The Pope\'s Visit (Religion)

by xeno6696 @, Sonoran Desert, Friday, September 24, 2010, 04:19 (4935 days ago) @ George Jelliss

Yes, I've always assumed that was a reference to Plato's parable of the cave.
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> I don't go along with Nietzsche's "God is dead" however, because I don't think there was ever a god that lived in the first place, other than in the imagination of humans.-How do I say this without causing offense... -You're thinking too linearly here. "God is dead" is a multireference. He uses it to encompass the thinking of Emerson, Luther, and Paul. By association, Christ. -Religions were a living, fluid, and breathing thing until the concept of canonization arrived. There used to be alot of debate and change about religious thinking over time. Peter and his church destroyed much of that... hence God--the process--the "ever changing" of Heraclitus--died a slow death. -Nietzsche hated dogmatism in all its forms. Even if he wasn't a believer...

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"


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