Acknowledging the other fellow human being's suffering, past or present, is by far one of the most powerful things we can do. No analysing, explaining, or helping necessary.
Friday, April 24, 2015
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Reification
Collectively imagining things into existence is what earthlings mostly spend their lives doing.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
The myth of sexy body transformations
The truth about "before and after".
In this case the simulachra did not even bother to move on to the next stage in any physical sense. Just a bit of preening and lighting. Result: thousands imbued with a get-a-sexy-body neurosis, mealtime guilt and a lifetime of unrealistic expectations.
In this case the simulachra did not even bother to move on to the next stage in any physical sense. Just a bit of preening and lighting. Result: thousands imbued with a get-a-sexy-body neurosis, mealtime guilt and a lifetime of unrealistic expectations.
Anthropomorphism in religion
Jesus is one of the many mental tools to bring God closer to human understanding, just like any other anthropomorphic or otherwise shaped gods and goddesses. In that sense, Islam is a much more advanced form of monotheism, because God is not made out to look like a human or have any particular shape comprehensible to the conventions and mental habits of the human mind. That sad, understanding Jesus in spirit, rather than pulling quotes from the Bible to suit one's own agenda, is what differentiates Christian spirituality (personal quest for God) from Christian religion (a social institution with everything that goes with it).
Friday, February 27, 2015
Human ignorance
Earthlings' ignorance of the true nature of their condition is the root of all their suffering.
Monday, February 9, 2015
What fighting brings
"Fighting" anything just creates a far larger and more horrible version of whatever you are fighting (drugs, terrorism, depression, poverty, intolerance, prejudice, etc. ad nauseam).
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