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Entering the Fifth Dimension (the Imagination) with Nietzsche, Don Quixote, Rod Serling, and Lawrence Krauss
One of the insights of Friedrich Nietzsche—at least in my reading of him—is that imagination is a dimension, apart from reality, that you can live in. This, of course, is also Don Quixote. And Rod Serling in the Twilight Zone: There … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, don quixote, imagination, lawrence krauss, Nietzsche, peter pan, philosophy, reality, rod serling
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The Eight Ways of Being in the World
It’s hard to live in the world. Suffering happens. Then more suffering happens. Then you die. In the face of these facts, Albert Camus wrote that the first question of philosophy is suicide. But if you’re not going to do … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, apologetics, atheism, Buddhism, Darwin, don quixote, Jesus, life, Oedipus, philosophy, sisyphus, Socrates
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Is Faith Ever a Virtue?
It might be, especially if you think of acts of faith as akin to fantasy. Faith, like fantasy, may function to do real work in the psyche. I think this observation of Ethel Spector Person, from a book of essays titled Imagination and Its … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, don quixote, faith, fantasy, Freud, God, Jesus, reason, science, the ontological mystery, virtue
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Confidence Atheism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Don Quixote
I think that, in large part, the reason people sometimes use the phrases “fundamentalist atheist” or “militant atheist” to describe contemporary atheists has to do with the high expression of confidence expressed by some atheists. Like fundamentalists who express a high … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheism, atheist, Ayn Rand, cult, don quixote, don quixote atheists, fundamentalism, fundamentalist atheists, psychology, theism
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