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"Wokisme": la #Région ?Paca refuse de verser une subvention à une école de cinéma pour avoir utilisé l'#écritureinclusive
https://www.nicematin.com/politique/wokisme-la-region-paca-refuse-de-verser-une-subvention-a-une-ecole-de-cinema-pour-avoir-utilise-l-ecriture-inclusive-984041
Dans l’exposé des motifs, Renaud #Muselier a expliqué que les libertés ne doivent pas "laisser de place aux doctrines de division et de conflit comme le #wokisme ou le négationnisme" -
CW: us pol trump
Papier de Naomi Klein et Astra Taylor sur Guardian:
Analyse du fascisme de Trump et sa clique, comme un culte de l'apocalyspe. Selon elles, la différence avec les doctrines fascistes du XXe réside dans l'absence de grande vision aux lendemains glorieux. Ne reste que l’accélération du déclin et la bunkerisation du monde (et la fuite sur mars pour Musk).
Elles appellent celle·eux qui "ont encore un cœur qui bat" à se rallier "ici", ref au mot yiddish #Doikayt
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#satanism #occultism #lefthandpath
▪️𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧▪️
𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧,
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.
𝐀𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰.
𝐀𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐬 ,𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭.
𝐒𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰, 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠.
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥.
𝐎𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥.
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐭.𝐒𝐨 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬.
𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝.
𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦.
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In occultism Satan is associated with hidden knowledge and secrets, particularly regarding the deeper understanding of planets and creation. Satan not necessarily as the embodiment of evil but rather representing the quest for hidden truths and knowledge.
▪️Hidden Knowledge▪️:
Satan is frequently linked to occult and esoteric teachings that go beyond traditional religious and scientific doctrines, revealing deeper, spiritual truths.
This includes the secrets of the universe, the soul, and human existence.▪️Planets and Stars▪️:
In occultism, planets and stars hold symbolic meanings and are believed to influence human life and destiny.
Satan, as the guardian of hidden knowledge, may be connected to the secrets that the planets and stars conceal.▪️Creation and Energy▪️:
Understanding the forces of creation and the energies of the universe is also part of the occult knowledge that Satan represents.
This perspective sees Satan as symbolizing both creative and destructive forces, offering a deeper understanding of the workings of the universe. -
#GeoPol #FRpol #WarInUktaine #UKpol
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Yes, and, sorry, spineless #Macron didn't instruct FR"s representative at the #UN Security Council to veto the RUS inspired #US ceasefire resolution, which a striking *two thirds* of the General Assembly thought needed significant amendments.
Shame on #France, shame on #Britain, which also chickened out.
tRump is #PutinsPupet. At best, he will pursue 19th century stile hegemonic powers doctrines, at worst, he"ll continue to...
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Guy dhammazaadjes – Identificeer je niet met je eigen Grote Gelijk
De Atthakavagga, één van de oudste delen van de Pali-canon, laat er niet de minste twijfel over bestaan: wil de beoefenaar een einde maken aan zijn ‘onvrede’ (P. dukkha) en ‘innerlijke vrede’ (P. shanti) bereiken—het hoogste doel in dit leven—dan heeft hij/zij geen andere keuze dan alle meningen, opinies, filosofieën, doctrines, metafysische constructies en religieuze opvattingen los te laten.
Meningen, opinies, filosofieën, doctrines en religieuze opvattingen zijn de oorzaak van mentale onrust; van onenigheid en strijd; van trots en neerslachtigheid; van disharmonie in gemoedstoestanden; van gemis aan vrede met jezelf en de wereld.
De sutta’s van de Atthakavagga zijn direct en duidelijk: elke hechting aan meningen, opinies, filosofieën, doctrines en religieuze opvattingen vormt een obstakel voor het bereiken van innerlijke vrede.
Elke identificering met opinies leidt immers tot conflictueuze toestanden met anderen die er een verschillende opvatting (of zelfs geen opvatting) op na houden.
Hetzelfde geldt voor opinies over opinies; meningen over meningen; filosofieën over filosofieën; doctrines over doctrines en religieuze opvattingen over religieuze opvattingen.
De Muni van de Atthakavagga—de Wijze, die in de sutta’s van de Atthakavagga de personificatie is voor de Boeddha—wijst elke identificering met een bepaalde opinie, filosofie,… radicaal af.
Waarom?
Omdat elke identificering het ‘eigen’ Grote Gelijk—het ‘zelf’, het eigen individuele wereldje—bevestigt. En op deze manier de persoonlijkheid in stand houdt. Dit geloof in persoonlijkheid (P. sakkaya-ditthi) is de eerste (en belangrijkste) van 10 mentale ketens (P. samyojana’s) die de beoefenaar aan samsara binden en hem/haar beletten tot ontwaken te komen.
