin applies to the beginning of life, which before it becomes life is only chemistry. Right, the warm slop in a ditch theory seems to...
But... how do you know the Big Bango is dubious and inadequate. You got something better? (I certainly don't -- but then, Hoyle's Steady State theory ...
Fred Hoyle got a bad reputation because he was (presumably) wrong about the "big bang". He preferred the "steady state theory". It isn't like he came ...
Life, as we would define it, didn't begin in this part of this galaxy until: This all took... billions of years before the environment on earth was st...
This is true. For instance, National Socialist ideas had a history. Eugenics, for example, wasn't invented solely in Nazi Germany. The US and UK both ...
Indeed, they bathe in bath houses because cleanliness is next to godliness, and if you should find yourself in close proximity to a sex god, you would...
Bear in mind that the balanced budget obsession is, in part, code for shafting the least powerful population--a population conservatives have never ha...
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