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- Mon Dec 29, 2014 9:29 am
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: An Altar-making Ape
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6987
An Altar-making Ape
Humanity is one way that God gets a galactic cluster to sprout a Milky Way that contains a solar system that spins a tiny watery globe into an evolution of carbon based materials that over time swim, crawl and take flight until a two legged upright walking hominid becomes mindful of itself and surro...
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 6:56 pm
- Forum: What fiction book should we read and discuss next?
- Topic: WANTED: Book suggestions for our January & February 2012 FICTION group discussion!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7503
Re: WANTED: Book suggestions for our January & February 2012 FICTION group discussion!
Saramago is timeless and brilliant, and this is his last work before his recent death. He returns to a consistent theme: wrestling with gods and loving humanity...being humane in an inhuman world...alluring tragic humor and profound philosophical insight. Cain by Jose Saramago http://www.amazon.com/...
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:11 pm
- Forum: What non-fiction book should we read and discuss next?
- Topic: WANTED: Book suggestions for our January & February 2012 NON-FICTION group discussion!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21099
Re: WANTED: Book suggestions for our January & February 2012 NON-FICTION group discussion!
Graeber is a key player in shaping the intellectual conscience of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and this book is a highly pertinent examination of one of the key issues driving much of our current global unrest- the ferocious history of Debt. Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber amazon.co...
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:18 am
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: NT Wright: Understanding Scripture
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4009
Re: NT Wright: Understanding Scripture
RT: Wright asserts that modern rational enlightenment philosophy can be set alongside a legitimate religious worldview. I think it makes more sense to see religious thinking, where it is rational, as an extension of the rational thought of the enlightenment into religious topics. I think Wright woul...
- Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:28 am
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: NT Wright: Understanding Scripture
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4009
Who is NT Wright?
N.T. (TOM) WRIGHT Bishop of Durham, UK. MA, DPhil, DD Tom Wright is one of today's best know and respected New Testament scholars. Born in 1948, he studied for the ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and was ordained as Junior Research Fellow and Junior Chaplain at Merton College, Oxford. From 1978 t...
- Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:20 am
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: NT Wright: Understanding Scripture
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4009
NT Wright: Understanding Scripture
Below are a few video segments of NT Wright discussing principles of Biblical exegesis and the role of worldviews in shaping our tools and our conclusions. N.T. Wright on How Our Worldview Impacts Our Reading of Scripture [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/user/biologosfoundation#p/u/17/HhOPcFcHW3M[/yo...
- Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:50 pm
- Forum: The Moral Landscape - by Sam Harris
- Topic: Evolutionary Ethics in The Moral Landscape
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8191
Re: Evolutionary Ethics in The Moral Landscape
I haven't read Harris' book, but I am familiar with much of his work. I especially appreciate the careful way that DWill and RT engage the text, and each other. At what point does the search for values in evolutionary facts, become individual psychological projection: a rorscharch exercise, where th...
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:51 pm
- Forum: Current Events & History
- Topic: Green Economics: Confronting the Ecological Crisis. By Robin Hahnel
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1072
Green Economics: Confronting the Ecological Crisis. By Robin Hahnel
From, Robin Hahnel's Green Economics: Confronting the Ecological Crisis zcommunications.org/green-economics-exc ... bin-hahnel Unfortunately, there is no grand synthesis for analyzing economics and the environment. There are useful insights from mainstream economics when its theories are properly in...
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:05 pm
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: Categories
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3374
Re: Categories
RT: What point are you trying to make? Surely you do not agree with Herakleitos that war is our father and our king? Are you using this quote to illustrate a dominant way of thought that you disagree with? I don’t share The Judge’s (or Herakleitos) allegiance to such a King- but there is little dou...
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:40 am
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: The Rational Mind
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11343
Re: The Rational Mind
star: Anything we do that celebrates God is going to be broken, insufficient, and incomplete, how can it be otherwise. God could make it otherwise. I know, it seems impossible: but God could do it. And has...is doing it right now. Maybe we are perfectly broken: as is God. God is broken with us: we ...