Observeer aandachtig hoe identificering werkt. Onderzoek hoe elke identificering je meesleurt in de maalstroom van het leven. Trap niet in die val. Laat je Grote Gelijk los. Laat je ‘ik’ los. Ga eraan voorbij.
Doof dit helse vuur van onwetendheid, verlangen en afkeer. Het is jouw eerste stap naar bevrijdend inzicht.
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Guy dhammazaadjes – Identificeer je niet met je eigen Grote Gelijk
De Atthakavagga, één van de oudste delen van de Pali-canon, laat er niet de minste twijfel over bestaan: wil de beoefenaar een einde maken aan zijn ‘onvrede’ (P. dukkha) en ‘innerlijke vrede’ (P. shanti) bereiken—het hoogste doel in dit leven—dan heeft hij/zij geen andere keuze dan alle meningen, opinies, filosofieën, doctrines, metafysische constructies en religieuze opvattingen los te laten.
Meningen, opinies, filosofieën, doctrines en religieuze opvattingen zijn de oorzaak van mentale onrust; van onenigheid en strijd; van trots en neerslachtigheid; van disharmonie in gemoedstoestanden; van gemis aan vrede met jezelf en de wereld.
De sutta’s van de Atthakavagga zijn direct en duidelijk: elke hechting aan meningen, opinies, filosofieën, doctrines en religieuze opvattingen vormt een obstakel voor het bereiken van innerlijke vrede.
Elke identificering met opinies leidt immers tot conflictueuze toestanden met anderen die er een verschillende opvatting (of zelfs geen opvatting) op na houden.
Hetzelfde geldt voor opinies over opinies; meningen over meningen; filosofieën over filosofieën; doctrines over doctrines en religieuze opvattingen over religieuze opvattingen.
De Muni van de Atthakavagga—de Wijze, die in de sutta’s van de Atthakavagga de personificatie is voor de Boeddha—wijst elke identificering met een bepaalde opinie, filosofie,… radicaal af.
Waarom?
Omdat elke identificering het ‘eigen’ Grote Gelijk—het ‘zelf’, het eigen individuele wereldje—bevestigt. En op deze manier de persoonlijkheid in stand houdt. Dit geloof in persoonlijkheid (P. sakkaya-ditthi) is de eerste (en belangrijkste) van 10 mentale ketens (P. samyojana’s) die de beoefenaar aan samsara binden en hem/haar beletten tot ontwaken te komen.
Observeer aandachtig hoe identificering werkt. Onderzoek hoe elke identificering je meesleurt in de maalstroom van het leven. Trap niet in die val. Laat je Grote Gelijk los. Laat je ‘ik’ los. Ga eraan voorbij.
Doof dit helse vuur van onwetendheid, verlangen en afkeer. Het is jouw eerste stap naar bevrijdend inzicht.
Dit is een automatisch geplaatst bericht via ActivityPub.
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#fascism #Christofash #civilwar #fundamentaliam #theocracy #christiannationalism #NAR
I may have found a weak spot in the "New Apostolic Reformation"(NAR), which is perhaps the most dangerous and fastest growing varient of Christian nationalism in the US.
Turns out they reject a major, key doctrine of most modern Christian churches. They reject the Trinity doctrine, most famously set down in the Nicene Creed recited by Catholics, Episcopalians, and a number of related denominations.
The Nicene Creed establishing the Trinity as official Christian doctrine goes all the way back to the 325 CE Council of Nicea-and the NAR rejects it.
By rejecting the Trinity, the New Apostolic Reformation rejects a core tenant of both Catholicism and most Protestant doctrines that split from it alike. Because of this, some non-NAR pastors have gone all the way to calling the NAR "apostates."
This is a ready-made wedge issue that we can use to stir up fighting between extreme-right Catholics and mainstream right-wing Protestants on the one hand and the NAR on the other. If this escalated far enough, we could see Opus Dei and NAR burning each other's churches.
While there are other Christian groups such as Unitarians and Jehovah's Witnesses that also do not follow the Trinity doctrine, neither of these groups are serious contenders for state power. Their relations with mainstream Christians seem to be mostly peaceful, and the Unitarians in particular seem to be quite easy to get along with.
The NAR's relations with mainstream Christianty appear on the surface to be peaceful at this time, but most of the traditional churches may simply be unaware of them, or of their true nature.
A few more informed preachers have turned on them and are calling them apostates. They have even been protrayed on one Christian website as a wolf threatening a flock of sheep.
piratechristian(dot)com/berean-examiner/the-six-hallmarks-of-a-nar-church
These are the first sparks of a schism in Christian nationalism, begging to be fanned up to a roaring inferno of division.
