I am small and the world is great and beyond my comprehension right now. This at least I can say without doubt. But here is a dream. Once there was a fish in a fishbowl. There were pebbles on the ground, water all around, a toy castle, and a filtration system of some sort. Every so while food would fall from above the water, from where there was no water, a place of nothingness except pain of...
Editor's Note: This post was found in 'Draft' mode in the original blog and may be incomplete. It is published here in its original state. It was last updated on 15/06/2016. Decomposition of Zoroastrian mythology into Rasta ritual and cant An historical narrative with novel conclusions The field of comparative religion has been stymied by a reluctance to attribute any reality to supernatural...
The Jews revere the Torah as the word of God inscribed, and the Talmud as the word of God made explicit. Explicit in the sense of ‘made tangible by engagement’. The Talmud is a series of discussions, predicated on the memories of an oral tradition (Mishnah), and the rigorous obsessions of rational minds seeking perfection. Emmanuel Levinas was a post-war French philosopher, operating in the...