The closest thing our modern world has manifested to traditional religion is the study of economics. The study of economics is something like an attempt to systematically engage with and describe a system

[-]badthought (25) · 33 seconds ago You're trying to 'understand' Christianity. This means you are trying to incorporate Christianity into your world-picture. Christianity is itself a fully developed world

I had a kind of vision, something like a thought or insight, that once I had it, it opened and shone out and multiplied unfolded in my mind and heart like a virus or a hall of mirrors. I think perhaps

Human ways of thinking: Social-Moral-Intuition Metaphor-Analogy Rule-Math Is there anything else?

We take part in these narratives and marches and isms because the whole acting out feels like a fulfillment of many of the deepest human desires: the desire to be a part of a larger tribe and to matter

Could it help the outsider to understand that the story of Christ is something like an image of perfect Apoptosis?

A vision: An ark, and within the ark a ladder, and at the top of the ladder the truth; and in the truth an ark, and within that ark a ladder, and at the top of that ladder the truth; and within that truth

The reliability and inescapability of our pain and destruction are the outside-text. Derrida was by no means foolish, he was playing a trick, a kind of lying trap that destroys its own grounds, a horrible

It has always been that human life unfolded individually and over generations as an iterative progression of consciousness developing in reference to the ground of physical reality, of which it was a part.

A thought: It was only when the early multi-cellular aggregators developed characteristics which, when realized and expressed through the aggregate, outweighed in benefit to the genome the harm to the