[J.S] He says "One of Buddhism's central tenets is the illusory nature of self". That is a completely different issue. Discussion about which illusory self is...
... nature of ... bringing up ... The Buddhist teaching is annatta, or no self. The Christian injunctiom is to 'love thy neighbour as thyself'. It is that...
Here's from an opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph:- "This Government isn't morally bad. For all its frequent cock-ups, our ministers are well-intentioned,...
^This is the academic who has been suspended from his post following student protest in Leeds university. Some have wondered what a professor of Russian and...
... His view is that of w white Russian, a counter revolutionary. Much of it is visceral, and obvious. The really interesting questions would come with...
Will to Power.145 (1884-1888) "What an affirmative Aryan religion, the product of the ruling class, looks like: the law-book of Manu. (The deification of the...
A snide but amusing film from 1967 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372158/ Plot Outline: Two pseudo intellectuals in bed for the first time. Suddenly after a...
Nick Cohen was a young journalist of some plausibility. His book `Pretty Straight Guys', with accompanying TV programme, was an attack on the sickening...
I received this email. I haven't heard anyting about this year's conference. Dear FNS Members, As those of you who have attended recent AGMs (particularly last...
... attribute ... Here's from Michel Houellebecq's latest novel. The Darwinian fiction of the ‘struggle for life’ had long hidden this elementary fact that...
... Nietzsche criticises will to survive and will to happiness. Will to power is what is important. This is not to be thought of as overridden by any...
A great philosopher is influential for something other than what he really means to say. Then someone comes along and says he has been completely misunderstood...
BGE § 30:- "Our highest insights must - and should - sound like follies and sometimes like crimes when they are heard without permission by those who are not...
... sometimes like crimes when they are heard without permission by those who are not predisposed and predestined for them. The difference between the exoteric...
... VIENNA, April 9 (Reuters) - European imams meeting in Vienna have pledged to work harder to prove that Islam is compatible with democracy and that the...
... Then they could be like Quakers or Mormons, many of whom also see the west as corrupt and immoral. That would move the problem into a different space. ...
Who, apart from as few journalists of dubious allegiances, really believes that democracy is a very good idea for Iraq, except perhaps as some distant ideal?...
... That was probably wise. The Sufis have a lot in common with Quakers, ultimately. They seem to represent a reformist movement that can only help the faith...
... Saudi style orthodoxy is actually more congenial to many Muslim governments becasue heterodoxy is harder to police. Culturally Saudi Arabia is a...
... If yo think it has been the same throughout history, let's hear a few examples. For centuries the Ottoman Empire ruled much of the middle east. ...
