-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- daniel patrick stewart on Fictive Metaphysics, The Neverending Story, and The Nothing
- daniel patrick stewart on Fictive Metaphysics, The Neverending Story, and The Nothing
- Michael Potts on Fictive Metaphysics, The Neverending Story, and The Nothing
- Paige Cousineau on About
- Patrick on The Instructions of Cormac, and misogyny
- Brian Myers on David Guthrie Myers: An Unknown Soldier. Can you help?
Categories
Tags
aliens american politics ancestors banks book reviews books civilization climate change drake equation ecology economics education environment ethics fantasy feminism fermi paradox fiction games historical fantasy home ownership kickstarter literary criticism logic money mortgages movies paganism philosophy photography politics publicity publishing question of the week questions ray bradbury religion Remembrance Day research science fiction social commentary stress taoism travel writingMeta
Tag Archives: religion
Spiritual Negations: Ten Ideas in Religion and Spirituality Which I’m Very Sure Are False.
“People don’t care about knowledge and enlightenment. What they want is validation.” –Heathcliff Weatherby, “Hallowstone“. People in many religious communities are fond of “affirmations”: proverbs, wisdom teachings, “laws of magic”, and the like, usually in the form of only one … Continue reading
Minimalist Religion
In my spiritual life, I think of myself as a philosopher first, and everything else second. The pursuit of knowledge is a deeply important value for me. In that respect, my spirituality can be called humanist, rather than theist. In … Continue reading
The worship of the gods is not what matters
“The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful.” — Circles of Meaning, Labyrinths of Fear I don’t normally … Continue reading