Month: November 2007
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Ant’s World View
The interesting thing about suicide bombers is this: that they are so dedicated to their community – islam, anarchism in a former time – that they kill themselves for it. Let us distinguish the practice – facing death – from the mechanism which drives that practice. The drive is spiritual. A world view is required…
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Is Life Worth Living?
Is Life Worth Living? asks William James In Is Life Worth Living? by William James (1896), James says: “Pessimism is essentially a religious disease.” He clarifies thusly: This “is why I call pessimism an essentially religious disease. The nightmare view of life [arises from] the contradiction between the phenomena of Nature and the craving of…