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• 1 month ago

  Have you ever read The Heavenly Life by James Allen?

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• 1 month ago

  What's that weird flutter in air when only one window is down in a car?

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• 1 month ago

  "I love you but I'm not in love with you", what exactly does this mean?

  There have been many essays/books written on the different kinds of love. C.S. Lewis breaks it down into four different types. In Greek, there are two different words for love: Agape and Eros. Agape is a love felt for family, for friends, etc. It is considered to be the lasting of the two, the more unconditional love. Eros is a love specific to a person and is strongly tied to sexual attraction and personal attachment. It’s rare when eros lasts for an extended period of time.
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• 1 month ago

  Have you ever read The Heavenly Life by James Allen?

  I haven’t read As a Man Thinketh, so I can’t really comment on it, but I’ll give it a gander. Do you feel his writing is mundane because the ideas are no longer fresh? Or is it the style or approach he takes that makes it mundane?
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• 1 month ago

  If you could reinvent religion what would it look like?

  And thanks for the welcome, Zuma!
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• 1 month ago

  If you could reinvent religion what would it look like?

  While what you’re saying makes sense about Cults, and it definitely clarifies quite a bit, I don’t think that it necessarily applies to what I’ve seen in Christian Science. The distinction I believe you’re making, is the distinction between the philosophies of Plato and Socrates. Plato believed in another world or a ‘spiritual’ reality (see the alagory of the Cave), while Socrates believed that only the senses could be trusted, and in a sense, what you see is what you get. There are many religions that try to mix the two, but many do not. A large part of the Hindu belief, for example, is learning tools to control one’s own mind to reach a higher level of consciousness. An experienced Yogi once said, “The human mind is like a caged monkey constantly being stung by bees.” A yogi is expected to tell the body what to feel, not the other way around. I would put Christian Science in this category. It is also my understanding that while the Bible is a big part of that religion, it is not all taken literally unlike many fundamental Christian religions.
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• 1 month ago

  If you could reinvent religion what would it look like?

  @Zuma “I think of Christian Science and Scientology, and a kind of weird creepy cult of technique” I don’t know if any of you are familiar with the economist Ludwig Von Mises, but he referred to Christian Science as a religion after his own thinking. I’ve found it to be a priori, and very well reasoned once the framework and concepts are understood. It’s pretty odd to consider it a cult, however. There are no rituals to speak of.
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