Those of us who are defending our communities from right-wing Christian nationalists in general can only benefit from the division between the NAR and most other Christians. If Opus Dei and NAR are burning each other's buildings, they both have less time and energy to burn LGBTQ nightclubs or lobby for more abortion prosecutions. This could even split voters if both run candidates, handing power back to secular opponents.
On a final note, given the number of white supremacists/white nationalists in NAR, one has to wonder if they confused "Arian" with "Aryan."
Don't forget that Trump's VP candidate J.D Vance has appeared at a major NAR event
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— Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) — [Extrait]
L’ouvrage majeur de Vico est "La Science nouvelle", dont le titre complet est "Principes d’une Science nouvelle relative à la nature des nations, par lesquels on trouve d’autres principes du droit naturel des peuples"...
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Retrouvez la suite de la biographie et de la doctrine de Giambattisata Vico :
https://sites.google.com/view/mardiphilo/bo%C3%AEte-%C3%A0-outils-philosophiques/doctrines-et-vies-des-philosophes-illustres/giambattista-vico-1668-1744
#Philosophie #MardiCestPhilosophie #Philosophes #Biographie #Doctrine #Vico #Histoire #Poétique #Vrai #Ingenium -
#Appellate Nibs No. 3: Avoid “that’s not this case.”
Of course your focus is your client’s case. But an appellate court is as concerned with the law’s broader development—say, how your proposed test could apply under different facts or affect other doctrines. Your client might not care about those things, but the court does—and winning will mean resolving their concerns. So, even in strict service to your client, keep a wider view than their case alone. What does that mean practically? (1/2)
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Atheism and metaphysics
Metaphysics can seem to be a rather slippery term. On the one hand it can be taken to be “the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind” (Wikipedia) but on the other, being the study of, in one sense, how things come to be, it is too easily conflated with religious creation myths, or with cosmologies intricately involved with religious doctrines of causality and phenomenology.
But “according to modern scientific knowledge, mental events and processes presuppose the existence and reality of material things. Thinking, for example, implies the existence of a bird or a mammal with a brain. Or a momentary event, such as the proverbial cat sitting on the mat, presupposes the real existence of the cat, the mat, the earth under the mat, as well as a real human observer of the event.” (Morris)
But for me, that which is intended by using the term “ground of being” (Tillich) is precisely that which can be known directly as “no-thing” in contemplation. I am not talking here of an idea, a common factor in a Huxley-like perennial philosophy, but of a repeated and very direct experience of what Quakers have referred to as “the light”, as described for instance by Emilia Fogelklou (she writes in the third person): “Without visions or the sound of speech or human mediation, in exceptionally wide-awake consciousness, she experienced the great releasing inward wonder. It was as if the ’empty shell’ burst. All the weight and agony, all the feeling of unreality dropped away. She perceived living goodness, joy, light like a clear, irradiating, uplifting, enfolding, unequivocal reality from deep inside.”
This kind of experience can of course not be described terribly clearly, nor can it be communicated directly, and any attempt is likely to fall into superlatives such as Fogelklou’s. But the experience is as real and direct as any sensory experience, perhaps more so, and it has a curious undeniable quality, a great lifting and healing of the heart. I use Tillich’s term for it not because I have any particular attraction for that as an idea, but because it seems to get closer than anything else I have read to the encounter itself. There is a visual analogue that sometimes occurs in meditation – and which can lead to the experience I am trying to describe – of the visual field itself, seen through closed eyes, extending suddenly through and beneath what ought to have been the observing mind, but which is no longer there.
Now, I have long enough experience in contemplative practice to know that experiences are not things to hang onto, still less to seek after, and I would not be happy if any words of mine sent anyone on a quest for experiential chimeras. Yet the experience itself, with all its indelible affect, has occurred so often over the years, since childhood, that I find myself referring to it over and over again, and it remains for me a kind of lodestone.
Are these metaphysical experiences, insights? Are they therefore somehow at variance with the fundamental insight of atheism that the idea of another, supernatural, layer to existence, within which the human self can somehow transcend, or survive, the electrochemical apparatus of the central nervous system, is illusory? I don’t think so. Daniel Dennett’s insight into human phenomenology as a “benign user illusion” coincides well with the Buddhist conception of things as empty of intrinsic existence (śūnyatā) – all of which seems to me to be a formal expression of what I have come to experience as “no-thing.” Andreas Müller:
All there is is oneness. The unknown. No-thing appearing as it appears. It is already whole. It is already complete. That which seems to be missing – wholeness – is not lost…
What remains is indescribable. It is indescribable simply because there is no one left who can describe it. There is no one left who experiences oneness (which, by the way, would then not be oneness anymore) and could possibly know how that is. Yes, there is no one left who knows how it is. That is freedom.
