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Monday, September 18
What does Hinduism have to offer us as individuals? Part I of II
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Mon 18 Sep 2006 12:00 AM EDT
What does Hinduism have to offer us as individuals?
Part I of II
Hinduism offers us the idea of one Causative Force, having an essence, a soul, and the connection of the Causative Force and our souls.
In short, Hinduism offers each of us, as individuals, the concept of being a piece of something greater than ourselves.
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Hinduism offers us the concept of each of us being significant if for no other reason than we are a part of the Causative Force.
As such, we have no choice but to demand to be treated accordingly.
Likewise, you would have no other option than to recognize the same is true of others and if they to have an essence, a soul, it too is a part of the Causative Force and therefore must demand to be treated as the Causative Force.
In addition, we all must protect each other, for what other option would we have other than to protect the creator of our universe, the Causative Force Herself?
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To be continued: Part II of II: Imagine a society where...
Sunday, September 17
How does Hinduism help us understand what life is? Part II of II
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Sun 17 Sep 2006 01:00 AM EDT
How does Hinduism help us understand what life is?
Part II of II
...The universe is the location, environment within which the soul can travel, experience, and learn using the body as the means of travel, the vessel of transportation and connection to the physical.
The means of being capable of existing within our universe is achieved through the spiritual – the soul, the physical – the universe, the means of travel – the body, the means of connecting the physical with the spiritual and the spiritual with the physical – the mind.
The body being the vessel of travel within a universe created by the Causative Force holds the essence of a human being.
The body is a vessel for the soul.
The soul, traveling the universe within the body, is able to function within the universe and learn, experience, participate within the universe through awareness.
Awareness being able to connect to the soul is the function of the mind.
And what of life?
Hinduism teaches us that life is not our short existence in this universe as we know it, but rather life is what we experience today and what we will experience after “death.”
The Hindus believe that life as we know it is an experience the soul passes through.
If this is true, you can be fairly sure that the complexity of creating such an intricate process has a purpose, for it would seem to be far too intricate to have been established for no reason.
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Phenomenological modern day Western Ethics: Part II of II
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Sun 17 Sep 2006 12:00 AM EDT
Phenomenological modern day Western Ethics:
Part II of II
Singer is not an evil man. Singer is following rationality. Singer is a thinker. But Singer has taken rationality to the extreme limits of science: The physical exists – the end.
But Singer has missed a major factor in his development of a model of reality.
Singer has examined what we know of reality, taken it to the limit of our knowledge of the physical and stopped.
But what Singer has refused to do is keep moving.
Singer has ignored what the scientific tool of observation has told us: the physical universe is expanding and that tells us we can, we have the ability, to ask: What is the physical universe expanding into?
Singer has ignored the tool of reason which implies: There is existence other than the physical for we are capable of perceiving it, namely self-knowing, knowledge …
Singer has ignored the tool of faith which has been with humanity since humanity began and which has intuitively told us that there is something greater than the physical.
The error of singer is none other than the error of modern Western Civilization, namely: We have lost our way. We have succumbed to our sterile laboratories. We have succumbed to the process of inductive and deductive reasoning controlled by machines which tell us what it is we can ‘believe’ and/or ‘not believe because...
We have lost our way.
One need not despair, however, for just as we have willingly arrested our metaphysical abilities we can retake control of our ability to think metaphysically anytime we wish.
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Saturday, September 16
How does Hinduism help us understand what life is? Part I of II
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Sat 16 Sep 2006 01:00 AM EDT
How does Hinduism help us understand what life is?
Part I of II
The Hindu concept of the existence of nine substances (the four atoms, and space, time, ether, mind, and soul) in the universe helps us understand that “life” is the soul.
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Hinduism professes the idea that the universe is composed of nine substances.
It specifically separates the concept of body (composed of the four atoms and wrapped in space, time, and ether) from the mind and the mind from the soul.
This separation explains the essence of life.
This helps us understand that the body is just the body.
Life on the other hand is not the physical body, but rather the essence of the individual is the soul itself.
The mind, in turn, provides the means by which the soul is able to relate to the body’s experiences within the universe.
The mind provides awareness.
The mind provides the means by which the soul is capable of connecting to the body and conversely, the mind provides the means by which the body connects to the soul.
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What about the universe itself?
To be continued: Part II of II: The universe...
Phenomenological modern day Western Ethics: Part I of II
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Sat 16 Sep 2006 12:00 AM EDT
Phenomenological modern day Western Ethics:
Princeton Professor Singer: And I repeat, I would kill Disabled Infants
LifeSiteNews | 9/12/06 | John-Henry Westen
Posted on 09/12/2006 4:28:08 PM PDT by wagglebee
In a question and answer article published in the UK's Independent today, controversial Princeton University Professor Peter Singer repeats his notorious stand on the killing of disabled newborns. Asked, "Would you kill a disabled baby?", Singer responded, "Yes, if that was in the best interests of the baby and of the family as a whole."
… In fact, Singer himself uses the abortion debate to justify his murderous stance.
… Singer rejects that man was created in the image and likeness of God.
… Asked about the choice between killing 10 cows or a human, Singer said he would kill the cows, but not because they were of less value, but because humans would mourn the death more.
…"even though Singer does not like to be compared to the Nazi's especially since his parents died in the Holocaust, his philosophical position is identical to what the Nazi's proposed.
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article1466409...
The above makes sense if and only if one embraces the model of reality as being simply a physical existence. Such a model rationalizes both Hitler and Singer in the same manner.
Singer is not illogical if phenomenology is the be all and end all.
Hitler is logical if we base ethics upon a model of reality wherein we exist within a location of physical existence and that is the end of it.
To be continued: Part II of II: Singer is not...
Friday, September 15
What does the conceptual framework of Hinduism have to offer us? Part II of II
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Fri 15 Sep 2006 12:00 AM EDT
What does the conceptual framework of Hinduism have to offer us?
Part II of II
...Hinduism is the most ancient of our modern religions. Hinduism gave us the broad based support of the concepts of monotheism – “a” Causative Force; the soul; and individuality existing into eternity.
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The Hindus give us the knowledge, faith, and belief in one Causative Force, Creator, Initiator, Cosmic Force which leads to a sense of the characteristic of the Causative Force being everywhere, omnipresent.
Without this understanding of one Causative Force, omnipresence is not possible.
Without omnipresence, we could not have globally progressed to the Judaic (1000’s BC), Buddhist (500’s BC), Christian (0’s BC) or Islamic (500’s AD) concepts, for they all evolve around the concept of one Causative Force, the soul, an eternal state of being for the soul, and a place of existence to which the soul can go. In other words, Hinduism established in our modern times the concept of the soul and the soul having a home base from which to operate.
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Thursday, September 14
What does the conceptual framework of Hinduism have to offer us? Part I of II
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Thu 14 Sep 2006 12:00 AM EDT
What does the conceptual framework of Hinduism have to offer us?
Part I of II
1. Hinduism:
a. Implicitly monotheistic, it is the message of the Upanishads that the indwelling, all–pervading Supreme Being, or Brahman, is identical with the individual self, or Atman.
b. Hindu six systems of philosophy:
1–2: nine substances (the four atoms, and space, time, ether, mind, and soul) created the world by fashioning the nine substances into an ordered universe;
3–4: two basic categories. . .eternal spirits and natural order. . .periodically dissolving the cosmos and reinitiating the process;
5–6: held the entire world to be an illusion and Brahman to be the sole reality; held the world to be the appearance whose reality is Brahman. Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion, William L. Reese, p. 302
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To be continued: Part II of II: Hinduism is...
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