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A "historico-cultural rehearsal " for what? What the heck is that supposed to mean? My way of seeing is Jungian. Trump represents a wide, wounded class of Americans. He represents their woundedness, their many lacks (intellectual, spiritual, in comprehension). You need to get it into your...

Whose seeing brings the better clarification? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52751627845_ff0d42ca22_k.jpg Well, my Trump Derangement Syndrome causes me to imagine that the central character in AJ's picture,... (the locus of focus; the veritable Antichrist in the flesh) ...at the very moment th...

I was taught many different perspectives on philosophy. One perspective was that a person cannot simply debate ideas without placing ourselves personally and physically into the debate. Thus when/if someone argues that murder is not immoral, we place ourselves into jeopardy through our statements i...

If that's so, then it appears as if somebody is hacking into your account and posting stuff like this... Seeds … better than TeeVee, better than YooToob. A multimedia spectacle of TDS. An accusation is very different from observation. I don’t accuse you because you have the ideas and views you do. ...

You accuse me of "TDS" because I recoil in disgust at you (and millions of other cult members) treating the most brazen pathological liar in human history as if he were some kind of "Christ-like" figure. For my part (your comment was directed to Wizard) I cannot accuse you of an...

I can agree with that, Wiz, to which I would add my usual assertion of how the west (more specifically, America) is reaping the negative (necrotizing) karma from all of the death, destruction, and treachery it has sown across the planet over the last 6 or 7 decades through its Imperialistic endeavo...

Basically, the West is unfit to deal with the cultural clashes and moral panic occurring...because we don't have the proper foundations to deal with them (a centralized Church/Morality). Unlike the Roman Empire, which did (the CC). I can agree with that, Wiz, to which I would add my usual assertion...

It has been for me a strange but also a curious conflict. All of my personal background, my university friends and friends growing up, and myself, were of that Left-Progressive orientation. When the Left was actually a Left that could be respected -- pro-family, anti-immigration (illegal immigratio...

It would more or less reduce it to some kind of Buddhist-like "noble path" to follow if one wants to avoid the pitfalls of life on earth. Now, on the other hand, if the endeavor is conducted in the spirit of attempting to extract the best features of all of the world's spiritual tradition...

I realize that what I propose here does not seem adequate enough for many. Belief systems are the containers of intuitions which are often inculcated before they are properly examined. It seems to me - and admit I may be wrong - you are attempting to modernize Christianity into a contemporary Weste...

I'm sorry folks, but no matter how Christian apologists might twist themselves into a pretzel to try and make the concept work, they will never be able to convince a critical thinker that the belief in a Godhead that consists of a "Trinity" (3 Beings) can be called " Mono theism.&quo...

Here is one current example of what is being discussed at a cultural level. In his attempt to define (and justify) "Christian Nationalism," Tucker Carlson's guest (Pastor Doug Wilson) stated the following... "...the Christian heritage has, unlike anything else in human history, has a...

K: unlike you, I see the Till case as being part of history... it is not shocking because it wasn't new... it had context, being part of an age, that white violence against blacks was an accepted part of life...it happened all the time... thus we can understand why the not-guilty verdict came in......

...the brutal murder of those two, was perhaps the most shocking event in the 1990's... No, Kropotkin, the most "shocking" thing of that trial is that OJ was acquitted. what is justice? the OJ case brought us to a new understanding of what is justice, that continues to this day... that we...

it was reported on the news today that OJ Simpson died... and it give us pause to wonder about his legacy and ours... Why should this be important and worth pausing for? ...the brutal murder of those two, was perhaps the most shocking event in the 1990's... No, Kropotkin, the most "shocking&qu...