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Within the first five minutes of the interview PROFESSOR :twisted: Zizek states that he declines to write on Donald Trump because "he is not interesting at all as a person. " I understand that Zizek is a communist and an atheist. A collectivist. In contrast, consider and compare these wor...

A documentary about Simone Weil http://linestreet.net/ Here is the trailer.

On September 27, 2017, I was watching Muhammed Yunus being interviewed on Democracy Now about the alleged "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma. I was startled to hear him state: "She stood for democracy. She stood for human rights. She stood for all the human v...

I recommend "The World of Silence" by Max Picard.

I'm currently reading his book "The Human Face".

I'm currently reading this book about the thought of Ivan Illich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3s-MPtbDKc

It's not our fault that he spouts embarrassingly stupid shit every single day. But it is a shame that that sideshow got him all the way to the presidency without ever having to answer a single useful question about the policies he was going to implement. How true. They let him distract them every t...

Bruce Gilley's "The case for colonialism" rocked the intellectual world this last couple weeks. Should be easy enough to find the article online, here is the abstract, "For the last 100 years, Western colonialism has had a bad name. It is high time to question this orthodoxy. Western...

Woke up this morning to find humanism on my mind. When a person runs out of faith, and cannot sustain belief no matter how much it brought comfort and a sense of belonging, where to turn... I read online bbc news that the demand is up for humanist pastoral care, and Charity Humanists UK are trainin...

How about learning a language online, using something like Duolingo? Lots of little challenges to be overcome, a clear sense of progression. You can comment on the process and get responses from other 'players'. And unlike most computer games, you can use the skills you acquire in real life, with r...

This morning as I was waking, I suddenly thought about this thread, "Doing the Right Thing", in relation to the parable of the Good Samaritan. See Luke 10:25-37. Was the thought a revelation to me from....? But, I digress... Maybe the runner was simply imitating, and acting from, the comp...

Dubious wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2017 9:28 am

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:12 am If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against.
By ~famous Indian guru~

Holding "no opinion for or against" will not in itself cause one to see the truth. Indian gurus are a dime a dozen and usually full of crap.

LOL

I vaguely remember that at my first university, UMIST, there were a couple of bored security guards who spent the night dozing in a little hut by the main entrance to the campus, and occasionally wandered around campus with a torch. This was a city centre campus, after all. Nobody would have dreame...

The school identified the victim as Scout Schultz, 21, a fourth-year engineering student from Lilburn, Georgia, who police said was armed with a knife. Schultz, president of Georgia Tech's Pride Alliance, identified as non-binary and intersex and preferred to be referred to with they/them gender pro...

I was home-schooled, so I don't believe I could say from experience. But I don't doubt homophobia is still a big problem in school. Regardless, I don't think the issues people like him face in society can be so easily swept under the same label as "homophobia". I have known plenty of gay ...