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Posts Tagged ‘religion’

The Need to Sanctify or Vilify Others

Posted in Life, tagged , , , , , on November 20, 2010 |

The tendency of people to sanctify the dead illustrates their inability to accept and grapple with the complex realities of human life. It is an avoidance of reality. It betrays the discomfort people feel with honestly and courageously facing themselves with an open mind, of challenging their beliefs and assumptions. Is it wrong to kill, [...]

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Belief is a Crutch

Posted in Life, tagged , , , , , , on October 29, 2010 |

We are controlled by our conceptual frameworks, by our beliefs, our assumptions, our arrogance, our ignorance, our illusions; but to awaken is to learn to take control, to learn to control our beliefs and assumptions, not let them control us. That is power, that is freedom. True power is not controlling others, but controlling yourself; [...]

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Ontological Mumbo Jumbo

Posted in Life, tagged , , , , , , on July 18, 2010 |

Most humans exhibit the problem of mixing up their language—their grammar, their powers of imagination and conceptualization—with reality, with what really is, independent of their concepts, and language, and grammar. People use all sorts of mumbo jumbo to try to prove the existence of things like “God,” and, in the end, it ends up being [...]

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