#phil

Many worry about the black box in their head wondering if it is bliss or despair, i do not for some one told to me think outside of the box. ↗

— Kody Snider

#religion #religion

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being. ↗

— James W. Sire

#ideology #narrative #philosophy #presupposition #reality

[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between "false" conflicts and the "true" conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a "false" one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its "truth": the Leftist emancipatory position. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#philosophy #religion #religion

You really wanna take care of North Korea? I’ll tell you what to do: grab a couple of devout Christians and dress em’ up as Kim Jong-un and drop their asses into North Korea armed with Bibles and methamphetamines. They’ll either convert everybody or call em’ sinners and murder every last one of them. Problem solved. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#philosophy-religion #religion

تنبني مُحاججة هذا الكتاب على أن دولة الإرادة المشخصة التي تغطي بعوارها واستبدادها الفضاءات الواسعة لعالم العرب الراهن، إنما تجد ما يؤسسها، واعية أو غير واعية، في الأغوار السحيقة للخطاب الذي تسيَّد فضاء الثقافة في الإسلام؛ والتي ينصهر فيها السياسي مع العقائدي والأنطولوجي؛ وأنه من دون اكتناه ما يتفاعل في هذه الأغوار، والوعي بما تنطوي عليه ويشتغل فيها، وتفكيكه، فإنه لن يكون الانتقال ممكناً أبداً من دولة الطغيان والقمع إلى دولة القانون والشرع، بل سيبقى الاستبدادا عتياً، يعيد إنتاج نفسه من وراء زخارف الديقراطية والحداثة وأكثر زركشاتها لمعاناً وبريقاً ↗

— علي مبروك

#philosophy #philosophy-of-religion #religion #religion

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#philosophy #religion #religion

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience ↗

— Christopher Marshall

#philosophy-of-life #pseudoscience #psychiatry #psychology #religion

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#philosophy #science #science

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#philosophy #science #sense-of-wonder #spirituality #science

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then? ↗

— George Orwell

#logic #metaphysics #ontology #philosophy #psychology