Tag: spirituality
group name: philiasophia
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November 16, 2006 01:02 PM EST --
We inquire as to the ontological grounds for asserting God as an entity within time and space. If we are to do this, we may—or may not—have sufficient reason to have God as an irreducible substance . . . more
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April 14, 2007 05:16 PM EDT --
A religion is an iron cast applied to the immediate phenomenal forms of consciousness. An image, in its attempt to anchor the echoes of the mind in relation to the world, dissolves itself . . . more
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August 14, 2006 02:41 PM EDT --
I believe that the most important morals a person can have are Bravery, Curiosity, and Kindness. I have been thinking a lot about morality lately, as I have felt tested more than usual. Emerson wrote that . . . more
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April 06, 2007 01:40 PM EDT --
Faith is an internal desire motivating a person to accept certain propositions independent of the evidence supporting or denying the same. As a “basis or motive for action, decision, or conviction,” . . . more
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December 15, 2006 06:06 PM EST --
In just a bit you're going to read something that I think most of you will dismiss out of hand. It is a 'real-world' response to a philosophical revelation. See, a few years ago . . . more
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April 15, 2007 10:20 PM EDT --
A poem for a poet and spiritual seeker, whose book The White Goddess contributed so much to my awareness of trees....
"On the One Theme"
for Robert Graves . . . more
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March 21, 2007 03:10 PM EDT --
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
THOUGHT I WOULD RAISE A FEW PULSES AND MAYBE PROVOKE A FEW THOUGHTS...
Parallels between Jesus and Horus, an Egyptian GodQuotations:
"The . . . more
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October 10, 2006 09:02 PM EDT --
Four aspects may be considered in answering this question: religious morality, morality and nature, individual morality, and social morality. Our focus today is on religious morality.
RELIGIOUS MORALITY . . . more
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April 23, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
[Note: This excerpt references Tim LaHaye, the author of Left Behind, a widely-read fictional series about the apocalypse.]
CONTINUED FROM PART I of excerpt >>
Real Estate
Finally, at issue . . . more
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April 22, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
Sexuality can be a source of joy. Sexuality can be a source of despair.
What is the role of sexual desire in giving meaning to one's life, does it ever?
Desire is sometimes an engine . . . more
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September 29, 2006 11:10 PM EDT --
A philosopher from Denmark once wrote:
But to be able to be silent, that you can learn out there with the lily and the bird, where there is silence and also something divine in this silence. . . . more
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March 28, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
Exploring a New Humanism
I first met Greg Epstein, as it happens, at a fantastic conference pulled together by Eboo Patel's Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago. This was an energetic gathering . . . more
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April 22, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
I cannot help but defend the unpopular idea that love and jealousy are not compatible. If we see love as wishing the happiness of our loved one, then why should we be jealous when he or she is happy . . . more
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July 06, 2007 11:23 PM EDT --
Where is the ending, the beginning?
Does it end where it starts?
What is it, it is male, female...?
What is male?
What is female?
What is the ending?
Where is the edge, the boundary?
Is it a game? . . . more
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April 29, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
Russia's greatest poet, Aleksandr Pushkin, was also, like Mozart, a "hidden" dissenter from the autocracy of his time. In 1826 he wrote a poem elaborating the vision of Isaiah where God called . . . more
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May 30, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
Oh Moon Goddess...
What can I offer you,
For all the you give to me?
Nothing is worthy,
That I possess,
To compare wih the silvery moonlight you pain in my nights.
Oh Goddess . . . more
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May 28, 2007 06:45 AM EDT --
One thing can often lead to another, and as I say, I follow my spirit.
For those of you not familiar with this poem, enjoy...
and for those who are, a gentle . . . more
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July 11, 2007 07:18 AM EDT --
We human beings have more power than most of us really realize.
We can come into a room like a tornado and vent our negative energies over all of the undeserving and unexpecting people in that . . . more
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May 20, 2007 12:02 PM EDT --
I really liked writing the first sestina, so I gave it another go.
I believe this one is the ticket.
In the beginning there was death.
Under drefts of the whitest snow,
In the soil of the earth . . . more
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July 05, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
No mercy, sneaks up on your right
Sickening stench, does no good to fight
Ten millionth time you push him off
He comes right back howling
He knows he has won
Bastard fire in his eyes
Masked in . . . more
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