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Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
It is the characteristic of an advanced civilization to set a higher value upon little, simple truths, ascertained by scientific method,
Truths.—It is the characteristic of an advanced civilization to set a higher value upon little, simple truths, ascertained by scientific method, than upon the pleasing and magnificent errors originating in metaphysical and æsthetical epochs and peoples. To begin with, the…
The strength of feeling is no voucher for the validity of knowledge
What they claim is that through the medium of profound feelings one can penetrate deep into the soul of things (Innre), draw close to the heart of nature. But these feelings are deep only in so far as with them are simultaneously aroused, although almost imperceptibly, certain…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
La Terra Pura e il voto di Amida
Nel periodo Kamakura nuove correnti presero corpo. Esprimevano le esigenze dei ceti popolari. Il buddhismo abbandonò gli ambienti cupi e segregati della corte per diffondersi tra la gente comune. Si accantonò anche l’insistenza sul cerimoniale, al pari delle austere discipline…
Tariki e il bisogno di una guida
Il fatto che in Giappone le pratiche tariki, basate sull’energia dell’altro, il Buddha Amida della Terra Pura, siano molto più sviluppate che in Cina rivela la necessità di una guida, verso la quale professare una fiducia cieca. Ciò conduce al culto delle immagini e al ripudio…
Lonely Planet Iran (travel Guide)
Iran's Arab minority
Arabs make up about 3% of the Iranian population and are settled mostly in Khuzestan, near the Iraq border, and on the coast and islands of the Persian Gulf. They are often called bandari (bandar means port), because of their historical links to the sea. Their differing…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Substance dualism and religious faith
Because of the failures of Cartesian-style dualism, especially the failure to get an adequate or even coherent account of the relationship between the mind and the body, it is widely assumed that substance dualism in any form is out of the question. This is not to say that no…
Religious Children Are Meaner Than Their Secular Counterparts, Study Finds | World News | The Guardian
Religion is not a prerequisite of morality
The report pointed out that 5.8 billion humans, representing 84% of the worldwide population, identify as religious. “While it is generally accepted that religion contours people’s moral judgments and pro-social behaviour, the relation between religion and morality is a…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Neem Karoli Baba takes LSD
During the ’60s, when the debate as to whether psychedelics afforded an authentic mystical experience was at its height, there had appeared to be only one solution: to find someone who had experienced both states and could affirm or deny their identity. The only person who had…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Faith as allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous
Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith—in life, in other people, and in oneself—is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time. This is, of course, risky because life and other people do not…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Reason in the service of faith
Let’s take the resurrection of Jesus Christ. If science somehow – and I can’t even imagine how – but if it told me that the resurrection of Jesus Christ was just categorically impossible, could not happen, I would disbelieve that and continue to believe what the Bible teaches…
Thought Of The Day - John Bell
Don't make non-believers pretend in church
I believe there is a lack of integrity and respect in asking people who do not profess any faith to pretend otherwise for forty minutes in a building which may be as alien to them as a mortuary. Humanist marriages are not - as I understand - anti religious. But they do allow a…