I started reading the Atheist Camel yesterday during some free time. I thought it was fairly decent. Then, I came to section 21, Happy Easter AKA Mithras Resurrection Day. I sighed and said to myself 'well he just destroyed his credibility.'
Please stop comparing Jesus to Mithras. It...
I'm in the no camp as well. There may be some odd anomaly that happens on occasion at a quantum level, but we are in no position to scientifically measure it, or understand its catalysts. I personally say no, but if it does happen, I'm obviously of the opinion that its some weird quantum...
The OP is actually right... kind of. You're looking at it wrong. Common law of the 9th century was. It depends on how you frame it, with 9th century common law, or 12th century Roman Law, which in reality had lesser impact than you think, but it just sounds cool when we teach our children that...
Consciousness is one of those phenomena that is ever-elusive. It is a commonality we all share, yet something incredibly complex that has both science and philosophy struggling for definition. Which is a better realm for the study of consciousness; science or philosophy? Why do you think so?
Rand was a humanist. When she said that "Altruism is the greatest evil," her point was that we have motivation for everything that we do and that we do nothing without some form of reward, even if that reward was only to make ourselves feel good, or to placate our current ethical/moral...
I would bet that he had read Campbell before writing it. I will give Star Wars this, it is a perfect rendition of The Hero of a Thousand Faces, rather Lucas intended it to be or not. It covers every aspect Campbell discusses.
There is, but in the meantime, meditation can help. So can thought. I know, it is hard not to be cynical and stoic, and that sometimes, we just get out of bed that way.
Remember what Buddha said, "Mind your thoughts, for they become your words. Words become deeds. Deeds become you."
Try and...
"Conquer yourself, and you will conquer your opponent."
Who said it?
Master Yoda in the Jedi Handbook (but using middle-speak)
or
Sun Tzu in the Art of War.
I'll stick with original. It doesn't need to be recycled through a make believe, little, green sage for me to get the meaning of it. I'll...
Here let me throw you a couple of examples:
"The Force allows us to make choices and make mistakes. It does not interfere, but lets us find out for ourselves what is right or wrong based on the natural order of things including negative or positive consequences to our individual...
That is exactly the point. You aren't going to understand eastern thought though Jediism, because it is shrouded in nonsense. The mix and match of what they try to relate, is a bastardization of eastern thought.
You get no closer to understanding eastern thought than you would christianity by...
Because it is shrouded in myth. Like I said earlier, how will you come to fully understand the Tao or the four noble truths if you are chasing fantasy?
If someone wrote a movie about a knight that slayed dragons and saved the people of his land, and at the end they nailed him to a cross, would...
I don't necessarily agree or disagree with either. I'm more interested, however, in the research that is done on consciousness being based at a quantum level in microtubules, through the interaction of the states of tubulin as particle or wave function.