#AndreasMüller #atheism #awakening #BrianMorris #consciousness #contemplative #DanielDennett #EmiliaFogelklou #PaulTillich #philosophy #practice #religion #Wikipedia
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CW: Long thread/13
It's amazing to realize that we got into this monopoly quagmire because judges just literally refused to enforce the law. That's what makes one part of the jury verdict against Google so exciting: the jury found that Google's insistence that Play Store sellers use its payment processor was an act of illegal #tying. Today, "tying" is an obscure legal theory, but few doctrines would be more useful in disenshittifying the internet.
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A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that specific networks in the brain -- when damaged -- may influence the likelihood of developing #religious #fundamentalism.
By analyzing patients with focal brain #lesions, researchers found that damage to a particular network of brain regions—was associated with higher levels of fundamentalist beliefs.
This finding provides new insight into the potential neural basis of religious fundamentalism,
which has long been studied in psychology but less so in neuroscience.Religious fundamentalism is a way of thinking and behaving characterized by a rigid adherence to religious doctrines that are seen as absolute and inerrant.
It’s been linked to various cognitive traits such as 🔸authoritarianism, 🔸resistance to doubt, 🔸and a lower complexity of thought.While much of the research on religious fundamentalism has focused on social and environmental factors like family upbringing and cultural influence,
there has been growing interest in the role of biology.Some studies have suggested that genetic factors or brain function may influence religiosity,
but until now, very little research has looked at specific brain networks that could underlie fundamentalist thinking.The authors of the study hypothesized that instead of a single brain region being responsible, religious fundamentalism might arise from damage to a distributed network of connected brain regions.
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Thalès de Milet (v. 635 - v. 545 av. J.-C.)
__________"Thalès, étant tombé dans un puits, tandis que, occupé d’astronomie, il regardait en l’air, une petite servante thrace, toute mignonne et pleine de bonne humeur, se mit, dit-on, à le railler de mettre tant d’ardeur à savoir ce qui est au ciel, alors qu’il ne s’apercevait pas de ce qu’il avait devant lui et à ses pieds !"
Platon, Théétète, 174 a.
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https://sites.google.com/view/mardiphilo/bo%C3%AEte-%C3%A0-outils-philosophiques/doctrines-et-vies-des-philosophes-illustres/thal%C3%A8s-de-milet-v-635-v-545-av-j-c
#Philosophie #Doctrine #Biographie #Thalès #Milet -
— Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) — [Extrait]
L’ouvrage majeur de Vico est "La Science nouvelle", dont le titre complet est "Principes d’une Science nouvelle relative à la nature des nations, par lesquels on trouve d’autres principes du droit naturel des peuples"...
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Retrouvez la suite de la biographie et de la doctrine de Giambattisata Vico :
https://sites.google.com/view/mardiphilo/bo%C3%AEte-%C3%A0-outils-philosophiques/doctrines-et-vies-des-philosophes-illustres/giambattista-vico-1668-1744
#Philosophie #MardiCestPhilosophie #Philosophes #Biographie #Doctrine #Vico #Histoire #Poétique #Vrai #Ingenium -
"We are still wresting control (including autonomy) from those who own."
Or those who claim ownership, with citizens remaining blissfully ignorant.
Land title claims of British North American colonies (consolidated into USA and Canada) are still based on the #DoctrineOfDiscovery , antique Christian religious doctrines, and not legitimate international law.
Far too many settlers uphold the colonialism project.
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Curious what you think about:
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Atheism and metaphysics
Metaphysics can seem to be a rather slippery term. On the one hand it can be taken to be “the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind” (Wikipedia) but on the other, being the study of, in one sense, how things come to be, it is too easily conflated with religious creation myths, or with cosmologies intricately involved with religious doctrines of causality and phenomenology.
But “according to modern scientific knowledge, mental events and processes presuppose the existence and reality of material things. Thinking, for example, implies the existence of a bird or a mammal with a brain. Or a momentary event, such as the proverbial cat sitting on the mat, presupposes the real existence of the cat, the mat, the earth under the mat, as well as a real human observer of the event.” (Morris)
But for me, that which is intended by using the term “ground of being” (Tillich) is precisely that which can be known directly as “no-thing” in contemplation. I am not talking here of an idea, a common factor in a Huxley-like perennial philosophy, but of a repeated and very direct experience of what Quakers have referred to as “the light”, as described for instance by Emilia Fogelklou (she writes in the third person): “Without visions or the sound of speech or human mediation, in exceptionally wide-awake consciousness, she experienced the great releasing inward wonder. It was as if the ’empty shell’ burst. All the weight and agony, all the feeling of unreality dropped away. She perceived living goodness, joy, light like a clear, irradiating, uplifting, enfolding, unequivocal reality from deep inside.”
