You could have just written "I want to live as I want".
Fair enough. Your problem is that I might decide that I want to live a life of murder, rape, and robbery i.e. to be lawless. Now you will say: yes but that's hurting others and I will say: I give a s**t because? And we are back onto the...
I'm of the opinion that intelligence is incredibly rare (I wouldn't be surprised if there were no other advanced civilisations in our galaxy). I'm also of the opinion that communication would be virtually impossible; we can't communicate with our genetic relations on earth, believe me I've tried...
If Jesus was aware of who (or what) he was then how was his death actually a sacrifice or redemptive? In order to be so wouldn't Jesus have to be offering up something he could not afford to lose?
I would add a label of warning, though. Wagner's Ring-cycle has large doses of poetic licence and much of it (if not most) is his own invention.
For non-metal I would recommend Sequentia's Edda (Myths from Medieval Iceland).
Similar, but not quite. Animism is a belief that everything has a soul or spirit. Panpsychism can be seen in a religious sense spirit=mind but it is not necessarily so. You could be an atheist and panpsychic positing a dualistic naturalism.
Try Panpsychism in the West by David Skrbina
Sounds...
Another factor in the west is that what we call "poverty" is paradise to many. In 2011 London was gripped by riots that social commentators here tried to pass off as some kind of marxist uprising of the disenfranchised. That was until it was found looters were mostly nicking TV's, mobiles...
I believe romantic love developed in Islamic Spain and was popularised by the troubadours of southern France.
I believe what most people call love is, in fact, desire. For me it is an act (ongoing) of sacrifice of the self; something I might entertain as a duty or obligation but one I am...
Does money make you less moral? I think we have a dangerous tendency to see virtue in poverty. Believe me I've been poor and I've known poor, I've been well off and I've known wealthy. I've never found the bank balance to be the indicator of virtue.
Nothing for me to forgive: I wasn't there and wasn't born until another thirty six years after he took his own life.
Then again most of my countrymen still seem to think the war is on and think all Germans are Nazis.
Panpsychism is the belief that mind permeates all matter. To some extent, then, a rock or a pencil contains mind "stuff" but, of course, not of the same nature as a human.
But if B is contingent on A?
I don't believe Jesus was fictional, nor do I believe that all of his attributed sayings are fictional either.
I'm referencing reasons that others have given to disqualify Paul.
I'm sorry if I'm kicking and beating an already bloody horse, but I'm not sure if my question has been covered.
It seems to my mind that if the gospels post-date Paul's epistles (which I believe is the case) then the gospels are products of the church climate that Paul was instrumental in...