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Why Atheists are as Brain Dead About God as Religious People

Posted by Josh in July 30th, 2008

Posted in: Religion, Art & Spirituality Tags: Atheist, God, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Joseph Campbell, Theist

I’m close to finshing Dawkins’s book The God Delusion and I haven’t come away with much more than I started with. I’m already a believer in Natural Selection (which I knew has nothing to do with random chance as so many religious people ignorantly claim). It just makes sense to me that over time, species [...]

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The Death of the Will to Power and the Next Great Awakening

Posted by Josh in July 11th, 2008

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In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a paragraph and murdered religion. Sure, it was a slow death but a death it was. He wrote:
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet [...]

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Those Who Speak Do Not Know: Kundalini Yoga and the Music of Tool

Posted by Joshua Minton in May 4th, 2007

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Posted in: Film, Television, Music and Books, Religion, Art & Spirituality Tags: 000 Days, 10, Aenima, Joseph Campbell, Kundalini, Lateralus, Opiate, Tool, Transformations of Myth Through Time, Undertow

Religion is a tool. Art is a tool. And the greatest band in the world is named Tool. I first discovered Tool as a mixture of sound and marijuana smoke seeping out from under a dude named Carl’s dorm room door on the third floor of Kohl Hall in the late Fall [...]

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