This kind of experience can of course not be described terribly clearly, nor can it be communicated directly, and any attempt is likely to fall into superlatives such as Fogelklou’s. But the experience is as real and direct as any sensory experience, perhaps more so, and it has a curious undeniable quality, a great lifting and healing of the heart. I use Tillich’s term for it not because I have any particular attraction for that as an idea, but because it seems to get closer than anything else I have read to the encounter itself. There is a visual analogue that sometimes occurs in meditation – and which can lead to the experience I am trying to describe – of the visual field itself, seen through closed eyes, extending suddenly through and beneath what ought to have been the observing mind, but which is no longer there.
Now, I have long enough experience in contemplative practice to know that experiences are not things to hang onto, still less to seek after, and I would not be happy if any words of mine sent anyone on a quest for experiential chimeras. Yet the experience itself, with all its indelible affect, has occurred so often over the years, since childhood, that I find myself referring to it over and over again, and it remains for me a kind of lodestone.
Are these metaphysical experiences, insights? Are they therefore somehow at variance with the fundamental insight of atheism that the idea of another, supernatural, layer to existence, within which the human self can somehow transcend, or survive, the electrochemical apparatus of the central nervous system, is illusory? I don’t think so. Daniel Dennett’s insight into human phenomenology as a “benign user illusion” coincides well with the Buddhist conception of things as empty of intrinsic existence (śūnyatā) – all of which seems to me to be a formal expression of what I have come to experience as “no-thing.” Andreas Müller:
All there is is oneness. The unknown. No-thing appearing as it appears. It is already whole. It is already complete. That which seems to be missing – wholeness – is not lost…
What remains is indescribable. It is indescribable simply because there is no one left who can describe it. There is no one left who experiences oneness (which, by the way, would then not be oneness anymore) and could possibly know how that is. Yes, there is no one left who knows how it is. That is freedom.
#AndreasMüller #atheism #awakening #BrianMorris #consciousness #contemplative #DanielDennett #EmiliaFogelklou #PaulTillich #philosophy #practice #religion #Wikipedia
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Atheism and metaphysics
Metaphysics can seem to be a rather slippery term. On the one hand it can be taken to be “the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind” (Wikipedia) but on the other, being the study of, in one sense, how things come to be, it is too easily conflated with religious creation myths, or with cosmologies intricately involved with religious doctrines of causality and phenomenology.
But “according to modern scientific knowledge, mental events and processes presuppose the existence and reality of material things. Thinking, for example, implies the existence of a bird or a mammal with a brain. Or a momentary event, such as the proverbial cat sitting on the mat, presupposes the real existence of the cat, the mat, the earth under the mat, as well as a real human observer of the event.” (Morris)
But for me, that which is intended by using the term “ground of being” (Tillich) is precisely that which can be known directly as “no-thing” in contemplation. I am not talking here of an idea, a common factor in a Huxley-like perennial philosophy, but of a repeated and very direct experience of what Quakers have referred to as “the light”, as described for instance by Emilia Fogelklou (she writes in the third person): “Without visions or the sound of speech or human mediation, in exceptionally wide-awake consciousness, she experienced the great releasing inward wonder. It was as if the ’empty shell’ burst. All the weight and agony, all the feeling of unreality dropped away. She perceived living goodness, joy, light like a clear, irradiating, uplifting, enfolding, unequivocal reality from deep inside.”
This kind of experience can of course not be described terribly clearly, nor can it be communicated directly, and any attempt is likely to fall into superlatives such as Fogelklou’s. But the experience is as real and direct as any sensory experience, perhaps more so, and it has a curious undeniable quality, a great lifting and healing of the heart. I use Tillich’s term for it not because I have any particular attraction for that as an idea, but because it seems to get closer than anything else I have read to the encounter itself. There is a visual analogue that sometimes occurs in meditation – and which can lead to the experience I am trying to describe – of the visual field itself, seen through closed eyes, extending suddenly through and beneath what ought to have been the observing mind, but which is no longer there.
Now, I have long enough experience in contemplative practice to know that experiences are not things to hang onto, still less to seek after, and I would not be happy if any words of mine sent anyone on a quest for experiential chimeras. Yet the experience itself, with all its indelible affect, has occurred so often over the years, since childhood, that I find myself referring to it over and over again, and it remains for me a kind of lodestone.
