Recent Sermons
The Algorithm of Mara: How "Sacred" Violence is Manufactured by
This is a critique of the recent video by PVK currently titled "War on Earth Transforming Our View of the Heavens" This video is not a theological discussion. It is a piece of evidence. It documents the real-time collaboration between archetypes of the modern Right to construct a pipeline for Stochastic Terrorism. The Priest (Jonathan Pageau): He performs Historical Negation on par with Holocaust denial. He...
Why the multiverse is not scientific
What follows is not a condemnation of any single man, but a rebuke of a cultural disease. Let me be clear from the outset: this critique is not aimed at Matt O’Dowd himself, who, by all accounts, demonstrates far more academic humility and intellectual clarity than most in the collapsing edifice of popular science communication. But that is precisely the tragedy. Even a capable and...
The love of the Sangha
This week we will be doing a commentary on the video: The Love That Jesus Commands - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon The original description of that video is: Friends, on this Fifth Sunday of Easter, we have an extraordinary Gospel that is at the heart of the Christian thing. Jesus, at the beginning of a lengthy and incredibly rich monologue he gives the night before he dies,...
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Philosophy
Rulers, ruled by Women
Lewis, Jone Johnson. (2025, April 1). Women Rulers of the Ancient and Classical World. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/ancient-women-rulers-3528391 Though most rulers in...
White Feminism
Introduction WHEN I WAS TWENTY-SIX, I published a personal essay on passing as both whiteand straight, of which I am...
The Trouble with White Women
Subjects: LCSH: Feminism—Moral and ethical aspects—United States—History. | Women, White—Civil rights—United States—History. |Minority women—Civil rights—United States—History. | Minoritywomen activists—United States—History....
Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism Western and Eastern Paths to
Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart Radmila Moacanin In her preface to this book,...
Hyecho's journey : the world of Buddhism
Thus historians can write only by combining within their practice the"other" that moves and misleads them and the real that...
Engaging Buddhism
Engaging Buddhism Why It Matters to Philosophy Jay L. Garfield Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xxi l 24 56 91 122 175 214 242...
News
The digital euro for the digital economy.
Dear esteemed members and distinguished attendees, It is both a unique honor and a testament to the democratic vibrancy of the...
The democratization of technology.
AI is possibly the "last invention" mankind would need to make, and the rewards are incalculable, which is also true...
The current state of climate change 2022
Today I would like to take some time to lay out the current levels of green house gasses with historical...
History
Wellness
CosmoBuddhist concepts of love, in romantic relationships.
The Philosophy of Love by Karen Existential love, a quest for meaning,A path to self, a soul's redeeming,Love as virtue, a...
Cannabis policy models
Create a strict legal framework for controlling the production, distribution, sale and possession of cannabis. This aims to accomplish 3...
Medical Cannabis in Parkinson Disease: Real-Life Patients' Experience
This originally appeared at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29059132/ Authors Yacov Balash 1 , Lihi Bar-Lev Schleider, Amos D Korczyn, Herzel Shabtai, Judith Knaani, Alina Rosenberg, Yehuda Baruch, Ruth Djaldetti, Nir Giladi, Tanya Gurevich PMID:...
The Spillover Effect of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Crime: Evidence
This originally appeared at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022042620921359 Guangzhen Wu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5767-0986 [email protected], Francis D. Boateng, and Xiaodong LangView all authors and affiliations https://doi.org/10.1177/0022042620921359 Abstract An ongoing debate...
IS RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA A GATEWAY TO HARDER DRUG USE AND
This was originally at https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29038/w29038.pdf Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs), which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use,...
Effects of Drug Policy Liberalization on Public Safety: A Review
This originally appeared at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4294150 Maria M. OrsiniOhio State University (OSU) - Department of Sociology December 5, 2022AbstractAfter decades of criminalization,...
Research
The digital euro for the digital economy.
Dear esteemed members and distinguished attendees, It is both a unique honor and a testament to the democratic vibrancy of the...
What are dendrites and what do they do ?
An interesting video on dendrites and the history of neural networks....
The democratization of technology.
AI is possibly the "last invention" mankind would need to make, and the rewards are incalculable, which is also true...
