PLURALISM

When reading the bible (the old testament and the Torah especially) the view created is of a God-larger and more powerful than US but with human qualities of jealousy, anger and retribution. A God that desires blood sacrifices from its people to keep it happy. A God that does not hesitate to kill the firstborn children of the Israelites' enemies (the Egyptians). In other words, a God who is, what we today would call a child abuser. We've basically created a God with lower standards for life than our own. Understand clearly that what we call "God" possesses none of these attributes. This is not a solid universe. Solid matter is really just tiny energy particles vibrating very quickly. There is a fundamental emptiness that underlies everything. If you could look inside an atom, you would see that it is made up predominantly of empty space. Science believes we live in a purely mechanistic universe and that the phenomenon of evolution arises out of chance mutation. But, t...

Currently I Steven Pinker am's book "the mind functioning" read. Within the first chapter I find it quite difficult to leave the notes. I am constantly write things down and to make notes of them. It is in this first chapter or at the least, where I am at in this section, where Pinker explains about the beauty and significance of the computational theory. "" "It is a great ideas in the intellectual history, for it to solve the puzzle, from which the"mind-body problem": such as the Ethereal world of meaning and intention, the stuff of our spiritual life, associated with a physical hunk of matter such as the brain." He will later prove it, show that the spirit calculated information, links to other information that is associated with other information. This continuous link information can link to memory, to those to physical interaction. He used the analogy of a child, to visit his Grandma, you wants to go to the bus. If the child did not like ...