the living earth
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there are those born here on earth
who daily rise above the muck
climb a ladder to the sky Read on…
Tag Archives: Culture
What is the Soul?
The Brahman is the Atman, the Atman is the Soul,
Said the big Sankara after long and hard meditation,
The Soul is the Spirit, the Essence and the Self (I),
That is living in all the living and the non-living alike. Read on…
The Meaning of Life
One sometimes encounters people who assert that, unless there is a
God, life has no meaning. Now, as soon as we ask what they mean by
God and by the meaning of life we enter a quagmire from which it is
impossible to get out. Read on…
Easter’s Bunny
Here leaps the Easter hare again,
already conceiving her second litter
while heavy with the first. Read on…
King Of Kings
Thoughts on Good Friday as I sat before my TV set
Today
I saw him crucified
But only on-screen Read on…
Historical Humanists- Thomas Aikenhead
Thomas Aikenhead was a Scottish student from Edinburgh, who was prosecuted and executed on a charge of blasphemy. Aikenhead was indicted in December 1696. The indictment read: “That … the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the moral doctrines of philosophers, and partly of poetical fictions and extravagant chimeras: That he ridiculed the holy scriptures, calling the Old Testament Ezra’s fables, in profane allusion to Esop’s Fables; That … Read on…
Reflections on the Nature of Human Evolution
I remember once asking my late son William, “What is the purpose of life?” William, a schizophrenic, was babbling nonsense, but he stopped and in a moment of clarity gave me a quirky smile and replied: “The purpose of life is to relieve God’s boredom”. Read on…