Are these metaphysical experiences, insights? Are they therefore somehow at variance with the fundamental insight of atheism that the idea of another, supernatural, layer to existence, within which the human self can somehow transcend, or survive, the electrochemical apparatus of the central nervous system, is illusory? I don’t think so. Daniel Dennett’s insight into human phenomenology as a “benign user illusion” coincides well with the Buddhist conception of things as empty of intrinsic existence (śūnyatā) – all of which seems to me to be a formal expression of what I have come to experience as “no-thing.” Andreas Müller:
All there is is oneness. The unknown. No-thing appearing as it appears. It is already whole. It is already complete. That which seems to be missing – wholeness – is not lost…
What remains is indescribable. It is indescribable simply because there is no one left who can describe it. There is no one left who experiences oneness (which, by the way, would then not be oneness anymore) and could possibly know how that is. Yes, there is no one left who knows how it is. That is freedom.
#AndreasMüller #atheism #awakening #BrianMorris #consciousness #contemplative #DanielDennett #EmiliaFogelklou #PaulTillich #philosophy #practice #religion #Wikipedia
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Atheism and metaphysics
Metaphysics can seem to be a rather slippery term. On the one hand it can be taken to be “the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind” (Wikipedia) but on the other, being the study of, in one sense, how things come to be, it is too easily conflated with religious creation myths, or with cosmologies intricately involved with religious doctrines of causality and phenomenology.
But “according to modern scientific knowledge, mental events and processes presuppose the existence and reality of material things. Thinking, for example, implies the existence of a bird or a mammal with a brain. Or a momentary event, such as the proverbial cat sitting on the mat, presupposes the real existence of the cat, the mat, the earth under the mat, as well as a real human observer of the event.” (Morris)
But for me, that which is intended by using the term “ground of being” (Tillich) is precisely that which can be known directly as “no-thing” in contemplation. I am not talking here of an idea, a common factor in a Huxley-like perennial philosophy, but of a repeated and very direct experience of what Quakers have referred to as “the light”, as described for instance by Emilia Fogelklou (she writes in the third person): “Without visions or the sound of speech or human mediation, in exceptionally wide-awake consciousness, she experienced the great releasing inward wonder. It was as if the ’empty shell’ burst. All the weight and agony, all the feeling of unreality dropped away. She perceived living goodness, joy, light like a clear, irradiating, uplifting, enfolding, unequivocal reality from deep inside.”
This kind of experience can of course not be described terribly clearly, nor can it be communicated directly, and any attempt is likely to fall into superlatives such as Fogelklou’s. But the experience is as real and direct as any sensory experience, perhaps more so, and it has a curious undeniable quality, a great lifting and healing of the heart. I use Tillich’s term for it not because I have any particular attraction for that as an idea, but because it seems to get closer than anything else I have read to the encounter itself. There is a visual analogue that sometimes occurs in meditation – and which can lead to the experience I am trying to describe – of the visual field itself, seen through closed eyes, extending suddenly through and beneath what ought to have been the observing mind, but which is no longer there.
Now, I have long enough experience in contemplative practice to know that experiences are not things to hang onto, still less to seek after, and I would not be happy if any words of mine sent anyone on a quest for experiential chimeras. Yet the experience itself, with all its indelible affect, has occurred so often over the years, since childhood, that I find myself referring to it over and over again, and it remains for me a kind of lodestone.
Are these metaphysical experiences, insights? Are they therefore somehow at variance with the fundamental insight of atheism that the idea of another, supernatural, layer to existence, within which the human self can somehow transcend, or survive, the electrochemical apparatus of the central nervous system, is illusory? I don’t think so. Daniel Dennett’s insight into human phenomenology as a “benign user illusion” coincides well with the Buddhist conception of things as empty of intrinsic existence (śūnyatā) – all of which seems to me to be a formal expression of what I have come to experience as “no-thing.” Andreas Müller:
All there is is oneness. The unknown. No-thing appearing as it appears. It is already whole. It is already complete. That which seems to be missing – wholeness – is not lost…
What remains is indescribable. It is indescribable simply because there is no one left who can describe it. There is no one left who experiences oneness (which, by the way, would then not be oneness anymore) and could possibly know how that is. Yes, there is no one left who knows how it is. That is freedom.
#AndreasMüller #atheism #awakening #BrianMorris #consciousness #contemplative #DanielDennett #EmiliaFogelklou #PaulTillich #philosophy #practice #religion #Wikipedia
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Atheism and metaphysics
Metaphysics can seem to be a rather slippery term. On the one hand it can be taken to be “the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind” (Wikipedia) but on the other, being the study of, in one sense, how things come to be, it is too easily conflated with religious creation myths, or with cosmologies intricately involved with religious doctrines of causality and phenomenology.
