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My Father’s World, Part 2
The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your … Continue reading
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Tagged divine revelation, epistemology, hebrew culture, intellect, law, mysticism, Noah's Covenant, spirituality, western civilization
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My Father’s World, Part 1
When we read the Bible, we are facing two layers of false mythology. The first is the underlying bias of the translators. In the US, our religious culture is largely the product of the Anglo-Saxon biases behind the King James … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, epistemology, mysticism, peace, propaganda, scripture, superstition, western biases
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Duty to Deceive
First, a little context: faith = convictions = heart-mind moral discernment. We’ve had two millennia of people abusing the word “faith” to mean an intellectual body of belief plus the actions arising from such belief. It goes back to that … Continue reading
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Tagged bureaucracy, epistemology, heart-mind, intellect, mysticism, politics, propaganda, religion, war, western civilization
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What the Hell?
Some of you get it, but it seems there is enough confusion that I need to restate things for clarity. I use the English word “Hell.” If you have been paying attention, you’ll notice I use it in the vernacular … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, Creation, culture, epistemology, hebrew literature, intellect, languages, mortality, otherworldly, western civilization
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Our Crazy Ancient New Religion 6
You will fail. That is, lots of things you try won’t turn out as you expect. So the only wise course is to adjust your expectations. Turn failure into learning and learning into victory. I’ve done what I could in … Continue reading
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Tagged epistemology, heart-mind, moral discernment, mysticism, religion, spirituality, western civilization
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Answering Final: Otherworld
We come to the end of this series, and frankly some half of what I might have said in the first place shows up in the comments in reply to other comments. It occurs to me one point in particular … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, epistemology, intellect, languages, mysticism, psychology, science
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Answering 05: The Moral Sphere
You don’t have to take me seriously, but I am so confident in my message that I’m willing to stand alone against all of humanity at the same time. Insane or not, I assert without a hint of embarrassment that … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, comparative civilization, epistemology, moral fabric, psychology, western biases
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My Head Was Filled with Crap
Colleges can be cheap in the sense that they often take shortcuts so that the administration can waste funding on self-aggrandizing schemes nobody else knows or cares about. One of the ways they cut corners is to put graduate students … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, education, epistemology, philosophy, religion, western civilization
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Mere Imagination?
If God doesn’t capture your imagination, He doesn’t have your heart. I don’t feel competent to propose a psychological profile for people who live a heart-led existence. Jesus used parables because it defied description. At some level I can offer … Continue reading
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Burning Heart; Changing Life
And then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, “Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He … Continue reading
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Tagged epistemology, heart-mind, intellect, morality, scripture, spirituality, technology
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