Search results

As internet forums become more popular, spammers and trolls become more common. So do pointless posts and threads. As a forum administrator, it's always a choice between personal freedom on one hand and discipline and order on the other hand and not quite often a forum turns out in either total...

I disagree. For example, Hindu philosophy supports my common sense viewpoint that the universe is eternal (and therefore knows neither beginning nor end). While science provides not proof for this claim, it also doesn't contradict it. The problem with a finite universe is that it requires an...

Any philosophy that claims to know the origin of the universe is hard for me to swallow, since I've thusfar found no reason whatsoever to believe that the universe hasn't always existed and that time isn't cyclic (which makes far more sense to me).

In what way does this perspective differ from the perspective of the school of Vedanta (which is far older)? Don't they also encourage the individual to go on a spiritual journey of their own and to study or science? Don't they, in fact, put emphasis on respect for ALL LIFE (not just human life...

Based on how you describe yourself, I think you might qualify as a Perennialist. It's hard to judge by a few paragraphs. The most typical aspects of Perennialists are their applying logic and intuition rather than blind faith, their not limiting themselves to any specific religion for...

Thanks for the warm welcome.

Thanks, both of you.

I always understood that the Jews lived in Egypt before they moved to Israel/Palestine and Babylon but I'm not sure where they lived before Egypt.

Then what form did Judaism have before the diaspora in Babylon?!

Thanks. Perennialists are quite often mistaken for hatemongering fascists because they think out of the box (hence my nickname) and because they reject the values of modernism and post-modernism. It wouldn't be the first time people mistook me for a hatemongering fascist and judging by what I...

Is there anyone involved with Zoroasterism? If so, can you provide me with some decent information on this ancient philosophy?

Thanks for the links. What is your personal take on Sufism?

Is anyone else here influenced by Perennialism? If so, which thinkers are your main influences? For those who don't know Perennialism, here's an extract from Wikipedia :

Some people practise wotanism as an exoteric religion with literal Gods. Others, like me, practise it as a hermetic philosopy. "Lokke" seems to belong in the first category and "--IlluSionS667--" in the second. I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant. When Hermetic wotanists speak of...

I think what "-- IlluSionS667 --" meant by "natural law" is basically a set of rules and principles instinctively followed by animals and primitive human societies but ignored by modern man. Wotanist themselves are strongly divided by politics (usually "ultra-left" vs "ultra-right") and...

Can anyone explain what's Sufi Islam and how it relates to regular Islam and the Qur'An?

I'm looking for quality 20th century of 21st century sources on the philosophy of Advaita-Vedanta. What can you recommend me?!