Tag: truth
group name: philiasophia
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October 04, 2006 10:30 PM EDT --
Thesis: Dying for for something you believe in is stupid.
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November 01, 2006 11:52 PM EST --
My parents are 83. They're not as quick on their feet as they once were, but my mother swims three times a week while Dad is playing tennis.
Clearly they take care of themselves, and also clearly, . . . more
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November 11, 2006 11:51 PM EST --
Christina R. has published three articles on Gather addressing morality. She is articulate and thoughtful and well worth reading. The articles are
"Morality and Nature"
"Where Does . . . more
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April 06, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
Shared Suspicion of Language Belies Two Views of Truth:
Confucius and Lao Tzu on language, truth, and justice
COMPARE:
“THE MASTER SAID, ‘IN ANTIQUITY . . . more
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March 27, 2007 02:13 PM EDT --
How to make a good comment:
1. Read the Article
2. Think about the Article
3. Consider the Point of View of the Writer
4. Consider your own Point of View . . . more
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December 10, 2006 03:24 PM EST --
To begin with let us examine the idea that something is the ‘literal word of’. What would that mean?
Let us compare the New Testament to documents that are made everyday that are the . . . 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 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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August 14, 2008 11:58 AM EDT --
It is insightful to recognize that Eckhart Tolle is a number one best-seller for two books in a row, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, who is dubbed a "spiritual teacher who is going to help end . . . more
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May 13, 2007 08:03 AM EDT --
Walk alone or walk with one
Will I find the road I am on
If distracted by someone
Must I make the bounden choice
To be alone or walk with one
Walk alone or walk with one
The things I search . . . more
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October 13, 2007 07:45 PM EDT --
An "overcast" of
Words and thoughts blinds us to the
Sky of Awareness.
(c) 2007 RFHay
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December 23, 2006 09:58 PM EST --
I am gong to describe an imaginary person who I will call Mr. Gray.
Mr. Gray is a scientist and believes in the utility of the scientific method to ascertain facts and truth.
Mr. Gray only believes that . . . more
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February 23, 2007 11:43 AM EST --
Attentuation: The act of reducing in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken
I was trying to take a nap when this hit me on the head.
The reason that we as human beings are unable to resolve a . . . more
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November 26, 2006 12:09 AM EST --
There is this myth out there that Liberalism, or Secularism, or the theory of Evolution, is singularly or collectively to blame for the decline in morality in America.
I disagree.
Here is my theory. . . . more
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January 08, 2007 01:53 PM EST --
This is one of the messages that was delivered to me in childhood. I was the freak who made his mom find wild-life rehabilitators when we located injured or poisoned birds and squirrels. When . . . more
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March 18, 2007 02:15 PM EDT --
A ‘discussion’ I had with someone on Gather got me thinking and thus writing.
A question formed and that is the lead in to this brief essay: Which tribe has truth?
I am defining the word . . . more
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August 26, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
The Emperor’s New Clothes
‘Any fundamentally new system involves new [‘Semantic Reaction’] s.r; and this is the main difficulty which besets us when we try to master a new system. . . . more
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June 05, 2007 02:24 AM EDT --
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The First approached the . . . more
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June 20, 2007 10:45 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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August 25, 2006 03:10 AM EDT --
Part 1 of The Bible and Homosexuality
Coming to Grips With Being a Gay Christian
By William M. Tracer
Growing up in a rural community in the heart of the "Bible Belt" and being gay carries . . . more
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