School of Thought Vox 2008-07-07T18:25:14Z tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d41448d22d685e/ Feed Your Mind! Civil, intelligent exchange of ideas on philosophical topics. From casual hobbyist to lettered scholar, your philosophical musings are welcome here. Off topic posts are subject to removal. Please see group keywords if you are in doubt. I don't know who you are yet, but we will love forever tag:vox.com,2008-07-06:asset-6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fad6981ea80004 2008-07-06T22:46:59Z 2008-07-07T18:25:14Z Charmagne Coe http://shemakescozyhats.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

I don't know you, but we will love forever I don't know you, but we will love forever "Wounded"

I've been purposefully meandering on a spiritual path for several years now. I know there are things that I have left behind maybe for a while, maybe permanently, pieces of religion that confused and debilitated my life. I've come across so many i...

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]]> Cheerful Despair tag:vox.com,2008-07-05:asset-6a00e398e40c69000500fad696f0a90005 2008-07-05T23:38:35Z 2008-07-08T23:12:19Z Koios http://koios.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I often use terms that seem to really bother people: nothingness, chaos, suffering, meaninglessness, despair, etc. Why do these terms, which are so embedded in my philosophy, bother people so much? Well, most people seem to thing that there is so...

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]]> Hitchens, you fat fraud, you supported the killing, maiming and displacement of millions of people. tag:vox.com,2008-07-05:asset-6a00d4142cb7986a4700fad697a7200004 2008-07-05T09:23:42Z 2008-07-06T04:42:18Z Snowy http://snowy938.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom http://www.alternet.org/rights/90292/?page=entire Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture! Stop the presses! Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture! Hitchens announced ...

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]]> Very, very interesting read. Not another anti US rant, but telling it like it is from (gasp) Murdoch tag:vox.com,2008-07-05:asset-6a00d4142cb7986a4700fa968488be0002 2008-07-05T08:21:23Z 2008-07-09T03:01:21Z Snowy http://snowy938.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23968711-7583,00.html Nirvana out of American reach Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large | July 05, 2008 THE energy, financial and political woes that grip the US signal a decisive shift in wor...

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]]> Religion and Morals tag:vox.com,2008-07-05:asset-6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b8e90005 2008-07-05T04:47:51Z 2008-07-09T02:57:58Z Koios http://koios.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom "If God does not exist, everything is allowed." Dostoevsky's character, Ivan Karamazov, said this while discussing theology around the dinner table in his father's house. Not surprisingly, Ivan is an atheist. Only an atheist would say this, rig...

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]]> Spirituality tag:vox.com,2008-07-04:asset-6a00e398e40c69000500fa96850b100003 2008-07-04T20:47:20Z 2008-07-05T20:10:13Z Koios http://koios.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are close...

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]]> Hip? tag:vox.com,2008-06-29:asset-6a00c225240e418fdb00fa968380fe0003 2008-07-02T18:52:26Z 2008-07-02T13:44:32Z Christianity in the Raw http://theologos.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Jack K2

I haven't been blogging a lot -- we did the tag sale, i am now staying at the house with the dogs, and Jazz in July starts next week.... also, i took a little time with this one, and still i didn't finish it. Sigh. I was thinking of Jack Kerouac...

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]]> The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality tag:vox.com,2008-07-02:asset-6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b3010004 2008-07-02T02:53:09Z 2008-07-09T02:36:47Z Koios http://koios.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality

Up until my freshman year of college, I had never questioned religion or tradition. All I really did was go with the flow: listen to the preacher, listen to the teacher, listen to my father, etc. I was never very religious, though--I didn't care ...

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]]> Wait... what? tag:vox.com,2008-07-01:asset-6a00e398d5bb27000500fad695c1a80005 2008-07-01T21:43:16Z 2008-07-04T12:27:40Z Sheri http://anitalmidah.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom In Washington Post's section On Faith, columnist Susan Jacoby responds to data from the Pew Forum that indicates that 21% of Americans who identify as atheists say that they believe in a God. Wait... what? Susan responds with a complaint about t...

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]]> The Cycle tag:vox.com,2008-06-29:asset-6a00e398e40c69000500fa96838f8d0003 2008-06-29T23:19:07Z 2008-07-02T16:14:54Z Koios http://koios.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Society is a dialectic phenomenon in that it is a human product, and nothing but a human product, that yet continuously acts back upon its producer. Society is a product of man. It has no other being except that which is bestowed upon it by huma...

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