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Daily Archives: August 31, 2010
Herderian Religious Cleansing, 1930s style, in Malaysia and the United States
Here’s an image of a book burning in Berlin, May 10, 1933: And here’s an image of a burned out synagogue after Krisallnacht (November, 1938): These two images are what anti-Enlightenment Herderian political action so readily devolves into. And now here … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, freedom, ground zero mosque, herder, herderianism, herderites, Hinduism, Islam, religious intolerance, tea partiers
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Daniel Dennett v. David Chalmers on consciousness (with Terence McKenna putting in his two cents)
Daniel Dennett deflates consciousness here: __________ David Chalmers inflates it here: __________ And Terence McKenna takes some DMT to break the tie, struggling to share in words, to the uninitiated, the qualia that accompanies ingestion of the chemical.
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Tagged consciousness, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, dmt, ontological mystery, philosophy, psychology, qualia, terence mckenna, the brain
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Prometheus Unbound 