Tag: search for truth
member name: Gary Jaron
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July 03, 2006 11:52 AM EDT --
Hi George McNaughton,
I will respond to your reply in detail because you raise important questions. I will use
"GM" for when I am quoting you and my reply will by marked by "R". . . .
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July 08, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
What is Idolatry? – A metaphoric definition.
Idolary is an idea that has it's origin within the Hebrew Scriptures. The opposition to the worship of Idols gets summarized in what is called . . .
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June 25, 2006 10:56 AM EDT --
We live not only in a physical environment but also in a symbolic environment.
Our physical environment, of three spacial dimensions, is a geographical location which may have rivers, valleys, flat . . .
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July 03, 2006 01:14 PM EDT --
Let's review how Descartes shaped our collective inheritance, the rose colored glasses that are western cultures mythos and logos.
Since Descartes failed to realize that he was shaped by the ideas . . .
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July 23, 2006 12:02 PM EDT --
In the Talmudic tractate The Saying of Our Fathers, an important insight of Rabbi Hillel, who lived during the 1st century of the Common Era, was recorded.
"If I am not for myself, who will be?
If . . .
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December 10, 2006 03:24 PM EST --
To begin with let us examine the idea that something is the ‘literal word of’. What would that mean?
Let us compare the New Testament to documents that are made everyday that are the . . .
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July 16, 2006 12:08 PM EDT --
The beginning of Wisdom is the willingness to consider that you may be mistaken; mistaken in your perceptions, your conclusions and your beliefs - which all things pass through like a filter. [G M Jaron] . . .
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August 01, 2006 01:50 AM EDT --
One: 2
Jonathan Star, 2001
Tao is both Named and Nameless.
As Nameless, it is the origin of all things.
As Named, it is the mother of all things.
D C Lao, 1963
The nameless was the beginning of heaven . . .
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November 26, 2006 12:09 AM EST --
There is this myth out there that Liberalism, or Secularism, or the theory of Evolution, is singularly or collectively to blame for the decline in morality in America.
I disagree.
Here is my theory. . . .
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June 25, 2006 12:28 PM EDT --
What shapes up? We are told that it is either Nature – our genetic inheritance, or Nurture – how we were treated and raised as a child. I believe there is a third factor and that . . .
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July 02, 2006 03:54 PM EDT --
For many believers their world and their worldview are built upon the premise that there is one true faith; which is of course their own. They have a difficult time imagining a world that is not . . .
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December 23, 2006 09:58 PM EST --
I am gong to describe an imaginary person who I will call Mr. Gray.
Mr. Gray is a scientist and believes in the utility of the scientific method to ascertain facts and truth.
Mr. Gray only believes that . . .
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January 14, 2007 03:05 PM EST --
Attributed to A. A. Milne, the author of Winne - The Pooh, by Saturn Press a greeting card company based in Swan's Island Maine.
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly . . .
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June 10, 2006 01:36 PM EDT --
The Hero
[from: Meditations on Quixote, chapter 15 by Jose Ortega Y' Gasset<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[1]<!--[endif]-->.
Now our story leads us back to this subject. . . .
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October 01, 2006 12:28 PM EDT --
Three: 3
Jonathan Star
With the people so pure
Who could trick them?
What clever ideas could lead them astray?
D C Lau, 1963
and ensures that the clever never dare to act.
Lok Sang Ho, 2002,
In so doing . . .
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August 26, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
The Emperor’s New Clothes
‘Any fundamentally new system involves new [‘Semantic Reaction’] s.r; and this is the main difficulty which besets us when we try to master a new system. . . .
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May 28, 2006 11:33 AM EDT --
The Hammer of Aristotelian logic
By Gary Jaron, April 26, 2006
[Submitted to ETC magazine for publication]
Abraham Maslow once said something very important about . . .
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June 11, 2006 10:49 AM EDT --
In the beginning there was Ayn Sof. Ayn Sof is a word which represents the true essence of the Divine. Ayn Sof literally means "No End", hence the Infinite. Ayn Sof is the mystery . . .
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August 16, 2006 10:35 AM EDT --
I beleive that individuals , societies, cultures, civilizations, can be judged by their willingness to act wisely.
Which brings us to ask , what is wisdom?
Wisdom is the desire and the . . .
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September 17, 2006 03:04 PM EDT --
Premise one:The beginning of Wisdom is the willingness to consider that you may be mistaken; mistaken in your perceptions, your conclusions and your beliefs - which all things pass through like a filter. . . .
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