The Life and Times of Giordano Bruno

... of 24. At the monestary, Bruno kept a copy of the banned writings of Erasmus; it was discovered, and when he learned that an indictment was being prepared against him in Naples he fled, shedding his religious habit. For at time, he wandered. He first went to the ..., but was denied absolution by the Jesuit priest he approached. When religious strife broke out in the summer of 1581, he relocated to ...

things i love thursday.

...firm your devotional impulses. a far cry from his usual prosaic writings on everyday life. maybe i should just paint my nails purple ... something? ha. i would as a general rule recommend his writings though, just for interesting thought triggers. getting a ton of ... leche, studying in the sunny patch in the lounge, glittery religious icons, fairylights, the prospects of an end of term dinner with...

you follow me in or you don't and either way it's alright.

...got rather stressed out at the fact that a lot of my group seemed to instantly dismiss fredric jameson's writings because of his marxist association. i mean, its all well and good to sit there and say that ... most of us, our life is secular and the pursuit of happiness, and love for some, has replaced religious meaning. but there's no way to know if the path you take in pursuit of either will work. ...

Death's an Old Joke: Chapter 2

... at the expense of his only other pair of shoes. The Bishop, who Demetrius held in half-religious, half-skeptical reverence, had adapted in unsettling ways to this catacomb-like interior, growing pale and ...a fine watch. Poets are shitty watchmakers. Look at the Italians." "Maybe you should revisit the writings of St. Francis," Demetrius said, running the sole of his shoe across the dust on the ...

Death's an Old Joke: Chapter 2

... at the expense of his only other pair of shoes. The Bishop, who Demetrius held in half-religious, half-skeptical reverence, had adapted in unsettling ways to this catacomb-like interior, growing pale and ...a fine watch. Poets are shitty watchmakers. Look at the Italians." "Maybe you should revisit the writings of St. Francis," Demetrius said, running the sole of his shoe across the dust on the ...

The Fort Hood shootings...

...to the "angry right", pundits piling on and variously blaming racism, religious fundadmentalism, or Bill O'Reilly and ilk. But an Islamic army ... over a dozen people and wounds thirty in an act of religious rage? We tiptoe ever so gingerly. We 'don't jump to...shooting, shouting " Allah Akbar " the whole time. He posted writings and gave lectures where he justified suicide bombings and stated that ...

Philosophy :: M.Eliade - Eliade's philosophy [selected]

... should conform himself: "Myth teaches [religious man] the primordial 'stories' that ...cannot escape his bondage to religious thought. By its very nature...himself only through opposition to religious thought: "He [secular man] recognizes...origins. In some of his writings, Eliade describes modern political ideologies...a conceptual framework inherited from religious mythology. Likewise, Eliade notes that...

Hubris from Revelation: the Social Engineering of Ultimate Truths [Monday, Period 2]

... traditions, but did not emerge as a formal centralized religious institution until the arrival of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism,...in the 7th and 8th century. Still, these earliest Japanese writings do not refer to a unified "Shinto religion", ... also practice Buddhist ancestor worship. However, unlike many monotheistic religious practices, Shinto and Buddhism typically do not require professing ...

... i was missing it until i find it. i've never been religious, but i've always found religion to be fascinating. it's so interesting to see how everyone interprets religious writings in their own way. i don't want to be "saved" or converted, i just ...i want to learn as much as i can about all the different religious theories. i want to know your ideas on god. i don't...

Doubt

... . Doubt compiles a history of religious skepticism throughout the history of world ... people interested in the history of religious thought and philosophy in general. ... is so important in not only religious skepticism but also skepticism in ... trumped cultural inherited knowledge the writings at the time would better ...to go through the "martyrs" of religious skepticism without passing the overly ...