But “according to modern scientific knowledge, mental events and processes presuppose the existence and reality of material things. Thinking, for example, implies the existence of a bird or a mammal with a brain. Or a momentary event, such as the proverbial cat sitting on the mat, presupposes the real existence of the cat, the mat, the earth under the mat, as well as a real human observer of the event.” (Morris)
But for me, that which is intended by using the term “ground of being” (Tillich) is precisely that which can be known directly as “no-thing” in contemplation. I am not talking here of an idea, a common factor in a Huxley-like perennial philosophy, but of a repeated and very direct experience of what Quakers have referred to as “the light”, as described for instance by Emilia Fogelklou (she writes in the third person): “Without visions or the sound of speech or human mediation, in exceptionally wide-awake consciousness, she experienced the great releasing inward wonder. It was as if the ’empty shell’ burst. All the weight and agony, all the feeling of unreality dropped away. She perceived living goodness, joy, light like a clear, irradiating, uplifting, enfolding, unequivocal reality from deep inside.”
This kind of experience can of course not be described terribly clearly, nor can it be communicated directly, and any attempt is likely to fall into superlatives such as Fogelklou’s. But the experience is as real and direct as any sensory experience, perhaps more so, and it has a curious undeniable quality, a great lifting and healing of the heart. I use Tillich’s term for it not because I have any particular attraction for that as an idea, but because it seems to get closer than anything else I have read to the encounter itself. There is a visual analogue that sometimes occurs in meditation – and which can lead to the experience I am trying to describe – of the visual field itself, seen through closed eyes, extending suddenly through and beneath what ought to have been the observing mind, but which is no longer there.
Now, I have long enough experience in contemplative practice to know that experiences are not things to hang onto, still less to seek after, and I would not be happy if any words of mine sent anyone on a quest for experiential chimeras. Yet the experience itself, with all its indelible affect, has occurred so often over the years, since childhood, that I find myself referring to it over and over again, and it remains for me a kind of lodestone.
Are these metaphysical experiences, insights? Are they therefore somehow at variance with the fundamental insight of atheism that the idea of another, supernatural, layer to existence, within which the human self can somehow transcend, or survive, the electrochemical apparatus of the central nervous system, is illusory? I don’t think so. Daniel Dennett’s insight into human phenomenology as a “benign user illusion” coincides well with the Buddhist conception of things as empty of intrinsic existence (śūnyatā) – all of which seems to me to be a formal expression of what I have come to experience as “no-thing.” Andreas Müller:
All there is is oneness. The unknown. No-thing appearing as it appears. It is already whole. It is already complete. That which seems to be missing – wholeness – is not lost…
What remains is indescribable. It is indescribable simply because there is no one left who can describe it. There is no one left who experiences oneness (which, by the way, would then not be oneness anymore) and could possibly know how that is. Yes, there is no one left who knows how it is. That is freedom.
#AndreasMüller #atheism #awakening #BrianMorris #consciousness #contemplative #DanielDennett #EmiliaFogelklou #PaulTillich #philosophy #practice #religion #Wikipedia
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A conversation between @rtushnet and @lexlanham about #BadSpaniels? Yes, please! You, too, can sign up to attend (onsite or online) for free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bad-spaniels-trademark-parody-and-fair-use-doctrines-tickets-603820953727
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well as through the Hubbard #Dianetic Research Foundation that he established in 1950. The foundation went #bankrupt, and #Hubbard lost the rights to his book Dianetics in 1952. He then recharacterized the subject as a #religion and renamed it #Scientology, retaining the terminology, doctrines, and the practice of "#auditing".[7][16][17] By 1954 he had regained the rights to Dianetics and retained both subjects under the umbrella of the Church of Scientology
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Whosoever honours his own religion and condemns other religions, does so indeed through devotion to his own religion, thinking “I will glorify my own religion”. But on the contrary, in so doing he injures his own religion more gravely. So concord is good: Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others’. #asoka #Religion
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CW: uspol
“#Americans have known how to erect a superlative material achievement in the midst of an untouched wilderness… What we need today is to erect a corresponding philosophical structure, without which the material greatness cannot survive… The new wilderness to reclaim is #philosophy, now all but deserted, with the weeds of prehistoric doctrines rising again to swallow the ruins.”
— “For the New Intellectual” by #AynRand
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Jesus offends – Kosher food
Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honour Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”
Matthew 15.7-9#church #churchleadership #faith #Israel #Jesus #jesuschrist #judaism #kosher #Messiah #religionreality #salvation #thetraditionsoftheelders
https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/jesus-offends-kosher-food/
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Anarchism is the teaching of freedom as the foundation of human society. Anarchy (in English: without rule, without authority, without state) thereby denotes the condition of social order aspired to by the anarchists, namely the freedom of each individual through the general freedom. In this objective, in no other, consist the common bonds of all anarchists with one another, consists the fundamental distinction of anarchism from all other social doctrines and human faiths.
