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- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: What does freedom of religion mean to you?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3590
Re: What does freedom of religion mean to you?
At the moment, religion is mostly not much of a force for freedom, since so many delusional beliefs just snare us in suffering and control. But religion has the potential to become a force for liberation from oppression. Consider Christianity and the Bible were deployed to both justify and attack s...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:50 am
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: Both science and religion are wrong
- Replies: 36
- Views: 25663
Re: Both science and religion are wrong
I mean, for me the process by which people reflect on ethics and refine them is God at work, but that view doesn't fit well with the idea that a once and for all revelation arrived by some back channel of supernatural connection, and must never be modified. Hmmm....OK so sacred texts that purport t...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:11 am
- Forum: Current Events & History
- Topic: Ukraine invasion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 22116
Re: Ukraine invasion
Trying to reconstruct a bare bones timeline of recent history in Ukraine. It seems none of this should be happening based on critical earlier agreements and the US is more complicit in the chaos than generally understood. 1994 Budapest Memorandum US, Russia, and Britain agree to existing borders an...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: Both science and religion are wrong
- Replies: 36
- Views: 25663
Re: Both science and religion are wrong
The story of the woman caught in adultery ("whoever is without sin among you may cast the first stone") appears in manuscripts of John after about 400 A.D. but in earlier manuscripts is missing. Similarly some ancient manuscripts have no resurrection appearances at the end of Mark, but ju...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: Can ethics be taught?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4625
Re: Can ethics be taught?
A trial is a crucible in which all else is burned away and only The Truth remains. - Starfleet Officer Jean Luc Picard A lot of people believe that, but is it really true? Consider a situation where a defendant performed X felony, which corresponds to a 5 on a 1 - 10 scale of severity. The prosecut...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: Both science and religion are wrong
- Replies: 36
- Views: 25663
Re: Both science and religion are wrong
While I agree with the basic observation, that science as a process seeks upgrading while religion resists it, I want to take exception to the absolute way this has been expressed. First, because empirically it has happened: Buddhism is an "upgrading" of Hinduism (as are Jainism and Sikhi...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Non-Fiction General Discussion
- Topic: Life-changing nonfiction books
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16513
Re: Life-changing nonfiction books
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl was a weird experience for me. The main thing I remember - please correct if I'm wrong - was his discussion of boots in Nazi concentration camps. Experienced prisoners would advise newcomers wearing boots that Nazis hated boots (obviously in addition to num...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: Non-Fiction General Discussion
- Topic: Promortalism by Gontlemang General-Segolodi
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1704
Re: Promortalism by Gontlemang General-Segolodi
Not sure what to make of this strange video except it appears that in addition to advocating for the elimination of all life, Gontlemang General-Segolodi is an unrepentant pedophile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMi3UCQAqDU Dunno why I decided to take a 2nd look at the "arguments" in th...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Non-Fiction General Discussion
- Topic: Promortalism by Gontlemang General-Segolodi
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1704
Re: Promortalism by Gontlemang General-Segolodi
Don't think I've ever seen a trailer for a book before. (Link at last word in previous post.) Here's a link at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/PROMORTALISM-Study-Existential-Antinatalism-Promortalism-ebook/dp/B0CR45WFSK And here's a direct download link: https://gontlemang.simdif.com/ There are censo...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - by Mark Manson
- Topic: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8736
Re: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try
Yes at first it seems Sagan focuses on our infinitesimal place in the infinite space of perhaps multi-trillions of galaxies. But he also examines the history of human activities in the context of deep time and concludes it is ALL up to us, there is no one coming to save us from our own potential des...