If you're trying to open up their closed minds, I'm afraid it's all for naught.Jaded Sage wrote:Guys, he means people LIKE Christ, Buddha, Muhammad, Lao Tzu, etc. He goes on to mention some philosophers, some lesser known religious figures and a bunch of nonfamous and everyday people.
"The Varieties of Religious Experience"
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I'm just trying to explain that they are both kinda right.
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No, unfortunately they're not kinda right at all.Jaded Sage wrote:I'm just trying to explain that they are both kinda right.
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Did you read the book?
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No, just the posted excerpt which their comments are referring to.Jaded Sage wrote:Did you read the book?
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You need to read the book. They are both kinda right.
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First of all, there are three of them, not two, and secondly, the thread is about the excerpt presented.Jaded Sage wrote:You need to read the book. They are both kinda right.
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Why not bring up everything that William James or anybody else for that matter ever said? We're talking about the excerpt presented in this thread and nothing else. Can't you understand that?
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The book is an expansion on that. Never mind. I'm done.
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Thank God.Jaded Sage wrote:The book is an expansion on that. Never mind. I'm done.
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I got that just from the excerpt.Jaded Sage wrote:Guys, he means people LIKE Christ, Buddha, Muhammad, Lao Tzu, etc. He goes on to mention some philosophers, some lesser known religious figures and a bunch of nonfamous and everyday people.
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bobevenson wrote:If you're trying to open up their closed minds, I'm afraid it's all for naught.Jaded Sage wrote:Guys, he means people LIKE Christ, Buddha, Muhammad, Lao Tzu, etc. He goes on to mention some philosophers, some lesser known religious figures and a bunch of nonfamous and everyday people.
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SHAZAM!! Fear my selective reading and confirmation bias super-powers!!!bobevenson wrote:... We're talking about the excerpt presented in this thread and nothing else. Can't you understand that?
And yet your excerpt says that he's talking about the great religious leaders bob and not you. As you are the follower of a religion and not the instigator of one.
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Yeah, but did he mean Charles Manson, or these guys?Jaded Sage wrote:Guys, he means people LIKE Christ, Buddha, Muhammad, Lao Tzu, etc. He goes on to mention some philosophers, some lesser known religious figures and a bunch of nonfamous and everyday people.
