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Recent Posts
- DISCOVERING OUR NARRATIVE, A PROCESS WE CALL LIFE
- ON OUR MISTAKES, SOMETIMES WE FEEL HOPELESS, AND LONELY
- A FEW THINGS ABOUT MY DAILY ROUTINE, AND MAYBE TRAVELING SOON.
- REFLECTIONS FROM AN OLD MAN ABOUT HIS PAST
- RUMORS OF WARS AND SUFFERING
- MY LOVE OF BOOKS, AND MY READING SAGA, A STORY OF LOVE, WONDER, HEARTBREAK, AND BACK PAIN.
- ON MYSTICISM AND MEISTER ECKHART
- A BEUTIFUL DAY TRHOUGH MY WINDOW THE HOPE OF A NEW YEAR
- REFLECTIONS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, AND PRESENT.
- HISTORY OF DREAMING, AND CONNECTION WITH SPIRIT, THIRD PART
- DREAM INTERPRETATION AND IT’S PROBLEMS. SECOND PART.
- ON DREAMING, A SEARCH FOR KNOLEDGE OF THE SELF. FIRST PART.
Category Archives: Secular Society
MY VIEWS ON RELIGION, ATHEISM, BUDDHISM AND OTHER MANIFESTATIONS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, HOUSTON SMITH A LIFE ON RELIGION
It is very good to be born in a church, but it is very bad to die in a church. Swami Vivekananda It may come as a surprise to my readers, my particular views on these issues, Religion, Atheism, and … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Religions, Anger and Violence, Atheism, Buddhism, Cosmogony, Crisis of Values, Critical Thinking, Cynicism, Direct Spiritual Experience, Freedom, Future, History, Houston Smith, Human Nature, Inner Journey, Inspiration, Mysticism, New Age, New Values, Personal Story, Religion, Secular Society, Solipsism, Spiritual but not Religious, Spirituality, Subjective, Uncategorized, Western Ideals, Wisdom
Tagged A New Way, Anger and Violence, Houston Smith, Institutional Failure, Mysticism, Personal Views, Religion, Spiritual but not Religious, The Future of Religion, The Need for a Personal God
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PROGRESS, HISTORICAL EVOLUTION, MYTHS, AND FALLACIES OF OUR TIME
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin L. King It is common knowledge the idea that Humanity seem … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Being, Cosmogony, Counsciousness, Critical Thinking, Eschatology, Future, Gadamer, Globalization, Habermas, Historical Evolution, History, Human Nature, Impermanence, Inductive Knowledge, Materialism, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Ontology, Philosophy, Physics, Postmodernism, Progress, Quantum, Reality, Science, Science and Belief, Secular Society, Spirituality, Subjective, Uncategorized, Utopia, William Pfaff, Wisdom
Tagged Darwinism, Eschatology, Fallacies, Futuristic Scenarios, Gadamer, Habermas, Historical Evolution, Human Nature, Progress, Technological Singularity, Utopia, William Pfaff
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THE FALLACY IN THE DREAM; SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS MATERIALISM, NIHILISM, AND SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY
Extolling the virtues, and rightness of our now old hat, the Secular materialistic state of affairs that rule the world, it is praised with self-righteousness, like a sort of doctrine that like the famous phrase in our bill of rights … Continue reading
Posted in Bankruptcy, Capitalism, Critical Thinking, Democracy, Economy, Freedom, Globalization, History, Human Nature, Life Liberty and the pursuit of happines, Materialism, Money, Nihilism, Ontology, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodernism, Property, Religion, Secular Society, Spiritual but not Religious, Spirituality, The Bill of Rights, Unalienable Rights, Uncategorized, Wall Street fiasco
Tagged Baudrillard, Benjamin Franklin, Bill of Rights, Capitalism, Declaration of Independence, Federal Reserve, George Mason, Government, John Locke, Leibniz, Materialism, Nihilism, Paper Money, Religion of the State, Richard Cumberland, Secular, Thomas Jefferson, Wall Street, William Wollaston, Zizek
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