In all seriousness, it wouldn't surprise me if the Chinese administration did send the family a bill for 'services rendered'. They do: " Traditionally, capital punishment is meted out on execution grounds, sometimes even in a sports stadium. A single bullet is fired, at close range, into the heart or t
This is good, but there is still a problem. I might not like, for various intellectual and philosophical reasons the religious 'style' of, for example, fundamentalist christians - in fact reading what I write here regularly it is clear that I don't - and yet, if I were to expect them to 'give up' their biblical literalism for something that I consider more intellectually respectable, it is more than possible that they would also lose in the process tha
Most of the blossoms have fallen off now except for a few type of trees which are late blooming by nature. Just returned home to Korea from a minibreak in Japan. Most of the blossoms have indeed fallen off (it was windy and chilly in Osaka at the end of last week), but was pleasantly surprised to see that Korea has a lot of 'late bloomers' around righ
The difference between you and I is that I don't give a flying fig whether others follow MY path or not, and as a matter of fact, I'd be the last one to reveal it to them. Would your path be 'chaos magick' by any chance? </fo
Dear Chak, could you elaborate on this a bit? I fear I am losing your point. Thank you. Gladly, and I'll try to be clearer. The word tolerance is being used a lot here and it seems to mean at least two different things. My little historical diversion was to show that tolerance (originally religious tolerance, but with other kinds following in
Thus the BC 400s were the 5th century BC. Yes I know. It's just that your introduction spoke about realism 'having its start' in the 5th Century A.D.
Realism had its start in the 5th century A.D Classical realism had its beginnings with Thucydides, the Greek political scientist. Very interesting article. Thank you. Just a small point, but did you mean to
I think part of the issue for many of us is that we live in a society that is so bent on expressing "tolerance", that it is unfathomable some of those same individuals could be so blatantly INtolerant of our beliefs as Christians. This is true, and it does, if only momentarily make me wonder how workable 'to
Is it just me, or does it seems to be open season on Christians these days? I think it has always been 'open season' on Christians. The Romans were pretty fierce in the way that they dealt with them, until they eventually embraced the religion themselves and there are still a lot of places in the world wher
Smear them any way you like, that's your right. This is daft. An endless number of westerns were made without (overtly) portraying the kind of 'deviancy' that so upsets you. Then they made one with a (slightly) novel twist. Suddenly a whole genre is being 'smeared'. Deep down you're too smart not to s
an attempt to force those universities to change their admissions policies regarding homosexuals to discuss the issues of faith and gay rights with the administrators of these colleges
If you ask me the double standard is on everyone who tried to make anyone else feel guilty for not wanting to see this film. I can't disagree with this. The idea that not wanting to see this movie automatically makes you some kind of bigot is rather silly, but perhaps no sillier than your judgement (without seeing the film?) that the film can have no
I must not do it right, lol. I've been really interested in meditation for a while now, especially since I have been ill. For me, crossing my legs and closing my eyes and breathing evenly PROMOTES my mind wandering. I tend to have even less focus. Me too. I think I also have the gene for day dreaming. Truth to tell, I probably enjoy my busy monkey min
If you move to a foreign country and make your home there, you should make every attempt to learn the language. This is interesting. I live in South Korea and I have been making "every attempt to learn the language", but that puts me in a distinct minority. A little bit of techical background: the U
Many don't even truly understand why they go on these to forseen 'holy days.' They just do because their parents did. he did not want any there to believe he was one of those "Easter and Christmas" goers
Great article. You're quite right, that this idea is dealt with deeply in eastern philosophy, although I remember a priest at mass also preaching a homily on the "sacrament of the present moment" so I suppose all good ideas cut across languages, religions, philosophies and cultures. How do you do it, though? I've had a little experience of it
Uzbeki (Or is it Pashtu?) It is Uzbek, an eastern turkic language, written, until 1992, in the (Russian) Cyrillic alphabet but now largely written in the Latin alphabet. I'm not sure that a native English speaker would acquire real fluency in just two years, although a good intermediate level is quite possible. However, with the right 'spiritual motiv
Come on, Chak...... you're ususally better than this. OK, I'll try and do better. I don't want to comment now on the situation in the United States, a country that I have never visited and have no immediate plans to do so. We're lucky that we speak English, the n
Did you not know that Christ spoke more of Hell than he did of Heaven? That was His privilege. I'm not sure you can do the same. Because as a 'fallen sinful being' by your own theology's definition, your motives for doing so may not always be of the best. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb-Body-Quote-Tabl
You are not going "be well" if you continue to believe this. Oh here we go with the old fire and brimstone thing again. "Disagree with me and you'll go to hell!" KFC, you said somewhere you had studied a lot of religions. What made you finally settle for such an obvious 'spiritual' manifestation of purely human sadism and anger as fundamentalism?
Sorry, guys, but the above quotes are merely semantic arguments. Indeed. As is your argument BECAUSE <TD class="mb-Body-Quote
Chak is new, but good! He has to learn the characters yet. Mon cher docteur, you are indeed flatteur (perhaps like Monsieur Renard, who could smell the cheese from a mile - oops kilometer - away . Just a little something for the fans of La Fontaine's fable
English is not our national language. The United States does not have a national language And you woould be incorrect in "assuming" this. Technically , Sodaiho is correct. There is legally no official national language of the United States, although it is clear that English has
Il n’y a, je crois, nul pays au monde où l’on trouve tant de contradictions qu’en France. [Voltaire] I don't think that there is any country in the world where you will find so many contradictions as France. Tout homme a deux pays, le sien et puis la France. [Henri de Bornier] Every man has two countries, his own and France. Comment diable voulez-vous gouverner un pays où l’on compte 365 sortes de fromages ? [Charles de Gaulle] How the hel
And this isn’t just your garden-variety ridicule this is a massive campaign to spread the idea that your very existence is a perversion of life, all based on an infallible book written by man. Indeed, and try as I might I cannot comprehend the lack of sensitivity to the hurt that this causes. I think that any kind of religion that dulls our sen
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