Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
Friday, July 3rd, 2026
Genesis 6:4 in the KJV says
There were giants in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Here ‘giants’ translates ...
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Saturday, June 27th, 2026
Plato is not now generally thought of as being overly sympathetic to the mystical path to knowledge – the later position of the Academy notwithstanding – yet in the Phaedrus 244a-245c, 265b and Symposium 210e-211b, Plato makes claims that seem to amount to an acknowledgement that there are paths to ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Powers aren’t Persons
The status of the Holy Spirit has often been a bone of contention amongst sectarians and is central to many of the heresies that the Church had had to fight off. it seems to have been a hypostatization of the Divine Presence or the Divine inspiration that ...
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Saturday, June 20th, 2026
It’s remarkable the amount of incoherence there is in this merely speculative cosmology. One that struck me in the first paragraphs is that the Neoplatonists do not succeed in supporting the consistency of their claims that ‘The One’ (το ‘εν) is absolutely united and singular and perfect and also that ...
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2026
In Plato’s Symposium, Aristophanes presents a theory of love fitting a comic poet. Ignoring the details included to explain/excuse homosexuality, the story is roughly that humans were originally spherical beings with no distinction of sexes, then the gods divided us, forming a male and a female out of each divided ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2026
In discussion, a friend proposed that the use of the via negativa might be defended even if it lacks logical or rational justification by supposing that there is an ‘aura’ that is associated with certain words and which remains when they have been definitionally negated in pursuit of some ‘deeper’ ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2026
We do not generally think that it is acceptable to discuss a thing only in terms of what that thing is not, or in terms of what qualities may not be used to characterize it. Nor do we typically think it reasonable to declare that comprehension of some important concept ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2026
Hilary Putnam claimed as a consequence of the causal-descriptive semantic theory, that if you were a brain in a vat then you could never think that you were a brain in a vat, let alone say it, because the terms would fail to be properly causally connected to the things ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2026
StageAchievementOccult power0. Salik (Seeker) On the Sufi path 1. Muridi (Discipleship) Accepted by a master – a Sheik or Murshid 2. Tariqat (Potentiality)Dedicated to oneness with the spirit of the Sheik or Murshid Sihr. (Lawful/white magic) only by permission of the Sheik or Murshid3. Safar-ullah (Journey to Knowledge)Dedicated to oneness with the spirit ...
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Thursday, October 14th, 2021
Le bouddhisme a la réputation d’être à la fois une religion et une philosophie : en fait, beaucoup de philosophes pensent que c’est une philosophie admirable. Il y en a cependant d’autres qui pensent que c’est un mélange des pseudo-profondeurs et d’incohérences. Par exemple, les bouddhistes disent que la fin ...
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