Yeh, I tend to see that as a backlash against the self-aggrandizing propaganda that seems to be American mainstream's wont.
Both - pro-American and anti-American views - are founded upon complete ********.
It does seem that there are contradictions to be found between the teachings of modern Churches and those given by Christ -at least as far as one can deduce his teachings from the Bible.
Like guns and cars and many other things, harm caused is dependent on the conditions of usage.
Many drugs are illegal for recreational purposes but may also be highly beneficial for their therapeutic effects. Others are harmful because they are illegal; whether it be contamination of product...
I sympathise, CMike, but only after having winced at the characterisation of an entire country based on what one man said, and what a relative handful of legislators wrote into law.
Part of it.
I agree with what you said about desensitisation to violence. It's not so much that watching a film, playing a video game, or listening to rap will make a person flip, rather the overwhelming output of base media fosters an atmosphere of acceptance under which such behaviour can...
I think there's some truth to that. Although men and women have issues that are unique to them I think it is short-sighted to turn it into gender warfare. The vast majority of men have in common with women the fact that they are forever excluded from the upper echelons of the patriarchal order...
This is vague - of course at some point we may well run out of food for everyone, just as at some point the sun may well engulf the Earth.
The problem as it stands currently, to my mind, is not a lack of resources but rather their improper allocation.
Yeh, that's one of my pillars too.
Guess I'm left-libertarian in the vein of latter-day Aldous Huxley or similar.
Anarchic overtones with hints of an underlying spirituality to mitigate the inevitable crash of idealist principles.
The popular American species of libertarianism is...
There is a fine body of thought in support of anarchist theories and practices but it also appeals to me beyond the intellectual; I find it viscerally resonant.
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No, it's like gunpowder - fine until you put a flame on it. The flame in this case is comprised of the usual suspects - ignorance, intolerance, and so on.
I was wondering the same. To my mind John is speaking of consciousness, though as to what this is I am equally unsure.
I always took God, in the general Christian sense, to be a projection of a person's ego.