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An Alternative Scripture: The Numinous
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Musings on the meaning of life: religion, love, travel, and language. Monday, May 11, 2009. This is a fabulous word that I think everyone should get to know a little better. If our thoughts are constrained by our vocabulary, let us all widen our minds with this one. It was coined by Rudolf Otto in a book published in English as The Idea of the Holy. In 1923. The word numinous. And curiosity, awe and attraction ( fascinans. Has, in The Four Horsemen. Maintained a distinction between the superstitious and ...
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An Alternative Scripture: June 2009
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Musings on the meaning of life: religion, love, travel, and language. Monday, June 22, 2009. There were two men. David believed he would attain eternal life after he died if he followed a strict moral code. Stephen thought that he had one chance at life. David spent his time on Earth suppressing desires and living a clean, simple and modest life. He thought that this choice was bringing him closer to the transcendent, which he believed he could feel. He felt spiritually pure from this self-denial. Some, ...
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An Alternative Scripture: The Immense
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Musings on the meaning of life: religion, love, travel, and language. Thursday, October 8, 2009. So reads Giuseppe Ungaretti. 8217;s famous 1917 poem Mattina. Basically, we find big things really impressive. The title of Ungaretti’s poem brings to mind images of the sunrise, of those first daily revelations of the sky, of those times when the horizon is most noticeable. But we are similarly awestruck by other experiences of the immense in nature: by mountains, by the ocean. The mathematician-theologian, ...
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An Alternative Scripture: A Tramp
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Musings on the meaning of life: religion, love, travel, and language. Monday, December 8, 2008. The travelling beggar said unto the lemonade-stall man: “I seek a light from heaven. Can you help me find it? The lemonade-stall man, who was known amongst the people of the village as Bill, stared at the beggar and said: “Why is it that you are dressed so? I will take you to the tailor’s! The lonely traveller was not to be moved, however. “Will this tailor bring me the inspiration I seek? 8221; he asked.
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An Alternative Scripture: A Happy Life
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Musings on the meaning of life: religion, love, travel, and language. Monday, June 22, 2009. There were two men. David believed he would attain eternal life after he died if he followed a strict moral code. Stephen thought that he had one chance at life. David spent his time on Earth suppressing desires and living a clean, simple and modest life. He thought that this choice was bringing him closer to the transcendent, which he believed he could feel. He felt spiritually pure from this self-denial.
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An Alternative Scripture: Moving House
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Musings on the meaning of life: religion, love, travel, and language. Saturday, November 21, 2009. For now, An Alternative Scripture has moved to Tumblr. Expect intelligence levels to drop as quickly as attractiveness increases. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Please, if you feel so inclined, leave a comment. I raise some pretty personal ideas here and I would love to engage with other people's views. This is your life. Under My Ivory Dome.
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An Alternative Scripture: The Desire for Meaning
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Musings on the meaning of life: religion, love, travel, and language. Friday, June 12, 2009. The Desire for Meaning. Humans are, as far as we know, the only animal on Earth that can intelligently perceive their own existence and ask the question: why? There to be something more to the universe, I really want. To have been put here for a purpose. (And because everyone feels this need, many are very ready to believe anything that satisfies it.) This yearning for meaning is a fundamental force in mu...Forme...
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An Alternative Scripture: July 2009
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Musings on the meaning of life: religion, love, travel, and language. Wednesday, July 8, 2009. I frequently get asked, 'Are you religious? Or if someone knows me a little better, 'You're not religious? With a tentative little question mark on the end. My stock standard answer to the question was always 'no', usually with a kind of drawn out, sorry-to-have-let-you-down inflection. But recently I've been wondering if that's a precise response. But what of atheists, agnostics, humanists? With a capital H) w...
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An Alternative Scripture: Flash demons
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Musings on the meaning of life: religion, love, travel, and language. Sunday, June 7, 2009. It’s time for a confession: I’m addicted to online Flash games. There is something about free, quick, in-browser computer games that is incredibly appealing. More so than your larger commercial games. Over the past six months I have watched hours of my life draining away into these little time-sucking black holes. They are the perfect procrastination tool for four reasons:. Is an aesthetic and aural masterpiece.
