Rationality, Intellect, Emotion, Intimacy ... are the key mechanisms thru which you grow as a person (and by which, profitably for others, you...
Hi Thomas. Thanks for responding. Attempting to approach existence (and the meaning behind existence) in a manner that is systematic (that is...
Friend of mine made this movie: Girl and guy on their second date. Dance recital, theater on Floor 2 in a college hall. The exit door to the...
What you want most. Choices, yes, but meaningless ones. & & & In Developmental Psychology, a person grows from child to adult not just...
Hi Rodg Unlike some of your detractors, I recognize that your ideas (or, really, your ONE idea) is well grounded. Take a look at Game Theory....
{Defining Divinity (William James)} 6a. Old aphorism: There is nothing sure in life. Except death and taxes. 6b. Painful as it is, humans...
{Defining Divinity (Sigmund Freud)} 3a. The birth-trauma (in humans) awakens cognitive consciousness and affective awareness. We are conscious...
The simple version of Deism goes like this: God sets His creation in motion, then backs off and watches it, not interfering. Lets "human morality...
Defining Divinity 1a. Looked at scientifically, belief (in anything) is a hypothesis. (God is a theory.) 1b. But belief (in anything) never...
Rereading the The Book of J and comparing it to Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers (with their later additions by other authors of the Scriptures) ......
Pitt-Rivers: ... form of sexual hospitality ... amply testified from ethnographies of many nomadic people, who use their women as a means of...
Dinah and Shechem & Shechem and Baal Berith Bob Thanks for taking my interest, here, as being a debate of ideas. If I have time next week, I...
Taijasi It may be arcane of me, in our "postmodern" world, to enunciated a belief in human progress. But I do. And if there is a clear 'cause'...
Nativeastral: l was just looking at it from a wider dimension; as to why Jesus became so popular there... Thomas: Maybe because the doctrine...
Is purity merely a refinement process? Sitting under a tree or in a cave or on a high butte, for hours on end ... till this person (via...
Bob You are a wealth of facts and I always enjoy reading your posts. I am not a linguist. Nor am I as well-read as you on the ancient Near-East....
Penelope: But I found myself gritting my teeth at all the Irish folksongs and romantic ballads I witnessed over that hour-and-a-half of time....
Amergin: I think the main conclusion is that Christianity is a Pagan Religion with some Jewish names, 1700 years ago. Naturally details can be...
Penelope: Sectarian distinctions of class, race, gender ... Innate hierarchy based upon dogmatic discrimination of perceived purity and impurity....
Hey Brian Put your glasses back on, and reread what I've written. I make the equation: 'honor and shame' = evil. Yes. I DO NOT make the...
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