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Optimistic Musings

• May 21, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Active Philosophy
Tags: action, Buddhism, ego, emotions, eternity, evolution, feelings, Ideas, infinity, knowledge, life, optimism, primitive, revelation, scripture, seeking, self, Spinoza, teaching

Beyond Theism/Atheism

• May 13, 2009 • 1 Comment

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Tags: agnosticism, atheism, belief, brand, catholicism, Christianity, discipline, division, faith, freedom, Gandhi, gentiles, gnostic, God, Gospel of Thomas, heaven, Hegel, history, judaism, knowledge, Leibniz, love, morality, Nietzshe, ownership, Pascal, raft, religion, Spinoza, spiritual, theism, tolerance, truth, unity, William Blake, wisdom, Wittgenstein

Tying up Loose Ends

• March 23, 2009 • 10 Comments

Posted in Active Philosophy, General Philosophies
Tags: acheivement, active, advancement, art, being, bible, bullshit, certainty, church, control, darkest, death, destiny, development, double, doubt, dying, edge, Emerson, expression, fear, fixing, forward, fresh, God, history, honor, hope, human, humanity, independence, individual, individuality, Leibniz, life, living, loose ends, male, methods, necessity, nonbeing, pastor, perspective, Philosophy, preacher, religion, respect, science, scratch, scripture, sides, Spinoza, spirit, start, successful, technology, tying up, unknown, white, Wittgenstein, word, words

Loose Ends

• March 21, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in General Philosophies
Tags: bible, Buddhism, certainty, computers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, gospels, jesus, logic, malcolm x, Nelson Mandela, Philosophy, rationality, religion, science, scripture, socrates, Spinoza, superstition, technology, virgin birth, Wittgenstein, work, Zen

On Fear of One Another II

• March 20, 2009 • 7 Comments

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Tags: active, america, capitalism, choice, church, contradiction, crisis, ethics, existence, faith, freedom, God, hope, humanity, Ideas, knowledge, life, meaning, motivation, perception, Philosophy, politics, questions, reality, religion, revolution, school, science, society, Spinoza, truth, vs., Wittgenstein, work, Zen

Fear of One Another

• March 18, 2009 • 9 Comments

Posted in General Philosophies
Tags: america, being, Bill Maher, certainty, church, fear, feelings, God, intent, knowledge, life, math, movie, nonbeing, Notorious BIG, obama, paradox, race, religion, Religulous, school, science, Spinoza, USA

Correlation – First Truths

• March 16, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in General Philosophies, Quotes
Tags: Aristotle, atom, body, conception, contingent, contradiction, creation, criticism, essentialism, God, independant, infinity, Leibniz, morality, necessary, negation, Philosophy, scholarship, soul, space, Spinoza, substance, time, truth, vacuum

Baruch Spinoza, Part I – or, Don’t Blame God for Religion

• March 11, 2009 • 5 Comments

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Tags: Baruch Spinoza, Buddha, decisions, ethics, excommunication, God, Ideas, judaism, knowledge, milton, morals, orthodox, paradise lost, Philosophy, portuguese, satan, Spinoza, suffering, Wittgenstein, Zen

Caprice

• February 7, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in Quick Ideas
Tags: caprice, decisions, decisive, Goya, Spinoza, undulations