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Tag Archives: truth
Beyond Theism/Atheism
Puff Daddy: “Let’s change the world, BIG.” Notorious BIG: “Can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.” Beyond Atheism/Theism “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s; I will not reason and compare; my business is to … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged 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
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Mahatma Gandhi on God, Truth, and Religion
I wanted to provide one of the biggest influences behind my two posts on Atheism. No human being has ever inspired a more successful Active Philosophy. Each color change is a selection from the book All Men Are Brothers By … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy, Quotes
Tagged Active Philosophy, ahimsa, atheism, bible, Christianity, existence, expedition, Gandhi, Hinduism, humility, individuals, Koran, leisure, love, Maker, morality, names, nonviolence, peace, reality, religion, roads, Sanskrit, sports, superiority, truth, universe, Vedas, violence, Zend Avesta, zest
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Atheism, Cont.
In a recent post I decried Atheism, or the way that some approach it, for being absolute. However, as Cheryl reminded me, atheism or no faith does no necessarily equate to anything absolute, but rather the opposite. My scattered thoughts emerged … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged Active Philosophy, atheism, Buddha, Buddhism, Christianity, compromise, D.T. Suzuki, David Harvey, destiny, division, enlightenment, essay, experience, faith, Frederic Jameson, Fromm, Gandhi, Gospel of Thomas, lotus, obama, positive, postmodernism, religion, rhetoric, satori, self, spritual, study, thinkers, trancendentalists, truth, Zen
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Convention
Each day there are more people on this Earth. Carbon dioxide levels continue to rise to what climatologists estimate may be the highest in millions of years. At the same time, there are some that insist vehemently that our way … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged 1984, attitude, capitalism, censorship, choice, climate change, convention, decision, doublespeak, earth, fate, George Orwell, global warming, green, justice, logic, media, new, norms, orthodoxy, possibility, poverty, prejudice, progress, propoganda, psychology, record heat, research, slogan, temperature, thought, truth, Wittgenstein, work
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The Hsi-Westbrook Theory of Wrongness (Proposed)
No one is correct, but everyone is correct. Everyone is entitled to believe in a certain thing or a way of life. However, since nothing can be known in an absolute sense it is essential that we acknowledge that no … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged absolute, acceptance, Active Philosophy, belief, correct, essentials, ethics, foundation, God, morals, Philosophy, satan, theory, truth, wrongness
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On Fear of One Another II
This blog is in response to Fear of One Another Which is a follow up to the debate started in the posts On Science, Religion, and Nationalism On Science, Religion, and Nationalism II I will also admit that I was … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies
Tagged 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
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Correlation – First Truths
Gottfried Leibniz was a contemporary of Spinoza (they are called the two greatest rationalists after Descartes – read correctly either way) who had reviewed the Ethics but did not agree philosophically on the grounds that it contradicted Orthodox belief. His … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies, Quotes
Tagged 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
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