... Reviving this thread to better understand some of the stuff from the link. It says: "However, when these elements from a Christian world view migrate to ...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheHeathenInHisBlindness/message/1532 The above post will help your clarify some of doubts, I believe. Indian secularism debates...
Dear friends, We have uploaded another (short) playlist on our channel. It concerns the presentation by Prof. Rajaram Hegde (Kuvempu University) on secularism...
The first video ends up with a an interesting argument for diversity as one of the drivers of happiness, as opposed to considering singular concepts as...
... While Buddhist philosophers try to analyze the soul away as a temporary cluster of karmic impressions, they do of course assume the existence of some...
Thank you Koenrad Elst for a lucid exposition. Interestingly, I recently came across a statement about Buddhism's 'obsession with dukh'. I am no scholar and,...
We have started a new YouTube channel (Decolonizing Social Sciences) to document Balu's research program: http://www.youtube.com/cultuurwetenschap2 It differs...
I use the word "hope" in everyday conversation without thinking twice; and I was unaware that "hope" has a specific meaning in Christian theology, that it is...
For some reason, I'm able to watch only the first of the five videos in this series. When I click on the second video, it re-starts the first video. What...
Hi Kannan, I'm not sure whether my first reply came through. I don't really know what the problem could be. Perhaps you could try another browser - or you...
Hi, My name is Ramesh and this is my first post in this august forum even though I have been a member for many years. I would like to take this opportunity to...
From what I understand, Buddha was indeed obsessed with finding a solution to Dukkha in human existence. In fact the story of rejecting or prolonging his own...
Raf, I've tried a couple of different things, including restarting the browser, but the problem persists. I'm unable to load/view any video other than the...
I've had the same problem. But you can get around it by running a search for 'cultuurwetenschap2' in Youtube 'Search' and, then play the search results. ... ...
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... In a recent interview, former Sangh Parivar ideologue Govindacharya has said "It [BJP] is not a national party in terms of ideology, policies and...
See this discussion: http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/06/22/is-poverty-a-violation-of-human-rights/ Among other things, this idea is discussed,...
The denial that welfare rights can be human rights is in fact quite old. A classic (though not very clear) formulation was given by Maurice Cranston. The idea...
Kranthikesvara, I was referring to "Comparative Anthropology and Action Sciences: an essay on knowing to act and acting to know." It's the 4th file in the...
Anyone ready to comment on this quote? " The Philosophy of Tao an excerp from "The Way of Zen" by Allan Watts Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life which...
... The formatting of the blogspot is a bit confusing, it is not clear who is saying what. Maybe use of blockquote tags will help? And when is Balu's book on...
Guess, that question is not to me. I'm not the owner of the site. I saw it online and posted the link here. But, I also think that the site is confusing. The...
http://evolutionofgod.net/excerpts_afterword/ <quote> Many of these physicists, while holding that imperfectly conceiving subatomic reality is a valid form of...
Dear Friends, One true but glib answer is that the book on ethics will come out when it gets written and that is not the case. There are many reasons why it is...
It is not worth dwelling upon whether the author's notion of knowledge is defensible, whether Zen is a fulfillment, whether theoretical knowledge is tacit,...
Internet and print media is full of such insights. They exhibit blindness in two aspects: the nature of human knowledge; the kind of knowledge that religion...