#ErichMuehsam :anarchoheart3: :anarchism: 🏴
The Liberation of Society from the State: What is Communist Anarchism?
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It is a testament to #JohnRoberts’s skill as a #politician that he is often viewed as a modest & moderate #judicial institutionalist when, in fact, he has used his position on the court to spearhead a remarkable campaign of #judicial activism. In cases like #ShelbyCountyVHolder in 2013 & the more recent #WestVirginiaVEPA, Roberts all but deployed novel constitutional doctrines (“equal state sovereignty” & the “major questions doctrine”) to achieve his preferred results.
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█ Moldàvia suma punts per agradar a la UE: de l'acollida d'ucraïnesos a l'oferta de seguretat ▓▒░ L'organització de l'última cimera de la Comunitat Política Europea ha estat la gran oportunitat de Moldàvia per fer-se valdre exhibint una bona integració dels refugiats d'Ucraïna i oferi[…] #324cat #conselleuropeu #ucraina #unioeuropea https://www.ccma.cat/324/moldavia-suma-punts-per-agradar-a-la-ue-de-lacollida-ducrainesos-a-loferta-de-seguretat/noticia/3233721/?ext=MASTODON_ONLINE
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About a year ago, Steven HAuse interviewed me at Universalist National Memorial Church as part of his project to make a documentary — Love Unrelenting — about the theology and history of universal salvation. He gave me a head’s-up when he separately published the clips that didn’t fit into the documentary and then the film itself. But being sensitive about how I sound and look on video, and knowing that I would be sharing airtime with some of the leading figures of a revived universalist work, I just couldn’t watch it.
But I owed it to him to watch it, and used the cold weather to pull it up on YouTube; I’m glad I did. HAute set out the three usual Christian doctrines of human destiny: the “traditional option” eternal conscious torment, conditional immortality (also know as annihilationism) and universal reconciliation, and let proponents of each speak from their convictions. But the goal was to highlight universal reconciliation and so wrestled with the biblical, theological and ethical dimensions, introducing them in an approachable manner.
The audience is not Unitarian Universalists, or even our remaining Universalist Christians, but potential members of new generation of believers in universal reconciliation, many of whom come out of Evangelical backgrounds, and may or may not be interested in particular Universalist churches. (None I’ve seen express an interest in the UUA, and they often make the point to distinguish themselves from it.) The arguments and approaches are very familiar to any student of pre-1920s Universalism, which makes perfect sense as so many of those long-past Universalists would have walked the same path. Plus, it’s heartening to me to hear the same affirmations that God has both the desire and the power to save all; it can be lonely in this part of the vineyard. Like Simeon (today’s lectionary gospel), I know that this hope will never perish.
Also, I was cheered to see friends, colleagues, a seminary mate (not then universalist) and others I’ve corresponded with over the years. I saw for the first time footage and interviews from the Doujin (Dojin) Christian Church, Tokyo (Japanese language site): the last survivor of the Universalist Japan mission. In the extra clips, I saw for the first time video and interviews with Primitive Baptist Universalists. I am so happy and cheered. HAuse has made an incredible document; you should subscribe to his channel and watch these videos.
- Love Unrelenting YouTube channel
- Love Unrelenting documentary (Spanish subtitles available)
- A bit of self-promotion. The playlist of my clips, so you can hear what I sound like and see my pretty face.
https://www.revscottwells.com/2023/02/05/love-unrelenting-documentary-and-video-channel/
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#7Books in no particular order:
1. #Psalms- Good theology set to poetry/music
2. #LordOfTheRings-Duh.
3. #MeaningOfMarxism-A good intro to Marxist thought.
4. #LuthersSmallCatechism-small pamphlet, big and excellent doctrines
5. #JakartaMethod-Why peaceful socialism can't win
6. #LawAndGospel-Think like a Lutheran.
7. #Dune-Just a fun choice -
Anarchism is the teaching of freedom as the foundation of human society. Anarchy (in English: without rule, without authority, without state) thereby denotes the condition of social order aspired to by the anarchists, namely the freedom of each individual through the general freedom. In this objective, in no other, consist the common bonds of all anarchists with one another, consists the fundamental distinction of anarchism from all other social doctrines and human faiths.
#ErichMuehsam :anarchoheart3: :anarchism: 🏴
The Liberation of Society from the State: What is Communist Anarchism?