Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
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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Thursday, September 30th, 2021
Thus are God the Circle, God the Triangle, and God the Square all One God
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
The Buddha-nature (fóxìng – which translates Sanskrit tathAgatagarbha meaning the ‘matrix of the thus gone’ or buddhadhAtu meaning ‘the realm of the enlightened one’) was the subject of the second of Daosheng’s teachings that we will consider. The Buddha-nature was supposed to be that part of a being’s nature which ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2021
Qu’est-ce qu’un athée ? Quelqu’un qui croit qu’il n’y a pas de Dieu. Pourquoi croit-il cela ? Dans la littérature il y a pas mal de raisons et d’arguments données, mais pour un philosophe il n’y a qu’un seul argument significatif : qu’il n’y a aucune raison suffisante à justifier la croyance en ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
The idea that phenomena and noumena are the same thing also featured in the doctrines of the Huáyán (??) school, in which it appears as a consequence of a more general claim concerning the interpenetration of all levels of reality. This school is another of those Chinese schools which made ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
Nagarjuna’s (2nd-3rd C) doctrine of Two Truths is accepted by all Mahayanists. It refers to a method of instruction in which statements were open to alternative possible interpretations depending on the level of sophistication of the audience; a method that Buddha used in order to make his doctrines accessible. The ...
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Friday, July 19th, 2019
‘Angel’ translates the word mal'akh in Hebrew, which is a particular kind of messenger. The Hebrew word can refer to either spiritual beings or material, but our translations only use ‘angel’ for the spiritual kind. In the Bible they are never said to have wings but are described as being ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Zoroastre ne s'attendait pas à la fin du monde en sa vie: il ne serait pas celui qui mènerait les humains au paradis. Il n'était qu'un prophète, qui expliquait aux hommes tout ce qu'ils ont besoin de savoir - ou, plutôt, tout ce que le bon Dieu voulait qu'ils sachent. ...
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