I enjoyed this interview a lot as well.
A year ago I would have definitely said that, even though I have a totally different world view from Stephen Batchelor's, what he focuses on is the only thing that really matters. This is because love is the only thing that matters in the end. And love is...
When I posted my first comment here on skeptiko, I was able to add a link (embedded youtube video), then I realized after a couple of posts that I couldn't quote or post a link. Maybe there's some sort of error in the requirement allowing the member to post links for the very first message, or so...
Well I actually don't think that would be so strange. Firstly, if he was the man behind the sayings (or some of the sayings) attributed to him, he did not go unrecorded. Secondly, we know nothing about the vast majority of the people living during this time. Bart Ehrman makes a comparison with...
Yeah. In the quran Jesus never dies on the cross, isn't that right?
The books we have that are most probably written first about Jesus are the letters of Paul. Paul makes a really big deal about Jesus death (1 cor 15 for example: Jesus died for our sins and then he rose from the dead, if that...
I would say that seems to be the most common interpretation of the phrase.
At the end of the synoptic gospels (matthew 26:64, mark 14:62 and luke 22:69), however, Jesus clearly makes a reference to the "son of man" in Daniel 7:13, which is usually seen to be a messianic prophecy.
I first found...
Well, of course it's hard to be certain of it. And yes, I agree that it works equally well without knowing who was really behind those sayings. (That would apply to any spiritual teaching, wouldn't it?)
I guess I just have a hard time believing that such profound teachings as that of "Jesus"...
Thank you. Very interesting. Yes, there seems to be too many similarities for it to be coincidental.
I'll be contemplating on this for a long time forward, I'm sure.
That Romans with power used the historical person of Jesus (useful because he was viewed by many as messiah, but still had a more...
I find the subject interesting, but has so far not been persuaded by Joseph Atwill (having listened to the edited interview and half of the unedited one). I haven't got a grasp about the similarities between Josephus' writings and the gospels, yet, so I can't comment on that part. I'll finish...
I'll give one example of how I think my thin boundary is effecting me:
I started to suffer from allergies as a young adult. The first time I noticed an allergic reaction was in the military service when a second lieutenant was shouting to me that I should have my face down in the grass. After...
I really enjoyed listening to this interview!
I definitely think that there is something to the boundary idea. But from the interview I wasn't really sure that I really grasped what Michael Jawer meant when he explained the differences between thick and thin. So I listened to this interview with...
Thank you Laird. Your responses make me think :)
I am in no way an expert on psychopathy.
Yes, from what I've seen, I trait of psychopaths is fearlessness. But I have also read that another trait is inability (or a very hard time) to trust others. So I think there is a link to lack of trust...
Thank you Laird!
You are right that I don't believe that evil exists on the highest spiritual levels. I will try to give some reasons why I believe this.
(As I assume you suspect, I do agree with most of what both Morning Fog and Vault has written in this thread. I hope not to repeat too many...
Thank you Laird, Vault and Morning Fog for making this to such a constructive discussion!
I never answered you, Laird, when you wrote in the "Satan, NDE and the Bible"-thread, but I have been giving it a lot of thought. I really appreciate your honesty and willingness to share your own...
I once watched a clip with a man say that out of the visual experiences we have, only about 20% have gone through the optic nerve to the brain, the 80% remaining is rather the brain filling in the gaps. (The man was teaching remote viewing and said this as a matter of fact, and I really haven't...